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Book The Crime Studio

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steve Aylett
  • Publisher : Serif
  • Release : 2015-06-18
  • ISBN : 1909150541
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book The Crime Studio written by Steve Aylett and published by Serif. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Savage talked about his life as a re-offender. How could someone be offended by the same thing twice? Was nothing learnt?' Beerlight, the city of all of our futures, is not a safe place. Weaponry, rather than fast cars or designer clothes, is the ultimate status symbol. The populace is dedicated to law-breaking, politically incorrect views and hurling abuse and hand grenades at each other. Combining elements of surrealism, film noir and punk rock ethos, Aylett creates a darkly comic landscape that's a cross between a Tarantino film and a Bosch painting, where murder is the ultimate expression of art. The cast of hoodlums includes burglar extraordinaire Billy Panacea, conman-cum-lawyer Harpoon Specter and other fun-loving felons who hang out at the Delayed Reaction Bar on Valentine Street reading the Parole Violators Bugle.

Book Murder in the Studio

    Book Details:
  • Author : Agatha Christie
  • Publisher : Concord Theatricals
  • Release : 2024-06
  • ISBN : 0573706352
  • Pages : 89 pages

Download or read book Murder in the Studio written by Agatha Christie and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 2024-06 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of three radio plays including a Poirot story for live performance comprising Personal Call, Yellow Iris, Butter in a Lordly Dish.

Book A Criminologist s Guide to R

Download or read book A Criminologist s Guide to R written by Jacob Kaplan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Criminologist's Guide to R: Crime by the Numbers introduces the programming language R and covers the necessary skills to conduct quantitative research in criminology. By the end of this book, a person without any prior programming experience can take raw crime data, be able to clean it, visualize the data, present it using R Markdown, and change it to a format ready for analysis. A Criminologist's Guide to R focuses on skills specifically for criminology such as spatial joins, mapping, and scraping data from PDFs, however any social scientist looking for an introduction to R for data analysis will find this useful. Key Features: Introduction to RStudio including how to change user preference settings. Basic data exploration and cleaning - subsetting, loading data, regular expressions, aggregating data. Graphing with ggplot2. How to make maps (hotspot maps, choropleth maps, interactive maps). Webscraping and PDF scraping. Project management - how to prepare for a project, how to decide which projects to do, best ways to collaborate with people, how to store your code (using git), and how to test your code.

Book In the Studio

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian R. Jacobson
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2020-07-21
  • ISBN : 0520420721
  • Pages : 333 pages

Download or read book In the Studio written by Brian R. Jacobson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studios are, at once, material environments and symbolic forms, sites of artistic creation and physical labor, and nodes in networks of resource circulation. They are architectural places that generate virtual spaces—worlds built to build worlds. Yet, despite being icons of corporate identity, studios have faded into the background of critical discourse and into the margins of film and media history. In response, In the Studio demonstrates that when we foreground these worlds, we gain new insights into moving-image culture and the dynamics that quietly mark the worlds on our screens. Spanning the twentieth century and moving globally, this unique collection tells new stories about studio icons—Pinewood, Cinecittà, Churubusco, and CBS—as well as about the experimental workplaces of filmmakers and artists from Aleksandr Medvedkin to Charles and Ray Eames and Hollis Frampton.

Book Hollywood Aesthetic

Download or read book Hollywood Aesthetic written by Todd Berliner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood makes the most widely successful pleasure-giving artworks the world has ever known. The industry operates under the assumption that pleasurable aesthetic experiences, among huge populations, translate into box office success. With that goal in mind, Hollywood has systematized the delivery of aesthetic pleasure, packaging and selling it on a massive scale. In Hollywood Aesthetic, Todd Berliner accounts for the chief attraction of Hollywood cinema worldwide: its entertainment value. The book examines films such as City Lights and Goodfellas that have earned aesthetic appreciation from both fans and critics. But it also studies some curious outliers, cult films, and celebrated Hollywood experiments, such as The Killing and Starship Troopers. And it demonstrates that even ordinary popular films, from Tarzan and His Mate to Rocky III, as well as action blockbusters, like Die Hard and The Dark Knight, offer aesthetic pleasure to mass audiences. Hollywood Aesthetic explains how Hollywood engages viewers by satisfying their aesthetic desires. Visit the companion website at www.oup.com/us/hollywoodaesthetic

Book Banquet  The Untold Story of Adelaide s Family Murders

Download or read book Banquet The Untold Story of Adelaide s Family Murders written by Debi Marshall and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this definitive expose, Walkley-award winning journalist Debi Marshall turns her investigative blowtorch to the shocking Adelaide Family murders and to secrets long hidden in the City of Corpses. This chilling account begins with the liberalisation of South Australia under the premiership of Don Dunstan and demands answers to decades-old questions. Who were the Family killers? Why are suppression orders still protecting suspects four decades later? Why do some of these serial killings remain unsolved? Only one suspect, Bevan Spencer Von Einem, has been charged and convicted. With her combination of investigative skills and sensitivity, Marshall treads a harrowing path to find the truth, including confronting Von Einem in prison, pursuing sexual predators in Australia and overseas, taking a deep-dive into the murky world of paedophiles, challenging police and judiciary, and talking to victims and their families. The outcome is shocking and tragic. Following broadcast of the Foxtel television and podcast series Debi Marshall Investigates Frozen Lies, numerous people came forward to courageously share new information with Marshall. Their stories are here. Banquet takes aim at the public service, wealthy professionals and the judiciary and for the first time reveals hitherto unpublished details of the Family. And it demands a Royal Commission to break the silence that keeps the truth hidden.

Book The Crime Films of Anthony Mann

Download or read book The Crime Films of Anthony Mann written by Max Alvarez and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey and rediscovery of the many noir films directed by a master of the Western

Book The Crime Writer

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gregg Hurwitz
  • Publisher : Penguin Paperbacks
  • Release : 2008-06-24
  • ISBN : 9780143113447
  • Pages : 303 pages

Download or read book The Crime Writer written by Gregg Hurwitz and published by Penguin Paperbacks. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awakening in a hospital with a scar on his head and no memory of being found holding a knife over his ex-fiancée's murdered body, crime novelist Drew Danner struggles to reconstruct clues to determine his own guilt or innocence. By the author of The Tower. Reprint.

Book Designs in Crime

Download or read book Designs in Crime written by Carolyn Keene and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of lace, silk, and chiffon, Nancy finds that murder is made to order in the eighty-ninth installment of the Nancy Drew Files series. Beau Winston is a hot name in fashion, and he's invited Nancy Drew into his New York studio to find out who is stealing his original designs. But now he has suffered an even greater loss—one that threatens to destroy his reputation. Someone has made off with his most prized creation: a wedding gown custom-made for heiress Joanna Rockwell. Nancy's investigation draws her into a web of hidden motives and twisted ambitions. She uncovers a pattern of intrigue, betrayal, and revenge stretching from Manhattan's Garment District to the Fifth Avenue triplex of the billionaire Rockwell family. And every new thread in the case leads to an increase in danger: for the thief of fashions is now dressed to kill!

Book Shots in the Mirror

Download or read book Shots in the Mirror written by Nicole Rafter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-20 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Movies play a central role in shaping our understanding of crime and the world generally, helping us define what is good and bad, desirable and unworthy, lawful and illicit, strong and weak. Crime films raise controversial issues about the distribution of social power and the meanings of deviance, and they provide a safe space for fantasies of rebellion, punishment, and the restoration of order. In this first comprehensive study of its kind, well-known criminologist Nicole Rafter examines the relationship between society and crime films from the perspectives of criminal justice, film history and technique, and sociology. Dealing with over 300 films ranging from gangster and cop to trial and prison movies, Shots in the Mirror concentrates on works in the Hollywood tradition but also identifies a darker strain of critical films that portray crime and punishment more bleakly.

Book The Crime Book

    Book Details:
  • Author : DK
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2021-02-02
  • ISBN : 1465466541
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book The Crime Book written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigate 100 of the world's most notorious crimes, including the Great Train Robbery, the Lindbergh kidnapping, and the murders of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Were the perpetrators delusional, opportunist, or truly evil? Find out what really happened and how the cases were solved. Discover conmen with sheer verve, such as Victor Lustig who "sold" the Eiffel Tower to scrap dealers in 1925, adrenaline-fuelled escapes, and mind-bending exploits of pirates, kidnappers, and drug cartels. The Crime Book demystifies malware, cybercrimes, and Ponzi schemes and sets out the terrifying ploys of mass murderers from 16th-century Elizabeth Báthory who drained young girls' blood to the more recent exploits of Rosemary and Fred West. Like a virus, crime mutates and adapts. The Crime Book explains how pivotal moments in history opened up new opportunities for criminals, such as the smuggling of alcohol during the American Prohibition era. It also charts developments in justice and forensics including the Innocence Project, which used DNA testing to exonerate wrongly convicted convicts. It examines how the forces of law and order have fought back against crime, explaining ingenious sting operations such as tracking down the jewel thief Bill Mason and the final capture of murderer Ted Bundy. With a foreword from bestselling crime author Cathy Scott, The Crime Book is an enthralling introduction to humanity's darker side. Series Overview: Big Ideas Simply Explained series uses creative design and innovative graphics, along with straightforward and engaging writing, to make complex subjects easier to understand. These award-winning books provide just the information needed for students, families, or anyone interested in concise, thought-provoking refreshers on a single subject.

Book Hollywood Incoherent

Download or read book Hollywood Incoherent written by Todd Berliner and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1970s, Hollywood experienced a creative surge, opening a new era in American cinema with films that challenged traditional modes of storytelling. Inspired by European and Asian art cinema as well as Hollywood's own history of narrative ingenuity, directors such as Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, William Friedkin, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, and Francis Ford Coppola undermined the harmony of traditional Hollywood cinema and created some of the best movies ever to come out of the American film industry. Critics have previously viewed these films as a response to the cultural and political upheavals of the 1970s, but until now no one has explored how the period's inventive narrative design represents one of the great artistic accomplishments of American cinema. In Hollywood Incoherent, Todd Berliner offers the first thorough analysis of the narrative and stylistic innovations of seventies cinema and its influence on contemporary American filmmaking. He examines not just formally eccentric films—Nashville; Taxi Driver; A Clockwork Orange; The Godfather, Part II; and the films of John Cassavetes—but also mainstream commercial films, including The Exorcist, The Godfather, The French Connection, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Dog Day Afternoon, Chinatown, The Bad News Bears, Patton, All the President's Men, Annie Hall, and many others. With persuasive revisionist analyses, Berliner demonstrates the centrality of this period to the history of Hollywood's formal development, showing how seventies films represent the key turning point between the storytelling modes of the studio era and those of modern American cinema.

Book The Master Criminal   Ultimate Crime Collection

Download or read book The Master Criminal Ultimate Crime Collection written by Fred M. White and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 16816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you a collection of the greatest Fred M. White thrillers: The Crimson Blind_x000D_ The Cardinal Moth_x000D_ The Corner House_x000D_ The Ends of Justice_x000D_ The House of Schemers_x000D_ The Lord of the Manor_x000D_ The Slave of Silence_x000D_ The Yellow Face_x000D_ The Nether Millstone_x000D_ The Midnight Guest_x000D_ A Fatal Dose_x000D_ The Five Knots_x000D_ The Edge of the Sword_x000D_ The Lonely Bride_x000D_ Craven Fortune_x000D_ The Law of the Land_x000D_ The Mystery of the Four Fingers_x000D_ A Golden Argosy_x000D_ By Order of the League_x000D_ A Daughter of Israel_x000D_ Tregarthen's Wife_x000D_ Blackmail_x000D_ The Weight of the Crown_x000D_ A Shadowed Love_x000D_ The Sundial_x000D_ Netta_x000D_ A Queen of the Stage_x000D_ The Scales of Justice_x000D_ A Crime on Canvas_x000D_ The Golden Rose_x000D_ Paul Quentin_x000D_ A Front of Brass_x000D_ Hard Pressed_x000D_ The White Glove_x000D_ A Mummer's Throne_x000D_ The Secret of the Sands_x000D_ The Man Called Gilray_x000D_ The House of Mammon_x000D_ A Royal Wrong_x000D_ A Secret Service_x000D_ The Sentence of the Court_x000D_ Powers of Darkness_x000D_ The Mystery of the Ravenspurs_x000D_ The Day_x000D_ Ambition's Slave_x000D_ The Salt of the Earth_x000D_ The Lady in Blue_x000D_ The Case for the Crown_x000D_ The Wings of Victory_x000D_ The Leopard's Spots_x000D_ The Honour of His House_x000D_ The Man who was Two_x000D_ The Mystery of Room 75_x000D_ The Councillors of Falconhoe_x000D_ The Mystery of Crocksands_x000D_ The Turn of the Tide_x000D_ The Green Bungalow_x000D_ The Devil's Advocate_x000D_ The Golden Bat_x000D_ The Price of Silence_x000D_ The House on the River_x000D_ The Shadow of the Dead Hand_x000D_ The King Diamond_x000D_ The Riddle of the Rail_x000D_ The Grey Woman_x000D_ Queen of Hearts_x000D_ On The Night Express_x000D_ The Phantom Car_x000D_ A Clue in Wax_x000D_ Found Dead_x000D_ The Man Who Knew_x000D_ A Broken Memory_x000D_ Secret of the River_x000D_ The Blue Daffodil_x000D_ The Master Criminal (True Crime Tales)_x000D_ The Romance of the Secret Service Fund..._x000D_ Frederick White (1859–1935), mostly known for mysteries, is considered also as one of the pioneers of the spy story._x000D_

Book The Best British Detective Books  270  Murder Mysteries  Crime Stories   Suspense Thrillers

Download or read book The Best British Detective Books 270 Murder Mysteries Crime Stories Suspense Thrillers written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 10889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Best British Detective Books: 270+ Murder Mysteries, Crime Stories & Suspense Thrillers is a monumental anthology that showcases the breadth and diversity of British detective fiction. Encompassing over 270 narratives, this collection spans a variety of literary styles, from the deductive reasoning of Sherlock Holmes to the ingeniously plotted psychological mysteries that characterize early 20th-century British literature. The anthology does not only entertain but serves as a pivotal study in the evolution of detective fiction, highlighting seminal works that have shaped the genre. Each story, carefully curated, stands as a hallmark of the narrative intrigue and complexity for which British detective stories are renowned. The contributing authors, including luminaries such as Arthur Conan Doyle and G.K. Chesterton, hail from a vibrant period in literary history, marked by the burgeoning of detective fiction as a genre. Collectively, their backgroundsa blend of journalism, medicine, and literaturereflect the interdisciplinary origins of detective storytelling. Their works, aligned with the cultural and intellectual currents of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, offer insights into the societal anxieties and moral dilemmas of their time. This anthology thus not only enriches the reader's appreciation of detective fiction but also offers a lens through which to view historical and cultural shifts. Inviting both aficionados and newcomers to the genre, this collection offers a unique opportunity to dive into the rich tapestry of British detective literature. Through its comprehensive scope, the anthology promotes an understanding of the genre's development while fostering an appreciation for the artistry and ingenuity of its authors. Readers are encouraged to explore this collection for both its scholarly value and its sheer entertainment, discovering the timeless appeal of mysteries that continue to captivate and intrigue audiences worldwide.

Book Crime Scene Unit Management

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward W. Wallace
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2015-12-22
  • ISBN : 1317312821
  • Pages : 387 pages

Download or read book Crime Scene Unit Management written by Edward W. Wallace and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime Scene Unit Management: A Path Forward is a must-have resource for anyone involved with forensic investigations and the search for evidence at the crime scene. The book provides standards for how to manage a crime scene so that evidence is collected and preserved without errors and includes guidelines for how to implement the standards and set up regional training programs for smaller jurisdictions with tighter budgets. Key features include examples, checklists, and flow charts for evidence handling and routing. CSIs, fire investigators, homicide investigators, accident investigators, police executives, and students of forensic science will benefit from this thorough approach to how the crime scene—and the personnel charged with tending to the evidence—should be managed.

Book D W  Griffith  Master of Cinema

Download or read book D W Griffith Master of Cinema written by Ira H. Gallen and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhaustively researched and accessibly written, D.W. Griffith: Master of Cinema is a remarkably comprehensive biography of the legendary director and his days creating his craft at the American Biograph Company between 1908 through 1913. Meticulously detailed, utilizing a wealth of archival documents and photographs, the book effectively details Griffith’s place as a film pioneer. Even a casual film fan can see the lines being drawn from the techniques Griffith developed to modern cinematic experience. Ira Gallen’s exploration of Griffith’s family and his early life sets the stage for his career, and give great context for who he would become. His intricate details about early stage and film paint such a vivid and evocative picture of the time that you will be truly drawn into another world while reading it.

Book Crime Watching

    Book Details:
  • Author : Deborah Jermyn
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2006-10-27
  • ISBN : 0857711725
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book Crime Watching written by Deborah Jermyn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, reality TV formats have proliferated on television. One of the most significant and controversial strands within this has been the growth of 'real crime TV'. Encapsulating everything from crime appeal shows to reconstruction programmes and actuality footage shows, real crime TV now plays a major role in our television schedules, filling countless hours of air-time every week. "Crime Watching" examines the spectacular growth of real crime TV. Of these programmes, the BBC's "Crimewatch UK" is Britain's best known (in small part due to the tragedy of presenter Jill Dando's death). The book argues that the birth of the BBC's "Crimewatch UK" in 1984 was a key transitional moment in the emergence, expansion and subsequent popularity of these programmes both in the UK and internationally. Looking closely at the social and political context of the period in which "Crimewatch UK" first appeared and examining the aesthetics, address and appeal of a range of other shows appearing in its wake, including "Police Camera Action!" , "America's Most Wanted" and "World's Wildest Police Videos", this book investigates the conditions that have enabled and advanced the ubiquity of real crime programming on contemporary television and the anxieties that surround it. Examining critiques that real crime TV has increased fear of crime while legitimising a surveillance culture, and that it serves to stifle debate about criminality and policing, "Crime Watching" also reflects on the pleasures of these programmes and the enduring nature of our culture's seemingly endless fascination with real crime stories.