Download or read book The World of Tony Hancock written by Ray Galton and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World of Tony Hancock written by Random House and published by Arrow. This book was released on 1994-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tony Hancock Quiz Book written by Nigel Freestone and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you remember Hancock's Half Hour? Was this iconic radio show and later TV series appointment listening and viewing in your house when you were growing up? Were you a fan of the lad? If so, you are certain to enjoy The Tony Hancock Quiz Book. On what BBC radio show did Tony Hancock first appear on 9 January 1949? At which theatre, in front of a live audience, was the first Hancock's Half Hour recorded? How old was Tony Hancock when he died? The answers to these questions and more can all be found in this book. This tribute to one of the best-loved comedians of the 1950s and ‘60s covers all aspects of Tony Hancock’s life and includes many personal and behind the scenes details. With 250 questions, not only about the lad himself, but also the cast, characters and storylines that helped to make Hancock’s Half Hour into one of Britain’s best-loved comedy shows of all-time, this book will take you on a trip down memory lane. A nostalgic, must-have read for Hancock fans of all ages.
Download or read book Tony Hancock written by Philip Oakes and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tony Hancock Quiz Book written by Nigel Freestone and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you remember Hancock's Half Hour? Was this iconic radio show and later TV series appointment listening and viewing in your house when you were growing up? Were you a fan of the lad? If so, you are certain to enjoy The Tony Hancock Quiz Book. On what BBC radio show did Tony Hancock first appear on 9 January 1949? At which theatre, in front of a live audience, was the first Hancock's Half Hour recorded? How old was Tony Hancock when he died? The answers to these questions and more can all be found in this book. This tribute to one of the best-loved comedians of the 1950s and ‘60s covers all aspects of Tony Hancock’s life and includes many personal and behind the scenes details. With 250 questions, not only about the lad himself, but also the cast, characters and storylines that helped to make Hancock’s Half Hour into one of Britain’s best-loved comedy shows of all-time, this book will take you on a trip down memory lane. A nostalgic, must-have read for Hancock fans of all ages.
Download or read book When the Wind Changed written by Cliff Goodwin and published by Arrow. This book was released on 2000 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony Hancock reigned for fifteen years as the undisputed king of comedy. In this relatively short timespan he managed to leave an astonishing legacy of hilarious radio and television, including the enduring classic HANCOCK'S HALF HOUR. When he committed suicide at the age of 44, comedy fans the world over mourned his loss. Now, in this definitive new biography, Cliff Goodwin reveals at last the man behind the myth. Using a wealth of previously unpublished new material, he is able to fully explore the tensions between Hancock's status as comic genius and his personal battles with drink and drugs. He also examines in detail for the first time the reason for Hancock's depression and suicide. Hancock inspired such tremendous love and devotion in his public that they felt they were entitled to a part of his private life: Spike Milligan summed up Hancock's response: 'One by one he shut the door on all the people he knew; then he shut the door on himself. ' In this major new biography, Cliff Goodwin opens the door to reveal Tony Hancock the fans never saw.
Download or read book When the Wind Changed written by Cliff Goodwin and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book TONY HANCOCK written by LUCY. HANCOCK and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World of Angela Carter written by Dani Cavallaro and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angela Carter, a prolific author who worked in numerous genres, remains one of the most important British writers of the last century. She was particularly renowned for her investigation of cultural mythologies, which shape our lives but which we often leave unexamined. This text explores a selection of Carter's novels and short stories, supplemented with her perspectives on politics, society and aesthetics, and her attempts to redefine popular genres such as the fairy tale. This critical work is a strong addition to the scholarship on this important but often overlooked writer.
Download or read book The Seven Basic Plots written by Christopher Booker and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales, via the plays and novels of great literature to the popular movies and TV soap operas of today, it shows that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout every kind of storytelling." "But this is only the prelude to an investigation into how and why we are 'programmed' to imagine stories in these ways, and how they relate to the inmost patterns of human psychology. Drawing on a vast array of examples, from Proust to detective stories, from the Marquis de Sade to E.T., Christopher Booker then leads us through the extraordinary changes in the nature of storytelling over the past 200 years, and why so many stories have 'lost the plot' by losing touch with their underlying archetypal purpose."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Tony Hancock artiste written by Roger Wilmut and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Best of Hancock written by Ray Galton and published by Robson Books Limited. This book was released on 1986 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scripts of the very best of Tony Hancock's shows.
Download or read book Smasher written by Robert Ross and published by Aurum Press Limited. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone thinks they know Sid James – the Carry On star and womaniser, who drank himself to death after the end of his affair with Barbara Windsor – but despite hundreds of scandalous newspaper exposé s the real story of this complex actor has never been told. Now, this fascinating biography lays bare the life of British entertainment’ s most lovable rogue. Featuring never-before-published correspondence with Sid’ s friends, family and colleagues, and exclusive tales from his inner circle, Robert Ross shows how a Jewish boy from South Africa grew up to become the archetypal wise-cracking cockney, and explores the many facets of a man who was variously a war hero, serial seducer, inveterate gambler and comic icon.
Download or read book The Masters of Sitcom written by Christopher Stevens and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, two of the most influential and celebrated television scriptwriters of our time.
Download or read book The Art of Controversy written by Victor S Navasky and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated, witty, and original look at the awesome power of the political cartoon throughout history to enrage, provoke, and amuse. As a former editor of The New York Times Magazine and the longtime editor of The Nation, Victor S. Navasky knows just how transformative—and incendiary—cartoons can be. Here Navasky guides readers through some of the greatest cartoons ever created, including those by George Grosz, David Levine, Herblock, Honoré Daumier, and Ralph Steadman. He recounts how cartoonists and caricaturists have been censored, threatened, incarcerated, and even murdered for their art, and asks what makes this art form, too often dismissed as trivial, so uniquely poised to affect our minds and our hearts. Drawing on his own encounters with would-be censors, interviews with cartoonists, and historical archives from cartoon museums across the globe, Navasky examines the political cartoon as both art and polemic over the centuries. We see afresh images most celebrated for their artistic merit (Picasso's Guernica, Goya's "Duendecitos"), images that provoked outrage (the 2008 Barry Blitt New Yorker cover, which depicted the Obamas as a Muslim and a Black Power militant fist-bumping in the Oval Office), and those that have dictated public discourse (Herblock’s defining portraits of McCarthyism, the Nazi periodical Der Stürmer’s anti-Semitic caricatures). Navasky ties together these and other superlative genre examples to reveal how political cartoons have been not only capturing the zeitgeist throughout history but shaping it as well—and how the most powerful cartoons retain the ability to shock, gall, and inspire long after their creation. Here Victor S. Navasky brilliantly illuminates the true power of one of our most enduringly vital forms of artistic expression.
Download or read book The Faith of a Child written by Patti Boulaye and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-04-02 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable, moving and exciting autobiography of an African child through wealth, poverty, civil war to Show business Stardom. An inspiration for all those with faith.
Download or read book You ll Know When You Get There written by Bob Gluck and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the 1960s ended, Herbie Hancock embarked on a grand creative experiment. Having just been dismissed from the celebrated Miles Davis Quintet, he set out on the road, playing with his first touring group as a leader until he eventually formed what would become a revolutionary band. Taking the Swahili name Mwandishi, the group would go on to play some of the most innovative music of the 1970s, fusing an assortment of musical genres, American and African cultures, and acoustic and electronic sounds into groundbreaking experiments that helped shape the American popular music that followed. In You’ll Know When You Get There, Bob Gluck offers the first comprehensive study of this influential group, mapping the musical, technological, political, and cultural changes that they not only lived in but also effected. Beginning with Hancock’s formative years as a sideman in bebop and hard bop ensembles, his work with Miles Davis, and the early recordings under his own name, Gluck uncovers the many ingredients that would come to form the Mwandishi sound. He offers an extensive series of interviews with Hancock and other band members, the producer and engineer who worked with them, and a catalog of well-known musicians who were profoundly influenced by the group. Paying close attention to the Mwandishi band’s repertoire, he analyzes a wide array of recordings—many little known—and examines the group’s instrumentation, their pioneering use of electronics, and their transformation of the studio into a compositional tool. From protofunk rhythms to synthesizers to the reclamation of African identities, Gluck tells the story of a highly peculiar and thrillingly unpredictable band that became a hallmark of American genius.
