Troubled Star

Author : George O. Smith
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066339526976

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"Troubled star" by George O. Smith. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : George Oliver Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:5296790

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Author : Sam Riley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216148647

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Star Struck by Sam Riley Pdf

This balanced examination looks at America's pervasive celebrity culture, concentrating on the period from 1950 to the present day. Star Struck: An Encyclopedia of Celebrity Culture is neither a stern critic nor an apologist for celebrity infatuation, a phenomenon that sometimes supplants more weighty matters yet constitutes one of our nation's biggest exports. This encyclopedia covers American celebrity culture from 1950 to 2008, examining its various aspects—and its impact—through 86 entries by 30 expert contributors. Demonstrating that all celebrities are famous, but not all famous people are celebrities, the book cuts across the various entertainment medias and their legions of individual "stars." It looks at sports celebrities and examines the role of celebrity in more serious pursuits and institutions such as the news media, corporations, politics, the arts, medicine, and the law. Also included are entries devoted to such topics as paranoia and celebrity, one-name celebrities, celebrity nicknames, family unit celebrity, sidekick celebrities, and even criminal celebrities.

Author : Julie A. Turnock
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231535274

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Plastic Reality by Julie A. Turnock Pdf

Julie A. Turnock tracks the use and evolution of special effects in 1970s filmmaking, a development as revolutionary to film as the form's transition to sound in the 1920s. Beginning with the classical studio era's early approaches to special effects, she follows the industry's slow build toward the significant advances of the late 1960s and early 1970s, which set the stage for the groundbreaking achievements of 1977. Turnock analyzes the far-reaching impact of the convincing, absorbing, and seemingly unlimited fantasy environments of that year's iconic films, dedicating a major section of her book to the unparalleled innovations of Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. She then traces these films' technological, cultural, and aesthetic influence into the 1980s in the deployment of optical special effects as well as the "not-too-realistic" and hyper-realistic techniques of traditional stop motion and Showscan. She concludes with a critique of special effects practices in the 2000s and their implications for the future of filmmaking and the production and experience of other visual media.

Author : Stephen Baxter
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473217249

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Xeelee: Redemption by Stephen Baxter Pdf

Michael Poole finds himself in a very strange landscape . . . This is the centre of the Galaxy. And in a history without war with the humans, the Xeelee have had time to built an immense structure here. The Xeelee Belt has a radius ten thousand times Earth's orbital distance. It is a light year in circumference. If it was set in the solar system it would be out in the Oort Cloud, among the comets - but circling the sun. If it was at rest it would have a surface area equivalent to about thirty billion Earths. But it is not at rest: it rotates at near lightspeed. And because of relativistic effects, distances are compressed for inhabitants of the Belt, and time drastically slowed. The purpose of the Belt is to preserve a community of Xeelee into the very far future, when they will be able to tap dark energy, a universe-spanning antigravity field, for their own purposes. But with time the Belt has attracted populations of lesser species, here for the immense surface area, the unending energy flows. Poole, Miriam and their party, having followed the Ghosts, must explore the artefact and survive encounters with its strange inhabitants - before Poole, at last, finds the Xeelee who led the destruction of Earth...

Author : ChristopherR. Smit
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351558341

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Michael Jackson by ChristopherR. Smit Pdf

Throughout his 40-year career, Michael Jackson intrigued and captivated public imagination through musical ingenuity, sexual and racial spectacle, savvy publicity stunts, odd behaviours, and a seemingly apolitical (yet always political) offering of popular art. A consistent player on the public stage from the age of eight, his consciousness was no doubt shaped by his countless public appearances, both designed and serendipitous. The artefacts he left behind - music, interviews, books written by and about him, and commercial products including dolls, buttons, posters, and photographs, videos, movies - will all become data in our cultural conversation about who Michael Jackson was, who he wanted to be, who we made him to be, and why. Michael Jackson: Grasping the Spectacle includes essays that aim to understand Jackson from multiple perspectives: critical cultural theory, musicology, art history, media studies, cultural anthropology, sociology, philosophy, religious studies, literary theory, gender studies, performance studies, disability studies, film studies, and African-American studies. Intended for classroom use as well as research and general interest, this book expands our understanding both of this fascinating figure himself and of gender, sexuality, celebrity, and popular culture.

Author : Rok Zupan&269;i&269;,Rok Zupančič,Faris Ko&269;an,Faris Kočan,Kenneth Andresen,Katarzyna Bojarska,Ricardo Dacosta,Seamus Farrell,Anke Fiedler,Abit Hoxha,Nikandros Ioannidis,Niamh Kirk,Irene Martín Cortes,Dimitra L. Milioni,Dionysis Panos,Marta Paradés Martín,Tomasz Rawski,Vasiliki Triga,Tjasa Vučko
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781529233629

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Troubled Pasts in Europe by Rok Zupan&269;i&269;,Rok Zupančič,Faris Ko&269;an,Faris Kočan,Kenneth Andresen,Katarzyna Bojarska,Ricardo Dacosta,Seamus Farrell,Anke Fiedler,Abit Hoxha,Nikandros Ioannidis,Niamh Kirk,Irene Martín Cortes,Dimitra L. Milioni,Dionysis Panos,Marta Paradés Martín,Tomasz Rawski,Vasiliki Triga,Tjasa Vučko Pdf

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Author : David Herschell Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Scottish poetry
ISBN : NYPL:33433074933239

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One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets by David Herschell Edwards Pdf

Author : Scottish poets
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555002774

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One hundred modern Scottish poets [afterw.] Modern Scottish poets. With biogr. and critical notices [by D.H. Edwards]. by Scottish poets Pdf

Author : Erin E. MacDonald
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476617039

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Robert Downey Jr. from Brat to Icon by Erin E. MacDonald Pdf

Robert Downey Jr. may be best known as Iron Man, but his career as an actor stretches back to the 1970s and features several Oscar-quality roles. He has worked with a wide range of innovative directors from Oliver Stone and Robert Altman to Richard Linklater and Shane Black, and has played punk kids, detectives, journalists and even a serial killer. This collection of new essays examines, in roughly chronological order, more than 25 of Downey's best performances in films as diverse as Less Than Zero, Chaplin, Natural Born Killers, A Scanner Darkly, The Soloist and Tropic Thunder. Including a biography, chronology and filmography, the book highlights the inseparability of the actor's biography from his works and from the unique combination of talents he brings to his roles.

Author : James McKay
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476638492

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Ray Milland by James McKay Pdf

With no formal training as an actor, Welsh-born Ray Milland (1907-1986), a former trooper in the British Army's Household Cavalry, enjoyed a half-century career working alongside some of the great directors and stars from the Golden Age of cinema. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as the alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend (1945), a defining moment that enabled him to break free from romantic leads and explore darker shades of his debonair demeanor, such as the veiled menace of his scheming husband in Hitchcock's Dial M For Murder (1954). A consummate professional with wide range, Milland took the directorial reins in several of his starring vehicles in the 1950s, most notably in the intelligent Western A Man Alone (1955). He comfortably slipped into most genres, from romantic comedy to adventure to film noir. Later he turned to science fiction and horror movies, including two with cult filmmaker Roger Corman. This first complete filmography covers the actor's screen career, with a concise introductory biography and an appendix listing his extensive radio and television credits.

Author : Peter Shelley
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786457779

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Frances Farmer by Peter Shelley Pdf

Previous biographies of American actress Frances Farmer (1913-1970) have downplayed her professional achievements to emphasize her turbulent personal life, including several police arrests and repeated confinements in a state mental hospital. By focusing upon her acting career, this book endeavors to restore her position as a significant Hollywood player of the 1930s, '40s and '50s. An analysis of her film, radio and television work is offered, as well as assessments of the three Frances Farmer biopics and the documentaries in which she is featured. Each of her 16 films receives a chapter-length discussion. A very lengthy biographical chapter is included.

Author : Randy K. Mills
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253347954

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Troubled Hero by Randy K. Mills Pdf

"Kenneth Kays was born in the conservative farm country of southern Illinois. The sixties were in full flower by the time Ken went off to college and discovered a world quite different from the one back home. On campus, drug culture flourished and the Vietnam War had polarized students. College meant a draft exemption, but in spring of 1969 Kays flunked out of school and soon received his draft notification. Denied conscientious objector status, he fled to Canada only to return. Yielding at last to pressure from family and community leaders, he joined up." "In deference to his nonviolent beliefs, the Army assigned him to a medical unit; he refused to carry a weapon. On May 7, 1970, after only seventeen days in Vietnam and just one day after joining a new platoon, the young medic found himself in a ferocious fire fight. Kays' actions at Fire Support Base Maureen would bring him the nation's highest award for military valor. The fighting that night at FSB Maureen was four hours of terrifying chaos. Seven men died. Yet it was just another unheralded skirmish toward the end of a long and fruitless war. Kays returned home with little fanfare and, with other vets, struggled to reconcile his anti-war beliefs and what he and others had done in Vietnam."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Joe Wenderoth
Publisher : Wave Books
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781933517889

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If I Don't Breathe How Do I Sleep by Joe Wenderoth Pdf

"Best-known for his gritty and uproarious prose poetry collection Letters to Wendy's, Wenderoth began his career with two books of gimlet-eyed, world-weary, hard-hitting poetry. Now he returns to verse, favoring (as before) relatively short poems, often twelve lines or fewer, most of which crackle with a bleakness that's part gallows humor, part outrage, and part despair."—Publishers Weekly, starred review of No Real Light "A perverse, sometimes pretty, obscene, and confounding collection of one page meditative missives . . . trimmed with lunatic fringe."—Rolling Stone review of Letters to Wendy's Whether it's addressing the grotesque in daily scenes or upsetting the norms of professional culture, Joe Wenderoth's fifth collection resonates with his signature intellect and disturbing humor. He is at once an aesthete and an iconoclast who brings inventive force to American poetry. Early Capitalism they are perfecting the pillow with which you are being suffocated now it sings to you and shows you pictures Joe Wenderoth grew up near Baltimore, Maryland. He is the author of No Real Light, The Holy Spirit of Life: Essays Written for John Ashcroft's Secret Self, and Letters to Wendy's. Wesleyan University Press published his first two books of poems: Disfortune and It Is If I Speak. He is a professor of English at the University of California, Davis.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UCAL:B3529226

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The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review by Anonim Pdf