How I Escaped From Gilligan S Island

Author : William Froug
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780879728731

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How I Escaped from Gilligan's Island by William Froug Pdf

In the early 1950s writers were leaving radio en masse to try their hand at another promising medium—television. William Froug was in the thick of that exodus, a young man full of ideas in a Hollywood bursting with opportunities. In his forty-year career Froug would write and/or produce many of the shows that America has grown up with. From the drama of Playhouse 90 and the mind-bending premises of The Twilight Zone to the escapist scenarios of Adventures in Paradise, Gilligan’s Island, Bewitched, and Charlie’s Angels, Froug played a role in shaping his trade. He crossed paths with some of the memorable personalities in the industry, including Jack Benny, Lucille Ball, Agnes Moorehead, Elizabeth Montgomery, Robert Blake, Rod Serling, Gene Roddenberry, Aaron Spelling, and Sherwood Schwartz. Froug reveals a post-WWII America giddy with the success of its newest medium—yet sobered at moments by strikes and union politics, McCarthyism and anti-Semitism. It was a world of hastily written scripts, sudden firings, thwarted creativity, and fickle tastes. And yet, while clearly exasperated with many aspects of Hollywood, Froug was a man utterly in his element, his frustration with the industry ultimately eclipsed by his dedication to his craft.

Author : Walter Metz
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814336472

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Gilligan's Island by Walter Metz Pdf

An analysis of the under-studied sitcom Gilligan’s Island that addresses key questions about American social life in the 1960s.

Author : Steve McConnell
Publisher : Microsoft Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996-07-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780735646360

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Rapid Development by Steve McConnell Pdf

Corporate and commercial software-development teams all want solutions for one important problem—how to get their high-pressure development schedules under control. In RAPID DEVELOPMENT, author Steve McConnell addresses that concern head-on with overall strategies, specific best practices, and valuable tips that help shrink and control development schedules and keep projects moving. Inside, you’ll find: A rapid-development strategy that can be applied to any project and the best practices to make that strategy work Candid discussions of great and not-so-great rapid-development practices—estimation, prototyping, forced overtime, motivation, teamwork, rapid-development languages, risk management, and many others A list of classic mistakes to avoid for rapid-development projects, including creeping requirements, shortchanged quality, and silver-bullet syndrome Case studies that vividly illustrate what can go wrong, what can go right, and how to tell which direction your project is going RAPID DEVELOPMENT is the real-world guide to more efficient applications development.

Author : William J. Smith
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781365930782

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Escape From Nowhere Island by William J. Smith Pdf

A story about three children who take their family's new motor-boat for a joyride one night and get lost at sea when they get tossed off their boat by a violent storm.They find themselves on a tropical island, where they must depend on each other, and help each other out of sticky situations in order to survive, and one day, get home to their fam

Author : Roderick Sloan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781329437494

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ESCAPE FROM DINO ISLAND by Roderick Sloan Pdf

Author : Gordon Korman
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545630764

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Escape (Island Trilogy, Book 3) by Gordon Korman Pdf

The third installment in the survival suspense series Island, from bestelling and award-winning author Gordon Korman. Things were bad enough when Luke, Lyssa, Will, J.J., Ian, and Charla were stuck alone on the island. But now they have company -- really bad company. Plus, Will is seriously injured and needs help immediately. Before, escape was something the kids could only hope for. Now it's a matter of life and death.

Author : Surazeus Astarius
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780359845125

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White Whole by Surazeus Astarius Pdf

""White Whole"" presents 1,136 lyrics, pastorals, satires, elegies, and narrative poems written in 2018 by Surazeus that explore the evolution of the universe since the First Flash from the White Whole.

Author : Joanne Morreale
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0815629834

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Critiquing the Sitcom by Joanne Morreale Pdf

This is the first anthology that examines the TV sitcom in terms of its treatment of gender, family, class, race, and ethnic issues. The selections range from early shows such as I Remember Mama (George Lipsitz’s “Why Remember Mama? The Changing Face of a Woman’s Narrative”) to the more recent Roseanne (Kathleen Rowe Karlyn’s “Roseanne: Unruly Woman as a Domestic Goddess”). The volume also looks unflinchingly at major controversies; for example, the NAACP boycott of the stereotypical yet wildly popular Amos ‘n’ Andy and the queer reading of Laverne and Shirley. These diverse essays constitute a veritable history of postwar American mores. Some are classic, some forgotten, but all indicate the importance of considering text and subtext (social, historic, industrial) in the critical study of television. A final chapter by Joanne Morreale bids sitcoms adieu with the “cultural spectacle of Seinfeld’s last episode.”

Author : Sherwood Schwartz
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786484881

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Inside Gilligan's Island by Sherwood Schwartz Pdf

While every new TV series has to face some problems, no show had to overcome greater obstacles than Gilligan's Island. In spite of that, no series has achieved greater success, as measured by the fact that Gilligan's Island has given rise to three TV movies, two animated series, and is the most rerun program in the entire history of television. Now, Sherwood Schwartz, creator, writer, and producer of Gilligan's Island, tells the life story of the show: from the labor pains of scripting, casting, and production to its golden years of afternoon reruns. Fascinating history that could be known only by the show's creator is enhanced by wonderful photos, sketches, and other illustrations from the author's personal collection, as well as the guest forewords by all seven "Castaways." An appendix lists plots, writers and directors for every episode. All this behind-the-scenes information makes the book a special treat, not only for fans, but for anyone interested in an inside look at the television industry.

Author : Barney Samson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030570460

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Desert Islands and the Liquid Modern by Barney Samson Pdf

This book investigates desert islands in postwar anglophone popular culture, exploring representations in radio, print and screen advertising, magazine cartoons, cinema, video games, and comedy, drama and reality television. Drawing on Zygmunt Bauman’s theory of liquid modernity, desert island texts are analysed in terms of their intersections with repressive and seductive mechanisms of power. Chapters focus on the desert island as: a conflictingly in/coherent space that characterises identity as deferred and structured by choice; a location whose ‘remoteness’ undermines satirical critiques of communal identity formation; a site whose ambivalent relationship with ‘home’ and Otherness destabilises patriarchal ‘Western’ subjectivity; a space bound up with mobility and instantaneity; and an expression of radical individuality and underdetermined identity. The desert island in popular culture is shown to reflect, endorse and critique a profoundly consumerist society that seduces us with promises of coherence, with the threat of repression looming if we do not conform.

Author : Matthew Hayward,Maebh Long
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000576610

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New Oceania by Matthew Hayward,Maebh Long Pdf

For so long figured in European discourses as the antithesis of modernity, the Pacific Islands have remained all but absent from the modernist studies’ critical map. Yet, as the chapters of New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific collectively show, Pacific artists and writers have been as creatively engaged in the construction and representation of modernity as any of their global counterparts. In the second half of the twentieth century, driving a still ongoing process of decolonisation, Pacific Islanders forged an extraordinary cultural and artistic movement. Integrating Indigenous aesthetics, forms, and techniques with a range of other influences — realist novels, avant-garde poetry, anti-colonial discourse, biblical verse, Indian mythology, American television, Bollywood film — Pacific artists developed new creative registers to express the complexity of the region’s transnational modernities. New Oceania presents the first sustained account of the modernist dimensions of this period, while presenting timely reflections on the ideological and methodological limitations of the global modernism rubric. Breaking new critical ground, it brings together scholars from a range of backgrounds to demonstrate the relevance of modernism for Pacific scholars, and the relevance of Pacific literature for modernist scholars.

Author : Stephen A. Royle
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781780234014

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Islands by Stephen A. Royle Pdf

From Charles Darwin’s enlightening voyage to the Galapagos Islands to moat-encased prisons incarcerating the world’s deadliest prisoners, islands have been sites of immense scientific, political, and creative importance. An inspiration for artists and writers, they can be lively centers of holiday revelry or remote, mysterious spots; places of escape or of exile and imprisonment. In this cultural and scientific history of these alluring, isolated territories, Stephen A. Royle describes the great variety of islands, their economies, and the animals, plants, and people who thrive on them. Royle shows that despite the view of some islands as earthly paradises, they are often beset by severe limitations in both resources and opportunities. Detailing the population loss many islands have faced in recent years, he considers how islanders have developed their homes into tourist destinations in order to combat economic instability. He also explores their exotic, otherworldly beauty and the ways they have provided both refuge and inspiration for artists, such as Paul Gauguin in Tahiti and George Orwell on the Scottish island of Jura. Filled with illustrations, Islands is a compelling and comprehensive survey of the geographical and cultural aspects of island life.

Author : Brad Whittington
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780805431599

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Escape from Fred by Brad Whittington Pdf

Third in the Series about Fred, in this one Mark leaves Fred, setting out on a pilgimage with no goal, unsure if the road will offer enlightenment or oblivion.

Author : Gordon Korman
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0439164524

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Escape by Gordon Korman Pdf

Things were bad enough when Luke, Lyssa, Will, J.J. Ian, and Charla were stuck alone on the island. But now they have company-really bad company. Plus, Will is seriously injured and needs help immediately. Before, escape was something the kids could only hope for. Now it's a matter of life and death.

Author : Kathleen Tailer
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781488061370

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Everglades Escape by Kathleen Tailer Pdf

Pursued by a drug ring, she depends on a stranger to survive. US marshal Whitney Johnson’s peaceful vacation explodes when drug dealers interrupt her wildlife tour and she overhears information that could destroy their operation. After a daring escape, she washes up on a remote island. Reclusive scientist Theo Roberts didn’t expect danger on his doorstep, but he’ll help Whitney face it. With killers edging closer, will a route through the Everglades lead to safety—or end their lives?