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Book Synopsis Little Men, Big World / Vanity Row by : W. R. Burnett
Download or read book Little Men, Big World / Vanity Row written by W. R. Burnett and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two novels from the early 1950s that probe the political corruption of a big Midwestern city, where the real power is wielded behind the throne. Along with The Asphalt Jungle, these three novels form a thematic trio known as the Urban Trilogy.
Download or read book Backstory written by Patrick McGilligan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with screenwriters
Download or read book Natural Selection written by Gary Giddins and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long recognized as America's most brilliant jazz writer, the winner of many major awards--including the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award--and author of a highly popular biography of Bing Crosby, Gary Giddins has also produced a wide range of stimulating and original cultural criticism in other fields. With Natural Selection, he brings together the best of these previously uncollected essays, including a few written expressly for this volume. The range of topics is spellbinding. Writing with insight, humor, and a famously deft touch, he offers sharp-edged perspectives on such diverse subjects as Federico Fellini and Jean Renoir, Norman Mailer and Ralph Ellison, Marlon Brando and Groucho Marx, Duke Ellington and Bob Dylan, horror and noir, the cartoon version of Animal Farm and the comic book series Classics Illustrated. Giddins brings to criticism an uncommon ability, long demonstrated in his music writing, to address in very few words an entire career, so that we get an in-depth portrait of the artist beyond the film, book, or recording under review. For instance, Giddins offers a stunning reappraisal of Doris Day, who he terms "the coolest and sexiest female singer of slow ballads in film history." He argues eloquently for a reconsideration of the forgotten German-language novelist Soma Morgenstern. In a section on comedy, he offers fresh perspectives on the three great silent film stars--Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd--while resurrecting the legendary Jack Benny and reevaluating the controversial Jerry Lewis. There's also a memorable look at Bing Crosby's film career (he calls Crosby's blockbuster Going My Way "a neglected masterpiece") and a close examination of Marcel Carne's beloved Children of Paradise. Of course, Giddins also supplies excellent commentary on jazz: major and underrated figures, and especially the uses of jazz in film. A wonderful gathering of little-known treasures, Natural Selection will broaden the perception of Gary Giddins as one of our most important cultural critics.
Book Synopsis Unless the Threat of Death is Behind Them by : John T. Irwin
Download or read book Unless the Threat of Death is Behind Them written by John T. Irwin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-10-25 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The noted literary critic delves into the psychology and significance of American hardboiled crime fiction and film noir of the 1930s and ’40s. Early in the twentieth century, American crime novelists like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler put forward a new kind of character: the “hard-boiled” detective, as exemplified by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon. Unlike the analytical detectives of nineteenth-century fiction, these new detectives encountered cases not as intricate logical puzzles but as stark challenges of manhood. John T. Irwin explores how the stories of these characters grapple with ideas of American masculinity. Professional codes are pitted against personal desires, resulting in either ruinous relationships or solitary integrity. In thematic conflicts between independence and subordination, all notions of manly independence prove subordinate to the hand of fate. Tracing the stylistic development of the genre, Irwin demonstrates the particular influence of the novel of manners, especially the writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald. He also shows that as hard-boiled fiction began to appear on the screen in film noir, it took on themes of female empowerment—just as women entered the workforce in large numbers. Finally, he discusses how these themes persist in contemporary dramatic series on television, representing the conflicted lives of Americans into the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers by : NA NA
Download or read book Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-25 with total page 1585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cumulative Paperback Index, 1939-1959 by : R. Reginald
Download or read book Cumulative Paperback Index, 1939-1959 written by R. Reginald and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was the first bibliography and guide to the American mass market paperback book, and it remains one of the most definitive. The major index is by author, and lists: author, title, publisher, book number, year of publication, and cover price. The title index lists titles and authors only. The publisher index provides a history of that imprint, with addresses, number ranges, and general physical description of the books issued. This is the place that all study of the American paperback must begin.
Download or read book Heartbreak and Vine written by Woody Haut and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion piece to Woody Haut's two acclaimed histories of post-war American crime fiction, Pulp Culture and Neon Noir, Heartbreak and Vine tells the story of the intimate links between crime fiction and films. Almost all the great names of crime fiction, from Hammett to Chandler, Leonard to Ellroy, have spent time in Hollywood and Haut recounts their experiences and provides an acute commentary on the development of the crime movie from Little Caesar to The Big Sleep, Kiss Me Deadly to LA Confidential. Haut illuminates the movieland careers of early greats like W.R. Burnett and James M. Cain, and then brings the story right up to date with original interviews with contemporary crime novelists like Eddie Bunker, George P. Pelecanos and James Lee Burke talking about their Hollywood experiences. A must read for anyone seriously interested in either American crime fiction or film noir.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers by : Lee Server
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers written by Lee Server and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an introduction to American pulp fiction during the twentieth century with brief author biographies and lists of their works.
Book Synopsis Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction by : Frank Northen Magill
Download or read book Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction written by Frank Northen Magill and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents critical studies of more than 270 authors of detective and mystery fiction from around the world dating from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day.
Book Synopsis American Novelists, 1910-1945 by : James J. Martine
Download or read book American Novelists, 1910-1945 written by James J. Martine and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains biographical sketches of the men and women who have done their most important work in the novel during the period from 1910-1945.
Book Synopsis American Novelists, 1910-1945: Louis Adamic-Vardis Fisher by : James J. Martine
Download or read book American Novelists, 1910-1945: Louis Adamic-Vardis Fisher written by James J. Martine and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains biographical sketches of the men and women who have done their most important work in the novel during the period from 1910-1945.
Download or read book Contemporary Authors written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Margery Allingham by : Fiona Kelleghan
Download or read book 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Margery Allingham written by Fiona Kelleghan and published by Magill's Choice. This book was released on 2001 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection surveys 100 of the writerswho have made the most lasting contributionsto the genre. Most articles are 2,500words, with longer articles on such majorfigures as Raymond Chandler, DashiellHammett, Ellery Queen and Rex Stout.Handy, ready-reference listings aredesigned to accommodate the uniquecharacteristics of mystery and detectivefiction, including author?s pseudonyms,types of plots, principal series and principalseries characters, and even a glossaryof terms peculiar to the genre.Reference elements include a complete,up-to-date list of authors? works, a glossaryof mystery and detective fiction terms,annotated bibliographies, a time line, anindex of series characters and a list ofauthors by plot type.
Book Synopsis TSWNTIETH CENTURY AUTHORS by : STANLEY J. KUNITZ
Download or read book TSWNTIETH CENTURY AUTHORS written by STANLEY J. KUNITZ and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Twentieth Century Authors by : Stanley Kunitz
Download or read book Twentieth Century Authors written by Stanley Kunitz and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World Authors, 1900-1950 written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides almost 2700 articles on twentieth-century authors from all over the world who wrote in English or whose works are available in English translation.
Book Synopsis Dictionary of Literary Biography by : James J. Martine
Download or read book Dictionary of Literary Biography written by James J. Martine and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
