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Book Synopsis Passport to Hollywood by : James Morrison
Download or read book Passport to Hollywood written by James Morrison and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines popular films made in Hollywood by European directors, offering a fresh take on the much-debated issue of the "great divide" between modernism and mass culture.
Book Synopsis Brian W. Fairbanks - Writings by : Brian W. Fairbanks
Download or read book Brian W. Fairbanks - Writings written by Brian W. Fairbanks and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the words of one reader, Brian W. Fairbanks has a real talent for extracting the essence of a given subject and articulating it in a meaningful way. In WRITINGS, the author collects some of his finest essays and criticism spanning the years 1991-2005 and covering four subjects: FILM LITERATURE MUSIC SOCIETY Whether offering an insightful analysis of film noir, examining Benjamin Franklin's impact on American society, taking a clear-eyed, non-partisan look at democrats, republicans, the 2004 presidential campaign, George W. Bush, and the war on terror, or lambasting the corruption of television news, Brian W. Fairbanks is ingenious with a sophisticated yet effortlessly readable style. Also available in two hardcover editions.
Download or read book Wolf Hunting written by Jane Lindskold and published by Obsidian Tiger Books. This book was released on 2018-05-05 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since she left the wolves who raised her to cross over the Iron Mountains, Firekeeper’s pack has expanded to include a diverse assortment of creatures – human and not. When the wolf-woman receives a desperate call for help from the jaguar, Truth, Firekeeper – Blind Seer, as ever, at her side – races to Truth’s aid. Over a year prior, Truth sacrificed her sanity in a valiant effort to keep Firekeeper alive. Now there may be a way for Truth to reunite her fragmented mind with her failing body – but the jaguar needs Firekeeper to open a door, that is not quite a door, if that is to happen. How to release Truth may be only the beginning of Firekeeper and Blind Seer’s problems, for there are hints that an ancient power may be released along with the jaguar – a power that uses living creatures as playing pieces, and who has more than a little interest in Firekeeper herself.
Download or read book Nether World written by John W. Twilley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seth Jones lives a life filled with blessings. He and his wife, Patty, live in a small house in Midwest City, Oklahoma. They have a little boy named Jimmy and a little dog named Macky. Seth loves his family and his work as a computer scientist. He has big dreams, and the future is golden. Patty loves her husband’s ambition to one day own his own computer company, and she works hard to help keep him focused. She is therefore concerned when “Crazy Charley” tries to make her husband his heir. What’s more, Patty knows that Charlie will stop at nothing to get Seth to say yes. Seth thinks he’s off the hook when Charley is killed in a fire, believing that Charley’s obsession will die with him. But Charley’s second in command isn’t about to let a little thing like death derail the company’s plan to bring the dead back to life, using ancient technology and a nuclear reactor. He won’t take no for an answer, because Seth is the key to unlock the power of resurrection. Seth’s resolve to refuse Charley’s legacy is shaken after Patty and Jimmy are killed in a car accident.Was it really an accident? Could this terrible power be used for good? How can Seth walk away from a chance to rescue his wife and child from the nether world?
Book Synopsis Hollywood in San Francisco by : Joshua Gleich
Download or read book Hollywood in San Francisco written by Joshua Gleich and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the country’s most picturesque cities and conveniently located just a few hours’ drive from Hollywood, San Francisco became the most frequently and extensively filmed American city beyond the production hubs of Los Angeles and New York in the three decades after World War II. During those years, the cinematic image of the city morphed from the dreamy beauty of Vertigo to the nightmarish wasteland of Dirty Harry, although San Francisco itself experienced no such decline. This intriguing disconnect gives impetus to Hollywood in San Francisco, the most comprehensive study to date of Hollywood’s move from studio to location production in the postwar era. In this thirty-year history of feature filmmaking in San Francisco, Joshua Gleich tracks a sea change in Hollywood production practices, as location shooting overtook studio-based filming as the dominant production method by the early 1970s. He shows how this transformation intersected with a precipitous decline in public perceptions of the American city, to which filmmakers responded by developing a stark, realist aesthetic that suited America’s growing urban pessimism and superseded a fidelity to local realities. Analyzing major films set in San Francisco, ranging from Dark Passage and Vertigo to The Conversation, The Towering Inferno, and Bullitt, as well as the TV show The Streets of San Francisco, Gleich demonstrates that the city is a physical environment used to stage urban fantasies that reveal far more about Hollywood filmmaking and American culture than they do about San Francisco.
Book Synopsis The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 by : William W. Demastes
Download or read book The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 written by William W. Demastes and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Best American Short Plays). For more than 70 years, The Best American Short Plays has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, it has identified cutting-edge playwrights Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and others who have gone on to establish award-winning careers. The Best American Short Plays 2013-2014 takes a look at our changing times. "Uncertain" seems to be the watchword of today's world, full of surprises, shocks, and even a few delights. Uncertainty brings with it fear and insecurity, as well as nostalgic longing for the good old days, but for some, uncertainty means opportunity and along with it the prospect of change for the better. This volume explores various experiences of uncertainty and includes a series of nine plays gathered by Daniel Gallant, entitled Nine Signs of the Times , as well as short plays by Neil LaBute, John Guare, Laura Shaine Cunningham, Daniel F. Levin, Quincy Long, Halley Feiffer, Caridad Svich, and Clay McLeod Chapman. This collection will be complemented by a range of plays from around the country by playwrights likewise observing and digesting the signs of the times. Together the plays of this volume work as a time capsule, capturing the fears and longings of a world on the verge and in the midst of big changes, hopefully for the better but quite possibly for the worse.
Book Synopsis Welcome to Elysian Fields by : Diana Wyn Jones
Download or read book Welcome to Elysian Fields written by Diana Wyn Jones and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her mission was to recover the Mysteries... the Secret Knowledge of All Time. In order to do this, Sara Springtree had to step out of this present realm of time itself... and into dimensions unexplored. Sidestepping time opened the door to the Theater of All Possibility... and a new history was told at the same hour that a new world was being born. An explosion of immense proportion was about to happen, and nothing could stop it. History will tell us that Truth stands as testimony unto itself... and we will all live to see the power behind that punch as these days unfold. For the story is out now... and everything is soon to change in this world we all live in... Pandora's Box is Open!
Download or read book Julie Christie written by Melanie Bell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julie Christie's prickly relationship with stardom is legendary. This fascinating text provides a comprehensive account of Christie's career, from her emergence in the 1960s to present day. It moves from analysing her star persona, to exploring her performance and her politics, and in doing so raises important questions for the film industry.
Download or read book Zodiac Lovers 4 written by Lance Taubold and published by Invoke Books. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zodiac Lovers Book 4 Scorpio Rain is able to be read tea leaves and can see everyone’s future but his own. He meets devastatingly handsome Southern gentleman, Creighton Marlin, and Rain knows what he wants: a future with this man. But when he reads Creighton’s tea leaves, he sees an ominous future for the men, but Creighton is determined to thwart the inevitable and will do everything possible to secure their happiness. Sagittarius Championship rodeo rider, Colton James, has always been lucky on a horse but unlucky in love, until he falls for hot-looking, real estate investor (and part-time astrologist), Ryland McAuliffe, at the National Rodeo Finals in Las Vegas. Colt is ready, at last, for the ride of his life. The future looks bright, except for the terrible accident that no one could have predicted. Capricorn Gardner Braxton, an award-winning photojournalist, is in Egypt doing research for his big book on The Seven Wonders of The World. The problem is: he doesn’t know how to get photos of the other six no-longer-existing Wonders. Deep inside The Great Pyramid of Khufu, he stumbles upon a lamp. Thinking he has nothing to lose, he rubs the lamp, like Aladdin did, and the most perfect-looking genie appears—Djinn, who offers him three wishes . . . or as Gardner soon finds out, maybe more. The attraction between the two is immediate as well. This could be the answer to his problem of getting his photos of the other Wonders. Can Djinn help him time-travel to the Ancient Wonders? And more importantly, can he have a future with a genie?
Book Synopsis Alien Cats: Return to Katonia by : Sallie Cochren
Download or read book Alien Cats: Return to Katonia written by Sallie Cochren and published by Sallie Cochren. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the evil-hearted DurPlunk catnaps Katonia's ruler, Sunset, two Maine Coons named Bootsie and Soxy must leave the life they have become accustomed to on Earth and return to their home planet. However, when they get back to Katonia, it seems like they will never be able to find their friend and leader. Once again, the other tribes must come to the aid of the Royals. Foxes, ferrets, and bird tribes join in the search. It won't be easy finding Sunset, though, not when it's rumored that he's being held prisoner near the dogs' tribe. No one wants to venture through their woods, still fearing that the dogs may be aggressive and attack. Yet, there may be no choice. As the cats say, "Time is tuna!" Every day that passes is another day that Sunset remains in danger. Can the good tribes of Katonia find him and rescue him before it's too late? Includes lyrics to the songs of Katonia! This is book 2 in the Alien Cats series. Book 1 - Alien Cats: No Place Like Home Book 2 - Alien Cats: Return to Katonia Book 3 - Alien Cats: DurPlunk's Battle for Planet Earth
Book Synopsis Magill's American Film Guide by : Frank Northen Magill
Download or read book Magill's American Film Guide written by Frank Northen Magill and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Girl Time written by Maisha T. Winn and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original account is based on the author’s experiences with incarcerated girls participating in Girl Time, a program created by a theatre company that conducts playwriting and performance workshops in youth detention centers. In addition to examining the lives of these and other formerly incarcerated girls, Girl Time shares the stories of educators who dare to teach children who have been “thrown away” by their schools and society. The girls, primarily African American teens, write their own plays, learn ensemble-building techniques, explore societal themes, and engage in self analysis as they prepare for a final performance. The book describes some of the girls and their experiences in the program, examines the implications of the school-to-prison pipeline, and offers ways for young girls to avoid incarceration. Readers will learn how the lived experiences of incarcerated girls can inform their teaching in public school classrooms and the teaching of literacy as a civil and human right. “Winn brings to mind theories of play and performance that rarely enter the professional preparation for teachers at the secondary level.” —Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University “In the brilliant hands of Maisha T. Winn, Girl Time harvests seeds and stories about girls living in juvenile settings. . . . Penned in the ink of love, awe, despair, and dignity, the volume swings between documentary and possibility.” —From the Afterword by Michelle Fine, Graduate Center, CUNY
Book Synopsis Magill's Survey of Cinema--English Language Films, First Series by : Frank Northen Magill
Download or read book Magill's Survey of Cinema--English Language Films, First Series written by Frank Northen Magill and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of over 500 movies--from The Jazz singer to Kramer vs. Kramer--giving an account of the story line along with an examination of the directing, acting, cinematography, editing, etc. in each.
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1968-05-31 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Download or read book Doing Time written by Lee Carruthers and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proposes that cinematic time is not a fixed idea, but a dynamic exchange between film and viewer. Doing Time addresses two areas of interest in recent film studyfilm temporality and film philosophyto propose an innovative theorization of cinematic time that sees it as a dynamic process of engagement, or something we do as viewers. This active relation to cinematic time, which discloses a films temporal character, is called its timeliness. Here it is traced across a range of fascinating case studies from Hollywood and the global art cinema, uncovering each films characteristic way of doing time. Throughout, the ambiguities of filmic time are held as powerful attractions as they modulate film viewing: such pauses, gaps, repetitions, and stretches of time illuminate a living field that extends from viewing activity. Drawing on the writings of French film critic and theorist André Bazin, as well as the phenomenology of Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Lee Carruthers forwards a claim about the value of cinematic time for thinking. She also raises the tasks of film analysis and interpretation to renewed visibility. By prioritizing the viewers experience of filmic temporality, and offering a rich vocabulary for describing this exchange, Carruthers articulates a new sphere of theoretical inquiry that invites film viewers (and readers) to participate. Lee Carruthers makes an original and powerful argument about the importance of timeliness, providing a much-needed alternative approach to that of Deleuze to thinking seriously about the temporality of cinema. Her chapters, including one on The Tree of Life, are masterful criticism. William Rothman, author of Must We Kill the Thing We Love? Emersonian Perfectionism and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Download or read book The Zero Option written by David Rollins and published by Pan Australia. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cold War is going badly for President Reagan's administration. Support in Europe for the Soviet Union is on the rise, while acceptance of the new US intermediate range nuclear missiles is waning. Enter Roy Garret, a bright young NSA analyst with a plan. It goes into effect on the morning of 1 September 1983 when Korean Air Lines commercial passenger flight 007 takes off from Anchorage, Alaska, heading for Seoul. The airliner rendezvous with a US spy plane over the Bearing Sea, overflies a top secret Soviet submarine base and is then shot down off Sakhalin Island... Or is it? No wreckage or bodies are recovered. And a radar tape that shows what really happened to KAL 007 has gone missing. On board the downed airliner were 269 souls, including one US Congressman with too many secrets. Thirty years later, the missing radar tape falls into the hands of the daughter of a KAL 007 passenger and the son of the US spy plane commander. Determined to keep the facts hidden after all these years is New Mexico Governor Roy Garret, who is now contesting the US presidency. What follows is a desperate chase across Russia to uncover the truth once and for all from beneath the snows of Siberia. Can two young idealists outwit the forces ranged against them, or will Uncle Sam and the Russian Bear sweep history under the carpet again?
Download or read book Rage and Glory written by David Sheward and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life and accomplishments of this powerful actor through a review of the roles he has played and awards he has received while delving into his personal life and the dramas he managed off-stage, including a sexual harrassment suit and an affair with Ava Gardner.
