Hollywood on Lake Michigan
Author | : Michael Corcoran |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2009-08-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781893121416 |
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Author | : Michael Corcoran |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2009-08-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781893121416 |
Author | : Michael Corcoran |
Publisher | : Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2013-06-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1613745788 |
Ranging from the dawn of the silent era to today's blockbusters and independent films, this revamped second edition chronicles the significant contributions by Chicago and Chicagoans to more than a century of American filmmaking. Among the Windy City's unique honors in this history are the development of film technology by early major players Essanay Film Manufacturing Company and the Selig Polyscope Company; the first African American&–owned and operated film studios; the birthplace of gore flicks; the origination and growth of movie palaces; and the importance of the Second City, Goodman, and Steppenwolf theaters as training grounds for the industry's best comedic and dramatic talent. Readers will relish behind-the-scenes stories of local favorites like The Blues Brothers and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, as well as recent box office smashes like Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. Fully revised and updated, this premier guide to the Windy City's history in the film industry features new profiles of film locations, more photographs, and exclusive interviews detailing all aspects of the moviemaking process, making it the perfect guide for film lovers and Chicago history buffs alike.
Author | : Michael Corcoran |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1613745753 |
Previous edition: Chicago, Ill.: Lake Claremont Press, 1998, by Arnie Bernstein.
Author | : Richard Koszarski |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2008-08-27 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780813545523 |
In Hollywood on the Hudson, Richard Koszarski rewrites an important part of the history of American cinema. During the 1920s and 1930s, film industry executives had centralized the mass production of feature pictures in a series of gigantic film factories scattered across Southern California, while maintaining New York as the economic and administrative center. But as Koszarski reveals, many writers, producers, and directors also continued to work here, especially if their independent vision was too big for the Hollywood production line.
Author | : Heather Shumaker |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2017-04-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0814342051 |
Saving Arcadia: A Story of Conservation and Community in the Great Lakes is a suspenseful and intimate land conservation adventure story set in the Great Lakes heartland. The story spans more than forty years, following the fate of a magnificent sand dune on Lake Michigan and the people who care about it. Author and narrator Heather Shumaker shares the remarkable untold stories behind protecting land and creating new nature preserves. Written in a compelling narrative style, the book is intended in part as a case study for landscape-level conservation and documents the challenges of integrating economic livelihoods into conservation and what it really means to “preserve” land over time. This is the story of a small band of determined townspeople and how far they went to save beloved land and endangered species from the grip of a powerful corporation. Saving Arcadia is a narrative with roots as deep as the trees the community is trying to save; something set in motion before the author was even born. And yet, Shumaker gives a human face to the changing nature of land conservation in the twenty-first century. Throughout this chronicle we meet people like Elaine, a nineteen-year-old farm wife; Dori, a lakeside innkeeper; and Glen, the director of the local land trust. Together with hundreds of others they cross cultural barriers and learn to help one another in an effort to win back the six-thousand-acre landscape taken over by Consumers Power that is now facing grave devastation. The result is a triumph of community that includes working farms, local businesses, summer visitors, year-round residents, and a network of land stewards. A work of creative nonfiction, Saving Arcadia is the adventurous tale of everyday people fighting to reclaim the land that has been in their family for generations. It explores ideas about nature and community, and anyone from scholars of ecology and conservation biology to readers of naturalist writing can gain from Arcadia’s story.
Author | : Chicago Recreation Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Amusements |
ISBN | : |
Author | : E.J. Fleming |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2013-11-08 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0786477253 |
For a decade Wallace Reid was the most recognized face in Hollywood, the most universally beloved actor in silent film. Today all that is widely remembered of "Wally" Reid is that he died in a padded sanitarium cell, the victim of a fatal morphine addiction. Of all the actors who have enjoyed great fame only to vanish from the public eye, Reid perhaps fell the fastest and the hardest. This first full biography recounts Reid's complicated childhood, his disrupted family history and his rise to film stardom despite these restricting factors. It documents his myriad talents and accomplishments, most notably his gift for brilliant onscreen acting. The text explores in depth how the modern studio, however unconsciously, turned the popular star, a well-adjusted man with a loving family, into a drug-dependent mental patient within three years. His death rocked the foundations of Hollywood, and the huge new industry that he helped build nearly died with "Dashing Wally Reid."
Author | : Rand McNally and Company |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Chicago (Ill.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Aids to navigation |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1140 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Aids to navigation |
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