Cobweb Castle

Author : Drac Von Stoller
Publisher : Drac Von Stoller
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Cursed Catacombs of Cobweb Castle by Drac Von Stoller Pdf

In the year 1612, the gloomy fortress of Cobweb Castle cast an ominous shadow over the surrounding lands. Its master, Lord Reginald Winslow, was a cruel and tyrannical ruler who governed his subjects with an iron fist. The people lived in constant fear of his wrath, suffering under his oppressive regime of taxation and punishment. Within the castle walls, Lord Winslow's family – his wife Mary and children Kate and Johnny – existed in a gilded cage, prisoners to his domineering ways. "Father, must you tax the peasants so heavily?" young Kate once dared to ask during a tense family dinner. "They have so little to begin with." Lord Winslow slammed his fist on the table, causing the silver platters to rattle. "Mind your tongue, girl! It is by my iron rule alone that this land knows any order. The rabble should be grateful for my leadership, however harsh it may be." His wife Mary shrank back, trembling. "P-Please, my lord... The child means no offense." "See that it does not happen again," Winslow growled, his eyes smoldering with cruelty. As the years dragged on, the oppression only worsened. Mothers wept as their sons were arrested and hanged for the most trivial of crimes. Farmers had their crops seized to pay exorbitant taxes, leaving their families to starve.

Author : Joseph Smith Fletcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015063918109

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Cobweb Castle by Joseph Smith Fletcher Pdf

Author : Jan Wahl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Fairy tales
ISBN : UOM:39076006988526

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Cobweb Castle by Jan Wahl Pdf

Having read and dreamed too many fairy tales, the grocer sets off to live one, but finds the world not at all conducive to his fantasies.

Author : Scott Allen Nollen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476635699

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Takashi Shimura by Scott Allen Nollen Pdf

Considered one of the finest performers in world cinema, Japanese actor Takashi Shimura (1905-1982) appeared in more than 300 stage, film and television roles during his five-decade career. He is best known for his frequent collaborations with Akira Kurosawa, including major roles in the landmark classics Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (1954), and for his memorable characterizations in Ishiro Honda's Godzilla (1954) and several Kaiju sequels. This is the first complete English-language account of Shimura's work. In addition to historical and critical coverage of Shimura's life and career, it includes an extensive filmography.

Author : Joseph Smith Fletcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:17011997

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Cobweb Castle by Joseph Smith Fletcher Pdf

Author : John Berra
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781841503561

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Directory of World Cinema: Japan by John Berra Pdf

From the revered classics of Akira Kurosawa to the modern marvels of Takeshi Kitano, the films that have emerged from Japan represent a national cinema that has gained worldwide admiration and appreciation. Directory of World Cinema: Japan provides an insight into the cinema of Japan through reviews of significant titles and case studies of leading directors, alongside explorations of the cultural and industrial origins of key genres. As the inaugural volume of an ambitious series from Intellect documenting world cinema, the directory aims to play a part in moving intelligent, scholarly criticism beyond the academy by building a forum for the study of film that relies on a disciplined theoretical base. It takes the form of an A–Z collection of reviews, longer essays and research resources, accompanied by fifty full-colour film stills highlighting significant films and players. The cinematic lineage of samurai warriors, yakuza enforcers and atomic monsters take their place alongside the politically charged works of the Japanese New Wave, making this a truly comprehensive volume.

Author : Jacek Klinowski,Adam Garbicz
Publisher : Planet RGB Limited
Page : 841 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781513607238

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Cinema, the Magic Vehicle by Jacek Klinowski,Adam Garbicz Pdf

Why are films by Sergei Eisenstein, Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa or Stanley Kubrick works of art? What elements of style and film technique are involved? What is vital to their personal vision? Here is everything you need to know about feature cinema: the films which have withstood the test of time and are well worth watching today, although many have been unjustly neglected. These are books for film buffs (or for the simply curious) as well as a reliable reference work for students taking film and media courses. The first volume chronologically discusses 410 films from all over the world made in 1913-1950 and the second volume 451 films made in 1951-1963, giving the most correct credits to be found anywhere (superior to any single Internet database or printed source) preserving the diacritical signs in every language and giving correct running times. There is a synopsis of the most important events in cinema history and extensive footnotes explaining various terms as well as giving information about people and historical events mentioned in the text. No previous expertise is assumed and the information should be equally accessable to people without an extensive background in European, Asian or American culture. The individual essays always set each film in its historical context, outlining contemporary trends and styles in literature and the visual arts. This is a work of original film criticism, as well as a reference source. When read in order, the essays amount to an account of the development of individual directors, movements and indeed cinema history itself. The relative newness of the art of cinema makes it possible to discuss the entire key opus of feature-length films in a text of reasonable length. In a few years’ time, this will no longer be possible: until the Second World War no more than approximately twenty truly valuable films were being made worldwide each year, by the late 1950s their number exceeded forty and is now at least sixty. The book is intended both as a look at cinema as a whole and a description of individual works which have not become devalued with the passage of time.

Author : Adrian Poole,Peter Holland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472578655

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Great Shakespeareans Set IV by Adrian Poole,Peter Holland Pdf

Great Shakespeareans presents a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. This major project offers an unprecedented scholarly analysis of the contribution made by the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors as well as novelists, poets, composers, and thinkers from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. An essential resource for students and scholars in Shakespeare studies.

Author : Judith R. Buchanan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317874973

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Shakespeare on Film by Judith R. Buchanan Pdf

From the earliest days of the cinema to the present, Shakespeare has offered a tempting bank of source material than the film industry has been happy to plunder. Shakespeare on Film deftly examines an extensive range of films that have emerged from the curious union of an iconic dramatist with a medium of mass appeal. The many films Buchanan studies are shown to be telling indicators of trends in Shakespearean performance interpretation, illuminating markers of developments in the film industry and culturally revealing about broader influences in the world beyond the movie theatre. As with other titles from the Inside Film series, the book is illustrated throughout with stills. Each chapter concludes with a list of suggested further reading in the field.

Author : Daniel Rosenthal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838714093

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100 Shakespeare Films by Daniel Rosenthal Pdf

From Oscar-winning British classics to Hollywood musicals and Westerns, from Soviet epics to Bollywood thrillers, Shakespeare has inspired an almost infinite variety of films. Directors as diverse as Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh, Baz Luhrmann and Julie Taymor have transferred Shakespeare's plays from stage to screen with unforgettable results. Spanning a century of cinema, from a silent short of 'The Tempest' (1907) to Kenneth Branagh's 'As You Like It' (2006), Daniel Rosenthal's up-to-date selection takes in the most important, inventive and unusual Shakespeare films ever made. Half are British and American productions that retain Shakespeare's language, including key works such as Olivier's 'Henry V' and 'Hamlet', Welles' 'Othello' and 'Chimes at Midnight', Branagh's 'Henry V' and 'Hamlet', Luhrmann's 'Romeo + Juliet' and Taymor's 'Titus'. Alongside these original-text films are more than 30 genre adaptations: titles that aim for a wider audience by using modernized dialogue and settings and customizing Shakespeare's plots and characters, transforming 'Macbeth' into a pistol-packing gangster ('Joe Macbeth' and 'Maqbool') or reimagining 'Othello' as a jazz musician ('All Night Long'). There are Shakesepeare-based Westerns ('Broken Lance', 'King of Texas'), musicals ('West Side Story', 'Kiss Me Kate'), high-school comedies ('10 Things I Hate About You', 'She's the Man'), even a sci-fi adventure ('Forbidden Planet'). There are also films dominated by the performance of a Shakespearean play ('In the Bleak Midwinter', 'Shakespeare in Love'). Rosenthal emphasises the global nature of Shakespearean cinema, with entries on more than 20 foreign-language titles, including Kurosawa's 'Throne of Blood and Ran', Grigori Kozintsev's 'Russian Hamlet' and 'King Lear', and little-known features from as far afield as 'Madagascar' and 'Venezuela', some never released in Britain or the US. He considers the films' production and box-office history and examines the film-makers' key interpretive decisions in comparison to their Shakespearean sources, focusing on cinematography, landscape, music, performance, production design, textual alterations and omissions. As cinema plays an increasingly important role in the study of Shakespeare at schools and universities, this is a wide-ranging, entertaining and accessible guide for Shakespeare teachers, students and enthusiasts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780521573443

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The Shakespearean Forest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Adam Selzer
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781510713451

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Mysterious Chicago by Adam Selzer Pdf

From Chicago historian Adam Selzer, expert on all of the Windy City’s quirks and oddities, comes a compelling heavily researched anthology of the stories behind its most fascinating unsolved mysteries. To create this unique volume, Selzer has collected forty unsolved mysteries from the 1800s to modern day. He has poured through all newspaper, magazine, and book references to them, and consulted expert historians. Topics covered include who really started the great Chicago fire, who was the first “automobile murderer,” and even if there was actually a vampire slaying at Rose Hill cemetery. The result is both a colorful read to get lost in, a window to a world of curiosity and wonder, as well as a volume that separates fact from fiction—true crime from urban legend. Complementing the gripping stories Selzer presents are original images of the crime and its suspects as developed by its original investigators. Readers will marvel at how each character and crime were presented, and happily journey with Selzer as he presents all facts and theories presented at the time of the “crime” and uses modern hindsight to assemble the pieces.

Author : Noël Burch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520038770

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To the Distant Observer by Noël Burch Pdf

Author : Margreta de Grazia,Stanley Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521658810

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare by Margreta de Grazia,Stanley Wells Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive, readable and authoritative introduction to the study of Shakespeare, by means of nineteen newly commissioned essays. An international team of prominent scholars provide a broadly cultural approach to the chief literary, performative and historical aspects of Shakespeare's work. They bring the latest scholarship to bear on traditional subjects of Shakespeare study, such as biography, the transmission of the texts, the main dramatic and poetic genres, the stage in Shakespeare's time and the history of criticism and performance. In addition, authors engage with more recently defined topics: gender and sexuality, Shakespeare on film, the presence of foreigners in Shakespeare's England and his impact on other cultures. Helpful reference features include chronologies of the life and works, illustrations, detailed reading lists and a bibliographical essay.

Author : Sarah HATCHUEL,Nathalie VIENNE-GUERRIN,Victoria BLADEN
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9791024000404

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Shakespeare on screen : Macbeth by Sarah HATCHUEL,Nathalie VIENNE-GUERRIN,Victoria BLADEN Pdf

This addition to the Shakespeare on Screen series reveals the remarkable presence of Macbeth in the global Shakespearean screenscape. What is it about Macbeth that is capable of extending beyond Scottish contexts and speaking globally, locally and “glocally”? Does the extensive adaptive reframing ofMacbeth suggest the paradoxical irrelevance of the original play? After examining the evident topic of the supernatural elements—the witches and the ghost—in the films, the essays move from a revisitation of the well-known American screen versions, to an analysis of more recent Anglophone productions and to world cinema (Asia, France, South Africa, India, Japan, etc.). Questions of lineage and progeny are broached, then extended into the wider issues of gender. Finally, ballet remediations, filmic appropriations, citations and mises-en-abyme of Macbeth are examined, and the book ends with an analysis of a Macbeth script that never reached the screen. Ce nouvel ouvrage de la série « Shakespeare à l’écran » révèle la présence remarquable de Macbeth dans le paysage filmique shakespearien à l’échelle mondiale. Comment expliquer qu’une pièce dont l’intrigue est ancrée dans une nation, l’Écosse, ait pu être absorbée par des cultures aussi diverses ? Les multiples adaptations de Macbeth suggèrent-elles, de manière paradoxale, une moindre pertinence de la pièce originelle ? Après avoir exploré la représentation des éléments surnaturels (les sorcières et le fantôme), le volume revisite les films américains « canoniques », les productions anglophones plus récentes et les versions d’autres aires culturelles (Asie, France, Afrique du Sud, Inde, Japon, etc.) Les questions de lignée et de descendance sont abordées, puis prolongées dans des articles sur la représentation du genre. Les versions dansées, les appropriations, les citations et les mises en abyme de Macbeth sont ensuite analysées, et ce parcours mène à un étrange objet – un scénario non filmé.