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Anatomy of Film
This brief, jargon-free introduction to film appreciation and analysis helps students develop a critical awareness of cinema without overwhelming them. Including new features, updated examples and greater attention to growing trends, the new edition provides deeper coverage of key theory, concepts and terminology for all film students.
Homosexuality in the Work of Gore Vidal
Since his first novel with a homosexual topic, The City and the Pillar, appeared in 1948, Gore Vidal has been seen as an enfant terrible of American letters. Through his ongoing writing career, he has examined (homo)sexuality in the context of cultural, religious and socio- political developments, so that it is fascinating to revisit his critical, sometimes cynical and always wittily presented ideas which were formed at a time when Gay Liberation, Gay Literature and Gay Identity were still unheard of and to discover the meaning these ideas still hold for us today.
Martha's Insatiable Desires
Martha's Insatiable Desires is the never-before-told story of how actress Martha Hyer stole approximately 10 million dollars from hubby famed producer Hal Wallis. As a couple, Hyer and Wallis were somewhat mismatched. He was a boy from the slums of Chicago whose success in the movie business (196 films over a 44-year career) owed as much to his ability to pinch a penny as to his aptitude for wheeling and dealing. Beautiful, sexy Martha was a relentless shopaholic who dealt with her addiction through skullduggery. To get relief from huge mounting personal debt she mortgaged Hal's Beverly Hills mansion, his 12-room oceanside "getaway" in Trancas Canyon, and their desert home in Palm Springs. And then there arose the itchy question of what to do about Hal’s small but superior collection of French Impressionist paintings hanging there in the sun room of their L.A. abode doing nobody any particular good….
The Battle for the Bs
The emergence of the double-bill in the 1930s created a divide between A-pictures and B-pictures as theaters typically screened packages featuring one of each. With the former considered more prestigious because of their larger budgets and more popular actors, the lower-budgeted Bs served largely as a support mechanism to A-films of the major studios—most of which also owned the theater chains in which movies were shown. When a 1948 U.S. Supreme Court antitrust ruling severed ownership of theaters from the studios, the B-movie soon became a different entity in the wake of profound changes to the corporate organization and production methods of the major Hollywood studios. In The Battle for...
Small Worlds
Thirteen essays treat children from the pre-Civil War generation to 1950 as active, influential participants in society. The essays are organized into four topics: cultural and regional variation, toys and play, family life, and the ways evolving memories of childhood shape how adults think of themselves.
