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Author(s): David Soren
What was it like to live the life of a vaudevillian in America? Before movies, radio, and the Great Depression transformed the entertainment world there was vaudeville. David Soren grew up as a featured performer on CBS and ABC television kiddie shows, in gangster-run nightclubs, and with crooked carnival grifters when he was not singing doo-wop on Philadelphia street corners. Here is a very personal take on the entertainment world that existed in America before the modern era.
Author(s): David Soren
Art History, Popular Culture and the Cinema offers a lavishly illustrated survey of how various major art historical and popular culture movements were reflected in popular cinema over the past century. It is designed specifically for university students and a general public interested to understand such things as the artistic influences on Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers, the art movements that contributed to the "look" of the Beatles' films and the arguments about the future that created Fritz Lang's 1925 masterpiece Metropolis.
Author(s): David Soren
Classical influence has shaped our daily lives and continues to do so even to this day.