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In Capra's Shadow

Author : Ian Scott
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813159669

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In Capra's Shadow by Ian Scott Pdf

Because screenwriter Robert Riskin spent most of his career collaborating with legendary Hollywood director Frank Capra, Riskin's own unique contributions to film have been largely overshadowed. With five Academy Award nominations to his credit for the monumental films Lady for a Day, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can't Take It with You, Here Comes the Groom, and It Happened One Night (for which he won the Oscar), Riskin is often imitated but rarely equaled. In Capra's Shadow: The Life and Career of Screenwriter Robert Riskin is the first detailed critical examination of the Hollywood pioneer's life and work. In addition to being one of the great screenwriters of the classic Hollywood era, Riskin was also a producer and director, founding his own film company and playing a crucial role in the foundation of the Screen Writers Guild. During World War II, Riskin was one of the major forces behind propaganda filmmaking. He worked in the Office of War Information and oversaw the distribution -- and later, production -- of films and documentaries in foreign theaters. He was interested in showing the rest of the world more than just an idealized version of America; he looked for films that emphasized the spiritual and cultural vibrancy within the U.S., making charity, faith, and generosity of spirit his propaganda tools. His efforts also laid the groundwork for a system of distribution channels that would result in the dominance of American cinema in Europe in the postwar years. Riskin's postwar work included his production of the 1947 film Magic Town, the tale of a marketing executive who discovers the perfect American small town and uses it for polling. What Riskin created onscreen is not simply a community stuck in an antiquarian past; rather, the town of Grandview observes its own traditions while at the same time confronting the possibilities of the modern world and the challenges of postwar America. Author Ian Scott provides a unique perspective on Riskin and the ways in which his brilliant, pithy style was realized in Capra's enduring films. Riskin's impact on cinema extended far beyond these films as he helped spread Hollywood cinema abroad and articulated his vision of a changing America.

Warning Shadows: Home Alone with Classic Cinema

Author : Gary Giddins
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0393339009

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Warning Shadows: Home Alone with Classic Cinema by Gary Giddins Pdf

A brilliantly insightful and witty examination of beloved and little-known films, directors, and stars by one of America’s most esteemed critics. In his illuminating new work, Gary Giddins explores the evolution of film, from the first moving pictures and peepshows to the digital era of DVDs and online video-streaming. New technologies have changed our experience of cinema forever; we have peeled away from the crowded theater to be home alone with classic cinema. Recounting the technological developments that films have undergone, Warning Shadows travels through time and across genres to explore the impact of the industry’s most famous classics and forgotten gems. Essays such as “Houdini Escapes! From the Vaults! Of the Past!,” “Edward G. Robinson, See,” and “Prestige and Pretension (Pride and Prejudice)” capture the wit and magic of classic cinema. Each chapter—ranging from the horror films of Hitchcock to the fantastical frames of Disney—provides readers with engaging analyses of influential films and the directors and actors who made them possible.

Another Frank Capra

Author : Leland Poague
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780521380669

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Another Frank Capra by Leland Poague Pdf

Another Frank Capra offers a new interpretation of the great Hollywood director beyond the patriotic sentimentalist or the cynical opportunist that he has been taken for. Often cast as a cinematic simpleton or primitive, Capra's exploitation of the stylistic and narrative resources of cinema was, in fact, extremely self-conscious and adventurous in ways typical of artistic modernism. His modernism is also evident in his repeated and strong identification with female characters. Informed by recent work in genre theory and feminist psychology, Another Frank Capra shows Capra to be a 'proto-feminist' director whose feminism has been entirely neglected by previous critics.

Gun Crazy

Author : Jim Kitses
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838716059

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Gun Crazy by Jim Kitses Pdf

Joseph H. Lewis's 'Gun Crazy' is the story of two young lovers who embark on a crime spree. For this book, Kitses researched widely into the film production's history and explored its connection to the crime film tradition and to the dark underside of American society.

The Shadow of Extinction

Author : Jeremy Mallinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Nature
ISBN : IND:30000121538098

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The Shadow of Extinction by Jeremy Mallinson Pdf

Mannal case histories. Insectivora. Chiroptera. Rodentia. Cetacea. Carnivora. Pinnipedia. Artidactyla.

In Sunlight And In Shadow

Author : Mark Helprin
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547819259

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In Sunlight And In Shadow by Mark Helprin Pdf

An epic love story set in post-war New York, by the best-selling author of Winter's Tale. In the summer of 1946, New York City pulses with energy. Harry Copeland, a World War II veteran, has returned home to run the family business. Yet his life is upended by a single encounter with the young singer and heiress Catherine Thomas Hale, as each falls for the other in an instant. They pursue one another in a romance played out in Broadway theaters, Long Island mansions, the offices of financiers, and the haunts of gangsters. Catherine’s choice of Harry over her longtime fiancé endangers Harry’s livelihood and threatens his life. In the end, Harry must summon the strength of his wartime experience to fight for Catherine, and risk everything. “In its storytelling heft, its moral rectitude, the solemn magnificence of its writing and the splendor of its hymns to New York City, [In Sunlight and in Shadow] is a spiritual pendant to Winter’s Tale and every bit as extraordinary...Even the most stubbornly resistant readers will soon be disarmed by the nobility of the novel’s sentiments and seduced by the pure music of its prose.”—Wall Street Journal

Dizionario Italiano Ed Inglese. A Dictionary Italian and English, Containing All the Words of the Vocabulary Della Crusca and Several Hundred More Taken from the Most Approved Authors; with Proverbs and Familiar Phrases, to which is Prefix'd a Table of Authors, Quoted in this Work... By Ferdinand Altieri, ..

Author : Ferdinando Altieri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1751
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNR:CR102018885

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Dizionario Italiano Ed Inglese. A Dictionary Italian and English, Containing All the Words of the Vocabulary Della Crusca and Several Hundred More Taken from the Most Approved Authors; with Proverbs and Familiar Phrases, to which is Prefix'd a Table of Authors, Quoted in this Work... By Ferdinand Altieri, .. by Ferdinando Altieri Pdf

American Vision

Author : Raymond Carney
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1986-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0521326192

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American Vision by Raymond Carney Pdf

Professor Carney analyses Frank Capra's life as well as the broad cultural context of his films.

Frank Capra

Author : Joseph McBride
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781604738391

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Frank Capra by Joseph McBride Pdf

Moviegoers often assume Frank Capra's life resembled his beloved films (such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life). A man of the people faces tremendous odds and, by doing the right thing, triumphs! But as Joseph McBride reveals in this meticulously researched, definitive biography, the reality was far more complex, a true American tragedy. Using newly declassified U.S. government documents about Capra's response to being considered a possible “subversive” during the post-World War II Red Scare, McBride adds a final chapter to his unforgettable portrait of the man who gave us It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, and Meet John Doe.

Dashiell Hammett and the Movies

Author : William H. Mooney
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813573045

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Dashiell Hammett and the Movies by William H. Mooney Pdf

As the father of the hardboiled detective genre, Dashiell Hammett had a huge influence on Hollywood. Yet, it is easy to forget how adaptable Hammett’s work was, fitting into a variety of genres and inspiring generations of filmmakers. Dashiell Hammett and the Movies offers the first comprehensive look at Hammett’s broad oeuvre and how it was adapted into films from the 1930s all the way into the 1990s. Film scholar William H. Mooney reveals the wide range of films crafted from the same Hammett novels, as when The Maltese Falcon was filmed first as a pre-Code sexploitation movie, then as a Bette Davis screwball comedy, and finally as the Humphrey Bogart classic. He also considers how Hammett rose to Hollywood fame not through the genre most associated with him, but through a much fizzier concoction, the witty murder mystery The Thin Man. To demonstrate the hold Hammett still has over contemporary filmmakers, the book culminates in an examination of the Coen brothers’ pastiche Miller’s Crossing. Mooney not only provides us with an in-depth analysis of Hammett adaptations, he also chronicles how Hollywood enabled the author’s own rise to stardom, complete with a celebrity romance and a carefully crafted public persona. Giving us a behind-the-scenes look at the complex power relationships, cultural contexts, and production concerns involved in bringing Hammett’s work from the page to the screen, Dashiell Hammett and the Movies offers a fresh take on a literary titan.

The Jazz of Physics

Author : Stephon Alexander
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780465098507

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The Jazz of Physics by Stephon Alexander Pdf

More than fifty years ago, John Coltrane drew the twelve musical notes in a circle and connected them by straight lines, forming a five-pointed star. Inspired by Einstein, Coltrane put physics and geometry at the core of his music. Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander follows suit, using jazz to answer physics' most vexing questions about the past and future of the universe. Following the great minds that first drew the links between music and physics-a list including Pythagoras, Kepler, Newton, Einstein, and Rakim-The Jazz of Physics reveals that the ancient poetic idea of the Music of the Spheres," taken seriously, clarifies confounding issues in physics. The Jazz of Physics will fascinate and inspire anyone interested in the mysteries of our universe, music, and life itself.

The Systems View of Life

Author : Fritjof Capra,Pier Luigi Luisi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107011366

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The Systems View of Life by Fritjof Capra,Pier Luigi Luisi Pdf

The first volume to integrate life's biological, cognitive, social, and ecological dimensions into a single, coherent framework.

CinemaTexas Notes

Author : Louis Black,Collins Swords
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781477315446

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CinemaTexas Notes by Louis Black,Collins Swords Pdf

Austin’s thriving film culture, renowned for international events such as SXSW and the Austin Film Festival, extends back to the early 1970s when students in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin ran a film programming unit that screened movies for students and the public. Dubbed CinemaTexas, the program offered viewers a wide variety of films—old and new, mainstream, classic, and cult—at a time when finding and watching films after their first run was very difficult and prohibitively expensive. For each film, RTF graduate students wrote program notes that included production details, a sampling of critical reactions, and an original essay that placed the film and its director within context and explained the movie’s historical significance. Over time, CinemaTexas Program Notes became more ambitious and were distributed around the world, including to luminaries such as film critic Pauline Kael. This anthology gathers a sampling of CinemaTexas Program Notes, organized into four sections: “USA Film History,” “Hollywood Auteurs,” “Cinema-Fist: Renegade Talents,” and “America’s Shadow Cinema.” Many of the note writers have become prominent film studies scholars, as well as leading figures in the film, TV, music, and video game industries. As a collection, CinemaTexas Notes strongly contradicts the notion of an effortlessly formed American film canon, showing instead how local film cultures—whether in Austin, New York, or Europe—have forwarded the development of film studies as a discipline.

The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History

Author : Peter Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 913 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199589531

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The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History by Peter Clark Pdf

In 2008 for the first time the majority of the planet's inhabitants lived in cities and towns. Becoming globally urban has been one of mankind's greatest collective achievements over time. Written by leading scholar, this is the first detailed survey of the world's cities and towns from ancient times to the present day.

New Age Religion and Western Culture

Author : Wouter J. Hanegraaff
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004378933

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New Age Religion and Western Culture by Wouter J. Hanegraaff Pdf

Recent years have seen a spectacular rise of the New Age movement and an ever-increasing interest in its beliefs and manifestations. This fascinating work presents the first-ever comprehensive analysis of New Age Religion and its historical backgrounds, thus providing the reader with a means of orientation in the bewildering variety of the movement. Making extensive use of primary sources, the author thematically analyses New Age beliefs from the perspective of the study of religions. While looking at the historical backgrounds of the movement, he convincingly argues that its foundations were laid by so-called western esoteric traditions during the Renaissance. Hanegraaff finally shows how the modern New Age movement emerged from the increasing secularization of those esoteric traditions during the 19th century. This ground-breaking publication is compulsive reading for all those involved or interested in the New Age movement.