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Oscar Wilde in Quotation
3,100 Insults, Anecdotes and Aphorisms, Topically Arranged with Attributions
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
“He had that rarest of all things, common sense.” And in the case of Oscar Wilde he also had a gift for delivering this common sense in sometimes pithy but always memorable statements. One of the world’s most unforgettable authors, Oscar Wilde had a comment for any and every occasion, many of...
Femme Noir
Bad Girls of Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Though often thought of as primarily a male vehicle, the film noir offered some of the most complex female roles of any movies of the 1940s and 1950s. Stars such as Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Tierney and Joan Crawford produced some of their finest performances in noir movies, while such lesser known actresses...
The Sound of Silence
Conversations with 16 Film and Stage Personalities Who Bridged the Gap Between Silents and Talkies
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Marion Shilling began her career as a silent film ingenue for MGM and went on to play heroines in Westerns of the 1930s. Stage actress Esther Muir made the transition from Broadway to Hollywood just as talkies became popular. Hugh Allan was a leading man in the last years of the silents only to leave...
William Holden
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
William Holden was a Hollywood star whose career spanned four decades, more than 70 films and three Academy Award nominations. “Golden Holden” won an Oscar for his role in Stalag 17 and, after films like Sunset Blvd., he became one of Hollywood’s most powerful stars in the late 1950s. His personal...
Janet Leigh
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
For the first decade of her career Leigh appeared as the stereotypical “nice girl.” She was cast opposite some of the industry’s biggest names including Robert Mitchum in Holiday Affair, Stewart Granger in Scaramouche, James Stewart in The Naked Spur, and Charlton Heston in Touch of Evil. Alfred...
Going to Pieces
The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film, 1978-1986
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
John Carpenter’s Halloween, released on October 25, 1978, marked the beginning of the horror film’s most colorful, controversial, and successful offshoot—the slasher film. Loved by fans and reviled by critics for its iconic psychopaths, gory special effects, brainless teenagers in peril, and...
William Powell
The Life and Films
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Actor William Powell is perhaps best known for his roles as charming Nick in The Thin Man films and blustery Clarence Day in Life with Father. As diverse as those characters are, they don't begin to reveal the full scope of talent demonstrated by one of Hollywood's most intelligent leading men. Elegant,...
Jolly Della Pringle
Star of the Western Stage
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
The story of American repertory theatre actress Jolly Della Pringle (1870–1952) is an odyssey of travel, adventure, drama, romance and many changes in fortune. Pringle was a major star to the people in the gold fields, cow towns, logging camps, military forts and rural communities of the West and...
How He-Man Mastered the Universe
Toy to Television to the Big Screen
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Elaborate cinematic universes and sophisticated marketing tie-ins are commonplace in entertainment today. It’s easy to forget that the transmedia trend began in 1982 with a barbarian action figure. He-Man and the other characters in Mattel’s popular Masters of the Universe toy line quickly found...
Visions of the Future in Comics
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Across generations and genres, comics have imagined different views of the future, from unattainable utopias to worrisome dystopias. These presaging narratives can be read as reflections of their authors’ (and readers’) hopes, fears and beliefs about the present. This collection of new essays...
Winston Churchill, Myth and Reality
What He Actually Did and Said
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Winston Churchill, indispensable when liberty was in peril, died in 1965. Yet he is still accused of numerous sins, from alcoholism and racism to misogyny and warmongering. On the Internet, he simmers in a stew of imagined misdeeds—using poison gas, firebombing Dresden, causing the Bengal famine,...
Comedian of the Frontier
The Life of Actor/Manager Jack Langrishe, 1825-1895
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
In his day, theater actor and manager Jack Langrishe (1825–1895) was about as well known in the West as General Grant was in the East. Langrishe provided entertainment to prospectors, miners and their families in Colorado, Montana, South Dakota and Idaho. He followed the expanding frontier from...
by Tom Hofmann
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
At the conclusion of World War II, war crimes tribunals were carried out at Nuremberg, Germany. Justice was meted out for major war criminals, and Benjamin Ferencz was chief prosecutor for what the Associated Press said was the largest murder trial in history. This biography of the last living Nuremberg...
Captain America and the Struggle of the Superhero
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2009
For more than 60 years, Captain America was one of Marvel Comics’ flagship characters, representing truth, strength, liberty, and justice. The assassination of his alter ego, Steve Rogers, rocked the comic world, leaving numerous questions about his life and death. This book discusses topics including...