Ray Bradbury Unbound

Author : Jonathan R. Eller
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252096631

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Ray Bradbury Unbound by Jonathan R. Eller Pdf

In Ray Bradbury Unbound, Jonathan R. Eller continues the story begun in his acclaimed Becoming Ray Bradbury, following the beloved author's evolution from a short story master to a multi-media creative force and outspoken visionary. At the height of his powers as a poetic prose stylist, Bradbury shifted his creative attention to film and television, where new successes gave him an enduring platform as a compelling cultural commentator. His passionate advocacy validated the U.S. space program's mission, extending his pivotal role as a chronicler of human values in an age of technological wonders. Informed by many years of interviews with Bradbury as well as an unprecedented access to personal papers and private collections, Ray Bradbury Unbound provides the definitive portrait of how a legendary American author helped shape his times.

Author : Jonathan R. Eller
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252093357

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Becoming Ray Bradbury by Jonathan R. Eller Pdf

Becoming Ray Bradbury chronicles the making of an iconic American writer by exploring Ray Bradbury's childhood and early years of his long life in fiction, film, television, radio, and theater. Jonathan R. Eller measures the impact of the authors, artists, illustrators, and filmmakers who stimulated Bradbury's imagination throughout his first three decades. Unprecedented access to Bradbury's personal papers and other private collections provides insight into his emerging talent through his unpublished correspondence, his rare but often insightful notes on writing, and his interactions with those who mentored him during those early years. Beginning with his childhood in Waukegan, Illinois, and Los Angeles, this biography follows Bradbury's development from avid reader to maturing author, making a living writing for the genre pulps and mainstream magazines. Eller illuminates the sources of Bradbury's growing interest in the human mind, the human condition, and the ambiguities of life and death--themes that became increasingly apparent in his early fiction. Bradbury's correspondence documents his frustrating encounters with the major trade publishing houses and his earliest unpublished reflections on the nature of authorship. Eller traces the sources of Bradbury's very conscious decisions, following the sudden success of The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man, to voice controversial political statements in his fiction. Eller also elucidates the complex creative motivations that yielded Fahrenheit 451. Becoming Ray Bradbury reveals Bradbury's emotional world as it matured through his explorations of cinema and art, his interactions with agents and editors, his reading discoveries, and the invaluable reading suggestions of older writers. These largely unexplored elements of his life pave the way to a deeper understanding of his more public achievements, providing a biography of the mind, the story of Bradbury's self-education and the emerging sense of authorship at the heart of his boundless creativity.

Author : Jonathan R. Eller
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252052293

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Bradbury Beyond Apollo by Jonathan R. Eller Pdf

Celebrated storyteller, cultural commentator, friend of astronauts, prophet of the Space Age—by the end of the 1960s, Ray Bradbury had attained a level of fame and success rarely achieved by authors, let alone authors of science fiction and fantasy. He had also embarked on a phase of his career that found him exploring new creative outlets while reinterpreting his classic tales for generations of new fans. Drawing on numerous interviews with Bradbury and privileged access to personal papers and private collections, Jonathan R. Eller examines the often-overlooked second half of Bradbury's working life. As Bradbury's dreams took him into a wider range of nonfiction writing and public lectures, the diminishing time that remained for creative pursuits went toward Hollywood productions like the award-winning series Ray Bradbury Theater. Bradbury developed the Spaceship Earth narration at Disney's EPCOT Center; appeared everywhere from public television to NASA events to comic conventions; published poetry; and mined past triumphs for stage productions that enjoyed mixed success. Distracted from storytelling as he became more famous, Bradbury nonetheless published innovative experiments in autobiography masked as detective novels, the well-received fantasy The Halloween Tree and the masterful time travel story "The Toynbee Convector." Yet his embrace of celebrity was often at odds with his passion for writing, and the resulting tension continuously pulled at his sense of self. The revelatory conclusion to the acclaimed three-part biography, Bradbury Beyond Apollo tells the story of an inexhaustible creative force seeking new frontiers.

Author : Jonathan R. Eller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Popular culture
ISBN : 1606352539

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The New Ray Bradbury Review, 2015 by Jonathan R. Eller Pdf

Each previous The New Ray Bradbury Review, prepared and edited by the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies, examines the impact of Bradbury's writings on American culture and his legacy as one of the master storytellers of his time. The late Ray Bradbury's metaphorrich imagination led to a prolific and highly influential career spanning seven decades, but it also left a decades-long field of deferred fragmentary fictions and story ideas that would remain unfulfilled creations. For Number 4, William F. Touponce, founding editor emeritus of the Review, has gathered and introduced fascinating examples.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1578066417

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Conversations with Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury Pdf

Presents a collection of interviews with twentieth-century novelist, short story writer, and playwright, Ray Bradbury, that covers five decades of his life and works.

Author : David Seed
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780252096907

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Ray Bradbury by David Seed Pdf

As much as any individual, Ray Bradbury brought science fiction's ideas into the mainstream. Yet he transcended the genre in both form and popularity, using its trappings to explore timely social concerns and the kaleidoscope of human experience while in the process becoming one of America's most beloved authors. David Seed follows Bradbury's long career from the early short story masterpieces through his work in a wide variety of broadcast and film genres to the influential cultural commentary he spread via essays, speeches, and interviews. Mining Bradbury's classics and hard-to-find archival, literary, and cultural materials, Seed analyzes how the author's views on technology, authoritarianism, and censorship affected his art; how his Midwest of dream and dread brought his work to life; and the ways film and television influenced his creative process and visually-oriented prose style. The result is a passionate statement on Bradbury's status as an essential literary writer deserving of a place in the cultural history of his time.

Author : Martin Harry Greenberg,Joseph D. Olander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035806160

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Ray Bradbury by Martin Harry Greenberg,Joseph D. Olander Pdf

Author : Robert McParland
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781538130360

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The People We Meet in Stories by Robert McParland Pdf

Novels bring us into fictional worlds where we encounter the lives, struggles, and dreams of characters who speak to the underlying pulse of society and social change. In this book, post–World War II America comes alive again as literary critic Robert McParland tilts the rearview mirror to see the characters that captured the imaginations of millions of readers in the most popular and influential novels of the 1950s. This literary era introduced us to Holden Caulfield, Augie March, Lolita, and other antiheroes. Together with popular culture heroes such as Perry Mason and James Bond, they entertained thousands of readers while revealing the underlying currents of ambition, desire, and concern that were central to the American Dream. Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain and Giovanni’sRoom explored racial issues and matters of identity that reverberate still today. The works of Jack Kerouac, the Beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, and the clever and creative William S. Burroughs and his Naked Lunch challenged conventional perspectives. The People We Meet in Stories will appeal to readers discovering these works for the first time and to those whose tattered paperbacks reveal a long relationship with these key works in American literary history.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781789095401

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Killer, Come Back To Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury Pdf

Celebrating Ray Bradbury's centennial, a deluxe illustrated commemorative collection of his finest crime stories -- tales as strange and wonderful as his signature fantasy. Time travelers...dark carnivals...living automata...and detectives? Honoring the 100th birthday of Ray Bradbury, renowned author of Fahrenheit 451, this new, definitive collection of the master's less well-known crime fiction, published in a high-grade premium collectible edition, features classic stories and rare gems, a number of which became episodes of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS and THE RAY BRADBURY THEATER, including the tale Bradbury called "one of the best stories in any field that I have ever written." Is it murder to destroy a robot if it looks and speaks and thinks and feels like a human being? Can a ventriloquist be incriminated by the testimony of his own dummy? Can a time traveler prevent his younger self from killing the woman they both loved? And can the survivor of a pair of Siamese twins investigate his own brother's murder? No other writer has ever rivaled the imagination and narrative gifts of Ray Bradbury, and the 20 unforgettable stories in this collection demonstrate this singular writer's extraordinary range, influence and emotional power.

Author : Ray Bradbury,Anthony Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : 024552746X

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Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury,Anthony Adams Pdf

Great Authors introduces readers to six of the world's premier authors and how they use language to create literary works of art. Each book presents a collection of the author's best short stories, a biography, and insightful notes about the stories.

Author : Jonathan R. Eller,William F. Touponce
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0873387791

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Ray Bradbury by Jonathan R. Eller,William F. Touponce Pdf

This is a textual, bibliographical and cultural study of 60 years of Bradbury's fiction. The authors draw upon correspondence with his publishers, agents and friends, as well as archival manuscripts, to examine the story of Bradbury's authorship over more than half a century.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003960387

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The Stories of Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury Pdf

An imaginative group of stories that often bridge the gap between fantasy and science fiction. One hundred of Bradbury's science fiction, fantasy, horror, and midwestern short stories.

Author : John Bankston
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781438147727

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Ray Bradbury by John Bankston Pdf

Author : Charles Piddock
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1433900599

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Ray Bradbury: Legendary Fantasy Writer by Charles Piddock Pdf

Presents the life and works of the renowned science fiction author and discusses his creative process and the inspiration for such works as "Fahrenheit 451."

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 911 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062302113

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Bradbury Stories by Ray Bradbury Pdf

For more than sixty years, the imagination of Ray Bradbury has opened doors into remarkable places, ushering us across unexplored territories of the heart and mind while leading us inexorably toward a profound understanding of ourselves and the universe we inhabit. In this landmark volume, America's preeminent storyteller offers us one hundred treasures from alifetime of words and ideas -- tales that amaze, enthrall, and horrify; breathtaking journeys backward and forward in time; classic stories with the undiminished power to tantalize, mystify, elate, and move the reader to tears. Each small gem in the master's collection remains as dazzling as when it first appeared in print. There is magic in these pages: the wonders of interstellar flight, a conspiracy of insects, the early bloom of love in the warmth of August. Both the world of Ray Bradbury and its people are vivid and alive, as colorfully unique as a poker chip hand-painted by a brilliant artist or as warmly familiar as the well-used settings on a family's dining room table. In a poor man's desire for the stars, in the twisted night games of a hateful embalmer, in a magnificent fraud perpetrated to banish despair and repair a future, in a writer's wonderful death is the glowing proof of the timeless artistry of one of America's greatest living bards. The one hundred stories in this volume were chosen by Bradbury himself, and span a career that blossomed in the pulp magazines of the early 1940s and continues to flourish in the new millennium. Here are representatives of the legendary author's finest works of short fiction, including many that have not been republished for decades, all forever fresh and vital, evocative and immensely entertaining. This is Bradbury at his very best -- golden visions of tomorrow, poetic memories of yesterday, dark nightmares and glorious dreams -- a grand celebration of humankind, God's intricate yet poignantly fallible machineries of joy.