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Spaghetti Westerns
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 267

Spaghetti Westerns

Since the silent days of cinema, Westerns have been one of the most popular genres, not just in the United States but around the world. International filmmakers have been so taken by westerns that many directors have produced versions of their own, despite lacking access to the American West. Nowhere has the Western been more embraced outside of the United States than Italy. In the 1960s, as Hollywood heroes like John Wayne and Randolph Scott were aging, Italian filmmakers were revitalizing the western, securing younger American actors for their productions and also making stars of homegrown talent. Movies directed and produced by Italians have been branded “spaghetti westerns”—a genre...

Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2019
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 463

Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2019

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-11-06
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  • Publisher: McFarland

The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2019, including television icon Doris Day, iconic novelist Toni Morrison, groundbreaking director John Singleton, Broadway starlet Carol Channing and lovable Star Wars actor Peter Mayhew. Obituaries of actors, filmmakers, musicians, producers, dancers, composers, writers, animals and others associated with the performing arts who died in 2019 are included in this edition. Date, place and cause of death are provided for each, along with a career recap and a photograph. Filmographies are given for film and television performers.

Emergent Quilombos
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 351

Emergent Quilombos

How disenfranchised Black Brazilians use hip-hop to reinvigorate the Black radical tradition. Known as Black Rome, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, is a predominantly Black city. The local art, food, and dance are closely linked to the population’s African roots. Yet many Black Brazilian residents are politically and economically disenfranchised. Bryce Henson details a culture of resistance and activism that has emerged in response, expressed through hip-hop and the social relations surrounding it. Based on years of ethnographic research, Emergent Quilombos illuminates how Black hip-hop artists and their circles contest structures of anti-Black racism by creating safe havens and alternative soci...

American International Pictures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 452

American International Pictures

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-02-19
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  • Publisher: McFarland

American International Pictures was in many ways the "missing link" between big-budget Hollywood studios, "poverty-row" B-movie factories and low-rent exploitation movie distributors. AIP first targeted teen audiences with science fiction, horror and fantasy, but soon grew to encompass many genres and demographics--at times, it was indistinguishable from many of the "major" studios. From Abby to Zontar, this filmography lists more than 800 feature films, television series and TV specials by AIP and its partners and subsidiaries. Special attention is given to American International Television (the TV arm of AIP) and an appendix lists the complete AITV catalog. The author also discusses films produced by founders James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff after they left the company.

Actors of the Spaghetti Westerns
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 543

Actors of the Spaghetti Westerns

Musical accompaniment were jazzed up renditions that basically fit the art form like a glove with a stylish beat that usually pounded out the action as the story unfolded. The music set the mood and the audiences followed. Most of these films would never reach America during the era, even though they were generally aimed at the American film goers. The Actors who went to Italy and got involved in these lucrative new genre spinoffs all enjoyed star status, recognition and glow of the limelight that came with it. These are the Actors were talking about here.

Darkening the Italian Screen
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

Darkening the Italian Screen

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-08-16
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  • Publisher: McFarland

 The birth and rise of popular Italian cinema since the early 1950s can be attributed purely to necessity. The vast number of genres, sub-genres, currents and crossovers and the way they have overlapped, died out or replaced each other has been an attempt, in postwar years, to contain the invasion of U.S. product while satisfying the demands the American industry had created in Italy. The author explores one of the most multi-faceted and contradictory industries cinema has ever known through the careers of those most closely associated with it. His recorded interviews were conducted with directors and actors both well-known and upcoming.

Wildlife Review
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1144

Wildlife Review

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1985
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Branquitude, Música Rap E Educação
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 259

Branquitude, Música Rap E Educação

A presença de rappers brancos em um gênero musical genuinamente negro sempre foi motivo de conflitos e melindres, quase sempre mantidos nas entrelinhas e bastidores da cena Rap. Em jogo, acusações de apropriação cultural, inautenticidade, privilégio e racismo. O autor, ativista e pesquisador negro, Jorge Hilton, se aventura no mergulho aprofundado desse território expondo e analisando esta tensão racial. E se historicamente os pesquisadores brancos tornavam os negros seus interlocutores nos próprios estudos, o autor inverte essa perspectiva. O livro Branquitude, Música Rap e Educação - Compreenda de uma vez o racismo no Brasil a partir da visão de rappers brancos é a segunda o...

Western Movies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 485

Western Movies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-01-04
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  • Publisher: McFarland

This revised and greatly expanded edition of a well-established reference book presents 5105 feature length (four reels or more) Western films, from the early silent era to the present. More than 900 new entries are in this edition. Each entry has film title, release company and year, running time, color indication, cast listing, plot synopsis, and a brief critical review and other details. Not only are Hollywood productions included, but the volume also looks at Westerns made abroad as well as frontier epics, north woods adventures and nature related productions. Many of the films combine genres, such as horror and science fiction Westerns. The volume includes a list of cowboys and their horses and a screen names cross reference. There are more than 100 photographs.

Bahia Com H De Hip-hop
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 270

Bahia Com H De Hip-hop

O Hip-Hop é uma das expressões mais representativas da diáspora africana. Desenvolveu-se mundialmente e na Bahia tornou-se importante canal de autoafirmação identitária da juventude. Como essa cultura veio parar na Terra do Axé? Quais os primeiros adeptos? Quando e como se constitui em Movimento organizado? Quais as estratégias de comunicação? Quais as conquistas? A história do Hip-Hop baiano engloba a capital e 18 municípios do interior. No seu desenvolvimento, constatam-se conflitos, superação, articulação intermunicipal e regional, embate entre mercado e ativismo, relações com a política partidária, com outros Movimentos, trabalho social no presídio. As linhas desta crônica-reportagem têm tempero particular. Foram escritas por um artista ativista que viveu a origem do Hip-Hop no estado e aqui apresenta reflexões atuais e genuínas compromissadas com a dimensão filosófica e histórica do Movimento. Mais uma vez esse estado se revela singular e plural.