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Book Synopsis Jerry Tracy, Celebrity Reporter by : Theodore A. Tinsley
Download or read book Jerry Tracy, Celebrity Reporter written by Theodore A. Tinsley and published by Overamstel Uitgevers. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 1111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manhattan’s sharpest gossip columnist tangles with brawlers, triggermen, and dames The most important people in the world come to Broadway—to eat in restaurants, dance in nightclubs, and die in rain-slicked back alleys. Whatever the big names are doing, Jerry Tracy hears about it—and tells the world in his infamous Daily Planet column. As quick with his typewriter as he is with a .45, Tracy can break a nose as easily as he breaks a news story. But beneath his hard exterior, this columnist has a kind heart, and a sense of justice that will make him do crazy things for a woman in trouble, or a friend with a murder rap hanging over his head. Featuring every Jerry Tracy story ever published in Black Mask, this collection is an invaluable compendium of one of early noir’s most original heroes. Written in machine gun prose that would make Damon Runyon proud, these stories describe a man whose words are tough—and whose fists are even tougher. This ebook features an introduction by Boris Dralyuk.
Book Synopsis The Paul Cain Omnibus by : Paul Cain
Download or read book The Paul Cain Omnibus written by Paul Cain and published by Overamstel Uitgevers. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen stories and one novel—hard-boiled classics by an undisputed master Following gangsters, blackmailers, and gunmen through the underbelly of 1930s America on their journeys to do dark deeds, Paul Cain’s stories are classics of his genre. The protagonists of ambiguous morality who populate Cain’s work are portrayed with a cinematic flair for the grim hardness of their world. Fast One, Cain’s only novel, was originally serialized in Black Mask in the 1930s. It introduces us to Gerry Kells, a hard-nosed criminal who still holds fast to his humanity in a Los Angeles that’s crooked to the core. This collection presents Cain’s classic crime writing to a contemporary audience. This ebook features an introduction by Boris Dralyuk.
Download or read book Dog Show Murder written by Frank Gruber and published by Overamstel Uitgevers. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich man is murdered at the dog show, and the Human Encyclopedia is the prime suspect Oliver Quade knows how to sell an encyclopedia. First, read it cover to cover three or four times, and make sure to remember everything in it. Next, dazzle an audience with your accumulated knowledge. Put on a good enough show, and the book will sell itself. Quade, better known as the Human Encyclopedia, is performing his act at a local dog show when a dogfight breaks out. Wary of wild mutts, Quade backs away and returns to his booth to find a nasty surprise—a dead man in white flannels. When the police insist on holding Quade responsible, he and his assistant—the indefatigable Charlie Boston—are forced to solve the murder the Quade way: by always being the smartest men in the room. But is the Human Encyclopedia clever enough to prove to these dog show cops that they are barking up the wrong tree? This ebook features an introduction by Keith Alan Deutsch.
Download or read book South Wind written by Theodore A. Tinsley and published by Black Mask. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Premiering in the pages of Black Mask magazine during the speak of editor Joseph T. Shaw's era, author Theodore A. Tinsley penned one of the longest-running and most popular series to see print in the pages of that historic Detective magazine. Celebrity gossip reporter for The Daily Planet, Jerry Tracy was a cynical, wisecracking columnist. Though a bit of a muckraker, Tracy had a sense of justice when it came to his friends and his fellow New York City residents. Written by one of the authors of The Shadow magazine, these tough-written stories are a fast-paced and action-packed read. Featuring an introduction by Boris Dralyuk.
Download or read book Movie Comics written by Blair Davis and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Christopher Nolan’s Batman films and releases from the Marvel Cinematic Universe have regularly topped the box office charts, fans and critics alike might assume that the “comic book movie” is a distinctly twenty-first-century form. Yet adaptations of comics have been an integral part of American cinema from its very inception, with comics characters regularly leaping from the page to the screen and cinematic icons spawning comics of their own. Movie Comics is the first book to study the long history of both comics-to-film and film-to-comics adaptations, covering everything from silent films starring Happy Hooligan to sound films and serials featuring Dick Tracy and Superman to comic books starring John Wayne, Gene Autry, Bob Hope, Abbott & Costello, Alan Ladd, and Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. With a special focus on the Classical Hollywood era, Blair Davis investigates the factors that spurred this media convergence, as the film and comics industries joined forces to expand the reach of their various brands. While analyzing this production history, he also tracks the artistic coevolution of films and comics, considering the many formal elements that each medium adopted and adapted from the other. As it explores our abiding desire to experience the same characters and stories in multiple forms, Movie Comics gives readers a new appreciation for the unique qualities of the illustrated page and the cinematic moving image.
Book Synopsis Murder Maze by : Theodore A. Tinsley
Download or read book Murder Maze written by Theodore A. Tinsley and published by Black Mask. This book was released on 2022-07-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Premiering in the pages of Black Mask magazine during the speak of editor Joseph T. Shaw's era, author Theodore A. Tinsley penned one of the longest-running and most popular series to see print in the pages of that historic Detective magazine. Celebrity gossip reporter for The Daily Planet, Jerry Tracy was a cynical, wisecracking columnist. Though a bit of a muckraker, Tracy had a sense of justice when it came to his friends and his fellow New York City residents. Written by one of the authors of The Shadow magazine, these tough-written stories are a fast-paced and action-packed read. Featuring an all-new introduction by Will Murray. Collecting the next third of the series.
Book Synopsis Panel to the Screen by : Drew Morton
Download or read book Panel to the Screen written by Drew Morton and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past forty years, American film has entered into a formal interaction with the comic book. Such comic book adaptations as Sin City, 300, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World have adopted components of their source materials' visual style. The screen has been fractured into panels, the photographic has given way to the graphic, and the steady rhythm of cinematic time has evolved into a far more malleable element. In other words, films have begun to look like comics. Yet, this interplay also occurs in the other direction. In order to retain cultural relevancy, comic books have begun to look like films. Frank Miller's original Sin City comics are indebted to film noir while Stephen King's The Dark Tower series could be a Sergio Leone spaghetti western translated onto paper. Film and comic books continuously lean on one another to reimagine their formal attributes and stylistic possibilities. In Panel to the Screen, Drew Morton examines this dialogue in its intersecting and rapidly changing cultural, technological, and industrial contexts. Early on, many questioned the prospect of a "low" art form suited for children translating into "high" art material capable of drawing colossal box office takes. Now the naysayers are as quiet as the queued crowds at Comic-Cons are massive. Morton provides a nuanced account of this phenomenon by using formal analysis of the texts in a real-world context of studio budgets, grosses, and audience reception.
Download or read book The Hollywood Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Journeys of Desire by : Alastair Phillips
Download or read book Journeys of Desire written by Alastair Phillips and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to European actors in American film, this book brings together 15 chapters with A-Z entries on over 900 individuals. It includes case studies of prominent individuals and phenomena associated with the emigres, such as the stereotyping of European actresses in 'bad women' roles, and the irony of Jewish actors playing Nazis.
Book Synopsis Hollywood War Films, 1937-1945 by : Michael S. Shull
Download or read book Hollywood War Films, 1937-1945 written by Michael S. Shull and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1937 through 1945, Hollywood produced over 1,000 films relating to the war. This enormous and exhaustive reference work first analyzes the war films as sociopolitical documents. Part one, entitled "The Crisis Abroad, 1937-1941," focuses on movies that reflected America's increasing uneasiness. Part two, "Waging War, 1942-1945," reveals that many movies made from 1942 through 1945 included at least some allusion to World War II.
Download or read book Spencer Tracy written by James Fisher and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1994-10-26 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often referred to as the actor's actor, Spencer Tracy's subtle introspection and thoroughly naturalistic style continue to impress actors and audiences alike. He began his career on the stage, and then went on to attain considerable acclaim as a film star for Fox Studios and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He won back-to-back Academy Awards in 1937 and 1938, began a legendary personal and professional relationship with Katharine Hepburn, and worked as an independent film star in the 1950s and 1960s. This volume provides detailed information for Tracy's many performances in film, radio, television, and drama. The book begins with a short biography that summarizes Tracy's professional development. The chapters that follow chronicle his fascinating career. Each chapter is devoted to his work in a particular medium and provides entries for his individual performances. Entries present cast and credit information, plot synopses, reviews, and commentary. An annotated bibliography discusses sources of additional information about Tracy, and photos illustrate his life and work.
Book Synopsis Hollywood Death and Scandal Sites by : E.J. Fleming
Download or read book Hollywood Death and Scandal Sites written by E.J. Fleming and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, people have been drawn to sites of tragedy involving the rich, beautiful and notorious of Hollywood. Tourists at the center of the movie universe flock to Rudolph Valentino's grave, the house where Marilyn Monroe died, the "O.J. murders" condo, the hotel where John Belushi overdosed, a myriad of haunted mansions. In its extensively researched and enlarged second edition, this book tells the stories of these locations and makes finding them simple. Seventeen driving tours include more than 650 sites. Each tour covers a specific area, from Hollywood and the Sunset Strip to Brentwood and Malibu, covering the entire Los Angeles basin. Concise, easy-to-follow directions are given to each location with 145 photos and the fascinating story behind each stop.
Download or read book Hollywood South written by Linda Thurman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A studio insider reveals the dramatic story of politics, conspiracy, and crime behind Louisiana’s film industry boom. From her work in Los Angeles to her role as an executive with Emerald Bayou Studios, Linda Thurman had a front-row seat to the tumultuous beginnings of Hollywood South. She knows first-hand how a conspiracy to manipulate the Louisiana film industry resulted in prison terms for film executive Malcolm Petal and state official Mark Smith. In what reads like a modern-day crime novel, Thurman tells the full story—from the chairman’s office of a Hollywood studio to the corridors of the Louisiana legislature. Part memoir and part exposé, Hollywood South sheds light on the shadowy and convoluted relationship between politics and entertainment in both Hollywood and Louisiana.
Download or read book Syndicate Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La 411 2005 written by Debbie Hennessey and published by 411 Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its twenty-sixth year, LA 411 continues to be the single most-trusted and widely-used directory for the film and television production industry in Southern California. LA 411 has earned its unofficial name as The Bible for below-the-line production needs because of its * complete coverage of the industry * rigorous editorial procedures * reputation for quality and integrity In the pages of LA 411, there is every resource for shooting in Southern California, from the first day of pre-production to the last day of post.
Download or read book Myrna Loy written by Emily W. Leider and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beginning, Myrna Loy's screen image conjured mystery, a sense of something withheld. This first ever biography of the wry and sophisticated actress, best known for her role as Nora Charles in The Thin Man, offers an unprecedented picture of her life and a career that spanned six decades. Opening with Loy's rough-and-tumble upbringing in Montana, the book takes us to Los Angeles from the 1920s, through the thirties, when Loy became a top box office draw, and to her robust post-World War II career. Throughout, Emily W. Leider illuminates the actress's friendships with luminaries such as Cary Grant, Clark Gable, and Joan Crawford and her collaborations with the likes of John Barrymore, David O. Selznick, Sam Goldwyn, and William Wyler, among many others. This biography offers a fascinating slice of studio era history and gives us the first full picture of a woman who has often been overlooked.--From publisher description.
Download or read book Editor & Publisher written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
