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Kiriakou, Olympia, author.
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791.43028092
Publication Date
2020
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"Focusing on an often-ignored and misunderstood star of the classical Hollywood period, the book offers a comprehensive study of Carole Lombard's star persona and films from 1921 to present day"--
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Eforgan, Estel.
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791.43028092 22
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2010
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Wright, Julie Lobalzo, author.
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791.430280922 23
Publication Date
2018
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"Explores crossover stardom, from early sound cinema to today, by examining popular male music stars who have crossed from music to cinema"--
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Ndalianis, Angela, 1960-
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791.430280922 22
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2002
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Loreti, Nicanor.
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791.430922 22
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2010
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LaSalle, Mick.
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791.4365220944 23
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2012
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Tapsell, Miranda, author.
Call Number
927.91 TAP
Publication Date
2020
Summary
Ever since I was thirteen years old, all I wanted to do was perform. It was an unusual dream for a kid from the Northern Territory to have ... what I wanted for my life was a world away from what people knew and loved about the Top End . Even though I've moved south to become an actor, the Territory has never left me. It's the place I go to when I want to feel whole again. From Kakadu to Cannes, Miranda Tapsell is one of Australia's favourite actors. A proud Larrikia woman, she built a stellar career on stage, and shot to fame in The Sapphires and then in Love Child and Doctor, Doctor. Growing up, Miranda often looked for faces like hers on our screens. There weren't many. And too often there was a negative narrative around Indigenous lives, and Aboriginal women especially. Now an award-winning actor, she decided to change things herself. Combining her love of romantic comedies with her love of Darwin, the Tiwi Islands and the Top End, Miranda wrote, produced and stared in the box office hit Top End Wedding. But who the hell co-writes, produces and acts in a film about a wedding in the same year they're having their own? Miranda Tapsell does! In this engaging and thought-provoking memoir, TOP END GIRL, Miranda shares the path she took to create a moving film about reconnection to family and culture at the same time as she was planning her own wedding. And, like all good story-tellers, she holds a mirror up to the society we live in to show the prejudice that too often surfaces. Miranda knows that the key to change is to understand and through the power of storytelling she is changing attitudes and expectations to unite us all.
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Morrison, James, 1960-
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791.430280922 22
Publication Date
2010
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Petro, Patrice, 1957-
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791.430280922 22
Publication Date
2010
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With its sharp focus on stardom during the 1920s, Idols of Modernity reveals strong connections and dissonances in matters of storytelling and performance that can be traced both backward and forward, across Europe, Asia, and the United States, from the silent era into the emergence of sound. Bringing together the best new work on cinema and stardom in the 1920s, this illustrated collection showcases the range of complex social, institutional, and aesthetic issues at work in American cinema of this time.
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Eberwein, Robert T., 1940-
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791.430280922 22
Publication Date
2010
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Acting for America focuses on the way film icons have engaged in and defined some major issues of cultural and social concern to America during the 1980s. Scholars employing a variety of useful approaches explore how these movie stars' films speak to an increased audience awareness of advances in feminism, new ideas about masculinity, and the complex political atmosphere in the Age of Reagan. The essays demonstrate the range of these stars' contributions to such conversations in a variety of films, including blockbusters and major genres.
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Griffin, Sean.
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791.430280922
Publication Date
2011
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What Dreams Were Made Of examines the performers who helped define American cinema in the 1940s, a decade of rapid and repeated upheaval for Hollywood and the United States. Through insightful discussions of key films as well as studio publicity and fan magazines, the essays in this collection analyze how these actors and actresses helped lift spirits during World War II, whether in service comedies, combat films, or escapist musicals. Together, they represented the hopes and fears of a nation during turbulent times, enacting on the silver screen the dreams of millions of moviegoers.
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Bean, Jennifer M., 1968-
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791.430280922
Publication Date
2011
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The conjunction of the terms "movie" and "star" was inconceivable prior to the 1910s. Flickers of Desire explores the emergence of this mass cultural phenomenon, asking how and why a cinema that did not even run screen credits developed so quickly into a venue in which performers became the American film industry's most lucrative mode of product individuation. Contributors chart the rise of American cinema's first galaxy of stars through a variety of archival sources--newspaper columns, popular journals, fan magazines, cartoons, dolls, postcards, scrapbooks, persona.
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