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Nightmare Alley: Film Noir And The American Dream by Mark Osteen
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-26 | Author:Mark Osteen [Osteen, Mark]

To Build a Dream On Two 1950s noirs perpetuate the stereotype of musicians as overgrown children. Yet these films also present—implicitly, at least—the potential for new American identities founded on ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 3,2015 )
10/40/70: Constraint As Liberation in the Era of Digital Film Theory
epub |eng | 2014-03-27 | Author:Rombes, Nicholas [Rombes, Nicholas]

III. 10/40/70 Redux Soldier Blue (Ralph Nelson, 1970) Well, and then there is Soldier Blue. Released in 1970 with an R rating, and re-released in 1974, heavily edited, with a ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies August 19,2015 )
The Price of Valor: The Life of Audie Murphy, America's Most Decorated Hero of World War II by Smith David
azw3 |eng | 2015-04-19 | Author:Smith, David [Smith, David]

CHAPTER NINE THE MAKING OF A STAR Early in 1949, Audie Murphy was starting to rebound from the doldrums in which his fledgling career had languished only a short time ...
( Category: World War II July 18,2015 )
Reel Bad Arabs by Jack G. Shaheen
epub |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Jack G. Shaheen [Shaheen Jack G.]

KING SOLOMON’S MINES (1985), CAN. Richard Chamberlin, Sharon Stone, Shai K. Ophir, Herbert Lom, Bob Greer. P: Menachem Golan, Yoram Globus. CAMEOS, VILLAINS This Golan-Globus movie shows pro-German Arabs enslaving ...
( Category: Sports & Entertainment June 13,2015 )
Terminator and Philosophy by Brown Richard; Decker Kevin S
epub |eng | 2011-01-15 | Author:Brown, Richard; Decker, Kevin S. [S., Brown, Richard; Decker, Kevin]

150 J A S O N P. B L A H U TA accident, for Hegel, that humanity is the dominant species on the planet. Above all other creatures, humans ...
( Category: Popular Culture June 12,2015 )
Metropolis (Bring the Classics to Life) by Thea von Harbou
mobi |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Thea von Harbou

Chapter 10 WHENEVER JOSAPHAT TRIED, during the days which followed, to break through the barrier which was drawn around Freder, there was always a strange person there, and always a ...
( Category: Historical Fantasy June 11,2015 )
Retro Pop Culture A to Z: From Atari 2600 to Zombie Films by Brett Weiss
epub |eng | 2014-01-08 | Author:Brett Weiss [Weiss, Brett]

As with many Baby Boomers, Shutt’s worldview was shaped—at least in part—by Mad magazine. “Mad had a major impact on my view of advertising and authority and the idea of ...
( Category: Video Games June 5,2015 )
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History by Huang Yunte
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-30 | Author:Huang, Yunte [Huang, Yunte]

IN JUNE 2008, during a research trip to Honolulu, I went to visit Apana’s house at 3737 Waialae Avenue. As soon as the sun rose from behind craggy Diamond Head ...
( Category: Mystery & Detective May 27,2015 )
The Science of Avatar by Stephen Baxter
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-29 | Author:Stephen Baxter

Another technological advance obvious in Hell’s Gate is computer technology. Consider the Hell’s Gate Ops Centre control room. (Avatar’s creative team visited such locations as a real-world oil rig, the ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 25,2015 )
Inside the Historical Film by Bruno Ramirez
epub |eng | | Author:Bruno Ramirez

4.6 | Marina Orsini as Sara in Il Duce Canadese (Photo by Céline Lalonde. Courtesy of Ciné Télé Action Inc.) In and of itself, this household provides a social microcosm ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 25,2015 )
Michael Douglas by Marc Eliot
epub |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:Marc Eliot [Eliot, Marc]

THE SIXTIETH ANNUAL Academy Awards ceremonies were held on April 11, 1988, at the Shrine Auditorium, adjacent to the USC campus, where they had been moved to accommodate the award ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 27,2015 )
The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir by Hirsch Foster
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-11-25 | Author:Hirsch, Foster [Hirsch, Foster]

Searching for the gang that killed his wife, Dick Powell in Cornered sheds some of the poise of his impersonation of Philip Marlowe in Murder, My Sweet. Humphrey Bogart, the ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 5,2015 )
My Happy Days in Hollywood by Garry Marshall
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-24 | Author:Garry Marshall

12. NOTHING IN COMMON Working with the Great Ones—Hanks and Gleason IHAD A COMPLICATED relationship with my father. He taught me many things, including how to be in charge and ...
( Category: Direction & Production April 5,2015 )
The Dude and the Zen Master by Jeff Bridges & Bernie Glassman
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Jeff Bridges & Bernie Glassman

BERNIE: The Chinese language is made of symbols rather than letters. Their word for difficulty consists of two characters, and one of the characters is opportunity. Hidden within every difficulty ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers April 5,2015 )
A Fatal Winter by G. M. Malliet
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:G. M. Malliet

CHAPTER 16 A Star Is Born Cotton stood, his backside to the fire, reading from a sheaf of notes. “Jocasta and the twins Alec and Amanda inherited quite a few ...
( Category: Murder April 5,2015 )

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