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Floral Depravity

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Author : Beverly Allen
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2015-10-06

Floral Depravity written by Beverly Allen and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-06 with Fiction categories.

In the latest Bridal Bouquet Shop mystery, florist Audrey Bloom creates an arrangement for a one-of-a-kind wedding, but ends up pruning a one-of-a-kind criminal… As the co-owner of the Rose in Bloom Flower Shop, Audrey knows how to put together unique wedding bouquets, but this one takes the cake. The daughter of a local historian is getting married in a medieval-themed, hand-fasting ceremony, and Audrey is responsible for providing period-accurate blooms. But making sure she gets her roses right turns out to be the least of Audrey’s problems. Shortly after the vows are exchanged, the father of the groom suddenly drops dead. When Audrey discovers the man’s death stems from monkshood poisoning, it’s a clear-cut case of murder. Now, faced with a suspect list that rivals the guest list, Audrey needs to root out the toxic killer…

Cinema By Design

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Author : Lucy Fischer
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2017-03-14

Cinema By Design written by Lucy Fischer and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-14 with Performing Arts categories.

Art Nouveau thrived from the late 1890s through the First World War. The international design movement reveled in curvilinear forms and both playful and macabre visions and had a deep impact on cinematic art direction, costuming, gender representation, genre, and theme. Though historians have long dismissed Art Nouveau as a decadent cultural mode, its tremendous afterlife in cinema proves otherwise. In Cinema by Design, Lucy Fischer traces Art Nouveau's long history in films from various decades and global locales, appreciating the movement's enduring avant-garde aesthetics and dynamic ideology. Fischer begins with the portrayal of women and nature in the magical "trick films" of the Spanish director Segundo de Chomón; the elite dress and décor design choices in Cecil B. DeMille's The Affairs of Anatol (1921); and the mise-en-scène of fantasy in Raoul Walsh's The Thief of Bagdad (1924). Reading Salome (1923), Fischer shows how the cinema offered an engaging frame for adapting the risqué works of Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley. Moving to the modern era, Fischer focuses on a series of dramatic films, including Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger (1975), that make creative use of the architecture of Antoni Gaudí; and several European works of horror—The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), Deep Red (1975), and The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (2013)—in which Art Nouveau architecture and narrative supply unique resonances in scenes of terror. In later chapters, she examines films like Klimt (2006) that portray the style in relation to the art world and ends by discussing the Art Nouveau revival in 1960s cinema. Fischer's analysis brings into focus the partnership between Art Nouveau's fascination with the illogical and the unconventional and filmmakers' desire to upend viewers' perception of the world. Her work explains why an art movement embedded in modernist sensibilities can flourish in contemporary film through its visions of nature, gender, sexuality, and the exotic.

Opera And Modern Culture

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Author : Lawrence Kramer
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2004-11-01

Opera And Modern Culture written by Lawrence Kramer and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-01 with Music categories.

In this enlightening and entertaining book, one of the most original and sophisticated musicologists writing today turns his attention to music's most dramatic genre. Extending his ongoing project of clarifying music's various roles in Western society, Kramer brings to opera his distinctive and pioneering blend of historical concreteness and theoretical awareness. Opera is legendary for going to extremes, a tendency that has earned it a reputation for unreality. Opera and Modern Culture shows the reverse to be true. Kramer argues that for the past two centuries the preoccupation of a group of famous operas with the limits of supremacy and debasement helped to define a normality that seems the very opposite of the operatic. Exemplified in a series of beloved examples, a certain idea of opera—a fiction of opera—has contributed in key ways to the modern era's characterizations of desire, identity, and social order. Opera and Modern Culture exposes this process at work in operas by Richard Wagner, who put modernity on the agenda in ways no one after him could ignore, and by the young Richard Strauss. The book continues the initiative of much recent writing in treating opera as a multimedia rather than a primarily musical form. From Lohengrin and The Ring of the Niebelung to Salome and Elektra, it traces the rich interplay of operatic visions and voices and their contexts in the birth pangs of modern life.

For Whom The Bluebell Tolls

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Author : Beverly Allen
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2015-01-06

For Whom The Bluebell Tolls written by Beverly Allen and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-06 with Fiction categories.

Deadly thorns lurk among the roses in this Bridal Bouquet Shop Mystery Florist Audrey Bloom, co-owner of the Rose in Bloom, creates fragrant bouquets for brides. But when a wedding goes fatally wrong, it’s up to Audrey to sniff out a killer . . . Everything is coming up roses for Audrey when her dazzling creations are picked to be featured on a wedding reality show. The hot series is filming an episode about a bride who’s bonkers for bells, and Audrey’s bouquets of campanulas, calla lilies, and Bells-of-Ireland are perfect for the bridal theme. But Audrey’s debut quickly becomes a hothouse of trouble. Her ex, Brad, shows up as a crew member on the show, threatening her blossoming relationship with Nick the baker. To make matters worse, when one of the show’s hosts is found dead in the bell tower of a historic church, all the evidence points toward Brad. Now Audrey needs to weed out the real killer before someone else’s chance at stardom is permanently nipped in the bud . . .

Hotel Theory

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Author : Wayne Koestenbaum
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2016-02-01

Hotel Theory written by Wayne Koestenbaum and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-01 with Fiction categories.

Hotel Theory is two books in one: a meditation on the meaning of hotels, and a dime novel (Hotel Women) featuring Lana Turner and Liberace. Typical of Wayne Koestenbaum’s invigoratingly inventive style, the two books — one fiction, one nonfiction — run concurrently, in twin columns, and the articles “a,” “an,” and “the” never appear. The nonfiction ruminations on hotels are divided into eight dossiers, composed of short takes on the presence of hotels in the author’s dreams as well as in literature, film, and history. Guest stars include everyone from Oscar Wilde to Marilyn Monroe. Hotel Theory gives (divided) voice to an aesthetic of hyperaesthesia, of yearning. It is an oblique manifesto, the place where writing disappears. A new mode of theorizing — in fiction, in fragment, through quotation and palimpsest — arises in this dazzling work.

Death Of A Toy Soldier

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Author : Barbara Early
language : en
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
Release Date : 2016-10-11

Death Of A Toy Soldier written by Barbara Early and has been published by Crooked Lane Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-11 with Fiction categories.

Liz McCall grew up in a playful winter wonderland but it was never her dream to manage her father's vintage toyshop. However, after he sank his entire police pension into the business, someone needed to help him turn his dreams into reality—and keep him from sneaking off to patrol the not-so-mean streets of East Aurora, NY. The mood goes from nice to naughty when a nervous man, who was trying to have his antique toys appraised, is found in the shop with a lawn dart through his chest. Suddenly, Liz's business plan is plunged into deep freeze, while she and her father find themselves toying with a cold-blooded killer who's playing for keeps. Now, it looks like Christmas might be cancelled for the neighborhood kids if Liz can't wrap up the case in Barbara Early's delightful debut Death of a Toy Soldier.

Murder On The Toy Town Express

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Author : Barbara Early
language : en
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
Release Date : 2017-10-10

Murder On The Toy Town Express written by Barbara Early and has been published by Crooked Lane Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-10 with Fiction categories.

Liz McCall has come to love running her father’s vintage toyshop back home in East Aurora, NY, so when the Train and Toy Show comes to town, she’s all aboard for a fun toy-filled weekend. The only hitch is that her childhood bully Craig McFadden, now local business rival, has set up a booth next to hers. But the fun and games are over when Craig falls from the ceiling in a publicity stunt gone wrong. What was initially thought to be a fatal accident proves much more sinister. Pulled into the case by her feelings for both Ken, the police chief, and Jack, her high school sweetheart whose brother is one the prime suspects, Liz dives headfirst into the investigation. But as she digs deeper, she’s shocked to learn her father may have been the intended target. The trouble train is barreling down and Liz may have just bought herself a first class ticket in Murder on the Toy Town Express, Barbara Early’s delightful second installment in her Vintage Toyshop mysteries.

The Arcades Project

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Author : Walter Benjamin
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1999

The Arcades Project written by Walter Benjamin and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.

Focusing on the arcades of 19th-century Paris--glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism--Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources. 46 illustrations.

A Dictionary Of The English And Singhalese And Singhalese And English Languages Sinhalese English

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Author : Benjamin Clough
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1830

A Dictionary Of The English And Singhalese And Singhalese And English Languages Sinhalese English written by Benjamin Clough and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1830 with English language categories.

Success With Flowers A Floral Magazine

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894

Success With Flowers A Floral Magazine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Floriculture categories.