Lights! Camera! Arkansas!: From Broncho Billy to Billy Bob Thornton - Couverture souple

Cochran, Robert; McCray, Suzanne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1557286728 ISBN 13 : 9781557286727

Editeur : University of Arkansas Press, 2015

Synopsis

Lights! Camera! Arkansas! traces the roles played by Arkansans in the first century of Hollywood’s film industry, from the first cowboy star, Broncho Billy Anderson, to Mary Steenburgen, Billy Bob Thornton, and many others. The Arkansas landscape also plays a starring role: North Little Rock’s cameo in Gone with the Wind, Crittenden County as a setting for Hallelujah (1929), and various locations in the state’s southeastern quadrant in 2012’s Mud are all given fascinating exploration.

Robert Cochran and Suzanne McCray screened close to two hundred films—from laughable box-office bombs to laudable examples of filmmaking -- in their research for this book. They’ve enhanced their spirited chronological narrative with an appendix on documentary films, a ratings section, and illustrations chosen by Jo Ellen Maack of the Old State House Museum, where Lights! Camera! Arkansas! debuted as an exhibit curated by the authors in 2013. The result is a book sure to entertain and inform those interested in Arkansas and the movies for years to come.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert Cochran has lived in Arkansas for thirty years and has produced many articles, books, and documentary films devoted to the arts in Arkansas. Suzanne McCray, a Fort Smith native, is a faculty member in the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas and the vice provost of enrollment.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Arkansas Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1557286728
• ISBN 13: 9781557286727
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 120
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• Personne responsable: non disponible