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Doing it Right
Warner Bros.'s withdrawal of Peckinpah's cut of the film drew tremendous sympathy for Peckinpah from American and European film critics alike.
Heavenly Humor for the Chocolate Lover's Soul
Love chocolate? . . . Need a good laugh? Who doesn’t? Find mirth and spiritual refreshment in Heavenly Humor for the Chocolate Lover’s Soul, featuring devotional readings drawn from fellow chocolate fanciers. Seventy-five readings will make you laugh, chuckle, chortle, and snicker. And every reading points you to the heavenly Father who knows all about you—and loves you completely.
Tales of Sin: Truth or Dare
Like many children in America, Michael White grew up without a father. He taught himself how to be a man—which meant turning to a life of crime. Michael ends up in prison, but while there, he makes the decision to change his life. He writes down the story of his past; once his sentence is over, things take a decidedly upward swing. Michael chronicles his life in a memoir, and his book sells nearly one million copies. He can’t believe his own luck, but he is happy to have turned a bad situation into a lucrative enterprise. He might have gone on living the clean life—but then he steps into Davie’s Bar-n-Grill, where he meets four beautiful women who are prepared to tear his world apart. Monica Sinclair is the ringleader; the other girls follow her lead. They’ve made a sport of seducing and ruining men, just for the fun of it. Michael has become their newest target, and he soon finds himself trapped in a seductive web of lust, deception, and murder. Will past indiscretions finally catch up with the girls this time, or will Michael end up another broken, battered victim of their cruel game?
Justified Lives
In the first book to critically examine each of the fourteen feature films Sam Peckinpah directed during his career, Michael Bliss stresses the persistent moral and structural elements that permeate Peckinpah’s work. By examining the films in great detail, Bliss makes clear the moral framework of temptation and redemption with which Peckinpah was concerned while revealing the director’s attention to narrative. Bliss shows that each of Peckinpah’s protagonists is involved with attempting, in the words of Ride the High Country’s Steve Judd, "to enter my house justified." The validity of this systematic method is clearly demonstrated in the chapter devoted to The Wild Bunch. By enumerat...
Fast, Cheap & Under Control: Lessons Learned from the Greatest Low-Budget Movies of All Time
Dying to make a feature? Learn from the pros! "We never put out an actual textbook for the Corman School of Filmmaking, but if we did, it would be Fast, Cheap and Under Control." Roger Corman, Producer ★★★★★ It’s like taking a Master Class in moviemaking…all in one book! Jonathan Demme: The value of cameos John Sayles: Writing to your resources Peter Bogdanovich: Long, continuous takes John Cassavetes: Re-Shoots Steven Soderbergh: Rehearsals George Romero: Casting Kevin Smith: Skipping film school Jon Favreau: Creating an emotional connection Richard Linklater: Poverty breeds creativity David Lynch: Kill your darlings Ron Howard: Pre-production planning John Carpenter: Going lo...
Frames of Evil
Challenging the classic horror frame in American film American filmmakers appropriate the “look” of horror in Holocaust films and often use Nazis and Holocaust imagery to explain evil in the world, say authors Caroline Joan (Kay) S. Picart and David A. Frank. In Frames of Evil: The Holocaust as Horror in American Film, Picart and Frank challenge this classic horror frame—the narrative and visual borders used to demarcate monsters and the monstrous. After examining the way in which directors and producers of the most influential American Holocaust movies default to this Gothic frame, they propose that multiple frames are needed to account for evil and genocide. Using Schindler’s List,...
Dreams Within a Dream
"What we see, and what we seem, are but a dream, a dream within a dream." Michael Bliss views Miranda's voice-over at the beginning of Picnic at Hanging Rock as so pivotal in explaining the films of Peter Weir that he borrows her words to create the title of his own study of the Australian filmmaker's work. Bliss views Weir as an artist whose values are rooted in the realm of the dream, of the unconscious. Surrealistic in technique, Weir avoids the pedestrian assurances of a material realm in favor of an irresolution that, while potentially frustrating, is nonetheless for him a more truthful representation of what he considers reality. For Weir, as for Plato, Bliss demonstrates, "empirical r...
The Roosevelts and the Royals
Advance Praise "Fascinating and well researched.... Dr. Swift is the first to concentrate on this unusual subject with such a wealth of sympathetic detail." –Sarah Bradford, author of America’s Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Elizabeth: A Biography of Britain’s Queen, and The Reluctant King: The Life and Reign of George VI, 1895—1952 "A splendid addition to our understanding of an extraordinary Anglo-American partnership. Both intimate and expansive, Will Swift’s vigorously researched book is timely, illuminating, and dramatic." –Blanche Wiesen Cook, author of Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 1: 1884-1933 and Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 2: The Defining Years, 1933-1938 "The Ang...
The Poetics of Crime
The Poetics of Crime provides an invitation to reconsider and reimagine how criminological knowledge may be creatively and poetically constructed, obtained, corroborated and applied. Departing from the conventional understanding of criminology as a discipline concerned with refined statistical analyses, survey methods and quantitative measurements, this book shows that criminology can - and indeed should - move beyond such confines to seek sources of insight, information and knowledge in the unexplored corners of poetically and creatively inspired approaches and methodologies. With chapters illustrating the ways in which criminologists and other researchers or practitioners working on crime-...
