The Complete Films of Mae West
Author: Jon Tuska
Publisher: Citadel Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780806513591
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jon Tuska
Publisher: Citadel Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780806513591
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jon Tuska
Publisher: Secaucus, N.J. : Citadel Press
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jon Tuska
Publisher: Virgin Books Limited
Published: 1992-10
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780863696077
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A guide to the life and career of Mae West. Beginning in vaudeville at the age of four, it was not until she was in her forties that she made her first film, She Done Him Wrong. Breaking box-office records, it saved Paramount from having to sell out to MGM, and secured her career in films.
Author: Jon Tuska
Publisher:
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780806505022
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Simon Louvish
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2006-11-14
Total Pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9780312348786
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Louvish's research cements West's reputation as the definitive siren of suggestion, without whom there would never have been any Sex and the City." ---Publishers Weekly
Author: Jill Watts
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003-04-17
Total Pages: 627
ISBN-13: 0190289716
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Why don't you come up and see me sometime?" Mae West invited and promptly captured the imagination of generations. Even today, years after her death, the actress and author is still regarded as the pop archetype of sexual wantonness and ribald humor. But who was this saucy starlet, a woman who was controversial enough to be jailed, pursued by film censors and banned from the airwaves for the revolutionary content of her work, and yet would ascend to the status of film legend? Sifting through previously untapped sources, author Jill Watts unravels the enigmatic life of Mae West, tracing her early years spent in the Brooklyn subculture of boxers and underworld figures, and follows her journey through burlesque, vaudeville, Broadway and, finally, Hollywood, where she quickly became one of the big screen's most popular--and colorful--stars. Exploring West's penchant for contradiction and her carefully perpetuated paradoxes, Watts convincingly argues that Mae West borrowed heavily from African American culture, music, dance and humor, creating a subversive voice for herself by which she artfully challenged society and its assumptions regarding race, class and gender. Viewing West as a trickster, Watts demonstrates that by appropriating for her character the black tradition of double-speak and "signifying," West also may have hinted at her own African-American ancestry and the phenomenon of a black woman passing for white. This absolutely fascinating study is the first comprehensive, interpretive account of Mae West's life and work. It reveals a beloved icon as a radically subversive artist consciously creating her own complex image.
Author: Charlotte Chandler
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-12-11
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1471105849
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sex goddess Mae West is responsible for some of the most quoted lines in film history: * Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? * When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. * It's not the men in my life that counts - it's the life in my men. She was a performer from childhood and debuted on Broadway in a play she wrote entitled "Sex" which was a success until it was raided for immorality and Mae was jailed for ten days. This book is packed with stars from George Raft to Cary Grant and W.C. Fields, with whom she made "My Little Chickadee", the most successful film of Fields' career. Charlotte Chandler recorded Mae West over a period of roughly a month towards the end of the star's life. She was still as vital and lively as ever, and this book will convey all of Mae West's legendary attitude.
Author: Marybeth Hamilton
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1997-12-08
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780520210943
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In a world of trendsetting film icons, few are more familiar than Mae West. Yet for all her public controversy, West is also a mystery. Marybeth Hamilton combines elements of biography, cultural analysis, and social history to unmask West and reveal her commercial savvy, willpower, and truly shocking theatrical transgressions.
Author: Emily Wortis Leider
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 916
ISBN-13: 9780786230648
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With a combination of newly uncovered archival material, fine writing, and a rich appreciation of West's unique blend of comedy and come hither appeal, Emily Wortis Leider has created a serious and seamless biography as well as a cultural history. From her birth in Brooklyn, to her Broadway battles with censorship, to the years in which she took Hollywood by storm, West comes to vibrant life as the driven, dynamic performer who made herself a movie star and sex symbol the likes of which America had never seen -- and changed our culture forever.