Download or read book The Gunfighter s Apprentice written by Jerry S. Drake and published by Amazon Encore. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During an attempted robbery in a Nebraska frontier town, a young storekeeper, Matt McKay kills the brother of a murderous gang leader, Jack Moss. Fearing the outlaw's revenge, Matt's father takes him to Colorado and hires and once-feared gunfighter, Tom Patterson, to teach him the gun skills needed for self-defense and survival. For a sizable sum of money, Patterson accepts the task even though he views the young man too gentle and innocent to survive a gun battle with an accomplished killer. On his rundown ranch high in the Rocky Mountains, the gruff, older gunslinger imposes days of gun-handling practices, hoping to instill a killer instinct in the easygoing Matt. In the nearby rowdy mining town of Gold Stream, Matt has the opportunity to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of his mentor. In eventful situations, Patterson's friends and enemies make Gold Stream a site of entertainment and danger. With the threat of the Moss gang's retribution ever present, Matt and Tom Patterson form a bond of mutual respect and resolve as they await a fatal showdown.
Download or read book New Reflections on Primo Levi written by R. Sodi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-07-04 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a baker's dozen of interpretative keys to Levi's output and thought. It deepens our understanding of common themes in Levi studies (memory and witness) while exploring unusual and revealing byways (Levi and Calvino, or Levi and theater, for example).
Download or read book Eastern Westerns written by Stephen Teo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The western, one of Hollywood’s great film genres, has, surprisingly, enjoyed a revival recently in Asia and in other parts of the world, whilst at the same time declining in America. Although the western is often seen as an example of American cultural dominance, this book challenges this view. It considers the western from an Asian perspective, exploring why the rise of Asian westerns has come about, and examining how its aesthetics, styles and politics have evolved as a result. It analyses specific Asian Westerns as well as Westerns made elsewhere, including in Australia, Europe, and Hollywood, to demonstrate how these employ Asian philosophical and mythical ideas and value systems. The book concludes that the western is a genre which is truly global, and not one that that is purely intrinsic to America.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to the Ultimate Reading List written by John Charles and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-07-03 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great reads for busy people. This is a guide to help busy people find great reads in fiction and nonfiction. Filled with recommendations of popular, entertaining reading, this book covers mystery and suspense, romance, women’s fiction and chick lit, Westerns, science fiction, such nonfiction topics as animals, art, biography, memoirs, business, true crime, and more. Plus, each entry includes a summary of the book, its significance, and a critique/observation/comment.
Download or read book Reframing Screen Performance written by Cynthia Baron and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-02-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A significant contribution to the literature on screen performance studies, Reframing Screen Performance brings the study of film acting up to date. It should be of interest to those within cinema studies as well as general readers." ---Frank P. Tomasulo, Florida State University Reframing Screen Performance is a groundbreaking study of film acting that challenges the long held belief that great cinematic performances are created in the editing room. Surveying the changing attitudes and practices of film acting---from the silent films of Charlie Chaplin to the rise of Lee Strasberg's Actor's Studio in the 1950s to the eclecticism found in contemporary cinema---this volume argues that screen acting is a vital component of film and that it can be understood in the same way as theatrical performance. This richly illustrated volume shows how and why the evocative details of actors' voices, gestures, expressions, and actions are as significant as filmic narrative and audiovisual design. The book features in-depth studies of performances by Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, and Julianne Moore (among others) alongside subtle analyses of directors like Robert Altman and Akira Kurosawa, Sally Potter and Orson Welles. The book bridges the disparate fields of cinema studies and theater studies as it persuasively demonstrates the how theater theory can be illuminate the screen actor's craft. Reframing Screen Performance brings the study of film acting into the twenty-first century and is an essential text for actors, directors, cinema studies scholars, and cinephiles eager to know more about the building blocks of memorable screen performance. Cynthia Baron is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Bowling Green State University and co-editor of More Than a Method: Trends and Traditions in Contemporary Film Performance. Sharon Carnicke is Professor of Theater and Slavic Studies and Associate Dean of Theater at the University of Southern California and author of Stanislavsky in Focus.
Download or read book Gunfighters written by Al Cimino and published by Chartwell Books. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delve into the world of the Wild West and the gunslingers that populated its dusty towns and saloons.
Download or read book Vigilance s Apprentice written by Jeremy Michelson and published by Jeremy Michelson. This book was released on with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Super hero friends are great. Except for the super villains trying to kill you. Twenty-five years after the Vigilante returned to New Bedlam, their daughter has taken up the hero’s mantle. Protecting the city from…wait, what are you– Hi, Burke Hale here, interrupting whatever this is to tell you what this story is really about. It’s about me and my super ninja hero ferret, Binky. You see, I came home to my converted motel room apartment in the seediest part of town and found myself dead on the couch. Or some wickedly handsome dude who looked exactly like me. Because I wasn’t dead. Though lots of people would be thrilled if I were dead. The cops were already there, examining my–the other dude’s–non-living body, and they were surprised to see me. Like, creepy ghost time surprised. Then these other guys showed up from some super secret government organization. They whipped their guns out and… That’s when Binky the awesome ninja ferret kicked their posteriors. Shortly after that things got weird. Which is saying a lot for me. I’m up to my eyeballs in trouble. So is Nora, my Vigilante hero girlfriend. Ex-girlfriend, technically, but I was working on changing that. Except the bad guy keeps blowing things up and everything keeps twisting around on me. I don’t know what’s what anymore. Then things get even more weird. If I can’t figure it out in time, everyone and everything I love is going to be as dead as that handsome guy on my couch. Which would be really bad. Vigilance’s Apprentice, the next strange and thrilling chapter in the Bedlam’s Heroes series.
Download or read book The Gunfighters written by Dale T. Schoenberger and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seven Samurai written by Joan Mellen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the film 'Seven Samurai' (1954) a whole society is on the verge of irrevocable change. Many people consider this film a major achievemnet in Japanese cinema, an epic that evokes the cultural upheaval brought on by the collapse of Japanese militarism in the 16th century, echoing the sweeping changes occuring in the aftermath of the American occupation. The plot is deceptively simple. A village of farmers is beset by a horde of bandits, and in desperation the village hire itinerant samurai to protect their crops and their village. In the end the samurai see off the bandits. Together the samurai reflect the ideals and values of a noble class near the point of extinction. The film may be a technical masterpiece, and despite its movement and violence it appears to be a lament for a lost nobility. In this book Mellen contextualizes 'Seven Samurai', marking its place in Japanese cinema, and in director, Akira Kurosawa's career. Mellen explores the film's roots in mediaeval history and the film's visual language.
Download or read book Politics and Film written by Daniel P. Franklin and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2006-02-02 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics and Film explores the meaning of film within a societal context. In examining the political role of films we become real time cultural anthropologists, sifting through the artifacts of modern society to determine what our culture really is all about. Common sense tells us that if filmmakers want to make a profit, they have to be responsive to the market. This doesn't mean that they have to produce a product that simply delights the eyes. Films must also please the mind, and not just in terms of satisfying our desire to be entertained (although that alone is sometimes enough) but also deepen our understanding of people, ideas, and problems that we may confront in everyday life. In this respect, even commercial films are political. And, if 'we are what we eat,' we may also say, 'we are what we pay to see.' This book contends that to a large extent American film reflects political culture in American society.
Download or read book Training the Gunfighter written by T.J. Mullin and published by Paladin Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it was originally published in 1981, Training the Gunfighter was ahead of its time. It was one of the first comprehensive studies of the best ways to equip law officers to perform their duties--from choosing the best guns for the job to creating a realistic training program to understanding the legal implications of using their weapons. Now, former law-enforcement officer, practicing attorney, and current police trainer Tim Mullin brings Training the Gunfighter up to date, combining the time-honored information from the original book with fresh insights on preparing officers--and law-abiding citizens--to use deadly force against today's violent criminals. Mullin thoroughly discusses selection and use of combat firearms and ammunition for patrol- men, plainclothes investigators, off-duty officers, undercover cops, and legally armed citizens. He studies handguns, shotguns, rifles, and special-purpose weapons from a tactical and historical perspective--and comes to some surprising conclusions about semiautomatics vs. revolvers, the utility of the venerable .38 Special, the practical value of the 20-gauge shotgun, cost-effective training methods, adequate practice ranges, and dozens of other relevant topics.
Download or read book Gunfighters written by Rick Steber and published by Bonanza Publishing. This book was released on with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The names of the gunfighters are legendary: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Doc Holliday, Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, Henry Plummer, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickok.... These men, and others like them, epitomize the image of the Wild West. The gunfighting era was born in the late 1830s when Samuel Colt patented his single-barreled pistol with a revolving bullet chamber. But the gunfighter was not common on the frontier until after the Civil War when renegade bands of Confederate soldiers refused to surrender. Their lawless ways spread as they stole from the hated Union bankers and the monopolistic railroads, rustled from wealthy ranchers and killed anyone who dared stand in their way. Railhead towns, where the great Texas cattle drives ended, generated more than their fair share of gunfights. In these towns the distinction between the law and the outlaw was a fine line and many times the men who wore badges worked both sides of the fence. It generally fell to the individual to uphold the law and nearly every western man strapped a six-shooter to his hip. If a man's cattle or horses were stolen, if his home was ransacked or his family attacked, it was up to that man to track down the guilty party and administer swift justice. Around the turn of the 20th century the free-roaming gunfighters found the wild country could no longer hide them as technology, in the form of telegraphs and telephones, cut off escape routes. Even though the era of the gunfighter had drawn to a close, writers and movie makers, using the colorful backdrop of the Old West, turned the frontier gunfighters into larger-than-life folk heros, folk heros who will never die.
Download or read book God Bless You Buffalo Bill written by Wayne Michael Sarf and published by Sterling/Main Street. This book was released on 1983 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey shows how the Old West differed from the movie West and how Hollywood distorted the era through careless anachronisms, myth-making and the glamorization of Western figures. Sarf presents minibiographies of Jesse James, Calamity Jane, Wyatt Earp, Belle Starr and others, contrasts them with the many glossy Hollywood versions of their lives and is critical of films such as Little Big Man and Butch Cassidy. Each chapter ends with a number of gossipy notes and includes a long annotated bibliography. ISBN 0-8386-3089-8 : $27.50.
Download or read book A Companion to Crime Fiction written by Charles J. Rzepka and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day A collection of forty-seven newly commissioned essays from a team of leading scholars across the globe make this Companion the definitive guide to crime fiction Follows the development of the genre from its origins in the eighteenth century through to its phenomenal present day popularity Features full-length critical essays on the most significant authors and film-makers, from Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett to Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese exploring the ways in which they have shaped and influenced the field Includes extensive references to the most up-to-date scholarship, and a comprehensive bibliography
Download or read book The Business of Options written by Martin P. O'Connell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-02-28 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Business of Options shows how to conduct a professional options business. While it addresses the principles and practices of option trading and hedging in great detail, the book is the first to do so from a management perspective. O'Connell's extensive experience in option trading, training, and consulting enables the book to offer a unique combination of sophistication, clarity and insight. Most option books that are written for professionals focus on advanced math or on specific trades. This book goes farther, incorporating broad strategic considerations and exploring the implications of likely human behavior. It often challenges conventional wisdom of "what works" in the options business. Its intuitive approach to complex issues involving options enables readers to stretch their mathematical capabilities. Its down-to-earth explanations about the business of options reflect both the optimism and skepticism of a seasoned practitioner in the option market who has, for over 20 years, advised and trained professional dealers and users of options around the world.
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Download or read book Sid Caesar and Your Show of Shows written by Karen J. Harvey and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early days of television, "comedy" often meant stale vaudeville routines and stand-up. Then, in 1950, a new comedy-variety show debuted on NBC--Your Show of Shows. Its gifted and mercurial star, Sid Caesar, talented ensemble cast and superb writing staff--including Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Lucille Kallen and Mel Tolkin--would create comedy designed for the new medium and provide a template for successful shows that followed. With rare illustrations and the most complete sketch guide yet compiled, this book highlights Caesar's reputation as a brilliant comic actor and describes the writing and production of the weekly live broadcast that kept 60 million TV viewers home on Saturday nights.
