Shooting Stars of the Small Screen - 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 Shooting Stars of the Small Screen write by Douglas Brode. This book was released on 2010-01-01. Shooting Stars of the Small Screen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the beginning of television, Westerns have been playing on the small screen. From the mid-1950s until the early 1960s, they were one of TV's most popular genres, with millions of viewers tuning in to such popular shows as Rawhide, Gunsmoke, and Disney's Davy Crockett. Though the cultural revolution of the later 1960s contributed to the demise of traditional Western programs, the Western never actually disappeared from TV. Instead, it took on new forms, such as the highly popular Lonesome Dove and Deadwood, while exploring the lives of characters who never before had a starring role, including anti-heroes, mountain men, farmers, Native and African Americans, Latinos, and women. Shooting Stars of the Small Screen is a comprehensive encyclopedia of more than 450 actors who received star billing or played a recurring character role in a TV Western series or a made-for-TV Western movie or miniseries from the late 1940s up to 2008. Douglas Brode covers the highlights of each actor's career, including Western movie work, if significant, to give a full sense of the actor's screen persona(s). Within the entries are discussions of scores of popular Western TV shows that explore how these programs both reflected and impacted the social world in which they aired. Brode opens the encyclopedia with a fascinating history of the TV Western that traces its roots in B Western movies, while also showing how TV Westerns developed their own unique storytelling conventions.
Posh
Posh - 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 Posh write by Laura Wade. This book was released on 2024-02-22. Posh available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In an oak-panelled room in a rural Oxford gastropub, ten young undergraduates with cut-glass vowels and deep pockets are meeting, intent on restoring their right to rule - and on getting totally "chatueaued". Members of The Riot Club, an elite student dining society, the fraternity starts to fray when they discover they're a guinea-fowl short and the prostitute they've hired is suddenly banished. An apparent spoof on Oxford's notorious Bullingdon Club, whose past members include Boris Johnson, George Osborne and David Cameron, Posh is a satirical play about power, politics and privilege, and how these elements interact within British institutions. The play is published here as a Methuen Drama Student Edition with commentary and notes by Henry Bell. Posh premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2010 and two years later opened in the West End. It was nominated for Best New Play at both the Evening Standard Awards and for the Theatregoers' Choice Awards. It was subsequently made into a film called The Riot Club (2014), starring Sam Claflin, Max Irons and Douglas Booth.
American Cinema/American Culture
American Cinema/American Culture - 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 American Cinema/American Culture write by John Belton. This book was released on 2012-04-01. American Cinema/American Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. American Cinema/American Culture looks at the interplay between American cinema and mass culture from the 1890s to 2011. It begins with an examination of the basic narrative and stylistic features of classical Hollywood cinema. It then studies the genres of silent melodrama, the musical, American comedy, the war/combat film, film noir, the western, and the horror and science fiction film, investigating the way in which movies shape and are shaped by the larger cultural concerns of the nation as a whole. The book concludes with a discussion of post World War II Hollywood, giving separate chapter coverage to the effects of the Cold War, 3D, television, the counterculture of the 1960s, directors from the film school generation, and the cultural concerns of Hollywood from the 1970s through 2011. Ideal for Introduction to American Cinema courses, American Film History courses, and Introductory Film Appreciation courses, this text provides a cultural overview of the phenomenon of the American movie-going experience. An updated study guide is also available for American Cinema/American Culture. Written by Ed Sikov, this guide introduces each topic with an explanatory overview written in more informal language, suggests screenings and readings, and offers self-tests.
Acting for America
Acting for America - 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 Acting for America write by Robert T. Eberwein. This book was released on 2010. Acting for America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book focuses on the way various film icons engaged in and defined some major issues of cultural and social concern to America during the 1980s.
Assistant Town Engineer
Assistant Town Engineer - 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 Assistant Town Engineer write by National Learning Corporation. This book was released on 2014. Assistant Town Engineer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Assistant Town Engineer Passbook(R) prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but not limited to: principles and practices of civil engineering; engineering specifications and estimates; methods and materials of construction; construction and maintenance of streets, sewers, water lines, and related structures; contracts and contact administration; and more.
