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Book Das Edgar Wallace Lexikon  Leben  Werk Filme

Download or read book Das Edgar Wallace Lexikon Leben Werk Filme written by Joachim Kramp and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Die Edgar Wallace Filme und Darsteller

Download or read book Die Edgar Wallace Filme und Darsteller written by zusammengestellt aus Wikipediaseiten und publiziert von, DrGoogelberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alles Wichtige über die berühmten Edgar Wallace-Filme.Zusammengestellt aus Wikipediaseiten und publiziert von DrGoogelberg.

Book Riccardo Freda

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roberto Curti
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2017-04-24
  • ISBN : 1476669708
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Riccardo Freda written by Roberto Curti and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an eclectic career spanning four decades, Italian director Riccardo Freda (1909-1999) produced films of remarkable technical skill and powerful visual style, including the swashbuckler Black Eagle (1946), an adaptation of Les Miserables (1947), the peplum Theodora, Slave Empress (1954) and a number of cult-favorite Gothic and horror films such as I Vampiri (1957), The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962) and The Ghost (1963). Freda was first championed in the 1960s by French critics who labeled him "the European Raoul Walsh," and enjoyed growing critical esteem over the years. This book covers his life and career for the first time in English, with detailed analyses of his films and exclusive interviews with his collaborators and family.

Book Edgar Wallace

Download or read book Edgar Wallace written by Wolfgang Schüler and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Edgar Wallace  A Short Autobiography

Download or read book Edgar Wallace A Short Autobiography written by Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incredible autobiography of Edgar Wallace, the British novelist, playwright, and journalist who was an enormously popular writer of detective and suspense stories. Wallace basically created the modern "thriller". His works in this genre have complicated but well-developed plots and are known for their thrilling climaxes.

Book Die Edgar Wallace Filme

Download or read book Die Edgar Wallace Filme written by Joe Hembus and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Edgar Wallace by Himself  Dodo Press

Download or read book Edgar Wallace by Himself Dodo Press written by Edgar Wallace and published by . This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals. Edgar Wallace was born in Yarmouth, Greenwich, Norfolk. His biological parents were actors Richard Horatio Edgar (who never knew of his existence) and Mary Jane "Polly" Richards, nee Blair. Known as Richard Freeman, Edgar had a happy childhood, forming an especially close bond with 20-year-old Clara Freeman who became like a second mother to him. His foster-father George Freeman was an honourable and kind man and determined to ensure Richard received a good education. He is most famous today as the co-creator of "King Kong," writing the early screenplay and story for the movie, as well as a short story "King Kong" (1933) credited to him and Draycott Dell. He was known for the J. G. Reeder detective stories, The Four Just Men, The Ringer, and for creating the Green Archer character during his lifetime. His other works include: The Angel of Terror (1922), The Clue of the Twisted Candle (1916), and The Daffodil Mystery (1920).

Book International Adventures

Download or read book International Adventures written by Tim Bergfelder and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of the popular German film industry of the 1960s, its main protagonists, and its production strategies. The book challenges traditional assumptions about this mode of film-making.

Book Italian Giallo in Film and Television

Download or read book Italian Giallo in Film and Television written by Roberto Curti and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the release in 1929 of a popular book series with bright yellow covers, the Italian word giallo (yellow) has come to define a whole spectrum of mystery and detective fiction and films. Although most English speakers associate the term giallo with the violent and erotic thrillers popular in the 1960s and 1970s from directors like Mario Bava, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci and others, the term encompasses a wide range of Italian media such as mysteries, thrillers and detective stories--even comedies and political pamphlets. As films like Blood and Black Lace (1964) and Deep Red (1975) have received international acclaim, giallo is a fluid and dynamic genre that has evolved throughout the decades. This book examines the many facets of the giallo genre --narrative, style, themes, and influences. It explores Italian films, made-for-TV films and miniseries from the dawn of sound cinema to the present, discussing their impact on society, culture and mores.

Book Films that Work

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vinzenz Hediger
  • Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9089640134
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book Films that Work written by Vinzenz Hediger and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industriële films worden gezien als een apart filmgenre van de twintigste eeuw. Ze werden geproduceerd en gesponsord door de overheid en grote bedrijven en moesten vooral aan de wensen van de sponsors voldoen, en niet zo zeer aan die van de filmmakers. In de hoogtijdagen werkten er duizenden mensen aan deze industriële films. Zo zijn er vakbladen en filmfestivals ontstaan door samenwerking met grote bedrijven als Shell en AT & T. Daarnaast hebben belangrijke regisseurs, zoals Buster Keaton, John Grierson en Alain Resnais, aan deze films meegewerkt. Toch lijkt de industriële film geen spoor te hebben achtergelaten in het filmische culturele discours. Films that Work is het eerste boek waarin de industriële film en zijn opmerkelijke geschiedenis worden onderzocht.

Book The Feathered Serpent

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edgar Wallace
  • Publisher : House of Stratus
  • Release : 2008-01-11
  • ISBN : 0755114914
  • Pages : 197 pages

Download or read book The Feathered Serpent written by Edgar Wallace and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2008-01-11 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Derwin suspects the card left in the bag of actress, Ella Creed, is a publicity stunt. But other people have found them as well. Leicester Crewe opens his front door & a dead man falls into the hall. In his hand is the card of the Feathered Serpent.

Book German Operetta on Broadway and in the West End  1900 1940

Download or read book German Operetta on Broadway and in the West End 1900 1940 written by Derek B. Scott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic attention has focused on America's influence on European stage works, and yet dozens of operettas from Austria and Germany were produced on Broadway and in the West End, and their impact on the musical life of the early twentieth century is undeniable. In this ground breaking book, Derek B. Scott examines the cultural transfer of operetta from the German stage to Britain and the USA and offers a historical and critical survey of these operettas and their music. In the period 1900-1940, over sixty operettas were produced in the West End, and over seventy on Broadway. A study of these stage works is important for the light they shine on a variety of social topics of the period - from modernity and gender relations to new technology and new media - and these are investigated in the individual chapters. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Book Extravagant Inventions

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wolfram Koeppe
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 1588394743
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Extravagant Inventions written by Wolfram Koeppe and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2012 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition "Extravagant Inventions: the Princely Furniture of the Roentgens" on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from October 30, 2102, through January 27, 2013.

Book Memory  Metaphor  and Aby Warburg s Atlas of Images

Download or read book Memory Metaphor and Aby Warburg s Atlas of Images written by Christopher D. Johnson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of German cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg (1866–1929) has had a lasting effect on how we think about images. This book is the first in English to focus on his last project, the encyclopedic Atlas of Images: Mnemosyne. Begun in earnest in 1927, and left unfinished at the time of Warburg’s death in 1929, the Atlas consisted of sixty-three large wooden panels covered with black cloth. On these panels Warburg carefully, intuitively arranged some thousand black-and-white photographs of classical and Renaissance art objects, as well as of astrological and astronomical images ranging from ancient Babylon to Weimar Germany. Here and there, he also included maps, manuscript pages, and contemporary images taken from newspapers. Trying through these constellations of images to make visible the many polarities that fueled antiquity’s afterlife, Warburg envisioned the Atlas as a vital form of metaphoric thought. While the nondiscursive, frequently digressive character of the Atlas complicates any linear narrative of its themes and contents, Christopher D. Johnson traces several thematic sequences in the panels. By drawing on Warburg’s published and unpublished writings and by attending to Warburg’s cardinal idea that "pathos formulas" structure the West’s cultural memory, Johnson maps numerous tensions between word and image in the Atlas. In addition to examining the work itself, he considers the literary, philosophical, and intellectual-historical implications of the Atlas. As Johnson demonstrates, the Atlas is not simply the culmination of Warburg’s lifelong study of Renaissance culture but the ultimate expression of his now literal, now metaphoric search for syncretic solutions to the urgent problems posed by the history of art and culture.

Book The German Cinema Book

Download or read book The German Cinema Book written by Tim Bergfelder and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensively revised, updated and significantly extended edition introduces German film history from its beginnings to the present day, covering key periods and movements including early and silent cinema, Weimar cinema, Nazi cinema, the New German Cinema, the Berlin School, the cinema of migration, and moving images in the digital era. Contributions by leading international scholars are grouped into sections that focus on genre; stars; authorship; film production, distribution and exhibition; theory and politics, including women's and queer cinema; and transnational connections. Spotlight articles within each section offer key case studies, including of individual films that illuminate larger histories (Heimat, Downfall, The Lives of Others, The Edge of Heaven and many more); stars from Ossi Oswalda and Hans Albers, to Hanna Schygulla and Nina Hoss; directors including F.W. Murnau, Walter Ruttmann, Wim Wenders and Helke Sander; and film theorists including Siegfried Kracauer and Béla Balázs. The volume provides a methodological template for the study of a national cinema in a transnational horizon.

Book Bones in London

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edgar Wallace
  • Publisher : House of Stratus
  • Release : 2008-01-11
  • ISBN : 0755114736
  • Pages : 201 pages

Download or read book Bones in London written by Edgar Wallace and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2008-01-11 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new Managing Director of Schemes Ltd has an elegant London office and a theatrically dressed assistant - however Bones, as he is better known, is bored. Everyone is totally unprepared for Bones' unnerving style of doing business, unprepared for his unique style of innocent and endearing mischief.

Book Optical Media

    Book Details:
  • Author : Friedrich Kittler
  • Publisher : Polity
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 0745640915
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Optical Media written by Friedrich Kittler and published by Polity. This book was released on 2010 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friedrich Kittler’s lecture series provides a concise history of optical media from Renaissance linear perspective to late twentieth-century computer graphics. He begins by looking at European painting since the Renaissance in order to discern the principles according to which modern optical perception was organised. Kittler also discusses the development of various mechanical devices, like the camera obscura and the laterna magica, which were closely connected to the printing press and which played a pivotal role in the media war between the Reformation and the Counterreformation. After examining this history, Kittler then addresses the ways in which images were first stored and made to move through the development of photography and film. Kittler discusses the competitive relationship between photography and painting as well as between film and theater, as innovations like the Baroque proscenium or “picture-frame” stage evolved from elements that would later constitute cinema. The central question, however, is the impact of film on the ancient monopoly of writing, as it not only provoked new forms of competition for novelists but also fundamentally altered the status of books. In the final section, Kittler examines the development of electrical telecommunications and electronic image processing from television to computer simulations. In short, these lectures provide a comprehensive introduction to the history of image production, which is indispensable for anyone wishing to understand the prevailing audiovisual conditions of contemporary culture.