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Free Download Hollywood At Home Ultimate Guide To Self-Taped Auditions
Published 8/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Language: English | Duration: 1h 4m | Size: 1.32 GB
Simplified, Professional Self-Taped Auditions: Equipment, Setup, Technical Perfection, and Creative Acting Tips

Free Download Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJCV4NK1 | 2024 | 8 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 246 MB
Author: Alonso Duralde
Narrator: Alonso Duralde
For generations, members of the LGBTQ+ community in Hollywood needed to be discreet about their lives but-make no mistake-they were everywhere, both in front of and behind the camera. On the eve of the twentieth century, in Thomas Edison’s laboratory, one of the earliest attempts at a sound film depicted two men dancing together as a third plays the violin. It’s only a few minutes long, but this cornerstone of early cinema captured a queer moment on film. It would not be the last. With Hollywood Pride, renowned film critic Alonso Duraldepresents a history spanning from the dawn of cinema through the "pansy craze" of the 1930s and the New Queer Cinema of the 1990s, all the way up to today. He showcases the hard-working actors, writers, directors, producers, cinematographers, art directors, and choreographers whose achievements defined the American film industry and charts the evolution of LGBTQ+ storytelling itself-the way mainstream Hollywood decided it would portray (or erase) their lives and the narratives created by queer filmmakers who fought to tell those stories themselves.

Free Download ChatGPT & Capcut to Create an AI Hollywood Movie on Budget
Published 6/2024
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Language: English | Duration: 2h 48m | Size: 1.98 GB
AI Filmmaking on Budget: Create Stunning Movies with ChatGPT, CapCut, Eleven Labs, Leonardo AI, Runway ML, Pika Labs

Free Download Frank Sanello, "Reel V. Real: How Hollywood Turns Fact into Fiction"
English | 2002 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 0878332685 | EPUB | 9,3 mb
All too often, highly fictionalized cinematic depictions of the past are accepted as the unassailable truth by those unfamiliar with the "real" account. This book profiles sixty movies that portray actual moments in history, and compares the mythologized account of each event to what really happened. Movies chronicled include The Ten Commandments, Spartacus, A Man for All Seasons, Gladiator, Gandhi, Apollo 13, The Thin Red Line, Dances with Wolves, Braveheart, The Last Emperor, All the Presidents Men, Mutiny on the Bounty, Gone with the Wind, Bonnie & Clyde, Patton, and Elizabeth. Sanello also contrasts several historical figures with their filmed treatments, including Julius Caesar, Henry V, Christopher Columbus, Joan of Arc, Sir Thomas More, Jesus Christ, Catherine the Great, Sigmund Freud, and Harry Houdini. Lavishly illustrated with sixty film stills, Reel v. Real shows how a happening’s genuine details are frequently reshaped and distorted by Hollywood’s bottomless appetite for over-the-top flamboyance and melodrama.

Free Download Aaron Hunter, "Polly Platt: Hollywood Production Design and Creative Authorship"
English | ISBN: 3030821226 | 2021 | 240 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book examines the career and creative labour of production designer Polly Platt. It focuses mainly on her contributions to 1970s Hollywood, but also considers her later work. Considering films such as The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, The Bad News Bears, and The Witches of Eastwick, it argues that Platt’s construction of their visual palette and mise-en-scène was so creative and so comprehensive that it can be considered authorial. Chapters discuss Platt’s life and its influence on her work, her attention to detail, her role in location decisions and costume design, and her use of colour. An epilogue discusses her later career as a producer and her mentorship to young filmmakers like Cameron Crowe and Wes Anderson. This is the first full-length examination of the career of one of the women practitioners whose work was so important to 1970s cinema, and provides an alternative methodology to the auteur-driven framing that so regularly defines the era.

Free Download Melis Behlil, "Hollywood is Everywhere: Global Directors in the Blockbuster Era "
English | ISBN: 9089647392 | 2016 | 208 pages | PDF | 991 KB
Hollywood has a long tradition of bringing in emigre directors from around the world, dating back to the silent era. Today, as the film industry is ever more global, the people who make blockbuster movies seemingly reflect this tradition, hailing from many countries across the world. But that fact hides a fundamental difference, one that Melis Behlil examines in Hollywood is Everywhere: today’s Hollywood studios are themselves transnational, with ownership structures and financial arrangements that stretch far beyond the borders of the United States. Seen in that context, today’s international directors are less analogous to the emigre talent of the past than to ordinary transnational employees of other major global corporations.

Free Download Lara Herring, "Hollywood and China in the Post-postclassical Era "
English | ISBN: 1032506024 | 2024 | 244 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 4 MB
This book examines the contemporary relationship between Hollywood and China as case studies that help to define a new era in Hollywood film industry, style, and economics, which is termed the ‘post‑postclassical’ period.

Free Download Mark Masek, "Hollywood Forever Cemetery: The Unauthorized Guide"
English | 2011 | ASIN: B005AHNJ4M | EPUB | pages: 104 | 0.2 mb
For more than 100 years, Hollywood Forever Cemetery has been one of the premier burial locations for entertainment celebrities, studio executives and members of the Hollywood film community. Today, it’s one of the top tourist destinations for fans who want to pay their respects to their favorite stars. "Hollywood Forever Cemetery: The Unauthorized Guide" is the most complete and comprehensive directory to find the final burial locations for everyone from "The First Movie Star" to the most recent additions, along with detailed personal and professional biographies.

Free Download Virginia Luzón-Aguado, "Harrison Ford: Masculinity and Stardom in Hollywood"
English | ISBN: 1788310926 | 2020 | 328 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Harrison Ford is known for such iconic roles as Han Solo, Indiana Jones and Rick Deckard – but his career of 50 years (and counting) encompasses a plethora of other thought-provoking roles. His off-screen persona has been no less intriguing. Covering a wide timespan, this book assesses Harrison Ford as ‘star’ from the difficult Hollywood studio years where he began, his blockbusters of the 1980s, through to the impact of ageist culture on his artistry of recent years.

Free Download Will Scheibel, "Gene Tierney: Star of Hollywood’s Home Front "
English | ISBN: 0814348211 | 2022 | 267 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Gene Tierney may be one of the most recognizable faces of studio-era Hollywood: she starred in numerous classics, including Leave Her to Heaven, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, and Laura, with the latter featuring her most iconic role. While Tierney was considered one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, she personified "ordinariness" both on- and off-screen. Tierney portrayed roles such as a pinup type, a wartime worker, a wife, a mother, and, finally, a psychiatric patient―the last of which may have hit close to home for her, as she would soon leave Hollywood to pursue treatment for mental illness and later attempted suicide in the 1950s. After her release from psychiatric clinics, Tierney sought a comeback as one of the first stars whose treatment for mental illness became public knowledge. In this book, Will Scheibel not only examines her promotion, publicity, and reception as a star but also offers an alternative history of the United States wartime efforts demonstrated through the arc of Tierney’s career as a star working on the home front. Scheibel’s analysis aims to showcase that Tierney was more than just "the most beautiful woman in movie history," as stated by the head of production at Twentieth Century Fox in the 1940s and 1950s. He does this through an examination of her making, unmaking, and remaking at Twentieth Century Fox, rediscovering what she means as a movie legend both in past and up to the present. Film studies scholars, film students, and those interested in Hollywood history and the legacy of Gene Tierney will be delighted by this read.