Beyond Ballyhoo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Ballyhoo write by Mark Thomas McGee. This book was released on 2001-03-15. Beyond Ballyhoo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. William Castle, for instance, was a master promoter. In one scheme involving The Tingler, Vincent Price warns in the movie that "the only way to stop the monster is to scream. That's the signal to the projectionist to throw the switch. Under ten or twelve seats were some electric motors, war surplus things that Castle got a bargain on. The motors vibrated the seat, in the hope of scaring a scream out of someone. Just in case it didn't Castle planted someone in the audience to get the screams rolling." This book is about flamboyant promotion, the con artist side of the movie world--everything the ballyhoo boys did to separate the customer from the price of a movie ticket--Emergo, HypnoVista, 3-D, Wide Screen, Cinemagic, Duo-Vision, Dynamation, Smell-O-Vision, plenty more. Supporting the text are 107 photos and illustrations, some never-before-published, and a filmography.
Beyond the Screen
Beyond the Screen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Screen write by Sarah Atkinson. This book was released on 2014-04-10. Beyond the Screen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beyond the Screen presents an expanded conceptualization of cinema which encompasses the myriad ways film can be experienced in a digitally networked society where the auditorium is now just one location amongst many in which audiences can encounter and engage with films. The book includes considerations of mobile, web, social media and live cinema through numerous examples and case studies of recent and near-future developments. Through analyses of narrative, text, process, apparatus and audience this book traces the metamorphosis of an emerging cinema and maps the new spaces of spectatorship which are currently challenging what it means to be cinematic in a digitally networked era.
Beyond 3D TV
Beyond 3D TV - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond 3D TV write by Tony Sperry. This book was released on . Beyond 3D TV available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Battle for the Bs
The Battle for the Bs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Battle for the Bs write by Blair Davis. This book was released on 2012-04-06. The Battle for the Bs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 the Bs, Blair Davis analyzes how B-films were produced, distributed, and exhibited in the 1950s and demonstrates the possibilities that existed for low-budget filmmaking at a time when many in Hollywood had abandoned the Bs. Made by newly formed independent companies, 1950s B-movies took advantage of changing demographic patterns to fashion innovative marketing approaches. They established such genre cycles as science fiction and teen-oriented films (think Destination Moon and I Was a Teenage Werewolf) well before the major studios and also contributed to the emergence of the movement now known as underground cinema. Although frequently proving to be multimillion-dollar box-office draws by the end of the decade, the Bs existed in opposition to the cinematic mainstream in the 1950s and created a legacy that was passed on to independent filmmakers in the decades to come.
Beyond the Golden Door
Beyond the Golden Door - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Golden Door write by J. Novick. This book was released on 2008-05-12. Beyond the Golden Door available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beyond the Golden Door is the first book devoted to showing how Jewish playwrights of the twentieth century have dramatized the Jewish encounter with America. Questions dealt within this study include - How do you balance old world heritage with new world opportunity? What does it mean to be a Jew - or to be an American, for that matter?
