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Author : Roy Horniman
Publisher : Dean Street Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1913054756
A work of crime fiction, first published in 1907
Author : Roy Horniman
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571315451
'There is an old saying, 'Murder will out.' I am really unable to see why this should be so...' Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal (1907) inspired the classic Ealing film Kind Hearts and Coronets. But though both works are comedies about a serial murderer, they are different creatures. The eponymous narrator of Roy Horniman's novel, son of a Jewish commercial traveller, offers his memoirs from the condemned cell , having murdered six people who stood between him and an earldom he hoped to inherit. Through Israel's story Horniman explores and parodies the anti-Semitic attitudes of Edwardian England. 'A superb thriller, but also a disturbing study in human nature. The narrative pace never slackens, thanks to the spareness and elegance of Horniman's prose... it is a book of its time, quite faithful to it, and (despite its 400 pages) over all too quickly.' Simon Heffer, in his Preface
Author : Roy Horniman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010587066
Author : Michael Newton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838716608
In 'Kind Hearts and Coronets' (1949), Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) schemes and murders his way to a dukedom. This title looks into the turbulent personalities that formed the complex style of this film to unravel the fusion of cynicism, contempt, sparkling wit and philosophical curiosity.
Author : Roy Horniman
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1499176813
First published in 1907 Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal is perhaps best known as the inspiration for the classic Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets, which was voted the seventh greatest British film of all time by readers of Total Film magazine in 2004. It has often been suggested that Israel Rank is an anti-Semitic novel but this is untrue. What Horniman does is to use his characters and the novel's plot as a vehicle to explore and parody the anti-Semitism that was rife in Edwardian England. While part of the success of the novel is due to the film's cult status Israel Rank remains a classic comedic novel that explores the antithesis of conventional morality - in short it is a comedy about a serial killer.
Author : Charles Barr
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520215540
A study of British filmmaking
Author : Amy Sargeant
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838714765
Although new writing and research on British cinema has burgeoned over the last fifteen years, there has been a continued lack of single-authored books providing a coherent overview to this fascinating and elusive national cinema. Amy Sargeant's personal and entertaining history of British cinema aims to fill this gap. With its insightful decade-by-decade analysis, British Cinema is brought alive for a new generation of British cinema students and the general reader alike. Sargeant challenges Rachel Low's premise 'that few of the films made in England during the twenties were any good' by covering subjects as diverse as the art of intertitling, the narrative complexities of Shooting Stars and Brunel's burlesques. Sargeant goes onto examine among other things, the differing acting styles of Dietrich and Donat in the seminal Knight Without Armour to early promotional campaigns in the 1930s, whereas subjects ranging from product endorsement by stars to the character of the suburban wife are covered in the 1940s. The 1950s includes topics such as the effect of post-war government intervention, to Free Cinema and Lindsay Anderson's 'infuriating lapses of rigour', together with a much-needed overview of Michael Balcon's contribution to British cinema. For Sargeant, the 1960s provides an overview of the tentative relationship between film and advertising and the rise of young Turks such as Tony Richardson, Ken Loach, Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg.
Author : Donald W. McCaffrey
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810825074
Explores over four decades of satirical and dark comedy films.
Author : Brian Killick
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0241024153
Author : Francesca Aran Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199219285
This is a challenging critique of narrative theologies. Murphy argues that the widespread notion that the role of the theologian it so 'tell God's story' has not helped theology to advance the reality of its doctrines. She offers her own alternative approach, making use of cinema and film theory.
Author : Katherine Ebury
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030527501
This book examines how the cultural and ethical power of literature allowed writers and readers to reflect on the practice of capital punishment in the UK, Ireland and the US between 1890 and 1950. It explores how connections between ‘high’ and ‘popular’ culture seem particularly inextricable where the death penalty is at stake, analysing a range of forms including major works of canonical literature, detective fiction, plays, polemics, criminological and psychoanalytic tracts and letters and memoirs. The book addresses conceptual understandings of the modern death penalty, including themes such as confession, the gothic, life-writing and the human-animal binary. It also discusses the role of conflict in shaping the representation of capital punishment, including chapters on the Easter Rising, on World War I, on colonial and quasi-colonial conflict and on World War II. Ebury’s overall approach aims to improve our understanding of the centrality of the death penalty and the role it played in major twentieth century literary movements and historical events.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : 1567922953
What is the origin of the word "book"? What is the oldest working library still in existence? What is an "enchiridion"? An "amphigory"? A "duodecimo"? Which two Nobel laureates refused the prize in literature? How many trees must sacrifice their lives to produce a thousand copies of a 96-page volume of verse? These are some of the questions posed (and answered) in this fascinating farrago of literary trivia, a treasure trove of obscure and irresistible facts, definitions, lists, and quotations that touch on every aspect of books, including their authors, publishers, printers, collectors, critics, readers, and enemies. Under headings that explore the entire history of bibliomania from "The Invention of Paper" to "Some Horror Writers' Offcial Websites," the entries in Bibliotopia provide the insatiably curious reader a delightfully desultory literary education, the kind one might pick up at a cocktail party on Parnassus.
Author : George Eliot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : England
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1RGD
Author : Robert Murphy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838715335
A guide to directors who have worked in the British and Irish film industries between 1895 and 2005. Each of its 980 entries on individuals directors gives a resume of the director's career, evaluates their achievements and provides a complete filmography. It is useful for those interested in film-making in Britain and Ireland.
Author : Jonathan Meades
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781783529513
This landmark publication collects three decades of writing from one of the most original, provocative and consistently entertaining voices of our time. Anyone who cares about language and culture should have this book in their life. Thirty years ago, Jonathan Meades published a volume of reportorial journalism, essays, criticism, squibs and fictions called Peter Knows What Dick Likes. The critic James Wood was moved to write: ‘When journalism is like this, journalism and literature become one.’ Pedro and Ricky Come Again is every bit as rich and catholic as its predecessor. It is bigger, darker, funnier, and just as impervious to taste and manners. It bristles with wit and pin-sharp eloquence, whether Meades is contemplating northernness in a German forest or hymning the virtues of slang. From the indefensibility of nationalism and the ubiquitous abuse of the word ‘iconic’, to John Lennon’s shopping lists and the wine they call Black Tower, the work assembled here demonstrates Meades's unparalleled range and erudition, with pieces on cities, artists, sex, England, concrete, politics and much, much more.