Hollywood Horrors

Hollywood Horrors
Author :
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 313
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781493060085
ISBN-13 : 1493060082
Rating : 4/5 (082 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Hollywood Horrors by : Andrea Van Landingham

Download or read book Hollywood Horrors written by Andrea Van Landingham and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name “Hollywood” conjures up fantastical images of bright lights, glamorous dreams, and impossible riches. From its humble beginnings as a ranch sprawling northwest of Los Angeles in the late 1800s, Hollywood has spanned lifetimes as a factory of dreams, a dazzling place where all things are possible. This collection of stories takes you on a journey into the golden age, illuminating the space between the airy fantasy and the gritty reality of life in Hollywood. In a transient city where nothing lasts, thousands of stories have taken place in their time here. From the offscreen debauchery of the silent era, to countless dramatic and mysterious deaths, to the sinister past lives of world-famous LA landmarks, vestiges of Hollywood’s checkered past can still be found all over the city. With generations of Tinseltown’s luminaries living and working under the sunny guise of paradisal prosperity, their real stories reveal the sordid underbelly lurking directly beneath the surface. A dangerous collusion between the studios, the press, the mob, and the LAPD forms an impenetrable behind-the-scenes network of corruption, power and control, where the truth is always up for sale. A network in which the most glamorous and well-known figures are merely players in this elaborate charade. It’s magical and gritty, it’s ugly and dirty, it’s the land of dreams...it’s Hollywood.


Hollywood Horrors Related Books

Hollywood Horrors
Language: en
Pages: 313
Authors: Andrea Van Landingham
Categories: True Crime
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-01 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The name “Hollywood” conjures up fantastical images of bright lights, glamorous dreams, and impossible riches. From its humble beginnings as a ranch sprawli
Universal Horrors
Language: en
Pages: 617
Authors: Tom Weaver
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-12-20 - Publisher: McFarland

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Revised and updated since its first publication in 1990, this acclaimed critical survey covers the classic chillers produced by Universal Studios during the gol
The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: Alexandra West
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-08 - Publisher: McFarland

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Many critics and fans refer to the 1990s as the decade that horror forgot, with few notable entries in the genre. Yet horror went mainstream in the '90s by spea
Hollywood Horror
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Mark A. Vieira
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-11-01 - Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Celebrating one of the most popular cinematic genres, "Hollywood Horror" is an entertaining pictorial history of the classic American horror film from the silen
The Horror Film
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Stephen Prince
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-02-09 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In this volume, Stephen Prince has collected essays reviewing the history of the horror film and the psychological reasons for its persistent appeal, as well as