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Rod Serling's Night Gallery
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 424

Rod Serling's Night Gallery

When CBS cancelled Serling's series, The Twilight Zone, Serling sought a similar concept in Night Gallery in the early 1970s as a new forum for his brand of storytelling, a mosaic of classic horror and fantasy tales. In this work, the authors explore the genesis of the series and provide production detail and behind-the-scenes material. They offer critical commentary and off-screen anecdotes for every episode, complete cast and credit listings, and synopses of all 43 episodes. Also featured are interviews with television personalities including Roddy McDowall, John Astin, Richard Kiley and John Badham.

Hillbilly
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

Hillbilly

This text argues that the hillbilly - in his various guises - has been viewed by mainstream Americans simultaneously as a violent degenerate who threatens the modern order and as a keeper of traditional values and thus symbolic of a nostalgic past free of the problems of contemporary life.

The Lost One
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 681

The Lost One

Often typecast as a menacing figure, Peter Lorre achieved Hollywood fame first as a featured player and later as a character actor, trademarking his screen performances with a delicately strung balance between good and evil. His portrayal of the child murderer in Fritz Lang's masterpiece M (1931) catapulted him to international fame. Lang said of Lorre: "He gave one of the best performances in film history and certainly the best in his life." Today, the Hungarian-born actor is also recognized for his riveting performances in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The Maltese Falcon (1941), and Casablanca (1942). Lorre arrived in America in 1934 expecting to shed his screen image as a villain. He ...

Nature's Workshop
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

Nature's Workshop

  • Categories: Art

Renoir's works and writing on the decorative arts

The Passing Show
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 128

The Passing Show

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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It’s All True
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

It’s All True

"This is an extremely rigorous, thorough piece of superior scholarship on one of the most important figures in the history of cinema. Benamou introduces a wealth of material on the production process and the repercussions of this project in Latin America, which have been entirely missing from earlier, auteur-centered accounts; this alone makes it a book of great importance. We can't ask for a more definitive, groundbreaking study than the one Benamou has given us."—Bill Nichols, author of Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde

The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999-09-30
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

Offers a new interpretation of “sympathy” as an instrument for investigating contemporary culture, gender, and visual technique.

The Magnificent Ambersons
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

The Magnificent Ambersons

"An indispensable reference work. . . . Anyone with a serious interest in movies will want to have it."--James Naremore, author of Acting in the Cinema

Late Style and Its Discontents
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 285

Late Style and Its Discontents

  • Categories: Art

Late Style and its Discontents interrogates the critical cliche of "late style," questioning whether Titian, Beethoven, Goethe and others can usefully be assimilated to one another, as though their particular social and historical circumstances had been transcended by a singular existential predicament.

Making Movies Black
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

Making Movies Black

This is the second volume of Thomas Cripps's definitive history of African-Americans in Hollywood. It covers the period from World War II through the civil rights movement of the 1960s, examining this period through the prism of popular culture. Making Movies Black shows how movies anticipated and helped form America's changing ideas about race. Cripps contends that from the liberal rhetoric of the war years--marked as it was by the propaganda catchwords brotherhood and tolerance--came movies that defined a new African-American presence both in film and in American society at large. He argues that the war years, more than any previous era, gave African-American activists access to centers of...