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Showman of the screen : Joseph E. Levine and his revolutions in film promotion / A. T. McKenna.
Van Pelt Library PN1998.3.L4655 M35 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKenna, A. T. (Anthony T.), author.
- Series:
- Screen classics (Lexington, Ky.)
- Screen classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Levine, Joseph E.
- Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 276 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2016]
- Contents:
- Introduction: an unfettered hustler
- Barefoot Boston boy becomes movie man
- Investing, exploiting, saturating
- Monsters and man-gods
- The flim-flam man
- The showman in the art house
- The showman on the screen
- Bad taste in Hollywood
- Hollywood undermined
- The scattergun approach
- Graduating class
- Selling up and winning trophies
- The corporate gadabout
- New Haven, 'Nam, Nichols, and Nazis
- Joe's baby
- Leaving the exploitation business
- Epilogue: a peculiar talent.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813168715
- 0813168716
- OCLC:
- 945951293
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