Showman of the Screen: Joseph E. Levine and His Revolutions in Film Promotion by McKenna, A. T.

Showman of the Screen: Joseph E. Levine and His Revolutions in Film Promotion (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813168715)

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Showman of the Screen: Joseph E. Levine and His Revolutions in Film Promotion by McKenna, A. T.

Showman of the Screen: Joseph E. Levine and His Revolutions in Film Promotion

$34.95
Showman of the Screen: Joseph E. Levine and His Revolutions in Film Promotion by McKenna, A. T.

Showman of the Screen: Joseph E. Levine and His Revolutions in Film Promotion

$34.95
Format: Hardcover
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Short, immaculately dressed, and shockingly foul-mouthed, Joseph E. Levine (1905-1987) was larger than life. He rose from poverty in Boston's West End to become one of postwar Hollywood's most prolific independent promoters, distributors, and producers. Alternately respected and reviled, this master of movie promotion was responsible for bringing films as varied as Godzilla: King of the Monsters! (1956), Hercules (1958), The Graduate (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), and A

Author: A. T. McKenna
ISBN-10: 0813168716
ISBN-13: 9780813168715
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2016
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.10d

By A. T. McKenna
By A. T. McKenna
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A.T. McKenna is associate professor of film history at USC-SJTU Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry. He is the coauthor of The Man Who Got Carter: Michael Klinger, Independent Production and the British Film Industry 1960-1980, which received the 2015 Best Book Award from the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS). He is also coeditor of Beyond the Bottom Line: The Producer in Film and Television Studies.

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