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Mean Streets

Author : Demetrios Matheou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839022965
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Mean Streets written by Demetrios Matheou and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mean Streets was Martin Scorsese's third feature film, and the one that confirmed him as a major new talent. On its premiere at the New York Film Festival in 1973, the critic Pauline Kael hailed the film as 'a true original of our period, a triumph of personal film-making'. The tale of combative friends and small-time crooks is set amid the bars, pool halls, tenements and streets of Manhattan's Little Italy. Scorsese has said of his childhood neighbourhood, 'its very texture was interwoven with organised crime', and this quality would dramatically inform the tone and restless energy of his seminal film. Demetrios Matheou's insightful study considers Mean Streets' production history in the context of the New Hollywood period of American cinema, noting also the key roles played by John Cassavetes and Roger Corman. He analyses the importance of Scorsese's background to the film's characters and themes, including preoccupations with guilt, redemption and criminal subcultures; the development of the director's film-making process and signature style; the way in which he both drew upon and invigorated the crime genre; his relationship with emerging stars Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel, and the film's reception and legacy. Matheou argues that while Taxi Driver (1976) and Raging Bull (1980) are regarded as Scorsese's greatest films of the period, Mean Streets is the more influential achievement. With it, Scorsese not only paved the way for a new kind of crime movie, not least his own GoodFellas (1990), but also inspired generations of independently-minded film-makers.

Mean Streets

Author : Peter McSherry
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1550024027
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Mean Streets written by Peter McSherry and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter McSherry recounts tales of his 30 years of driving cabs on the hard-bitten streets of Toronto.

Mean Streets

Author : Crush, Jonathan
Publisher : Southern African Migration Programme
ISBN 13 : 1920596119
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Mean Streets written by Crush, Jonathan and published by Southern African Migration Programme. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book powerfully demonstrates that some of the most resourceful entrepreneurs in the South African informal economy are migrants and refugees. Yet far from being lauded, they take their life into their hands when they trade on South Africa's "mean streets". The book draws attention to what they bring to their adopted country through research into previously unexamined areas of migrant entrepreneurship. Ranging from studies of how migrants have created agglomeration economies in Jeppe and Ivory Park in Johannesburg, to guanxi networks of Chinese entrepreneurs, to competition and cooperation among Somali shop owners, to cross-border informal traders, to the informal transport operators between South Africa and Zimbabwe, the chapters in this book reveal the positive economic contributions of migrants. these include generating employment, paying rents, providing cheaper goods to poor consumers, and supporting formal sector wholesalers and retailers. As well, Mean Streets highlights the xenophobic responses to migrant and refugee entrepreneurs and the challenges they face in running a successful business on the streets.

Mean Streets

Author : Randy C Mcneil
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039117236
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Mean Streets written by Randy C Mcneil and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2022-03-23 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mean Streets is a gritty, hard-hitting collection of poems and lyrics that depict the struggles faced by people who are suffering from addiction, depression, and homelessness. However, it also portrays the special form of community that develops amongst this population as they endure similar battles and work together to fight a common enemy. Author Randy McNeil, now deceased, knew of what he wrote, having grown up in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Canada, where he ran with a street gang before having a life-changing conversion experience, during which he gave his life to Jesus Christ. Those suffering from addiction or mental health issues or those in recovery will resonate with these powerful images of life, death, love, friendship, and hope.

Mean Streets

Author : Don Mitchell
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820356905
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Mean Streets written by Don Mitchell and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mean Streets offers, in a single, sustained argument, a theory of the social and economic logic behind the historical development, evolution, and especially persistence of homelessness in the contemporary city. By updating and revisiting thirty years of research and thinking, Don Mitchell explores the conditions that produce and sustain homelessness, and how its persistence relates to the way capital works in the urban built environment. Consequently, he unpacks the structure, meaning, uses, and governance of urban public space. As one reviewer commented, "thinking about the histories under which the homeless have been produced and regulated is vital." Mitchell traces his argument through two sections: a broadly historical overview, followed by an exploration of recent Supreme Court jurisprudence that also expands the discussion beyond the regulation of the homeless and the poor, arguing that this has 'metastasized' to become more general issue, affecting all urbanites"--

Mean Streets and Raging Bulls

Author : Richard Martin
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810833379
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Mean Streets and Raging Bulls written by Richard Martin and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic film noir was Hollywood's 'dark cinema' of crime and corruption; a genre underpinned by a tone of existential cynicism which stripped bare the myth of the American Dream and offered a bleak, nightmarish vision of a fragmented society that rhymed with many of the social realities of forties and fifties America. Mean Streets and Raging Bulls explores how, since its apparent demise in the late fifties, the noir genre has been revitalized during the post-studio era. The book is divided into two sections. In the first, the evolution of film noir is contextualized in relation to both American cinema's industrial transformation and the post-Depression history of the United States. In the second, the evolution of neo-noir and its relation to classic film noir is illustrated by detailed reference to representative texts including Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974), Night Moves (Arthur Penn, 1975), Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976), Blood Simple (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1984), After Hours (Martin Scorsese, 1985), Sea of Love (Harold Becker, 1989), Resevoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, 1992), and Romeo is Bleeding (Peter Medak, 1994).

Down These Mean Streets

Author : Larry Correia
Publisher : Baen Books
ISBN 13 : 1625799446
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book Down These Mean Streets written by Larry Correia and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION STORIES WITH A HARDBOILED NOIR TWIST—FOCUSING ON THE MEAN STREETS OF THE CITY “Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.” —Raymond Chandler Humans have always been fascinated by darkness. Especially the darkness of a city at night, when the black sky is made ever more inky by the pools of illumination dropped under streetlights. We harken to the sound of streetcars in the distance. We are drawn to the garish flash of club signs and marquees. We love the danger of shadowed alleyways, of wealth and poverty living side by side. We love the city. It’s a part of us. Whether the mean streets be in an alternate past charmed with dark magic or the dirty alleyways of futuristic crowded space stations, the city—and its darkened streets—will always fascinate us. Here then, an anthology of all new stories of science fiction and fantasy with a hardboiled noir twist that acknowledge that the city is a living, breathing entity…and it isn’t always on our side. Stories by: Laurell K. Hamilton, Larry Correia, Kacey Ezell, Mike Massa, Steve Diamond, Robert E. Hampson, Chris Kennedy, Marisa Wolf, Griffin Barber, Robert Buettner, Hinkley Correia, Casey Moores, Patrick M. Tracy, and Dan Willis. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). Praise for No Game for Knights: “The authors successfully create a fantasy pastiche of Chandleresque hardboiled fiction.” —Tangent Online Praise for Noir Fatale: “Marvelous is a good word to describe all of the stories in the book . . . Noir Fatale is a book that will charm both noir fans, and general science fiction and fantasy readers. Correia and Ezell have created a captivating mix of stories.” —The Galveston County Daily News “[A] wonderfully diverse collection of stories from a broad range of authors and it delivers in spades . . . It is a diverse and exciting slice of Noir and Fatale and a great read.” —SFRevu Praise for Larry Correia and the Monster Hunter International series: “[E]verything I like in fantasy: intense action scenes, evil in horrifying array, good struggling against the darkness, and most of all people— gorgeously flawed human beings faced with horrible moral choices that force them to question and change and grow.” —Jim Butcher “[A] no-holds-barred all-out page turner that is part science fiction, part horror, and an absolute blast to read.” —Bookreporter.com “If you love monsters and action, you’ll love this book. If you love guns, you’ll love this book. If you love fantasy, and especially horror fantasy, you’ll love this book.” —Knotclan.com “This lighthearted, testosterone-soaked sequel to 2009’s Monster Hunter International will delight fans of action horror with elaborate weaponry, hand-to-hand combat, disgusting monsters, and an endless stream of blood and body parts.” —Publishers Weekly on Monster Hunter Vendetta Praise for the work of Kacey Ezell: “Gritty, dark and damp. Much like the war itself.” —Michael Z. Williamson “I loved Minds of Men.” —D.J. Butler “A lot of good scifi writers write war, but sometimes forget that it is fought by actual people, and even in the midst of war, you don’t stop being people while you fight. If you want a good read that dares you to think about what it is like to go to war when you can’t hide behind the masks you learn to wear, check it out.” —John T. Mainer

Mac Detective Series 04: The Mean Streets

Author : Thomas B. Dewey
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1479406864
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book Mac Detective Series 04: The Mean Streets written by Thomas B. Dewey and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction's severely underrated writers!" -- Bill Pronzini "Gripping, realistic, and compelling." -- Chicago Sunday Tribune It started with murder and ended with murder. Along the way there were muggings and dope and stolen cars and other assorted violences that might have been committed by juveniles. But this wasn't kid stuff. It became apparent that someone very ruthless was behind it all. That's when they decided to hire Mac. "Mac has been called one of the most believable and humane PI's in crime fiction. He is reluctant to use either his gun or his fists, but will do so when the situation demands it, or in self-defense; he doesn't merely solve his clients' cases, but provides moral support and sympathy as well; and perhaps most notable of all, Mac feels, and is not afraid to show itópain, loss, sorrow, loneliness." --thrillingdetective.com

Mean Streets Echo

Author : Sue Neacy
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450216420
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Mean Streets Echo written by Sue Neacy and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Press your cell phone button and you will die! PI Peggy d'Sousa finds this out the hard way. To snare a serial killer, Peggy has to crack hi-tech secrets, do some good old fashioned leg work that takes her all the way from Chicago to the red carpet of the Cannes Movie Festival. This is a fast moving romp which will leave you laughing.

Down These Mean Streets

Author : Piri Thomas
Publisher : Graymalkin Media
ISBN 13 : 1631680609
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book Down These Mean Streets written by Piri Thomas and published by Graymalkin Media. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El Barrio to a lock-up in Sing Sing to the freedom that comes of self-acceptance, faith, and inner confidence, Piri Thomas gives us a book that is as exultant as it is harrowing and whose every page bears the irrepressible rhythm of its author's voice. Thirty years after its first appearance, this classic of manhood, marginalization, survival, and transcendence is available in a new edition.

Women of the Mean Streets: Lesbian Noir

Author : J.M. Redmann
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN 13 : 1602825386
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Women of the Mean Streets: Lesbian Noir written by J.M. Redmann and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women. Crime. Justice. At least the search for it. On the mean streets, the back allies, the dark corners. These are stories of tough women in hard places. The nights are long, the women are fast, and danger is always a short block or quick minute away. Edited by award winning author/editors J.M. Redmann and Greg Herren, Women of the Mean Streets is an anthology of some of the top, tough women crime writers today, noir stories with a lesbian twist.

The Hollywood Renaissance

Author : Yannis Tzioumakis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501337890
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Hollywood Renaissance written by Yannis Tzioumakis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1967, Time magazine put Bonnie and Clyde on its cover and proudly declared that Hollywood cinema was undergoing a 'renaissance'. For the next few years, a wide range of formally and thematically challenging films were produced at the very centre of the American film industry, often (but by no means always) combining success at the box office with huge critical acclaim, both then and later. This collection brings together acknowledged experts on American cinema to examine thirteen key films from the years 1966 to 1974, starting with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, a major studio release which was in effect exempted from Hollywood's Production Code and thus helped to liberate American filmmaking from (self-)censorship. Long-standing taboos to do with sex, violence, race relations, drugs, politics, religion and much else could now be broken, often in conjunction with extensive stylistic experimentation. Whereas most previous scholarship has examined these developments through the prism of auteurism, with its tight focus on film directors and their oeuvres, the contributors to this collection also carefully examine production histories and processes. In doing so they pay particular attention to the economic underpinnings and collaborative nature of filmmaking, the influence of European art cinema as well as of exploitation, experimental and underground films, and the connections between cinema and other media (notably publishing, music and theatre). Several chapters show how the innovations of the Hollywood Renaissance relate to further changes in American cinema from the mid-1970s onwards.

Critical Essays on Arthur Morrison and the East End

Author : Diana Maltz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000594386
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Critical Essays on Arthur Morrison and the East End written by Diana Maltz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1896, author Arthur Morrison gained notoriety for his bleak and violent A Child of the Jago, a slum novel that captured the desperate struggle to survive among London’s poorest. When a reviewer accused Morrison of exaggerating the depravity of the neighborhood on which the Jago was based, he incited the era’s most contentious public debate about the purpose of realism and the responsibilities of the novelist. In his self-defense and in his wider body of work, Morrison demonstrated not only his investments as a formal artist, but also his awareness of social questions. As the first critical essay collection on Arthur Morrison and the East End, this book assesses Morrison’s contributions to late-Victorian culture, especially discourses around English working-class life. Chapters evaluate Morrison in the context of Victorian criminality, child welfare, disability, housing, professionalism, and slum photography. Morrison’s works are also reexamined in the light of writings by Sir Walter Besant, Clementina Black, Charles Booth, Charles Dickens, George Gissing, and Margaret Harkness. This volume features an introduction and 11 chapters by preeminent and emerging scholars of the East End. They employ a variety of critical methodologies, drawing on their respective expertise in literature, history, art history, sociology, and geography. Critical Essays on Arthur Morrison and the East End throws fresh new light on this innovative novelist of poverty and urban life.

Crime Fiction

Author : John Scaggs
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415318259
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Crime Fiction written by John Scaggs and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre. Accessible and clear, this comprehensive overview is the essential guide for all those studying crime fiction.

Herencia

Author : Nicolás Kanellos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195138244
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Herencia written by Nicolás Kanellos and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major anthology of Hispanic writing in the U.S., ranging from the early Spanish explorers to the present day.

Winston-Salem Northern Beltway (western Section)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Next Generation of Data Mining

Author : Hillol Kargupta
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9781420085877
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book Next Generation of Data Mining written by Hillol Kargupta and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-12-24 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from the US National Science Foundation’s Symposium on Next Generation of Data Mining and Cyber-Enabled Discovery for Innovation (NGDM 07), Next Generation of Data Mining explores emerging technologies and applications in data mining as well as potential challenges faced by the field. Gathering perspectives from top experts across different disciplines, the book debates upcoming challenges and outlines computational methods. The contributors look at how ecology, astronomy, social science, medicine, finance, and more can benefit from the next generation of data mining techniques. They examine the algorithms, middleware, infrastructure, and privacy policies associated with ubiquitous, distributed, and high performance data mining. They also discuss the impact of new technologies, such as the semantic web, on data mining and provide recommendations for privacy-preserving mechanisms. The dramatic increase in the availability of massive, complex data from various sources is creating computing, storage, communication, and human-computer interaction challenges for data mining. Providing a framework to better understand these fundamental issues, this volume surveys promising approaches to data mining problems that span an array of disciplines.