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Author : Leonard Maltin
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Our Gang written by Leonard Maltin and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1977 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julia Lee
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452949786
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Our Gang written by Julia Lee and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the age of Jim Crow, riddled with racial violence and unrest. But in the world of Our Gang, black and white children happily played and made mischief together. They even had their own black and white version of the KKK, the Cluck Cluck Klams—and the public loved it. The story of race and Our Gang, or The Little Rascals, is rife with the contradictions and aspirations of the sharply conflicted, changing American society that was its theater. Exposing these connections for the first time, Julia Lee shows us how much this series, from the first silent shorts in 1922 to its television revival in the 1950s, reveals about black and white American culture—on either side of the silver screen. Behind the scenes, we find unconventional men like Hal Roach and his gag writers, whose Rascals tapped into powerful American myths about race and childhood. We meet the four black stars of the series—Ernie “Sunshine Sammy” Morrison, Allen “Farina” Hoskins, Matthew “Stymie” Beard, and Billie “Buckwheat” Thomas—the gang within the Gang, whose personal histories Lee pursues through the passing years and shifting political landscape. In their checkered lives, and in the tumultuous life of the series, we discover an unexplored story of America, the messy, multiracial nation that found in Our Gang a comic avatar, a slapstick version of democracy itself.
Author : Jenna Weissman Joselit
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253203144
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Our Gang written by Jenna Weissman Joselit and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1983-11-22 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Gang provides a fascinating historical portrait of the Jewish criminal world from the era of mass immigration through Prohibition and beyond. Jenna Weissman Joselit traces the origins, nature, patterns, location, and impact of Jewish crime from the early years, when it was inextricably bound up with the East Side community as a whole, with criminals living among the more or less law-abiding citizens they preyed upon, to the post-World War I period and the gradual assimilation and absorption of Jewish crime into the mainstream of the American underworld. Parallel with this theme is a broader one: the New York Jewish community's reaction to Jewish crime, evolving from disbelief to denial to concern and the establishment of a network of correctional and preventive agencies, and finally—as the nature of Jewish crime changed, and as the community itself felt a growing sense of security—a sort of acceptance.
Author : Rebecca Gulick
Publisher : Crescent
ISBN 13 : 9780517086612
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (866 download)
Download or read book Those Little Rascals written by Rebecca Gulick and published by Crescent. This book was released on 1993 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles more than seventy years of the "Our Gang" series using revealing photographs to commemorate such cultural mainstays as Spanky, Alfalfa, Darla, Buckwheat, Porky, Butch, Farina, and Petey the Dog.
Author : Tommy Bond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780963097651
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Darn Right Its Butch written by Tommy Bond and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the autobiography of one of the original members of the much loved "Our Gang" comedy films featuring the Little Rascals: Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa & of course, Butch. Bond played with many of the great stars of the golden age of Hollywood including Eddie Cantor & Laurel & Hardy. Mr. Bond was also the first Jimmy Olsen in the early Superman films. His story is a delightful look at life as a child star with the many luminaries of the time of glitter & imagination that still delight audiences & "Our Gang" fan clubs around the country. DARN RIGHT IT'S BUTCH is the only autobiography of a member of "Our Gang."
Author : Leonard Maltin
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
ISBN 13 : 9780517583258
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (832 download)
Download or read book The Little Rascals written by Leonard Maltin and published by Three Rivers Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When originally published in 1977 as Our Gang, this book sold over 52,000 copies. This new edition, with an extensive amount of fresh material, will prove irresistible to all fans of the most popular film series of all time. Includes updated biographical entries on the cast and crew and complete entries on every single film, with story synopses, production credits, cast lists, critiques, and more. 397 photographs.
Author : Ed Roth
Publisher : Last Gasp
ISBN 13 : 0867195452
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Rat Fink written by Ed Roth and published by Last Gasp. This book was released on 2003 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Los Angeles and raised in the epicentre of the California hot rod explosion, Ed Roth created automotive forms purely from his own imagination. He transformed car design, reinvented American hot rod culture and put Detroit on notice. Each of his creations transcended function and form to turn the American automobile into rolling sculpture.
Author : Alan Longmuir
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1912387212
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (123 download)
Download or read book I Ran With The Gang written by Alan Longmuir and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bay City Rollers were one of the brightest things to happen in the tumultuous 1970s, illuminating a dark decade marred by falling stock markets, a plummeting economy and industrial unrest. Alan Longmuir, an apprentice plumber from Edinburgh, was inspired by the Beatles to form a band. After enlisting his brother and throwing a dart at a map, they became the Bay City Rollers. In I Ran with the Gang , Alan recounts his incredible journey from the Dalry backstreets to the Hollywood hills and back again. Along the way, he punctures some of the myths and untruths that have swirled around the group, and unflinchingly tells of the acrimony and exploitation that led to the disintegration of the band. Most of all, though, Alan captures the great adventure of five young boys from Edinburgh who for a few heady years threatened to turn the whole world tartan.
Author : Walt Kelly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Walt Kelly's Our Gang: 1942-1943 written by Walt Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of the classic 1940's comics based on Our Gang and Li'l Rascals shorts by MGM which themselves originated in the 1930's. These comics were written by Walt Kelly after his work for Disney and before he created his legendary Pogo comic strip. Kelly had the original characters from the films grow up and move away in his comics. He introduced his own characters such as Red the tough leader. Younger brothers and sisters grew into prominent characters such as Button-Nose and Two-by-Two.
Author : Tibor Fischer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684830795
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Download or read book The Thought Gang written by Tibor Fischer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-05-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A washed-up, middle-aged British philosopher teams up with an incompetent, one-armed bank robber to plan the ultimate bank job.
Author : Luis J. Rodriguez
Publisher : Children's Book Press
ISBN 13 : 9780892392032
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)
Download or read book It Doesn't Have to be this Way written by Luis J. Rodriguez and published by Children's Book Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reluctantly a young boy becomes more and more involved in the activities of a local gang, until a tragic event involving his cousin forces him to make a choice about the course of his life.
Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307368653
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book True History of the Kelly Gang written by Peter Carey and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-10-22 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOONTO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The international bestseller, Booker Prize winner, and winner of the 2001 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book. Out of 19th century Australia rides a hero of his people and a man for all nations: Ned Kelly, the son of poor Irish immigrants, viewed by the authorities as a thief (especially of horses) and, as a cold-blooded killer. To the people, though, he was a patriot hounded unfairly by rich English landlords and their stooges. In the end, Kelly and his so-called gang (his younger brother and two friends) led a massive police manhunt on a wild goose chase that lasted twenty months, in which Ned’s talents as a bushman were augmented by bank robberies and the support of nearly everyone not in a uniform. His one demand – for which he would have surrendered himself was his jailed mother’s freedom. Executed by hanging more than a century ago, speaking as if from the grave, Kelly still resonates as the most potent legend in the land down under.
Author : Jimmy Breslin
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453245340
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight written by Jimmy Breslin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestseller: A novel of a messy mob war in Brooklyn that “makes you laugh out loud” (Chicago Sun-Times). Kid Sally Palumbo has been a loyal servant to the Brooklyn Mafia for years. His specialty is murder, and he is so skilled at it that he has gotten the attention of Mafia boss Papa Baccala. But unfortunately for Kid Sally, murder pays poorly. He wants to make real dough, to get respect, and to be able to tell his colleagues where to sit when they eat dinner. In short, he wants to be boss. The job would be his for the taking—if only Kid Sally weren’t a Grade A moron. To keep Sally from stirring up trouble, Baccala tosses him an easy assignment: Organize a bicycle race through Brooklyn, and keep the profits. Kid Sally bungles it, setting off a turf war that quickly engulfs the borough. The dimwitted mobsters are masters in the art of murder, and they are about to put on a show. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Jimmy Breslin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
Author : Jon Wolseth
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816501246
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Jesus and the Gang written by Jon Wolseth and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In urban Honduras, gun violence and assault form the pulsing backdrop of everyday life. This book examines the ways that young men and women in working-class neighborhoods of El Progreso, Honduras, understand and respond to gang and gun violence in their communities. Because residents rely on gangs and Catholic and Evangelical Protestant churches to mediate violence in their neighborhoods, these institutions form the fabric of society. While only a small fraction of youths in a neighborhood are active members of a gang, most young men must learn the styles, ways of communicating, and local geography of gangs in order to survive. Due to the absence of gang prevention programs sponsored by the government or outside non-governmental organizations, Catholic and Pentecostal churches have developed their own ways to confront gang violence in their communities. Youths who participate in church organizations do so not only to alter and improve their communities but also to gain emotional and institutional support. Offering firsthand accounts of these youths and how they make use of religious discourse, narrative practices, or the inscription of tattooed images and words on the body to navigate dangerous social settings, Jesus and the Gang is an unflinching look at how these young men turn away from perpetuating the cycle of violence and how Christianity serves a society where belonging is surviving. This book will appeal to readers with an interest in Latin American studies, urban anthropology, and youth studies. With its focus on the lives of young men and women, it’s also a compelling read for anyone interested in the plight of urban youth trying to escape the gang life.
Author : Jack Canfield
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1401936202
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Golden Motorcycle Gang written by Jack Canfield and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever asked yourself why you are on planet Earth? And what the ultimate purpose for your life might be? Well, Jack Canfield asked himself this very question and came up with a surprising answer —part of which included a vision revealing that he is part of a "Golden Motorcycle Gang" —a gang whose intent is to have fun, but also to make significant contributions to the well-being of humanity. During a joyful dinner many years ago in Santa Barbara, California, Jack told his friend William Gladstone about the Gang. Upon hearing this account, William had an epiphany that Jack's story held a powerful underlying truth not only explaining Jack's true purpose, but William's as well. For more than ten years, William encouraged Jack to write a book based on the story of the Gang, so they have now collaborated on this work to show you its relevance to this critical moment in the history of human civilization . . . and also to you, personally. As you read, you will be introduced to some of the extraordinary members of the Golden Motorcycle Gang, including visionary thinkers such as Barbara Marx Hubbard, the originator of the concept of Conscious Evolution. The mystery and adventure inherent in this book reveals that there is now the opportunity for all of us on planet Earth to make a quantum leap in real time toward choosing the actual course of our evolution. Along the way, we are meant to experience the joy that comes from recognizing who we really are. Perhaps, as you embark on Jack's journey along with him . . . you will find that you are also a member of the Golden Motorcycle Gang! So get ready for the adventure of your life!
Author : Vanessa R. Panfil
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479857106
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book The Gang's All Queer written by Vanessa R. Panfil and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honorable Mention, 2018 Distinguished Book Award presented by the American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Sexualities Section The first inside look at gay gang members. Many people believe that gangs are made up of violent thugs who are in and out of jail, and who are hyper-masculine and heterosexual. In The Gang’s All Queer, Vanessa Panfil introduces us to a different world. Meet gay gang members – sometimes referred to in popular culture as “homo thugs” – whose gay identity complicates criminology’s portrayal and representation of gangs, gang members, and gang life. In vivid detail, Panfil provides an in-depth understanding of how gay gang members construct and negotiate both masculine and gay identities through crime and gang membership. The Gang’s All Queer draws from interviews with over 50 gay gang- and crime-involved young men in Columbus, Ohio, the majority of whom are men of color in their late teens and early twenties, as well as on-the-ground ethnographic fieldwork with men who are in gay, hybrid, and straight gangs. Panfil provides an eye-opening portrait of how even members of straight gangs are connected to a same-sex oriented underground world. Most of these young men still present a traditionally masculine persona and voice deeply-held affection for their fellow gang members. They also fight with their enemies, many of whom are in rival gay gangs. Most come from impoverished, ‘rough’ neighborhoods, and seek to defy negative stereotypes of gay and Black men as deadbeats, though sometimes through illegal activity. Some are still closeted to their fellow gang members and families, yet others fight to defend members of the gay community, even those who they deem to be “fags,” despite distaste for these flamboyant members of the community. And some perform in drag shows or sell sex to survive. The Gang’s All Queer poignantly illustrates how these men both respond to and resist societal marginalization. Timely, powerful, and engaging, this book will challenge us to think differently about gangs, gay men, and urban life.
Author : Wool and the Gang
Publisher : David & Charles
ISBN 13 : 1446378756
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (463 download)
Download or read book Raffia Crochet written by Wool and the Gang and published by David & Charles. This book was released on 2019-04-19 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The DIY fashion brand presents ten fun and easy crochet projects featuring Ra-Ra Raffia—the endlessly versatile plant-based yarn. Raffia yarn is made of one-hundred percent long wood fiber, making it not only vegan and biodegradable, but also water-repellent and quick-drying. This light and eco-friendly yarn adds structure to your projects, making it perfect for crocheting hats, bags and other accessories. Here you’ll find ten crochet projects that show off the ease, versatility and style of Wool and the Gang's line of Ra-Ra Raffia yarns. Ranging from beginner to intermediate skill levels, the projects include bags, hats and baskets, which are then further embellished with raffia yarn embroidery. General techniques are covered at the end of the book, with step-by-step instructions accompanied by clear illustrations.
