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Book Mulholland Dive

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Connelly
  • Publisher : Little, Brown
  • Release : 2012-09-04
  • ISBN : 0316233676
  • Pages : 57 pages

Download or read book Mulholland Dive written by Michael Connelly and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three never-before-collected short stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly In "Cahoots," a backroom poker game turns deadly when a cheater is exposed. In "Mulholland Dive," a man who deciphers the hidden codes of accident scenes investigates a fatality off L.A.'s most fabled roadway. In "Two-Bagger," an obsessed cop tails an ex-con he believes is about to carry out a contract killing. Together these gripping, unforgettable stories show that Michael Connelly "knows the workings of the LAPD and the streets of the City of Angels like he knows his own name" (Boston Globe). [Word count: 14,054]

Book Mulholland Drive

    Book Details:
  • Author : Zina Giannopoulou
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-10-01
  • ISBN : 1135940509
  • Pages : 137 pages

Download or read book Mulholland Drive written by Zina Giannopoulou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beloved by film and art aficionados and fans of neo-noir cinema, Mulholland Drive is one of the most important and enigmatic films of recent years. It occupies a central and controversial position in the work of its director, David Lynch, who won the best director award at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival for the movie. Mulholland Drive in the Routledge Philosophers on Film series is the first full philosophical appraisal of Lynch's film. Beginning with an introduction by the editor, the volume explores the following topics: the identity of the self and its persistence through time the central, dual roles played by fantasy and reality throughout the film whether Mulholland Drive is best understood epistemologically via reason and language, or whether, as Lynch himself argues, by one's 'inner feelings' and emotions parallels between Mulholland Drive and Kafka's The Castle, both of which pit their protagonists at the mercy of unseen forces Mulholland Drive and romanticism. Additional key themes are also discussed, such as the interpenetration of ethics, classical tragedy, and the contrasting philosophical arguments of Plato and Nietzsche on tragic drama. These themes make Mulholland Drive essential and engaging reading for students of philosophy, especially aesthetics and ethics, as well as film studies.

Book Los Angeles Noir

    Book Details:
  • Author : Denise Hamilton
  • Publisher : Akashic Books
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 1933354224
  • Pages : 357 pages

Download or read book Los Angeles Noir written by Denise Hamilton and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Akashic Books Noir Series is selling great; nearly every title has gone into multiple printings. Whole series to be promoted at major trade conferences and mystery conferences. Major media push: print, radio, television.

Book The Key to Mulholland Drive

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christian Hardinghaus
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-07-25
  • ISBN : 9781717908711
  • Pages : 62 pages

Download or read book The Key to Mulholland Drive written by Christian Hardinghaus and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-25 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Lynch ́s cult movie "Mulholland Drive" offers us all sorts of riddles. As a real classic of the Mindfuck genre, the movie inflames passion, even 17 years after its premiere. The German specialist journalist and author Christian Hardinghaus tries to clarify the last questions in his interpretation: what really happened on Mulholland Drive? What can we learn from the key, the blue box and the monster behind "Winkie ́s"? What do the ten clues tell us which David Lynch gives the viewer? Hardinghaus decrypts the plot of the movie step by step and, in doing so, he tells us the story of Camilla and Diane, of Betty and Rita and the 'dream world Hollywood'. A book for all film enthusiasts who never got "Mulholland Drive" out of their heads. For the very old and new lovers of the movie.

Book Back to Mulholland Drive

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicolas Bourriaud
  • Publisher : Silvana Editoriale
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 9788836635764
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Back to Mulholland Drive written by Nicolas Bourriaud and published by Silvana Editoriale. This book was released on 2017 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back to Mulholland Drive uses David Lynch's cult classic Mulholland Drive to explore an emerging trend of "minimal fantasy" in contemporary art, surveying work where uncanny, magical atmospheres are conjured through glassy, minimal forms.

Book Karen Halverson  Mulholland

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher : Mw Editions
  • Release : 2021-06-08
  • ISBN : 9781735762906
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book Karen Halverson Mulholland written by and published by Mw Editions. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographer Karen Halverson first fell in love with Mulholland Drive after seeing David Hockney's, twenty-foot long painting, "Mulholland Drive: The Road to the Studio" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A few years after that, she moved to Los Angeles and encountered the real Mulholland Drive, a road that twists and turns for fifty-two miles along the crest of the Santa Monica Mountains from the Pacific Ocean to Hollywood. She likens the drive, which she has made hundreds of times, to "watching a movie full of jump cuts . . . There you are maneuvering the curves of the road while spectacular images roll by left and right. Mind the turns and the oncoming cars, but catch the views as best you can-native chaparral followed by swaths of hot pink groundcover, arching succulents that look like saxophones, sheared off hillsides, limos cruising along, movie sets and construction sites, houses on stilts, even houses perched on precipices, finally the iconic Hollywood sign, and everywhere, the vast city below." Her panoramic photographs of this legendary road, named after William Mulholland, the controversial "water baron" who was essential to Los Angeles's growth, show the breathtaking natural landscape that is now inextricably entwined with the built environment. Mulholland presents a unique portrait of this quintessential American city, in a dramatic horizontal format that emphasizes the wild terrain that lies beneath the glamorous City of Angels.

Book Killers on Mulholland Drive

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  • Author : Ronald E. Bowers
  • Publisher : Bowers Books
  • Release : 2018-08-09
  • ISBN : 9781732665538
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Killers on Mulholland Drive written by Ronald E. Bowers and published by Bowers Books. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often infamous criminal cases are linked together by where they occurred such as a certain area of the city or sometimes on the streets where they occurred. This book investigates several cases which occurred along the renowned Mulholland Drive. First, we discuss the shooting death of Ennis Cosby which is an unfortunate case. Ennis' killer almost got away with murder which would have been a travesty of justice. The prosecution's key witnesses were terrified of testifying against the killer since they thought they would be harmed by the killer's fellow gang members. As we travel down Mulholland Drive also known as the Home of the Stars, we stop to visit Marlon Brando's estate. There we review the facts of the killing of the boyfriend of Marlon Bando's daughter by Marlon's son Christian. Few people were ever privy to the reasons why Christian Brando plead guilty and ended up sentenced to six years in state prisonNext door to Marlon's home is the bachelor pad of Jack Nicholson which played center stage to the longest fugitive case in LA's history. Although this case wasn't a homicide it is the case one has to address when discussing Mulholland Drive. Roman Polanski back in 1977, arranged to do a photo shoot at Jack's place with a 13 year old girl. At night, Mulholland Drive is transformed into a Lover's Lane with its panoramic views of the City of Angels. Criminals know this is the perfect place to commit robberies. We discuss how one brave woman survived death on the legendary Mulholland Drive.

Book Room to Dream

Download or read book Room to Dream written by David Lynch and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An unprecedented look into the personal and creative life of the visionary auteur David Lynch, through his own words and those of his closest colleagues, friends, and family “Insightful . . . an impressively industrious and comprehensive account of Lynch’s career.”—The New York Times Book Review In this unique hybrid of biography and memoir, David Lynch opens up for the first time about a life lived in pursuit of his singular vision, and the many heartaches and struggles he’s faced to bring his unorthodox projects to fruition. Lynch’s lyrical, intimate, and unfiltered personal reflections riff off biographical sections written by close collaborator Kristine McKenna and based on more than one hundred new interviews with surprisingly candid ex-wives, family members, actors, agents, musicians, and colleagues in various fields who all have their own takes on what happened. Room to Dream is a landmark book that offers a onetime all-access pass into the life and mind of one of our most enigmatic and utterly original living artists. With insights into . . . Eraserhead The Elephant Man Dune Blue Velvet Wild at Heart Twin Peaks Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Lost Highway The Straight Story Mulholland Drive INLAND EMPIRE Twin Peaks: The Return Praise for Room to Dream “A memorable portrait of one of cinema’s great auteurs . . . provides a remarkable insight into [David] Lynch’s intense commitment to the ‘art life.’ ”—The Guardian “This is the best book by and about a movie director since Elia Kazan’s A Life (1988) and Michael Powell’s A Life in Movies (1986). But Room to Dream is more enchanting or appealing than those classics. . . . What makes this book endearing is its chatty, calm account of how genius in America can be a matter-of-fact defiance of reality that won’t alarm your dog or save mankind. It’s the only way to dream in so disturbed a country.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Book Rivers in the Desert

    Book Details:
  • Author : Margaret Leslie Davis
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2014-04-01
  • ISBN : 1497613779
  • Pages : 323 pages

Download or read book Rivers in the Desert written by Margaret Leslie Davis and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise and fall of William Mulholland, and the story of L.A.’s disastrous dam collapse: “A dramatic saga of ambition, politics, money and betrayal” (Los Angeles Daily News). Rivers in the Desert follows the remarkable career of William Mulholland, the visionary who engineered the rise of Los Angeles as the greatest American city west of the Mississippi. He sought to transform the sparse and barren desert into an inhabitable environment by designing the longest aqueduct in the Western Hemisphere, bringing water from the mountains to support a large city. This “fascinating history” chronicles Mulholland’s dramatic ascension to wealth and fame—followed by his tragic downfall after the sudden collapse of the dam he had constructed to safeguard the water supply (Newsweek). The disaster, which killed at least five hundred people, caused his repudiation by allies, friends, and a previously adoring community. Epic in scope, Rivers in the Desert chronicles the history of Los Angeles and examines the tragic fate of the man who rescued it. “An arresting biography of William Mulholland, the visionary Los Angeles Water Department engineer . . . [his] personal and public dramas make for gripping reading.” —Publishers Weekly “A fascinating look at the political maneuvering and engineering marvels that moved the City of Angels into the first rank of American cities.” —Booklist

Book Blue on Black

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Connelly
  • Publisher : Mulholland Books
  • Release : 2016-09-06
  • ISBN : 0316361232
  • Pages : 48 pages

Download or read book Blue on Black written by Michael Connelly and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, a short story featuring LAPD Detective Harry Bosch and FBI agent Rachel Walling. Two women have gone missing, and LAPD Detective Harry Bosch has a strong suspicion that an avid fisherman named Denninger is the culprit. Bosch needs something stronger than a suspicion to bring Denninger in, but all he has are a handful of photos--prior mug shots and pictures of Denninger posing with his prize fish. It's not much to go on, and Bosch is running out of time, which is why he calls in FBI agent Rachel Walling. What she sees in these photos could blow his case wide open. "Blue on Black" by Michael Connelly is one of 20 short stories within Mulholland Books's Strand Originals series, featuring thrilling stories by the biggest names in mystery from the Strand Magazine archives. View the full series list at mulhollandbooks.com and listen to them all!

Book The Safe Man

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Connelly
  • Publisher : Allen & Unwin
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 1743431775
  • Pages : 48 pages

Download or read book The Safe Man written by Michael Connelly and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2012 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sinister story from the author of the bestselling Harry Bosch thriller series, only available as an ebook edition.

Book David Lynch

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dennis Lim
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 0544343751
  • Pages : 197 pages

Download or read book David Lynch written by Dennis Lim and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing look at the life and work of David Lynch, one of the most enigmatic and influential filmmakers of our time Every frame of David Lynch's work, from the '70s midnight movie Eraserhead to the groundbreaking TV series Twin Peaks, to the digital-video DIY feat Inland Empire, bears his unmistakable imprint. But the paradox of the Lynchian is that it's easy to recognize and hard to define. Lynch is a master of the inscrutable gesture, the opaque symbol. His career evades the usual categories: pop culture icon and subject of academic study, cult figure and industry outsider. He's a Renaissance man—musician, painter, photographer, carpenter, entrepreneur—and a vocal proponent or transcendental meditation. Dennis Lim, the newly minted director of Cinematheque programming at Lincoln Center, is a skilled cinephile wary of over-interpretation.David Lynch preserves the strangeness of the Lynch's universe and offers a personal meditation on the most distinctive filmmaker in modern American culture. It leaves what Lynch likes to call "room to dream," honoring the allure of the unknown and the unknowable.

Book The Strange World of David Lynch

Download or read book The Strange World of David Lynch written by Eric Wilson and published by Continuum. This book was released on 2007-05-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Lynch's films have to do with religion? Wilson attempts to answer that question in his book.

Book The Impossible David Lynch

Download or read book The Impossible David Lynch written by Todd McGowan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Todd McGowan studies Lynch's talent for blending the bizarre and the normal to emphasise the odd nature of normality itself. In Lynch's movies, fantasy becomes a means through which the viewer is encouraged to build a revolutionary relationship with the world.

Book Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership

Download or read book Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership written by Ruth Haley Barton and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I'm tired of helping others enjoy God—I just want to enjoy God for myself." With this painful admission, Ruth Haley Barton invites us to an honest exploration of what happens when spiritual leaders lose track of their souls. Weaving together contemporary illustrations with penetrating insight from the life of Moses, Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership explores topics such as responding to the dynamics of calling facing the loneliness of leadership leading from your authentic self cultivating spiritual community reenvisioning the promised land discerning God's will together Each chapter includes a spiritual practice to ensure your soul gets the nourishment it needs. Forging and maintaining a life-giving connection with God is the best choice you can make for yourself and for those you lead. This expanded edition includes the popular "How Is It with Your Soul?” assessment for leaders and a flexible six- or twelve-week guided experience for groups.

Book The Baron of Mulholland

Download or read book The Baron of Mulholland written by William R. Bremer and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visit the author's website at http://www.inlikeflynn.com/flynn.html Several years after the death of her famous father, the teenaged Rory Flynn was discovered by the modeling world and thereafter worked as a high fashion model in New York, London and Paris for nearly a decade. Afterward, she decided to try her talents on the other side of the camera and has since traveled the world as a still photographer for the film industry. Currently, she is happily based in the Hollywood Hills, where she lives with her film producer husband Gideon Amir and their teenaged son Sean, who is carrying on the Flynn name as a successful film and television actor.

Book The Solaris Effect

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven Dillon
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2010-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780292782273
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book The Solaris Effect written by Steven Dillon and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do contemporary American movies and directors have to say about the relationship between nature and art? How do science fiction films like Steven Spielberg's A.I. and Darren Aronofsky's π represent the apparent oppositions between nature and culture, wild and tame? Steven Dillon's intriguing new volume surveys American cinema from 1990 to 2002 with substantial descriptions of sixty films, emphasizing small-budget independent American film. Directors studied include Steven Soderbergh, Darren Aronofsky, Todd Haynes, Harmony Korine, and Gus Van Sant, as well as more canonical figures like Martin Scorcese, Robert Altman, David Lynch, and Steven Spielberg. The book takes its title and inspiration from Andrei Tarkovsky's 1972 film Solaris, a science fiction ghost story that relentlessly explores the relationship between the powers of nature and art. The author argues that American film has the best chance of aesthetic success when it acknowledges that a film is actually a film. The best American movies tell an endless ghost story, as they perform the agonizing nearness and distance of the cinematic image. This groundbreaking commentary examines the rarely seen bridge between select American film directors and their typically more adventurous European counterparts. Filmmakers such as Lynch and Soderbergh are cross-cut together with Tarkovsky and the great French director, Jean-Luc Godard, in order to test the limits and possibilities of American film. Both enthusiastically cinephilic and fiercely critical, this book puts a decade of U.S. film in its global place, as part of an ongoing conversation on nature and art.