Download or read book Alfred Hitchcock s Home Sweet Homicide written by Cathleen Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Essential Mystery Lists written by Roger M Sobin and published by Poisoned Pen Press Inc. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in one place, Roger M. Sobin has compiled a list of nominees and award winners of virtually every mystery award ever presented. He has also included many of the “best of” lists by more than fifty of the most important contributors to the genre.; Mr. Sobin spent more than two decades gathering the data and lists in this volume, much of that time he used to recheck the accuracy of the material he had collected. Several of the “best of” lists appear here for the first time in book form. Several others have been unavailable for a number of years.; Of special note, are Anthony Boucher’s “Best Picks for the Year.” Boucher, one of the major mystery reviewers of all time, reviewed for The San Francisco Chronicle, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and The New York Times. From these resources Mr. Sobin created “Boucher’s Best” and “Important Lists to Consider,” lists that provide insight into important writing in the field from 1942 through Boucher’s death in 1968.? This is a great resource for all mystery readers and collectors.; ; Winner of the 2008 Macavity Awards for Best Mystery Nonfiction.
Download or read book Alfred Hitchcock written by Alfred Hitchcock and published by . This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 47 tales of murder for profit, revenge, accident, or assassination are related with twists and turns, if necessary
Download or read book Alfred Hitchcock s Psycho and Taxidermy written by Subarna Mondal and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are numerous scholarly works on Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). Some of these works have explored its Gothic potentials. However, no detailed effort has yet been made to explore one of its major motifs – taxidermy. Taxidermy as an art of corporeal preservation has effectively been used in mainstream body horror films years after Psycho was released. Yet Psycho was one of the first films to explore its potentials in the Gothic genre at a time when it was relegated to a low form of art. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and Taxidermy focuses on taxidermy as a cultural practice in both Victorian and modern times and how it has been employed both metaphorically and literally in Hitchcock's films, especially Psycho. It also situates Psycho as a crucial film in the filmic continuum of body horrors where death and docility share a troubled relationship.
Download or read book The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America A De written by Wilbur R. Miller and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-08-10 with total page 2713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and authoratative four-volume work surveys the history and philosophy of crime, punishment, and criminal justice institutions in America from colonial times to the present.
Download or read book Cumulative Paperback Index 1939 1959 written by R. Reginald and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was the first bibliography and guide to the American mass market paperback book, and it remains one of the most definitive. The major index is by author, and lists: author, title, publisher, book number, year of publication, and cover price. The title index lists titles and authors only. The publisher index provides a history of that imprint, with addresses, number ranges, and general physical description of the books issued. This is the place that all study of the American paperback must begin.
Download or read book The Girl in Alfred Hitchcock s Shower written by Robert Graysmith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marli Renfro was Janet Leigh's body double in the Hitchcock classic Psycho. When she disappeared, it was believed she was the victim of a serial killer. It was a mystery that took decades to solve-and a crime that could only have happened in Hollywood.
Download or read book Creatures of Darkness written by Gene D. Phillips and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[An] exhaustively researched survey of Raymond Chandler’s thorny relationship with Hollywood during the classic period of film noir.” —Alain Silver, film producer and author Raymond Chandler’s seven novels, including The Big Sleep (1939) and The Long Goodbye (1953), with their pessimism and grim realism, had a direct influence on the emergence of film noir. Chandler worked to give his crime novels the flavor of his adopted city, Los Angeles, which was still something of a frontier town, rife with corruption and lawlessness. In addition to novels, Chandler wrote short stories and penned the screenplays for several films, including Double Indemnity (1944) and Strangers on a Train (1951). His work with Billy Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock on these projects was fraught with the difficulties of collaboration between established directors and an author who disliked having to edit his writing on demand. Creatures of Darkness is the first major biocritical study of Chandler in twenty years. Gene Phillips explores Chandler’s unpublished script for Lady in the Lake, examines the process of adaptation of the novel Strangers on a Train, discusses the merits of the unproduced screenplay for Playback, and compares Howard Hawks’s director’s cut of The Big Sleep with the version shown in theaters. Through interviews he conducted with Wilder, Hitchcock, Hawks, and Edward Dmytryk over the past several decades, Phillips provides deeper insight into Chandler’s sometimes difficult personality. Chandler’s wisecracking private eye, Philip Marlowe, has spawned a thousand imitations. Creatures of Darkness lucidly explains the author’s dramatic impact on both the literary and cinematic worlds, demonstrating the immeasurable debt that both detective fiction and the neo-noir films of today owe to Chandler’s stark vision.
Download or read book Murder Racquet written by Alfred Hitchcock and published by Dell Publishing Company. This book was released on 1975-07 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alfred Hitchcock written by Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and published by Arrowood Press. This book was released on 1993-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Homicide written by Bal K. Jerath and published by Vkj Books International Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is an indispensable tool for scholars interested in homicide and related issues such as capital punishment". - David Lester, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. "It is the most complete compendium of homicide research I have every seen." - J. Reid Meloy, Ph.D., Assoc. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego. "This book is a very worthwhile one to have for anyone who is seriously interested in learning more about the field of homicide." - Kathleen M. Heide, Ph.D., University of South Florida, Tampa, Professor of Criminology." ..should be of particular interest to colleges and universities with studies in this respect of the social, psychological criminal, and health sciences." - Lyn Dennison, M. L. AHIP, Assistant Director for Library Operations, Greenblatt Library, Medical College of Georgia." ..a peerless compendium of the latest research on homicide." "I recommend this work to anyone who is involved in study of homicide." - Wade C. Meyers, M.D., Associate Professor and Chief Division of Forensic Psychiatry, Departments of Psychiatry, University of Florida." ..acquisition of this remarkable reference is highly recommended to schools, colleges and public libraries." - Docteur Michel Benezech, Chef de Service, Ancien Professeur Associe en Medecine Legal, Professeur Associe de Droit Prive, a l'Universite de Bordeau IV."Homicide, A Bibliography is a valuable book for everyone involved with teaching and research in the field of forensic sciences." - Niuvanniemen Sairaala, Department of Forensic Psychiatry, University of Kuapia, Niuvanniemen Hospital, FIN 70240, Kuopia, Finland.
Download or read book The Hitchcock Murders written by Peter Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Hitchcock relished his power to frighten us and believed the shocks he administered improved our psychological health. But he could never satisfactorily explain our curiosity to see forbidden things or the perverse desire to experience anxiety and dread that made his work so popular. In The Hitchcock Murders, Peter Conrad, one of Hitchcock's eager victims, undertakes the task on the master's behalf. At the age of thirteen, Conrad snuck into his first screening of Psycho, and he's been wary of showers and fruit cellars ever since. Thanks to Hitchcock, he's also suspicious of staircases, seagulls, and crop-dusting planes. Now he sets out to analyze the nature of Hitchcock's appeal to both himself and the millions of moviegoers for whom Hitchcock is cinema's foremost auteur. Examining Hitchcock's use of religion, morality, conscience, culpability, and literary symbols, Conrad unveils a chilling Nietzschean universe-one in which there is no God and no moral standard, where humans are petty and disposable and the neutral hand of fate can take a life in the blink of an eye. A timid, respectable man with the imagination of a psychopath, a chubby jester whose practical jokes took merciless advantage of human insecurities, Hitchcock is revealed here as the man who knew too much-about all of us.
Download or read book Alfred Hitchcock in the Vertigo Murders written by Dan Aulier and published by iBooks. This book was released on 2000 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Alfred Hitchcock mystery.
Download or read book The Best of Mystery written by Alfred Hitchcock and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty-five stories deal with gangsters, kidnappings, unidentified bodies, political refugees, adultery, murder, and espionage
Download or read book Alfred Hitchcock Presents Murder Racquet written by Alfred Hitchcock and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Films of Randolph Scott written by Robert Nott and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reclusive American actor Randolph Scott, known for his subtle, dignified performances in almost 60 westerns, has been called the "most genuine Westerner." His career began in 1928 with the first of several bit parts; his first starring role was 1932's Heritage of the Desert. He fought in World War I, studying horsemanship, shooting, and bayoneting, and acted in a variety of films in every genre from musical to swashbuckler. His final film was Ride the High Country (1962). Chronologically arranged from his birth in 1898 to his death in 1987, this book covers every film in which Randolph Scott acted. Each section begins with a biographical chapter and then lists Scott's films from that period: each film's entry has filmographic information, a synopsis, and detailed commentary, discussing such topics as the financial aspects, production details, acting, other participants, anecdotes, and critical responses. Quotes from interviews with figures in the industry and published reviews bolster the entries. A bibliographical essay completes the work, which is heavily illustrated with stills and promotional materials.
Download or read book The Murder of Monty Woolley written by Alfred Hitchcock and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
