Entries McDowell-Williams ; Index

Entries McDowell-Williams ; Index
Author: George A. Katchmer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Motion picture actors and actresses
ISBN:

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Harold Lloyd

Harold Lloyd
Author: Annette M. D'Agostino
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1994-05-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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Chronicles the life and career of Harold Lloyd, with annotated entries for all of his performances.

Groundhog Day

Groundhog Day
Author: Ryan Gilbey
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2019-07-25
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1838716025

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It is becoming clearer and clearer that Groundhog Day (1993), directed by Harold Ramis, is one of the masterpieces of 1990s Hollywood cinema. One of the first films to use a science-fiction premise as the basis for romantic comedy, it tells the story of a splenetic TV weatherman, Phil Connors (Bill Murray at his disreputable best), who finds himself repeating indefinitely one drab day in the milk-and-cookies town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. At first glance it seems like a feel-good parable in the tradition of Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1943). But on closer inspection it is a deeply ambivalent fable, with strong echoes of Samuel Beckett: before he finds redemption Phil must plumb the depths of suicidal despair - and even after he has survived this, the film offers no guarantees that he will live happily ever after. Ryan Gilbey begins his account of Groundhog Day with the long and unlucky gestation of the script by Danny Rubin (who was interviewed specially for this book) which formed the basis of the finished film. Gilbey celebrates the inspired casting of Murray, alongside Andie MacDowell and less well-known actors such as Stephen Tobolowsky (who plays the reptilian sa

The Film Book

The Film Book
Author: Ronald Bergan
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780241484838

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Story of cinema -- How movies are made -- Movie genres -- World cinema -- A-Z directors -- Must-see movies.

Cinema Arthuriana

Cinema Arthuriana
Author: Kevin J. Harty
Publisher: Garland Publishing
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1991
Genre: History
ISBN:

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Discusses Lancelot du Lac, Camelot, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and other films; along with such topics as irony, Morgan and incest, and arms and armor; in 14 original essays, and an overview and bibliography expanded from an earlier publication. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Encyclopedia of Early Cinema

Encyclopedia of Early Cinema
Author: Richard Abel
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 824
Release: 2005
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0415234409

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One-volume reference work on the first twenty-five years of the cinema's international emergence from the early 1890s to the mid-1910s.

Dear Girls Above Me

Dear Girls Above Me
Author: Charles McDowell
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2013-06-04
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0307986349

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Based on the wildly popular Twitter feed Dear Girls Above Me, a roman à clef about how thinking like a couple of girls turned one single guy into a better man. When Charlie McDowell began sharing his open letters to his noisy upstairs neighbors—two impossibly ditzy female roommates in their mid-twenties—on Twitter, his feed quickly went viral. His followers multiplied and he got the attention of everyone from celebrities to production studios to major media outlets such as Time and Glamour. Now Dear Girls breaks out of the 140-character limit as Charlie imagines what would happen if he put the wisdom of the girls to the test. After being unceremoniously dumped by the girl he was certain was “the one,” Charlie realized his neighbors’ conversations were not only amusing, but also offered him access to a completely uncensored woman’s perspective on the world. From the importance of effectively Facebook-stalking potential girlfriends and effortlessly pulling off pastel, to learning when in the early stages of dating is too presumptuous to bring a condom and how to turn food poisoning into a dieting advantage, the girls get Charlie into trouble, but they also get him out of it—without ever having a clue of their impact on him.

New Keywords

New Keywords
Author: Tony Bennett
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2013-05-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1118725417

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Over 25 years ago, Raymond Williams’ Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society set the standard for how we understand and use the language of culture and society. Now, three luminaries in the field of cultural studies have assembled a volume that builds on and updates Williams’ classic, reflecting the transformation in culture and society since its publication. New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a state-of-the-art reference for students, teachers and culture vultures everywhere. Assembles a stellar team of internationally renowned and interdisciplinary social thinkers and theorists Showcases 142 signed entries – from art, commodity, and fundamentalism to youth, utopia, the virtual, and the West – that capture the practices, institutions, and debates of contemporary society Builds on and updates Raymond Williams’s classic Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, by reflecting the transformation in culture and society over the last 25 years Includes a bibliographic resource to guide research and cross-referencing The book is supported by a website: www.blackwellpublishing.com/newkeywords.

Reasons and Persons

Reasons and Persons
Author: Derek Parfit
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 880
Release: 1986-01-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191622443

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This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act against our own best interests; that most of us have moral views that are directly self-defeating; and that, when we consider future generations the conclusions will often be disturbing. He concludes that moral non-religious moral philosophy is a young subject, with a promising but unpredictable future.