Author: Annie Smith PeckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : South America
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The South American Tour
Author: Annie Smith PeckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : South America
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
100 Great War Movies
Author: Robert J. NiemiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book serves as a fascinating guide to 100 war films from 1930 to the present. Readers interested in war movies will learn surprising anecdotes about these films and will have all their questions about the films' historical accuracy answered. This cinematic guide to war movies spans 800 years in its analysis of films from those set in the 13th century Scottish Wars of Independence (Braveheart) to those taking place during the 21st-century war in Afghanistan (Lone Survivor). World War II has produced the largest number of war movies and continues to spawn recently released films such as Dunkirk. This book explores those, but also examines films set during such conflicts as the Napoleonic Wars, the American Civil War, World War I, the Vietnam War, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The book is organized alphabetically by film title, making it easy to navigate. Each entry is divided into five sections: Background (a brief discussion of the film's genesis and financing); Production (information about how, where, and when the film was shot); Synopsis (a detailed plot summary); Reception (how the film did in terms of box office, awards, and reviews) and "Reel History vs. Real History" (a brief analysis of the film's historical accuracy). This book is ideal for readers looking to get a vivid behind-the-scenes look at the greatest war movies ever made.
Can She Atone?
Author: Abby Whitney BrownCaillou
Author: Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)Publisher: PBS
ISBN: 9781608839209
Category : Animated television programs
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Videodisc release of episodes from the 2010 television program.
Macabre 1
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Macabre is a horror/fantasy short-stories novel written to entertain our senses and curiosity of the supernatural, paranormal, and mystical. You might have nightmares after reading Macabre or you might laugh. Either way, be prepared to be scared.
The Key to Nicholas Street
Author: Stanley EllinPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497650348
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
A grisly murder reveals the hateful secrets that lie beneath a small town’s surface The locals call her the Ballou. An illustrator for a high-fashion magazine, she has been the talk of the upstate town of Sutton ever since she first appeared, paying cash for one of the finest houses on Nicholas Street. Daring, gaudy, and grand, she inspires envy in the women and lust in the men. And in one member of this quiet town, she is about to inspire murder. The trouble starts when her rakish New York lover moves in full time, scandalizing the prudish Ayers family next door. When the Ayers’ maid pays a social call to the Ballou, she finds her lying dead at the foot of a staircase—gray, cold, and fabulous no more. Suspicion falls on the Ayerses, whose starched exterior hides a wealth of ugly secrets. From this interlocking narrative told from the perspectives of the citizens of Sutton comes a reminder that no town is too small for murder.
Weimar Cinema
Author: Noah William IsenbergPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231130554
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
In this comprehensive companion to Weimar cinema, chapters address the technological advancements of each film, their production and place within the larger history of German cinema, the style of the director, the actors and the rise of the German star, and the critical reception of the film.
Miracle
Author: Anne GeddesPublisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0740746960
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Anne Geddes' photographs of Celine Dion with newborn infants.
Fresh from the Farm 6pk
Author: RigbyYvain
Author: Chretien de TroyesPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300187580
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.