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Movieland: Hollywood and the Great American Dream Cutlure

By Jerome , Charyn

Book information

Publisher
New York University Press
Year
1996
ISBN
0814715508
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (17343454 bytes)
Pages
304\324
Topic
Art Cinema
Time added
2022-09-07 16:08:18
Hollywood

Description

“With an unabashed fan’s passion and a novelist’s descriptive flair, [Charyn] takes on the chronicle of the movies, reliving treasured scenes and evoking screen idols in a triumph of personalized history.” Digby Diehl, Playboy [From the back cover.] PRELUDE: THE LOEW’S PARADISE 7 1. FACES ON THE WALL 13 2. PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS BUFFALO BILL 26 3. GILDA’S GLOVE 44 4. ANGEL ON MY SHOULDER 57 5. MOGUL 73 6. "YOUNG FELLAH” 93 7. COWARDLY LIONS AND FORGOTTEN MEN 108 8. DANCING IN THE DARK (WITH DiCK POWELL) 126 9. CHILDREN OF PARADISE 141 10. TWO-HEADED MAN 161 11. WILDIES 181 12. THE HOUSE ON NINETY-FIFTH STREET 208 13. MR. FEATHERS 221 14. POISONVILLE 232 15. PILGRIM’S PROGRESS 247 16. THE FIRST EMPEROR 259 NOTES 273 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 290 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 295 INDEX 297

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