Download or read book Jack s Life A Biography of Jack Nicholson Updated and Expanded written by Patrick McGilligan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Jack’s Life feels true. . . . Fascinating.”—Entertainment Weekly Jack Nicholson has lived large on and off the screen. Patrick McGilligan, one of America’s outstanding film biographers, has plumbed research and interviews to expand his definitive biography since its publication twenty years ago. Jack’s Life captures the essence of this most private and public of stars with a vivid depiction of Nicholson’s tangled Dickensian upbringing, his hungry years as actor and writer, his nearaccidental breakthrough in Easy Rider, and his prolificacy and artistry ever since, with roles in Chinatown, Five Easy Pieces, The Shining, A Few Good Men, As Good As It Gets, and The Departed, to name a beloved handful of his sixty-plus films. McGilligan captures the life and legacy of this unabashed and complex personality

Download or read book Making Sense of Mind Game Films written by Simin Nina Littschwager and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mind-game films and other complex narratives have been a prominent phenomenon of the cinematic landscape during the period 1990-2010, when films like The Sixth Sense, Memento, Fight Club and Source Code became critical and commercial successes, often acquiring a cult status with audiences. With their multiple story lines, unreliable narrators, ambiguous twist endings, and paradoxical worlds, these films challenge traditional ways of narrative comprehension and in many cases require and reward multiple viewings. But how can me make sense of films that don't always make sense the way we are used to? While most scholarship has treated these complex films as narrative puzzles that audiences solve with their cognitive skills, Making Sense of Mind-Game Films offers a fresh perspective by suggesting that they appeal to the body and the senses in equal measures. Mind-game films tell stories about crises between body, mind and world, and about embodied forms of knowing and subjective ways of being-in-the-world. Through compelling in-depth case studies of popular mind-game films, the book explores how these complex narratives take their (embodied) spectators with them into such crises. The puzzling effect generated by these films stems from a conflict between what we think and what we experience, between what we know and what we feel to be true, and between what we see and what we sense.

Download or read book The Valley written by Robert Hammond and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stay close to the river, and you cant go far wrong. These were the words that woke Molly from her sleep. They came from the next room, and the voice was strange to her. She crept out of bed and went to the door, which was partly open. Through the gap, she could see her mother huddled over the fading light from the fire in the hearth. She had a shawl wrapped around her shoulders and was listening to someone who had their back to the bedroom door. Molly could tell it was the voice of an old man, he sounded friendly but cautious. It may take a week by foot in this weather, so here is some money to provide food and lodgings along the way. With that, the stranger stood up and wished Mollys mother, Godspeed and may your prayers be answered.

Download or read book Destiny the Inward Quest Temporality and Life written by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There is no greater gift to man than to understand nothing of his fate”, declares poet-philosopher Paul Valery. And yet the searching human being seeks ceaselessly to disentangle the networks of experiences, desires, inward promptings, personal ambitions, and elevated strivings which directed his/her life-course within changing circumstances in order to discover his sense of life. Literature seeks in numerous channels of insight the dominant threads of “the sense of life”, “the inward quest”, “the frames of experience” in reaching the inward sources of what we call ‘destiny’ inspired by experience and temporality which carry it on. This unusual collection reveals the deeper generative elements which form sense of life stretching between destiny and doom. They escape attention in their metamorphic transformations of the inexorable, irreversibility of time which undergoes different interpretations in the phases examining our life. Our key to life has to be ever discovered anew.

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Download or read book I Am Full Moon written by Lily Hoy Price and published by Brindle and Glass. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lyrical memoir, Lily Hoy Price writes with moving detail about her childhood and adolescence in a large Chinese Canadian family in the Cariboo country of northern British Columbia. The ninth daughter in a family of 12 children, Lily is an observant child who tucks away every image of life in rugged Quesnel during the 1930s for one unforgettable tale after another. She has carefully selected many of her father's early photographs to illustrate her stories. The celebrated pioneer photographer Chow Dong Hoy left a legacy of more the 1,500 photographs taken after 1909, and created an invaluable record of the cultural diversity of the Cariboo region. With similar sensitivity and the same eye for detail, Lily Hoy Price seamlessly weaves both the innocence and expectations of a young child and the struggles of her parents, who came to Canada during the racially charged days of the imposed $100 head tax. Filled with love, confusion, family celebrations and family tragedies, these stories open a window on an era long past. Rich with the author’s own insight, the stories are at times sad and humourous, but always thoughtful and interesting. I Am Full Moon creates an intimate portrait of life in an unusual, gifted family and is a significant addition to the historical literature of British Columbia.

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Download or read book Of Stars and Secrets written by Michele Venné and published by My Joy Enterprises. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deadly virus threatens the galaxy. Can two total strangers save millions and discover love is the best medicine? Kiersten Landiser wants nothing to do with her arranged marriage to someone she’s never even seen. Focused on combating a terrifying sickness wiping out colonies, the determined princess takes her starship where no sane merch will go to deliver a lifesaving drug. But when she receives information about her imprisoned brother, she sets off on a daring rescue mission across space. Aiden Tranlish strives every day to be the heir his people need. And though he’s consented to betrothal to secure his planet’s safety, the loyal young man yearns to take action against the fiend plaguing the Alliance worlds with a sinister disease. So when his intended postpones the matrimony, he sets out on a hunt for the rare vaccine... and ends up entangled in a prisonbreak engineered by a fiery redheaded beauty. With her sibling free and certain she knows the location of the next attack, Kierston admires her new partner’s dedication to her cause. And though Aiden remains committed to his forthcoming union, he secretly hopes his bride-to-be proves as strong-willed and alluring as the captain of the rogue ship. As a devious intergalactic plot unfolds, can the fearless pair survive to spread the cure and nurse a burgeoning desire? Of Stars and Secrets is the suspenseful first book in the Stars science fiction romance series. If you like stubborn but bighearted heroines, edge-of-your-seat thrill rides, and eye-opening twists, then you’ll adore Michele Venné’s spirited adventure. Buy Of Stars and Secrets to hit love at lightspeed today!

Download or read book The Lookout Man written by B. M. Bower and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1917 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1917. With frontispiece by H. Weston Taylor. Bower authored several Westerns including Cabin Fever and The Flying U Ranch. The Lookout Man begins: From the obscurity of vast, unquiet distance the surf came booming in with the heavy impetus of high tide, flinging long streamers of kelp and bits of driftwood over the narrowing stretch of sand where garishly costumed bathers had lately shrieked hilariously at their gambols. Before the chill wind that had risen with the turn of the tide the bathers retreated in dripping, shivering groups, to appear later in fluffs and furs and woolen sweaters; still inclined to hilarity, still undeniably loth to leave off their pleasuring at Venice, dedicated to cheap pleasures. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

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Download or read book Jackson written by T. P. Jones and published by BookPros, LLC. This book was released on 2009 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales from the Heartland On the banks of the Mississippi in an Iowa city, the Jackson Meatpacking Company and its two thousand employees are in trouble. Cutthroat competition has driven the company to the brink of bankruptcy. Jackson's mayor, a packinghouse worker himself, proposes an employee buyout. However, the idea is quickly stolen from him by the company's CEO, who will do anything to save the packinghouse, even if it means putting his employees' life savings at risk. Soon the company board, the union and even rank-and-file employees are fighting to make the plan their own. The whole town is drawn into the battle over company survival, as the people of Jackson face a seemingly impossible choice. Author tour: Upper Midwest, Berkeley, CA

Download or read book Hollywood Hellraisers written by Robert Sellers and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I don't know what people expect when they meet me. They seem to be afraid that I'm going to piss in the potted palm and slap them on the ass.' Marlon Brando 'I should have been dead ten times over. I believe in miracles. It's an absolute miracle that I'm still around.' Dennis Hopper 'The best time to get married is noon. That way, if things don't work out, you haven't blown the whole day.' Warren Beatty 'You only lie to two people in your life: your girlfriend and the police.' Jack Nicholson They're the baddest bad asses Hollywood has ever seen: Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson. These are men for whom rules did not apply, men for whom normal standards of behaviour were simply too wearisome to worry about. These are men who brawled, boozed, snorted and shagged their way into legend-hood - but along the way they changed acting and the way movies were made forever. Hollywood Hellraisers is a whistle-stop tour of jaw-dropping sexual activity, misbehaviour of an Olympic standard, all-out excess and genuine madness. It's a wonder Hollywood survived.

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