Shadows Over Chinatown

Author : Steve Murphy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689872097
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadows Over Chinatown written by Steve Murphy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles April, the owner of an antiques store, has befriended a very old Chinese man, Wei Yang, who also owns an antiques store. When April learns that the Purpie Dragons are trying to extort "protection" money from him, she tells the Turtles. Raphael agrees to watch over the old man and his store. But while he is on duty, he discovers something lurking in the store-something even more evil and dangerous than the Purpie Dragons. But what could it be?

Author : Alan Gevinson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520209640
Total Pages : 1588 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Within Our Gates written by Alan Gevinson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[These volumes] are endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Author : John Howard Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1847286852
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Cinema Detectives written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-08-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an overview of the entire thriller genre, this book examines over 160 movies from classic Hollywood and British studios, including such essential film noir entries as "Murder, My Sweet," "The Dark Corner," "The Maltese Falcon" and "Afraid To Talk." Great cinema detectives are represented by William Powell (all six of his Thin Man pictures are detailed and discussed), Basil Rathbone (Sherlock Holmes), Warner Oland (Charlie Chan), Sidney Toler (Charlie Chan), Peter Ustinov (Hercule Poirot), Margaret Rutherford (all four of her Miss Marple films are covered), and others including the Saint, the Falcon, Bulldog Drummond and Philo Vance. From director Alfred Hitchock comes "Notorious," "Saboteur," "Number 17" and "Rich and Strange." A few comedies and spoofs, such as "Satan Met a Lady" (an amazing re-make of the original "Maltese Falcon" with Bette Davis and Warren William) and "Who Done It?" (with Abbott and Costello) round out the survey.

Author : Ken Hanke
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786486619
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charlie Chan at the Movies written by Ken Hanke and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-01-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his primitive nonseries beginnings through the well known Fox series of 44 films (1931–1949), here is the complete history of famous film detective Charlie Chan. The films are presented in chronological order, with full cast and credits, synopses and evaluations. Biographical details on the three most famous screen Chans—Warner Oland, Sidney Toler, and Roland Winters—and background information on series directors and supporting players, insights into the making of the films, and the full story of the abrupt halt in 1949 as well as an array of the detective’s aphorisms (or Chan-o-grams) are included. Numerous photos throughout.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0V/5 ( download)

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Author : Ron Backer
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786490187
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mystery Movie Series of 1930s Hollywood written by Ron Backer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion volume to Mystery Movie Series of 1940s Hollywood (McFarland, 2010) focuses on 22 series and 167 individual films, primarily released during the 1930s. It was a decade that featured some of the most famous cinema detectives of all time, among them Charlie Chan, Nick and Nora Charles, Philo Vance, Nancy Drew, and such lesser known but equally entertaining figures as Hildegarde Withers, Torchy Blane, Mr. Moto, Mr. Wong, and Brass Bancroft. Each mystery movie series is placed within its historical context, with emphasis on its source material and the changes or developments within the series over time. Also included are reviews of all the series' films, analyzing the quality and cohesiveness of the mystery plotlines. For titles based on literary sources, a comparison between the film and the written work is provided.

Author : Clifford McCarty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780195114737
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film Composers in America written by Clifford McCarty and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film Composers in America is a landmark in the history of film. Here, renowned film scholar Clifford McCarty has attempted to identify every known composer who wrote background musical scores for films in the United States between 1911 and 1970. With information on roughly 20,000 films, the book is an essential tool for serious students of film and a treasure trove for film fans. It spans all types of American films, from features, shorts, cartoons, and documentaries to nontheatrical works, avant-garde films, and even trailers. Meticulously researched over 45 years, the book documents the work of more than 1,500 composers, from Robert Abramson to Josiah Zuro, including the first to score an American film, Walter C. Simon. It includes not only Hollywood professionals but also many composers of concert music--as well as popular music and other genres--whose cinematic work has never before been fully catalogued. The book also features an index that lets readers quickly find the composer for any American film through 1970. To recover this history, much of which was lost or never recorded, McCarty corresponded with or interviewed hundreds of composers, arrangers, orchestrators, musical directors, and music librarians. He also conducted extensive research in the archives of the seven largest film studios--Columbia, MGM, Paramount, RKO, 20th Century-Fox, Universal, and Warner Bros.--and wherever possible, he based his findings on the most reliable evidence, that of the manuscript scores and cue sheets (as opposed to less accurate screen credits). The result is the definitive guide to the composers and musical scores for the first 60 years of American film.

Author : Jeffrey Richards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786730642
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China and the Chinese in Popular Film written by Jeffrey Richards and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's a folk memory of China in which numberless yellow hordes pour out of the 'mysterious East' to overwhelm the vulnerable West, accompanied by a stereotype of the Chinese as cruel, cunning and depraved. Hollywood films played their part in perpetuating these myths and stereotypes that constituted 'The Yellow Peril'. Jeffrey Richards examines in detail how and why they did it. He shows how the negative image was embodied in recurrent cinematic depictions of opium dens, tong wars, sadistic dragon ladies and corrupt warlords and how, in the 1930s and 1940s, a countervailing positive image involved the heroic peasants of The Good Earth and Dragon Seed fighting against Japanese invasion in wartime tributes to the West's ally, Nationalist China. The cinema's split level response is also traced through the images of the ultimate Oriental villain, the sinister Dr. Fu Manchu and the timeless Chinese hero, the intelligent and benevolent detective Charlie Chan.Filling a longstanding gap in Cinema and Cultural History, the book is founded in fresh research into Hollywood's shifting representations of China and its people.

Author : Daniel J. Monti, Jr.
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
ISBN 13 : 1611475929
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engaging Strangers written by Daniel J. Monti, Jr. and published by Fairleigh Dickinson. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging Strangers: Civil Rites, Civic Capitalism, and Public Order in Boston by Daniel J. Monti, Jr. explores how the people of Boston have learned to practice a more congenial and respectful set of civic virtues. Monti provides a model for civic conduct for the rest of America to study and follow, showing how the cultural ideals we share and the civic-minded practices we follow in and out of the business world reflect a mix of liberal and conservative values that work for all of us.

Author : Wilma S. Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decisions of the United States Courts Involving Copyright written by Wilma S. Davis and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: