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The Casablanca Man
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Author : Dr James C Robertson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-13
The Casablanca Man written by Dr James C Robertson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-13 with Social Science categories.
Michael Curtiz (1888-1962) was without doubt one of the most important directors in film history, yet he has never been granted his deserved recognition and no full-scale work on him has previously been published. The Casablanca Man surveys Curtiz' unequalled mastery over a variety of genres which included biography, comedy, horror, melodrama, musicals, swashbucklers and westerns, and looks at his relationship with the Hollywood studio moguls on the basis of unprecedented archive research at Warner Brothers. Concentrating on Curtiz' best-known films - Casablanca, Angels With Dirty Faces, Mildred Pearce and Captain Blood among them - Robertson explores Curtiz' practical creative struggles and his friendships and rivalries with other film celebrities including Errol Flynn, Bette Davis and James Cagney, and his discovery of future stars. Casablanca Man is the first comprehensive critical exploration of Curtiz' entire career and, linking his European work and his subsequent American work into a coherent whole, Robertson firmly re-establishes Curtiz' true standing in the history of cinema.
The Casablanca Walk
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Author : Lester Probst
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2000-10-05
The Casablanca Walk written by Lester Probst and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-05 with Fiction categories.
Book Description: A Chinese intelligence officer assumes the role of a Russian agent, hoping his actions will iterrupt Russian-American relations. In New Jersey, the teenage daughter of an American diplomat is seen to be kidnapped. Her cousin and a mutual friend disappear. Connecting the events, authorities recognize the MO of an infamous Russian agent who had sworn never to operate in the United States. The MO used in the past was quite simple. The target was always a diplomat or member of the military. The target's child was taken, and a relative, and a third child known to the target. Following a precise timetable a relative of the target is mutilated—a finger or ear severed and delivered. On the next day, the friend is killed, the body left openly to be found. At that point the target is told to comply with the demand for the information requested, or the target's child will be killed. With one child tortured and the other murdered, no target had ever yet stood up to the kidnapper. In each case the children were always killed. A former CIA analyst, now transferred into the FBI's intelligence division in Washington, is assigned the case based on his prior experience in Europe. There he had faced this situation on three seperate occasions, and, knowing who was responsible, always lost the children. Now, the agent unknown, he must identify the perpetrator, break up the plan, and bring the children safely back home.
We Ll Always Have Casablanca The Legend And Afterlife Of Hollywood S Most Beloved Film
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Author : Noah Isenberg
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2017-02-14
We Ll Always Have Casablanca The Legend And Afterlife Of Hollywood S Most Beloved Film written by Noah Isenberg and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-14 with Performing Arts categories.
A Los Angeles Times bestseller A New York Times Book Review “Editor’s Choice” Selection “Even the die-hardest Casablanca fan will find in this delightful book new ways to love the movie they were certain they could never love more.” —Sam Wasson, best-selling author of Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. Casablanca is “not one movie,” Umberto Eco once quipped; “it is ‘movies.’” Film historian Noah Isenberg’s We’ll Always Have Casablanca offers a rich account of the film’s origins, the myths and realities behind its production, and the reasons it remains so revered today, over seventy-five years after its premiere.
Casablanca S Conscience
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Author : Robert Weldon Whalen
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2024-02-06
Casablanca S Conscience written by Robert Weldon Whalen and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-06 with Performing Arts categories.
A new look at a beloved classic film that explores the philosophical dynamics of Casablanca Celebrating its eightieth anniversary this year, Casablanca remains one of the world’s most enduringly favorite movies. It won three Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It is still commonly quoted: “We’ll always have Paris” and “Here’s looking at you, kid” And who can forget, “You must remember this...a kiss is just a kiss.” Yet no one expected much to come of this little film, certainly not its blockbuster stars or even the studio producing it. So how did this hastily cranked-out 1940s film, despite its many limitations, become one of the greatest films ever made? How is it that year after year, decade after decade, it continues to appear in the lists of the greatest movies ever produced? And why do audiences still weep when Rick and Ilsa part? The answer, according to Casablanca’s Conscience, is to paraphrase Rick, “It’s true.” Much has already been written about the film and the career-defining performances of Bogart and Bergman. Casablanca is an epic tale of love, betrayal, and sacrifice set against the backdrop of World War II. Yet decades later, it continues to capture the imagination of filmgoers. In Casablanca’s Conscience, author Robert Weldon Whalen explains why it still resonates so deeply. Applying a new lens to an old classic, Whalen focuses on the film’s timeless themes—Exile, Purgatory, Irony, Love, Resistance, and Memory. He then engages the fictional characters—Rick, Ilsa, and the others—against the philosophical and theological discourse of their real contemporaries, Hannah Arendt, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Albert Camus. The relationships between fictional and historical persons illuminate both the film’s era as well as perennial human concerns. Both the film and the work of the philosophers explore dimensions of the human experience, which, while extreme, are familiar to everyone. It’s the themes that resonate with the viewer, that have sustained it as an evergreen classic all these years.
The Many Cinemas Of Michael Curtiz
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Author : R. Barton Palmer
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2018-07-02
The Many Cinemas Of Michael Curtiz written by R. Barton Palmer and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-02 with Performing Arts categories.
Hollywood—Casablanca , Yankee Doodle Dandy , The Sea Hawk , White Christmas, and Mildred Pierce, to name only a few. The most prolific and consistently successful Hollywood generalist with an all-embracing interest in different forms of narrative and spectacle, Curtiz made around a hundred films in an astonishing range of genres: action, biopics, melodramas/film noir, musicals, and westerns. But his important contributions to the history of American film have been overlooked because his broadly varied oeuvre does not present the unified vision of filmmaking that canonical criticism demands for the category of “auteur.” Exploring his films and artistic practice from a variety of angles, including politics, gender, and genre, The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz sheds new light on this underappreciated cinematic genius. Leading film studies scholars offer fresh appraisals of many of Curtiz’s most popular films, while also paying attention to neglected releases of substantial historical interest, such as Noah’s Ark , Night and Day, Virginia City, Black Fury, Mystery of the Wax Museum, and Female. Because Curtiz worked for so long and in so many genres, this analysis of his work becomes more than an author study of a notable director. Instead, The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz effectively adds a major chapter to the history of Hollywood’s studio era, including its internationalism and the significant contributions of European émigrés.
The Ad Man
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Author : Timothy Dickinson
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2016-08-12
The Ad Man written by Timothy Dickinson and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-12 with Fiction categories.
Tim Collinwood is no international man of mystery. Hes an ordinary English advertising man living in the Middle East, working in an unfamiliar place, struggling with cultural challenges and personal foibles. Collinwood is intrigued when hes offered a marketing job that sounds exciting, and the reward for success is immense. His employers want him to create the public relations campaign of his life, to position Morocco as an economic powerhouse. The challenge attracts Collinwood, but as the story develops, he realizes failure is not an option. He falls in love, which distracts his focus and occupies his time. He is also plagued by corruption, cheating, lies, and deceit and has to battle his way through. His relationship with the prettiest of professional sex workers confuses his emotions and blurs his vision. Collinwood is a man up against friends who will stab him in the back and women who will do whatever they have to do. Old-fashioned values and morals are his only protection. Does he have what it takes to stay focused and succeed? Can he resist temptation to save himself and the woman he loves? Can he even stay alive?
Orbis Encyclopaedia Of Extra European Countries
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1938
Orbis Encyclopaedia Of Extra European Countries written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1938 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.
The Man Who Was George Smiley
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Author : Michael Jago
language : en
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Release Date : 2013-02-14
The Man Who Was George Smiley written by Michael Jago and has been published by Biteback Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Investigator, interrogator, intellectual hero: the perfect inspiration for the perfect spy. This first full-length biography traces the life of the remarkable and engaging John Bingham, the man behind John le Carré's George Smiley. The heir to an Irish barony and a spirited young journalist, John Bingham joined MI5 in 1940; his quiet intellect, wry wit and knack for observation made him a natural. He took part in many of MI5's greatest wartime missions - from the tracking of Nazi agents in Britain to Operation double cross that ensured the success of D-Day - and later spent three decades running agents in Britain against the Communist target. Among his colleagues his skills were legendary and he soon became a mentor to many a novice spy - including one David Cornwell, the later le Carré. Bingham, too, was an innovative writer who perfected the psychological thriller, marrying cold objectivity with an explanation of the darkest reaches of human behaviour. His early novels were applauded but, for all his success, Bingham struggled to match the fame of the man he had inspired. Drawing on Bingham's published and unpublished writings, as well as interviews with his family, Michael Jago skilfully tells the riveting yet poignant tale of the man who was George Smiley.
Conrad Veidt On Screen
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Author : John T. Soister
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-09-02
Conrad Veidt On Screen written by John T. Soister and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-02 with Performing Arts categories.
Conrad Veidt, a native of Berlin, began acting in small parts as an extra until called into service during World War I. After his discharge he began a theater career that subsequently led to films and more than one turn as a director. This work thoroughly details Veidt’s film career. It lists all movies that he was involved in and provides a synopsis, cast and crew, and reviews of each film. There are many photographs, a list of films that he is thought possibly to have been involved in, and an extensive bibliography.
The Hidden Scroll
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Author : Avraham Anouchi
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2009-11-05
The Hidden Scroll written by Avraham Anouchi and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-05 with History categories.
Visit the authorss website at WWW.ANOUCHI.ORG The Hidden Scroll is an historical novel spanning from 1930 to 2015 on an archaeology professor whose passion is the search for ancient parchments and artifacts from the time of the second Temple of Jerusalem and the Maccabeean revolt. He encounters obstacles by a radical Islamist organization dedicated to undermine the Jewish claim to the land of Israel obstacles that include murders, kidnappings, spies, suicide bombers and forged parchments in Rome, Paris, Oran, Buenos Aires, Dusseldorf, Istanbul and archaeological excavations in Israel. The search yields ancient parchments in Israel, Brazil, Tibet and Mount Sinai. It ends with two most unexpected and dramatic discoveries in a new excavation site in Israel. REVIEWS: This spell binding mystery is rooted in biblical archeology, an expertise of the author. He makes the subject come to life, this reader found to be inspiring. Take The Hidden Scroll on your next airplane trip. It is a guarantee against boredom, even if the plane fails to arrive on time. Professor Joseph W. Eaton, GSPIA, University of Pittsburgh. Avraham Anouchi offers us a mystery that joins together history and archaeology against the background of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The story is vivid in its descriptions and characterizations. Professor Alex Orbach, Director of Jewish Studies, University of Pittsburgh. Visit the authorss website at WWW.ANOUCHI.ORG