Author: Andr Gaudreault
Publisher: Rutgers University Pre
Keywords: decades, series, screen, variations, cinema, themes, american
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-02-28
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0813544432
ISBN-13: 9780813544434
At the turn of the twentieth century, cinema was quickly establishing itself as a legitimate form of popular entertainment.The essays in American Cinema 1890-1909 explore and define how the making of motion pictures flowered into an industry that would finally become the central entertainment institution of the world. Beginning with all the early types of pictures that moved, this volume tells the story of the invention and consolidation of the various processes that gave rise to what we now call cinema. By examining the battles over patents, production, exhibition, and the reception of film,
Author: Lucy Fischer
Publisher: Rutgers University Pre
Keywords: american, screen, cinema, decades, culture, themes, 1920s, variations
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-05-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0813544858
ISBN-13: 9780813544854
During the 1920s, sound revolutionized the motion picture: film studios transformed into major corporations, hiring a host of craftsmen and technicians and it signaled the birth of the star system for many like Charlie Chaplin, Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo among others while black performers (relegated to "race films") appeared infrequently in mainstream movies. The classic Hollywood film style was perfected and significant film genres were established: the melodrama, western, historical epic, and romantic comedy, along with slapstick, science fiction, and fantasy.
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Publisher: Ultimate History, Inc. (Joe Seidler)
Keywords: decades, four, first, ultimate
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2010-02-28
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0976449609
ISBN-13: 9780976449607
Author: Sanford Goldstein
Publisher: Modern English Tanka Press
Keywords: road, tanka, decades, four
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-12-17
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0615180051
ISBN-13: 9780615180052
This book is a tanka treasure chest, filled with nearly five hundred poems by the acknowledged master of the genre, Sanford Goldstein. Not only has Goldstein, with his translating partners, made the classics of modern Japanese poetry available in English, he has written some of the best tanka ever rendered first in English. Six published collections of the tanka of Sanford Goldstein are compiled in this single, historic, volume by "the father of tanka in English." For anyone who wants to understand tanka, who wants a genuine tanka experience, this book is a must-read. Sanford Goldstein’s
Author: Jim Calla
Publisher: Facts on File
Keywords: history, american, decades, 1930s, america
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2005-08-30
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0816056382
ISBN-13: 9780816056385
Each decade in 20th-century America is known for having a unique history and a different personality. In the 1920s there were flappers and the Charleston, in the 1950s bobby-soxers and hula-hoops, in the 1970s hippies and disco, and in the 1990s Lilith Fair and the World Wide Web. Studying each decade one by one gives readers the chance to get a true feel for the character and events of the time. "Decades of American History", an exciting new set, encourages young readers to do just that, exploring each decade of the 20th century in all its colorful history. In addition to coverage of each pre
Author: Richard L. Miller
Publisher: Two Sixty Pre
Keywords: testing, nuclear, decades, cloud
Number of Pages: 548
Published: 1999-07-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1881043053
ISBN-13: 9781881043058
In "a chilling documentary history of America’s above-ground nuclear tests conducted during the 1950s and early 1960s, Miller takes on the subject and universalizes it, at the same time giving it the flavor of a Dos Passos novel" ("Kirkus Reviews").
Author: Donald Ca
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pre
Keywords: development, human, guide, life, decades
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-08-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0664232418
ISBN-13: 9780664232412
