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Britannia Mews

Author: Margery Sharp
Publsiher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2016-04-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504034244
Rating: 4.4/5 (44 downloads)

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A passionate heroine defies the English class system in this novel set in 1875 London—perfect for lovers of Edith Wharton and Downton Abbey. Around the corner from the elegant townhouses on Albion Place is Britannia Mews, a squalid neighborhood where servants and coachmen live. In 1875, it’s no place for a young girl of fine breeding, but independent-minded Adelaide Culver is fascinated by what goes on there. Years later, Adelaide shocks her family when she falls in love with an impoverished artist and moves into the mews. But violence shatters Adelaide’s dreams. In a dangerous new world, she must fend for herself—until she meets a charismatic stranger and her life takes a turn she never expected. A novel about social manners and mores reminiscent of Edith Wharton, this story of love, family, and the price one must pay for throwing off the shackles of convention is also a witty and incisive dissection of the “upstairs, downstairs” English class system of the last two centuries.

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Britannia Mews

Author: Margery Sharp
Publsiher: Gems
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2012-01-26T00:00:00+01:00
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8896919339
Rating: 4.9/5 (39 downloads)

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Londra, 1875. Adelaide Culver è una ragazza di buona famiglia, poco incline ad accettare le convenzioni sociali. Londra, 1875. Adelaide Culver, ragazzina di buona famiglia, poco incline ad accettare le convenzioni sociali con le loro regole e il loro vuoto, si innamora del maestro di disegno e, contro il parere della famiglia, lo sposa. Presto il marito si rivela essere un alcolizzato: Adelaide passa dall'innamoramento e la convinzione di aver sposato un vero artista alla delusione più profonda. L'orgoglio fa sì che i contatti con la famiglia siano nulli. I due vivono a Britannia Mews, un vero slum londinese. Passano alcuni anni, il marito muore, Adelaide sta per tornare a casa, quando viene colta da una sorta di iUuminazione: in quanto figlia che ha mancato alle aspettative familiari dovrebbe sottostare a schemi non più suoi, a un'eterna infilata di noioisissimi pranzi e cene fingendo eterna gratitudine per essere stata riammessa in casa. Insomma, un'esistenza triste e squallida. "Britannia Mews" segue le sorti di questo sfaccettato personaggio femminile con grazia e ironia, mostrando le idiosincrasie e le ipocrisie di un certo tipo di classe sociale, le convenzioni che diventano convinzioni che diventano strade obbligate da seguire perché si è sempre fatto così.

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Gaslight Melodrama

Author: Guy Barefoot
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2016-10-06
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1474290361
Rating: 4.0/5 (61 downloads)

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In 1945, a year when American crime films were apparently moving out on to the streets of contemporary Los Angeles and New York, one reviewer noted the emergence of a 'cycle of mystery and horror pictures placed in the gaslight era of the turn of the century.' For another critic, it seemed that for Hollywood there was 'no world of today save the world of London by gaslight'. In Gaslight Melodrama, Guy Barefoot examines the films that gave rise to such comments, and the pattern of discourse that gave rise to such films. The book's main focus is provided by 1940s Hollywood melodramas such as Gaslight, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Hangover Square. It also discusses a related cycle of British films that located murder and melodrama in Victorian or Edwardian settings, and then looks beyond cinema to the Gothic novels of the 18th century, 19th century discussions of gas lighting in street, home and theatre, and ambivalent 20th century responses to the Victorian era. Combining close analysis of particular film texts with attention to cinema's cultural context, Gaslight Melodrama provides an exploration of the ways in which the past has been the site of contested meaning, and an examination of the network of melodramatic narratives embedded within familiar and lesser-known examples of classical Hollywood cinema.

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Jean Negulesco

Author: Michelangelo Capua
Publsiher: McFarland
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2017-08-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476627525
Rating: 4.7/5 (25 downloads)

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Originally a successful painter from Romania, Jean Negulesco worked in Hollywood first as an art director, then as a second unit director. He was later hired as a director by various studios—mostly for ballet and musical shorts—before being assigned to a number of commercially successful films. During his 30–year career, he worked in several European countries yet it was in the U.S. he achieved his greatest success, with Warner Brothers and 20th Century Fox. Dubbed “The Prince of Melodrama” by critics, he directed films of all genres, working with stars like Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, Bette Davis, Richard Burton, Alec Guinness, Fred Astaire and many others. Negulesco was nominated for Best Director by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1948 for Johnny Belinda—now considered a classic, along with his The Mask of Dimitrios (1944), Humoresque (1946), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and Three Coins in the Fountain (1954). This book—the first on him since his 1984 autobiography—covers his extraordinary life and career, with extensive analyses of his films.

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Directors in British and Irish Cinema

Author: Robert Murphy
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 672
Release: 2019-07-25
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1838715339
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A guide to directors who have worked in the British and Irish film industries between 1895 and 2005. Each of its 980 entries on individuals directors gives a resume of the director's career, evaluates their achievements and provides a complete filmography. It is useful for those interested in film-making in Britain and Ireland.

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Dana Andrews

Author: James McKay
Publsiher: McFarland
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786456760
Rating: 4.6/5 (6 downloads)

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Dana Andrews, arguably the finest minimalist actor of his generation, as one critic commented, could convey more with one look than many actors could with a soliloquy. In a film career spanning nearly five decades, Andrews appeared in some of Hollywood’s most prestigious productions, including The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). His unique screen presence was shown at its best in such film noir classics as Laura (1944) and Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950). Beginning with an absorbing biographical chapter, this critical survey of Dana Andrews’ screen career features a complete filmography with synopses, reviews, behind-the-scenes anecdotes and insightful comments from Andrews and his coworkers. A chronological list of television, radio and theater credits is included.

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Die Neueren Sprachen

Author: Wilhelm Viëtor
Publsiher:
Total Pages: 708
Release: 1965
Genre: Languages, Modern
ISBN:
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Vols. 1-5 include a separately paged section "Phonetische Studien. Beiblatt."

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World Historical Fiction

Author: Lynda G. Adamson
Publsiher: Greenwood Publishing Group
Total Pages: 744
Release: 1999
Genre: Historical fiction
ISBN: 9781573560665
Rating: 4.3/5 (66 downloads)

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"Based on World historical guide by Daniel D. McGarry and Sarah Harriman White published 1973 by Scarecrow Press. This title annotates 'more than 6000 works ... Primary arrangement is by areas of the world, and then by time periods within each area.'" Booklist.

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British Film Editors

Author: Roy Perkins
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2019-07-25
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1838714820
Rating: 4.4/5 (2 downloads)

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First book on British feature-film editing.

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I Do and I Don't

Author: Jeanine Basinger
Publsiher: Vintage
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2013-01-29
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0307962229
Rating: 4.2/5 (29 downloads)

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From one of our leading film historians and interpreters: a brilliantly researched, irresistibly witty, delightfully illustrated examination of “the marriage movie”; what it is (or isn’t) and what it has to tell us about the movies—and ourselves. As long as there have been feature movies there have been marriage movies, and yet Hollywood has always been cautious about how to label them—perhaps because, unlike any other genre of film, the marriage movie resonates directly with the experience of almost every adult coming to see it. Here is “happily ever after”—except when things aren't happy, and when “ever after” is abruptly terminated by divorce, tragedy . . . or even murder. With her large-hearted understanding of how movies—and audiences—work, Jeanine Basinger traces the many ways Hollywood has tussled with this tricky subject, explicating the relationships of countless marriages from Blondie and Dagwood to the heartrending couple in the Iranian A Separation, from Tracy and Hepburn to Laurel and Hardy (a marriage if ever there was one) to Coach and his wife in Friday Night Lights. A treasure trove of insight and sympathy, illustrated with scores of wonderfully telling movie stills, posters, and ads.

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Wisconsin Library Bulletin

Author:
Publsiher:
Total Pages: 538
Release: 1945
Genre: Libraries
ISBN:
Rating: 4./5 ( downloads)

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AFI Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States

Author: American Film Institute
Publsiher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 1464
Release: 1999
Genre: Motion pictures
ISBN: 9780520215214
Rating: 4.0/5 (152 downloads)

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THE INDIAN LISTENER

Author: All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi
Publsiher: All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1947-05-07
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:
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The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service,Bombay ,started on 22 December, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in english, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it was published by All India Radio,New Delhi.In 1950,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later,The Indian listener became "Akashvani" in January 5, 1958. It was made a fortnightly again on July 1,1983. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes,who writes them,take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: The Indian Listener LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE,MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 07-05-1947 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Fortnightly NUMBER OF PAGES: 112 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. XII, No. 10 BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED(PAGE NOS): 36-99 ARTICLE: 1. Indo-Siamese Cultural Links 2. In Japan Today AUTHOR: 1. P. A. Rachathon 2. Amar Lahiri KEYWORDS: 1. Sanskrit, Pali, Buddhist, Indian words, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose 2. Hunger, Black market, Worker, Food politics, Middle class Document ID: INL-1947 (J-J) Vol-I (09)

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British Film Catalogue

Author: Denis Gifford
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1600
Release: 2016-04-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317740629
Rating: 4.0/5 (29 downloads)

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First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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The British Film Catalogue

Author: Denis Gifford
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1120
Release: 2018-10-24
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1317837029
Rating: 4.7/5 (29 downloads)

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First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Book-news Letter ...

Author: Book-of-the-Month Club
Publsiher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1945
Genre: Books
ISBN:
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Costume Design in the Movies

Author: Elizabeth Leese
Publsiher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2012-12-19
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0486134296
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Comprehensive, lavishly illustrated reference work provides biographical/career data for major designers (Adrian, Jean Louis, Edith Head, more). Updated to 1988, with over 400 new film credits. 177 illustrations. Index of 6,000 films.