Download or read book Drive in Matinee written by Jeff Hockenheimer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remember the drive-ins? The outdoor movie theatres where you could stay in your car and sit spell-bound in darkness? Come along with a group of fun-loving teenagers and their strange adventures and see what influence their local drive-in had on their lives and loves. Enjoy the show! If you liked American Graffiti, youll love Drive-In Matinee!
Download or read book Driving written by Francis M. Ware and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Horror at the Drive In written by Gary D. Rhodes and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drive-in movie theaters and the horror films shown at them during the 1950s, 60s, and early 70s may be somewhat outdated, but they continue to enthrall movie buffs today. More than just fodder for the satirical cannons of Joe Bob Briggs and Mystery Science Theatre 3000, they appeal to knowledgeable fans and film scholars who understand their influence on American popular culture. This book is a collection of eighteen essays by various scholars on the classic drive-in horror film experience. Those in Section One emphasize the roles of the drive-in theater in the United States--and its cultural cousin, Australia. Section Two examines how horror operated at the drive-in, the rhetoric used in coming attraction trailers, horror film premieres at drive-ins, double features, and the preproduction, production, and marketing of Last House on the Left. Section Three addresses the effects of the Vietnam War and counter-culture on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and the Cold War on Cat Women of the Moon. Section Four explores gender issues and sexuality, two of the most common and most important subjects of horror film analysis. Section Five covers drive-in culture via Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, 2000 Maniacs, and the films of Mario Bava. Section Six investigates a variety of issues, such as the drive-in horror film's embrace of DNA, the use of cinematic form to create a non-Hollywood look in Wizard of Gore, and the many different prints and running times of I Drink Your Blood.
Download or read book Drive In Mantinee written by Jeff Hockenheimer and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-11-27 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remember the drive-ins? The outdoor movie theaters where you could stay in your car and sit spell-bound in darkness? Come along with a group of fun-loving teenagers in their strange adventures and see what influence their local drive-in had on their lives and loves. Enjoy the show! If you liked American Graffiti, you'll love Drive-In Matinee!
Download or read book Secret Cinema and the immersive experience industry written by Sarah Atkinson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive history and analysis of Secret Cinema – the leading producer of large-scale immersive experiences in the UK. It examines how the company has evolved over twelve years from an experimental and artisanal organisation to a global leader in the field. The book focuses on the UK in late-2019, a point at which the immersive sector had grown significantly through its increasing contribution to GDP and its widespread recognition as a legitimate cultural offering. It captures an organisation and a sector transitioning from marginal and subcultural roots to a commodifiable and commercial form, now with recognisable professional roles and practices, which has contributed to the establishment of an immersive experience industry of national importance and global reach.
Download or read book The Fastest Thirty Ballgames written by Douglas 'Chuck' Booth and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "THE FASTEST 30 BALLGAMES" is a World Record journey of dedicated 'Ballpark Chaser', Chuck Booth. In the summer of 2009, Booth accomplished this amazing feat of attending a full baseball game at every Major League Baseball home team's ballpark in only 24 calendar days. Booth managed this after falling just short of the record in 2008. The book chronicles the story of Booth as he rearranged his life to attempt the World Record after hearing the inspirational story of Jim Maclaren who faced two near death experiences--and how Jim overcame being a quadriplegic to become one of the most respected motivational speakers in America. The story features write-ups of all ballparks Booth visited during the streak with a look at traditions and physical appearance. It also reveals how after he became a member of Ballpark Chasers, he decided to include Chaser Guides that offer suggestions on how to travel, where to eat and sleep, the best parking, transportation to and from the ballpark, where to score the best seats and so much more. This knowledge is passed on to the reader in hopes of saving them time, money and stress when Ballpark Chasing around the country. Co-authors are fellow Ballpark Chasers: Craig B. Landgren and Ken Lee. Craig assisted with the Ballpark Chaser Guides while Ken charted Booth's record attempt in 2009. Throughout the book look for other featured 'Ballpark Chasers' personal ballpark stories and memories that have forever changed their lives.
Download or read book Choose Change written by Linda Limbers Mitchell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-01-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You may have heard the old story about the frog. If you put a frog in some cool water, he'll be quite comfortable. If you slowly heat the water, the frog will not jump out, even if the water starts to boil, because during the slow process of bringing it to a boil, the frog adjusts. He will be boiled alive because he has become comfortable with his surroundings. Don't be comfortable. You can change before your crisis becomes too difficult. Don't wait until you are boiled alive! Choose Change Before Change Chooses You! is a simple systematic process to change your live before you are forced to do so by people and circumstances over which you have no control. Most people will not change until it becomes more uncomfortable to be where they are than it is to get where they are going. This a practical thirteen week process to make living your life what it was meant to be: fulfilling, joyful and on purpose.
Download or read book Looking Past the Screen written by Jon Lewis and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-22 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA collection of essays illustrating new methods and theories of film history./div
Download or read book The Spark and the Drive written by Wayne Harrison and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By an award-winning writer of short fiction, a devastatingly powerful debut novel of hero-worship, first love, and betrayal Justin Bailey is seventeen when he arrives at the shop of legendary muscle car mechanic Nick Campbell. Anguished and out of place among the students at his rural Connecticut high school, Justin finds in Nick, his captivating wife Mary Ann, and their world of miraculous machines the sense of family he has struggled to find at home. But when Nick and Mary Ann's lives are struck by tragedy, Justin's own world is upended. Suddenly Nick, once celebrated for his mechanical genius, has lost his touch. Mary Ann, once tender and compassionate to her husband, has turned distant. As Justin tries to support his suffering mentor, he finds himself drawn toward the man's grieving wife. Torn apart by feelings of betrayal, Justin must choose between the man he admires more than his own father and the woman he yearns for. A poignant and fiercely original debut, with moments of fast-paced suspense, Wayne Harrison's The Spark and The Drive is the unforgettable story of a young man forced to make an impossible decision—no matter the consequences.
Download or read book The Last Chance Matinee written by Mariah Stewart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes the first novel in her all-new series, The Hudson Sisters, following a trio of reluctant sisters as they set out to fulfill their father’s dying wish. In the process, they find not only themselves, but the father they only thought they knew. When celebrated and respected agent Fritz Hudson passes away, he leaves a trail of Hollywood glory in his wake—and two separate families who never knew the other existed. Allie and Des Hudson are products of Fritz’s first marriage to Honora, a beautiful but troubled starlet whose life ended in a tragic overdose. Meanwhile, Fritz was falling in love on the Delaware Bay with New Age hippie Susa Pratt—they had a daughter together, Cara, and while Fritz loved Susa with everything he had, he never quite managed to tell her or Cara about his West Coast family. Now Fritz is gone, and the three sisters are brought together under strange circumstances: there’s a large inheritance to be had that could save Allie from her ever-deepening debt following a disastrous divorce, allow Des to open a rescue shelter for abused and wounded animals, and give Cara a fresh start after her husband left her for her best friend—but only if the sisters upend their lives and work together to restore an old, decrepit theater that was Fritz’s obsession growing up in his small hometown in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains. Guided by Fritz’s closest friend and longtime attorney, Pete Wheeler, the sisters come together—whether they like it or not—to turn their father’s dream into a reality, and might just come away with far more than they bargained for.
Download or read book West by Southwest written by Bennett Lear Fairorth and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, 81, a retired English teacher, decides to leave his several volunteer tasks for the community to fly west from Abington, Pennsylvania, 12 miles north of Philadelphia, to visit a granddaughter in Las Vegas, Nevada; a sister in Portland, Oregon; an older son in San Francisco, California; and a younger son in Austin, Texas, and the people these 4 live with. He is sure that these travels the 2nd half of August 2007 will be his final flights. After 3 weeks of visiting his family, the author returns home to his 3 volunteer tasks, tutoring 6 Korean women in correct English writing, delivering Meals on Wheels, and working 3 mornings for 3 days in Abington Hospital. He makes plans to spend 10 days in New York City the end of September to attend several Metropolitan operas and several Broadway shows. Before 2007 ends, his older son's daughter makes him a great-grandfather. The author looks forward to his Las Vegas granddaughter's wedding in Atlantic City in June 2008 and to the presidential election November 4. He becomes a great-grandfather for the 2nd time just before Barack Obama is elected President of the United States.
Download or read book Showman of the Screen written by A. T. McKenna and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short, immaculately dressed, and shockingly foul-mouthed, Joseph E. Levine (1905--1987) was larger than life. He rose from poverty in Boston's West End to become one of postwar Hollywood's most prolific independent promoters, distributors, and producers. Alternately respected and reviled, this master of movie promotion was responsible for bringing films as varied as Godzilla: King of the Monsters! (1956), Hercules (1958), The Graduate (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), and A Bridge Too Far (1977) to American audiences . In the first biography of this controversial pioneer, A. T. McKenna traces Levine's rise as an influential packager of popular culture. He explores the mogul's pivotal role in many significant industry innovations from the 1950s to the 1970s, examining his use of saturation release tactics and bombastic advertising campaigns. Levine was also a trailblazer in promoting European art house cinema in the 1960s. He made Federico Fellini's 81⁄2 (1963) a hit in America, feuded with Jean-Luc Godard over their production of Contempt (1963), and campaigned aggressively for Sophia Loren to become the first actress to win an Oscar for a foreign language performance for her role in Two Women (1960). Despite his significant accomplishments and prominent role in shaping film distribution and promotion in the post-studio era, Levine is largely overlooked today. McKenna's in-depth biography corrects misunderstandings and misinformation about this colorful figure, and offers a sober assessment of his contributions to world cinema. It also illuminates Levine's peculiar talent for movie- and self-promotion, as well as his extraordinary career in the motion picture business.
Download or read book Never Forgotten written by Paul E. Huntsberger and published by LifeRichPublishing. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never Forgotten chronicles the Peace Corps service of a young American who taught in Saganeiti, Eritrea during a nascent rebellion against Ethiopia in 1965-1967. The story recounts his return after 35 years to reunite with Eritreans after years of war led to independence. Numerous photographs capture life in Eritrea and in Africa in the 1960s. Experience the rhythm of village life in highland Eritrea, as the author remembers enjoying Eritrean hospitality, playing with children, attending religious feasts, giving medical assistance, celebrating Christmas, attending funerals, riding busses, walking to remote villages with students, and attending engagements and weddings. Appreciate the challenges of teaching in and reorganizing a middle school, and of motivating students to compete successfully for national scholarships. Join the author on unscripted travel and adventures in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Sudan. Share the heartfelt letters sent to the author by students and friends after he left Eritrea to appreciate how keen Eritreans were to keep in touch. Gain insights into the tensions arising between Ethiopia and Eritrea after 1967. Rejoice with the author who fortuitously reconnected in 1999 with a special student who rose to a high level in the Eritrean government. Witness how the author meets former students in Asmara in 2002, and then locates his elderly maid against all odds. Never Forgotten pays tribute to Saganeiti and to all Eritreans and Peace Corps volunteers the author befriended, and honors students who died for the cause of independence.
Download or read book Horror International written by Steven Jay Schneider and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As global cinema becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish, characterizations of horror films from various geographical and cultural locations seem more fluid and transitional than ever before. However, this does not mean denying the existence of national features that affect and are reflected in horror films, whether from an artistic or a reception standpoint. Horror is one of the most studied genres in cinema, yet none of the many books on the subject focus on films or traditions outside the United States or the United Kingdom. While Italian, Japanese, Mexican, German, and Hong Kong horror films have received a modicum of critical recognition, the areas of Egyptian, Romanian, Belgian, Dutch, New Zealand, and Thai horror all still need-in fact, demand-some attention. Horror International seeks to rectify this by giving the global perspectives and cross-cultural dynamics of world horror cinema its due. This groundbreaking collection of eighteen original essays examine a myriad of films, showing how each draws from Hollywood horror conventions and also local cinematic traditions, local folklore, and national historical and cultural concerns. The production, marketing, and reception of various national cinemas are also addressed, demonstrating how these films are understood by different audiences worldwide. This in turn sheds new light on the original cultural production of many works and their subsequent "translations" and meanings in different national contexts. The diverse and highly informative essays in Horror International will engross both scholars and fans of horror films and finally illuminate the distinct multicultural factors of this exciting cinematic genre.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Clear Communication written by Kris Cole and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voice inflection, facial movements, body language and word choice all contribute to making a skilled communicator. This book provides practical, useful tips to help the reader become a more effective communicator in daily business life.
Download or read book Turf Field and Farm written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cincinnati written by Robert Earnest Miller and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cincinnati: The World War II Years explores a significant chapter in the history of greater Cincinnati: the time before, during, and immediately after World War II. The book, spanning from 1937 to 1955, examines trends in the social, political, and cultural history of the city and surrounding communities. Events transpiring in Cincinnati mirrored changes that the United States experienced during this pivotal period--the Great Depression, isolationist impulses, the mobilization for war, and the postwar economic boom. Because Cincinnati's war years so closely reflect larger national trends of the time, the story of this city's home front experience serves as an insightful case study of the national war experience.
