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Biografie, Film, filmboek, Filmgeschiedenis

Bernard F. Dick – Claudette Colbert

Bernard F. Dick Claudette Colbert review, recensie en informatie biografie van de Frans-Amerikaanse actrice. Op 15 december 2025 verschijnt bij Mississippi University Press het boek over de in Frankrijk geboren Amerikaanse actrice Claudette Colbert. De biografie is geschreven door Bernard F. Dick. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Bernard F. Dick Claudette Colbert review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Claudette Colbert, She Walked in Beauty, de biografie van de Frans-Amerikaanse filmster, geschreven door Bernard F. Dick, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Bernard F. Dick Claudette Colbert

Claudette Colbert

She Walked in Beauty

  • Auteur: Bernard F. Dick (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie, filmboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Mississippi University Press
  • Verschijnt: 15 december 2025
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 25.00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de biografie van de Frans-Amerikaanse actrice Claudette Colbert

A biography of the award–winning and versatile star of screen, stage, and television.

Claudette Colbert’s mixture of beauty, sophistication, wit, and vivacity quickly made her one of the film industry’s most famous and highest-paid stars of the 1930s and 1940s. Though Colbert (1903–1996) began her career on the New York stage, she was beloved for her roles in such films as Preston Sturges’s The Palm Beach Story, Cecil B. DeMille’s Cleopatra, and Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night, for which she won an Academy Award. She showed remarkable prescience by becoming one of the first Hollywood stars to embrace television, and she also returned to Broadway in her later career.

Bernard F. Dick chronicles Colbert’s long career but also explores her early life in Paris and New York. Along with discussing how she left her mark on Broadway, Hollywood, radio, and television, the book explores Colbert’s lifelong interests in painting, fashion design, and commercial art. Using correspondence, interviews, periodicals, film archives, and other research materials, the biography reveals a smart, talented actress who conquered Hollywood and remains one of America’s most captivating screen icons.

Bernard F. Dick is professor of communication and English at Fairleigh Dickinson University and is author of many books.

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Film, filmboek, Filmgeschiedenis

Kyle Meikle – The Live-Action Animated Film

Kyle Meikle The Live-Action Animated Film review, recensie en informatie filmboek in de reeks Quick Takes on Movies & Populair Culture. Op 9 december 2025 verschijnt bij Rutgers University Press het filmboek van Kyle Mikle. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Kyle Meikle The Live-Action Animated Film review en recensie

  • “Moviegoers today don’t bat an eye at actors sharing the screen with computer-generated dinosaurs or aliens, but for much of cinema’s history films that mixed live action and animation were considered a curiosity. In this compact volume, Kyle Meikle shows us how ‘animaction’ took over Hollywood, tracing its evolution from Ko-Ko the Clown to Roger Rabbit and beyond. It’s a delightful, incisive read.” (Ian Olney, author of Zombie Cinema)
  • “Spanning the moving-image world in its many shapes and forms, this book is as lively and engaging as its subject. It merits a warm welcome from cinema scholars and movie buffs alike.” (David Sterritt, author of Rock ‘n’ Roll Movies)

Kyle Meikle The Live-Action Animated Film

The Live-Action Animated Film

Quick Takes Movies & Popular Culture

  • Auteur: Kyle Meikle (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: filmboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Rutgers University Press
  • Verschijnt: 9 december 2025
  • Omvang: 172 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 17.95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over Live-Action Animated Movies

Since cinema’s beginning, live actors and cartoon characters have traded places and invaded each other’s spaces, with real people getting animated and animated character getting real.

The Live-Action Animated Film looks at the long history of movies that combine live action with 2D, stop-motion, and 3D animation to hallucinogenic effect. This survey suggests that the experimental and idiosyncratic mixed pics of the twentieth century set the template for the mainstream blockbusters of the twenty-first.

Covering everything from Technicolor musicals and creature features to contemporary remakes and reboots, The Live-Action Animated Film brings this significant, boundary-blurring genre into sharper focus. In retrospect, the introduction of cartoons into live action looks as central to film history as the coming of sound or color.

Kyle Meikle is an associate professor of English and Communication at the University of Baltimore. He is the author of Adaptations in the Franchise Era: 2001-16.

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