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Spellbound by Beauty

Author : Donald Spoto
Publisher : Crown Archetype
ISBN 13 : 0307449971
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Spellbound by Beauty written by Donald Spoto and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The trouble today is that we don’t torture women enough.” —Alfred Hitchcock It is remarkable how infrequently, over a period of more than fifty years, Alfred Hitchcock spoke about the beautiful, legendary and talented actresses he directed. And when he did, his remarks were mostly indifferent and often hostile. But his leading ladies greatly enriched his films, even as many of them achieved international stardom precisely because of their work for Hitchcock—among the dozens of women were Madeleine Carroll, Joan Fontaine, Grace Kelly and Tippi Hedren. Yet he maintained a stony, insistent silence about the quality of their performances and their contributions to his art. Spellbound by Beauty—the final volume in master biographer Donald Spoto’s Hitchcock trilogy that began with The Art of Alfred Hitchcock and continued with The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock—is the fascinating, complex and finally tragic story of the great moviemaker and his female stars, the unusual ideas of sex and romance that inform his films and the Hollywood dreams that often became nightmares. Rich with fresh revelations based on previously undisclosed tapes, new interviews, private correspondence and personal papers made available only to the author, this thoughtful, compassionate yet explosive portrait details Hitchcock’s outbursts of cruelty, the shocking humor and the odd amalgam of adoration and contempt that time and again characterized Hitchcock’s obsessive relationships with women—and that also, paradoxically, fed his genius. He insisted, for example, that Madeleine Carroll submit herself to painful physical demands during the making of The 39 Steps. He harbored a poignantly unrequited love for Ingrid Bergman. He meticulously and deliberately constructed Grace Kelly’s image. Finally, he stalked, harassed and abused Tippi Hedren. His treatment of his daughter, Pat, was certainly unusual, while his strange marriage to his sometime collaborator Alma Reville was a union that (according to Hitchcock himself) was forever chaste after one incident. Spellbound by Beauty offers important insights into the life of a brilliant, powerful, eccentric and tortured artist, and it corrects a major gap in movie history by paying tribute at last to those extraordinarily talented actresses who gave so much to his films.

Spellbound

Author : Janet McDonald
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1466800569
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Spellbound written by Janet McDonald and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Janet McDonald's powerful and funny novel, a smart and resilient young woman whose life isn't what she dreamed it would be learns that there are many ways to spell SUCCESS. Raven's life has been derailed. She never expected she'd be a mother at sixteen like her best friend, Aisha, and she's afraid she's going to be just another high school dropout, a project girl with few prospects. And although Raven is ambitious, when is she going to find the time to finish school in the few minutes she's not looking for a job or caring for her infant son, Smokey? Then her older sister, Dell, tells her about a spelling bee that promises the winner enrollment in a college prep program and a scholarship. But spelling? There isn't a subject she's worse at! Still, Raven is fiercely determined to win, and so she starts memorizing words. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults

Spellbound

Author : Elizabeth Reis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780842025775
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book Spellbound written by Elizabeth Reis and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spellbound: Women and Witchcraft in America is a collection of twelve articles that revisit crucial events in the history of witchcraft and spiritual feminism in this country. Beginning with the "witches" of colonial America, Spellbound extends its focus through the nineteenth century to explore women's involvement with alternative spiritualities, and culminates with examinations of the contemporary feminist neopagan and Goddess movements. A valuable source for those interested in women's history, women's studies, and religious history, Spellbound is also a crucial addition to the bookshelf of anyone tracing the evolution of spiritualism in America.

Spellbound by Beauty

Author : Donald Spoto
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307351319
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Spellbound by Beauty written by Donald Spoto and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fascinating . . . probes an even darker side of Hitchcock." –Newsday It is remarkable how infrequently, over a period of more than fifty years, Alfred Hitchcock spoke about the legendary actresses he directed–including Ingrid Bergman, Kim Novak, and Grace Kelly. But his leading ladies greatly enriched his films, and many of them achieved international stardom precisely because of their work for Hitchcock. Rich with new material, anecdotes, and never-before-told personal observations, this explosive portrait details Hitchcock’s outbursts of cruelty, the shocking humor, and the odd amalgam of adoration and contempt that characterized Hitchcock’s obsessive relationships with women–and that also, paradoxically, fed his genius. Spellbound by Beauty offers important insights into the life of a brilliant and tortured artist, and pays tribute to the memorable actresses who gave so much to his films. "[Spoto] informs Spellbound by Beauty with his profound knowledge of his subject, years of sound reporting, highly polished prose, and sensible analysis." —Richmond Times-Dispatch "Expert insights into Hitchcock’s films." —Oregonian (Portland) "You will never look at a Hitchcock movie the same." —Tampa Tribune

Spellbound by Marcel

Author : Ruth Brandon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643138626
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Spellbound by Marcel written by Ruth Brandon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1913 Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase exploded through the American art world. This is the story of how he followed the painting to New York two years later, enchanted the Arensberg salon, and—almost incidentally—changed art forever. In 1915, a group of French artists fled war-torn Europe for New York. In the few months between their arrival—and America’s entry into the war in April 1917—they pushed back the boundaries of the possible, in both life and art. The vortex of this transformation was the apartment at 33 West 67th Street, owned by Walter and Louise Arensberg, where artists and poets met nightly to talk, eat, drink, discuss each others’ work, play chess, plan balls, organise magazines and exhibitions, and fall in and out of love. At the center of all this activity stood the mysterious figure of Marcel Duchamp, always approachable, always unreadable. His exhibit of a urinal, which he called Fountain, briefly shocked the New York art world before falling, like its perpetrator, into obscurity. Many people (of both sexes) were in love with Duchamp. Henri-Pierre Roché and Beatrice Wood were among them; they were also, briefly, and (for her) life-changingly, in love with each other. Both kept daily diaries, which give an intimate picture of the events of those years. Or rather two pictures—for the views they offer, including of their own love affair, are stunningly divergent. Spellbound by Marcel follows Duchamp, Roché, and Beatrice as they traverse the twentieth century. Roché became the author of Jules and Jim, made into a classic film by François Truffaut. Beatrice became a celebrated ceramicist. Duchamp fell into chess-playing obscurity until, decades later, he became famous for a second time—as Fountain was elected the twentieth century’s most influential artwork.

Magic and Mischief (Spellbound Ponies, Book 1)

Author : Stacy Gregg
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 000840285X
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Magic and Mischief (Spellbound Ponies, Book 1) written by Stacy Gregg and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enchanting stories, taking the reader on magical pony adventures... Can they rescue ALL the ponies... The ponies of Pemberley Stables have been bound by magic and each of them are trapped in time. Can two brave girls help get them back?

Spellbound in Seattle

Author : Garthia Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780505525376
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book Spellbound in Seattle written by Garthia Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding himself in present-day Seattle--and bewitched by saucy blonde Petra Field--the sorcerer Vorador vows to charm the woman of his dreams with the strongest magic of all: love. Original.

Spellbound

Author : Sara Celi
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781546944263
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book Spellbound written by Sara Celi and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beauty is a real beast... High school senior Holly Kent has everything she could ever want perched at the top of Eastside Country Day's social structure. She's one of the most gorgeous girls in school. She wins every award. All the boys want to date her. And all the girls want to be her. But when a jealous rival casts a spell and ends Holly's reign as queen bee overnight, she loses it all-including her beauty. Forbidden to reveal her situation to anyone, Holly must adjust to a new life and find out if she has the strength to change her heart before it's too late. Carson Isaac lives on the fringe of Eastside's social scene. He never quite fit in, but an education at one of the city's best schools could help jumpstart his future. Then, one fateful winter day, he sees his secret crush-the real Holly Kent-for the first time. Nothing will ever be the same. As romance blossoms, can Holly and Carson navigate their new reality in time? Or will they be bound by the evil spell forever?

The Art of Alfred Hitchcock

Author : Donald Spoto
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385418132
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Alfred Hitchcock written by Donald Spoto and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1991-12-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive illustrated survey of all of Alfred Hitchcock's films is a book no movie buff or Hitchcock fan can afford to be without. The monumental scope of Alfred Hitchcock's work remains unsurpassed by any other movie director, past or present. So many of his movies have achieved classic status that even a partial list—Psycho, The Birds, Rear Window, Vertigo, Spellbound—brings a flood of memories. In this essential text, reissued on the occasion of Hitchcock's centennial, internationally renowned Hitchcock authority Donald Spoto describes and analyzes every movie made by this master filmmaker. Illustrated throughout with shots from each film, The Art of Alfred Hitchcock also includes a storyboard section, a complete filmography, and “A Hitchcock Album” (sixteen pages of photos) as an added celebration of his life.

Bee Season

Author : Myla Goldberg
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1400032768
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bee Season written by Myla Goldberg and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2002-08-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable nine-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her autodidact father, Saul, absorbed in his study of Jewish mysticism; her brother, Aaron, the vessel of his father's spiritual ambitions; and her brilliant but distant lawyer-mom, Miriam. But when Eliza sweeps her school and district spelling bees in quick succession, Saul takes it as a sign that she is destined for greatness. In this altered reality, Saul inducts her into his hallowed study and lavishes upon her the attention previously reserved for Aaron, who in his displacement embarks upon a lone quest for spiritual fulfillment. When Miriam's secret life triggers a familial explosion, it is Eliza who must order the chaos. Myla Goldberg's keen eye for detail brings Eliza's journey to three-dimensional life. As she rises from classroom obscurity to the blinding lights and outsized expectations of the National Bee, Eliza's small pains and large joys are finely wrought and deeply felt. Not merely a coming-of-age story, Goldberg's first novel delicately examines the unraveling fabric of one family. The outcome of this tale is as startling and unconventional as her prose, which wields its metaphors sharply and rings with maturity. The work of a lyrical and gifted storyteller, Bee Season marks the arrival of an extraordinarily talented new writer.

The Orchid Thief

Author : Susan Orlean
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307795292
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Orchid Thief written by Susan Orlean and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean’s wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered flower—the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii—a deeply eccentric and oddly attractive man named John Laroche leads Orlean on an unforgettable tour of America’s strange flower-selling subculture, through Florida’s swamps and beyond, along with the Seminoles who help him and the forces of justice who fight him. In the end, Orlean—and the reader—will have more respect for underdog determination and a powerful new definition of passion. In this new edition, coming fifteen years after its initial publication and twenty years after she first met the “orchid thief,” Orlean revisits this unforgettable world, and the route by which it was brought to the screen in the film Adaptation, in a new retrospective essay. Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. Praise for The Orchid Thief “Stylishly written, whimsical yet sophisticated, quirkily detailed and full of empathy . . . The Orchid Thief shows [Orlean’s] gifts in full bloom.”—The New York Times Book Review “Fascinating . . . an engrossing journey [full] of theft, hatred, greed, jealousy, madness, and backstabbing.”—Los Angeles Times “Orlean’s snapshot-vivid, pitch-perfect prose . . . is fast becoming one of our national treasures.”—The Washington Post Book World “Orlean’s gifts [are] her ear for the self-skewing dialogue, her eye for the incongruous, convincing detail, and her Didion-like deftness in description.”—Boston Sunday Globe “A swashbuckling piece of reporting that celebrates some virtues that made America great.”—The Wall Street Journal

Spellbound

Author : Christopher Pike
Publisher : Simon Pulse
ISBN 13 : 9780671736811
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Spellbound written by Christopher Pike and published by Simon Pulse. This book was released on 1990-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jason Whitfield and his friends return to the place where his girlfriend was killed but instead of finding clues they are met with an unimaginable horror.

Spellbound

Author : John Harrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982463901
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book Spellbound written by John Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spell Bound

Author : Chaweon Koo
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 1922417645
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book Spell Bound written by Chaweon Koo and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peer past the veil into the modern witch’s world. Explore magic’s past and navigate its future in a world where ancient groves meet silicon. A guide for any beginning witch, Spell Bound dips into the occult from the unique perspective of Eastern and Western magics colliding. Chaweon Koo takes us through history, magical foundations, deities, astrological influences, and magic’s future in a digital world, teaching us to harness the powers of our ancestors while embracing the changes around us, to practice our witchcraft at its fullest.

Spellbound

Author : Fatima Ronquillo
Publisher : Unicorn
ISBN 13 : 9781911604679
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Spellbound written by Fatima Ronquillo and published by Unicorn. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spellboundis the first survey of the self-taught artist's paintings. Over the past decade, Fatima Ronquillo has created a personal modern aesthetic by combining European old master techniques with a magical realism found in Early American Colonial and Latin American Art. Ronquillo presents an imagined world of personages in military or exotic costumes who confront viewers with an ambiguous gaze. These figures are often accompanied by mischievous cupids dressed as Mozartian pages or wild animals which are either spirit guides or inner demons. Often they are shown with mementos or 'recuerdos' such as the lover's eye jewelry to demonstrate one of the many stages of love, from the bliss of the requited to the despair of the rejected. Alongside the recurring theme of love, lush flora and mysterious fauna offer a glimpse into a world of myth and theatre. These compositions marry traditional portraiture, often set against pastoral and idyllic landscapes, with an underlying sense of drama and playfulness. Ronquillo's paintings are visions of beauty and love which incite a mad enchantment to the heart and mind.

Spellbound

Author : Hilary Norman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780340598887
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Spellbound written by Hilary Norman and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spellbound After Midnight

Author : Jenna Collett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Spellbound After Midnight written by Jenna Collett and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spellbinding mystery leads an unlikely pair on the hunt for a killer. Tessa Daniels needs a miracle. Preferably, the kind that comes with cold hard cash. Her magic shop is failing, and she'll be tossed into the street unless she clears her debt. When a financial boon arrives in the form of a young woman determined to attend the prince's ball, a risky spell turns out to be the miracle she needed. That is until the woman is found dead at the stroke of midnight, and Tessa comes face-to-face with the kingdom's cold, and way too appealing, lead detective. Detective Derrick Chambers has no use for the supernatural. As the rising star at the Royal Agency, he won't let magic, or the pretty witch that deals in it, get in the way of solving a murder. His logic tells him to steer clear of Tessa's chaos, but a forced partnership soon turns into an attraction neither can resist. With the body count rising, and the kingdom in a panic, an exposed secret will tear them apart and put Tessa in the sights of a killer where no amount of magic can save her.