Showman of the Screen : Joseph E. Levine and His Revolutions in Film Promotion.

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Short, immaculately dressed, and shockingly foul-mouthed, Joseph E. Levine (1905-1987) was larger than life. He rose from poverty in Boston's West End to become one of postwar Hollywood's most prolific independent promoters, distributors, and producers. In the first biography of this contr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McKenna, A. T.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2016.
Colección:Screen Classics.
Temas:
Levine, Joseph E.
Motion picture producers and directors > United States > Biography.
Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma > États-Unis > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts.
Motion picture producers and directors
United States
Biographies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: an unfettered hustler
  • Barefoot Boston boy becomes movie man
  • Investing, exploiting, saturating
  • Monsters and man-gods
  • The flim-flam man
  • The showman in the art house
  • The showman on the screen
  • Bad taste in Hollywood
  • Hollywood undermined
  • The scattergun approach
  • Graduating class
  • Selling up and winning trophies
  • The corporate gadabout
  • New Haven, 'Nam, Nichols, and Nazis
  • Joe's baby
  • Leaving the exploitation business
  • Epilogue: a peculiar talent.

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