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Author : Nigel Balchin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (153 download)
Download or read book Mine Own Executioner written by Nigel Balchin and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Berry
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book My Experiences as an Executioner written by James Berry and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-25 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Berry's book, 'My Experiences as an Executioner,' delves into the dark and morbid world of capital punishment through the eyes of a seasoned executioner. Berry's writing is straightforward and devoid of unnecessary embellishment, reflecting the harsh realities of his profession. The book provides a glimpse into the psychological toll of taking human lives in the name of justice, offering a unique perspective on a controversial practice. Set against the backdrop of a time when public executions were common, Berry's narrative serves as a chilling reminder of the consequences of violence and the cost of administering justice. His stark prose and attention to detail create a haunting account of life and death in the executioner's domain. James Berry's personal experiences as an executioner shape the narrative of his book, shedding light on the moral and ethical dilemmas faced by those who carry out society's most unforgiving duties. His insights into the inner workings of the executioner's mind reveal the complexities of a role often shrouded in secrecy and taboo. With 'My Experiences as an Executioner,' Berry challenges readers to confront uncomfortable truths about the justice system and the individuals tasked with enforcing it. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the historical and psychological aspects of capital punishment, offering a rare glimpse into a world few dare to explore.
Author : Derek Collett
Publisher : Silverwood Press
ISBN 13 : 9781781323915
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (239 download)
Download or read book His Own Executioner written by Derek Collett and published by Silverwood Press. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nigel Balchin
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1474601197
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (746 download)
Download or read book Darkness Falls from the Air written by Nigel Balchin and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic novel of the London Blitz, DARKNESS FALLS FROM THE AIR captures the chaos, absurdity and ultimately the tragedy of life during the bombardment. Featured on BACKLISTED podcast Bill Sarratt is a civil servant working on the war effort. Thwarted at every turn by bureaucracy and the vested interests of big business, the seemingly unflappable Bill is also on the verge of losing his wife Marcia to a literary poseur named Stephen. As the bombs continue to fall, Bill must decide whether he his willing to compromise his principles and prevent his life from crumbling before his very eyes.
Author : Donald A. Cabana
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555533564
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (335 download)
Download or read book Death At Midnight written by Donald A. Cabana and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1998-05-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Season of Change
Author : Nic Dunlop
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802718248
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The Lost Executioner written by Nic Dunlop and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cambodia, between 1975 and 1979, some two million people died at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. Twenty years later, not one member had been held accountable for the genocide. Haunted by an image of one of them, Comrade Duch, photographer Nic Dunlop set out to bring him to life, and thereby to account. "I needed to understand how a movement that laid claim to a vision of a better world could instead produce a revolution of unparalleled ferocity; how a seemingly ordinary man from one of the poorer parts of Cambodia could turn into one of the worst mass murderers of the twentieth century:" Weaving seamlessly between past and present, Dunlop unfolds the history of Cambodia as a lens through which to understand its tragic last forty years. He makes clear how much responsibility the United States must share, through failed political alliances and the illegal bombing of Cambodia, for the bloodshed that followed. Guided by witnesses, Dunlop teases out the details of Duch's transformation from sensitive schoolchild and dedicated teacher to the revolutionary killer who later slipped quietly back into village life. From the temples of Angkor to the prisons of Pol Pot's regime, to his unexpected meeting with Duch himself, Dunlop's special vision as a photographer enlarges our own. The Lost Executioner is a blend of history and testimony-and a reminder that, whether in the killing fields of Cambodia or the deserts of Darfur, if we turn our backs on genocide, we must bear a collective guilt.
Author : Don Pendleton
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497685540
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)
Download or read book War Against the Mafia written by Don Pendleton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in the classic vigilante action series from a “writer who spawned a genre” (The New York Times). Overseas, Mack Bolan was dubbed “Sgt. Mercy” for the compassion he showed the innocent. On the home front, they’re calling him the Executioner for what he’s doing to the guilty. In the jungles of Southeast Asia, American sniper Mack Bolan honed his skills. After twelve years, with ninety-five confirmed hits, he returns home to Massachusetts. But it’s not to reunite with his family, it’s to bury them—victims in a mass murder/suicide. Even though Bolan’s own father pulled the trigger, he knows the old man was no killer. He was driven to madness by Mafia thugs who have turned his idyllic hometown into a new kind of war zone. Duty calls . . . Introducing an action hero “who would make Jack Reacher think twice,” this is the first book in the iconic series of vigilante justice that has become a publishing phenomenon (Empireonline.com). With more than two hundred million Executioner books sold since its debut, the series continues to stimulate. Gerry Conway, cocreator of Marvel Comics’ The Punisher, credits the Executioner as “my inspiration . . . that’s what gave me the idea for the lone, slightly psychotic avenger.” The series is also now in development as a major motion picture. War Against the Mafia is the 1st book in the Executioner series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Author : Kate McLoughlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108573665
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Veteran Poetics written by Kate McLoughlin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first full-length study of the war veteran in literature, Kate McLoughlin draws new critical attention to a figure central to national life. Offering fresh readings of canonical and non-canonical works, she shows how authors from William Wordsworth to J. K. Rowling have deployed veterans to explore questions that are simultaneously personal, political, and philosophical: What does a community owe to those who serve it? What can be recovered from the past? Do people stay the same over time? Are there right times of life at which to do certain things? Is there value in experience? How can wisdom be shared? Veteran Poetics features veterans who travel in time, cause havoc with their reappearances, solve murders, refuse to stop talking about the wars they have been in, and refuse to say a word about them. Through this last trait, they also prompt consideration of possible critical responses to silence.
Author : Nigel Balchin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (116 download)
Download or read book The Small Back Room written by Nigel Balchin and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alain Silver
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0879102802
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (791 download)
Download or read book Film Noir Reader 2 written by Alain Silver and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1999 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the remarkable success of Film Noir Reader, this new collection further explores a genre of limitless fascination -- and one that continues to inspire and galvanise the latest generation of film-makers. Again heavily illustrated, with close to 150 stills, Film Noir Reader 2 is organised much like the earlier volume.
Author : Adam Plummer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (651 download)
Download or read book The British Trauma Film written by Adam Plummer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-04-20 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the historical influence of psychoanalysis on Hollywood cinema has received considerable attention, the same cannot be said for its influence on British cinema. This book examines the central position that psychoanalysis occupies in British cinema in the years immediately following the Second World War. Plummer uses a critical theory framework to understand the role that psychoanalysis plays in British culture at this time as an historical discourse, and in British cinema as a narrative, a cultural, and an ideological discourse. He defines these as arising within various areas of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking related to traumatic wartime experience, sexual difference, and the interplay between subjectivity and objectivity. He analyzes six British films of the period: The Halfway House, Dead of Night, The Seventh Veil, Madonna of the Seven Moons, They Made Me a Fugitive, and Mine Own Executioner and demonstrates how psychoanalysis operates within them as a narrative and formal structuring mechanism. He argues that this engagement enables these films to begin to address the emotional fallout of the war by creating safe representational spaces where contemporary audiences could engage with their own traumatic experiences. While The British Trauma Film defines psychoanalysis as providing a language for British cinema at this time to confront the effects of wartime trauma, it finds that it also operates within a normalizing ideological system designed to reproduce dominant pre-war relations of political, social, and sexual power. However, in this group of films, this system is often countered by subversive discursive forces that seem to be immanent to the films themselves.
Author : Danny Wedding
Publisher : Hogrefe Publishing GmbH
ISBN 13 : 1616765534
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (167 download)
Download or read book Movies and Mental Illness written by Danny Wedding and published by Hogrefe Publishing GmbH. This book was released on 2023-11-06 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular, critically acclaimed text on psychopathology in movies – now including the latest movies and more Explores films according to the diagnostic criteria of DSM-5 and ICD-11 Provides psychological ratings of nearly 1,500 films Includes downloadable teaching materials Films can be a powerful aid to learning about mental illness and psychopathology – for practitioners and students in fields as diverse as psychology, psychiatry, social work, medicine, nursing, counseling, literature, or media studies, and for anyone interested in mental health. Watching films relevant to mental health can actually help you become a more productive therapist and a more astute diagnostician. Movies and Mental Illness, written by an eminent clinical psychologist (who is also a movie aficionado), has established a reputation as a uniquely enjoyable and highly memorable text for learning about psychopathology. This new edition has been completely revised to explore current issues, such as children's screentime and celebrities with mental illness, and to include the numerous films that have been released since the last edition. The core clinical chapters raise provocative questions about differential diagnosis (according to the DSM-5 and ICD-11) for the primary characters portrayed in the films. Included are also a full index of films; sample course syllabus; ratings of close to 1,500 films; fascinating appendices, such as "Top 50 Heroes and Villains," psychotherapists in movies, and misconceptions about mental illness in movies. Accompanying the new edition are downloadable resources for teachers that include critical questions and topics for discussion, as well as fabricated case histories based on movie characters with Mini-Mental State Examinations that help explain, teach, and encourage discussion about important mental health disorders. In addition, the author plans a regular series of online "Spotlights" articles that will critically examine the psychological content of new movies as they are released.
Author : Sue Harper
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441134980
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Women in British Cinema written by Sue Harper and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a broad perspective and analyses the ways in which the British film industry has dealt with women and their creativity from 1930 to the present. The first part of the book deals comprehensively with different historical periods in British film culture, showing how the 'agency' of production company, director, distribution company or scriptwriter can bring about new patterns of female stereotyping. The second part looks at the input of women workers into the film process. It assesses the work of women in a variety of roles: directors such as Wendy Toye and Sally Potter, producers such as Betty Box, scriptwriters such as Clemence Dane and Muriel Box, costume designers such as Shirley Russell and Jocelyn Rickards, and editors and art directors. This is a polemical book which is written in a lively and often confrontational manner. It uses fresh archival material and takes energetic issue with those explanatory models of film analysis which impose easy answers onto complex material.
Author : Stanley Weinbaum
Publisher : Endymion Press
ISBN 13 : 1531295428
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (312 download)
Download or read book Dawn of Flame written by Stanley Weinbaum and published by Endymion Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a worldwide plague breaks civilization, Joaquin Smith and his sister build an empire up the Mississippi Valley. Who would be brave or foolish enough to stand in their way? Who but a young backwoodsman named Hull Tarvish?
Author : Edward Keyes
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504025598
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Michigan Murders written by Edward Keyes and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Award Finalist: The true story of a serial killer who terrorized a midwestern town in the era of free love—by the coauthor of The French Connection. In 1967, during the time of peace, free love, and hitchhiking, nineteen-year-old Mary Terese Fleszar was last seen alive walking home to her apartment in Ypsilanti, Michigan. One month later, her naked body—stabbed over thirty times and missing both feet and a forearm—was discovered, partially buried, on an abandoned farm. A year later, the body of twenty-year-old Joan Schell was found, similarly violated. Southeastern Michigan was terrorized by something it had never experienced before: a serial killer. Over the next two years, five more bodies were uncovered around Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, Michigan. All the victims were tortured and mutilated. All were female students. After multiple failed investigations, a chance sighting finally led to a suspect. On the surface, John Norman Collins was an all-American boy—a fraternity member studying elementary education at Eastern Michigan University. But Collins wasn’t all that he seemed. His female friends described him as aggressive and short tempered. And in August 1970, Collins, the “Ypsilanti Ripper,” was arrested, found guilty, and sentenced to life in prison without chance of parole. Written by the coauthor of The French Connection, The Michigan Murders delivers a harrowing depiction of the savage murders that tormented a small midwestern town.
Author : Margaret Weis
Publisher : Wizards of the Coast
ISBN 13 : 0786954426
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)
Download or read book War of the Twins written by Margaret Weis and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now one hundred years in the future, the Majere twins and their companions set out to challenge Takhisis, the goddess of evil One hundred years have passed since the fiery Cataclysm that changed the face of Krynn forever. For one hundred years, the people of Krynn have struggled to survive. But for some, those one hundred years have passed in the blink of an eye. Catapulted forward in time by Raistlin’s powerful magic, Caramon and Crysania find themselves aiding the mage’s unholy quest to master the Queen of Darkness. To his dismay, Raistlin discovers along the way that the annals of Time are not so easily bent to his will—and neither are the longings of his heart.
Author : Michael F. Keaney
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147660438X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book British Film Noir Guide written by Michael F. Keaney and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents 369 British films produced between 1937 and 1964 that embody many of the same filmic qualities as those "black films" made in the United States during the classic film noir era. This reference work makes a case for the inclusion of the British films in the film noir canon, which is still considered by some to be an exclusively American inventory. In the book's main section, the following information is presented for each film: a quote from the film; the title and release date; a rating based on the five-star system; the production company, director, cinematographer, screenwriter, and main performers; and a plot synopsis with author commentary. Appendices categorize films by rating, release date, director and cinematographer and also provide a noir and non-noir breakdown of the 47 films presented on the Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre, a 1960s British television series that was also shown in the United States.
