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
Author: Andrew Dickos
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2002-06-07
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0813170338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Appropriations
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher:
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 1794
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on District of Columbia
Publisher:
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 1838
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCity that Never Sleeps
Author: Murray Pomerance
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780813540320
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew 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.
It's All About the Duke
Author: Amelia Grey
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Published: 2018-05-29
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1250102537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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
Author: Fenella J Miller
Publisher: Boldwood Books Ltd
Published: 2024-12-14
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 183518734X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreorder 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
Author: Millie Adams
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2022-09-27
Total Pages: 730
ISBN-13: 0369730399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDo 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
Author: George Irvin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-04-26
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 0745658873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Columbia Noir
Author: Gene Blottner
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-03-19
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1476617619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis filmography covers Columbia Pictures' noir titles released in the classic noir era, October 1940 to June 1962. All sub-genres are covered including British, western and science fiction. Included are the great Columbia films Gilda, Lady from Shanghai, All the Kings Men, In a Lonely Place, On the Waterfront, Anatomy of a Murder and Experiment in Terror. The films are examined in detail, with release dates, cast and production credits, production dates, synopses, reviews, notes and commentary on each film, the author's summation and the publicity "tag lines."
