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Publisher
Vulcan Productions
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
During the 1960s the United Kingdom was the location for a vibrant social revolution. The post-war traditional jazz and folk revival movements sewed the seeds for a new kind of blues music, entirely influenced by the black blues of the USA. Mike Figgis' film mixes interviews with dozens of the key players of the British blues movement with new music from an all-star jam session at the famous Abbey Road studios.
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Bruce Springsteen might be the quintessential American rock musician but his songs have resonated with fans from all walks of life and from all over the world. This unique collection features reflections from a diverse array of writers who explain what Springsteen means to them and describe how they have been moved, shaped, and challenged by his music. Contributors to Long Walk Home include novelists like Richard Russo, rock critics like Greil Marcus...
4) Voltaire
Author
Series
Twayne's world authors volume TWAS 583 : France
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1980
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"This is the definitive report on Fragments, Binjamin Wilkomirski's invented "memoir" of a childhood spent in concentration camps, which created international turmoil." "In 1995 Fragments, a memoir by a Swiss musician named Binjamin Wilkomirski, was published in Germany. hailed by critics, who compared it with the masterpieces of Primo Levi and Anne Frank, the book received major prizes and was translated into nine languages. The English-language...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
She said, "I became a singer because I couldn't get work as an actress," but Barbra Streisand not only became both but revolutionized the two professions. Her music transformed the smooth, uninflected style of the Frank Sinatras and Ella Fitzgeralds into an engine of dramatic vocalism in which each song is like a miniature three-act play. And Streisand's films changed forever the ideal of how a movie star chooses roles, going from musicals to dramas...
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Vern, the self-styled 'outlaw film critic' is described by Hellboy director Guillermo Del Toro as "equal parts Hell's Angels and Pauline Kael... a national treasure!" Now Vern unleashes his magnum opus: an in-depth study of the world's only aikido instructor turned movie star/director/writer/blues guitarist/energy drink inventor, the ass-kicking auteur Steven Seagal. "A book that'll shake the very foundations of film criticism, break their wrists...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A critical evaluation of Philip Roth -- the first of its kind -- that takes on the man, the myth, and his work from the debut novel, "Goodbye, Columbus," which won the National Book Award, to his Pulitzer Prize-winning "American Pastoral," to his eternally inventive later works such as "Exit Ghost" and "Nemesis."
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The New York Times best-selling and reclusive Italian authora̮ddressing such subjects as her choice to remain anonymous, her literary inspirations, Italian politics and culture and the role of the writer in modern societyp̮resents a brilliant collection of occasional writings, interviews and letters.
14) Hamlet
Author
Language
English
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Description
Often credited with creating a popular movie audience for Shakespeare, Kenneth Branagh has wanted for many years to bring to the screen the complete, full-length version of Hamlet. His desire becomes a reality when this epic drama, featuring an all-star cast and produced and directed by Branagh, comes to theaters this fall. This tie-in book includes Branagh's Introduction and screenplay, a production diary, color stills, and more.
Author
Publisher
DelMonico Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Wild Things Are Happening emphasizes Maurice Sendak's relationship to the history of art and the influences of his art collecting on his images. It features previously unpublished sketches, story boards and paintings that emphasize Sendak's creative processes. Bringing together a broad diversity of perspectives on the award-winning artist, the book includes an extended essay by the renowned art historian Thomas Crow that traces the genesis and cultural...
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 517
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"An in-depth look at, and written in collaboration with, the man considered to be the most profound, and commercially successful director at work today--his work, including his latest blockbuster, the action-thriller/spy-fi Tenet ("Big, brashly beautiful, grandiosely enjoyable"--Variety); his influences, his vision, his enigmatic childhood past, and much more. With Nolan's never-before-seen photographs, storyboards, and scene sketches."--
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