The Gladiators Vs Spartacus Volume 2

Author : Abraham Polonsky
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527564015

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The Gladiators vs. Spartacus, Volume 2 by Abraham Polonsky Pdf

This publication of Abraham Polonsky’s unproduced screenplay for The Gladiators is a tribute to one of Hollywood’s premiere post-WW II directors and writers whose career was severely impacted by the blacklist. His script for The Gladiators survives to remind us that he could, and did, transform a difficult and complex novel of an ancient slave rebellion into a screenplay worthy of Arthur Koestler’s bold fictional vision. Through a combination of the ambivalence of its executive producer and star, plus bad timing, it never went before the cameras. This book is published in the hope that The Gladiators will be produced for cinema or television.

Author : Henry MacAdam,Duncan Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527562271

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The Gladiators vs. Spartacus, Volume 1 by Henry MacAdam,Duncan Cooper Pdf

Using previously unpublished correspondence and personal journal entries from screenwriter Abraham Polonsky, neglected notices in Variety and other Hollywood trade publications, and a wide range of published sources, this narrative backstory of rival movie productions of The Gladiators vs Spartacus documents that intense competition with greater precision and clarity than any other existing account. The key role that this little-known chapter of Hollywood's blacklist history played, in connection with Dalton Trumbo's successful effort to win screen credit for Spartacus, is now for the first time available to film historians and lay readers. A companion study, Volume 2, is devoted to Abraham Polonsky’s rediscovered screenplay.

Author : Rob Shone
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1404202404

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Spartacus by Rob Shone Pdf

This book describes the fighting of Spartacus and his slave army in their rebellion against the Romans.

Author : Ben Kane
Publisher : Random House
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409051664

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Spartacus: The Gladiator by Ben Kane Pdf

The first of two epic novels which tell the story of one of the most charismatic heroes history has ever known - Spartacus, the gladiator slave who took on and nearly defeated the might of Rome, during the years 73-71 BC. Historically very little is known about Spartacus. We know that he came from Thrace, a land north of Greece, that he once fought in the Roman legions and that, during two fateful years, he led a slave army which nearly brought Rome to its knees. In Ben Kane's brilliant novel, we meet Spartacus as he returns to Thrace, ready to settle down after a decade away. But a new king has usurped the throne. Treacherous and violent, he immediately seizes Spartacus and sells him to a Roman slave trader looking for new gladiators. The odyssey has begun which will see Spartacus become one of the greatest legends of history, the hero of revolutionaries from Karl Marx to Che Guevara, immortalised on screen, and now brought to life in Ben Kane's great bestseller - a novel which takes the story to its halfway point and is continued in Spartacus: Rebellion. Ben Kane was born in Kenya and raised there and in Ireland. He studied veterinary medicine and University College, Dublin, but after that he travelled the world extensively, indulging in his passion for ancient history. He lives in North Somerset with his wife and two young children.

Author : Zénó Vernyik
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793622266

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Arthur Koestler’s Fiction and the Genre of the Novel by Zénó Vernyik Pdf

Featuring a selection of brand new essays by a group of accomplished scholars, Arthur Koestler's Fiction and the Genre of the Novel covers all of Koestler's novels published in his lifetime, the first book to attempt this in English since Mark Levene's Arthur Koestler, published thirty-seven years ago. The team of contributors, with research backgrounds in history, political science, religious studies, law, linguistics and journalism besides literature, offers a truly multidisciplinary take on how Koestler's novels utilize, and at times transcend, the genre of the novel, and argues for their enduring relevance and appeal in the twenty-first century, inviting the reader to revisit and reassess them. With the topics of Koestler's novels including terrorism, massive migration, espionage, rape trauma, war trauma, the crisis of faith, propaganda, fake news and the role and responsibility of intellectuals in major international crises, as the volume aims to show, these texts are just as topical today, as they were at the time of their publication.

Author : Larry Ceplair
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813195902

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The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist by Larry Ceplair Pdf

Seventy-five years ago, the Hollywood blacklist ruined lives, stifled creativity, and sent waves of proscription and censorship throughout United States culture. When the Hollywood Ten refused to answer the questions of the House Committee on Un-American Activities about their membership in the Communist Party, they were sentenced to prison, the five who were under contract were fired by their studios, and all were blacklisted from reemployment until they "purged themselves of their communist taint." By the 1950s, this blacklist publicly stigmatized nearly three hundred other Americans in the entertainment industry who invoked the First and Fifth Amendments in their refusal to apologize for their Communist ties or provide the names of other members. Dozens of others were graylisted as the result of rumors. The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist: Seventy-Five Years Later offers new insights on the origins of the blacklist, the characteristics of those blacklisted, and the probability of future proscriptions of the blacklist type. Author Larry Ceplair draws on previously published work while introducing new material to vigorously recount the events that took place between the US government, Hollywood unions, and motion picture studios. Ceplair thoroughly examines the role of Jewish identity in many anti-communist efforts—a concept that has never been fully examined by scholars—and analyzes the actions of subpoenaed witnesses who were forced to choose between cooperating with the House Committee or joining the blacklist. This fascinating book is an illuminating examination of a dark period in American history and the fragility of our rights to free speech and due process.

Author : Henry MacAdam,Duncan Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1527556999

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The Gladiators Vs. Spartacus, Volume 1 by Henry MacAdam,Duncan Cooper Pdf

Using previously unpublished correspondence and personal journal entries from screenwriter Abraham Polonsky, neglected notices in Variety and other Hollywood trade publications, and a variety of published sources, this narrative backstory of rival movie productions of The Gladiators vs Spartacus documents that intense competition with greater precision and clarity than any other existing account. The key role that this little-known chapter of Hollywood's blacklist history played, in connection with Dalton Trumbo's successful effort to win screen credit for Spartacus, is now for the first time available to film historians and lay readers. A companion study, Volume 2, is devoted to Abraham Polonsky's rediscovered screenplay.

Author : A. T. Fomenko
Publisher : Mithec
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Chronology, Historical
ISBN : 9782913621060

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History, Fiction Or Science? by A. T. Fomenko Pdf

The author posits that all generally accepted chronology before the 16th century is in error by hundreds or thousands of years.

Author : Howard Fast
Publisher : Club français du livre
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:466673588

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Spartacus by Howard Fast Pdf

Author : T. Corey Brennan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0195114604

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The Praetorship in the Roman Republic: Volume 2: 122 to 49 BC by T. Corey Brennan Pdf

Brennan's book surveys the history of the Roman praetorship, which was one of the most enduring Roman political institutions, occupying the practical center of Roman Republican administrative life for over three centuries. The study addresses political, social, military and legal history, as well as Roman religion. Volume I begins with a survey of Roman (and modern) views on the development of legitimate power—from the kings, through the early chief magistrates, and down through the creation and early years of the praetorship. Volume II discusses how the introduction in 122 of C. Gracchus' provincia repetundarum pushed the old city-state system to its functional limits.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 188?
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:614785213

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The Gladiators by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ben Kane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Historical fiction
ISBN : 1471308871

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Spartacus by Ben Kane Pdf

Author : Mike Seigel
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999-12-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780857287663

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Latin: A Fresh Approach Book 2 by Mike Seigel Pdf

The second volume of Mike Seigel's new three-volume course aims to present grammar in the clearest possible way and build upon the lessons of Book 1. The language content is supported by detailed insights into the history and culture of Ancient Rome, with stimulating full colour pictures to help bring the Roman Empire to life.

Author : Meyer Isler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNR:CR102019941

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Lectures on the History of Rome from the Earliest Times to the Fall of the Western Empire by B. G. Niebuhr by Meyer Isler Pdf

Author : Phil Barker
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-04
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780244220129

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DBMM Army Lists Book 2: The Classical Period 500BC to 476AD by Phil Barker Pdf

DBMM Army Lists is the second volume in the series of WRG publications providing detailed guidance on the structure and organisation of ancient and medieval armies, for use with the De Bellis Magistrorum Miltum (DBMM) wargame rules.