Dream Factory

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Eric G. Wilson
Secret Cinema: Gnostic Vision in Film
In the last twenty years or so, numerous mainstream movies have drawn from the ideas and images of ancient thought to address the collapse of appearance and reality. These films have consistently featured the Gnostic currents that emerged from Plato: not only Gnosticism itself but also Cabbala and a...
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Samantha Barbas
Confidential Confidential: The Inside Story of Hollywood's Notorious Scandal Magazine
  In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America’s first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars’ secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out scandalous facts about the stars, including sexual affairs, drug ...
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Greg Egan
Sleep and the Soul
Sleep and the Soul contains ten stories from Hugo Award-winning author Greg Egan. “You and Whose Army?” - “This Is Not the Way Home” - “Zeitgeber” - “Crisis Actors” - “Sleep and the Soul” - “After Zero” - “Dream Factory” - “Light Up the Clouds” - “Night Running” ...
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Ken Auletta
Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence
A vivid biography of Harvey Weinstein—how he rose to become a dominant figure in the film world, how he used that position to feed his monstrous sexual appetites, and how it all came crashing down, from the author who has covered the Hollywood and media power game for The New Yorker for three de...
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Ryan Baldi
Arsène Who?: The Story of the Wenger Revolution
An exhaustive look at Arsène Wenger's revolutionary management of Arsenal F.C., which changed the face of English football, told through the anecdotes of those who played for him, worked with him, or competed against his teams. Arsène Who?  is the inside story of how Wenger took Arsenal to the...
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Mum Factory Outlet
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Mark Schwind
THE CELLULOID EMPIRE: Control, Identity, and the Price of Living Inside the System
They called it the Dream Factory. For three decades, a handful of powerful studios—MGM, Warner Bros., Paramount, Fox, and RKO—controlled nearly every frame of film that flickered across American screens. They owned the actors, the directors, the writers, the theaters, and the stories. They decid...
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Stefan Kanfer
Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando
Stefan Kanfer, acclaimed biographer of Lucille Ball and Groucho Marx, now gives us the definitive life of Marlon Brando, seamlessly intertwining the man and the work to give us a stunning and illuminating appraisal. Beginning with Brando’s turbulent childhood, Kanfer follows him to New York where ...
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Donald Bogle
Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood
In Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams, Donald Bogle tells–for the first time–the story of a place both mythic and real: Black Hollywood. Spanning sixty years, this deliciously entertaining history uncovers the audacious manner in which many blacks made a place for themselves in an industry that orig...
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Richard Barrios
Screened Out
Rapacious dykes, self-loathing closet cases, hustlers, ambiguous sophisticates, and sadomasochistic rich kids: most of what America thought it knew about gay people it learned at the movies. A fresh and revelatory look at sexuality in the Great Age of movie making, Screened Out shows how much gay ...
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W. R. Wilkerson III
Hollywood Godfather: The Life and Crimes of Billy Wilkerson
   Billy Wilkerson was the most powerful man in Hollywood during the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s. He was owner and publisher of the Hollywood Reporter, the film industry newspaper that became known as “Hollywood’s bible,” and he built the Café Trocadero and other legendary nightspots of the ...
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Frank Muzzy
Tales of Hollywood Through Time (America Through Time)
Blends archival photos with modern imagery to trace Hollywood's transformation from a modest village to a global cinematic icon. “Hooray for Hollywood,” the 1937 anthem by Johnny Mercer for the film Hollywood Hotel, says it all cinematically as dozens of star wannabes head for Hollywood in a f...
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Kenneth Anger
Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets
“Picking through the slag heap of the Hollywood dream factory, [Kenneth] Anger has put together a truly prodigious anthology of star-studded scandal.”— The New York Times   Welcome to Hollywood. Take a walk down “The Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” where starlets, sex goddesses, matinee ido...
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John Wiley Jr
The Scarlett Letters: The Making of the Film Gone With the Wind
One month after her novel Gone With the Wind was published, Margaret Mitchell sold the movie rights for fifty thousand dollars. Fearful of what the studio might do to her story—“I wouldn’t put it beyond Hollywood to have . . . Scarlett seduce General Sherman,” she joked—the author washed h...
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Isaac Butler
The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, Nonfiction NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORKER , TIME MAGAZINE , SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE , VOX, SALON, LIT HUB, AND VANITY FAIR “Entertaining and illuminating.”-- The New Yorker * “Compulsively readable.”-- New York T...
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Jim Tully
Shadows of Men
The idea of men in jail had interested Jim Tully for years, going back to his youthful reading of Dostoyevsky's The House of the Dead and his own time in jail and on a work crew. It was to this subject that he turned with Shadows of Men . He had already written about drifters and the underworld i...
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Heather Hepler
The Cupcake Queen
When Penny moves to Hog's Hollow from New York City, her life changes drastically. Penny's mom now runs a cupcake bakery, and Penny is stuck helping out. But that isn't the worst of it. Not only did she leave her friends back home, but her dad stayed behind too. And then there's Charity, resident me...
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The Orb Factory
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Every ORB Stretchee Foodz - Secret Menu Cuties 3 Pack Includes Three individual Secret Menu Cuties - 1 S'More Than A Feline (S'more), 1 Hot Diggity Dog (Hot Dog/Hamburger Combo), and 1 Cat Sandwich (Ham Sandwich). All Secret Menu Cuties ingredients are separate and come apart, so you can build your ...
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Marc Wanamaker
Hollywood: 1940-2008 (CA) (Images of America)
Since World War II, Hollywood has fought and won that same war many times, won the West even more often--plus got the girl--and laughed like crazy, too. The postwar era in the dream factory was a prosperous time of expansion and wealth through the 1970s, decline in the 1980s, and rebirth in the new ...
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Leo Fuchs
Leo Fuchs: Special Photographer from the Golden Age of Hollywood
Leo Fuchs is a Hollywood veteran who spent over 40 years shooting some of the most moving and memorable images ever made of 50s and 60s film icons. Fuchs’ introduction to moviemaking came as one of the world’s leading “special photographers” on movie sets in Europe and North America. S...
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