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Book Silent Vignettes  Stars  Studios and Stories from the Silent Movie Era

Download or read book Silent Vignettes Stars Studios and Stories from the Silent Movie Era written by Tim Lussier and published by BearManor Media. This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pickford, Lloyd, Keaton, Garbo. You're familiar with these icons of silent film, of course - and they are here within these pages. But are you familiar with Francelia Billington? No? How about Harold Lockwood, Edna Flugrath, Marion Byron, Virginia Brown Faire? Still, no? Well, fear not. Film historian and author Tim Lussier ("Bare Knees" Flapper: The Life and Films of Virginia LeeCorbin) shines a belated spotlight on these unjustly forgotten men and women, each of whom brought untold joy to millions of fans in the years before movies learned to talk. When you read their stories in Silent Vignettes, you'll understand why.

Book Silent Vignettes  hardback

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tim Lussier
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-09-13
  • ISBN : 9781629337746
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Silent Vignettes hardback written by Tim Lussier and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pickford, Lloyd, Keaton, Garbo. You're familiar with these icons of silent film, of course - and they are here within these pages. But are you familiar with Francelia Billington? No? How about Harold Lockwood, Edna Flugrath, Marion Byron, Virginia Brown Faire? Still, no? Well, fear not. Film historian and author Tim Lussier ("Bare Knees" Flapper: The Life and Films of Virginia LeeCorbin) shines a belated spotlight on these unjustly forgotten men and women, each of whom brought untold joy to millions of fans in the years before movies learned to talk. When you read their stories in Silent Vignettes, you'll understand why. "Silent film fans know there is a vast world of long-forgotten studios and stars just waiting to be rediscovered. . . Tim Lussier helps bring a complex era to life with these tales of 'film folks, ' both familiar and obscure." - Lea Stans

Book Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer

Download or read book Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer written by Alberto Ledesma and published by Mad Creek Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From undocumented to "hyper documented," Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer traces Alberto Ledesma's struggle with personal and national identity from growing up in Oakland to earning his doctorate degree at Berkeley, and beyond.

Book Collaborations with the Past

    Book Details:
  • Author : Diana E. Henderson
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780801444197
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Collaborations with the Past written by Diana E. Henderson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like the artists studied here, we pick and choose our Shakespeares, and through that labor another story emerges. Frozen in time on the page or screen, some of those collaborations continue to speak, but denuded of their immediate moment and surroundings; we are left to supplement the traces. In recovering that past, the present takes on greater clarity and contrast. But the proof must be in the telling. A writer lifts a pen. Enter the multiple forces--political and economic, psychological, formal, and technical--that serendipitously transform imagination into memory. Let the collaborative play begin."--from the IntroductionFocusing on key writers, actors, theater directors, and filmmakers who have kept Shakespeare at the center of their endeavors over the past two hundred years, Collaborations with the Past illuminates not only the playwright's work but also the choices and responsibilities involved in re-creating culture, and the ingenuity and peril of the artistic process. By concentrating on rich yet problematic instances of Shakespeare's reanimation in such quintessentially modern forms as the novel and film, from Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth to Kenneth Branagh's Henry V, Diana E. Henderson sketches a complex history of the pleasures and difficulties that ensue when Shakespeare and modern artists collaborate.Working with texts across the entire range of Shakespeare's career, Henderson demonstrates--through detailed analyses of novels including Jane Eyre and Mrs. Dalloway as well as filmed, televised, and staged performances--that art (even in the newest media) cannot avoid collaborating with the past. Only by studying that collaborative process can we comprehend Shakespeare and Anglo-American culture.

Book Irving Vignettes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Washington Irving
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1858
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book Irving Vignettes written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How to Do Things with Silence

Download or read book How to Do Things with Silence written by Haig Khatchadourian and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a detailed analytical study of different forms of silent doing. It explores a range of topics related to silence, including the theory of silent doing and its relationship to other forms of action and communication, silence and aesthetics, the ethics and politics of silence, and the religious dimensions of silence. The book, as an original contribution to analytical philosophy, should be of interest to philosophers and students.

Book The Silent Child

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeanne Magagna
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2018-05-08
  • ISBN : 0429907966
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book The Silent Child written by Jeanne Magagna and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book arose out of the need to work with emotionally regressed non-talking children who entered hospital in full retreat from the external world. It helps parents and professionals compassionately comprehend the child's difficulties in depending on someone to receive communication.

Book Birth Passages

Download or read book Birth Passages written by Theresa M. Krier and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birth Passages offers a provocative and eloquent challenge to the nostalgia for the maternal, sometimes influenced by classic Freudian theory, which pervades many discourses. Theresa M. Krier suggests an alternative to the common characterizations of "the maternal" as a force inspiring both desire and dread, a force that must be repressed if subjectivity and culture are to be established. Instead, drawing on the work of Melanie Klein, D. W. Winnicott, and Luce Irigaray, Krier seeks to establish a new model of the relationship between mother and infant, one in which birth is seen not as the tragic ending to the prenatal union but rather as the child's claiming both distance from and proximity to this parent. Krier's insightful readings of poetic works from antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance show these texts in opposition to their cultures' insistent nostalgia for the maternal. Their authors, she maintains, recognize such longing as a symptom of a glamorous but false and disabling fantasy. In her analysis of the Song of Songs, Lucretius's De rerum natura, Chaucer's Parlement of Foules, Spenser's Amoretti and Faerie Queene, and Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Lost and The Winter's Tale, Krier details how the writings represent the intersubjective nature of birth.

Book Linthicum Vignettes  Tales of a Linthicum Historian

Download or read book Linthicum Vignettes Tales of a Linthicum Historian written by Oscar 'Skip' Booth and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-11-16 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local historian Oscar 'Skip' Booth spent his life living, working, advocating for and writing about his hometown of Linthicum, Maryland. His "Vignette" series provided some of the only written histories of the small, unincorporated Baltimore suburb. The historical local landmarks like Tauber's, Chuck's Drive-In, BWIi Airport, and Bruce's Hardware are carefully detailed here. Skip passed away after a short illness in 2014. His commitment to community lives on in the pages of this book.

Book Eighteenth Century Vignettes  Third series

Download or read book Eighteenth Century Vignettes Third series written by Austin Dobson and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ecological Vignettes

Download or read book Ecological Vignettes written by Eugene P Odum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Written by one of the most highly regarded U.S. ecologists, this book presents basic ecological principles in a series of vignettes, illustrated by cartoons and simple diagrams, covering such subjects as growth, energy, ecological change, diversity, economics and technology, among others. Drawing upon essays written during a forty-year career as a teacher, research and ecologist, this volume about environmental literacy is written for the general reader and understandable at any level from grade school to senior citizen.

Book Hearings

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vignettes in Patient Safety

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stanislaw P. Stawicki
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2019-09-18
  • ISBN : 1839622016
  • Pages : 166 pages

Download or read book Vignettes in Patient Safety written by Stanislaw P. Stawicki and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical errors contribute significantly to morbidity and mortality across our healthcare institutions. Due to the increasing complexity of the modern medical practice, a perfect storm of regulatory, market, social, and technical factors, and other competing priorities, created an environment that is primed for patient safety lapses. The spectrum of contributing variables - ranging from minor errors that subsequently escalate, poor communication, and protocol/process non-compliance (just to name a few) - is extensive and solutions are only recently being described. As such, there is a growing body of research and experiences that can help provide an organized framework - based on best practices and evidence-based medical principles - for healthcare organizations to develop, implement, and embrace. Based on the tremendous interest in the initial three volumes of our Vignettes in Patient Safety series, this fourth volume follows a similar model of outlining a patient safety case based on experiences that many clinicians can relate to, and then discusses various factors that may have contributed to a medical error, complication, and/or poor outcome. Building on a problem-based clinical vignette, each chapter then outlines an evidence-based approach to present any related literature, pertinent evidence, and potential contributing factors and solutions to common patient safety occurrences. By focusing on some of the best practices, structured experiences, and objective approaches to medical error genesis, the authors and editors hopefully can lend some insights into how we can make healthcare encounters for all patients, across all settings, better and safer.

Book Advances in Questionnaire Design  Development  Evaluation and Testing

Download or read book Advances in Questionnaire Design Development Evaluation and Testing written by Paul C. Beatty and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and updated definitive resource for survey questionnaire testing and evaluation Building on the success of the first Questionnaire Development, Evaluation, and Testing (QDET) conference in 2002, this book brings together leading papers from the Second International Conference on Questionnaire Design, Development, Evaluation, and Testing (QDET2) held in 2016. The volume assesses the current state of the art and science of QDET; examines the importance of methodological attention to the questionnaire in the present world of information collection; and ponders how the QDET field can anticipate new trends and directions as information needs and data collection methods continue to evolve. Featuring contributions from international experts in survey methodology, Advances in Questionnaire Design, Development, Evaluation and Testing includes latest insights on question characteristics, usability testing, web probing, and other pretesting approaches, as well as: Recent developments in the design and evaluation of digital and self-administered surveys Strategies for comparing and combining questionnaire evaluation methods Approaches for cross-cultural and cross-national questionnaire development New data sources and methodological innovations during the last 15 years Case studies and practical applications Advances in Questionnaire Design, Development, Evaluation and Testing serves as a forum to prepare researchers to meet the next generation of challenges, making it an excellent resource for researchers and practitioners in government, academia, and the private sector.

Book The Screen Media Reader

Download or read book The Screen Media Reader written by Stephen Monteiro and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers key historical and interpretative texts on the development and role of "the screen" in communications and the social sphere.

Book The Oxford Handbook of the Hollywood Musical

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Hollywood Musical written by Dominic Broomfield-McHugh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the release of Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! in 2001, the film musical has returned to popularity as one of the most important cinematic genres, a box office hit that appeals to audiences of all ages. Yet the history of the musical on film goes back over seven decades earlier than that, stretching from early examples like The Jazz Singer (1927), the first ever film with synchronized sound, through the Astaire-Rogers musicals of the 1930s, the MGM and Warner Brothers extravaganzas of the 1940s and '50s, and the roadshow era of the 1960s. The genre's renaissance with La La Land (2016) and The Greatest Showman (2017) proves that it remains as appealing as ever, capable of both high critical acclaim and widespread box office success. The Oxford Handbook of the Hollywood Musical, curated by editor Dominic Broomfield-McHugh, reflects and expands on current scholarship on the film musical in a handbook that mixes new discoveries through archival research with new perspectives on familiar titles. It addresses issues such as why audiences accept people bursting into song in musicals; how technology affects the way numbers are staged; and how writers have adapted their material to suit certain stars. It also looks at critical issues such as racism and sexism, and assesses the role and nature of the film musical in the twenty-first century. A remarkable survey at the cutting edge of the field, The Oxford Handbook of the Hollywood Musical will be a resource for students and scholars alike for years to come.

Book Approaches to Popular Film

Download or read book Approaches to Popular Film written by Joanne Hollows and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1995-05-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introductory textbook for A-level and undergraduate courses.