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The Politics of the Musical Theatre Screen Adaptation
"From Show Boat (1936) to The Sound of Music (1965) and from Grease (1978) to Chicago (2002), many of the most beloved film musicals in Hollywood history originated as Broadway shows. And in the three years since the original publication of the chapters in this volume (as The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations, 2019) the phenomenon has persisted, with new adaptations such as Cats, In the Heights, Tick, Tick...Boom!, Dear Evan Hansen, and Spielberg's remake of West Side Story. Yet in general, the number of screen adaptations of Broadway musicals and operettas is far greater than the number that have met with success, especially both critical and commercial success (i.e., go...
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From the NSA Files
THE OBSESSION OF A POWERFUL SINISTER GROUP CALLED THE COUNSEL. A BRILLIANT PHYSICIST DISCOVERY. RELENTLESS SPECIAL OPERATIVES OF THE NSA CHASE MEMBERS OF THE COUNSEL FROM THIS WORLD TO THE UNKNOWN. A nonstop action thriller from the first page to the last page. You are taken on a roller-coaster technological ride that will keep you turning the pages. A brilliant physicist, Claude Morret, wanted to change the world. His drive to discover the unknown led him to accept a lead position with MCT with unlimited resources. MCT, or Molecular Conversion Technology, is secretively financed and controlled by a nefarious billionaire at the head of the Counsel. Special operatives of the NSA secretly infiltrated the Oregon laboratory to monitor the development of the technology. When MCT initiates the event, Claude initiates his plan to expose the Counsel. When Sarah Cooper is kidnapped, Luke and his team of special operatives track them to a world at war with opposing pirate factions. Luke and his team battle the savage pirates as they escape and go after the brutal leader of the Counsel.
The Wolfe Chronicles
Set in modern-day Quebec city, the story follows the fortunes of a certain James Wolfe, an 'actor' so dedicated to the portrayal of the last moments of his famous military and antecedent of the famous 1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham, that he is willing to incorporate into his shaky personality several of the General's better and lesser known faults and foibles, not excluding severe hypochondria and more than a touch of paranoia. His work is assisted by his fabulously patient and loyal wife Helene, as well as by the wildly innovative, opera-loving psychiatrist Dr. Gunnar Boll, who was actually the actor's esteemed dentist before losing certain indispensible digits in a tragic goose-hunting accident caused by his dog, Walid Jumblatt. The Wolfe Chronicles is part history and part humor with a sharp salute to the philosophy of the absurd; and while set in Quebec, its themes are easily recognizable as universal.
“The” Athenaeum
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Surf the Milky Way
Come ride along with Captain Max and the crew of the spaceship Planet Hopper, a ragtag group of two aliens, two mutant rabbits, and a half-android, as they fly on their mission to find and surf the best waves in the Milky Way. But this time an illegal mission past the Intergalactic Dividing Line becomes even more dangerous when they’re nearly pulverized by the Giant Beings of Perseus—a vicious race of aliens who pick up and hurl small moons and planets while playing their holy game of Planet Ball. Captain Max, the ravenous big-boned Blob, the twin dreadlocked rabbits Mike and Claude, and the mute half-android/half-man Vern narrowly escape—only to find themselves right in the middle of a brewing intergalactic war. Along the way they befriend some asteroid prospectors, a crew of passionate Terraformers, and at least one charismatic Ugov councilor as they try to help prevent a cataclysmic event that will change the Milky Way forever.
