Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama
Author | : E. Cobham Brewer |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 2019-09-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3734093228 |
Reproduction of the original: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama by E. Cobham Brewer
The Poets and Poetry of Europe
Author | : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 816 |
Release | : 1847 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : |
Hollywood Highbrow
Author | : Shyon Baumann |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2018-06-05 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0691187282 |
Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art.
Crossword Solver
Author | : Anne Stibbs |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Pub Limited |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Games |
ISBN | : 9780747550754 |
An aid to solving crosswords. It contains over 100,000 potential solutions, including plurals, comparative and superlative adjectives, and inflections of verbs. The list extends to first names, place names and technical terms, euphemisms and compound expressions, as well as abbreviations.
Sisters, Super-Creeps and Slushy, Gushy Love Songs
Author | : Karen McCombie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Ally (Fictitious character : McCombie) |
ISBN | : 9781407117867 |
Ally knows her super-efficient big sis Linn finds their chaotic family a bit ... exasperating. But when Linn falls for Q, the tearaway lead singer in a local band, all her sensible ways go out of the window. Everyone else can see that Q's a creep, but does Ally have the courage to burst Linn's heart-shaped bubble?
The Falconer
Author | : Elizabeth May |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2014-05-06 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1452130078 |
Edinburgh, 1844. Beautiful Aileana Kameron only looks the part of an aristocratic young lady. In fact, she's spent the year since her mother died developing her ability to sense the presence of Sithichean, a faery race bent on slaughtering humans. She has a secret mission: to destroy the faery who murdered her mother. But when she learns she's a Falconer, the last in a line of female warriors and the sole hope of preventing a powerful faery population from massacring all of humanity, her quest for revenge gets a whole lot more complicated. The first volume of a trilogy from an exciting new voice in young adult fantasy, this electrifying thriller blends romance and action with steampunk technology and Scottish lore in a deliciously addictive read.