Flickering Treasures

Author : Amy Davis
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781421422190

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Flickering Treasures by Amy Davis Pdf

These vintage and contemporary images of Baltimore movie palaces explore the changing face of Charm City with stories and commentary by filmmakers. Since the dawn of popular cinema, Baltimore has been home to hundreds of movie theaters, many of which became legendary monuments to popular culture. But by 2016, the number of cinemas had dwindled to only three. Many theaters have been boarded up, burned out, or repurposed. In this volume, Baltimore Sun photojournalist Amy Davis pairs vintage black-and-white images of downtown movie palaces and modest neighborhood theaters with her own contemporary color photos. Flickering Treasures delves into Baltimore’s cultural and cinematic history, from its troubling legacy of racial segregation to the technological changes that have shaped both American cities and the movie exhibition business. Images of Electric Park, the Century, the Hippodrome, and scores of other beloved venues are punctuated by stories and interviews, as well as commentary from celebrated Baltimore filmmakers Barry Levinson and John Waters. A map and timeline reveal the one-time presence of movie houses in every corner of the city, and fact boxes include the years of operation, address, architect, and seating capacity for each of the 72 theaters profiled, along with a brief description of each theater’s distinct character.

Author : William Hughes
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-28
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781532062773

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Byline Baltimore by William Hughes Pdf

Bill Hughes’ Byline Baltimore covers the field from a commentary on the “Presidential Campaign from Hell,” (2016), to an article on the zany comedian, Roseanne Barr, to the sex scandals in two city Catholic schools, to an essay that asks this probing question: “What Is Deep State.” Hughes has enjoyed writing about Baltimore’s endearing personalities, such as: Al Kaline, Mary Avara, Helen Delich Bentley, Marilyn Mosby, John Waters, Amy Davis, Matt Porterfield and Judge Tom Ward. Each of his 81 commentaries/reports tells a story. All photos/illustrations are by him.

Author : Brennen Jensen,Tom Chalkley
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439672686

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A History Lover's Guide to Baltimore by Brennen Jensen,Tom Chalkley Pdf

Neither southern nor northern, Baltimore has charted its own course through the American experience. The spires of the nation's first cathedral rose into its sky, and the first blood of the Civil War fell on its streets. Here, enslaved Frederick Douglass toiled before fleeing to freedom and Billie Holiday learned to sing. Baltimore's clippers plied the seven seas, while its pioneering railroads opened the prairie West. The city that birthed "The Star-Spangled Banner" also gave us Babe Ruth and the bottle cap. This guide navigates nearly three hundred years of colorful history--from Johns Hopkins's earnest philanthropy to the raucous camp of John Waters and from modest row houses to the marbled mansions of the Gilded Age. Let local authors Brennen Jensen and Tom Chalkley introduce you to Mencken's "ancient and solid" city.

Author : Maureen Keilty
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781594856884

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Best Hikes with Kids Colorado by Maureen Keilty Pdf

CLICK HERE to download two free hikes from Best Hikes with Kids Colorado * Guidebook to Colorado hikes selected for kids and their parents * Previously published as Best Hikes with Children in Colorado, this guidebook has a new title, a colorful new design including two-color throughout, and all new maps and photographs * More than 15 completely new hiking routes, and all route descriptions thoroughly updated From short, simple hikes in the foothills of Denver and Boulder to more challenging trails up majestic 14,000-foot peaks, Best Hikes with Kids: Colorado shows how to hit the trail with ease. Veteran guidebook writer and hiker Maureen Keilty describes the best trails all over the Rocky Mountain State, with hikes near Grand Junction, Durango, Colorado Springs, Vail, Crested Butte, and all along the Front Range. This guidebook includes a "Getaways" list to the best family-friendly destination campgrounds, and playful advice on engaging kids with nature. **Be sure to "like" author Maureen Keilty's Facebook page for tips, pictures, articles, contests and more!**

Author : Katherine Fama,Jorie Lagerwey
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781978828513

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Single Lives by Katherine Fama,Jorie Lagerwey Pdf

Inspired by the current public fascination with single women, Single Lives traces the relationship between modern and contemporary representations of single women. The original essays collected here analyze a broad range of texts that examine the ways films, cookbooks, archives, popular literature, and other British and American texts express norms, ideals, and challenges for single women and their relationship to dominant ideals of marriage and the family. This volume looks backwards to constellate existing scholarship, constituent fields, and unrecognized single voices and forward to consider new methods for interdisciplinary singles studies.

Author : Baoan Liu
Publisher : Baoan Liu
Page : 1572 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Baoan martial arts novels:Ten Years' Night Rain in Jianghu by Baoan Liu Pdf

Author : Byron Preiss
Publisher : ibooks
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Secret by Byron Preiss Pdf

The tale begins over three-hundred years ago, when the Fair People—the goblins, fairies, dragons, and other fabled and fantastic creatures of a dozen lands—fled the Old World for the New, seeking haven from the ways of Man. With them came their precious jewels: diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls... But then the Fair People vanished, taking with them their twelve fabulous treasures. And they remained hidden until now... Across North America, these twelve treasures, over ten-thousand dollars in precious jewels, are buried. The key to finding each can be found within the twelve full color paintings and verses of The Secret. Yet The Secret is much more than that. At long last, you can learn not only the whereabouts of the Fair People's treasure, but also the modern forms and hiding places of their descendants: the Toll Trolls, Maitre D'eamons, Elf Alphas, Tupperwerewolves, Freudian Sylphs, Culture Vultures, West Ghosts and other delightful creatures in the world around us. The Secret is a field guide to them all. Many "armchair treasure hunt" books have been published over the years, most notably Masquerade (1979) by British artist Kit Williams. Masquerade promised a jewel-encrusted golden hare to the first person to unravel the riddle that Williams cleverly hid in his art. In 1982, while everyone in Britain was still madly digging up hedgerows and pastures in search of the golden hare, The Secret: A Treasure Hunt was published in America. The previous year, author and publisher Byron Preiss had traveled to 12 locations in the continental U.S. (and possibly Canada) to secretly bury a dozen ceramic casques. Each casque contained a small key that could be redeemed for one of 12 jewels Preiss kept in a safe deposit box in New York. The key to finding the casques was to match one of 12 paintings to one of 12 poetic verses, solve the resulting riddle, and start digging. Since 1982, only two of the 12 casques have been recovered. The first was located in Grant Park, Chicago, in 1984 by a group of students. The second was unearthed in 2004 in Cleveland by two members of the Quest4Treasure forum. Preiss was killed in an auto accident in the summer of 2005, but the hunt for his casques continues.

Author : Ayelet Waldman
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385533553

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Love and Treasure by Ayelet Waldman Pdf

A spellbinding new novel of contraband masterpieces, tragic love, and the unexpected legacies of forgotten crimes, Ayelet Waldman’s Love and Treasure weaves a tale around the fascinating, true history of the Hungarian Gold Train in the Second World War. In 1945 on the outskirts of Salzburg, victorious American soldiers capture a train filled with unspeakable riches: piles of fine gold watches; mountains of fur coats; crates filled with wedding rings, silver picture frames, family heirlooms, and Shabbat candlesticks passed down through generations. Jack Wiseman, a tough, smart New York Jew, is the lieutenant charged with guarding this treasure—a responsibility that grows more complicated when he meets Ilona, a fierce, beautiful Hungarian who has lost everything in the ravages of the Holocaust. Seventy years later, amid the shadowy world of art dealers who profit off the sins of previous generations, Jack gives a necklace to his granddaughter, Natalie Stein, and charges her with searching for an unknown woman—a woman whose portrait and fate come to haunt Natalie, a woman whose secret may help Natalie to understand the guilt her grandfather will take to his grave and to find a way out of the mess she has made of her own life. A story of brilliantly drawn characters—a suave and shady art historian, a delusive and infatuated Freudian, a family of singing circus dwarfs fallen into the clutches of Josef Mengele, and desperate lovers facing choices that will tear them apart—Love and Treasure is Ayelet Waldman’s finest novel to date: a sad, funny, richly detailed work that poses hard questions about the value of precious things in a time when life itself has no value, and about the slenderest of chains that can bind us to the griefs and passions of the past. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.

Author : W.C. Jameson
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781589796324

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Lost Treasures of American History by W.C. Jameson Pdf

With his storyteller's gift, Jameson relates episodes from early explorers through the colonial period, the Civil War, the settling of the West, and the roaring 1920s. As a professional treasure hunter, he has followed the trails of many of the lost mines and buried treasures he describes. Sample treasures include Sir Francis Drake Treasure, Benedict Arnold Treasure, Lafayette's Sunken Riches, Maryland's Lost Silver Mine, The Wandering Confederate Treasury, Lost Treasure of the Gray Ghost, Oklahoma Outlaw Cache, and Lost Spanish Gold in the Sandia Mountains.

Author : Jane Kirkpatrick
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307459299

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A Flickering Light by Jane Kirkpatrick Pdf

Returning to her Midwest roots, award-winning author Jane Kirkpatrick draws a page from her grandmother's photo album to capture the interplay between shadow and light, temptation and faith that marks a woman's pursuit of her dreams. She took exquisite photographs, but her heart was the true image exposed. Fifteen-year-old Jessie Ann Gaebele loves nothing more than capturing a gorgeous Minnesota landscape when the sunlight casts its most mesmerizing shadows. So when F.J. Bauer hires her in 1907 to assist in his studio and darkroom, her dreams for a career in photography appear to find root in reality. With the infamous hazards of the explosive powder used for lighting and the toxic darkroom chemicals, photography is considered a man' s profession. Yet Jessie shows remarkable talent in both the artistry and business of running a studio. She proves less skillful, however, at managing her growing attraction to the very married Mr. Bauer. This luminous coming-of-age tale deftly exposes the intricate shadows that play across every dream worth pursuing–and the irresistible light that beckons the dreamer on.

Author : David Bordwell
Publisher : McGraw Hill
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780077159269

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EBOOK: Film Art: An Introduction by David Bordwell Pdf

Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's Film Art has been the best-selling and most widely respected introduction to the analysis of cinema. Taking a skills-centered approach supported by examples from many periods and countries, the authors help students develop a core set of analytical skills that will enrich their understanding of any film, in any genre. In-depth examples deepen students’ appreciation for how creative choices by filmmakers affect what viewers experience and how they respond. Film Art is generously illustrated with more than 1,000 frame enlargements taken directly from completed films, providing concrete illustrations of key concepts.

Author : Theodore Roszak
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781569769928

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Flicker by Theodore Roszak Pdf

From the golden age of art movies and underground cinema to X-rated porn, splatter films, and midnight movies, this breathtaking thriller is a tour de force of cinematic fact and fantasy, full of metaphysical mysteries that will haunt the dreams of every moviegoer. Jonathan Gates could not have anticipated that his student studies would lead him to uncover the secret history of the movies—a tale of intrigue, deception, and death that stretches back to the 14th century. But he succumbs to what will be a lifelong obsession with the mysterious Max Castle, a nearly forgotten genius of the silent screen who later became the greatest director of horror films, only to vanish in the 1940s, at the height of his talent. Now, 20 years later, as Jonathan seeks the truth behind Castle's disappearance, the innocent entertainments of his youth—the sexy sirens, the screwball comedies, the high romance—take on a sinister appearance. His tortured quest takes him from Hollywood's Poverty Row into the shadowy lore of ancient religious heresies. He encounters a cast of exotic characters, including Orson Welles and John Huston, who teach him that there's more to film than meets the eye, and journeys through the dark side of nostalgia, where the Three Stooges and Shirley Temple join company with an alien god whose purposes are anything but entertainment.

Author : William Maltese
Publisher : Savant Books and Publications
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780984555246

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William Maltese's Flicker by William Maltese Pdf

William Maltese's Flicker-#1 Book of Answers chronicles the rise of one all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful teenage Grand Master Magician, and the battles fought by old and young, by magic (black and white), by demons, beasts and humans.

Author : Janice Halladay
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798885052337

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Death Treasures by Janice Halladay Pdf

While searching for a lost Spanish treasure believed to be in the Pike National Forest in Colorado, two friends are catapulted into a terrifying search in an alternate time dimension. Large creatures occupy this dimension along with the Sasquatch, once known by local tribes as Watchers. Journey along with the two treasure hunters in their dangerous quest for the King's treasure.

Author : Ron Quinn
Publisher : BZB Publishing, Inc.
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781939050403

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Searching for Arizona's Buried Treasures by Ron Quinn Pdf

Searching for hidden treasures in the Tubac and Tumacocori mountains, few have ever heard of, we discovered places that have never been visited by others to this day. The four of us finally unearthed a medium-size buried treasure south of Tucson, Arizona, which consisted of 82 pounds of Spanish gold bullion.