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My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs

Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0525654968
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nobel Lecture in Literature, delivered by Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans) at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 7, 2017, in an elegant, clothbound edition. In their announcement of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy recognized the emotional force of Kazuo Ishiguro’s fiction and his mastery at uncovering our illusory sense of connection with the world. In the eloquent and candid lecture he delivered upon accepting the award, Ishiguro reflects on the way he was shaped by his upbringing, and on the turning points in his career—“small scruffy moments . . . quiet, private sparks of revelation”—that made him the writer he is today. With the same generous humanity that has graced his novels, Ishiguro here looks beyond himself, to the world that new generations of writers are taking on, and what it will mean—what it will demand of us—to make certain that literature remains not just alive, but essential. An enduring work on writing and becoming a writer, by one of the most accomplished novelists of our generation.

My Twentieth Century

Author : David Kirby
Publisher : Orchises Press
ISBN 13 : 9780914061762
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book My Twentieth Century written by David Kirby and published by Orchises Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Entertainer

Author : Margaret Talbot
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594631883
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (946 download)

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Download or read book The Entertainer written by Margaret Talbot and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the life and career of her father, writer Margaret Talbot tells the story of the rise of popular culture through a personal lens. The arc of Lyle Talbot's career is in fact the story of American entertainment. Born in 1902, Lyle left small-town Nebraska in 1918 to join a traveling carnival. From there he became a magician's assistant, an actor in a traveling theater troupe, a romantic lead in early talkies, then an actor in major Warner Bros. pictures, then an actor in cult B movies, and finally a part of the advent of television, with regular roles on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and Leave It to Beaver. In her impeccably researched narrative--a combination of Hollywood history, social history, and family memoir--Margaret Talbot conjures warmth and nostalgia for those earlier eras of '10s and '20s small-town America, '30s and '40s Hollywood.--From publisher description.

Carole Lombard

Author : Michelle Morgan
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750969393
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Carole Lombard written by Michelle Morgan and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carole Lombard was the very opposite of the typical 1930s starlet. A no-nonsense woman, she worked hard, took no prisoners and had a great passion for life. As a result, she became Hollywood's highest-paid star. From the outside, Carole's life was one of great glamour and fun, yet privately she endured much heartache. As a child, her mother moved Carole and her brothers across the country away from their beloved father. Carole then began a film career, only to have it cut short after a devastating car accident. Picking herself back up, she was rocked by the accidental shooting of her lover; a failed marriage to actor William Powell; and the sorrow of infertility during her marriage to Hollywood's King, Clark Gable. Lombard marched forward, promising to be positive. Sadly her life was cut short in a plane crash so catastrophic that pieces of the aircraft are still buried in the mountain today. In Carole Lombard, bestselling author Michelle Morgan accesses previously unseen documents to tell the story of a woman whose remarkable life and controversial death continues to enthral.

My Twentieth Century

Author : Hazel Andrews Reed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Twentieth Century written by Hazel Andrews Reed and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Enon Valley in Pennsylvania to Singapore and beyond, Hazel Andrews Reed traveled the world at a time when women normally stayed home -- protected and supported by family. Born on October 28, 1903 the author will inspire young and old alike to "keep moving".

The Rest Is Noise

Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429932880
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Rest Is Noise written by Alex Ross and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

The Twentieth Century

Author : Albert Robida
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819566805
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Twentieth Century written by Albert Robida and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-17 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humorous, illustrated novel by the “father of science fiction illustration”.

Twentieth-century Girl

Author : Carol Drinkwater
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780439999410
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-century Girl written by Carol Drinkwater and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 22 DEcember 1899 Time is marching forward, carrying us over the threshold and pitching us willy nilly, into a new century. The prospect of growing up in that unexplored territory is so thrilling that I fancy, if I close my eyes tight, I can almost see the process taking place! A day slips away like sand in a sand glass and then another day dawns and so we are caught up in this inevitable passage towards 1900. I bought a journal and have begun to transfer all my scribblings of the last few days into it. I shall call it 'Twentieth Century Girl', for that is what I intend to be!

My Century

Author : Günter Grass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571203123
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book My Century written by Günter Grass and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Gunter Grass writes of great events and seemingly trivial ones, of technical developments and scientific discoveries, of achievements in culture, sport, of megolamania, persecution and murder, war and disasters and of new beginnnings.

My Century

Author : Aleksander Wat
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590175425
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book My Century written by Aleksander Wat and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In My Century the great Polish poet Aleksander Wat provides a spellbinding account of life in Eastern Europe in the midst of the terrible twentieth century. Based on interviews with Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, My Century describes the artistic, sexual, and political experimentation—in which Wat was a major participant—that followed the end of World War I: an explosion of talent and ideas which, he argues, in some ways helped to open the door to the destruction that the Nazis and Bolsheviks soon visited upon the world. But Wat’s book is at heart a story of spiritual struggle and conversion. He tells of his separation during World War II from his wife and young son, of his confinement in the Soviet prison system, of the night when the sound of far-off laughter brought on a vision of “the devil in history.” “It was then,” Wat writes, “that I began to be a believer.”

The Films of 20th Century-Fox

Author : Tony Thomas
Publisher : Secaucus, N.J. : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Films of 20th Century-Fox written by Tony Thomas and published by Secaucus, N.J. : Citadel Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Voyage Through the Twentieth Century

Author : Klemens Von Klemperer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845455842
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Voyage Through the Twentieth Century written by Klemens Von Klemperer and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The account of the author's life, spent between Europe and America, is at the same time an account of his generation, one that came of age between the two World Wars. Recalling not only circumstances of his own situation but that of his friends, the author shows how this generation faced a reality that seemed fragmented, and in their shared thirst for knowledge and commitment to ideas they searched for cohesiveness among the glittering, holistic ideologies and movements of the twenties and thirties. The author's scholarly work on the German Resistance to Hitler revealed to him those who maintained dignity and courage in times of peril and despair, which became for him a life's pursuit. This work is unique in its thorough inclusion of the postwar decades and its perspective from a historian eager to rescue the "other" Germany--the Germany of the righteous rather than the Holocaust murderers.

The Sounds of Early Cinema

Author : Richard Abel
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253108708
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book The Sounds of Early Cinema written by Richard Abel and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001-10-03 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sounds of Early Cinema is devoted exclusively to a little-known, yet absolutely crucial phenomenon: the ubiquitous presence of sound in early cinema. "Silent cinema" may rarely have been silent, but the sheer diversity of sound(s) and sound/image relations characterizing the first 20 years of moving picture exhibition can still astonish us. Whether instrumental, vocal, or mechanical, sound ranged from the improvised to the pre-arranged (as in scripts, scores, and cue sheets). The practice of mixing sounds with images differed widely, depending on the venue (the nickelodeon in Chicago versus the summer Chautauqua in rural Iowa, the music hall in London or Paris versus the newest palace cinema in New York City) as well as on the historical moment (a single venue might change radically, and many times, from 1906 to 1910). Contributors include Richard Abel, Rick Altman, Edouard Arnoldy, Mats BjÃ¶rkin, Stephen Bottomore, Marta Braun, Jean ChÃ¢teauvert, Ian Christie, Richard Crangle, Helen Day-Mayer, John Fullerton, Jane Gaines, AndrÃ© Gaudreault, Tom Gunning, FranÃ§ois Jost, Charlie Keil, Jeff Klenotic, Germain Lacasse, Neil Lerner, Patrick Loughney, David Mayer, Domi-nique Nasta, Bernard Perron, Jacques Polet, Lauren Rabinovitz, Isabelle Raynauld, Herbert Reynolds, Gregory A. Waller, and Rashit M. Yangirov.

History of the Twentieth Century

Author : Martin Gilbert
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795337329
Total Pages : 723 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book History of the Twentieth Century written by Martin Gilbert and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronological compilation of twentieth-century world events in one volume—from the acclaimed historian and biographer of Winston S. Churchill. The twentieth century has been one of the most unique in human history. It has seen the rise of some of humanity’s most important advances to date, as well as many of its most violent and terrifying wars. This is a condensed version of renowned historian Martin Gilbert’s masterful examination of the century’s history, offering the highlights of a three-volume work that covers more than three thousand pages. From the invention of aviation to the rise of the Internet, and from events and cataclysmic changes in Europe to those in Asia, Africa, and North America, Martin examines art, literature, war, religion, life and death, and celebration and renewal across the globe, and throughout this turbulent and astonishing century.

Twentieth-Century Boy

Author : Duncan Hannah
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1524711225
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-Century Boy written by Duncan Hannah and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rollicking account of a celebrated artist’s coming of age, full of outrageously bad behavior, naked ambition, fantastically good music, and evaporating barriers of taste and decorum, and featuring cameos from David Bowie, Andy Warhol, Patti Smith, and many more. “A phantasmagoria of alcohol, sex, art, conversation, glam rock, and New Wave cinema. Hannah’s writing combines self-aware humor with an intoxicating punk energy.” —The New Yorker Painter Duncan Hannah arrived in New York City from Minneapolis in the early 1970s as an art student hungry for experience, game for almost anything, and with a prodigious taste for drugs, girls, alcohol, movies, rock and roll, books, parties, and everything else the city had to offer. Taken directly from the notebooks Hannah kept throughout the decade, Twentieth-Century Boy is a fascinating, sometimes lurid, and incredibly entertaining report from a now almost mythical time and place.

Twentieth-Century Europe

Author :
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118651383
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-Century Europe written by and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth-Century Europe: A Brief History presents readers with a concise and accessible survey of the most significant themes and political events that shaped European history in the 20th and 21st centuries. Features updates that include a new chapter that reviews major political and economic trends since 1989 and an extensively revised chapter that emphasizes the intellectual and cultural history of Europe since World War II Organized into brief chapters that are suitable for traditional courses or for classes in non-traditional courses that allow for additional material selected by the professor Includes the addition of a variety of supplemental materials such as chronological timelines, maps, and illustrations

The Promise of Cinema

Author : Anton Kaes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520962435
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Promise of Cinema written by Anton Kaes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich in implications for our present era of media change, The Promise of Cinema offers a compelling new vision of film theory. The volume conceives of “theory” not as a fixed body of canonical texts, but as a dynamic set of reflections on the very idea of cinema and the possibilities once associated with it. Unearthing more than 275 early-twentieth-century German texts, this ground-breaking documentation leads readers into a world that was striving to assimilate modernity’s most powerful new medium. We encounter lesser-known essays by Béla Balázs, Walter Benjamin, and Siegfried Kracauer alongside interventions from the realms of aesthetics, education, industry, politics, science, and technology. The book also features programmatic writings from the Weimar avant-garde and from directors such as Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau. Nearly all documents appear in English for the first time; each is meticulously introduced and annotated. The most comprehensive collection of German writings on film published to date, The Promise of Cinema is an essential resource for students and scholars of film and media, critical theory, and European culture and history.