The University Press Of Kentucky: 775 books
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The Evolution of Widescreen Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
When widescreen technology was introduced to filmmaking in 1953, it changed the visual framework and aesthetic qualities of cinema forever. Before widescreen, a director's vision for capturing beautiful landscapes or city skylines was limited by what could be included in the boxy confines of an Academy...
Dear Appalachia
Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction since 1878
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Much criticism has been directed at negative stereotypes of Appalachia perpetuated by movies, television shows, and news media. Books, on the other hand, often draw enthusiastic praise for their celebration of the simplicity and authenticity of the Appalachian region.
Dear Appalachia: Readers,...
Hollywood Presents Jules Verne
The Father of Science Fiction on Screen
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Even for those who have never read Jules Verne (1828--1905), the author's very name conjures visions of the submarine in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the epic race in Around the World in Eighty Days, the spacecraft in From the Earth to the Moon, and the daring descent in Journey to the Center...
Imaginative Conservatism
The Letters of Russell Kirk
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Russell Kirk (1918--1994) is renowned worldwide as one of the founders of postwar American conservatism. His 1953 masterpiece, The Conservative Mind, became the intellectual touchstone for a reinvigorated movement and began a sea change in the nation's attitudes toward traditionalism. A prolific author...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2007
Film noir is a classic genre characterized by visual elements such as tilted camera angles, skewed scene compositions, and an interplay between darkness and light. Common motifs include crime and punishment, the upheaval of traditional moral values, and a pessimistic stance on the meaning of life...
Mammoth Cave Curiosities
A Guide to Rockphobia, Dating, Saber-toothed Cats, and Other Subterranean Marvels
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Sir Elton John, blind fish, the original Twinkie, President Ronald Reagan's Secret Service detail, and mummies don't usually come up in the same conversation -- unless you're at Mammoth Cave National Park! Home to the earth's longest known cave system, this UNESCO World Heritage Site is one of the...
The USS Flier
Death and Survival on a World War II Submarine
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
The fate of the USS Flier is one of the most astonishing stories of the Second World War. On August 13, 1944, the submarine struck a mine and sank to the bottom of the Sulu Sea in less than one minute, leaving only fourteen of its crew of eighty-six hands alive. After enduring eighteen hours in the...
Barbara La Marr
The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful for Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Barbara La Marr's (1896--1926) publicist once confessed: "There was no reason to lie about Barbara La Marr. Everything she said, everything she did was colored with news-value." When La Marr was sixteen, her older half-sister and a male companion reportedly kidnapped her, causing a sensation...
by Robert Arnett, R. Barton Palmer, Steven Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Known for restoring vitality and superior craftsmanship to the crime thriller, American filmmaker Michael Mann has long been regarded as a talented triple threat capable of moving effortlessly between television and feature films as a writer, director, and executive producer. His unique visual sense...
Hell in the Holy Land
World War I in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
In the modern popular imagination, the British Army's campaign in the Middle East during World War I is considered somehow less brutal than the fighting on European battlefields. A romantic view of this conflict has been further encouraged by such films as Lawrence of Arabia and The Light Horsemen....
Michael Curtiz
A Life in Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Academy Award--winning director Michael Curtiz (1886--1962) -- whose best-known films include Casablanca (1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Mildred Pierce (1945) and White Christmas (1954) -- was in many ways the anti-auteur. During his unprecedented twenty-seven year tenure at Warner Bros., he...
An Unseen Light
Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
During the second half of the nineteenth century, Memphis, Tennessee, had the largest metropolitan population of African Americans in the Mid-South region and served as a political hub for civic organizations and grassroots movements. On April 4, 1968, the city found itself at the epicenter of the...
River of Hope
Black Politics and the Memphis Freedom Movement, 1865--1954
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
One of the largest southern cities and a hub for the cotton industry, Memphis, Tennessee, was at the forefront of black political empowerment during the Jim Crow era. Compared to other cities in the South, Memphis had an unusually large number of African American voters. Black Memphians sought reform...
Real or Fake
Studies in Authentication
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
Will the rare autographed baseball your great-uncle gave you put your children through college? Is your grandmother's chest of drawers really a seventeenth-century antique, or merely a reproduction? A leader in forgery detection and forensic investigation, Joe Nickell reveals his secrets to detecting...