Download or read book Don t Mention Casablanca written by Michelanne Forster and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A drama of Thilde Förster's bittersweet relationship with Michael Curtiz, film director who also directed the film Casablanca. Förster and Curtiz are the author's grandparents.
Download or read book Letter from Casablanca written by Antonio Tabucchi and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1986 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eight stories contained in Antonio Tabucchi's Letters from Casablanca introduce to an American audience a rising Italian writer (born 1943) whose intriguing narrative strategies make the reader an active participant in his work. Each story can be seen from at least two perspectives, and each protagonist can be seen as experiencing an objective "reality" or having his own imagined and quite possibly distorted view of events.
Download or read book My Own Casablanca written by Peter Clements and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1952, John Taverner, recently discharged from the British army, meets Felix Mole by chance on platform three of the Swindon railway station. Mole is the owner of Sam’s, a saloon and gaming establishment in Tangier. Over a British railways breakfast, Felix offers John a job looking after the accounts at Sam’s, should he ever be in Tangier. Disillusioned with life in postwar England, young Taverner throws caution to the wind and takes off for Morocco for a new life in the International Zone that is Tangier. He finds on his arrival that in spite of his lack of experience, Felix wants him to not only manage the accounts, but take over the running of Sam’s. The people he works with in Tangier are a far cry from those in his native Dorset, and the adventures he experiences are far beyond anything he would ever have imagined, including smuggling, the Cold War, and relationships of a romantic nature.
Download or read book We ll Always Have Casablanca The Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood s Most Beloved Film written by Noah Isenberg and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Los Angeles Times bestseller A New York Times Book Review “Editor’s Choice” Selection “Even the die-hardest Casablanca fan will find in this delightful book new ways to love the movie they were certain they could never love more.” —Sam Wasson, best-selling author of Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. Casablanca is “not one movie,” Umberto Eco once quipped; “it is ‘movies.’” Film historian Noah Isenberg’s We’ll Always Have Casablanca offers a rich account of the film’s origins, the myths and realities behind its production, and the reasons it remains so revered today, over seventy-five years after its premiere.
Download or read book Daughters of Heaven written by Michelanne Forster and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 22, 1954 in a secluded part of Victoria Park in Christchurch, Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker battered Pauline's mother to death. The infamous murder, also depicted in the Peter Jackson movie Heavenly Creatures, arose from the passionate friendship of the two girls.
Download or read book Countdown to Casablanca written by Dan Pollock and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ruthless Axis agent code-named Sirocco and an American linguist turned amateur spy find themselves on a collision course with destiny in romantic and exotic World War II Casablanca. Roosevelt and Churchill are coming to Casablanca. So are Eisenhower and Patton, Montgomery and DeGaulle. For ten days, the entire Allied High Command will be gathered in one place-to plan the invasion of Fortress Europe. Learning of the secret conference through an Abwehr intercept, Hitler launches an audacious counterstrike - with one demonic blow he will take out the assembled Allied chieftains and turn the tide of war back in favor of the Reich.
Download or read book Tyranny Lessons written by and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 21st century has seen a resurgence of authoritarian rule that often replicates past totalitarian systems, but is more refined and nuanced in its strategies of repression and exploitation. Entertainment, media, international travel, and prosperity create the appearance of flourishing individual freedoms while our lives and thoughts are increasingly monitored and manipulated. This disturbing trend raises the question of what exactly is meant by tyranny in its contemporary forms. In Tyranny Lessons, international writers from a dozen countries in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas address these challenges as only literary writing can: through the perspective of lived experiences, imagined futures, and personal struggles. Tyranny Lessons also features the photography of Danny Lyon, the first photographer of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, whose work documented the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s.
Download or read book Michael Curtiz written by Alan K. Rode and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academy Award--winning director Michael Curtiz (1886--1962) -- whose best-known films include Casablanca (1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Mildred Pierce (1945) and White Christmas (1954) -- was in many ways the anti-auteur. During his unprecedented twenty-seven year tenure at Warner Bros., he directed swashbuckling adventures, westerns, musicals, war epics, romances, historical dramas, horror films, tearjerkers, melodramas, comedies, and film noir masterpieces. The director's staggering output of 180 films surpasses that of the legendary John Ford and exceeds the combined total of films directed by George Cukor, Victor Fleming, and Howard Hawks. In the first biography of this colorful, instinctual artist, Alan K. Rode illuminates the life and work of one of the film industry's most complex figures. He begins by exploring the director's early life and career in his native Hungary, revealing how Curtiz shaped the earliest days of silent cinema in Europe as he acted in, produced, and directed scores of films before immigrating to the United States in 1926. In Hollywood, Curtiz earned a reputation for his explosive tantrums, his difficulty communicating in English, and his disregard for the well-being of others. However, few directors elicited more memorable portrayals from their casts, and ten different actors delivered Oscar-nominated performances under his direction. In addition to his study of the director's remarkable legacy, Rode investigates Curtiz's dramatic personal life, discussing his enduring creative partnership with his wife, screenwriter Bess Meredyth, as well as his numerous affairs and children born of his extramarital relationships. This meticulously researched biography provides a nuanced understanding of one of the most talented filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age.
Download or read book It Happened In Casablanca written by Hassan El Garch and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-12-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Casablanca Story written by In Koli Jean Bofane and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One morning the beautiful Ichrak is found murdered in a street in Casablanca. All the men feared her as much as they desired her . . . . In a city buffeted by the Chergui, a violent wind emanating from the Sahara, the investigation becomes a prism through which a group portrait of a working-class district emerges. In Casablanca Story, In Koli Jean Bofane trains his razor-sharp observations of a bitter reality and his mordant humor on corruption among the powerful, shady property deals, and the vulnerable situation of migrants and male sexual desire, and he succeeds in transforming a desperate contemporary reality into engrossing and entertaining fiction. Following on from Congo Inc., In Koli Jean Bofane shifts his geographical focus to outline a vision that encompasses both north and sub-Saharan Africans: Africa is moving forward and is the equal of the other continents or, to put it another way, Africa is no better than they are. Casablanca Story was named in the Brittle Paper 100 Notable African Books of 2022 list.
Download or read book Road to Casablanca written by Leah Leonard and published by eXtasy Books. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shy legal assistant, Cindy Brown needs help in the dating department so her friend Victoria signs her up for a dating service catering to wealthy executives. Playboy Erick Redmund will be disinherited if he doesn't find a suitable wife-and fast, so he hires the infamous Lovemore matchmaking agency to find a wifely woman to accompany him to Marrakech, Morocco, where he is launching his new career as an international film producer. After romantic sunset dinners, drinks and camel rides make this match appear heavenly, misunderstandings threaten to tear Cindy and Erick apart. Although the road to Casablanca is paved with unexpected twists and turns, will they find the most incredible surprise of all-true love?
Download or read book The Penguin Book Of Indian Poets written by Jeet Thayil and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 1247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeet Thayil has compiled the definitive anthology of Indian poetry in English. This monumental undertaking, two decades in the making, brings together writers from across the world, a wealth of voices--in dialogue, in soliloquy, in rhetoric, and in play--to present an expansive, encompassing idea of what makes an 'Indian' poet. Included are lost, uncollected, or out of print poems by major poets, essays that place entire bodies of work into their precise cultural contexts, and a collection of classic black and white portraits by Madhu Kapparath. These images, taken over a period of thirty years, form an archive of breathtaking historical scope. They offer the viewer unparalleled intimacy and access to the lives of some of India's greatest poets.
Download or read book Rick s Cafe written by Kathy Kriger and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 60 years, tourists visiting Casablanca tried to visit Rick’s Café Americain only to discover that Warner Brothers had built the entire set on a studio back lot. It was a Hollywood fantasy—until Kathy Kriger came along, that is, and decided after 9/11 to bring the imaginary gin joint to life. In RICK'S CAFE, she takes us through souk back alleys, the Marché Central's overflowing food stalls, and the shadowy Moroccan business world, all while producing, directing, casting, and playing lead actress in her own story. Instead of letters of transit, she begged for letters of credit; the governor of Casablanca watched her back instead of Captain Renault; and at the piano, playing “As Time Goes By,” sits not Sam but Issam. She encountered paper pushers, absent architects, dedicated craftsmen, mad chefs, and surprising allies. It took over two years, but now, as Captain Renault says to Major Strasser, “Everybody comes to Rick’s.” Here is the remarkable story of a woman who turned Hollywood fantasy into Moroccan reality and made her dream come true.
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 1662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book This Is a Picture and Not the World written by Joseph Natoli and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2007-02-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses satirical parodies of screenplays and political blogs to reveal the cracks in our post-9/11 American psyche.
Download or read book 6 Sick Hipsters written by Rayo Casablanca and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A serial killer is scouring Brooklyn, and a team of hipster friends plan to stop him in this darkly humorous tale for fans of Bret Easton Ellis. Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is the center of the hipster universe, and the members of the Whole Sick Crew are its shining stars. The gang includes Wolfgang, a heavy metal musician and high school guidance counselor who supplies coke to his charges; Rad, a doctor obsessed with obscure new wave songs who has a bad habit of cutting himself when he's stressed; Beth Ann, the neighborhood's queen knitter who's slowly going blind and Harrison, a museum curator moonlighting as a writer of highly prized porn. Collectively, they're the arbiters of taste for every vinyl-loving, Gap-spurning, thrift store regular in town. But lately someone has been laying waste to Brooklyn's uber-hipsters, dispatching them in gruesome fashion. The cops are dragging their heels, but the Whole Sick Crew knows that a serial killer dubbed Doctor Jeep is responsible. They have a plan to stop him and it's about to go spectacularly awry. Before the week is over, they'll be up to their skinny-jeaned waists in mayhem, manipulation, contract killers, raw sewage, and murderous monkeys. Something is rotten in the state of Billyburg, and the last hipsters standing will discover just how rotten it really is.... “Thoroughly amusing and utterly demented.”—Owen King, New York Times–bestselling author of We’re All In This Together “A wild, poignant, twisted, bitterly fun page turner.”—Jason Starr, author of Cold Caller
Download or read book 23 Minutes written by Aleksandr Jarid and published by The Blue Print Works Limited . This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered why you make certain choices in life and not others? How certain are you that the choices you make are indeed made by you and not some other force outside your conscious control? What may seem like an unimportant event at a moment in your day, may actually have profound consequences from there onwards which you will not understand for many years yet. It took 92 years for him to find the true meaning of 23 minutes of his life that altered his world. A world that involved the globe, power, death but ultimately 23 minutes of pure love and lemons.
