In a Lonely Place - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In a Lonely Place write by Dorothy B. Hughes. This book was released on 2010-05-06. In a Lonely Place available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dix Steele is back in town, and 'town' is post-war LA. His best friend Brub is on the force of the LAPD, and as the two meet in country clubs and beach bars, they discuss the latest case: a strangler is preying on young women in the dark. Dix listens with interest as Brub describes their top suspect, as yet unnamed. Dix loves the dark and women in equal measure, so he knows enough to watch his step, though when he meets the luscious Laurel Gray, something begins to crack. The American Dream is showing its seamy underside.
In Lonely Places
In Lonely Places - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Lonely Places write by Imogen Sara Smith. This book was released on 2014-01-10. In Lonely Places available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although film noir is traditionally associated with the mean streets of the Dark City, this volume explores the genre from a new angle, focusing on non-urban settings. Through detailed readings of more than 100 films set in suburbs, small towns, on the road, in the desert, borderlands and the vast, empty West, the author investigates the alienation expressed by film noir, pinpointing its motivation in the conflict between desires for escape, autonomy and freedom--and fears of loneliness, exile and dissolution. Through such films as Out of the Past, They Live by Night and A Touch of Evil, this critical study examines how film noir reflected radical changes in the physical and social landscapes of postwar America, defining the genre's contribution to the eternal debate between the values of individualism and community.
In a Lonely Place
In a Lonely Place - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In a Lonely Place write by Karl Edward Wagner. This book was released on 1984. In a Lonely Place available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Movies About the Movies
Movies About the Movies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Movies About the Movies write by Christopher Ames. This book was released on 2021-11-21. Movies About the Movies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hundreds of Hollywood-on-Hollywood movies can be found throughout the history of American cinema, from the days of silents to the present. They include films from genres as far ranging as musical, film noir, melodrama, comedy, and action-adventure. Such movies seduce us with the promise of revealing the reality behind the camera. But, as part of the very industry they supposedly critique, they cannot take us behind the scenes in any true sense. Through close analysis of fifteen critically acclaimed films, Christopher Ames reveals how the idea of Hollywood is constructed and constructs itself. Films discussed: What Price Hollywood? (1952), A Star Is Born (1937), Stand-In (1937), Boy Meets Girl (1938), Sullivan's Travels (1941), In a Lonely Place (1950), Sunset Boulevard (1950), The Star (1950), Singin' in the Rain (1952), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), Pennies from Heaven (1981), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), The Player (1992), Last Action Hero (1993).
The Expendable Man
The Expendable Man - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Expendable Man write by Dorothy B. Hughes. This book was released on 2012-07-03. The Expendable Man available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged, would seem to have the world at his feet, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later? Dorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With The Expendable Man, first published in 1963, Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes.
