Why The Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Pop Culture
Category: History
Quote from “America’s Forgotten Founding Father” by Dr. Rosanne Welch – 8 in a series – To The Coast…and, maybe, America!
Livorno? The coast? Could he go that far? Filippo remembered all the days of sitting with his tutor dreaming of going even farther, even to the American colonies. How odd that they suddenly popped into his head again. How better to begin a life’s journey across the ocean than by living near one for a while?
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Quotes from “Why The Monkees Matter” by Dr. Rosanne Welch – 97 in a series – Tork and Nesmith and Acting
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Neither Tork nor Nesmith cared much for acting once the show was over, appearing in only a handful of television programs. Tork shunned acting for years, so his appearances were nil until the nineties with Boy Meets World and Seventh Heaven. Nesmith stayed behind the cameras except for hosting the shows he produced, Elephant Parts and Television Parts (directed by Dolenz) in the early 80s.
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Why The Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Pop Culture
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From The Research Vault: Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture by Jon Savage
Quote from “America’s Forgotten Founding Father” by Dr. Rosanne Welch – 7 in a series – Given Your Love to the Wrong Son
Then he turned to his mother sadly. “Good-bye, mother. May God reward you as you deserve for your behavior toward me. If you will not listen to me, if you will not see the error of these choices, I will spend the rest of my life proving you have given all your love to the wrong son.”
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Quotes from “Why The Monkees Matter” by Dr. Rosanne Welch – 96 in a series – Laugh-In
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The Monkees also influenced the existence and success of Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In first because the comedy variety show hosted by Dan Rowan and Dick Martin premiered after a first run episode of The Monkees, thereby providing the young audience the new show needed to be considered hip.
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A History of Screenwriting 59 – Screenwriting (Behind the Silver Screen Series) by Andrew Horton (Editor), Julian Hoxter
Screenwriters often joke that “no one ever paid a dollar at a movie theater to watch a screenplay.” Yet the screenplay is where a movie begins, determining whether a production gets the “green light” from its financial backers and wins approval from its audience. This innovative volume gives readers a comprehensive portrait of the art and business of screenwriting, while showing how the role of the screenwriter has evolved over the years.
Reaching back to the early days of Hollywood, when moonlighting novelists, playwrights, and journalists were first hired to write scenarios and photoplays, Screenwriting illuminates the profound ways that screenwriters have contributed to the films we love. This book explores the social, political, and economic implications of the changing craft of American screenwriting from the silent screen through the classical Hollywood years, the rise of independent cinema, and on to the contemporary global multi-media marketplace. From The Birth of a Nation (1915), Gone With the Wind (1939), and Gentleman’s Agreement (1947) to Chinatown (1974), American Beauty (1999), and Lost in Translation (2003), each project began as writers with pen and ink, typewriters, or computers captured the hopes and dreams, the nightmares and concerns of the periods in which they were writing.
As the contributors take us behind the silver screen to chronicle the history of screenwriting, they spotlight a range of key screenplays that changed the game in Hollywood and beyond. With original essays from both distinguished film scholars and accomplished screenwriters, Screenwriting is sure to fascinate anyone with an interest in Hollywood, from movie buffs to industry professionals. — Amazon.com
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Quote from “America’s Forgotten Founding Father” by Dr. Rosanne Welch – 6 in a series – Lost Love
“When her father, his own godfather, who had been so pleased by their union, learned that Filippo was a pauper, with barely enough money left to support his studies, he called off the engagement.
In a week he betrothed Sandrina to a richer man in the village. The injustice of the inability to make her own choices in life never left Filippo’s mind, and Sandrina never left his heart. Though other women would come and go from it, Sandrina’s smile stayed there for the rest of his life.”
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From The Research Vault: The Monkees: The Day-By-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation by Andrew Sandoval
Dr. Rosanne Welch presents at Cal Poly Pomona’s Golden Leaves Presentation [Video] (5:21)
Dr. Rosanne Welch presents at Cal Poly Pomona’s Golden Leaves Presentation [Video] (5:21)
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Thanks to the librarians at CalPoly Pomona for another fun afternoon listening to all my colleagues who have published books this year at the annual Golden Leaves Ceremony. This year I enjoyed sharing a reading from my new novel, Filippo Mazzei America’s Forgotten Founding Father, the story of an Italian-American patriot who owned the plantation next door to Thomas Jefferson – but chose not to own slaves. Rather he worked at establishing a vineyard with the help of other Italian immigrants (whose children and grandchildren helped populate Virginia according to records kept at Monticello).
Alongside Jefferson, Mazzei wrote articles in support of the Revolution and is now credited with coining the phrase “All Men are Created Equal”, which Jefferson found so inspiring he added it to his Declaration. As the Revolutionary War waged on, Jefferson and other Founding Fathers asked Mazzei to return to Europe and solicit funds, weapons and other support from the leading countries of Europe, which he gladly did, though it separated him from the beloved country he had adopted.
It is my hope that the more people who hear my talks and read this novel, the more will learn to add Mazzei’s name to the list of folks who helped found our country.
The Golden Leaves
Since 1986, the Golden Leaves program has celebrated those members of the Cal Poly Pomona campus community (faculty, staff, students, alumni and retirees) who have authored or edited a book* in the preceding year. The Golden Leaves program is funded by the University Library.
Each year books published by Cal Poly Pomona authors are on display in the Library during the month of April. The Golden Leaves program is celebrated annually at the University Library in conjunction with National Library Week.
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