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Author : Cornell Woolrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 1613470371
Four of Cornell Woolrich's best supernatural novellas collected together in one book for the first time.
Author : Christine Feehan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:2003015636
Author : N.W. Erickson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781300007067
If getting together with old fiends sounds like just your cup of brew, you'll be right at home here, Couch Pumpkin. Let your Thriller Theatre host Margali introduce you to folk who are dying--or perhaps coming back--to meet you in this latest collection of tales both classic and obscure. In this volume, you'll find science fiction blended with eldritch evil; a classic haunting that made for a rare A-list haunting classic; a touch of hard-boiled noir laced with voodoo; and, for a bit of a switch, a tale based upon a screenplay. And some of our monsters are even human--or at least started that way. So curl up in your favourite chair or get cozy in the blankets, and let Auntie M make you UNcomfortable . . .
Author : Lee Server
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781438109121
Provides an introduction to American pulp fiction during the twentieth century with brief author biographies and lists of their works.
Author : Thomas C. Renzi
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786482818
Extremely popular and prolific in the 1930s and 1940s, Cornell Woolrich still has diehard fans who thrive on his densely packed descriptions and his spellbinding premises. A contemporary of Hammett and Chandler, he competed with them for notoriety in the pulps and became the single most adapted writer for films of the noir period. Perhaps the most famous film adaptation of a Woolrich story is Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954). Even today, his work is still onscreen; Michael Cristofer's Original Sin (2001) is based on one of his tales. This book offers a detailed analysis of many of Woolrich's novels and short stories; examines films adapted from these works; and shows how Woolrich's techniques and themes influenced the noir genre. Twenty-two stories and 30 films compose the bulk of the study, though many other additions of films noirs are also considered because of their relevance to Woolrich's plots, themes and characters. The introduction includes a biographical sketch of Woolrich and his relationship to the noir era, and the book is illustrated with stills from Woolrich's noir classics.
Author : Susan Castillo Street,Charles L. Crow
Publisher : Springer
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137477743
This book examines ‘Southern Gothic’ - a term that describes some of the finest works of the American Imagination. But what do ‘Southern’ and ‘Gothic’ mean, and how are they related? Traditionally seen as drawing on the tragedy of slavery and loss, ‘Southern Gothic’ is now a richer, more complex subject. Thirty-five distinguished scholars explore the Southern Gothic, under the categories of Poe and his Legacy; Space and Place; Race; Gender and Sexuality; and Monsters and Voodoo. The essays examine slavery and the laws that supported it, and stories of slaves who rebelled and those who escaped. Also present are the often-neglected issues of the Native American presence in the South, socioeconomic class, the distinctions among the several regions of the South, same-sex relationships, and norms of gendered behaviour. This handbook covers not only iconic figures of Southern literature but also other less well-known writers, and examines gothic imagery in film and in contemporary television programmes such as True Blood and True Detective.
Author : David Langford
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781592240555
At last, _Up Through an Empty House of Stars_ brings together the best of the never before collected SF reviews and articles that helped build David Langford's towering reputation since 1980. Complementing the review columns collected in _The Complete Critical Assembly_ and the knockabout essays and squibs in _The Silence of the Langford_, this volume's 100 glittering selections mix serious critical insight with the inimitable Langford wit. In 2002 David Langford won his sixteenth Hugo award as Best Fan Writer, for critical and humorous commentary on SF. In the same year his occasionally scandalous SF newsletter _Ansible_ won its fifth Hugo. Langford also received the 2001 Hugo for best short story, and the 2002 Skylark Award. Here he shines a unique light on classics like Ernest Bramah, G.K. Chesterton, Robert Heinlein and Jack Vance, and analyses major SF -- and major clunkers, and minor eccentrics -- of the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s, continuing to the latest by such current stars as Gene Wolfe and China Mi, ville. Plus witty asides on crime fiction and its SF links, gleeful examination of writing so bad it's almost good, and (even at his most serious) turns of phrase to make you laugh aloud
Author : Alan Warren
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786419695
The late 1950s and early 1960s were the golden years of horror television. Anthology series such as Way Out and Great Ghost Tales, along with certain episodes of Twilight Zone and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, were among the shows that consistently frightened a generation of television viewers. And perhaps the best of them all was Thriller, hosted by Boris Karloff. In Thriller the horror was gothic, with a darker, bleaker vision of life than its contemporaries. The show's origins and troubled history is first discussed here, followed by biographies of such key figures as producer William Frye, executive producer Hubbell Robinson, writers Robert Bloch and Donald S. Sanford, and Karloff. The episode guide covers all 67 installments, providing airdate, production credits, cast, plot synopses and critical evaluations.
Author : Kevin Whitehead
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780190847579
"This book-both a narrative and a film directory-surveys and analyzes English-language feature films (and a few shorts and TV shows/movies) made between 1927 and 2016 that tell stories about jazz music, its musicians, its history and culture. Play the Way You Feel looks at jazz movies as a narrative tradition with recurring plot points and story tropes, whose roots and development are traced. It also demonstrates how jazz stories cut across diverse genres-biopic, romance, musical, comedy and science fiction, horror, crime and comeback stories, "race movies" and modernized Shakespeare-even as they constitute a genre of their own. The book is also a directory/checklist of such films, 66 of them with extensive credits, plus dozens more shorter/capsule discussions. Where jazz films are based on literary sources, they are examined, and the nature of their adaptation explored: what gets retained, removed, or invented? What do historical films get right and wrong? How does a film's music, and the style of the filmmaking itself, reinforce or undercut the story?--
Author : Andrew Dickos
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813152295
Andrew Dickos's Street with No Name traces the film noir genre back to its roots in German expressionist cinema and the French cinema of the interwar years. Dickos describes the development of the film noir in America from 1941 through the 1970s and examines how this development expresses a modern cinema. He argues that, in its most satisfying form, the film noir exists as a series of conventions with an iconography and characters of distinctive significance. Featuring stylized lighting and urban settings, these films tell melodramatic narratives involving characters who commit crimes predicated on destructive passions, corruption, and a submission to human weakness and fate. Unlike other studies of the noir, Street with No Name follows its development in a loosely historical style that associates certain noir directors with those features in their films that helped define the scope of the genre. Dickos examines notable directors such as Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, Otto Preminger, and Robert Siodmak. He also charts the genre's influence on such celebrated postwar French filmmakers as Jean-Pierre Melville, Francois Truffaut, and Jean-Luc Godard. Addressing the aesthetic, cultural, political, and social concerns depicted in the genre, Street with No Name demonstrates how the film noir generates a highly expressive, raw, and violent mood as it exposes the ambiguities of modern postwar society.
Author : Richard Barrios
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Musical films
ISBN : 9780195088113
Chronicling the early musical film years from 1926 to 1934, A Song in the Dark offers a fascinating look at these innovative films, the product of much of the major experimentation that went on during the development of sound technology. The triumphs, disasters and offscreen intrigue of this era form a remarkable story of this vital and unique film history.
Author : Richard J. Hand
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786491841
The macabre world of monsters, killers on the loose and revenge from beyond the grave existed not only in the movies, but also on the radio before television's dominance in American homes. One of many distinct genres born of early broadcasting, terror-inspiring radio thrilled millions. Nearly 80 such programs, many of enduring sophistication, aired every week in the late 1940s. This first full-length study of golden age horror radio focuses on six representative programs, starting with The Witch's Tale in 1931 and ending with The Mysterious Traveler in 1952. Each chapter is a critically and historically informed study of one series. The book ends with a look at the demise of horror radio and its enduring influence. Photographs are included.
Author : Christine Feehan
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781405514279
Dayan has been searching for centuries to find the one woman who can complete him, a true lifemate, who can save him from the darkness in his soul. Despairing of ever finding her, and on the run from his enemies, something drives Dayan to stop at a bar and perform some of his music. Then Corrine Wentworth walks in, and Dayan knows instantly that she is the one.Corrine wants nothing more than to surrender her life and soul to Dayan, but she is suffering from a degenerative heart disease, and pregnant with her late husband's child. She is also running from the men who killed her husband, the same group of fanatics who are hunting Dayan and his kind. Dayan must call on his family, and the greatest healers of the Carpathians to aid him in a race against time to save Corrine, whose fate is now inextricably linked to his own.
Author : David Butler
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015054454700
Explores the strange and commonly misunderstood relationship between jazz music and the film noir genre.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1116 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006280858
Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals July - December)
