Big Sleep Boogie
Big Sleep Boogie

Author: Bill Kerwin

Publisher:

Published: 2019-10-17

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 9781698850221

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Archer Blackwood, P.I. encounters a new client next to his office, right in the middle of Big Sleep Cemetery. Young Maria Mortabella, who has just crossed the border into the land of the dead, is convinced her sister must have been murdered by the same three men who killed her, execution style, and dumped her body in the graveyard. Yet she can't find her beloved Cecilia anywhere.Archer Blackwood, P.I.--Private Immigrationist--is a specialist in helping immigrants (the recently deceased) adapt to the challenges and perils of a new environment. Blackwood knows Big Sleep City (which looks like a retro version of Columbus, Ohio): he has walked its mean streets, and knows how to confront its vices, its villains, and its dangers. If anyone can find Maria's missing sister, Archer Blackwood can.

Eight Ball Boogie
Eight Ball Boogie

Author: Declan Burke

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781903305072

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"'Imelda Sheridan was dead, which was tough cookies on Imelda, but then every silver lining has its cloud. My job was to find out who and why, at 12 cent per word for the right facts in the right order...which is how it all started out, anyway.'" Harry Rigby likes a smoke, the easy life, and Robert Ryan playing the bad guy in late night black-and-whites. Sweet. But when the wife of a prominent politician is murdered in her best nightie, Rigby finds himself caught in a crossfire between rogue paramilitaries, an internal Garda inquiry and the heaviest blizzard of coke ever to hit the northwest. If all this wasn't bad enough, his relationship with girlfriend Denise is on the rocks and he's hitting the bottle. Then there's Rigby's psychotic brother Gonzo, back on the streets and meaner than a jilted shark.

The Animal Boogie
The Animal Boogie

Author: Debbie Harter

Publisher: Barefoot Books

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781846867163

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In the jungle, the animals' toes are twitching, their bodies are wiggling, and their wings are flapping, as they teach children how to do the Animal Boogie.

Overkill
Overkill

Author: Bill Mesce, Jr.

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-08-21

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1476609780

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The work examines the evolution of the thriller from the heyday of the Hollywood mogul era in the 1930s when it was primarily bottom-of-the-bill fodder, through its maturity in the World War II years and noir-breeding 1950s, its commercial and critical ascendancy in the 1960s and 1970s, and finally its subsequent box office dominance in the age of the blockbuster.

Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep!
Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep!

Author: Maureen Wright

Publisher: Two Lions

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780761455608

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Big Bear misunderstands Old Man Winters message to hibernate

Sleeping with Strangers
Sleeping with Strangers

Author: David Thomson

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2020-01-14

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1101971029

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In this wholly original work of film criticism, David Thomson, celebrated author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film, probes the many ways in which sexuality has shaped the movies—and the ways in which the movies have shaped sexuality. Exploring the tangled notions of masculinity, femininity, beauty, and sex that characterize our cinematic imagination—and drawing on examples that range from advertising to pornography, Bonnie and Clyde to Call Me by Your Name—Thomson illuminates how film as art, entertainment, and business has historically been a polite cover for a kind of erotic séance. In so doing, he casts the art and the artists we love in a new light, and reveals how film can both expose the fault lines in conventional masculinity and point the way past it, toward a more nuanced understanding of what it means to be a person with desires.

Just Remember This
Just Remember This

Author: Colin Bratkovich

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2014-05-08

Total Pages: 941

ISBN-13: 1483645193

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I have completed this manuscript Just Remember This, or as American Pop Singers 1900-1950+, about music before the 1950s in America. It perhaps offers knowledge and insights not previously found in other musical reference books. I have moreover been working on this book very meticulously over the past twelve-plus years. It started as a bit of fun and gradually became serious as I began to listen along with the vocalists of popular music, of the era before 1950, essentially just before the dawn of rock and roll. If you can call it that! Indeed genre and labeling of American music started here, and then from everywhere. While the old adage of always starting from somewhere could be noted in every century, the 1900s had produced the technology. Understanding the necessity, more so, finds a curiosity on the part of a general public hungry for entertainment, despite 6 day work weeks, World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II.

Pocket Guide to Collecting Movies on DVD
Pocket Guide to Collecting Movies on DVD

Author: Steven H. Scheuer

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2007-11-01

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 1416585532

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Citizen Kane • Boogie Nights • Sunset Boulevard • My Fair Lady • Almost Famous • Jaws • A Hard Day's Night • Lord of the Rings • Monsoon Wedding • Apocalypse Now Redux • Moulin Rouge • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid • A Beautiful Mind • Shakespeare in Love THEY'RE NOT JUST MOVIES ANYMORE. THEY'RE DVDs. Supplements...special collector's edition...extras...Words that set the heart pounding of every DVD lover. But how do you decide which DVDs to buy? Where do you begin collecting? Which special features are really special? What commentaries are informative or entertaining? Which disks are worth your time and money? Here at last is the portable, one-of-a-kind DVD buyer's guide -- from veteran film and television critics Steven H. Scheuer and Alida Brill-Scheuer. Director/star/crew audio commentaries • Outtakes • Filmographies and biographies • Alternate takes, music, and endings • Celebrity interviews • Deleted scenes • Trailers • Lost footage • Hidden features and Easter eggs • Animated menus • Production notes • Storyboards • Promotional art • DVD-rom extras • Behind-the-scenes footage • Screenplays • Souvenir booklets • and a special afterword on the best DVDs for kids

The Very Witching Time of Night
The Very Witching Time of Night

Author: Gregory William Mank

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-05-23

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 1476615438

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The book covers unusual and often surprising areas of horror film history: (1) The harrowingly tragic life of Dracula's leading lady, Helen Chandler, as intimately remembered by her sister-in-law. (2) John Barrymore's 1931 horror vehicles Svengali and The Mad Genius, and their rejection by the public. (3) The disastrous shooting of 1933's Murders in the Zoo, perhaps the most racy of all Pre-Code horror films. (4) A candid interview with the son of legendary horror star Lionel Atwill. (5) The censorship battles of One More River, as waged by Frankenstein director James Whale. (6) The adventures (and misadventures) of Boris Karloff as a star at Warner Bros. (7) The stage and screen versions of the horror/comedy Arsenic and Old Lace. (8) Production diaries of the horror noirs Cat People and The Curse of the Cat People. (9) Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man revisited. (10) Horror propaganda: The production of Hitler's Madman. (11) Horror star John Carradine and the rise and fall of his Shakespearean Repertory Company. (12) The Shock! Theatre television phenomenon. And (13) A Tribute to Carl Laemmle, Jr., producer of the original Universal horror classics, including an interview with his lady friend of almost 40 years.

Violence and American Cinema
Violence and American Cinema

Author: J. David Slocum

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 113520490X

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American cinema has always been violent, and never more so than now: exploding heads, buses that blow up if they stop, racial attacks, and general mayhem. From slapstick's comic violence to film noir, from silent cinema to Tarantino, violence has been an integral part of America on screen. This new volume in a successful series analyzes violence, examining its nature, its effects, and its cinematic and social meaning.