Night Butterflies Of The Silver Screen

Author : Artur Friedberg
Publisher : New Generation Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781785074592

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Night butterflies of the silver screen by Artur Friedberg Pdf

At the first glance the novel could have been classified as a thriller, with suspense and sensual plot that at least partly is set in an environment of soft porno movie production in London, at the time of end of 1980s, including elements of mafia and IRA activities. Nonetheless, there was cleverly 'smuggled' a great deal of information about the work of cameraman, as well as of director while rehearsing with the actors or carrying out shooting of the movie. Further on, it entertains with real and anecdotic information about the cinematic environment. Besides, the novel is bringing a spectrum of information about writing a script for a historical movie and development of the concept of its realization. While doing so, it is also building up a reflective view over 15s century French poet Francois Villon; his personality and highly original oeuvre. The main thread of the contemporary action of the novel drifts towards the historical one, and in a way, they become tragically connected.

Author : Ninie Hammon
Publisher : Sterling & Stone LLC
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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When Butterflies Cry by Ninie Hammon Pdf

When the dam explodes, only a little girl who was never really there at all can save them. Grayson Addington comes home to Saddler Hollow, West Virginia, from Vietnam a broken man, ravaged by post-traumatic stress disorder, a chaplain who left his faith in the jungle mud with his massacred unit. In his absence, his wife, Piper, turned to his brother Carter for support. Now, she must choose between them—and Carter will stop at nothing to have her. Into this family torn apart by jealousy, greed, and clan loyalties comes a mysterious little girl. Maggie, a battered child with amnesia, shows up on the Addington's front porch and instantly bonds to Sadie, Piper, and Grayson’s cripplingly shy toddler. When Maggie runs away and takes Sadie with her, the warring brothers must team up to search for them. Then the real horror begins. Sadie is trapped in the rocks out of her father's reach beneath a dam about to explode. Grayson will have to stand there and watch her drown ... unless the child called Maggie is much more than she seems. From suspense author and former journalist Ninie Hammon comes this spellbinding story of ordinary people whose tangled lives are marked by the specter of an impending disaster, and haunted by the mystery of a magical child. If you enjoy rich, believable real-life characters, ever-tightening tension, and a breath-taking surprise ending--coupled with Hammon’s trademark dusting of “the unexplainable”, When Butterflies Cry will keep you turning pages far into the night.

Author : Kang-i Sun Chang,Haun Saussy,Charles Yim-tze Kwong
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0804732310

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Women Writers of Traditional China by Kang-i Sun Chang,Haun Saussy,Charles Yim-tze Kwong Pdf

The book also includes an extended section of criticism by and about women writers.

Author : John Shirley
Publisher : Start Publishing LLC
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781633553620

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Black Butterflies by John Shirley Pdf

This collection of gritty and intense short stories compares the horrors of the real world to those of the supernatural. Winner of the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : NYPL:33433036421729

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Silver Screen by Anonim Pdf

Author : L.T. Marie
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781602828018

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One Touch by L.T. Marie Pdf

Jaime Rivers, author of the popular romance series, The Quest, survived an accident that nearly took her life. Cajoled into accepting an invitation for a seven-day cruise to celebrate her ten-year high school reunion, she comes face-to-face with her past when the woman of her dreams haunts her days on the warm seas, even as she struggles to keep a secret that tears at her heart. Sierra Connor works for the travel agency responsible for booking her high school reunion cruise. She doesn’t want to attend the reunion in the first place because one woman will be there—the one who always made her feel whole but then disappeared and left Sierra’s heart and soul crushed without so much as a word. She knows love is for people who can trust, and she’s not one of those people. It was only one touch, ten years ago. Forced together once more, will the memory of that one touch ignite a new future? Or will their old hurts quench the flame?

Author : Bailey Cattrell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698407190

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Nightshade for Warning by Bailey Cattrell Pdf

The second Enchanted Garden Mystery from Bailey Cattrell—author of the New York Times bestselling Magical Bakery Mysteries as Bailey Cates. Elliana Allbright’s custom-made perfume shop and the Enchanted Garden behind it are garnering all sorts of attention, but a dead body could bury her in bad publicity. . . . Ellie’s business and personal life have been flourishing in her hometown of Poppyville, California, since she opened Scents & Nonsense. She uses her very special skills to craft perfumes that almost magically ease heartache, inspire change, and bring joy—and her customers love to relax in the beautiful garden behind her shop with her corgi, Dash, and her cat, Nabokov. She even lives right next to the garden, in a compact “tiny house”—and she’s excited to hear that a journalist is going to write a feature about her home and garden for a national magazine. But then the journalist is found dead, and suspicion falls on the last person to see him—who just happens to be Ellie’s brother’s girlfriend. So before everything goes to seed, Ellie must rely on her powers—observational and otherwise—to pick out the real killer from an ever-expanding bouquet of culprits. . . .

Author : Alfred Charles Richard
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1992-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029158832

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The Hispanic Image on the Silver Screen by Alfred Charles Richard Pdf

This is the first collection of more than 1,800 films dealing with Hispanic topics, themes, and characters arranged chronologically from 1898 to 1935, with indepth annotations, cross-references and four separate indexes. This is a study of Hollywood's treatment of Hispanics worldwide, those living in South, Central and North America, the Philippines and Spain. Employing a historical framework, the author has organized the work for those interested in assessing the effects that motion pictures have had on the viewing public in establishing and perpetuating accepted stereotypes. The role of censorship, the Production Code Administration, the Motion Picture Society of the Americas, the Latin American market, and Hollywood's version of Hispanic history are fully covered. The Black Legend of Hispanic barbarity has existed in literature since the sixteenth century. The early film makers, and later Hollywood, merely transferred the Black Legend to the silver screen and continued the accepted point of view created since the first conflict between England and Spain for supremacy in the Caribbean. This work also shows the relationship between film and foreign policy, how films have frequently justified and glorified North American intervention in the affairs of the Latin nations throughout the Americas. Each entry includes a brief scenario which details the film's Hispanic connection: a stereotype, a historic interpretation, a specific nation, associated behavior or attitudes, a list of the Hispanic actors and actresses. Reviews, bibliographic citations and archival locations are provided.

Author : Elizabeth Garver Jordan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Death
ISBN : UOM:39015020087139

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Black Butterflies by Elizabeth Garver Jordan Pdf

Author : J. E. Rivers,Charles Nicol
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781477302880

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Nabokov's Fifth Arc by J. E. Rivers,Charles Nicol Pdf

In his autobiography Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov compared his life to a spiral, in which “twirl follows twirl, and every synthesis is the thesis of the next series.” The first four arcs of the spiral of Nabokov’s life—his youth in Russia, voluntary exile in Europe, two decades spent in the United States, and the final years of his life in Switzerland—are now followed by a fifth arc, his continuing life in literary history, which this volume both explores and symbolizes. This is the first collection of essays to examine all five arcs of Nabokov’s creative life through close analyses of representative works. The essays cast new light on works both famous and neglected and place these works against the backgrounds of Nabokov’s career as a whole and modern literature in general. Nabokov analyzes his own artistry in his “Postscript to the Russian Edition of Lolita,” presented here in its first English translation, and in his little-known “Notes to Ada by Vivian Darkbloom,” published now for the first time in America and keyed to the standard U.S. editions of the novel. In addition to a defense of his father’s work by Dmitri Nabokov and a portrait-interview by Alfred Appel, Jr., the volume presents a vast spectrum of critical analyses covering all Nabokov’s major novels and several important short stories. The highly original structure of the book and the fresh and often startling revelations of the essays dramatize as never before the unity and richness of Nabokov’s unique literary achievement.

Author : Jordan Riley Swan,Elise Forier Edie
Publisher : Jordan Riley Swan LLC
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781957627199

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The Silver Dragon of Tinseltown by Jordan Riley Swan,Elise Forier Edie Pdf

What better place for a silver dragon than the silver screen? Being a dragon rider has a lot of privileges, but longevity isn’t one of them. If the jocust beetles or the whiptail wyverns or a long fall from a great height didn't get them, the clock always would. The last thing Oscar Merrick wants is to delay his government-mandated retirement, but when his friend Jimmy comes to him with an outrageous idea to make the first talkie with an actual dragon in it, Oscar can’t resist his friend’s starry-eyed pleading or his dragoncoat’s bubbling excitement. After all, a few weeks’ delay in Baltimore before heading to the mines of West Virginia won’t be the end of the world, right? With the entertainment industry shifting from movies to talkies, silver screen star Scarlett Owens can no longer hide her deep voice or her Appalachian accent. Dropped by her agent and faced with retirement, Scarlett jumps at the chance to act in a new talkie—even if the crazy director wants her to star alongside a frightfully scary metal dragon. Once on set, Oscar and Scarlett find themselves pushed together in ways they never expected—and not minding it nearly as much as each would have thought. Can the duo produce a successful talkie, and also use it to keep them both from their all-too-early retirements? Or will industry jealousies and salacious secrets from their pasts force them apart forever?

Author : James Monaco
Publisher : Perigee Trade
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025397154

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The Encyclopedia of Film by James Monaco Pdf

An alphabetical reference on the major film figures (stars, producers, directors, writers, et al.), past and present. Each entry provides a substantial career biography and a complete listing of all films the individual has been involved with. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Jean-Dominique Bauby
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307454836

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby Pdf

A triumphant memoir by the former editor-in-chief of French Elle that reveals an indomitable spirit and celebrates the liberating power of consciousness. In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young children, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem. After 20 days in a coma, Bauby awoke into a body which had all but stopped working: only his left eye functioned, allowing him to see and, by blinking it, to make clear that his mind was unimpaired. Almost miraculously, he was soon able to express himself in the richest detail: dictating a word at a time, blinking to select each letter as the alphabet was recited to him slowly, over and over again. In the same way, he was able eventually to compose this extraordinary book. By turns wistful, mischievous, angry, and witty, Bauby bears witness to his determination to live as fully in his mind as he had been able to do in his body. He explains the joy, and deep sadness, of seeing his children and of hearing his aged father's voice on the phone. In magical sequences, he imagines traveling to other places and times and of lying next to the woman he loves. Fed only intravenously, he imagines preparing and tasting the full flavor of delectable dishes. Again and again he returns to an "inexhaustible reservoir of sensations," keeping in touch with himself and the life around him. Jean-Dominique Bauby died two days after the French publication of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. This book is a lasting testament to his life.

Author : Johan Lubbe,Theodorus du Plessis
Publisher : UJ Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781920382759

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South African Language Rights Monitor 2011 / Suid-Afrikaanse Taalregtemonitor 2011 by Johan Lubbe,Theodorus du Plessis Pdf

The SALRM 2011 provides a rich source of information on a range of language-related subjects. A prominent issue remains the changing of street and place names, including the Pretoria/Tshwane and Louis Trichardt/Makhado sagas. Language in education remains a thorny issue; as medium of instruction at school and tertiary level, and the proposal that passing an African language should be a requirement in order to obtain a tertiary degree in South Africa. In terms of language legislation, the draft version of the National Language Act was proposed. The language of record in courts also received attention in the media.

Author : Emma Craig,Tess Mallory,Pam McCutcheon,Amy E. Saunders
Publisher : Love Spell
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0505522098

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Midsummer Night's Magic by Emma Craig,Tess Mallory,Pam McCutcheon,Amy E. Saunders Pdf

With a sprinkle of fairy dust, love is sure to bloom in this anthology that includes "The Fairy Bride" by Tess Mallory, "MacBroom Sweeps Clean" by Emma Craig, "The Trouble with Fairies" by Pam McCutcheon, and "Whatever You Wish" by Elizabeth Saunders.