The Siren S Cry

Author : Paul Parla,Charles P. Mitchell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786445875

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Screen Sirens Scream! by Paul Parla,Charles P. Mitchell Pdf

These twenty heroines portrayed imperiled women in science fiction, horror, film noir and mystery movies from the 1930s to the 1960s. Some--like Sandy Descher, who confronted the giant ants of Them!--were only girls when they faced their screen perils. Others--such as Mary Murphy, who played opposite Marlon Brando in The Wild One--were leading ladies in other film genres. Yet others--such as June Wilkinson, considered by many as Playboy's greatest model--came from outside the acting world. Each interview is preceded by an introduction. Besides the three above, the interviewees are Ramsay Ames, Claudia Barrett, Jean Byron, Linda Christian, Faith Domergue, Amanda Duff, Evangelina Elizondo, Margaret Field, Mimi Gibson, Marilyn Harris, Kitty de Hoyos, Donna Martel, Joyce Meadows, Noreen Nash, Cynthia Patrick, Paula Raymond and Joan Taylor. Among the films they starred in are The Mummy's Ghost, Robot Monster, Tarzan and the Mermaids, This Island Earth, It Came from Beneath the Sea, Where Danger Lives, The Man from Planet X, The Monster That Challenged the World, Frankenstein, The Brain from Planet Arous, Phantom from Space, The Mole People, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms and Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers. Some interviews were previously published in a different form in fan magazines.

Author : William Kronick
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781414005614

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The Cry of Sirens by William Kronick Pdf

Synopsis Ben Hawthorne, self-exiled to an absent friend's crumbling Greenwich Village apartment, attempts to write down the events of his last month in Los Angeles. He is desperate to under- stand why he pushed Mark Victor off the balustrade of his Wilshire Corridor penthouse terrace. What, in God's name, possessed an easy-going, ethical WASP to murder his oldest friend, who happened to be a Jew? While Ben's claim that Mark accidentally fell -they were both drunk -is readily accepted by the police and public, he knows otherwise. Ben and Mark met at college. During the ensuing thirty years, they stayed in touch, but had gone dramatically different ways. They were each other's oldest, not best, friend. That is, until the past year, 1992, when Mark chose to enter Ben's world. By now, Mark had become one of the country's foremost financier/entrepreneurs, with a Time Magazine cover to his credit for effecting the major mergers of the Eighties. Ben, by now, was considered a "world class" motion picture director, with hit films and an Oscar nomination attesting to his success. Four years prior to killing Mark, however, Ben suffered two shattering setbacks: His agent of two decades, who had shielded him from most of the harsh truths of the business, died from a stroke. Only weeks later, an IRS agent informed Ben that his business manager, also of twenty years, was a compulsive gambler who had disappeared, leaving his clientele bereft of all assets, including pension investments. Suddenly, at forty-eight, Ben had to cope alone in a hostile environment, with no production prospects and his several million, gone. Does Mark know any of this when he offers to finance The Cry of Sirens, from a controversial script Ben owns? What part does Martha, Mark's assistant and Ben's eventual wife, play in the final encounter on the penthouse roof-garden? How do ego, guilt and envy bear on the impulse of one American high-achiever to destroy another? During his intense odyssey to uncover his motivation to murder, Ben must re-live relationships with friends, lovers, relatives and adversaries. Well-known figures, ranging from John Huston and Robert Redford to political activist Allard Lowenstein and journalist George Plimpton, play an integral part in the self-investigation. Ben's career has been devoted to mastering the distinctions between reality and illusion. Once he separates fiction from fact in his personal life, he finally understands why he killed Mark Victor. Was it a justifiable homicide? Certainly not, by society's standards. Should he be punished? The reader must judge...

Author : Jennifer Anne Kogler
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062084590

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The Siren's Cry by Jennifer Anne Kogler Pdf

Not just an Otherworldly... an Unusual. Fern is not like other girls. She has strange and vivid visions and has the ability to teleport—anywhere, anytime. Fern is an Otherworldly, a special kind of vampire that lives in the human world. What's more, Fern is one of the Unusual Eleven, a group of Otherworldlies all born on the same day with extraordinary powers, prophesied to change the fate of Otherworldlies and humans alike. On a school trip to Washington, DC, Fern has a dramatic vision that reveals another Unusual in grave danger. Now it's up to Fern to put together the pieces of where he is and why he's been taken. Can Fern solve the puzzle and free the boy in time to defeat the darkness that threatens? In this gripping and fast-paced tale, the world of vampires has never been more compelling.

Author : Stavros Stavros
Publisher : The Artless Dodges Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780981993911

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The Sirens by Stavros Stavros Pdf

"She considered her life: each aspect rested on another, was undercut by its arbitrary predecessor in a deconstructive chain leading back to the blank canvas, to defenseless impulse and unjustifiable whim. She felt seduced by despair, felt a void opening before her; what was this void? The apparition of suicide, the specter of her own death? No, it was the nothingness stretching forever beneath the seemingly concrete aspects of her existence, the eternal blank canvas upon which she had enacted her life (and to which she would eventually return)..." - from The Sirens The interconnected lives and trials of five characters - an Artist, a Seeker, a Seductress, a Dreamer, and an Academic - comprise a novel within this novel, while their author's struggle to achieve his lofty artistic vision forms the framing drama in this unconventional and experimental story of ambition, inspiration, and obsession. The novel's unnamed narrator has failed: the promise of his youth has been spent and ruined, and he fears that he will never achieve the great work of which he - and others - imagined him capable. It is only through a chance encounter with a strange and beautiful woman - a woman who seems to know more about him and his troubles than she should - that he feels himself newly inspired, capable of the ambitious work he once envisioned. But who is this muse, and towards what is she leading him? And what will he discover, when the quest for true expression lures him ever deeper into his own scarred and fractured mind? Written by Stavros Stavros Cover design by Tom Maven

Author : Michael John DiSanto
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773599710

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The Complete Poems of George Whalley by Michael John DiSanto Pdf

An eminent Canadian man of letters, scholar, naval officer and secret intelligence agent, CBC scriptwriter, musician, biographer, and translator, George Whalley (1915-1983) was also a gifted poet whose work spans five decades. Along with his major critical work, Poetic Process, and his superb biography, The Legend of John Hornby, Whalley’s poetry is an important contribution to the emergence and development of twentieth-century modernism. The Complete Poems of George Whalley is the first collection of Whalley’s entire poetic oeuvre. It contains the previously published work from his two books of poetry, Poems 1939-1944 and No Man An Island, as well as pieces that appeared in periodicals and edited collections. It gathers all his unpublished poems found in public archives and his personal papers, letters, and journals. This collection reinforces Whalley’s place as the foremost Canadian poet of the Second World War, during and immediately after which the majority of these works were written. It also emphasizes the humour and playfulness of his early and late poems. Michael DiSanto’s introduction provides an overview of Whalley’s life and career, and examines the relationship between his poetics and criticism by consulting his essays, letters, and unpublished papers. Restoring Whalley’s poetry and literary contributions to their rightful place in the Canadian canon, this comprehensive collection opens new chapters on mid-twentieth-century modernism and war poetry.

Author : Pietro Pucci
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0822630591

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The Song of the Sirens by Pietro Pucci Pdf

In this collection of his essays on Homer, some new and some appearing for the first time in English, the distinguished scholar Pietro Pucci examines the linguistic and rhetorical features of the poet's works. Arguing that there can be no purely historical interpretation, given that the parameters of interpretation are themselves historically determined, Pucci focuses instead on two features of Homer's rhetoric: repetition of expression (formulae) and its effects on meaning, and the issue of intertextuality.

Author : Leo Ryji
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781435715622

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The Silence of the Sirens by Leo Ryji Pdf

Author : Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307423375

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The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Pdf

“[Kurt Vonnegut’s] best book . . . He dares not only ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to answer it.”—Esquire Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds with a beautiful woman at his side. Of course there’ s a catch to the invitation–and a prophetic vision about the purpose of human life that only Vonnegut has the courage to tell. “Reading Vonnegut is addictive!”—Commonweal

Author : Samantha Nicole Miller
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781469114132

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Deaf Sirens by Samantha Nicole Miller Pdf

Deaf Sirens is a compilation of story telling poems that we relate to (Sirens) but often fall on deaf ears, hence the name Deaf Sirens. As you read you will discover a sense of acceptance and continued growth. This book is wholesome, realistic, fun and for everyone. While writing I recollet the endless thoughts and genuine feelings that were suppressed that should have been told. Deaf Sirens is a typical example of the fundamental words that can be said to transform someone that’s in complete dismay. Nevertheless Deaf sirens was brainstormed with the essence of focusing on leaning on the Lord in every situation, while encouraging perseverance and optimistic thinking. During the drafting process of this book, I had a series of tasteful and tasteless experiences that the young and old could relate to, thus changing my outlook on life.

Author : Don Handelman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000183689

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Nationalism and the Israeli State by Don Handelman Pdf

National festivals. Military parades. Patriotic memorials. Such public events and tributes naturally bring to mind the idea of nationalism. But what is the cultural logic behind them? How does a country such as Israel facilitate state-related public events as enactments of nationalism? To answer these questions, renowned anthropologist Don Handelman unpacks the meaning of national ritual and symbol in Israel today. He argues that public events mirror social order, a mirror that reflects to its participants and audiences the message that the designers of such events wish to communicate. Handelman considers the meaning of Holocaust and military memorialism, and he investigates the role of holiday celebrations, especially how they affect young children first learning about their country. Analyzing state ceremonies such as Holocaust Remembrance Day for the war dead, and Independence Day, he notes the absence of minorities and examines their significance in the promotion of a national identity. He also looks at how Israel exports powerful symbols of statehood. Throughout, Handelman develops his theory of bureaucratic logic as the driving force behind expressions of nationalism in the modern state. He argues that bureaucratic logic has a much wider cachet than simply functioning as a way of thinking only about bureaucratic institutions. The logic is crucial to how these institutions function, but more so, it is a dominant force in forming modern state social order. Bureaucratic logic is used incessantly to invent and to modify all kinds of systems of classification that often have profound consequences for individuals and for groups, and that are ritualized powerfully through a host of state-related public events.

Author : Michel Serres
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474299954

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The Five Senses by Michel Serres Pdf

Marginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. With The Five Senses Serres traces a topology of human perception, writing against the Cartesian tradition and in praise of empiricism, he demonstrates repeatedly, and lyrically, the sterility of systems of knowledge divorced from bodily experience. The fragile empirical world, long resistant to our attempts to contain and catalog it, is disappearing beneath the relentless accumulations of late capitalist society and information technology. Data has replaced sensory pleasure, we are less interested in the taste of a fine wine than in the description on the bottle's label. What are we, and what do we really know, when we have forgotten that our senses can describe a taste more accurately than language ever could? The book won the inaugural Prix Médicis Essai in 1985. The Revelations edition includes an introduction by Steven Connor.

Author : Yasmina Khadra
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307455604

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The Sirens of Baghdad by Yasmina Khadra Pdf

The third novel in Yasmina Khadra's bestselling trilogy about Islamic fundamentalism has the most compelling backdrop of any of his novels: Iraq in the wake of the American invasion. A young Iraqi student, unable to attend college because of the war, sees American soldiers leave a trail of humiliation and grief in his small village. Bent on revenge, he flees to the chaotic streets of Baghdad where insurgents soon realize they can make use of his anger. Eventually he is groomed for a secret terrorist mission meant to dwarf the attacks of September 11th, only to find himself struggling with moral qualms. The Sirens of Baghdad is a powerful look at the effects of violence on ordinary people, showing what can turn a decent human being into a weapon, and how the good in human nature can resist. “Compelling. . . . Khadra brings us deep into the hearts and minds of people living in unspeakable mental anguish.” —Los Angeles Times

Author : Garfield Collins
Publisher : Inkwell Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9798872148951

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The Codebreaker Kids by Garfield Collins Pdf

When 12-year-old Saffi and her 10-year-old brother Oliver discover a puzzling antique pocket watch in their grandparent’s attic, they accidentally activate its magical powers and get whisked back in time to World War 2-era London! There, they come face to face with their grandfather William as a young inventor in 1940s Britain, working secretly with the government to crack enemy communication codes and invent a powerful time machine to help the Allies. But when William and his assistant Miss Evelyn are kidnapped by devious Nazi spies, Saffi and Oliver have to leap into action to rescue him. Aided only by their wits, courage, and the cryptic clues William left behind, the siblings race against time to stop these evil agents from changing history as we know it. Kids who love history, cracking secret messages, solving mysteries, outsmarting villains, and pulse-pounding time travel adventures will speed through this exciting page-turning tale. Can two ordinary kids save their grandfather and defeat the Nazis? Or will sinister spies succeed in their plans to rewrite the past and alter the future?

Author : Didier Maleuvre
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349948697

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The Art of Civilization by Didier Maleuvre Pdf

Didier Maleuvre argues that works of art in Western societies from Ancient Greece to the interconnected worlds of the Digital Age have served to rationalize and normalize an engagement with bourgeois civilization and the city. Maleuvre details that the history of art itself is the history civilization, giving rise to the particular aesthetics and critical attitudes of respective moments and movements in changing civilizations in a dialogical mode. Building a visual cultural account of shifting forms of culture, power, and subjectivity, Maleuvre illustrates how art gave a pattern and a language to the model of social authority rather than simply functioning as a reflective one. Through a broad cultural study of the relationship between humanity, art, and the culture of civilization, Maleuvre introduces a new set of paradigms that critique and affirm the relationship between humanity and art, arguing for it as an engine of social reproduction that transforms how culture is inhabited.

Author : E. J. Carney
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781468553147

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A Journey to Contentment by E. J. Carney Pdf

Are you, or a friend, going through a separation or divorce? Has your marriage headed off course and you don t know how to move in the right direction? This book is the help you need to navigate those raging waters. It will give you new insights, renew your faith in a compassionate God and present some concrete ways to dig out of the holes that keep you from freedom and enjoying life to the fullest. E. J. Carney will inspire and encourage you all along the way through her new book. She will help you to learn to love yourself again and prepare you for healthy relationships. The book will guide you on how to set goals, obtain financial freedom, learn about perfect mate wish lists, temptations and the way out as well as slips to avoid as you grow through your divorce. You will learn how to forgive and be forgiven and find out what contentment really is and how to get there. You will find an appendix that includes a monthly budget worksheet and even some marriage principles that will help you if you choose to marry again. Finally, there is a 31 day journal to help you navigate through your divorce. This would be a great book for anyone who is going through a separation or divorce, for a Singles' Pastor, or for you to give to friends who may need some guidance even on just their budget, goal setting or forgiveness.