Scoundrels And Spitballers

Author : Philippe Garnier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578653693
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scoundrels and Spitballers written by Philippe Garnier and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scoundrels & Spitballers is to be read more as a book about writers and Hollywood, rather than one about screenwriters in Hollywood. The author stresses the vibrancy and free-for-all giddiness of a period when the film industry was young, and its workers even younger. And, perhaps, along the way these tales might define the important and not-always-negative role Hollywood played in the literary life of the 1930s. Hollywood broke a few writers' souls, but it also helped many and definitely inspired a few. Writers profiled in Scoundrels & Spitballers include: Nathaniel West, John Sanford, Marguerite Roberts, Robert Tasker, John Bright, Rowland Brown, Sam Brown, Niven Busch, James M. Cain, A.I. Bezzerides, Horace McCoy, and W.R. Burnett.

Author : Renee Patrick
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1448303494
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Script for Scandal written by Renee Patrick and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sleuthing duo Lillian Frost and Edith Head investigate a behind-the-scenes scandal in this delightful Golden Age of Hollywood mystery. 1939, Los Angeles. Lillian Frost is shocked when her friend, glamorous costume designer Edith Head, hands her the script to a new film that's about to start shooting. Streetlight Story is based on a true crime: the California Republic bank robbery of 1936. Lillian's beau, LAPD detective Gene Morrow, was one of the officers on the case; his partner, Teddy, was tragically shot dead. It seems the scriptwriter has put Gene at the centre of a scandal, twisting fact with fiction - or has he? With Gene reluctant to talk about the case, the movie quickly becoming the hottest ticket in town, a suspicious death on the Paramount studio lot and the police reopening the investigation into Teddy's death, Lillian is determined to find answers. Can Lillian and Edith uncover the truth of what happened that fateful day and clear Gene's name?

Author : Eddie Muller
Publisher : Running Press Adult
ISBN 13 : 076249896X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark City written by Eddie Muller and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and expanded edition of Eddie Muller's Dark City is a film noir lover's bible, taking readers on a tour of the urban landscape of the grim and gritty genre in a definitive, highly illustrated volume. Dark Cityexpands with new chapters and a fresh collection of restored photos that illustrate the mythic landscape of the imagination. It's a place where the men and women who created film noir often find themselves dangling from the same sinister heights as the silver-screen avatars to whom they gave life. Eddie Muller, host of Turner Classic Movies' Noir Alley, takes readers on a spellbinding trip through treacherous terrain: Hollywood in the post-World War II years, where art, politics, scandal, style -- and brilliant craftsmanship -- produced a new approach to moviemaking, and a new type of cultural mythology.

Author : Coulson Kernahan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scoundrels & Co written by Coulson Kernahan and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Whibley
Publisher : Gibb Press
ISBN 13 : 144463805X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Book of Scoundrels written by Charles Whibley and published by Gibb Press. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early works is a fascinating novel of the period and still an interesting read today. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Coulson Kernahan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scoundrels & Co written by Coulson Kernahan and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Imogen Sara Smith
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786489081
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Lonely Places written by Imogen Sara Smith and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although film noir is traditionally associated with the mean streets of the Dark City, this volume explores the genre from a new angle, focusing on non-urban settings. Through detailed readings of more than 100 films set in suburbs, small towns, on the road, in the desert, borderlands and the vast, empty West, the author investigates the alienation expressed by film noir, pinpointing its motivation in the conflict between desires for escape, autonomy and freedom--and fears of loneliness, exile and dissolution. Through such films as Out of the Past, They Live by Night and A Touch of Evil, this critical study examines how film noir reflected radical changes in the physical and social landscapes of postwar America, defining the genre's contribution to the eternal debate between the values of individualism and community.

Author : Charles Whibley
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 : 9781588278784
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Book of Scoundrels written by Charles Whibley and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeffrey Couchman
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810125420
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Night of the Hunter written by Jeffrey Couchman and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-12 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reaching simultaneously into the realms of film and literature, "The Night of the Hunter": A Biography of a Film details the transformation of Davis Grubb's 1953 novel into a motion picture. A popular and critical success, the novel spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list, and Hollywood responded to its atmospheric lyricism. In the hands of first-time director Charles Laughton, the story became equal parts thriller, allegory, and fever dream, filled with slow, inexorable suspense. Yet the film initially failed at the box office. In the first major study of the long-lost first-draft screenplay by James Agee, Jeffrey Couchman confronts a fifty-year controversy about the authorship of the film. He explores many levels of artistic convergence-between novelist and director, director and actor, and cinematic form and audience expectations. The talents that clashed or came together along the road from book to movie created a film of rich stylistic contradiction. Combining biographical and historical analysis with a critical study of both the novel and the film, Couchman makes the case that this initially overlooked cinematic gem is a prismatic work that continually reveals new aspects of itself. Book jacket.

Author : Imogen Sara Smith
Publisher : Gambit Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0967591740
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buster Keaton written by Imogen Sara Smith and published by Gambit Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smith tells of the most dazzling and enigmatic of the silent clowns, a man who began his career in vaudeville as one-third of the Three Keatons at age four only to fall from grace with shattering swiftness in the early 1930s before eventually making a comeback on television in the 1950s.