Pursuing Hollywood: Seduction, Obsession, DreadRowman Altamira, 2006 - 179 páginas Before coming to the academy, Nathaniel Kohn was a screenwriter and producer in Hollywood, London, and South Africa. He produced the epic film Zulu Dawn (with Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole and 6,000 Zulu extras), and was involved in other projects in that wheel-and-deal world. Moving to the communications research world, he struggled to apply theory to his personal experiences, showing how everyday life and the pursuits of Hollywood interact and how communication and cultural theory (mis)inform those exchanges. The book is filled with priceless tales of finding a black market money changer in Johannesburg to pay off his extras during the filming of Zulu Dawn, the on again/off again nature of movie projects, the obsessed women and dreadful men, the egos, and the duplicity. His experimental writing style--descriptive ethnography, imaginary screen dialogue, recounted conversations--makes this a highly readable work. |
Índice
Word Games | 3 |
The Ticket | 15 |
Oh Dear What Can the Matter Be? | 27 |
The Sonys Dying Glow | 47 |
My Elusive Dreams | 55 |
So to Speak | 63 |
Among Other Things | 73 |
Wonder Never Seizes | 83 |
Compounding Fracture | 109 |
Elementary Africa | 119 |
Messing | 133 |
Desire | 167 |
Selected Bibliography | 173 |
About the Author | |
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Africa Angola Arkansas Arthur Penn asshole autoethnography Baudrillard become BLACK SCREEN Burt Lancaster CAMERA exploring celebrity Clarissa Explains computer screen culture Denzin door dreams eye and morphing film fucking funny girl going Hadjii hair hear Helene Cixous hell Hollywood Homi Bhabha Jean Baudrillard Jesus Kohn laughs live London look mean Minh-ha Moon Waxes Red morphing VOICE movie never night obsession okay Paul Virilio picture postmodern Press pristine eye producer remember Rutger Hauer says Harry says Jane says John says my lawyer says Trix screenplay script seductive Sharon shit smiles sound South African Stallybrass and White star staring streets Sudden silence Supla talking TANYA television tell things Third Space Tommy trans Trinh Minh-ha VOICE V.0 Walter Benjamin watch What's Wilfred Brimley woman words write York Zulu Dawn
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