author: steven cohan

The Road Movie Book

... Adams and Leroy Searle. Tallahassee: University Presses ofFlorida, 1986. 809 ... John. Hollywood Gangland: The Movies' Love Affair with the Mob. New York: St ... ROAD Fame and the 89 MAD LOVE, MOBILE HOMES.

The Sound of Musicals

... film's distribution rights (for everywhere but Ireland) for $1 million, Fox Searchlight Pictures distributed Once to relatively ... Falling Slowly' and even stirring Steven Spielberg to declare: 'A little movie called Once gave me enough ...

Sunset Boulevard

... score, what Staggs calls 'a sonata in noir', with snatches of jazz, the tango, the blues and 'Stravinskyian throbs and thrusts' (2002: 141–2). Notice how the score correlates to characterisation, with a contemporary jazzy bebop theme ...

The Sound of Musicals

... scripts indicate that at least some of the story and characters were built around these pre-existing songs, not unlike the traditional approach to Hollywood musicals such as Singin' in the Rain (1952) and White Christmas (1954). In ...

Hollywood by Hollywood: The Backstudio Picture and the Mystique of Making Movies

... Hail, Caesar! the incorporation of gossip as the source of inspiration for fictional characters and situations gives to the screenplay's inventiveness a sense of simulated truthfulness, of a shadowy referential ground in real Hollywood ...

Telling Stories

... Pride and Prejudice, 1966: 134) Dissonant psycho-narration, on the other hand, moves back from a character's ... diction, etc.) seem to originate in the character herself or in the narrator. In the passage of dissonant psycho- narration from ...

The Road Movie Book

... stream Hollywood at the end of the 1970s and their subsequent revival in the late 1980s as a Hollywood strategy for recuperating patriarchal capitalism from the yuppie excesses that had tarnished it during that “ high - flying ” decade ...

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