Hearings
Hearings

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations

Publisher:

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 1786

ISBN-13:

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Street with No Name
Street with No Name

Author: Andrew Dickos

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2002-06-07

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0813170338

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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title Flourishing in the United States during the 1940s and 50s, the bleak, violent genre of filmmaking known as film noir reflected the attitudes of writers and auteur directors influenced by the events of the turbulent mid-twentieth century. Films such as Force of Evil, Night and the City, Double Indemnity, Laura, The Big Heat, The Killers, Kiss Me Deadly and, more recently, Chinatown and The Grifters are indelibly American. Yet the sources of this genre were found in Germany and France and imported to Hollywood by emigré filmmakers, who developed them and allowed a vibrant genre to flourish. Andrew Dickos's Street with No Name traces the film noir genre back to its roots in German Expressionist cinema and the French cinema of the interwar years. Dickos describes the development of the film noir in America from 1941 through the 1970s and examines how this development expresses a modern cinema. Dickos examines notable directors such as Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, John Huston, Nicholas Ray, Robert Aldrich, Samuel Fuller, Otto Preminger, Robert Siodmak, Abraham Polonsky, Jules Dassin, Anthony Mann and others. He also charts the genre's influence on such celebrated postwar French filmmakers as Jean-Pierre Melville, François Truffaut, and Jean-Luc Godard. Addressing the aesthetic, cultural, political, and social concerns depicted in the genre, Street with No Name demonstrates how the film noir generates a highly expressive, raw, and violent mood as it exposes the ambiguities of modern postwar society.

City that Never Sleeps
City that Never Sleeps

Author: Murray Pomerance

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780813540320

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New York, more than any other city, has held a special fascination for filmmakers and viewers. In every decade of Hollywood filmmaking, artists of the screen have fixated upon this fascinating place for its tensions and promises, dazzling illumination and fearsome darkness. From Street Scene and Breakfast at Tiffany's to Rosemary's Baby, The Warriors, and 25th Hour, the sixteen essays in this book explore the cinematic representation of New York as a city of experience, as a locus of ideographic characters and spaces, as a city of moves and traps, and as a site of allurement and danger.

Burt Lancaster
Burt Lancaster

Author: Ed Andreychuk

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-09-01

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1476606498

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With a career in films spanning nearly fifty years, Burt Lancaster brought his unique charisma and energy to roles in films ranging from the adventurous to the bittersweet. This comprehensive filmography of Lancaster's career is accompanied by a biography that provides the background for his immense range of work on the screen. Production information, a synopsis, and commentary is provided for each of Lancaster's 85 films, from the first--The Killers--to the last--Separate But Equal. Photographs from nearly all of Lancaster's films accompany the text, and an index and bibliography are also included.

It's All About the Duke
It's All About the Duke

Author: Amelia Grey

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks

Published: 2018-05-29

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1250102537

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A duke with a past he can't forget. A lady with a secret identity determined to make him remember. Will their hearts survive? The third novel in this series from "New York Times"-bestselling author Grey. Original.

Scandal at Pemberley
Scandal at Pemberley

Author: Fenella J Miller

Publisher: Boldwood Books Ltd

Published: 2024-12-14

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 183518734X

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Preorder a Regency Romance for all Austen fans! From bestselling author Fenella J Miller Georgiana Darcy is about to embark on her first Season, but after meeting Major Jonathan Brownstone, she is having serious doubts about going. The major is to be groomsman for his best friend, Adam King, when he marries Kitty Bennet at Pemberley and Georgiana would rather stay at home than travel to London. Darcy insists Georgiana must go to town, but with Lizzy pregnant he won’t be able to accompany her. Instead he arranges for his new brother in law to stand guardian in his stead. Georgiana begrudgingly agrees. But when George Wickham arrives uninvited at Pemberley he sets in motion a chain of events that could cause a scandal for Georgiana and her reputation from which none of the Darcy family would ever recover. Please note: This was originally published as A Scandal at Pemberley A wonderful Regency romance that recreates the magic of Pemberley. Perfect for fans of Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer and Mary Balogh. Praise for Fenella J. Miller: 'Yet again, Fenella Miller has thrilled me with another of her historical stories. She brings alive a variety of emotions and weaves in facts relating to the era, all of which keep me reading into the small hours.' Glynis Peters– Bestselling author of The Secret Orphan. 'Curl up in a chair with Fenella J Miller's characters and lose yourself in another time and another place.' Lizzie Lane 'Engaging characters and setting which whisks you back to the home front of wartime Britain. A fabulous series!' Jean Fullerton 'Loved every word of this book. Fenella is a great author and leaves her books with you wanting more. I can’t wait to read the next one.' *5 star Reader Review**

Harlequin Historical October 2022 - Box Set 1 of 2
Harlequin Historical October 2022 - Box Set 1 of 2

Author: Millie Adams

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2022-09-27

Total Pages: 730

ISBN-13: 0369730399

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Do you dream of wicked rakes, gorgeous Highlanders and muscled Viking warriors? Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection! This box set includes: HOW TO CHEAT THE MARRIAGE MART (Regency) Society’s Most Scandalous • by Millie Adams Rakish George Claremont, Marquess of Curran, plans to destroy England’s workhouses with the help of a well-laid marriage proposal. Could prim Kitty Fitzroy be the perfect accomplice? THE EARL’S WAGER FOR A LADY (Regency) by Helen Dickson Captivated by widow Eve Lansbury, Lord Maxim Randall makes a foolish bet to seduce her, which threatens to jeopardize their growing bond. Can he convince her to trust him again? THE DUKE’S DEFIANT CINDERELLA (Louis XVI) by Parker J. Cole When a summons from the queen forces Lilas to continue her betrothal charade with Bastien, will she be able to fight the attraction sizzling between them to protect her independence?

Super Rich
Super Rich

Author: George Irvin

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-04-26

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 0745658873

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In the past 25 years, the distribution of income and wealth in Britain and the US has grown enormously unequal, far more so than in other advanced countries. The book, which is aimed at both an academic and a general audience, examines how this happened, starting with the economic shocks of the 1970s and the neo-liberal policies first applied under Thatcher and Reagan. In essence, growing inequality and economic instability is seen as driven by a US-style model of free-market capitalism that is increasingly deregulated and dominated by the financial sector. Using a wealth of examples and empirical data, the book explores the social costs entailed by relative deprivation and widespread income insecurity, costs which affect not just the poor but now reach well into the middle classes. Uniquely, the author shows how inequality, changing consumption patterns and global financial turbulence are interlinked. The view that growing inequality is an inevitable consequence of globalisation and that public finances must be squeezed is firmly rejected. Instead, it is argued that advanced economies need more progressive taxation to dampen fluctuations and to fund higher levels of social provision, taking the Nordic countries as exemplary. The broad political goal should be to return within a generation to the lower degree of income inequality which prevailed in Britain and the US during the years of post-war prosperity.