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	Chapter Two: Particular
		Vanity Fair exhibited a marked interest in the erotics and economics of androgyny, and even a limited willingness to explore those possibilities.
		Unlike in the Vanity Fair ads she is presented as doubly secondary: the photograph distracts the reader from her body with the splendor of the newly redecorated room while the caption under the photograph goes to great lengths to make it clear that the woman on the phone is not the consumer.
		Indeed Vanity Fair had produced many different kinds of male and female possibilities, and perhaps, beginning to see that its work was becoming increasingly impossible, it left this article as its epigram.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~1930s/Print/vanity/nanda/chaptwo.html (3568 words)

	Vanity Fair
		Vanity Fair, is drawn from the 17th century allegory,
		Pilgrim's Progress, where, in the town of Vanity, a year-round fair is held at which all worldly pleasures can be bought, not to speak of real estate, titles, honors--even kingdoms.
		Many of the cameo roles, even in their confusing context, are witty and amusing (note especially the always superb Eileen Atkins as the deliciously acerbic Matilda Crawley) and the overall satirization of the manners, morals, and lack thereof of 19th century England is sharply on target.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/VanityFair.htm (634 words)

	washingtonpost.com: 'Vanity Fair': The Empire, Richly Painted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The novel, of course, is "Vanity Fair," an example of 19th century genius at its finest, one of those big, fat, sprawly books with a thousand characters and a battle, a ball, lots of parties and celebrations, usually a duel or two and sometimes a deathbed declaration and at least 17,500 semicolons.
		Her first non-documentary film was the widely praised "Salaam Bombay!," and her best film was probably "Mississippi Masala," which watched a young Indian woman and an African American have an affair in the modern American South.
		Vanity Fair (137 minutes at area theaters) is rated PG-13 for sexual innuendo and battle violence.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A51157-2004Aug31?language=printer (1061 words)

	Film Review - Vanity Fair
		Though vivid and colourful (as most of Nair's films are), this Vanity Fair is marred by narrative and structural problems, and is further impaired by Reese Witherspoon's uneven performance in the lead.
		But she is too cute, even kittenish, in the first part of the film, and not compelling enough in the second, when her character, now in her late thirties, is alienated from her son and disillusioned; it doesn't help that for whatever reason Witherspoon doesn't age at all on screen.
		The only element that provides continuity in this Vanity Fair is Becky's personal trunk, which she carries with gusto from one destination to another, and that's not enough.
	www.emanuellevy.com /article.php?articleID=61 (1226 words)

	Vanity Fair (1932/I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Allied Artists was one of those fly by night studios in early talkies Hollywood that lasted only two years (1931-32) with only 23 films (mostly westerns) in its output.
		That this survived at all is probably due to the lacklustre presence of future star, Myrna Loy.
		Sharp, after all, is one of literature's supreme sociopaths and Loy plays her as if she is spending the whole film trying to find a missing purse.
	www.imdb.com /Title?0023652 (309 words)

	SacTicket // Movie News
		Director Mira Nair says "Vanity Fair" was her favorite novel when she was a schoolgirl in India.
		Her passion for India looms large in her movies, including "Vanity Fair." Nair was born 46 years ago in Bhubaneshwar, Orissa, and studied at Delhi University as well as at Harvard University.
		The new movie is at least the 11th screen adaptation of Thackeray's "Vanity Fair." The saga was particularly popular in the silent-film era: three American versions (1911, 1915 and 1923), one made in Britain (1922) and Indian director Nagendra Majumdar's "Bahuroopi Bazar" in 1932.
	www.sacticket.com /static/movies/news/0831vanity.html (964 words)

	The New Yorker : goingson : movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In Emilio Estevez’s film, Senator Robert F. Kennedy is seen in newsreels and occasionally from the rear as a figure moving through the old Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on the night of his assassination, June 4, 1968.
		An interminably brutal fight between the drunk and horny Mack (who tried to rape Peggy) and the streetwise Mona (who rescued her) thrashes down a staircase to a forced entry into Mona’s room, and Jimmy and Peggy’s shrieking breakup under the streetlights in a soaking winter rainstorm is a nightmarish scourging of innocence.
		The new film from Pedro Almodóvar stars Penélope Cruz as Raimunda, who is soon seen mopping up the blood of her murdered husband—slain by her daughter, whom he tried to abuse—and stashing him in a freezer.
	www.newyorker.com /goingson/movies/articles/061211gomo_GOAT_movies (3457 words)

	FESTIVALS: 1st Silverlake: East of the Highland Curtain
		The activities that didn't involve film screenings at the festival were perhaps the most interesting events at the festival: for example, the informative program entitled "Before There Was A Hollywood" which focused on Silverlake's place and significance in the history of early cinema.
		Like most film festivals, there were many parties to attend and like the rest of the festival, it was an eclectic mix with the hipsters out in full force.
		The film was screened on the grounds of the beautiful estate with the L.A. skyline in the background.
	www.indiewire.com /onthescene/fes_00SilvLake_000927_wrap.html (796 words)

	Doc Films: About Doc
		Doc Films is on record with the Museum of Modern Art as the longest continuously running student film society in the nation.
		The film society of the University of Chicago, founded in 1932 as the Documentary Film Group.
		The students who run Doc Films hope to reach a wide-ranging audience, from film aficionados to casual moviegoers, by cultivating and facilitating an excitement for the study of film.
	docfilms.uchicago.edu /history.shtml (550 words)

	Press Release!
		Organized by the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) and twelve film archives from coast to coast, this is the most ambitious cooperative venture ever undertaken by the U.S. film archive community.
		A third group of films to be preserved are one and two reelers from the Vitagraph Company (a leader in motion picture production between 1896 and 1925).
		The Archive is internationally acclaimed for its painstaking work in film preservation, and has led the archival field in such areas as color, tinting and sound restoration.
	www.cinema.ucla.edu /PR/millennium.html (516 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: "Vanity Fair"'s Hollywood: Books: Christopher Hitchens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Vanity Fair was launched in New York in 1914, and originally chronicled the gossip and glamour of Hollywood in its heyday, photographing and celebrating the likes of Valentino, Garbo, Howard Hughes, Clark Gable, Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, Cary Grant--the list is stellar and endless.
		Vanity Fair's Hollywood is a remarkable photographic essay of one of the western world's most fascinating industries, Hollywood, chronicled by one of its most glamorous magazines.
		Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter offers a succinct explanatory foreword in which he confesses to being "a simple unabashed fan.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Vanity-Fair-s-Hollywood/dp/067089141X (1816 words)

	Movie: Vanity Fair
		There is no shortage of bad matches made in William Makepeace Thackeray's sprawling 19th-Century satire "Vanity Fair," and another has been made in this, the first attempt to put Thackeray's tragically romantic and acutely observed inspection of society on a theater screen since 1932.
		This "Vanity Fair" remains populated by recognizable archetypes, beginning with Becky, the orphaned daughter of a poor painter and a French mother.
		There were at least four silent-movie versions of "Vanity Fair," one of which apparently transposed the entire story to India.
	ae.miami.com /entertainment/ui/miami/movie.html?id=164734&reviewId=16001 (738 words)

	vanity fair william thackeray - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		VANITY FAIR WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY was born...friend, Jos.
		VF: Vanity Fair: A Novel...Introduction," in Vanity Fair: A Novel...Hero, by William Makepeace Thackeray, ed.
		Vanity Fair (1913 36), devoted to literature and the arts, was superbly...
	www.questia.com /search/vanity-fair-william-thackeray (1369 words)

	Introduction to Bob Hoskins
		The film tells the true story of London's Windmill Theater, which began staging nude shows in the 1930s, and became famous during the WWII Blitz as the theater that never closed.
		The film was released in the UK by Pathe on November 25, and the US on December 25, 2005 by the Weinstein brothers' new company (uh, the Weinstein Company).
		The film was released theatrically in the US in September 2004 by Focus Features, who host the film's official web site, where a few comments by Bob can be found amongst the interviews.
	www.angelfire.com /celeb/bobhoskins (1283 words)

	Charles Sheeler: Across Media
		While filming a section of the city in lower Manhattan, Sheeler also made a series of still photographs, surveying the area in a way that mimicked the panning motion of his movie camera.
		As a sequence of images over time, film provided Sheeler with a flexible framework that he extended to other media; what begins as a movie becomes a photograph and ends as a drawing or a painting.
		The scene on the lower right is based on his 1932 photograph Self-Portrait at Easel, which depicts Sheeler in the process of making the large Conté crayon drawing Interior with Stove, which in turn was based on his 1917 photograph Doylestown House—The Stove.
	www.artic.edu /aic/exhibitions/sheeler/themes.html (1811 words)

	George Cukor Summary
		His best films were smooth dramas and slick comedies with strong female leads and polished story lines, known in the trade as "women's pictures." He was nominated five times for Academy Awards for his directing.
		The film's official director was Ernst Lubitsch, whose sophisticated dramatic style had a profound influence on Cukor's film career.
		Film critic, Andrew Sarris, noted: "W.C. Fields is pure ham in David Copperfield, and Katherine Hepburn is pure ego in The Philadelphia Story, and Cukor is equally sympathetic to the absurdities of both...Cukor is committed to the dreamer, if not to the content of the dream.
	www.bookrags.com /George_Cukor (2832 words)

	‘Vanity Fair’ Bollywood style - AT THE MOVIES - MSNBC.com
		William Makepeace Thackeray’s seminal 1848 novel, “Vanity Fair,” was filmed in the silent era, in 1932 with Myrna Loy, and in 1935 with Miriam Hopkins.
		Mira Nair’s equally colorful new version of “Vanity Fair,” starring Reese Witherspoon as Thackeray’s lustily resourceful social climber, Becky Sharp, is likely to be remembered for more than its rich visuals.
		While this is not the definitive remake that might once and for all establish the material as the basis for a movie classic, it’s grandly entertaining and exceptionally well-cast.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5809826 (710 words)

	DesMoinesRegister.com \| Famous Iowans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When Morley left the hearing, held at the height of the McCarthy era, she told the swarm of reporters that she was "scraping by" and had been fllisted.
		She dismayed the movie colony in 1932 by marrying director Charles Vidor and keeping it secret from the studio and press.
		In December of that year she did appear in a Vanity Fair photo display about victims of the fllist.
	desmoinesregister.com /extras/iowans/morley.html (373 words)

	Helen Chandler
		Sound had just revolutionized the film industry and studio executives were looking for new talent to go with the transformed medium.
		Helen Chandler’s early film roles were rather incidental.
		Chandler’s ethereal quality worked wonderfully in the film and she was suddenly a hot property.
	racksandrazors.com /helen.html (610 words)

	Vanity Fair Media Adaptations
		Unabridged audio versions of Vanity Fair have been published by Audiobook Contractors (1987), Books on Tape, Inc. (1989), and Blackstone Audio Books (1999, in two parts, with Frederick Davidson as the reader).
		Films were made of Vanity Fair in 1911, 1915, 1922, 1923, 1932.
		The 1932 movie was directed by Chester M. Franklin, written by F. Hugh Herbert, and...
	www.enotes.com /vanity-fair/10671 (159 words)

	Movie Info for Becky Sharp on MSN Movies
		Adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair, the film stars Miriam Hopkins as Becky Sharp, a resourceful, totally self-involved young lady who manages to survive any number of setbacks and deprivations in the years following Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo.
		The film ends on an ambiguous note, never hinting that Becky will eventually drop her current beau and settle down to a life of smug piety, as she does in the novel.
		Becky Sharp is an enormous improvement over the low-budget 1932 version of Vanity Fair, which updated the story to the 20th century and cast dumb-blonde specialist Joyce Compton in the role of Becky.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=72356 (223 words)

	Film History of the 1930s
		The 30s was also the decade of the sound and color revolutions and the advance of the 'talkies', and the further development of film genres (gangster films, musicals, newspaper-reporting films, historical biopics, social-realism films, lighthearted screwball comedies, westerns and horror to name a few).
		After 1932, the development of sound-mixing freed films from the limitations of recording on sets and locations.
		Two-color (red and green) feature films were the first color films produced, including the first two-color feature film The Toll of the Sea, and then better-known films such as Stage Struck (1925) and The Black Pirate (1926).
	www.filmsite.org /30sintro.html (1525 words)

	Amazon.com: Vanity Fair's Hollywood: Books: Graydon Carter,David Friend,Christopher Hitchens,Dominick Dunne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Vanity Fair's Hollywood is like the ultimate movie party--and how inviting it all is! Flip through the thick, glossy pages and greet the greats of all ages.
		This lavish, photo-laden tour of Tinsel Town's history is coffee-table condensation of 87 years of Vanity Fair coverage of the Hollywood scene.
		While serious film buffs will find nothing terribly new here, Vanity Fair's trademark mix of wit and style, chic and intelligence is guaranteed to be a crowd pleaser.
	www.amazon.com /Vanity-Fairs-Hollywood-Graydon-Carter/dp/067089141X (1920 words)

	National Film Preservation Foundation - Films Preserved Through the NFPF
		Early Abstractions (1946-1957), groundbreaking series of abstract color films made by avant-garde pioneer Harry Smith using hand painting, batik, and optical printing (Anthology Film Archives).
		(1926-1934), films of air races, military tests, and promotional flights from the firm that developed the largest and fastest tri-engine passenger plane of the time (National Air And Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution).
		(1942-1945), seven films commissioned by the U.S. War Department to explain the World War II effort to nine million Americans in uniform and to help overcome the isolationism still common in many parts of the country (National Archives And Records Administration).
	www.filmpreservation.org /preserved/program.php?link1=tfa&linkid=2 (1384 words)

	Held For Murder (aka Her Mad Night) - Drama Classic Movies on DVD (1932) - Alpha Video : Oldies.com
		A woman faces the electric chair when she take she blame for a murder she believes was committed by her irresponsible daughter.
		Irene Rich, often paired with Will Rogers in silent and sound movies, also had success starring in her own radio show, "Dear John," which premiered the year after this film was released and ran more than ten years.
		Film Collectors and Archivists: Alpha Video is actively looking for rare and unusual pre-1943 motion pictures, in good condition, from Monogram, PRC, Tiffany, Chesterfield, and other independent studios for release on DVD.
	www.oldies.com /product-view/4806D.html (586 words)

	Dalton Trumbo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He, in fact, directed only one film, but this was a very powerful film.
		He began writing short stories and essays that were published in Vanity Fair and Hollywood Spectator.
		Screenplays for the films Spartacus, Exodus, The Sandpiper, Hawaii, and Papillon are all written by Dalton and some of the most popular films of their time.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/directors_corner/25828 (479 words)

	Now, itâs Vanity Fair time for Mira Nair...-Delhi Times-City Supplements-NEWS-The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Now, nearly 70 years after it was last translated into celluloid, Mira Nair is all set to direct her version of Vanity Fair with Reese Witherspoon (of Legally Blonde fame) in the lead.
		Set in the 1820s, Vanity Fair is about Rebecca Sharp â” born in âlowâ society, with only wit, guile and sexuality to help take her up London society.
		Screen-writer Julian Fellowes, whose Gosford Park was the toast at the la-st Oscars, is expected to polish the screenplay of the film.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/articleshow?art_ID=18785160 (335 words)

	Technicolor
		The first Technicolor film was THE GULF BETWEEN (U.S., 1917), a five-reeler made by Technicolor Motion Picture Corp. in Florida mainly for trade showings in eastern cities, to create interest in color movies among producers and exhibitors.
		All of the color films up to this point were two-color processes, which could capture only two of the three primary colors of light.
		In 1932, Technicolor perfected a three-color motion picture process (also known as three-strip Technicolor, because three negatives were employed in the camera, one for each primary color of light -- red, green, and blue).
	members.cox.net /stegokitty/dsotr_pages/technicolor.htm (913 words)

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