EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book TRUMBO

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bruce Cook
  • Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
  • Release : 2015-09-08
  • ISBN : 1455564990
  • Pages : 410 pages

Download or read book TRUMBO written by Bruce Cook and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story that inspired the major motion picture starring Bryan Cranston and Helen Mirren. Dalton Trumbo was the central figure in the "Hollywood Ten," the blacklisted and jailed screenwriters. One of several hundred writers, directors, producers, and actors who were deprived of the opportunity to work in the motion picture industry from 1947 to 1960, he was the first to see his name on the screen again. When that happened, it was Exodus, one of the year's biggest movies. This intriguing biography shows that all his life Trumbo was a radical of the homegrown, independent variety. From his early days in Colorado, where his grandfather was a county sheriff, to Los Angeles, where he organized a bakery strike, to bootlegging, to Hollywood, where he was the highest-paid screenwriter when he was blacklisted (and a man with constant money problems), his life rivaled anything he had written.

Book Dalton Trumbo

Download or read book Dalton Trumbo written by Larry Ceplair and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Dalton Trumbo (1905–1976) is widely recognized for his work as a screenwriter, playwright, and author, but he is also remembered as one of the Hollywood Ten who opposed the House Un-American Activities Committee. Refusing to answer questions about his prior involvement with the Communist Party, Trumbo sacrificed a successful career in Hollywood to stand up for his rights and defend political freedom. In Dalton Trumbo, authors Larry Ceplair and Christopher Trumbo present their extensive research on the famed writer, detailing his work, his membership in the Communist Party, his long campaign against censorship during the domestic cold war, his ten-month prison sentence for contempt of Congress, and his thirteen-year struggle to break the blacklist. The blacklist ended for Trumbo in 1960, when he received screen credits for Exodus and Spartacus. Just before his death, he received a long-delayed Academy Award for The Brave One, and in 1993, he was posthumously given an Academy Award for Roman Holiday (1953). This comprehensive biography provides insights into the many notable people with whom Trumbo worked, including Stanley Kubrick, Otto Preminger, and Kirk Douglas, and offers a fascinating look at the life of one of Hollywood's most prominent screenwriters and his battle against persecution.

Book Johnny Got His Gun

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dalton Trumbo
  • Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
  • Release : 2013-11-15
  • ISBN : 0806537604
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Johnny Got His Gun written by Dalton Trumbo and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Searing Portrayal Of War That Has Stunned And Galvanized Generations Of Readers An immediate bestseller upon its original publication in 1939, Dalton Trumbo?s stark, profoundly troubling masterpiece about the horrors of World War I brilliantly crystallized the uncompromising brutality of war and became the most influential protest novel of the Vietnam era. Johnny Got His Gun is an undisputed classic of antiwar literature that?s as timely as ever. ?A terrifying book, of an extraordinary emotional intensity.?--The Washington Post "Powerful. . . an eye-opener." --Michael Moore "Mr. Trumbo sets this story down almost without pause or punctuation and with a fury amounting to eloquence."--The New York Times "A book that can never be forgotten by anyone who reads it."--Saturday Review

Book Eclipse

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dalton Trumbo
  • Publisher : Echo Point Books & Media
  • Release : 2018-02-06
  • ISBN : 9781635610987
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Eclipse written by Dalton Trumbo and published by Echo Point Books & Media. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dalton Trumbo's controversial first novel, Eclipse, explores the rise and fall of wealthy philanthropic merchant John Abbott in Shale City (based on Grand Junction, Colorado). Set during the Great Depression, this scathing satire of morality and politics in small-town America contains an abundance of the wry dialogue that Trumbo became known for.

Book Dalton Trumbo

Download or read book Dalton Trumbo written by Bruce Cook and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1977 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A biography of the Oscar-winning screenwriter who broke the Hollywood blacklist"--Dust jacket.

Book Dalton Trumbo  Hollywood Rebel

Download or read book Dalton Trumbo Hollywood Rebel written by Peter Hanson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a screenwriter, novelist, and political activist, Dalton Trumbo stands among the key American literary figures of the 20th century--he wrote the classic antiwar novel Johnny Got His Gun, and his credits for Spartacus and Exodus broke the anticommunist blacklist that infected the movie industry for more than a decade. By defining connections between Trumbo's most highly acclaimed films (including Kitty Foyle, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, and Roman Holiday) and his important but lesser-known movies (The Remarkable Andrew, He Ran All the Way, and The Boss), the author identifies how for nearly four decades Trumbo used the archetype of the rebel hero to inject social consciousness into mainstream films. This new critical survey--the first book-length work on Trumbo's screenwriting career--examines the scores of films on which Trumbo worked and explores the techniques that made him, at the time he was blacklisted in 1947, Hollywood's highest-paid writer. Hanson reveals how Trumbo dealt with major themes including rebellion, radical politics, and individualism--while also detailing lesser-known areas of Trumbo's screenwriting, such as his troubling portrayal of women, the dichotomy between his proletarian attitude and bourgeois lifestyle, and the almost surreptitious manner in which he included antiestablishment rhetoric in seemingly innocuous scripts. An extensive filmography is included.

Book The Biggest Thief in Town

Download or read book The Biggest Thief in Town written by Dalton Trumbo and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1949 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: In a small town, the undertaker and the doctor plan to steal the body of the town's wealthiest citizen. That gentleman, a crook, has just passed out of the picture and the undertaker, who has led a quiet and honest life to date, sees no

Book I Am Spartacus

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kirk Douglas
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2012-06-12
  • ISBN : 1453239375
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book I Am Spartacus written by Kirk Douglas and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “lively” memoir by the Hollywood legend about the making of Spartacus, with a foreword by George Clooney (Los Angeles Times). One of the world’s most iconic movie stars, Kirk Douglas has distinguished himself as a producer, philanthropist, and author of ten works of fiction and memoir. Now, more than fifty years after the release of his enduring epic Spartacus, Douglas reveals the riveting drama behind the making of the legendary gladiator film. Douglas began producing the movie in the midst of the politically charged era when Hollywood’s moguls refused to hire anyone accused of Communist sympathies. In a risky move, Douglas chose Dalton Trumbo, a blacklisted screenwriter, to write Spartacus. Trumbo was one of the “Unfriendly Ten,” men who had gone to prison rather than testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee about their political affiliations. Douglas’s source material was already a hot property, as the novel Spartacus was written by Howard Fast while he was in jail for defying HUAC. With the financial future of his young family at stake, Douglas plunged into a tumultuous production both on- and off-screen. As both producer and star of the film, he faced explosive moments with young director Stanley Kubrick, struggles with a leading lady, and negotiations with giant personalities, including Sir Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, and Lew Wasserman. Writing from his heart and from his own meticulously researched archives, Kirk Douglas, at ninety-five, looks back at his audacious decisions. He made the most expensive film of its era—but more importantly, his moral courage in giving public credit to Trumbo effectively ended the notorious Hollywood blacklist. A master storyteller, Douglas paints a vivid and often humorous portrait in I Am Spartacus! The book is enhanced by newly discovered period photography of the stars and filmmakers both on and off the set.

Book The Remarkable Andrew

Download or read book The Remarkable Andrew written by Dalton Trumbo and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A satirical allegory, in the manner of Candide, on the domestic and foreign policies of the New Deal." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation

Book Learning Statistics with Real Data

Download or read book Learning Statistics with Real Data written by Bruce E. Trumbo and published by Brooks/Cole. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to teach students to apply statistical methods to real problems (a universal need), Bruce Trumbo's concise new book teaches basic statistical principles through their application to real data. The data sets are chosen from fields to which all students can relate, such as marketing, industrial safety, anthropology, psychology, banking, biology, linguistics, public health, geography, physics, sports, geology, and medicine. Throughout the book, the emphasis is on how statistical ideas and methods can be used to illuminate the data, rather than on how the data can be used to illustrate particular statistical methods. Some of the basic statistical methods that prove to be useful include graphical displays, confidence intervals, one and two-sample t-tests, chi-squared analyses of contingency tables, simple and multiple linear regression, correlation, one-way ANOVAs, and block designs. For each data set, students are guided through some basic procedures, usually using MINITAB(tm), then invited to explore the data more extensively on their own, with answers and possible approaches.

Book The Time of the Toad

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dalton Trumbo
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011-10-01
  • ISBN : 9781258203481
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book The Time of the Toad written by Dalton Trumbo and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book You Are a Child of the King

    Book Details:
  • Author : Keith Trumbo
  • Publisher : Teach Services, Incorporated
  • Release : 2022-03-02
  • ISBN : 9781479614233
  • Pages : 90 pages

Download or read book You Are a Child of the King written by Keith Trumbo and published by Teach Services, Incorporated. This book was released on 2022-03-02 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know you are a child of the King? Yes, King Jesus! You were born separated from Him but can receive your inheritance and move AHEAD by receiving your inheritance. This book explores this vital component of your relationship with Jesus.

Book George the Generous Giraffe

Download or read book George the Generous Giraffe written by Kim Trumbo and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George is the most generous giraffe you'll ever meet. He's often telling jokes to make others happy, and he loves to be generous to help others out. He helps with not only his money, but with his time and talent as well. What happens when George gives everything he has away? He and his friends use their talents to put on a talent show to earn money. With that money earned the giving can continue! This story is written in rhyme and has fun, colorful, characters you and your child will love!

Book A Study Guide for Dalton Trumbo s  Johnny Got His Gun

Download or read book A Study Guide for Dalton Trumbo s Johnny Got His Gun written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Dalton Trumbo's "Johnny Got His Gun," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Book Ally the Accepting Alligator

Download or read book Ally the Accepting Alligator written by Kim Trumbo and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ally the accepting alligator teaches her friends about the importance of accepting others. It is written in rhyme and sure to help demonstrate to the young child in your life the message of acceptance.

Book Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Systems

Download or read book Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Systems written by Chris Forsythe and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there have been tremendous advances in our scientific understanding of the brain, this work has been largely academic, and often oriented toward clinical publication. Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Systems: Work and Everyday Life addresses the relationship between neurophysiological processes and the performance and experience of humans in everyday life. It samples the vast neuroscience literature to identify those areas of research that speak directly to the performance and experience of humans in everyday settings, highlighting the practical, everyday application of brain science. The book explains the underlying basis for well-established principles from human factors, ergonomics, and industrial engineering and design. It also sheds new light on factors affecting human performance and behavior. This is not an academic treatment of neuroscience, but rather a translation that makes modern brain science accessible and easily applicable to systems design, education and training, and the development of policies and practices. The authors supply clear and direct guidance on the applications of principles from brain science to everyday problems. With discussions of topics from brain science and their relevance to everyday activities, the book focuses on the science, describing the findings and the studies producing these findings. It then decodes how these findings relate to everyday life and how you can integrate them into your work to achieve more effective outcomes based on a fundamental understanding of how the operations of the human brain produce behavior and modulate performance.

Book Only Victims

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Vaughn
  • Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 0879100818
  • Pages : 371 pages

Download or read book Only Victims written by Robert Vaughn and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1996 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a dramatic change of role, the noted television and film star has written a vivid and incisive account of the House Committee on Un-American Activities' probe of the entertainment industry from 1938 to 1958. Formed to investigate alleged subversives, by the late fifties the committee had succeeded in ruining the careers and sometimes the lives of many of Hollywood and Broadway's top writers and performers. Quoting generously from transcripts of its hearings, Vaughn shows how the committee's primary purpose was punitive rather than legislative, and concludes that its most serious damage to American theatre and film is not easily documented: the loss of all the words never written or spoken because of the impact - and the fear - of the committee's misdeeds.