Lost Horizon

• Author : James Hilton
• Publisher : Pan
• Release : 02 February 1973

Originally published: New York: W. Morrow, c1933.

• Author : Ken Windrum
• Publisher : State University of New York Press
• Release : 25 March 2019

Investigates how musicals, war films, sex comedies, and Westerns dealt with contentious issues during a time of change in Hollywood. The era known as the Hollywood Renaissance is celebrated as a time when revolutionary movies broke all the rules of the previous “classical” era as part of the ferment of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Yet many films during this era did not overtly smash the system but provided more traditional entertainment, based on popular genres, for a wider

• Author : James Hilton
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 02 February 2023

• Author : Gary Westfahl
• Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
• Release : 02 February 2023

A comprehensive three-volume reference work offers six hundred entries, with the first two volumes covering themes and the third volume exploring two hundred classic works in literature, television, and film.

• Author : Harry Medved,Bruce Akiyama
• Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
• Release : 01 April 2007

LET THE MOVIES BE YOUR GUIDE! * Hike THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE Trail! * Behold the KILL BILL Chapel! * Enter THE DOORS Indian Caves! * Swim at BEACH BLANKET BINGO's Malibu! * Escape to SOME LIKE IT HOT's Resort! * Raft the STAGECOACH River! * Explore HIGH PLAIN DRIFTER's Ghostly Lake! * Trek to the LOST HORIZON Waterfall! * Discover the STAR WARS Sand Dunes! Here is the first comprehensive guide to Southern California's outdoor filming locations taking you to more than 50 of the Golden State's

• Author : Elizabeth Rawitsch
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 16 October 2014

Frank Capra has long had a reputation as being the quintessential American director - the man who perfectly captured the identity and core values of the United States with a string of classic films in the 1930s and '40s, including It Happened One Night, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life. However, as Elizabeth Rawitsch argues, Capra's construction of national identity did not occur within an exclusively national context. She points out that many of his

• Author : Anthony Slide
• Publisher : McFarland
• Release : 07 August 2000

This study looks at the preservation process: newsreel, television, and color preservation; the often controversial issue of colorization; and commercial film archives. It provides detailed histories of the major players in the preservation battle including the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, the American Film Institute, the Museum of Modern Art, the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and the Library of Congress. This first historical overview of film preservation in the United States is also highly controversial in

• Author : Joseph McBride
• Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
• Release : 02 June 2011

Moviegoers often assume Frank Capra’s life resembled his beloved films (such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It’s a Wonderful Life). A man of the people faces tremendous odds and, by doing the right thing, triumphs! But as Joseph McBride reveals in this meticulously researched, definitive biography, the reality was far more complex, a true American tragedy. Using newly declassified U.S. government documents about Capra’s response to being considered a possible “subversive” during the post–

• Author : Eleni Palis
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 02 February 2022

Quotations are a standard way that the humanities make meaning; the pull-quote, epigraph, and quotation are standard for citing evidence and invoking and interrogating authority in both literary and scholarly writing. However, film studies has yet to seriously examine how moving images can quote one another, convening interaction and creating new knowledge across time. Classical Projections offers film quotation as a new concept for understanding how preexisting moving image fragments are reframed and re-viewed within subsequent films. As a visual

• Author : Lynnette R. Porter,David Lavery,Hillary Robson
• Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
• Release : 02 February 2023

Lost's Buried Treasures is the ultimate unauthorized guide to the ideas that have influenced the show and its writers.

• Author : John Whalen-Bridge,Gary Storhoff (1947–2011)
• Publisher : SUNY Press
• Release : 31 July 2014

Discusses both depictions of Buddhism in film and Buddhist takes on a variety of films. In 1989, the same year the Dalai Lama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, a decade-long boom of films dedicated to Buddhist people, history, and culture began. Offering the first scholarly treatment of Buddhism and cinema, the editors advise that there are two kinds of Buddhist film: those that are about Buddhists and those that are not. Focusing on contemporary American offerings, the contributors extend a

• Author : John Howard Reid
• Publisher : Lulu.com
• Release : 01 May 2012

John Howard Reid's books are not only noted for the wealth of essential information he provides on each film he discusses, but for the insight and clarity of his reviews. Reid has been reviewing films professionally since 1955, and has contributed an enormous amount of material to newspapers and magazines in England, France, Australia and the USA. In the course of his work, Reid has come into contact with many famous stars and directors, and is often able to provide quotes

• Author : Roger Ebert
• Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Release : 01 April 2000

Collects the author's often sarcastic reviews of movies earning two stars or fewer.

• Author : Darrell Y. Hamamoto,Sandra Liu
• Publisher : Temple University Press
• Release : 02 February 2023

Spotlighting Asian Americans on both sides of the motion picture camera, Countervisions examines the aesthetics, material circumstances, and politics of a broad spectrum of films released in the last thirty years. This anthology focuses in particular on the growing presence of Asian Americans as makers of independent films and cross-over successes. Essays of film criticism and interviews with film makers emphasize matters of cultural agency--that is, the practices through which Asian American actors, directors, and audience members have shaped their

• Author : James R. Rush,Robin W. Winks
• Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
• Release : 01 April 1990

Offering insights into racial and cultural stereotyping and popular notions of imperialism, Asia in Western Fiction traces how Asia and Asians have been depicted in novels and other works of Western fiction, with an emphasis on works available in English. The eleven scholarly essays examine Western literary treatment of South, Southeast, and East Asia, as well as Muslim culture in general. Useful lists of novels and short stories either written in or translated into English are included.