Dudley Murphy, Hollywood Wild Card /

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Dudley Murphy (1897-1968) was one of early Hollywood's most intriguing figures. Active from the 1920s through the 1940s, Murphy was one of the industry's first independents and a guiding intelligence behind some of the key films in early twentieth-century cinema. In the first full-length b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Delson, Susan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Murphy, Dudley, > 1897-
Murphy, Dudley, > 1897-1968.
Motion picture producers and directors.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Entertainment & Performing Arts.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Direction & Production.
Producteurs et realisateurs de cinema > États-Unis > Biographies.
Motion picture producers and directors > United States > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • INTRODUCTION: At the Edge of the Frame; 1. Rooted in Art; 2. Greek Goddesses for the Moviegoing Public; 3. Vexed and Disputed: The Multiple Histories of Ballet mecanique; 4. Into the Mainstream; 5. The Beginning of the Audible Period; 6. Not Murder but Mayhem: Hollywood Again; 7. Between Pictures; 8. Stepping out of the System: The Making of The Emperor Jones; 9. An Equivocal Independence; 10. Changing Direction; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; FILMOGRAPHY OF DUDLEY MURPHY; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

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