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Author: Walter Stewart Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1499046162 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 384
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Someone is murdering the members of Hollywoods ber-rich Praetorius family one by one, and Pierce Investigations is on the job to find out who it is. Once again, their crack investigator, Taylor, is called upon to find the killer before he eliminates everyone in his way. Yet the more Taylor digs through the seedy entrails of L.A.s glitterati, the more he comes to see that the case is anything but simple?and as he becomes more and more deeply enmeshed in the labyrinthine history of a notorious Hollywood crime and its tangled secret, he comes to realize that these mysterious murders actually have been a hundred years in the making.
Author: Walter Stewart Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1499046162 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 384
Book Description
Someone is murdering the members of Hollywoods ber-rich Praetorius family one by one, and Pierce Investigations is on the job to find out who it is. Once again, their crack investigator, Taylor, is called upon to find the killer before he eliminates everyone in his way. Yet the more Taylor digs through the seedy entrails of L.A.s glitterati, the more he comes to see that the case is anything but simple?and as he becomes more and more deeply enmeshed in the labyrinthine history of a notorious Hollywood crime and its tangled secret, he comes to realize that these mysterious murders actually have been a hundred years in the making.
Author: Kevin Heffernan Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 0822385554 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 333
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The Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Tingler, the Mole People—they stalked and oozed into audiences’ minds during the era that followed Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein and preceded terrors like Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street) and Chucky (Child’s Play). Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold pulls off the masks and wipes away the slime to reveal how the monsters that frightened audiences in the 1950s and 1960s—and the movies they crawled and staggered through—reflected fundamental changes in the film industry. Providing the first economic history of the horror film, Kevin Heffernan shows how the production, distribution, and exhibition of horror movies changed as the studio era gave way to the conglomeration of New Hollywood. Heffernan argues that major cultural and economic shifts in the production and reception of horror films began at the time of the 3-d film cycle of 1953–54 and ended with the 1968 adoption of the Motion Picture Association of America’s ratings system and the subsequent development of the adult horror movie—epitomized by Rosemary’s Baby. He describes how this period presented a number of daunting challenges for movie exhibitors: the high costs of technological upgrade, competition with television, declining movie attendance, and a diminishing number of annual releases from the major movie studios. He explains that the production and distribution branches of the movie industry responded to these trends by cultivating a youth audience, co-producing features with the film industries of Europe and Asia, selling films to television, and intensifying representations of sex and violence. Shining through Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold is the delight of the true horror movie buff, the fan thrilled to find The Brain that Wouldn’t Die on television at 3 am.
Author: Gene Scott Freese Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786476435 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 355
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This biographical dictionary shines the spotlight on several hundred unheralded stunt performers who created some of the cinema's greatest action scenes without credit or recognition. The time period covered encompasses the silent comedy days of Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, the early westerns of Tom Mix and John Wayne, the swashbucklers of Douglas Fairbanks, Errol Flynn, and Burt Lancaster, the costume epics of Charlton Heston and Kirk Douglas, and the action films of Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, and Charles Bronson. Without stuntmen and women working behind the scenes the films of these action superstars would not have been as successful. Now fantastic athletes and leading stunt creators such as Yakima Canutt, Richard Talmadge, Harvey Parry, Allen Pomeroy, Dave Sharpe, Jock Mahoney, Chuck Roberson, Polly Burson, Bob Morgan, Loren Janes, Dean Smith, Hal Needham, Martha Crawford, Ronnie Rondell, Terry Leonard, and Bob Minor are given their proper due. Each entry covers the performer's athletic background, military service, actors doubled, noteworthy stunts, and a rundown of his or her best known screen credits.
Author: Jesse Bullington Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 0748118802 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 317
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As the witch-pyres of the Spanish Inquisition blanket Renaissance Europe in a moral haze, a young African slave finds herself the unwilling apprentice of an ancient necromancer. Unfortunately, quitting his company proves even more hazardous than remaining his pupil when she is afflicted with a terrible curse. Yet salvation may lie in a mysterious tome her tutor has hidden somewhere on the war-torn continent. She sets out on a seemingly impossible journey to find the book, never suspecting her fate is tied to three strangers: the artist Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, the alchemist Dr Paracelsus and a gun-slinging Dutch mercenary. As Manuel paints her macabre story on canvas, plank and church wall, the apprentice becomes increasingly aware of the great dangers that surround her. She realises she must revisit the fell necromancy of her childhood - or death will be the least of her concerns.
Author: Jack Halpern Publisher: Vertical Inc ISBN: 1568365853 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 680
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A groundbreaking bilingual kanji thesaurus that provides intermediate and advanced-level users with complete, precise guidance on the distinctions between characters of similar meanings. The Kodansha Kanji Synonyms Guide is the first-ever reference work to group together kanji characters that are related in meaning but different in detail. Arranged alphabetically by concept, these groupings let users focus on the often-subtle differences and similarities between them. Like The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary, and all of Jack Halpern's previous publications, The Kodansha Kanji Synonyms Guide is an innovative, authoritative, and impeccably-prepared resource that helps Japanese language learners deepen their knowledge of written Japanese, and provides educators, scholars, writers, and translators with an invaluable reference tool.
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