Author: Muriel DenisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Susannah, a little girl with the mounties. --.
Author: Muriel DenisonSusannah of the Mounties
Author: Muriel DenisonPublisher: Rare Treasure Editions
ISBN: 177464844X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Nine-year-old Susannah Winston is sent to stay with her Uncle Dennis, an officer with the Mounties - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police - in Regina, Saskatchewan, and has many adventures on the prairie. Made into the blockbuster Hollywood film starring Shirley Temple!
Susannah : a Little Girl with the Mounties
Author: Bryan, MargueritePublisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Susannah
Author: Muriel DenisonPublisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Susannah; A Little Girl With the Mounties, by Muriel Denison. Illustrated by Marguerite Bryan
Author: Muriel (Goggin) DenisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada, Western
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression
Author: John F. KassonPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393240797
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Discusses the optimism and good cheer that surrounded the young, Depression-era box office star whose singing, acting, and charming smile helped revive the American spirit during the 1930s and for many decades after.
Secret Daughter
Author: June CrossPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670885558
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The daughter of a white mother and black father describes the factors that caused her mother to place her in the custody of an African-American family and the impact of her mother's later choice to hide the truth about their relationship.
The Tenderness of Wolves
Author: Stef PenneyPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416571302
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
When her teenage son disappears in the aftermath of a brutal murder, a determined mother sets out from her snow-covered nineteenth-century settlement to find him, an effort that is hampered by vigilante groups and the harrowing forces of nature. A first novel.
The Mountie
Author: Michael DawsonPublisher: Between the Lines
ISBN: 1926662660
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Historian Michael Dawson digs deep into the written and pictorial record to reveal how the RCMP, since its inception, has constructed and zealously guarded its public image. Drawing on previously untapped sources, Dawson documents how consultants and entrepreneurs deliberately transformed and modernized the traditional symbolism of the Mountie. His trenchant analysis extends to the ironies of the recent licensing of the hallowed Mountie image to the ultimate dream-merchants—Disney.
A Woman's View
Author: Jeanine BasingerPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 030783154X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Now, Voyager, Stella Dallas, Leaver Her to Heaven, Imitation of Life, Mildred Pierce, Gilda…these are only a few of the hundreds of “women’s films” that poured out of Hollywood during the thirties, forties, and fifties. The films were widely disparate in subject, sentiment, and technique, they nonetheless shared one dual purpose: to provide the audience (of women, primarily) with temporary liberation into a screen dream—of romance, sexuality, luxury, suffering, or even wickedness—and then send it home reminded of, reassured by, and resigned to the fact that no matter what else she might do, a woman’s most important job was…to be a woman. Now, with boundless knowledge and infectious enthusiasm, Jeanine Basinger illuminates the various surprising and subversive ways in which women’s films delivered their message. Basinger examines dozens of films, exploring the seemingly intractable contradictions at the convoluted heart of the woman’s genre—among them, the dilemma of the strong and glamorous woman who cedes her power when she feels it threatening her personal happiness, and the self-abnegating woman whose selflessness is not always as “noble” as it appears. Basinger looks at the stars who played these women and helps us understand the qualities—the right off-screen personae, the right on-screen attitudes, the right faces—that made them personify the woman’s film and equipped them to make believable drama or comedy out of the crackpot plots, the conflicting ideas, and the exaggerations of real behavior that characterize these movies. In each of the films the author discusses—whether melodrama, screwball comedy, musical, film noir, western, or biopic—a woman occupies the center of her particular universe. Her story—in its endless variations of rags to riches, boy meets girl, battle of the sexes, mother love, doomed romance—inevitably sends a highly potent mixed message: Yes, you women belong in your “proper place” (that is, content with the Big Three of the women’s film world—men, marriage, and motherhood), but meanwhile, and paradoxically, see what fun, glamour, and power you can enjoy along the way. A Woman’s View deepens our understanding of the times and circumstances and attitudes out of which these movies were created.