Cheap Tricks and Class Acts - 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 Cheap Tricks and Class Acts write by John Johnson. This book was released on 1996. Cheap Tricks and Class Acts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reveals the behind-the-scenes production secrets of the Hollywood films of the 1950s.
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.
Science Fiction Cinema and 1950s Britain
Science Fiction Cinema and 1950s Britain - 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 Science Fiction Cinema and 1950s Britain write by Matthew Jones. This book was released on 2017-11-30. Science Fiction Cinema and 1950s Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For the last sixty years discussion of 1950s science fiction cinema has been dominated by claims that the genre reflected US paranoia about Soviet brainwashing and the nuclear bomb. However, classic films, such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and It Came from Outer Space (1953), and less familiar productions, such as It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958), were regularly exported to countries across the world. The histories of their encounters with foreign audiences have not yet been told. Science Fiction Cinema and 1950s Britain begins this task by recounting the story of 1950s British cinema-goers and the aliens and monsters they watched on the silver screen. Drawing on extensive archival research, Matthew Jones makes an exciting and important intervention by locating American science fiction films alongside their domestic counterparts in their British contexts of release and reception. He offers a radical reassessment of the genre, demonstrating for the first time that in Britain, which was a significant market for and producer of science fiction, these films gave voice to different fears than they did in America. While Americans experienced an economic boom, low immigration and the conferring of statehood on Alaska and Hawaii, Britons worried about economic uncertainty, mass immigration and the dissolution of the Empire. Science Fiction Cinema and 1950s Britain uses these and other differences between the British and American experiences of the 1950s to tell a new history of the decade's science fiction cinema, exploring for the first time the ways in which the genre came to mean something unique to Britons.
Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic
Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic - 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 Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic write by Elizabeth McCarthy. This book was released on 2016-10-24. Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years horror and gothic themes have penetrated mainstream popular culture in a manner unseen since the horror boom of the 1970s. Primetime television viewers who before might not have shown interest in such late-night fare now happily settle down after dinner to watch zombie or serial killer shows. This collection of 54 biographical essays examines many overlooked and underrated figures who have played a role in the ever expanding world of horror and gothic entertainment. The contributors push the boundaries of how we define these terms, bringing into the discussion such diverse figures as singer-songwriter Tom Waits, occultist Dion Fortune, author Charles Beaumont, historian and bishop Gregory of Tours and video game designer Shinji Mikami.
A Year of Fear
A Year of Fear - 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 A Year of Fear write by Bryan Senn. This book was released on 2015-03-26. A Year of Fear available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This eclectic overview of horror cinema offers up a collection of horror films for practically any occasion and literally every day of the year. For example, the author recommends commemorating United Nations Day (October 24) with a screening of The Colossus of New York, whose startling climax takes place at the U.N. Building. Each day-by-day entry includes the movie title, production year, plot summary and critique, along with a brief explanation of how the film fits into the history of that particular day and interesting anecdotes on the film's production.
