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Screwball

Author : David Ferrell
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061881899
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Screwball written by David Ferrell and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could the curse of the Bambino be over? For too many miserable seasons, the Boston Red Sox have endured nothing but defeatand heartbreak. Finally, there is hope in the sensational Ron Kane, a strapping rookie pitcher whose fastball scorches the radar gun at an ungodly 110 miles per hour. He can also handle the bat. And play the outfield. With Kane dazzling sellout crowds, the Red Sox are suddenly a juggernaut. The only fly in the ointment is the fact that murder seems to be stalking the club. Wherever the Sox play, a killer strikes, marking his victims with strange ritualistic symbols. Is a fan responsible for the carnage as he follows the team from town to town? Or could it be that the madman wears a Red Sox uniform?Screwball is not just a savage morality tale; it is a hard-hitting, laugh-out-loud look at the greatest battle in modern-day sports: the struggle for sanity.

The Alchemist Cocktail Book

Author : The Alchemist
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473583500
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book The Alchemist Cocktail Book written by The Alchemist and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 spell-binding, crowd-pleasing cocktails. Work some magic at home with these original cocktail recipes from everyone's favourite experimental bar, The Alchemist. Elevate your mixology skills and bring some creativity to your bar cart with unique and show-stopping tipple time recipes, from their iconic Caramelised Rum Punch and Smokey Old Fashioned, to new takes on the cocktail classics. With chapters from Chemistry & Theatre, Twisted Classics and New Wave to Classics and Low & No Alcohol, The Alchemist Cocktail Book truly has something for everyone, from mixing novices to experienced bartenders. Bring some dramatic flair to your cocktail hour, with recipes including: Lavender Daiquiri Paloma Rhubarb and Custard Sour Bananagroni Maple Manhattan Cola Bottle Libre Grapefruit and Apricot Martini

SCREWBALL! The Cartoonists Who Made the Funnies Funny

Author : Paul C. Tumey
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1684051878
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book SCREWBALL! The Cartoonists Who Made the Funnies Funny written by Paul C. Tumey and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of screwball comics, with new research and rare art from some of the most hilarious cartoonists of all time. Before "screwball" became a movie genre, it was a staple of other forms of American culture, including newspaper comic strips. Emerging from the pressures of a rapidly accelerating technological and information-drenched society, screwball comics offered a healthy dose of laughter and perspective. The disruptive, manic, and surreal verbal-visual comedy of these "funnies" fostered an absurdist sensibility embraced by The Marx Brothers (who took their names from a popular comic strip), W. C. Fields, Tex Avery, Spike Jones, Ernie Kovacs, and Mad magazine. Comics scholar Paul C. Tumey traces the development of screwball as a genre in magazine cartoons and newspaper comics, presenting the work of around fifteen cartoonists, with an art-stuffed chapter on each. The book offers a wealth of previously un-reprinted comics unleashing fresh views of some of America's greatest and most-loved cartoonists, including George Herriman (Krazy Kat), E.C. Segar (creator of Popeye), Rube Goldberg (The Inventions of Professor Lucifer G. Butts, A.K.), Bill Holman (Smokey Stover), and Frederick Opper (Happy Hooligan). In addition, readers will be delighted to discover previously "lost" screwball masters, such as Gene Ahern (The Squirrel Cage), Gus Mager (Sherlocko the Monk), Boody Rogers (Sparky Watts), Milt Gross (Count Screwloose), George Swanson ($alesman $am) and others. Both humorous and educational, this book is aimed at a general audience of all ages and at university comics studies programs.

The Art of the Screwball Comedy

Author : Doris Milberg
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786467819
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Art of the Screwball Comedy written by Doris Milberg and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part One of this entertaining exploration of screwball comedies and their later offspring begins in the mid-1930s discussing the careers of popular stars such as Cary Grant and Carole Lombard and well-known supporting players like Walter Connally and Ralph Bellamy (also Asta the dog, top animal star of the 1930s!). Writers and directors are given their due: Frank Capra, Howard Hawks and Preston Sturges, just to name a few. Part Two, the meat of the book, takes an in depth look at the films, from the genre's inception (1934's It Happened One Night) to the recent 2003 Down with Love, and the stars that appear in them--Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Julia Roberts, Richard Gere--ending with some thoughts about the future.

Screwball

Author : Larry Swindell
Publisher : Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screwball written by Larry Swindell and published by Echo Point Books & Media, LLC. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uninhibited, vivacious, and a startling talent, Carole Lombard was the darling of her day. Her wit and charm made her the social as well as artistic hub around which Hollywood revolved during the '30's. She was years before her time in her sophistication, and her independence established her as an oracle of the New Woman. She was an enchanting beauty and a great artist—the supreme comedienne during the high point of American film comedy. Larry Swindell vividly recreates her career and extraordinary personal life. Her fabled love affair and marriage with Clark Gable are here put into proper focus for the first time. Told by a master chronicler o f the movies, this is a vibrant biography of the hometown girl who became one of greatest stars of Hollywood's golden age.

Hollywood Screwball Comedy 1934-1945

Author : Grégoire Halbout
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501347624
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Screwball Comedy 1934-1945 written by Grégoire Halbout and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Love at first sight, whirlwind marriages, break-ups, divorces, remarriage... What accounts for the enduring success of the Hollywood madcap comedies of the 1930s? Directed by masters of comedy (Hawks, LaCava, Leisen, Ruggles...) and featuring the decade's most iconic stars (Colbert, Dunne, Grant, Hepburn...), these films set romantic comedy standards for decades to come. Screwball comedy embarked on two challenging missions: to poke fun at established social norms and to undermine stereotypical depictions of gender roles, putting forward a discourse that postulated the possibility of equality between men and women. Grégoire Halbout's reexamination of screwball comedy provides a comprehensive overview of this (sub)genre, eschewing the auteurist approach and including “minor” works never before analyzed through the screwball lens. His book explains how these screwball stories met the expectations of a booming American middle class eager for the liberalization of morals, with daring plots, verbal humor and slapstick techniques. Building on the work of Cavell, Altman and Gehring, as well as international and French scholarship, Halbout's investigation unfolds in three parts. He first establishes a definition of Hollywood screwball comedy through a cross-sectional analysis of its socio-historical context and an in-depth examination of the genre. He then situates screwball comedy in relation to its institutional context. An exclusive study of archival material explains the emergence of a screwball aesthetic meant to subvert the prohibitions of the 1934 Hollywood Production Code through a verbal and visual rhetoric of diversion and mitigation. Finally, Halbout explores the social function of the genre's placement of romantic intimacy at the center of the public sphere and the democratic debate, confirming that screwball eccentricity upholds America's founding values: freedom of speech, free consent, and contractual engagement.

Screwball Comedy and Film Noir

Author : Thomas C. Renzi
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786488603
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Screwball Comedy and Film Noir written by Thomas C. Renzi and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-01-27 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive comparative analysis of the screwball comedy and film noir genres--two popular Hollywood staples that emerged around the same time. Despite their contrast in tone and theme, "Screwball" and "Noir" have many narrative elements in common. The author defines the two genres, discusses their historical development and inter-related conventions, and offers detailed comparative analyses of a number of films, among them The Lady Eve and His Girl Friday (screwballs), and Gilda and Sunset Blvd. (noirs).

Screwball

Author : Ed Sikov
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Screwball written by Ed Sikov and published by Crown. This book was released on 1989 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Screwball is the first richly illustrated tribute to the movies that tells one mad, illogical truth: Mutual loathing is no reason to give up on love. More than 240 pictures in striking duotone celebrate these exhilarating comedies.

Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women

Author : Lori Landay
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812216516
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women written by Lori Landay and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1998-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women have been tricking men for thousands of years, and female tricksters have been appearing in classic and popular texts at least since the Thousand and One Nights. While there are many studies of tricksters, few have focused on the chicanery of women, and none have dealt with the ways in which the female trickster is constructed in America. Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women is the first book to explore the cultural work performed by female tricksters in the "new country" of American mass consumer culture. Beginning with such nineteenth-century novels as Capitola the Madcap and moving through twentieth-century novels, films, radio, and television shows, Lori Landay looks at how popular heroines use craft and deceit to circumvent the limitations of femininity. She considers texts of the 1920s such as Elinor Glyn's It and Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; films of Mae West, as well as other Depression-era and wartime film comedy; the postwar television series I Love Lucy; and such contemporary texts as "Roseanne," "Ellen," and "Batman." In addition, Landay explores the connections between these texts and advertisements selling products that encourage female deception and trickery.

Romantic Vs. Screwball Comedy

Author : Wes D. Gehring
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810844249
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Romantic Vs. Screwball Comedy written by Wes D. Gehring and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is an informative resource for film students and scholars and a thoroughly engaging read for film buffs."--BOOK JACKET.

Hollywood Bedlam

Author : William K. Everson
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806515342
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Bedlam written by William K. Everson and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Screw Ball

Author : Samantha Lind
Publisher : Samantha Lind
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Screw Ball written by Samantha Lind and published by Samantha Lind. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucas My dreams of making it to the big league had finally come true, But one wild night in a strip club which was clearly a mistake Landed me squarely on the team’s bad boy list. The PR manager is supposed to smooth it all over, Too bad all I wanted was to get in trouble with her. I wasn’t really the playboy they thought I was, I just needed to find the right woman to set me straight. Now I just have to prove I’m not what she thought. Carmen I have the career I’ve always dreamed of, Even if I have to deal with players who can’t seem to keep out of the news. What’s more infuriating is the one player I want to hate the most I can’t stop thinking about. The one whose voice makes me want to drop my panties at his feet. I know all about his playboy ways, But I also know the press can spin things to fit their narrative. Is he really as innocent as he claims to be? Or will he throw a screw ball I never saw coming?

Screwball Television

Author : David Scott Diffrient
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815650698
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Screwball Television written by David Scott Diffrient and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together seventeen original essays by scholars from around the world, Screwball Television offers a variety of international perspectives on Gilmore Girls. Adored by fans and celebrated by critics for its sophisticated wordplay and compelling portrayal of a mother-daughter relationship, this contemporary American TV program finally gets its due as a cultural production unlike any other, one that is beholden to Hollywood’s screwball comedies of the 1930s, steeped in intertextual references, and framed as a "kinder, gentler kind of cult television series" in this tightly focused yet wide-ranging collection. This volume makes a significant contribution to television studies, genre studies, and women’s studies. Screwball Television seeks to bring Gilmore Girls more fully into academic discourse not only as a topic worthy of critical scrutiny but also as an infinitely rewarding text capable of stimulating the imagination of students beyond the classroom.

Romantic Comedy

Author : Tamar Jeffers McDonald
Publisher : Wallflower Press
ISBN 13 : 9781905674022
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Romantic Comedy written by Tamar Jeffers McDonald and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Romantic Comedy' offers an introduction to the analysis of one of the most popular but generally overlooked film genres. The book provides an overview of Hollywood's romantic comedy conventions, examining the iconography, narrative patterns and ideology which inform such films.

The Guide to United States Popular Culture

Author : Ray Broadus Browne
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879728212
Total Pages : 1030 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book The Guide to United States Popular Culture written by Ray Broadus Browne and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To understand the history and spirit of America, one must know its wars, its laws, and its presidents. To really understand it, however, one must also know its cheeseburgers, its love songs, and its lawn ornaments. The long-awaited Guide to the United States Popular Culture provides a single-volume guide to the landscape of everyday life in the United States. Scholars, students, and researchers will find in it a valuable tool with which to fill in the gaps left by traditional history. All American readers will find in it, one entry at a time, the story of their lives."--Robert Thompson, President, Popular Culture Association. "At long last popular culture may indeed be given its due within the humanities with the publication of The Guide to United States Popular Culture. With its nearly 1600 entries, it promises to be the most comprehensive single-volume source of information about popular culture. The range of subjects and diversity of opinions represented will make this an almost indispensable resource for humanities and popular culture scholars and enthusiasts alike."--Timothy E. Scheurer, President, American Culture Association "The popular culture of the United States is as free-wheeling and complex as the society it animates. To understand it, one needs assistance. Now that explanatory road map is provided in this Guide which charts the movements and people involved and provides a light at the end of the rainbow of dreams and expectations."--Marshall W. Fishwick, Past President, Popular Culture Association Features of The Guide to United States Popular Culture: 1,010 pages 1,600 entries 500 contributors Alphabetic entries Entries range from general topics (golf, film) to specific individuals, items, and events Articles are supplemented by bibliographies and cross references Comprehensive index

Screwball Comedy

Author : Wes D. Gehring
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screwball Comedy written by Wes D. Gehring and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers

Author : Bill James
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439103771
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers written by Bill James and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-16 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preeminent baseball analyst Bill James and ESPN.com baseball columnist Rob Neyer compile information on pitches and their origins, nearly two thousand pitchers, and more in this comprehensive guide. Pitchers, the pitches they throw, and how they throw them—they’re the stuff of constant scrutiny, but there's never been anything like a comprehensive source for such information…until now. Bill James and Rob Neyer spent over a decade compiling the centerpiece of this book, the Pitcher Census, which lists specific information for nearly two thousand pitchers, ranging throughout the history of professional baseball. Their guide also includes a dictionary describing virtually every known pitch, biographies of great pitchers who have been overlooked, and top ten lists for fastballs, spitballs, and everything in between. James and Neyer also weigh in on the debate over pitcher abuse and durability, offer a formula for predicting the Cy Young Award winner, and reveal James’s Pitcher Codes. Learn about the origins and development of baseball’s most important pitches and more knuckleballers and submariners than you ever thought existed! Baseball’s action always starts with the pitchers. Begin to understand them and join in on entertaining debates while having a great deal of fun with the history of the game that captivates so many with this one-of-a-kind guide.