Starlite Drive-In

Starlite Drive-In
Author: Marjorie Reynolds
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1999-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780425172643
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Praise for The Starlite Drive-In, Marjorie Reynoldsrs"s "stunning debut"* and one of the ALArs"s Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults:"A story of confinement and entrapment, and of events that can free the spirit at long last." - Publishers Weekly"A believable tale about real people, likely to engage the memory chords of any reader." - Orange County Register"Start with a drive-in movie theater in the 1950s. Add a starstruck and lonely 12-year old girl, and a handsome drifter, and you have all the makings for a coming-of-age romance. But Marjorie Reynolds...added a twist. And there lies this first novel's strength. Callie Anne Dicksen gets a call that bones have been found at the Starlite Drive-In, which is being razed for a new housing development. Callie knows immediately who they belong to, and begins to remember that summer of 1956, when she was just 12 and her whole life changedhellip;Told from Callie's perspective, [The Starlite Drive-In] captures that childlike innocence and wisdom perfectly." - Richmond Times-Dispatch"Callie Anne is akin to the impressionable heroine of To Kill a Mockingbird...The Starlite Drive-In is wise in the ways in which families adjust their views of reality to survive." - Boston Sunday Herald"Fusing Callie Anne's coming of age with a tragic love story, Marjorie Reynolds tidily explores the gap between fantasy and reality in her surely told first novel." - New York Times Book Review"Reynolds creates a genuine and engaging young narrator in Callie Anne and maintains heat and suspense on every page." - Detroit Free Press"A sweetly unpretentious tale of a defining summer that taught a young girl too much about love and life...accomplished." - Kirkus Reviews"Perfect vacation entertainment." - Seattle Times"With a storyteller's skill, she deftly juggles the momentum of her plot and a richly diverse cast of characters...delightful episodes of comic relief...Reynolds firmly controls her story to the final compelling end and never succumbs to the temptation to dip into maudlin sentimentality." - *Rocky Mountain News

The Drive-In

The Drive-In
Author: Guy Barefoot
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2023-11-16
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1501365908
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The Drive-In meaningfully contributes to the complex picture of outdoor cinema that has been central to American culture and to a history of US cinema based on diverse viewing experiences rather than a select number of films. Drive-in cinemas flourished in 1950s America, in some summer weeks to the extent that there were more cinemagoers outdoors than indoors. Often associated with teenagers interested in the drive-in as a 'passion pit' or a venue for exploitation films, accounts of the 1950s American drive-in tend to emphasise their popularity with families with young children, downplaying the importance of a film programme apparently limited to old, low-budget or independent films and characterising drive-in operators as industry outsiders. They retain a hold on the popular imagination. The Drive-In identifies the mix of generations in the drive-in audience as well as accounts that articulate individual experiences, from the drive-in as a dating venue to a segregated space. Through detailed analysis of the film industry trade press, local newspapers and a range of other primary sources including archival records on cinemas and cinema circuits in Arkansas, California, New York State and Texas, this book examines how drive-ins were integrated into local communities and the film industry and reveals the importance and range of drive-in programmes that were often close to that of their indoor neighbours.

Drive-in Theaters

Drive-in Theaters
Author: Kerry Segrave
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2012-01-25
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786491701
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A primarily American institution (though it appeared in other countries such as Japan and Italy), the drive-in theater now sits on the verge of extinction. During its heyday, drive-ins could be found in communities both large and small. Some of the larger theaters held up to 3,000 cars and were often filled to capacity on weekends. The history of the drive-in from its beginnings in the 1930s through its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s to its gradual demise in modern-day America is thoroughly documented here: the patent battles, community concerns with morality (on-screen and off), technological advances (audio systems, screens, etc.), audiences, and the drive-in's place in the motion picture industry.

Sleeping at the Starlite Motel

Sleeping at the Starlite Motel
Author: Bailey White
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 257
Release: 1996-04-02
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0679770151
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Anyone who has read her bestseller Mama Makes Up Her Mind--or who has heard her on National Public Radio--knows that Bailey White is one of the keenest observers of Southern eccentricity since Mark Twain. Sleeping at the Starlite Motel revives White's reputation as a master storyteller, Southern division, as it catalogs the oddities of the Georgia town she knows so well.

Drive-ins

Drive-ins
Author: Joan Liftin
Publisher: Trolley Press
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN:
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It's a summer night on the plains, a night for dreamers and lovers, a night for drive-in movies. In Chickasa, Oklahoma, and Turkey, Texas, Main Street is dark and shuttered. Out on the prairie there flickers the first reel of the movie. This is the boundless nostalgia of the drive-in, of the serene confidence of the United States in the 50s, when Korea was a far-off land and Vietnam wasn't on the map, General Dwight D. Eisenhower was in the White House, and Edward Hopper captured the spirit of the age. It was remembered again in The Last Picture Show and by the Boss, Bruce Springsteen, when he sang My Home Town. There were 6,000 drive-ins across the Union then. There are 547 now. Idaho has The Spud, Texas had The Trail, and even New York City has the walk-in show in Bryant Park. The drive-in was born in 1933 in Camden, New Jersey, when an enterprising gas station owner projected a movie on his wall to entertain impatient customers. Since then the drive-in has had its ups and downs, latterly torn down to be replaced by shopping malls and tatty developments. But that zeitgeist will not die, and in Drive-Ins Joan Liftin has rung again the town bell that remembers it. There are many who will agree with her, and shake their heads at the loss of the apparent innocence of that age. This is now a very different world in which her photographs recall the ephemeral evenings at the drive-in, of the heart-breaking back row kisses, of the beer-topped coolers and popcorn, and the giant images of Monroe, Clift, and Gable bestriding the wilderness. Joan Liftin took these photographs over 20 years, some off-hand, some desultory, some with a startling, mesmeric evocation of what the drive-in was and meant to a generation of Americans.

Last Dance on the Starlight Pier

Last Dance on the Starlight Pier
Author: Sarah Bird
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2022-04-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 125026555X
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Set during the Great Depression, Sarah Bird's Last Dance on the Starlight Pier is a novel about one woman—and a nation—struggling to be reborn from the ashes. July 3. 1932. Shivering and in shock, Evie Grace Devlin watches the Starlite Palace burn into the sea and wonders how she became a person who would cause a man to kill himself. She’d come to Galveston to escape a dark past in vaudeville and become a good person, a nurse. When that dream is cruelly thwarted, Evie is swept into the alien world of dance marathons. All that she has been denied—a family, a purpose, even love—waits for her there in the place she dreads most: the spotlight. Last Dance on the Starlight Pier is a sweeping novel that brings to spectacular life the enthralling worlds of both dance marathons and the family-run empire of vice that was Galveston in the Thirties. Unforgettable characters tell a story that is still deeply resonant today as America learns what Evie learns, that there truly isn’t anything this country can’t do when we do it together. That indomitable spirit powers a story that is a testament to the deep well of resilience in us all that allows us to not only survive the hardest of hard times, but to find joy, friends, and even family, in them.

The Good Inn

The Good Inn
Author: Black Francis
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2014-07-29
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 0062360086
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From Pixies front man, Black Francis, comes a bold and visually arresting illustrated novel about art, conflict, and the origins of a certain type of cinema. In 1907, the French battleship Iéna was destroyed when munitions it was carrying exploded, killing 120 people. A nitrocellulose-based weapon propellant had become unstable with age and self-ignited. In 1908, La Bonne Auberge became the earliest known pornographic film. It depicted a sexual encounter between a French soldier and an innkeeper’s daughter. Like all films at the time, and for decades afterward, it was made with a highly combustible nitrocellulose-based film stock. Loosely based on these historical events, The Good Inn follows the lone survivor of the Iéna explosion as he makes his way through the French countryside, has a sexual adventure with an innkeeper’s daughter, and even more deeply into a strange counter universe. It is a volatile world where war and art exist side by side. It is also the very real story of the people who made the first narrative pornographic film. The novel weaves together real historical facts to recreate this lost piece of history, as seen through the eyes of a shell-shocked soldier who finds himself the subject and star of the world’s first stag film. Through Soldier Boy’s journey we explore the power of memory, the simultaneously destructive and healing power of light, and how the early pioneers of stag films helped shape the film industry for generations to come.