Pomerance / Solomon The Biggest Thing in Show Business

Living It Up with Martin & Lewis
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9654-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

A freewheeling, nonlinear exploration of the performing duo and their decade-long collaboration from 1946 to 1956.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pomerance, Murray

Solomon, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

An American Utopia

User's Manual

Can You Relax?

Can You Listen?

Part I

In the Playroom

Smash and Crash

Song of the South

Mouth to Mouth

Keep Good Records

Up the Ante

An Ampersanded Truth

An Interlude

Part II

Give Me a Head of Hair

The Tip of the Nose

I Stand Up, I Fall Down

"I Like Blood!"

Eyes Tightly Shut

Another Interlude

Part III

The True Voice of Feeling

When the Moon Hits Your Eye

This Is Cardboard

Hustlers

In Stereo

With the Doctor

Dean and Jerry Full Frontal

Splitsville on Schedule

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Coda

In the Library

Can You Look Up?

List of Illustrations

Über Autor(innen)

Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar living in Toronto and Adjunct Professor in the School of Media and Communication at the RMIT University, Melbourne. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, A Silence from Hitchcock (also published by SUNY Press) and Uncanny Cinema: Agonies of the Viewing Experience. Matthew Solomon is Professor of Film, Television, and Media at the University of Michigan. His most recent book is Méliès Boots: Footwear and Film Manufacturing in Second Industrial Revolution Paris.