Publisher: Good Press
Delve into the intriguing world of mystery with "By Advice of Counsel." Set in the 1920s, this collection of short stories offers a blend of suspense, culture, and human drama. A treat for mystery enthusiasts and short story aficionados. Each tale is masterfully crafted, ensuring readers remain on the edge of their seats.
Edna Ferber’s Hollywood reveals one of the most influential artistic relationships of the twentieth century—the four-decade partnership between historical novelist Edna Ferber and the Hollywood studios. Ferber was one of America’s most controversial popular historians, a writer whose uniquely feminist, multiracial view of the national past deliberately clashed with traditional narratives of white masculine power. Hollywood paid premium sums to adapt her novels, creating some of the most memorable films of the studio era—among them Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant. Her historical fiction resonated with Hollywood’s interest in prestigious historical filmmaking aimed principally, but not exclusively, at female audiences. In Edna Ferber’s Hollywood, J. E. Smyth explores the research, writing, marketing, reception, and production histories of Hollywood’s Ferber franchise. Smyth tracks Ferber’s working relationships with Samuel Goldwyn, Leland Hayward, George Stevens, and James Dean; her landmark contract negotiations with Warner Bros.; and the controversies surrounding Giant’s critique of Jim-Crow Texas. But Edna Ferber’s Hollywood is also the study of the historical vision of an American outsider—a woman, a Jew, a novelist with few literary pretensions, an unashamed middlebrow who challenged the prescribed boundaries among gender, race, history, and fiction. In a masterful film and literary history, Smyth explores how Ferber’s work helped shape Hollywood’s attitude toward the American past.Show book
Years before synchronized sound became the norm, projected moving images were shown to musical accompaniment, whether performed by a lone piano player or a hundred-piece orchestra. Today film music has become its own industry, indispensable to the marketability of movies around the world.Film Music: A Very Short Introduction is a compact, lucid, and thoroughly engaging overview written by one of the leading authorities on the subject. Kathryn Kalinak introduces listeners not only to important composers and musical styles but also to modern theoretical concepts about how and why film music works. Key collaborations between directors and composers come under scrutiny, as do the oft-neglected practices of the silent film era. She also explores differences between original film scores and compilation soundtracks that cull music from pre-existing sources.As Kalinak points out, film music can do many things, from establishing mood and setting to clarifying plot points and creating emotions that are only dimly realized in the images. This book illuminates the many ways it accomplishes those tasks and will have its listeners thinking a bit more deeply and critically the next time they sit in a darkened movie theater and music suddenly swells as the action unfolds onscreen.Show book
We have detective adventure today with Boston Blackie and The Adventures of Nero Wolfe. We'll also have comedy with Red Skeleton and Life with Luigi. Plus, The Hall of Fantasy and Fort Laramie. A Falcon Picture Group audio production.Show book
5 Christmas Songs Sheet Music for Cello & Piano Also Suitable for: Trombone, Bassoon 1. Jingle Bells 2. Silent Night 3. Oh How Joyfully, O How Blessedly 4. Joy To The World 5. Snow Falls Softly at Night Instrumentation: Instrumental Duets, Cello & Piano Type of Score: Full Score, Solo Parts Difficulty Level: Advanced/Professional Sheet Music for Cello & Piano, Arranged and Produced by Viktor DickShow book
The tale of the first woman tried for murder in the United States...and what she did for love.Hosted by: David Warner.Show book
The dreary aspects of Soviet housing and one family’s attempt to “exchange” its tiny Moscow apartment for a larger one. Adapted from a novella by the respected Russian writer Yuri Trifanov, as translated by playwright Michael Frayn.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Ian Abercrombie as Viktor’s FatherRosalind Ayres as LenaSharon Bamber as Aunt AhenyaJoyce Blair as Viktor’s MotherBarbara Bosson as LoraPeter A. Jacobs as Kalugin and FelixMartin Jarvis as ViktorZosukuma Kunene as AlikAnna Sophie Loewenberg as NatashkaVonetta McGee as TanyaMarian Mercer as Lena’s MotherRobin Nordli as Factory Director and Funeral OratorWilliam Palmieri as Snitkin and othersJohn Randolph as Viktor’s GrandfatherMelissa Smigley as Marina, and Girl Next DoorMalachi Throne as Lena’s FatherTranslated and adapted by Michael Frayn. Directed by Robert Robinson. Recorded before a live audience in Santa Monica, CA in April, 1992.Show book
