Six Feet Under
Author: Alan Ball
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780743480659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis companion book to the popular HBO show combines the hidden with the revealed, the humorous with the morose.
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Five One-act Plays
Author: Alan Ball
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9780822213680
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE STORIES: The perfect young woman and her perfect young boyfriend in MADE FOR A WOMAN are perfect examples of the image conscious society in which we live. She has everything and he does too, and they have each other. All is fine until she feels
Considering Alan Ball
Author: Thomas Fahy
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-11-01
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 0786489286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcademy Award-winning screenwriter of the film American Beauty and creator of the HBO series Six Feet Under, Alan Ball has consistently probed the cultural forces shaping gender, sexuality, and death in the United States. Through gritty dialogue and edgy humor, Ball centers much of his social critique on the illusory promises of the American Dream. For many of his characters, a belief in the American Dream--including idealized notions of the family, heterosexual norms, and the acceptance of prescribed gender roles--proves stifling and self-destructive. This is the first book to explore Ball's writings for theater, television and film, with an emphasis on his best-known work. These essays offer insight into both the captivating and problematic dimensions of Ball's work, while drawing connections among his diverse writings. An interview with Ball is included.
Alan Ball
Author: Thomas Richard Fahy
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2013-08-29
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 1617038776
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollected interviews with the screenwriter of the Academy Award-winning film American Beauty and creator of the Emmy Award-winning television series Six Feet Under and True Blood
And Now My Soul Is Hardened
Author: Alan M. Ball
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1996-11-06
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 0520206940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWarfare, epidemics, and famine left millions of Soviet children homeless during the 1920s. Many became beggars, prostitutes, and thieves, and were denizens of both secluded underworld haunts and bustling train stations. Alan Ball's study of these abandoned children examines their lives and the strategies the government used to remove them from the streets lest they threaten plans to mold a new socialist generation. The "rehabilitation" of these youths and the results years later are an important lesson in Soviet history.
Modern Politics and Government
Author: Alan Ball
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 2005-02-28
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780333961612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis substantially revised 7th edition of a classic text includes a new chapter on globalization and regionalization and broader coverage of democratic politics, interests and movements; of the media; of social and cultural influences on political behaviour and of public management. It has been systematically revised and updated throughout in the accessible down-to-earth style that has made it such a popular student choice for over 30 years.
American Beauty
Author: Alan Ball
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9780752271927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCast size: medium.
Alan Ball: The Man in White Boots
Author: David Tossell
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2017-09-07
Total Pages: 569
ISBN-13: 1473660408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is a special footballer who wins the World Cup as a 21-year-old and ends a two-decade career as one of the most revered players in the history of four clubs. Former England captain Alan Ball was such a man: prodigy at Blackpool, youngest hero of 1966, Championship winner at Everton, British-record signing for the second time at Arsenal and veteran schemer for Southampton - not to mention footwear trend-setter. And all after being told he was too small to succeed in the game. Yet his years as a flat-cap wearing manager consisted mostly of relegation and promotion battles, some successful and some not, and plenty of frustration as he fought to produce winners in his own image and emulate the feats of his playing days. His life already touched tragically by the car crash that killed his father and the loss of his beloved wife Lesley to cancer, Ball died, aged only 61, after suffering a heart attack during a garden blaze. A decade on from his death, and drawing on interviews with family, friends and colleagues including Jimmy Armfield, Sir Geoff Hurst, George Cohen, Gordon Banks, Joe Royle, Mick Channon, Lawrie McMenemy, Francis Lee, George Graham, Frank McLintock, Matthew Le Tissier and many more, Alan Ball: The Man in White Boots is the definitive study of one of English football's most enduring figures.
Imagining America
Author: Alan M. Ball
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2004-09-09
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 0585482772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Imagining America, historian Alan M. Ball explores American influence in two newborn Russian states: the young Soviet Union and the modern Russian Republic. Ball deftly illustrates how in each era Russians have approached the United States with a conflicting mix of ideas—as a land to admire from afar, to shun at all costs, to emulate as quickly as possible, or to surpass on the way to a superior society. Drawing on a wide variety of sources including contemporary journals, newspapers, films, and popular songs, Ball traces the shifting Russian perceptions of American cultural, social, and political life. As he clearly demonstrates, throughout their history Russian imaginations featured a United States that political figures and intellectuals might embrace, exploit, or attack, but could not ignore.
Russia's Last Capitalists
Author: Alan M. Ball
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1990-09-18
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780520910591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1921 Lenin surprised foreign observers and many in his own Party, by calling for the legalization of private trade and manufacturing. Within a matter of months, this New Economic Policy (NEP) spawned many thousands of private entrepreneurs, dubbed Nepmen. After delineating this political background, Alan Ball turns his attention to the Nepmen themselves, examining where they came from, how they fared in competition with the socialist sector of the economy, their importance in the Soviet economy, and the consequences of their "liquidation" at the end of the 1920s. Alan Ball's history of this experiment with capitalism is strikingly relevant to current efforts toward economic reform in the USSR.
