Download or read book He Ran All the Way written by Robert Nott and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2003 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But soon, seduced by the myth of Hollywood and the reality of Warner Brothers, he made his movie debut, in 1938, in Four Daughters and immediately established himself as an earthy, rebellious and electrifying presence on the screen - in retrospect, the James Dean of the Depression era.
Download or read book John Garfield written by Patrick J. McGrath and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-08-23 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most gifted actors of the 1930s and 1940s, John Garfield is too little remembered today. His gritty, true-to-life performances in 35 films, including Body and Soul, which was one of the first movies to raise the ugly specter of race relations in the United States, and in 16 Broadway productions were all highly acclaimed. Garfield is best recalled, by some, for having been targeted by the House Un-American Activities Committee for his liberal political beliefs. Garfield was one of many Hollywood stars blacklisted by Senator Joseph McCarthy and his cronies. "Acting is my life," he said in a speech in 1939. Deprived of that opportunity, he died in 1952. This generously illustrated work examines the actor's personal and professional life, recounting a bygone era of Hollywood and American history.
Download or read book A A All The Way written by Stephen Talton - Borelli and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A and A is a story about two brothers who must rescue kidnapped relatives from the clutches of those who want to misuse their abilities for selfish gain. Each mission, the two brothers learn more about themselves and what it’s like to level up in life.
Download or read book Intonation written by Alan Cruttenden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition remains the basic reference book for all these concerned with speech in any way.
Download or read book Beyond Twisted Sorrow written by Jay A. Gertzman and published by Down & Out Books. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth-century mass produced pulp crime usually ends with the protagonists unable to rid themselves of the presence of forces that inhibit professional or emotional growth. Stoic perseverance is often their acknowledgement of the power of fate. The diverse, still-emerging genre of Country (or Redneck, Ridgerunner, or Ozark) noir is marked by protagonists who have an instinct for community as a coherent territory and recreate the possibly self-destructive but stubbornly self-assertive traits that characterized what Greil Marcus called “the old, weird America.” Rural fiction’s protagonists struggle to replace a set of convictions which no longer sustain community or family. Often enough, their struggles produce a generational survival of perseverance, family and clan mutuality, the need for passing tough tests, and spirituality. They often wind up “far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow” (Dylan’s “Tambourine Man”).
Download or read book Adrenaline Junkie written by Les Edgerton and published by Down & Out Books. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adrenaline Junkie is more than a renowned, multi-award-winning author entertaining with his life history. Les Edgerton understands that backstory matters. It influences the present. So he journeyed through his past seeking answers for why he was the way he was. Seeking answers for his thrill-seeking, devil-may-care, often self-destructive, behaviors. Seeking a sense of personal peace. Why was he compelled to be the best he could be in all his endeavors—legal or otherwise. What drove him to excel, then flee success, only to strive for supremacy in another field? Adrenaline Junkie holds the answers. With nothing held back. With his life-saving humor, an indomitable spirit, and a fierce courage to expose the ugly and painful. Like the tough, raw, vulnerable characters Les writes about in his short stories and novels, he exposes us to a man fighting against family, society, and his own sense of injustice. Fighting for a moment—regardless of how fleeting—to feel in control of his life. And, as uncomfortable at times as Les’s life adventure may be for us to witness, we come away grateful he took us with him. So settle back. Meet a real-life, twenty-first-century Renaissance man. A real-life adrenaline junkie. Praise for ADRENALINE JUNKIE: “Adrenaline Junkie is a raw and harrowing memoir that brilliantly combines great sensitivity with brutal honesty. Les Edgerton is never afraid to reveal his vulnerability—and culpability—as he takes us on a head-spinning ride through the bizarre and terrifying experiences in a life that was often defined by violence. The result is a breathtaking page-turner that will keep readers hooked from page one and will never let them go.” —Lisa Lieberman Doctor, former Warner Bros. prodco president, president of Robin Williams prodco, Blue Wolf Productions “Filled with stories of knifings, armed robberies, brutal prison fights, and Charles Manson (yes, that Charles Manson!), Edgerton proves that life can be stranger (and certainly more violent) than fiction. But Edgerton isn’t just a guy with a tough story to tell. He’s a poet who startles you with sentences both stark and darkly beautiful. An astonishing accomplishment.” —Jon Bassoff, author of Corrosion “Adrenaline Junkie is the compelling, beautifully written story of an extraordinary man who has lived on both sides of the tracks. Les Edgerton achieves a sort of sainthood among sinners, an apotheosis of rebellion and force, much like Harcamone at Fontevrault, or a hero in a Johnny Cash song, a huge, Promethean work of major significance and scale.” —Richard Godwin, critically acclaimed author “Edgerton's prose hits with the force of a hammer—as does his recollection of an America, both deeply flawed and wonderful, that is now more important than ever to keep in our sights. Adrenaline Junkie makes sense of one man's life while showing us all new aspects of our own.” —Jenny Milchman, USA Today bestselling and Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author of Cover of Snow and Wicked River “No one can accuse Les of being a ‘crime tourist’. He’s lived the life, done the bird, and now he’s written the book. Adrenaline Junkie should be on any prospective (or established) crime writer’s list. An entertaining, darkly-rendered tale of one man’s adventures in the very belly of the beast.” —Tony Black, author of Her Cold Eyes “Sometimes shocking, often poignant, occasionally distasteful, frequently funny, and always brutally honest, Adrenaline Junkie tells the story of one man’s harrowing yet ultimately successful quest for redemption. Written with razor-sharp clarity, Edgerton’s memoir is a triumph.” —Robert Rotstein, author of We, the Jury
Download or read book Book One of a Trilogy A Stitch in Time written by Ian Davey and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Stitch in Time Set in the heart of North Yorkshire and incorporating local myths, legends, and historical facts, this is the fantasy story of John Twigg, a young man with everything to live for. But, despite a loving family and an adoring girlfriend, he makes the fatal error of falling under the spell of a beautiful upper-class girl. Unable to sustain his own anguish and unhappiness at his betrayal, he curses himself and is thrown back in time from 1999 to the year 1544 by a force that he cannot possibly comprehend. This first book in a trilogy is the story of his haunted childhood and sets the scene for his later epic struggle to return from the witch-infested late Tudor era where he is torn between two lives and loves... in different times in history. Intermixed with the evils of lust, hate and jealousy, John Twigg’s fight to return home will touch your heart and soul. Be very careful what you wish for in life... be very careful indeed!
Download or read book Dalton Trumbo written by Larry Ceplair and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Dalton Trumbo (1905--1976) is widely recognized for his work as a screenwriter, playwright, and author, but he is also remembered as one of the Hollywood Ten who opposed the House Un-American Activities Committee. Refusing to answer questions about his prior involvement with the Communist Party, Trumbo sacrificed a successful career in Hollywood to stand up for his rights and defend political freedom. In Dalton Trumbo, authors Larry Ceplair and Christopher Trumbo present their extensive research on the famed writer, detailing his work, his membership in the Communist Party, his long campaign against censorship during the domestic cold war, his ten-month prison sentence for contempt of Congress, and his thirteen-year struggle to break the blacklist. The blacklist ended for Trumbo in 1960, when he received screen credits for Exodus and Spartacus. Just before his death, he received a long-delayed Academy Award for The Brave One, and in 1993, he was posthumously given an Academy Award for Roman Holiday (1953). This comprehensive biography provides insights into the many notable people with whom Trumbo worked, including Stanley Kubrick, Otto Preminger, and Kirk Douglas, and offers a fascinating look at the life of one of Hollywood's most prominent screenwriters and his battle against persecution.
Download or read book Not What I Expected written by Virginia Redman and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-03-17 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allie and her Octet had been close, happy, supportive friends since kindergarten. Her friend Jen is like her sister. One day when they are all walking home from school, she is shocked to see a “For Sale” sign in the front yard of her home. Her dad is being transferred to San Diego. Allie’s family is going to move from a suburb on Lake Michigan north of Chicago to a suburb north of San Diego. She is heartbroken. She thinks, I will be starting high school all over again in my junior year in a strange new place. When the dreaded first day of school arrives, surprisingly, she meets Jordan in her first-period class. Jordan’s dad had just been transferred to San Diego from the San Francisco Bay Area. Jordan introduces Allie to her cousin Greg at lunch. Allie thinks, As Jen would say, he is awesome! In French class Allie meets Amanda and Chloe. So many absolutely amazing, unexpected things happen for Allie in the next few months because of Jordan, Amanda, Chloe, Greg, and her brother Conner. One night, she hugs her dog and says, “Oh, Sunshine, I’m so happy!”
Download or read book Dalton Trumbo Hollywood Rebel written by Peter Hanson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a screenwriter, novelist, and political activist, Dalton Trumbo stands among the key American literary figures of the 20th century--he wrote the classic antiwar novel Johnny Got His Gun, and his credits for Spartacus and Exodus broke the anticommunist blacklist that infected the movie industry for more than a decade. By defining connections between Trumbo's most highly acclaimed films (including Kitty Foyle, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, and Roman Holiday) and his important but lesser-known movies (The Remarkable Andrew, He Ran All the Way, and The Boss), the author identifies how for nearly four decades Trumbo used the archetype of the rebel hero to inject social consciousness into mainstream films. This new critical survey--the first book-length work on Trumbo's screenwriting career--examines the scores of films on which Trumbo worked and explores the techniques that made him, at the time he was blacklisted in 1947, Hollywood's highest-paid writer. Hanson reveals how Trumbo dealt with major themes including rebellion, radical politics, and individualism--while also detailing lesser-known areas of Trumbo's screenwriting, such as his troubling portrayal of women, the dichotomy between his proletarian attitude and bourgeois lifestyle, and the almost surreptitious manner in which he included antiestablishment rhetoric in seemingly innocuous scripts. An extensive filmography is included.
Download or read book Film Noir written by Ian Brookes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film noir may seem a familiar term to many, with its use of a complex narrative structure, flashbacks and voiceover narration, and with such archetypal characterisations as the femme fatale and private eye. But this introduction is not so much an account of what film noir is, but more an interrogation of the ways in which the term came to be applied to a particular group of American films of the 1940s and 1950s. Ian Brookes asks: 'What is film noir?' With this sharply focused question active throughout the book, students will benefit from an introductory text designed to provide a sophisticated treatment of the problems inherent in the category. This will be the first critical introduction to film noir which takes into account the complexity of the term and the difficulties of straightforward definition and classification.
Download or read book Dark City written by Eddie Muller and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-05-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were a million stories in the naked cities of film noir and this ultimate noir compendium tells 'em all--from classics like DOUBLE INDEMNITY and NIGHT AND THE CITY to lost gems such as PITFALL and TRY AND GET ME! Eddie Muller weaves stunning images with a savvy, sharp text that propels you down every side street of those haunting cityscapes. color photos.
Download or read book THE GUARDIAN written by Earl Thompson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07-15 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First there was Napoleon, then came Hitler, now there was a third one, but he was different. He was born to be the anti-Christ, to be the destroyer of the world, but his love for his fellowmen caused him to change. He saw the sufferings of the people and decided to help them instead. He had the power of a god; he could turn back the hands of time, but he wasn't seeking to control the lives of his people, nor was he seeking fame and fortune; he was looking to save people from themselves. His father did not approve, but he didn't care. He saw the amount of evil that had consumed his father and didn't want that to consume him, so he chose to do good over evil. But it wasn't easy though; for every good deed that he did, he had to pay. The evil inside of him was fighting to come out, but he knew he couldn't afford to let that happen, because then all the people he had grown to love would be destroyed, but with each passing day he was getting weaker. Was he going to give into the evil inside?
Download or read book The Hand of God written by Malcolm Ward and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malcolm Batley travels back to Cameroon, Africa. Hes still trying to save his sister, after failing the last time. Hes been sort after be the police, the army, the Americans, over twenty mercenaries, Salina, and more bad men than he wanted. Hes reunited with his sister and a new lover. Batleys grown up and matured a little this time. After escaping the first time, only to be caught once more. He uses his witch doctor magic powers to escape, while trying to stay one step in front, but always seems to fail. They are more parties after the gold, although he finds it harder to kill those, who would harm them. Hes having to come to terms with good and evil, after realizing its better to save life, than to kill. Batley must save them all, and after seen his lovers death, as well as his own. Hes used his powers to see into their future, and seen a way to save them all, although he can never see the final outcome. There sailing on the river after an alliance is formed between them. Batleys forced to take command and they head out for the gold. Another party thats also after the gold gets in their way. Can he save them, his self and give them the gold? He blacks out and is forced to fight his own demons, in a world of madness and brutality, like he could never think possible. Death and double crossing is all around them.
Download or read book Deorum written by Benjamin Rathai and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deorum: Book 1 - The Morning Star By: Benjamin Rathai Join the crew of the Morning Star as they explore the mysterious islands to the south of the empire in the world of Deorum, a world of magic, monsters, and machines. The former-smugglers-turned-explorers find themselves in the middle of plots by the empire, a rogue general, a dwarven lord, and a mysterious figure only known as the lady in white. The crew set out on a mission of exploration and stumble across trouble as they try to find their way through strange lands. They realize that they are the only ones who can defend the people from the advanced weapons brought by Argos and his followers from the empire, as they find unlikely allies and friends. The crew must fight to save the people of the islands and stop the former general from unleashing an ancient war machine capable of destroying the empire and sending the world into a devastating war.
Download or read book Deviants written by Paul Dale Anderson and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Wynn is a former homicide detective who lost his job and pension after he tracked down serial killer Brian Russell and killed him in cold blood out of revenge for his family being brutally murdered. Mark spent two years in prison and is now out on parole. When Mark’s neighbor is murdered and dismembered in her apartment by a serial killer known as "the cutter," Mark tries to track down the killer, even though he is no longer a cop. Mark’s ex-partner, Mike Nelson, and the new head of homicide, Aaron Lester, tell Mark to stay out of it, but Mark can’t. Mark is an ex-con on parole, and if he even touches a gun he will go back to prison for the remainder of his twenty-year sentence. With only his wits to aid him, Mark attempts to thwart the killer’s plans to attack again. Deviants is a thrill-packed tale of revenge gone wrong.
Download or read book The Method written by Isaac Butler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, Nonfiction NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORKER, TIME MAGAZINE, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, VOX, SALON, LIT HUB, AND VANITY FAIR “Entertaining and illuminating.”--The New Yorker * “Compulsively readable.”--New York Times * “Delicious, humane, probing.”--Vulture * “The best and most important book about acting I've ever read.”--Nathan Lane The critically acclaimed cultural history of Method acting-an ebullient account of creative discovery and the birth of classic Hollywood. On stage and screen, we know a great performance when we see it. But how do actors draw from their bodies and minds to turn their selves into art? What is the craft of being an authentic fake? More than a century ago, amid tsarist Russia's crushing repression, one of the most talented actors ever, Konstantin Stanislavski, asked these very questions, reached deep into himself, and emerged with an answer. How his “system” remade itself into the Method and forever transformed American theater and film is an unlikely saga that has never before been fully told. Now, critic and theater director Isaac Butler chronicles the history of the Method in a narrative that transports readers from Moscow to New York to Los Angeles, from The Seagull to A Streetcar Named Desire to Raging Bull. He traces how a cohort of American mavericks--including Stella Adler, Lee Strasberg, and the storied Group Theatre--refashioned Stanislavski's ideas for a Depression-plagued nation that had yet to find its place as an artistic powerhouse. The Group's feuds and rivalries would, in turn, shape generations of actors who enabled Hollywood to become the global dream-factory it is today. Some of these performers the Method would uplift; others, it would destroy. Long after its midcentury heyday, the Method lives on as one of the most influential--and misunderstood--ideas in American culture. Studded with marquee names--from Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, and Elia Kazan, to James Baldwin, Ellen Burstyn, and Dustin Hoffman--The Method is a spirited history of ideas and a must-read for any fan of Broadway or American film.
