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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"By the author of the bestseller Hello, He Lied, a veteran producer takes a witty look at the new Hollywood. Lynda Obst returns to dish on the experts, tastemakers, and moguls of today's Hollywood and the movies they make. She describes how the movie business has lost its MO--and is now losing its talent to network and especially cable TV.With the collapse of the DVD market, the movie industry was crippled. The business reacted by producing tentpoles...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The scenic natural vistas of Arizona's deserts and mountains have made it a favorite backdrop of movies and television shows. Westerns such as silent-era pictures derived from Zane Grey fiction through the John Ford-John Wayne classics Stagecoach and The Searchers benefited from the beautiful and rugged landscapes. TV classics such as Gunsmoke and Little House on the Prairie helped define Arizona allure for Hollywood. Oscar winners Jerry Maguire...
Author
Series
A to Z guides volume 194
Publisher
Scarecrow Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The A to Z of Animation and Cartoons is an introduction to all aspects of animation history and its development as a technology and industry beyond the familiar cartoons from the Disney and Warner Bros. Studios. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, photos, a bibliography, and over 200 cross-referenced dictionary entries on animators, directors, studios, techniques, films, and some of the best-known characters"--Amazon.com.
7) State & Main
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In order to save money on production costs, a movie production crew moves into a small town in Vermont. The crew soon discovers that their much needed "prop" has burned down, the star can't keep his pants zipped, the starlet won't take off her top and the locals want a piece of the action.
10) The glitter dome
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
After the murder of a major film studio's president in Hollywood, two veteran homicide detectives discover the extent to which they have been seduced by Hollywood.
12) Producing
Series
Behind the silver screen volume 7
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Of all the job titles listed in the opening and closing screen credits, producer is certainly the most amorphous. There are businessmen (and women)-producers, writer-director- and movie-star-producers; producers who work for the studio; executive producers whose reputation and industry clout alone gets a project financed (though their day-to-day participation in the project may be negligible). The job title, regardless of the actual work involved,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author Sophie Kinsella returns to her beloved Shopaholic series with Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) newly arrived in Hollywood and starry-eyed. She and her two-year-old daughter, Minnie, have relocated to L.A. to join Becky's husband, Luke, who is there to handle PR for famous actress Sage Seymour. Becky can't wait to start living the A-list lifestyle, complete with celebrity sightings, yoga retreats, and shopping trips...
Publisher
Miracle Pictures
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Film about the confusion between real life and reel life that consumes a film maker. By mixing interviews with real people and erotic scenes of a haunting young woman, the audience is kept guessing about which is reality and which is a dream.
16) Indiscretions
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"With the sin and scandal of Hollywood as their birthright, Jenny Haven's extraordinarily beautiful daughters also inherited their mother's passion for living. When Jenny dies suddenly, under mysterious circumstances, the Haven sisters' grief is tempered by the hope that her millions will nourish their budding commercial enterprises. Instead, their movie star mother appears to have died penniless, and now each daughter must create her own success,...
Author
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Language
English
Description
The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel about a Hollywood producer who finds himself not only struggling to find love and success in a world of cut-throats, but who is in the ultimate struggle for his own life. The Last Tycoon is Fitzgerald's final work, a novel he was working on at the time of his death. The novel was published after editing by fellow writer and friend, Edmund Wilson, with the aid of Fitzgerald's notes and outlines. The...
19) The cottage
Author
Language
English
Description
A gleaming Rolls-Royce pulls through the gates of the magnificent Bel Air estate known as The Cottage. The man behind the wheel is Hollywood's ageless wonder, Cooper Winslow. A star of the silver screen for decades, a man whose allure to women is legendary, Coop exudes old-fashioned glamour. But Coop is broke. And with no major roles coming his way, he is faced with the prospect of selling his beloved home, or at least renting out parts of it. His...
20) Industrial networks and cinemas of India: shooting stars, shifting geographies and multiplying media
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English