Author: Agnes Alexander
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1611604915
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
While touring a present day Arizona cavern, Atlanta police officer, Rena Dumont gets lost and is trapped by a cave-in. When she regains consciousness, she finds herself on Jack Haywood's ranch in the year 1876. Though Jake is the epitome of everything Rena thinks a real man should be, she knows she has to fight her growing feelings for him and try to return to her time. Jake Haywood is fighting to save his ranch from a bank takeover and the encroachment of the neighboring rancher. Now he finds he must cope with a sassy strange woman who can shoot as well as any man and talk as tough as he can. Though he's confused by Rena, he has a hard time ignoring the attraction he feels every time he looks at her.
Rena's Cowboy
Author: Agnes Alexander
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1611604915
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
While touring a present day Arizona cavern, Atlanta police officer, Rena Dumont gets lost and is trapped by a cave-in. When she regains consciousness, she finds herself on Jack Haywood's ranch in the year 1876. Though Jake is the epitome of everything Rena thinks a real man should be, she knows she has to fight her growing feelings for him and try to return to her time. Jake Haywood is fighting to save his ranch from a bank takeover and the encroachment of the neighboring rancher. Now he finds he must cope with a sassy strange woman who can shoot as well as any man and talk as tough as he can. Though he's confused by Rena, he has a hard time ignoring the attraction he feels every time he looks at her.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1611604915
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
While touring a present day Arizona cavern, Atlanta police officer, Rena Dumont gets lost and is trapped by a cave-in. When she regains consciousness, she finds herself on Jack Haywood's ranch in the year 1876. Though Jake is the epitome of everything Rena thinks a real man should be, she knows she has to fight her growing feelings for him and try to return to her time. Jake Haywood is fighting to save his ranch from a bank takeover and the encroachment of the neighboring rancher. Now he finds he must cope with a sassy strange woman who can shoot as well as any man and talk as tough as he can. Though he's confused by Rena, he has a hard time ignoring the attraction he feels every time he looks at her.
The Hollywood Renaissance
Author: Peter Krämer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501337882
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In December 1967, Time magazine put Bonnie and Clyde on its cover and proudly declared that Hollywood cinema was undergoing a 'renaissance'. For the next few years, a wide range of formally and thematically challenging films were produced at the very centre of the American film industry, often (but by no means always) combining success at the box office with huge critical acclaim, both then and later. This collection brings together acknowledged experts on American cinema to examine thirteen key films from the years 1966 to 1974, starting with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, a major studio release which was in effect exempted from Hollywood's Production Code and thus helped to liberate American filmmaking from (self-)censorship. Long-standing taboos to do with sex, violence, race relations, drugs, politics, religion and much else could now be broken, often in conjunction with extensive stylistic experimentation. Whereas most previous scholarship has examined these developments through the prism of auteurism, with its tight focus on film directors and their oeuvres, the contributors to this collection also carefully examine production histories and processes. In doing so they pay particular attention to the economic underpinnings and collaborative nature of filmmaking, the influence of European art cinema as well as of exploitation, experimental and underground films, and the connections between cinema and other media (notably publishing, music and theatre). Several chapters show how the innovations of the Hollywood Renaissance relate to further changes in American cinema from the mid-1970s onwards.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501337882
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In December 1967, Time magazine put Bonnie and Clyde on its cover and proudly declared that Hollywood cinema was undergoing a 'renaissance'. For the next few years, a wide range of formally and thematically challenging films were produced at the very centre of the American film industry, often (but by no means always) combining success at the box office with huge critical acclaim, both then and later. This collection brings together acknowledged experts on American cinema to examine thirteen key films from the years 1966 to 1974, starting with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, a major studio release which was in effect exempted from Hollywood's Production Code and thus helped to liberate American filmmaking from (self-)censorship. Long-standing taboos to do with sex, violence, race relations, drugs, politics, religion and much else could now be broken, often in conjunction with extensive stylistic experimentation. Whereas most previous scholarship has examined these developments through the prism of auteurism, with its tight focus on film directors and their oeuvres, the contributors to this collection also carefully examine production histories and processes. In doing so they pay particular attention to the economic underpinnings and collaborative nature of filmmaking, the influence of European art cinema as well as of exploitation, experimental and underground films, and the connections between cinema and other media (notably publishing, music and theatre). Several chapters show how the innovations of the Hollywood Renaissance relate to further changes in American cinema from the mid-1970s onwards.
The Cowboy's Forbidden Bride
Author: Cora Seton
Publisher: One Acre Press
ISBN: 1988896061
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Coopers: 2, Turners: 2 The Coopers and Turners are tied in the battle for Chance Creek’s Founder's Prize, both families desperate to own the ranch that will be awarded to the winner. But Steel Cooper also needs to right the wrongs his father committed before he died in prison—and convince Stella Turner to marry him, despite a hundred years of animosity between their families. He’s willing to give it his best shot—but when disaster strikes Chance Creek, his best shot might not be enough to save anyone, let alone the woman he loves. Turners vs. Coopers of Chance Creek: BOOK 1: The Cowboy's Secret Bride BOOK 2: The Cowboy's Outlaw Bride BOOK 3: The Cowboy's Hidden Bride BOOK 4: The Cowboy's Stolen Bride BOOK 5: The Cowboy's Forbidden Bride
Publisher: One Acre Press
ISBN: 1988896061
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Coopers: 2, Turners: 2 The Coopers and Turners are tied in the battle for Chance Creek’s Founder's Prize, both families desperate to own the ranch that will be awarded to the winner. But Steel Cooper also needs to right the wrongs his father committed before he died in prison—and convince Stella Turner to marry him, despite a hundred years of animosity between their families. He’s willing to give it his best shot—but when disaster strikes Chance Creek, his best shot might not be enough to save anyone, let alone the woman he loves. Turners vs. Coopers of Chance Creek: BOOK 1: The Cowboy's Secret Bride BOOK 2: The Cowboy's Outlaw Bride BOOK 3: The Cowboy's Hidden Bride BOOK 4: The Cowboy's Stolen Bride BOOK 5: The Cowboy's Forbidden Bride
Callie's Cowboy
Author: Karen Leabo
Publisher: Loveswept
ISBN: 034553459X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Under the Texas moon, Karen Leabo explores the deep longings that lead to romance in a poignant tale of young love and faraway memories, tender promises and revealing truths. His soul was at home in the West—whether riding a bull at a rodeo or working the family ranch—but his heart belonged to her. Though Sam Sanger had always planned on sharing his life with Callie Calloway, he understood, even in high school, that loving this woman might mean letting her go. He lost her when she chose college, refusing to walk a day in his boots. It was just a carnival fortuneteller’s silly prediction—that Callie was destined to marry Sam. Still, Callie pulled away, afraid of sacrificing her own dreams. Ten years later, having become the editor of the local newspaper, she’s finally ready to wonder: Was she wrong about Sam? When tragedy strikes, Callie and Sam are thrown together again, alarmed by the force of a first love that still burns with hurt feelings and unrequited desire. Only now, Callie will have to see if she’s brave enough to make her own destiny. Includes a special message from the editor, as well as excerpts from these Loveswept titles: Deep Autumn Heat, The Last Warrior, and Kevin’s Story.
Publisher: Loveswept
ISBN: 034553459X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Under the Texas moon, Karen Leabo explores the deep longings that lead to romance in a poignant tale of young love and faraway memories, tender promises and revealing truths. His soul was at home in the West—whether riding a bull at a rodeo or working the family ranch—but his heart belonged to her. Though Sam Sanger had always planned on sharing his life with Callie Calloway, he understood, even in high school, that loving this woman might mean letting her go. He lost her when she chose college, refusing to walk a day in his boots. It was just a carnival fortuneteller’s silly prediction—that Callie was destined to marry Sam. Still, Callie pulled away, afraid of sacrificing her own dreams. Ten years later, having become the editor of the local newspaper, she’s finally ready to wonder: Was she wrong about Sam? When tragedy strikes, Callie and Sam are thrown together again, alarmed by the force of a first love that still burns with hurt feelings and unrequited desire. Only now, Callie will have to see if she’s brave enough to make her own destiny. Includes a special message from the editor, as well as excerpts from these Loveswept titles: Deep Autumn Heat, The Last Warrior, and Kevin’s Story.
Hollywood Renaissance
Author: Sam B. Girgus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521625524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A study of how films from the late 1930s to the early 60s portrayed the American ideal.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521625524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A study of how films from the late 1930s to the early 60s portrayed the American ideal.
Edwina's Husband
Author: Agnes Alexander
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1611606454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
To stop her uncle, Reverend Hezekiah D. Thorn from forcing her to give her sixteen month old son to a childless couple in his church, Edwina Thorn Singleton flees to New Mexico to find Wyatt Singleton, the father of her son and the man who she thinks is her legal husband. Wyatt had no idea that the pretty little woman he pretended to marry would show up and turn his life upside down, but show up she does. At first he tries to rid himself of her, but it isn't long until the baby has captured his heart and soon after, he finds himself falling for Edwina, too. He is plotting to find a way to make their marriage legal without her ever knowing she's been duped when things become more complicated. Not only does he have to deal with a woman who is determined to run Edwina off so she can marry him, squatters on his ranch and a murder someone is trying to pin on him, but the evil uncle shows up to force Edwina and the baby back to Virginia. Wyatt began to wonder if the fates have decided to forever keep him from becoming Edwina's Husband.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1611606454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
To stop her uncle, Reverend Hezekiah D. Thorn from forcing her to give her sixteen month old son to a childless couple in his church, Edwina Thorn Singleton flees to New Mexico to find Wyatt Singleton, the father of her son and the man who she thinks is her legal husband. Wyatt had no idea that the pretty little woman he pretended to marry would show up and turn his life upside down, but show up she does. At first he tries to rid himself of her, but it isn't long until the baby has captured his heart and soon after, he finds himself falling for Edwina, too. He is plotting to find a way to make their marriage legal without her ever knowing she's been duped when things become more complicated. Not only does he have to deal with a woman who is determined to run Edwina off so she can marry him, squatters on his ranch and a murder someone is trying to pin on him, but the evil uncle shows up to force Edwina and the baby back to Virginia. Wyatt began to wonder if the fates have decided to forever keep him from becoming Edwina's Husband.
The Island
Author: Agnes Alexander
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1611607981
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
A plane disappears over the Atlantic, but after an intense search turns up nothing, the hundred and twelve people aboard are declared dead. Unbeknownst to the outside world, thirteen people survived. After escaping the crashing plane and braving the waters for hours, eleven of them make it to an island. Twenty-seven months later, a plane discovers the survivors. The waiting world is anxious to learn how they lived, but the survivors have secrets they must hide, not only from the media, but from their own families. Will the news media be able to uncover these secrets? Will their families welcome them back? Will the loves and friendships formed in those twenty-seven months last?
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1611607981
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
A plane disappears over the Atlantic, but after an intense search turns up nothing, the hundred and twelve people aboard are declared dead. Unbeknownst to the outside world, thirteen people survived. After escaping the crashing plane and braving the waters for hours, eleven of them make it to an island. Twenty-seven months later, a plane discovers the survivors. The waiting world is anxious to learn how they lived, but the survivors have secrets they must hide, not only from the media, but from their own families. Will the news media be able to uncover these secrets? Will their families welcome them back? Will the loves and friendships formed in those twenty-seven months last?
Camilla's Daughter
Author: Agnes Alexander
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1611608252
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Escaping from a mother intent on her marrying a "suitable" man in Charleston, Camilla goes west to visit her uncle, a cook on a ranch. Camilla is stunned when a woman hands her a baby girl and then disappears. At a way station, she decides to leave it with the way-station's owner. An unkempt little girl tells her the baby wouldn't be safe, to take it with her. When Camilla leaves the next morning, the girl is hiding in the stage coach. When Camilla arrives at the ranch, she finds a sullen owner who begrudgingly lets her stay in the ranch house because she's his cook's niece. Sparks fly when she sees that he'd rather have anything interrupt his life than a woman and two little girls. Blake doesn't like the feelings this beautiful woman and her two daughters stir up in him—yet, he's furious when another man decides that Camilla would make the perfect wife...
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1611608252
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Escaping from a mother intent on her marrying a "suitable" man in Charleston, Camilla goes west to visit her uncle, a cook on a ranch. Camilla is stunned when a woman hands her a baby girl and then disappears. At a way station, she decides to leave it with the way-station's owner. An unkempt little girl tells her the baby wouldn't be safe, to take it with her. When Camilla leaves the next morning, the girl is hiding in the stage coach. When Camilla arrives at the ranch, she finds a sullen owner who begrudgingly lets her stay in the ranch house because she's his cook's niece. Sparks fly when she sees that he'd rather have anything interrupt his life than a woman and two little girls. Blake doesn't like the feelings this beautiful woman and her two daughters stir up in him—yet, he's furious when another man decides that Camilla would make the perfect wife...
The Foreign Film Renaissance on American Screens, 1946–1973
Author: Tino Balio
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299247937
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Largely shut out of American theaters since the 1920s, foreign films such as Open City, Bicycle Thief, Rashomon, The Seventh Seal, Breathless, La Dolce Vita and L’Avventura played after World War II in a growing number of art houses around the country and created a small but influential art film market devoted to the acquisition, distribution, and exhibition of foreign-language and English-language films produced abroad. Nurtured by successive waves of imports from Italy, Great Britain, France, Sweden, Japan, and the Soviet Bloc, the renaissance was kick-started by independent distributors working out of New York; by the 1960s, however, the market had been subsumed by Hollywood. From Roberto Rossellini’s Open City in 1946 to Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris in 1973, Tino Balio tracks the critical reception in the press of such filmmakers as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Tony Richardson, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Luis Buñuel, Satyajit Ray, and Milos Forman. Their releases paled in comparison to Hollywood fare at the box office, but their impact on American film culture was enormous. The reception accorded to art house cinema attacked motion picture censorship, promoted the director as auteur, and celebrated film as an international art. Championing the cause was the new “cinephile” generation, which was mostly made up of college students under thirty. The fashion for foreign films depended in part on their frankness about sex. When Hollywood abolished the Production Code in the late 1960s, American-made films began to treat adult themes with maturity and candor. In this new environment, foreign films lost their cachet and the art film market went into decline.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299247937
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Largely shut out of American theaters since the 1920s, foreign films such as Open City, Bicycle Thief, Rashomon, The Seventh Seal, Breathless, La Dolce Vita and L’Avventura played after World War II in a growing number of art houses around the country and created a small but influential art film market devoted to the acquisition, distribution, and exhibition of foreign-language and English-language films produced abroad. Nurtured by successive waves of imports from Italy, Great Britain, France, Sweden, Japan, and the Soviet Bloc, the renaissance was kick-started by independent distributors working out of New York; by the 1960s, however, the market had been subsumed by Hollywood. From Roberto Rossellini’s Open City in 1946 to Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris in 1973, Tino Balio tracks the critical reception in the press of such filmmakers as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Tony Richardson, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Luis Buñuel, Satyajit Ray, and Milos Forman. Their releases paled in comparison to Hollywood fare at the box office, but their impact on American film culture was enormous. The reception accorded to art house cinema attacked motion picture censorship, promoted the director as auteur, and celebrated film as an international art. Championing the cause was the new “cinephile” generation, which was mostly made up of college students under thirty. The fashion for foreign films depended in part on their frankness about sex. When Hollywood abolished the Production Code in the late 1960s, American-made films began to treat adult themes with maturity and candor. In this new environment, foreign films lost their cachet and the art film market went into decline.
Star Actors in the Hollywood Renaissance
Author: D. Smith-Rowsey
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137310391
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a new generation took over the leading roles in Hollywood films. These untraditional-looking young men were promoted and understood as alienated and ironic everymen, and exerted a powerful, and until now unexplored, influence over a movement often considered the richest in Hollywood's history.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137310391
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a new generation took over the leading roles in Hollywood films. These untraditional-looking young men were promoted and understood as alienated and ironic everymen, and exerted a powerful, and until now unexplored, influence over a movement often considered the richest in Hollywood's history.