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Book Synopsis The Thief of Bagdad by : Achmed Abdullah
Download or read book The Thief of Bagdad written by Achmed Abdullah and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection was published in the 1920s and serves as a classic Muslim fantasy tales in the English language. This book was an evocative piece of work, which has a rich imagination of the Muslim environment and is an important source of inspiration for other Muslim fantasy novels.
Book Synopsis First King of Hollywood by : Tracey Goessel
Download or read book First King of Hollywood written by Tracey Goessel and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete, definitive biography of Hollywood's first superstar Douglas Fairbanks was the greatest leading man of his generation—the first and the best of the swashbucklers. He made some of the greatest films of the silent era, including The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro. With Charlie Chaplin, D. W. Griffith, and his wife, film star Mary Pickford, he founded United Artists. Pickford and Fairbanks ruled Hollywood as its first king and queen for a decade. Now a cache of newly discovered love letters from Fairbanks to Pickford form the centerpiece of the first truly definitive biography of Hollywood's first king, the original Robin Hood, the true Zorro, the man who did his own stunts, built his own studio, and formed a company that allowed artists to distribute their own wealth outside the studio system. Fairbanks was fun, witty, engaging, creative, athletic, and a force to be reckoned with. He shaped our idea of the Hollywood hero, and it has never been the same since. His story, like his movies, is full of passion, bravado, and romance.
Download or read book Baghdad Fixer written by Ilene Prusher and published by Halban Publishers. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalist and her fixer struggle for the truth where truth is now a victim. Nabil al-Amari is an English teacher in Baghdad, in Saddam's Iraq, when a chance encounter with Samara Katchens, an American journalist covering the war, changes his life forever. It is April 2003 and American and British forces have recently invaded Iraq. Samara, or Sam for short, is ambitious, cynical and determined. Nabil is both fascinated and bewildered by her, and he's keen to show her things she doesn't notice in her rush to cover the news. She is pushed by her editor to seek concrete proof for a story concerning payments for false documents - a practice which breaks all journalistic codes of ethics - 'as if truth were so hard in that way, like rocks and concrete'. In Iraq it is rarely so. As Sam single-mindedly pursues this story, she discovers a chasm between her editor's expectations and the reality she faces in a city torn apart by war and conflicting loyalties. And in her determination to uncover the truth, she takes one gamble too many, endangering herself, Nabil and his family. '... a vivid portrait of Baghdad in the traumatic aftermath of invasion.' - The Guardian. '... spot-on descriptions of both the craft of reporting and the Iraqi landscape during that volatile time make this novel memorable and informative ... for a glimpse of life under the American occupation of Iraq, few could come close to Prusher's portrait.' - Kirkus reviews. '... this compelling debut is easy to recommend to both male and female readers interested in the Middle East, journalistic ethics, and international affairs.' - Booklist. 'A fascinating story which gives the texture of life in Iraq as it was lived by foreign journalists and Iraqis at the time of the invasion. It conveys a fresher sense of those years than a thousand news reports'. -- Patrick Cockburn, Iraq correspondent, The Independent. 'A fast-paced, evocative thriller that opens our eyes to the excitements and dangers of Iraq after the fall of Saddam. This gripping, beautifully-observed tale, written with a ring of true authenticity, captures the challenges of a journalist and her loyal fixer navigating their way through an Iraq rarely seen by outsiders.' -- Rory McCarthy, author of Nobody Told Us We Are Defeated: Stories from the New Iraq. 'Ilene Prusher's novel is a compelling account of the first few weeks following the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime told through the eyes of a fascinating and gracefully drawn Iraqi everyman... Ms Prusher draws us into his story as he is sometimes unwittingly lured deeper and deeper into the world of war journalism, watching with horror as his country descends into chaos.' -- Borzou Daragahi, Middle East and North African correspondent, Financial Times. 'A journalist's fixer is a go-between in so many senses: linguistic, cultural. The fixer straddles borders and boundaries, helping each try to communicate with the Other. Ilene Prusher conjures this so beautifully in her stunning, thrilling debut, as Nabil, an Iraqi English teacher with a poetic soul, is drawn into the unfamiliar, learning as much about his own country and people as about the world in which Samara, the American journalist who has hired him, moves so easily. A unique novel, Baghdad Fixer's compelling plot is combined with poignant and difficult insights into the life and tragedies of ordinary Iraqis during the war. This is not just a wonderful read, it is an important book for helping us, too, to begin to understand the Other.' -- Tania Hershman, author of My Mother Was An Upright Piano and The White Road and Other Stories.
Book Synopsis The Thief of Bagdad by : Achmed Abdullah
Download or read book The Thief of Bagdad written by Achmed Abdullah and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forrest Theatre, F.G. Nixon-Nirdlinger, managing director, Thos. M. Love, general manager. F. Ray Comstock and Morris Gest present Douglas Fairbanks in "The Thief of Bagdad," a glorious fantasy of The Arabian Nights. Production personnel: Elton Thomas, author, Raoul Walsh, director, Arthur Edeson, photographer, Lotta Woods, scenario editor, Dr. Arthur Woods, research director, Edward Knoblock, consultant, Richard Holahan, P.H. Whitman, Kenneth Mae Lean, associate photographers, William Cameron Menzies, art director, Irvin J. Martin, consulting art director, Leisen, designer of costumes, Anton F. Grot, Paul Youngblood, H.R. Hopps, Harold W. Grieve, Park French, William Utwich, Edward M. Langley, associate artists. Theodore Reed, manager of production, Hampton Del Ruth, director of mechanical effects, Robert Fairbanks, technical director, James O'Donohoe, assistant director, William Nolan, cutter, Paul Burns, master of wardrobe and properties, Albert Wayne, master electricial. Harry D. Buckley, acting general manager and personal representative for Douglas Fairbanks, Frank V. Bruner, press representative, John Wilstach, company manager, musical setting by Mortimer Wilson, musical director Leon M. Polachek.
Book Synopsis Conrad Veidt on Screen by : John T. Soister
Download or read book Conrad Veidt on Screen written by John T. Soister and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conrad Veidt, a native of Berlin, began acting in small parts as an extra until called into service during World War I. After his discharge he began a theater career that subsequently led to films and more than one turn as a director. This work thoroughly details Veidt’s film career. It lists all movies that he was involved in and provides a synopsis, cast and crew, and reviews of each film. There are many photographs, a list of films that he is thought possibly to have been involved in, and an extensive bibliography.
Book Synopsis Missing Reels by : Farran Smith Nehme
Download or read book Missing Reels written by Farran Smith Nehme and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York in the late 1980s. Ceinwen Reilly has just moved from Yazoo City, Mississippi, and she’s never going back, minimum wage job (vintage store salesgirl) and shabby apartment (Avenue C walkup) be damned. Who cares about earthly matters when Ceinwen can spend her days and her nights at fading movie houses—and most of the time that’s left trying to look like Jean Harlow? One day, Ceinwen discovers that her downstairs neighbor may have—just possibly—starred in a forgotten silent film that hasn’t been seen for ages. So naturally, it’s time for a quest. She will track down the film, she will impress her neighbor, and she will become a part of movie history: the archivist as ingénue. As she embarks on her grand mission, Ceinwen meets a somewhat bumbling, very charming, 100% English math professor named Matthew, who is as rational as she is dreamy. Together, they will or will not discover the missing reels, will or will not fall in love, and will or will not encounter the obsessives that make up the New York silent film nut underworld. A novel as winning and energetic as the grand Hollywood films that inspired it, Missing Reels is an irresistible, alchemical mix of Nora Ephron and David Nicholls that will charm and delight.
Book Synopsis They Came to Baghdad by : Agatha Christie
Download or read book They Came to Baghdad written by Agatha Christie and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-06-17 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victoria is pursued by an unknown power that threatened not only her, but the fate of the entire world.
Book Synopsis Douglas Fairbanks by : Jeffrey Vance
Download or read book Douglas Fairbanks written by Jeffrey Vance and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Douglas Fairbanks takes the full measure of the star's remarkable life. Jeffrey Vance bases his portrait on a rich array of sources, including Fairbanks's personal and professional papers and scrapbooks, newly available documentation and rediscovered films, and his own extensive interviews with those who knew or worked with Fairbanks. Engagingly written and sumptuously designed, with 237 photographs, the book goes beyond Fairbanks's public persona to thoroughly explore his art and his far-reaching influence."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Cinema by Design written by Lucy Fischer and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art Nouveau thrived from the late 1890s through the First World War. The international design movement reveled in curvilinear forms and both playful and macabre visions and had a deep impact on cinematic art direction, costuming, gender representation, genre, and theme. Though historians have long dismissed Art Nouveau as a decadent cultural mode, its tremendous afterlife in cinema proves otherwise. In Cinema by Design, Lucy Fischer traces Art Nouveau's long history in films from various decades and global locales, appreciating the movement's enduring avant-garde aesthetics and dynamic ideology. Fischer begins with the portrayal of women and nature in the magical "trick films" of the Spanish director Segundo de Chomón; the elite dress and décor design choices in Cecil B. DeMille's The Affairs of Anatol (1921); and the mise-en-scène of fantasy in Raoul Walsh's The Thief of Bagdad (1924). Reading Salome (1923), Fischer shows how the cinema offered an engaging frame for adapting the risqué works of Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley. Moving to the modern era, Fischer focuses on a series of dramatic films, including Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger (1975), that make creative use of the architecture of Antoni Gaudí; and several European works of horror—The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), Deep Red (1975), and The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (2013)—in which Art Nouveau architecture and narrative supply unique resonances in scenes of terror. In later chapters, she examines films like Klimt (2006) that portray the style in relation to the art world and ends by discussing the Art Nouveau revival in 1960s cinema. Fischer's analysis brings into focus the partnership between Art Nouveau's fascination with the illogical and the unconventional and filmmakers' desire to upend viewers' perception of the world. Her work explains why an art movement embedded in modernist sensibilities can flourish in contemporary film through its visions of nature, gender, sexuality, and the exotic.
Book Synopsis Arabian Nights Coloring Book by : John Green
Download or read book Arabian Nights Coloring Book written by John Green and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the most popular collections of ancient folk tales — 30 thrilling scenes filled with flying carpets, magic lamps, flashing swords, sultans, thieves, warrior princes, and shape-shifting jinnis. A treasury of delights for fantasy lovers of all ages.
Book Synopsis Douglas Fairbanks by : Ralph Hancock
Download or read book Douglas Fairbanks written by Ralph Hancock and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few people have influenced Hollywood history than Douglas Fairbanks. And who better than his niece and Fairbanks family historian, Letitia, to relate that story? On-screen and offscreen, he was a force of nature, progressing in easy leaps and bounds from the Broadway stage to silent movies when feature-length film was just a few years old. His happy, healthy characters and acrobatic acting style brought a new energy to the medium. But it was through his extraordinary success as a producer that Fairbanks achieved the goal of all creative people: to run his own show. This he did by co-founding United Artists in 1919 with his soon-to-be wife Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith. As a producer, he showed visionary taste, collaborating with his directors and designers to enact gallant tales in spectacular settings. Whether he played a young man on the go or a swashbuckling hero in a fairy-tale land, Fairbanks—one of the thirty-six founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—put America’s hopes and dreams on film. This updated version of the original 1953 biography has been expanded by the Fairbanks family with archival materials as well as never-before-seen photographs from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library.
Book Synopsis Fantasy/Animation by : Christopher Holliday
Download or read book Fantasy/Animation written by Christopher Holliday and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship that exists between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Animation has played a key role in defining our collective expectations and experiences of fantasy cinema, just as fantasy storytelling has often served as inspiration for our most popular animated film and television. Bringing together contributions from world-renowned film and media scholars, Fantasy/Animation considers the various historical, theoretical, and cultural ramifications of the animated fantasy film. This collection provides a range of chapters on subjects including Disney, Pixar, and Studio Ghibli, filmmakers such as Ralph Bakshi and James Cameron, and on film and television franchises such as Dreamworks’ How To Train Your Dragon (2010–) and HBO’s Game of Thrones (2011–).
Download or read book Conrad Veidt written by Jerry C. Allen and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis William Cameron Menzies by : James Curtis
Download or read book William Cameron Menzies written by James Curtis and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2015 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was the consummate designer of film architecture on a grand scale. He was known for his visual flair and timeless innovation, a man who meticulously preplanned the color and design of each film through a series of continuity sketches that made clear camera angles, lighting, and the actors' positions for each scene, translating dramatic conventions of the stage to the new capabilities of film. Here is the long-awaited book on William Cameron Menzies, Hollywood's first and greatest production designer, a job title David O. Selznick invented for Menzies' extraordinary, all-encompassing, Academy Award-winning work on Gone With the Wind (which he effectively co-directed). It was Menzies--winner of the first-ever Academy Award for Art Direction, and who was as well a director (fourteen pictures) and a producer (twelve pictures)--who changed the way movies were (and still are) made, in a career that spanned four decades, from the 1920s through the 1950s. Now, James Curtis, acclaimed film historian and biographer, writes of Menzies' life and work as the most influential designer in the history of film. Interviewing colleagues, actors, directors, friends, and family, and with full access to the Menzies family collection of artwork and unpublished writing, Curtis gives us the path-finding work of the movies' most daring and dynamic production designer: his evolution as artist, art director, production designer, and director. Here is a portrait of a man in his time that makes clear how the movies were forever transformed by his startling, visionary work.--Adapted from book jacket.
Download or read book Moonshadow written by Jasmine Sabu and published by UBASFILM, Limited. This book was released on 1996-12-12 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Keystone Kid written by Coy Watson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coy Watson, Jr. made his motion picture debut in 1913 when he was nine months old. His appearances in Mack Sennett's popular Keystone Cop comedies earned him the nickname The Keystone Kid' and established him as Hollywood's first child star. In this memoir Watson shares his memories of the idyllic early days of Hollywood and of being raised as a member of 'The First Family of Hollywood'. Watson, his father and his siblings appeared in over 1,000 films, including many classics with the biggest names in the industry. Features hundreds of b/w photos throughout.'
Download or read book Star of India written by Philip Leibfried and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the top child stars of the 1930s and 1940s was a former stable boy from southern India, the only star with a single name - Sabu. Born Selar Shaik in 1924, he vaulted to stardom in his first film, a British production entitled Elephant Boy (1937). For the next decade he either starred or was featured in several finely crafted adventure films, including the fantasy favorite The Thief of Bagdad (1940) and the definitive version of Rudyard Kipling's perennially popular Jungle Book (1942). Adapting to modern western ways proved remarkably easy due to his above average intelligence and innate charm. After moving to America, the popular performer became a U.S. citizen in 1944, and did his bit for the war effort as a belly gunner, seeing action in the Pacific theater. In the post-war years Sabu's career began its inevitable decline. Fantasy and exotic adventure films were not as popular as during the war, and Hollywood studios found the dark-skinned actor difficult to cast. In the early 1950s he journeyed to Europe, appearing in a pair of Italian films and two circuses. Sabu next made a triumphant return to his homeland where he acted in one film and tested for another. Returning to America, the still young actor was seen in some minor films and one final foreign film made in Germany. After appearing in a Disney film, India's first and most enduring international movie star passed away suddenly of a heart attack in December 1963, leaving behind an exceptional legacy of memorable motion pictures and an image of radiant youthfulness.
