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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789710903321

Autore

Birchard Robert S

Titolo

Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood [[electronic resource] /] / Robert S. Birchard ; with a foreword by Kevin Thomas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, : University Press of Kentucky, c2004

ISBN

0-8131-3829-9

1-283-32704-X

9786613327048

0-8131-2636-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (496 p.)

Disciplina

791.4302/33/092

Soggetti

Motion pictures - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood; Title; Copyright; For Grace Houghton who kept the faith; Contents; Foreword, by Kevin Thomas; Preface; 1. The Squaw Man; 2. The Virginian; 3. The Call of the North; 4. What's-His-Name; 5. The Man From Home; 6. The Rose of the Rancho; 7. The Girl of the Golden West; 8. The Warrens of Virginia; 9. The Unafraid; 10. The Captive; 11. The Wild Goose Chase; 12. The Arab; 13. Chimmie Fadden; 14. Kindling; 15. Maria Rosa; 16. Carmen; 17. Temptation; 18. Chimmie Fadden Out West; 19. The Cheat; 20. The Golden Chance; 21. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

22. The Heart of Nora Flynn 23. The Dream Girl; 24. Joan the Woman; 25. A Romance of the Redwoods; 26. The Little American; 27. The Woman God Forgot; 28. The Devil Stone; 29. The Whispering Chorus; 30. Old Wives for New; 3 1. We Can't Have Everything; 32. Till I Come Back to You; 33. The Squaw Man (first remake); 34. Don't Change Your Husband; 35. For Better, For Worse; 36. Male and Female; 37. Why Change Your Wife?; 38. Something to Think About; 39. Forbidden Fruit; 40. The Affairs of Anatol; 41. Fool's Paradise; 42. Saturday Night; 43. Manslaughter; 44. Adam's Rib; 45. The Ten Commandments

46. Triumph 47. Feet of Clay; 48. The Golden Bed; 49. The Road to Yesterday; 50. The Volga Boatman; 51. The King of Kings; 52. The Godless Girl; 53. Dynamite; 54. Madam Satan; 55. The Squaw Man



(second remake); 56. The Sign of the Cross; 57. This Day and Age; 58. Four Frightened People; 59. Cleopatra; 60. The Crusades; 61. The Plainsman; 62. The Buccaneer; 63. Union Pacific; 64. North West Mounted Police; 65. Reap the Wild Wind; 66. The Story of Dr. Wassell; 67. Unconquered; 68. Samson and Delilah; 69. The Greatest Show on Earth; 70. The Ten Commandments; Appendices; Appendix A

DeMille Pictures, Inc., Costs and Grosses Appendix B; Other Cecil B. DeMille Film Credits; Appendix C; Unrealized Projects; Appendix D; Film Appearances by Cecil B. DeMille; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Illustrations follow 1; Illustrations follow 2; Illustrations follow 3

Sommario/riassunto

"" """"Far and away the best film book published so far this year.""""--National Board of Review Cecil B. DeMille was the most successful filmmaker in early Hollywood history. Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood is a detailed and definitive chronicle of the screen work that changed the course of film history and a fascinating look at how movies were actually made in Hollywood's Golden Age. Drawing extensively on DeMille's personal archives and other primary sources, Robert S. Birchard offers a revealing portrait of DeMille the filmmaker that goes behind studio gates and beyond DeMille's legendary



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910972869103321

Autore

Lea Tess

Titolo

Bureaucrats and bleeding hearts : indigenous health in northern Australia / / Tess Lea

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sydney, NSW, : University of New South Wales Press, 2008

ISBN

1-74223-041-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 p.)

Disciplina

362.849915

Soggetti

Public health - Australia - Northern Territory

Aboriginal Australians - Australia - Northern Territory

Bureaucracy - Australia - Northern Territory

Government policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-267) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; The Setting; Absorbing and delivering; Meeting the state; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts takes you on an intimate journey into the lives of people armed with the task of ending Australian Aboriginal disadvantage in the frontier north of Australia. Taking a fresh look at longstanding issues, Lea examines the culture of bureaucracy, its need to create the look of action, how intelligent inhabitants uphold the apparatus of government even whilst they critique it, and how benevolent efforts to improve health have brought about unexpected co-dependencies and tragic failures. She paints a sympathetic yet discomforting portrait of those who, working on beh