Download or read book The Magic Box written by Rob Young and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A LOUDER THAN WAR BOOK OF THE YEAR A riveting journey into the psyche of Britain through its golden age of television and film; a cross-genre feast of moving pictures, from classics to occult hidden gems, The Magic Box is the nation's visual self-portrait in technicolour detail. 'The definition of gripping. Truly, a trove of wyrd treasures.' BENJAMIN MYERS 'A lovingly researched history of British TV [that] recalls the brilliant, the bizarre and the unworldly.' GUARDIAN 'A reclamation, not just of a visual 'golden age', but of Britain as a darkly magical place.' THE SPECTATOR 'A feat of argument, description and affection.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Young unearths the ghosts of TV past - and Britain's dark psyche.' HERALD 'Highly entertaining . . . [A] fabulous treasure trove.' SCOTSMAN 'Young is a phenomonal scholar.' OBSERVER 'Impassioned.' THE CRITIC Growing up in the 1970s, Rob Young's main storyteller was the wooden box with the glass window in the corner of the family living room, otherwise known as the TV set. Before the age of DVDs and Blu-ray discs, YouTube and commercial streaming services, watching television was a vastly different experience. You switched on, you sat back and you watched. There was no pause or fast-forward button. The cross-genre feast of moving pictures produced in Britain between the late 1950s and late 1980s - from Quatermass and Tom Jones to The Wicker Man and Brideshead Revisited, from A Canterbury Tale and The Go-Between to Bagpuss and Children of the Stones, and from John Betjeman's travelogues to ghost stories at Christmas - contributed to a national conversation and collective memory. British-made sci-fi, folk horror, period drama and televisual grand tours played out tensions between the past and the present, dramatised the fractures and injustices in society and acted as a portal for magical and ghostly visions. In The Magic Box, Rob Young takes us on a fascinating journey into this influential golden age of screen and discovers what it reveals about the nature and character of Britain, its uncategorisable people and buried histories - and how its presence can still be felt on screen in the twenty-first century. '[A] forensic dissection . . . this tightly packed treatise takes pains to illustrate how what we view affects how we view ourselves.' TOTAL FILM
Download or read book Magic Box Paradigm written by Ezra Roizen and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if I told you that the last thing you want from a potential acquirer is a term sheet? Or that the casualty of a bidding war is often going to be you? Or the presentation you should use when you meet with investors is quite different from the one you should use with potential strategic partners? Or that moves a buyer may make to reduce their risk in an acquisition can end up increasing the chance that they don't achieve the full potential of the combination? Startup acquisitions are counterintuitive. Yet that doesn't mean they're impossible to navigate. Quite the contrary, the Magic Box Paradigm (MBP) is your guide to creating, optimizing, and closing startup acquisitions. The MBP is a holistic approach to creating opportunities for your startup to be acquired-the blueprint for being bought not sold. The MBP is going to put you in a position of strength in conversations with potential strategic partners, show you how to inspire them to create an actionable acquisition thesis, and then how to turn that thesis into an outperforming offer. Once the offer is on the table, the MBP is going to give you the tools to close the deal. And if you like the book - join the community at www.mbp.co
Download or read book The Magic Box written by Joseph Pintauro and published by New York : Harper & Row. This book was released on 1970 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Box of Tricks written by Katie Cleminson and published by Red Fox Picture Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl is given a box of tricks for her birthday and conjures up a polar bear, lots of rabbits and a big party.
Download or read book The Magic Box written by Richard Hyde and published by Anchoring Hope Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes the best part of a gift a child receives is the box it came in. This book tells the story of how a young boy and his sister use their imaginations and a simply decorated cardboard box as they play and take fantastic trips to faraway places and meet exotic, imaginary creatures. The illustrations are beautiful, simple, and look like pages in a coloring book. This book will encourage your kids to lay down the electronics and use their vivid imaginations and creativity to go on exciting adventures and make incredible journeys to exotic places.
Download or read book The Magic Box written by Kit Wright and published by Macmillan Children's Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful collection featuring all of Kit Wright's finest poems. It includes poems from his bestselling and universally loved collections, Hot Dog, Rabbiting On, Cat Among the Pigeons and Great Snakes and many other treasures too. from The Magic Box I will put in the box the swish of a silk sari on a summer night, fire from the nostrils of a Chinese dragon, the tip of a tongue touching a tooth. I will put in the box a snowman with a rumbling belly, a sip of bluest water from Lake Lucerne, a leaping spark from an electric fish.
Download or read book Grandma s Magic Box written by Nadine G. Thomas and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2012-06-08 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume 1 containing two stories set in New Orleans and Alaska. I told one to my grandchildren when they were very small and they asked for more so I wrote about places I have been and sent the stories to them. They are teenagers now and would like to visit all the places I wrote about.
Download or read book The Magic Box written by Claire Weissman Wilks and published by Exile Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 1980 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hannah Maynard...established her own Photographic Gallery in the colonial town of Victoria, British Columbia, in the early 1860s... [Her] photographs, however, are interesting for more than historical reasons. She experimented with every new photographic technique and was not only in the vanguard of experimentalism, but she developed a vision that was surreal and unique, unmatched in its aesthetic inerest until the 1920s... When her work is combined with that of her husband's, as it is in this book, the result is a rare record of a time, a place, and a unique vision, the vision of a Canadian genius"--from front jacket flap.
Download or read book Signor Marconi s Magic Box written by Gavin Weightman and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world at the turn of the twentieth century was in the throes of "Marconi-mania"-brought on by an incredible invention that no one could quite explain, and by a dapper and eccentric figure (who would one day win the newly minted Nobel Prize) at the center of it all. At a time when the telephone, telegraph, and electricity made the whole world wonder just what science would think of next, the startling answer had come in 1896 in the form of two mysterious wooden boxes containing a device one Guglielmo Marconi had rigged up to transmit messages "through the ether." It was the birth of the radio, and no scientist in Europe or America, not even Marconi himself, could at first explain how it worked -- it just did. And no one knew how far these radio waves could travel, until 1903, when a message from President Theodore Roosevelt to the king of England flashed from Cape Cod to Cornwall clear across the Atlantic.Here is a rich portrait of the man and his era-and a captivating tale of science and scientists, business and businessmen. There are stories of British blowhards, American con artists-and Marconi himself: a character par excellence, who eventually winds up a virtual prisoner of his worldwide fame and fortune.
Download or read book The Magic Christmas Box written by Landoll and published by Landoll. This book was released on 1997 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T. Jay Toucan receives a Christmas package from his cousin. Inside were two wishes. See what they wish for.
Download or read book The Rainbow Box The magic box written by Joseph Pintauro and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rabbit Box written by Joseph Pintauro and published by New York : Harper & Row. This book was released on 1970 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Magic Box written by Kwame Owusu Ampomah and published by Mactracks (sprinter, level 2). This book was released on 1999-05-04 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mactracks is a series of fiction and non-fiction books for children and teenagers learning English as a second language. The titles are graded according to the reader's age, interests and language skills. Although intended to meet an educational need, care has been taken to ensure that the books are far more than simple texts for reading practice.
Download or read book The Magic Box written by Richard Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Peter and Max find an empty box they climb in and go on a wonderful series of adventures.
Download or read book The Magic Box written by Cossi, Olga and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A high school basketball player's smoking may disqualify her from the big game.
Download or read book The Black Diamond and the Magic Box written by T-Pot and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following their ordeal with the mayor, warlocks Derek, Tre’Vell, Omar and Matthias enter their second year of college with enthusiasm. It doesn’t take long for disaster to strike, however. Matthias’ relationship with Rhonda turns rocky, Derek’s grimoire begins to display strange behavior, and the boys come up against a powerful and ancient evil that cannot be killed. Following a harrowing defeat, the magical quartet must quickly regroup and search for a way to stop the being. The key lies in the secrets contained within their past and once they discover it, one of the warlocks must be willing to make a heart-wrenching sacrifice! New allies are made, old allies are lost, and the lives of the warlocks will never be the same!
Download or read book Pandora and the Magic Box written by I. E. Clark and published by I. E. Clark Publications. This book was released on 1968 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
