Aloha Means Goodbye
Author: Naomi A. Hintze
Publisher:
Published: 1972-01-01
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780394480282
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Aloha Also Means Goodbye
Author: Jessica Rosenberg
Publisher:
Published: 2017-07-18
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781937818784
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJo is finally having the wedding of her dreams but on her arrival in Hawaii, she discovers that her old boyfriend is at the resort. He's with his two children--both named after her, kindling painful memories. The guests are flying in for a wedding in paradise and her girlfriends rally around her, but will Jo's past derail her dreams?
Blackout
Author: Sheri Chinen Biesen
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2005-11-11
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780801882173
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSheri Chinen Biesen challenges conventional thinking on the origins of film noir and finds the genre's roots in the political, social and historical conditions of Hollywood during the Second World War.
Island Song Lyrics Volume 3
Author: Larry W. Jones
Publisher: Larry W Jones
Published: 2004-04-05
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 1411606477
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Larry W. Jones has written over 3,500 song lyrics with island based themes. Most are in the sytle of the "hapa haole" return-to-paradise tradition of the golden years of Territorial Hawaii"--Volume 7, title page verso
The Maltese Falcon
Author: William Luhr
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780813522371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew films have had the impact or retained the popularity of The Maltese Falcon. An unexpected hit upon its release in 1941, it helped establish the careers of John Huston and Humphrey Bogart while also helping both to transform the detective genre of movies and to create film noir. This volume includes an introduction by its editor and a shot-by-shot continuity of the film, as well as essays on its production, on literary and film traditions it drew upon, and on its reputation and influence over the last half century. Included are reviews from the time of the film's original release, the enthusiastic French response in 1946 that helped define film noir, and a close formal anaylsis of the film. In addition, the volume contains a comparison of this version to earlier film versions of the Dashiell Hammett novel, and helpful explorations of cultural, historical, and psychoanalytic issues. Like Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon has attained iconic status; this volume will contribute to the pleasure its many fans find in viewing the film again and again. William Luhr is a professor of English at St. Peter's College in New Jersey. He is the author of Raymond Chandler and Film and co-author of Blake Edwards and other books.
The Poignant Years
Author: Horace N. Robinson
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2016-05-27
Total Pages: 61
ISBN-13: 1498289479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere is Americana at its best--the WWII years. America is doggedly hanging on, awaiting the return of her heroes, knowing there will be parades for some and processions for others. The author, an accomplished rhetoric instructor, lived these poignant years and is in early sync with the reader through interesting insights into each poem. He takes the reader on a heartfelt, personal tour of small-town America, using real people coupled with poetic imagination. The Poignant Years is historically accurate, but, more importantly, it reveals what lies beneath major historical events. This is where people live--where they laugh and cry, where they struggle and sympathize, where they huddle together for warmth when fear is rife. For small town America, it was a slower time--a time of deep relationships where the ritual of life was sharing. It was a time of paucity--dealing with harsh winters in clapboard houses, but a time of morality when locks were not needed for security. Hear the voices of the school children who fear Hitler's bomb; laugh at the awkward expressions of the newly pubescent boy, and empathize with the tender murmurings of the Gold Star Mother. These are the voices of the admirable Americans who could only "stand and wait."
Screen Enemies of the American Way
Author: Fraser A. Sherman
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-01-10
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0786462256
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerican films, like America itself, have long been fascinated by the threat of outsiders posing as citizens to destroy the American way of life. This book tracks real-world fears appearing in the movies--Nazi agents, Japanese-American spies, Communist Party subversives, Islamic sleeper cells--as well as the science-fiction threats that play to the same fears, such as alien body-snatchers and android doppelgangers. The work also examines fears inspired by World War I German spies, the Japanese-American internment and the McCarthyite witch-hunts and shows how these issues, and others, played out on screen.
Country Music Records
Author: Tony Russell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004-10-07
Total Pages: 1198
ISBN-13: 0199881545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than twenty years in the making, Country Music Records documents all country music recording sessions from 1921 through 1942. With primary research based on files and session logs from record companies, interviews with surviving musicians, as well as the 200,000 recordings archived at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's Frist Library and Archives, this notable work is the first compendium to accurately report the key details behind all the recording sessions of country music during the pre-World War II era. This discography documents--in alphabetical order by artist--every commercial country music recording, including unreleased sides, and indicates, as completely as possible, the musicians playing at every session, as well as instrumentation. This massive undertaking encompasses 2,500 artists, 5,000 session musicians, and 10,000 songs. Summary histories of each key record company are also provided, along with a bibliography. The discography includes indexes to all song titles and musicians listed.
Seven Days of Infamy
Author: Nicholas Best
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2016-11-29
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1466890339
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fascinating details of the week surrounding the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor—seven days that would change the world forever. December 7, 1941: One of those rare days in world history that people remember exactly where they were, what they were doing, and how they felt when they heard the news. Marlene Dietrich, Clark Gable, and James Cagney were in Hollywood. Kurt Vonnegut was in the bath, and Dwight D. Eisenhower was napping. Kirk Douglas was a waiter in New York, getting nowhere with Lauren Bacall. Ed Murrow was preparing for a round of golf in Washington. In Seven Days of Infamy, historian Nicholas Best uses fascinating individual perspectives to relate the story of Japan’s momentous attack on Pearl Harbor and its global repercussions in tense, dramatic style. But he doesn’t stop there. Instead, Best takes readers on an unprecedented journey through the days surrounding the attack, providing a snapshot of figures around the world—from Ernest Hemingway on the road in Texas to Jack Kennedy playing touch football in Washington; Mao Tse-tung training his forces in Yun’an and the Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe cheering as the United States entered the war. Offering a human look at an event that would forever alter the global landscape, Seven Days of Infamy chronicles one of the most extraordinary weeks in world history.
