From Cowboy to Mogul to Monster
Author | : Mark Damon |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 2008-05-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 146346505X |
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Author | : Mark Damon |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 2008-05-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 146346505X |
Author | : Pantelis Michelakis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2013-08-29 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 019923907X |
Greek Tragedy on Screen considers a wide range of films which engage openly with narrative and performative aspects of Greek tragedy. This volume situates these films within the context of on-going debates in film criticism and reception theory in relation to theoretical or critical readings of tragedy in contemporary culture. Michelakis argues that film adaptations of Greek tragedy need to be placed between the promises of cinema for a radical popular culture, and the divergent cultural practices and realities of commercial films, art-house films, silent cinema, and films for television, home video, and DVD. In an age where the boundaries between art and other forms of cultural production are constantly intersected and reconfigured, the appeal of Greek tragedy for the screen needs to be related to the longing it triggers for origins and authenticity, as well as to the many uncertainties, such as homelessness, violence, and loss of identity, with which it engages. The films discussed include not only critically recognized films by directors such Michael Cacoyannis, Jules Dassin, and Pier Paolo Pasolini, but also more recent films by Woody Allen, Tony Harrison, Werner Herzog, and Lars von Trier. Moreover, it also considers earlier and largely neglected films of cinematic traditions which lie outside Hollywood.
Author | : William Stadiem |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2013-01-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0312656890 |
As wild and sexy and over-the-top as the decade it brings to life, "Moneywood"is the inside story of Hollywood producers in the 1980s. The purse strings were not controlled by adults, but by pop culture cowboys who couldn't balance their own checkbooks but could fast talk the talent. This is a meaty expos of the real hit men of Hollywood's last go-go decade.
Author | : Roderik Smits |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2019-07-09 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 3030168964 |
This book is about the business of distribution, around which the international film business revolves. Considering sales agents and distributors as primary gatekeepers, the book examines the networks in which they operate, how they operate, how their practices have evolved, and the power and control they exert over the business of independent film distribution. Critically, it also considers how they are affected by the powerful influence of Netflix and Amazon in the online era. At a time of disruption and change to traditional business models and industry professions, Roderik Smits argues that gatekeepers remain equally – if not more – crucial to the distribution and circulation of films in international markets.
Author | : Jonathan Wroot |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2017-11-03 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 3319627589 |
This book demonstrates, in contrast to statistics that show declining consumption of physical formats, that there has not been a mass shift towards purely digital media. Physical releases such as special editions, DVD box-sets and Blu-Rays are frequently promoted and sought out by consumers. And that past formats such as VHS, Laserdisc and HD-DVD make for sought-after collectible items. These trends are also found within particular genres and niche categories, such as documentary, education and independent film distribution. Through its case studies, this collection makes a distinctive and significant intervention in highlighting the ways in which the film industry has responded to rapidly changing markets. This volume, global in scope, will prove useful to those studying the distribution and exhibition of films, and the economics of the film industry around the world.
Author | : Dianne Gillard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1992-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781585008438 |
Meet Mark Damon, former actor-turned producer, the man behind some of the most original and award-winning movies of our time: Das Boot, The NeverEnding Story, 9 ½ Weeks, Short Circuit, The Lost Boys, Monster, The Upside of Anger and more. Throughout the decades, Damon dated, aided, and hired the likes of actors Natalie Wood, Tuesday Weld, Jack Nicholson, Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Costner, Charlize Theron, and so many more. Now we learn his story for the first time as a smoldering sex symbol in the Hollywood of the 50's and 60's, leading to his years in Rome as an Italian playboy and Spaghetti Western cowboy at the height of "La Dolce Vita", and his return to Hollywood in the 1980's to become the inventor of independent film financing. Filled with juicy behind-the-scene anecdotes of the films he's made, From Cowboy to Mogul to Monster pulls no punches while offering insights into how to succeed in one of the world's most cutthroat industries. Mark Damon's fascinating story recounts how he graduated from actor to Hollywood mogul to award-winning film producer of Monster.
Author | : Xavier Neal |
Publisher | : Xavier Neal |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2018-12-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
A country music king. A chess playing queen. A classic tale that begins in paradise... What starts as an annual five day music festival on the beach leads to two people falling in love with new rhythms. Opposites anxiously trying to learn the beats of one another's hearts. Will the endless noise of one industry ultimately tear them apart, leaving their relationship to be nothing more than a forgotten melody, or will they manage to survive and create their perfect harmony? * This book is a COMPLETE standalone. The Culture Blind Series can be read in any order *
Author | : Linda Schreyer |
Publisher | : Easton Studio Press, LLC |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2014-06-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 193521229X |
Joey Lerner has been running, from place to place and job to job. Now, at 32, she’s running from her home in New York City, where the last surviving member of her family has died, to Los Angeles, where she hopes to start over. Never one to follow the rules or take the obvious path, and thanks to her grandfather's hands-on training, Joey gets herself hired as the ‘handyperson’ at a funky community center owned by an Australian surfer. Soon, the job of leading a Grief Group of young widows and widowers falls into her lap. The problem is - Joey hasn’t yet healed from her own losses. Over the next nine months Joey and the Grief Group journey from death to life, together and alone. Along the way, Joey discovers the work she was born to do. Tears and Tequila is a story of love, loss, friendship, courage and, most of all, renewal; it tells of the healing that happens when you become part of a community in which everybody is missing someone.
Author | : Vanda Krefft |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 1501 |
Release | : 2017-11-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0062680676 |
A riveting story of ambition, greed, and genius unfolding at the dawn of modern America. This landmark biography brings into focus a fascinating brilliant entrepreneur—like Steve Jobs or Walt Disney, a true American visionary—who risked everything to realize his bold dream of a Hollywood empire. Although a major Hollywood studio still bears William Fox’s name, the man himself has mostly been forgotten by history, even written off as a failure. Now, in this fascinating biography, Vanda Krefft corrects the record, explaining why Fox’s legacy is central to the history of Hollywood. At the heart of William Fox’s life was the myth of the American Dream. His story intertwines the fate of the nineteenth-century immigrants who flooded into New York, the city’s vibrant and ruthless gilded age history, and the birth of America’s movie industry amid the dawn of the modern era. Drawing on a decade of original research, The Man Who Made the Movies offers a rich, compelling look at a complex man emblematic of his time, one of the most fascinating and formative eras in American history. Growing up in Lower East Side tenements, the eldest son of impoverished Hungarian immigrants, Fox began selling candy on the street. That entrepreneurial ambition eventually grew one small Brooklyn theater into a $300 million empire of deluxe studios and theaters that rivaled those of Adolph Zukor, Marcus Loew, and the Warner brothers, and launched stars such as Theda Bara. Amid the euphoric roaring twenties, the early movie moguls waged a fierce battle for control of their industry. A fearless risk-taker, Fox won and was hailed as a genius—until a confluence of circumstances, culminating with the 1929 stock market crash, led to his ruin.
Author | : John McNally |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2010-09-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0810127318 |
In the seventeen vividly rendered stories in Ghosts of Chicago, John McNally captures the poignancy of both the shared experiences of a city and the interior details of his everyday characters.