[Pdf] A Face In The Crowd Download

A Face In The Crowd | Pdf e-Book Download Full

A Face in the Crowd | Download Pdf - ePub - Kindle - eBook

Read or download A Face in the Crowd by Stephen King,Stewart O'Nan file pdf in full 50 pages, and read latest Fiction ebooks related to A Face in the Crowd. Read A Face in the Crowd in eBooks format such as PDF, EPUB, Tuebl and Mobi, Sign up FREE today to Read online all books you wanted any time you want. Secure your book download with full speed for all books without Ads. Notes: Some of author may decided to remove their books anytime, therefore we cannot guarantee that all book is still available in the library!

A Face in the Crowd

By Stephen King,Stewart O'Nan

Book ID : 1476713340
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Pages : 50
Genre : Fiction
Reads : 821
eBook Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
File Pdf: a-face-in-the-crowd.pdf

Book Summary:

The writing team that delivered the bestselling Faithful, about the 2004 Red Sox championship season, takes readers to the ballpark again, and to a world beyond, in an eBook original to be published on August 21, 2012. Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front of the television with nothing better to do than waste his leftover evenings watching baseball. It’s Rays/Mariners, and David Price is breezing through the line-up. Suddenly, in a seat a few rows up beyond the batter, Evers sees the face of someone from decades past, someone who shouldn’t be at the ballgame, shouldn’t be on the planet. And so begins a parade of people from Evers’s past, all of them occupying that seat behind home plate. Until one day Dean Evers sees someone even eerier….

Related Books

The Crowd

By Gustave Le Bon

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : The Floating Press
Isbn : 1775416275
Pages : 273
Category : Psychology
Reads : 718
File Pdf: the-crowd.pdf

Book Summary:

The following work is devoted to an account of the characteristics of crowds. Organized crowds have always played an important part in the life of peoples, but this part has never been of such moment as at present. The substitution of the unconscious action of crowds for the conscious activity of individuals is one of the principal characteristics of the present age. Crowds, doubtless, are always unconscious, but this very unconsciousness is perhaps one of the secrets of their strength. In the natural world beings exclusively governed by instinct accomplish acts whose marvelous complexity astounds us. Reason is an attribute of humanity of too recent date and still too imperfect to reveal to us the laws of the unconscious, and still more to take its place. The part played by the unconscious in all our acts is immense, and that played by reason very small.

A Cuban in Mayberry

By Gustavo Pérez Firmat

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Isbn : 0292759258
Pages : 191
Category : Social Science
Reads : 989
File Pdf: a-cuban-in-mayberry.pdf

Book Summary:

Half a century after viewers first watched a father and son walking to the local fishing hole, whistling a simple, yet unforgettable, tune, The Andy Griffith Show remains one of the most popular sitcoms in the history of American television. Tens of millions of viewers have seen the show either in its original run, its ongoing reruns, on DVD, or on the internet. Websites devoted to the show abound, hundreds of fan clubs bring enthusiasts together, and a plethora of books and Mayberry-themed merchandise have celebrated all things Mayberry. A small cottage industry has even developed around the teachings of the show's episodes. But why does a sitcom from the 1960s set in the rural South still evoke such devotion in people today? In A Cuban in Mayberry, acclaimed author Gustavo Pérez Firmat revisits America's hometown to discover the source of its enduring appeal. He approaches the show from a unique perspective—that of an exile who has never experienced the rootedness that Andy and his fellow Mayberrians take for granted, as folks who have never strayed from home or lived among strangers. As Pérez Firmat weaves his personal recollections of exile from Cuba with an analysis of the show, he makes a convincing case that the intimacy between person and place depicted in TAGS is the secret of its lasting relevance, even as he reveals the surprising ways in which the series also reflects the racial, generational, and political turbulence of the 1960s.

To Walk Alone in the Crowd

By Antonio Muñoz Molina

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Isbn : 0374720282
Pages : 432
Category : Fiction
Reads : 351
File Pdf: to-walk-alone-in-the-crowd.pdf

Book Summary:

Winner of the 2020 Medici Prize for Foreign Novel From the award-winning author of the Man Booker Prize finalist Like a Fading Shadow, Antonio Muñoz Molina presents a flâneur-novel tracing the path of a nameless wanderer as he walks the length of Manhattan, and his mind. De Quincey, Baudelaire, Poe, Joyce, Benjamin, Melville, Lorca, Whitman . . . walkers and city dwellers all, collagists and chroniclers, picking the detritus of their eras off the filthy streets and assembling it into something new, shocking, and beautiful. In To Walk Alone in the Crowd, Antonio Muñoz Molina emulates these classic inspirations, following their peregrinations and telling their stories in a book that is part memoir, part novel, part chronicle of urban wandering. A skilled collagist himself, Muñoz Molina here assembles overheard conversations, subway ads, commercials blazing away on public screens, snatches from books hurriedly packed into bags or shoved under one’s arm, mundane anxieties, and the occasional true flash of insight—struggling to announce itself amid this barrage of data—into a poem of contemporary life: an invitation to let oneself be carried along by the sheer energy of the digital metropolis. A denunciation of the harsh noise of capitalism, of the conversion of everything into either merchandise or garbage (or both), To Walk Alone in the Crowd is also a celebration of the beauty and variety of our world, of the ecological and aesthetic gaze that can, even now, recycle waste into art, and provide an opportunity for rebirth.

You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know

By Heather Sellers

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : Penguin
Isbn : 1101444487
Pages : 368
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Reads : 177
File Pdf: you-don-t-look-like-anyone-i-know.pdf

Book Summary:

An unusual and uncommonly moving family memoir, with a twist that give new meaning to hindsight, insight, and forgiveness. Heather Sellers is face-blind-that is, she has prosopagnosia, a rare neurological condition that prevents her from reliably recognizing people's faces. Growing up, unaware of the reason for her perpetual confusion and anxiety, she took what cues she could from speech, hairstyle, and gait. But she sometimes kissed a stranger, thinking he was her boyfriend, or failed to recognize even her own father and mother. She feared she must be crazy. Yet it was her mother who nailed windows shut and covered them with blankets, made her daughter walk on her knees to spare the carpeting, had her practice secret words to use in the likely event of abduction. Her father went on weeklong "fishing trips" (aka benders), took in drifters, wore panty hose and bras under his regular clothes. Heather clung to a barely coherent story of a "normal" childhood in order to survive the one she had. That fairy tale unraveled two decades later when Heather took the man she would marry home to meet her parents and began to discover the truth about her family and about herself. As she came at last to trust her own perceptions, she learned the gift of perspective: that embracing the past as it is allows us to let it go. And she illuminated a deeper truth-that even in the most flawed circumstances, love may be seen and felt. Watch a Video

God Is in the Crowd

By Tal Keinan

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : Signal
Isbn : 0771048416
Pages : 240
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Reads : 502
File Pdf: god-is-in-the-crowd.pdf

Book Summary:

A bold proposal for discovering relevance in Judaism and ensuring its survival, from a pioneering social activist, business leader, and fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force. God Is in the Crowd is an original and provocative blueprint for Judaism in the twenty-first century. Presented through the lens of Tal Keinan's unusual personal story, it a sobering analysis of the threat to Jewish continuity. As the Jewish people has become concentrated in just two hubs--America and Israel--it has lost the subtle code of governance that endowed Judaism with dynamism and relevance in the age of Diaspora. This code, as Keinan explains, is derived from Francis Galton's "wisdom of crowds," in which a group's collective intelligence, memory, and even spirituality can be dramatically different from, and often stronger than, that of any individual member's. He argues that without this code, this ancient people--and the civilization that it spawned--will soon be extinct. Finally, Keinan puts forward a bold and original plan to rewrite the Jewish code, proposing a new model for Judaism and for community in general. Keinan was born to a secular Jewish family in Florida. His interest in Judaism was ignited by a Christian minister at his New England prep school and led him down the unlikely path to enlistment in the Israel Air Force. Using his own dramatic experiences as a backdrop, and applying lessons from his life as a business leader and social activist, Keinan takes the reader on a riveting adventure, weaving between past, present, and future, and fusing narrative with theory to demonstrate Judaism's value to humanity and chart its path into the future.

The Society of the Spectacle

By Guy Debord

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : Good Press
Isbn : N.a
Pages : 86
Category : Fiction
Reads : 976
File Pdf: the-society-of-the-spectacle.pdf

Book Summary:

The Society of the Spectacle is a work of philosophy by Guy Debord. In it the author expands on the concept of the Spectacle, coupled with presentations of Marxist critical theory.

Faithful

By Stewart O'Nan,Stephen King

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Isbn : 0743272447
Pages : 432
Category : Sports & Recreation
Reads : 822
File Pdf: faithful.pdf

Book Summary:

A fan's notes for the ages, Faithful grew from an email exchange last summer. Filled with the heady mix of exhilaration and frustration familiar to all Boston Red Sox fans, Stewart O'Nan fired off a note to fellow Sox fan, Stephen King, who responded with his thoughts on Pedro, Nomar, Manny, Mueller, and Theo. From the supposed Curse of the Bambino to f###in' Bucky Dent to the recent off-season battle for Alex Rodriguez, Sox fans have seen it all since 1918...except for that elusive World Championship. Baseball history has transformed these fans into a "nation" -- not to mention the most dedicated, knowledgeable fanbase on the planet. Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King, proud members of Red Sox Nation, will chronicle the 2004 baseball season from spring training to the last game of the season -- the important plays, the controversial managerial decisions, the significant front office moves, and the spectacular finish (whether heartbreaking or joyous). Attending games together, keeping a running diary of observations and arguments, and occasionally evoking great or tragic events in Red Sox history. King and O'Nan will cheer on their beloved team with the eternal hope that this just might be the year. If you don't have season ticket box seats right behind the firstbase dugout, you can't beat Faithful.

Innovating Women

By Vivek Wadhwa,Farai Chideya

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : Diversion Books
Isbn : 1626813833
Pages : 250
Category : Business & Economics
Reads : 664
File Pdf: innovating-women.pdf

Book Summary:

"[A]? ?solid contribution to the growing popular literature on the subject."—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY From one of Time Magazine's "Forty Most Influential Minds in Technology” comes an essential collection of candid, first-hand accounts of women in technology. Women in technology are on the rise in both power and numbers, and now it's more important than ever to not lose that momentum, to "lean in" and close the gender gap. Although they make up half of the population, only 14% of engineers in the United States are women. They take the seeds of technological advancement and build something life-changing, potentially life-saving. The future of technology depends on the full and active participation of women and men working together, and it is vital that women are both educated and encouraged to go into the tech sectors. Hailed by Foreign Policy Magazine as a “Top 100 Global Thinker,” professor, researcher, and entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa, alongside award-winning journalist Farai Chideya, set out to collect anecdotes and essays from global leaders, sharing how their experiences in innovative industries frame the future of entrepreneurship. With interviews and essays from hundreds of women in STEM fields, including Anousheh Ansari the first female private sector space explorer, former Google[X] VP and current CTO of the USA Megan Smith, Ory Okolloh of the Omidyar Network, venture capitalist Heidi Roizen and CEO of Nanobiosym Dr. Anita Goel, MD, PhD, Innovating Women offers perspectives on the challenges that women face, the strategies that they employ in the workplace, and how an organization can succeed or fail in its attempts to support the career advancement of women.

The Naked Crowd

By Jeffrey Rosen

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : Random House
Isbn : 1588363570
Pages : 272
Category : Political Science
Reads : 632
File Pdf: the-naked-crowd.pdf

Book Summary:

In The Naked Crowd, acclaimed author Jeffrey Rosen makes an impassioned argument about how to preserve freedom, privacy, and security in a post-9/11 world. How we use emerging technologies, he insists, will be crucial to the preservation of essential American ideals. In our zeal to catch terrorists and prevent future catastrophic events, we are going too far—largely because of irrational fears—and violating essential American freedoms. That’s the contention at the center of this persuasive new polemic by Jeffrey Rosen, legal affairs editor of The New Republic, which builds on his award-winning book The Unwanted Gaze. Through wide-ranging reportage and cultural analysis, Rosen argues that it is possible to strike an effective and reasonable balance between liberty and security. Traveling from England to Silicon Valley, he offers a penetrating account of why well-designed laws and technologies have not always been adopted. Drawing on a broad range of sources—from the psychology of fear to the latest Code Orange alerts and airport security technologies—he also explores the reasons that the public, the legislatures, the courts, and technologists have made feel-good choices that give us the illusion of safety without actually making us safer. He describes the dangers of implementing poorly thought out technologies that can make us less free while distracting our attention from responses to terrorism that might work. Rosen also considers the social and technological reasons that the risk-averse democracies of the West continue to demand ever-increasing levels of personal exposure in a search for an illusory and emotional feeling of security. In Web logs, chat rooms, and reality TV shows, an increasing number of citizens clutter the public sphere with private revelations best kept to themselves. The result is the peculiar ordeal of living in the Naked Crowd, in which few aspects of our lives are immune from public scrutiny. With vivid prose and persuasive analysis, The Naked Crowd is both an urgent warning about the choices we face in responding to legitimate fears of terror and a vision for a better future.

Adolf Hitler

By Nigel Blundell

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
Isbn : 1526702010
Pages : 128
Category : History
Reads : 328
File Pdf: adolf-hitler.pdf

Book Summary:

A rare, revealing, and chilling photographic history of Adolf Hitler—from mollycoddled child to vile propagandist to despotic madman. One of the most intriguing mysteries about the rise of history’s most despised dictator is just how utterly ordinary he once seemed. A chubby child, a mama’s boy, an idle student, a failed artist, self-pitying outcast, and just another face in the crowd. The early images of Adolf Hitler give no hint of the demonic spirit bent on global domination. Only later in his tortured life came the metamorphosis, and the mask fell away to reveal a monster. Adolf Hitler: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives traces this dramatic process in photographs—some iconic, some rare and intimate. And they are all revealing in their gradually subtle and disturbing transformation, demonstrating the mesmerizing power that Hitler wielded not only over the German public but also statesmen, industrialists, and the global media. Many culled from the author’s private collection, the photographs collected here provide unique insight into the mind of a megalomaniac and architect of the twentieth century’s most unfathomable atrocity.

Ask a Manager

By Alison Green

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Isbn : 0399181822
Pages : 304
Category : Business & Economics
Reads : 940
File Pdf: ask-a-manager.pdf

Book Summary:

From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

The Un-Americans

By Joseph Litvak

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : Duke University Press
Isbn : 0822390841
Pages : 304
Category : Literary Criticism
Reads : 307
File Pdf: the-un-americans.pdf

Book Summary:

In a bold rethinking of the Hollywood blacklist and McCarthyite America, Joseph Litvak reveals a political regime that did not end with the 1950s or even with the Cold War: a regime of compulsory sycophancy, in which the good citizen is an informer, ready to denounce anyone who will not play the part of the earnest, patriotic American. While many scholars have noted the anti-Semitism underlying the House Un-American Activities Committee’s (HUAC’s) anti-Communism, Litvak draws on the work of Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Alain Badiou, and Max Horkheimer to show how the committee conflated Jewishness with what he calls “comic cosmopolitanism,” an intolerably seductive happiness, centered in Hollywood and New York, in show business and intellectual circles. He maintains that HUAC took the comic irreverence of the “uncooperative” witnesses as a crime against an American identity based on self-repudiation and the willingness to “name names.” Litvak proposes that sycophancy was (and continues to be) the price exacted for assimilation into mainstream American culture, not just for Jews, but also for homosexuals, immigrants, and other groups deemed threatening to American rectitude. Litvak traces the outlines of comic cosmopolitanism in a series of performances in film and theater and before HUAC, performances by Jewish artists and intellectuals such as Zero Mostel, Judy Holliday, and Abraham Polonsky. At the same time, through an uncompromising analysis of work by informers including Jerome Robbins, Elia Kazan, and Budd Schulberg, he explains the triumph of a stoolpigeon culture that still thrives in the America of the early twenty-first century.

Bob's Song's about music, fun and life

By Big Bob Campbell

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : Lulu Press, Inc
Isbn : 1838276629
Pages : 484
Category : Music
Reads : 541
File Pdf: bob-s-song-s-about-music-fun-and-life.pdf

Book Summary:

131 original, amusing, heart-warming & uplifting songs for the reader to sing to themselves, to an audience or with a band: with links to on-line A Capello (voice only) recordings of each song. Subjects covered range from the punk music scene, playing instruments or dancing; songs about life with observational humour or daft sing-along’s; songs about positive thinking, wildlife or the weather; about family, friends or love; or drinking & partying. They are all written and performed by Big Bob Campbell: a prolific and gifted song writer who by the end of 2021 had written over 300 songs. His sense of humour, humanity and love shine through in his poetic lyrics. Very few of Bob’s songs have been influenced by other artists or genres. He is a master of words and his tunes come from the rhythms in his words or from simple melodies he creates through experimentation.

A Face in the Moon

By Mitchell Waldman

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : iUniverse
Isbn : 9781469741123
Pages : 528
Category : Fiction
Reads : 639
File Pdf: a-face-in-the-moon.pdf

Book Summary:

A FACE IN THE MOON is available through iUniverse, Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble.com, numerous other online book sites, and may be ordered through any bookstore. A FACE IN THE MOON is a look back at those lost days when colors seemed more vivid and when being in love seemed the only thing that mattered. The narrator, Jack Lohman, is an inexperienced twenty-two-year old, who was recently dumped by his first real girlfriend, and is soon to leave graduate school for who knows what. Enter Loni, a bright-eyed, free-spirited seventeen-year old who has had more than her share of experience -- she lost her virginity on her fourteenth birthday, has had more boyfriends and drugs than she cares to remember, as well as a mental breakdown that she's trying her best to forget. From the moment Jack meets Loni, his life begins to change. She teaches him how to laugh, and makes him feel, for perhaps the first time in his life, that he can be loved without judgment. Yet, ironically, it is Loni's harsh self-evaluation that paralyzes her at times, turning the carefree, uninhibited woman/child into a speechless, listless teenager who laments the days when life used to be more fun. She promises to tell Jack some day about her breakdown of the summer before but for now it's still too painful for her. Meanwhile, Jack loves her, but wonders if she'll ever fully let him into her life. A FACE IN THE MOON is a story about two young lovers struggling to find each other and their ways in the world. And when a series of events keeps them apart longer than expected, it becomes the story of whether their new love can survive the pressures of separation and emotional disturbance.

The 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen

By Richard Crouse

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : ECW Press
Isbn : 1554905400
Pages : 275
Category : Performing Arts
Reads : 700
File Pdf: the-100-best-movies-you-ve-never-seen.pdf

Book Summary:

Offbeat movie buffs, discerning video renters, and critical viewers will benefit from this roll call of the best overlooked films of the last 70 years. Richard Crouse, film critic and host of televisions award-winning Reel to Real, details his favorite films, from the sublime Monsoon Wedding to the ridiculous Eegah! The Name Written in Blood. Each movie is featured with a detailed description of plot, notable trivia tidbits, critical reviews, and interviews with actors and filmmakers. Featured interviews include Bill Wyman on a little-known Rolling Stones documentary, schlockmeister Lloyd Kaufman on the history of the Toxic Avenger, reclusive writer and director Hampton Fancher on his film The Minus Man, and B-movie hero Bruce Campbell on playing Elvis Presley in Bubba Ho-Tep. Sidebars feature quirky details, including legal disclaimers and memorable quotes.

Rhyme & Reason

By Dom

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : Dominae Primus
Isbn : N.a
Pages : 24
Category : Poetry
Reads : 583
File Pdf: rhyme-reason.pdf

Book Summary:

Rhyme and Reason; a Compilation of Verses, Rhymes and Senses. This is a free ebook that is downloadable from Project Gutenberg in different PC friendly formats. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5330

Reelpolitik II

By Beverly Merrill Kelley

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Isbn : 1461705398
Pages : 344
Category : Performing Arts
Reads : 486
File Pdf: reelpolitik-ii.pdf

Book Summary:

Reelpolitik II moves past typical left-right political distinctions to examine political ideologies cycling through U.S. history during the '50s and '60s. These eight Cold War movies especially equipped the moviegoer with a unique vantage point to scrutinize the arms race, the Red Scare, the Korean Conflict, and the Vietnam War. They also helped audiences to observe the way film functions as a purveyor of American mythology, a megaphone to shout political messages, a metaphorical route to the emotions, a flattering mirror, an unflattering microscope, and a magic carpet ride back to the future.

Videographic Cinema

By Jonathan Rozenkrantz

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Isbn : 1501362410
Pages : 232
Category : Performing Arts
Reads : 855
File Pdf: videographic-cinema.pdf

Book Summary:

In 1957, A Face in the Crowd incorporated live video images to warn about the future of broadcast TV. In 2015, Kung Fury was infused with analogue noise to evoke the nostalgic feeling of watching an old VHS tape. Between the two films, numerous ones would incorporate video images to imagine the implications of video practices. Drawing on media archaeology, Videographic Cinema shows how such images and imaginaries have emerged, changed and remained over time according to their shifting technical, historical and institutional conditions. Rediscovering forgotten films like Anti-Clock (1979) and reassessing ones like Lost Highway (1997), Jonathan Rozenkrantz charts neglected chapters of video history, including self-confrontation techniques in psychiatry, their complex relation with surveillance, and the invention/discovery of the videographic psyche by artists, therapists and filmmakers. Spanning six decades, Videographic Cinema discovers an epistemic shift from prospective imaginaries of surveillance and control conditioned on video as a medium for live transmission, to retrospective ones concerned with videotape as a recording memory. It ends by considering videographic filmmaking itself as a form of archaeology in the age of analogue obsolescence.

Liking Ike

By David Haven Blake

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Isbn : 019027820X
Pages : 256
Category : History
Reads : 336
File Pdf: liking-ike.pdf

Book Summary:

Liking Ike reveals the prominent role that celebrities and advertising agencies played in Dwight Eisenhower's presidency. Guided by Madison Avenue executives and television pioneers, Eisenhower cultivated famous supporters as a way of building the broad-based support that had eluded Republicans for twenty years. While we often think of John F. Kennedy and his Rat Pack entourage as the beginning of presidential glamour in the United States, celebrities from Ethel Merman and Irving Berlin to Jimmy Stewart and Helen Hayes regularly appeared in Eisenhower's campaigns. Ike's political career was so saturated with stardom that opponents from the right and left accused him of being a glamour candidate. Author David Haven Blake tells the story of how Madison Avenue executives strategically brought celebrities into the political process. Based on original interviews and long neglected archival materials, Liking Ike explores the changing dynamics of celebrity politics as Americans adjusted to the television age. By the 1920s, entertainers were routinely drawing publicity to their favorite candidates, but with the rise of television and mass advertising, political advisers began to professionalize the way that celebrities brought attention to presidential campaigns. In meetings, memos, and television scripts, they charted a strategy for leavening political programming with celebrity interviews, musical performances, and elaborate television spectaculars. Commentators worried about the seemingly superficial values that television had introduced to political campaigns, and writers, filmmakers, and fellow politicians criticized the influence of glamour and publicity. But despite these complaints, Eisenhower's legacy would live on in the subsequent careers of John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan-and, ultimately, provide a template for the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama, John McCain, Donald Trump, and Hillary Clinton.

My Father's Footprints

By Colin McEnroe

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Isbn : 0446566373
Pages : 208
Category : Social Science
Reads : 711
File Pdf: my-father-s-footprints.pdf

Book Summary:

Starting with the death of his father and chronicling backwards, the author examines their relationship in order to understand his dad, not just as a father, but as a man.

Psych Experiments

By Michael A Britt

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Isbn : 1440597081
Pages : 272
Category : Psychology
Reads : 447
File Pdf: psych-experiments.pdf

Book Summary:

Psychology's most famous theories--played out in real life! Forget the labs and lecture halls. You can conduct your very own psych experiments at home! Famous psychological experiments--from Freud's ego to the Skinner box--have changed the way science views human behavior. But how do these tests really work? In Psych Experiments, you'll learn how to test out these theories and experiments for yourself...no psychology degree required! Guided by Michael A. Britt, creator of popular podcast The Psych Files, you can conduct your own experiments when browsing your favorite websites (to test the "curiosity effect"), in restaurants (learning how to increase your tips), when presented with advertisements (you'd be surprised how much you're influenced by the color red), and even right on your smartphone (and why you panic when you can't find it). You'll even figure out how contagious yawning works! With this compulsively readable little book, you won't just read about the history of psychology--you'll live it!

Television at the Movies

By Jon Nelson Wagner,Tracy Biga MacLean

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Isbn : 1441179402
Pages : 240
Category : Performing Arts
Reads : 523
File Pdf: television-at-the-movies.pdf

Book Summary:

The overview of television criticism, which this book provides, comes appropriately at a moment of change. Television is becoming dramatically different as a result of new and developing technologies such as cable, HDTV, satellite transmission and broadband distributions. By concentrating on the still-dominant notion of television, what the authors call "Classical Network Television," they argue that it is as important to understand this model as it is to understand Classical Hollywood Cinema. The co-authors have a unique approach to the study of television, viewing its history and reception not only through important articles about the medium, but also through analyzing how Hollywood auteur cinema has commented on television over the decades, in films such as Tootsie, Network, The Last Picture Show, A Face in the Crowd, Rollerball, The King of Comedy and others. Not only does this reflect the pervasive use of cinema theory to discuss television, it also helps to emphasize the importance of clarifying the distinctions between the criticisms of the two media. Television at the Movies argues that the study of television is a crucial aspect of understanding our recent and contemporary culture, and it provides an illuminating point of entry for students and researchers in the field.

Labyrinth of Highways

By Huzaif Shahid

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : Notion Press
Isbn : 1636336272
Pages : 208
Category : Poetry
Reads : 762
File Pdf: la.pdf

Book Summary:

This poetry book takes you into the wilderness of my life. Many of the poems were written to be in songs and rap in the form of lyrics. It’s about the way I see and feel the nature and people around me. It speaks about my past relationship problems and battles I faced to overcome it and finding ways to move on, tuning into my fears and how I felt at that moment that I was alive in that corner of time and world, whatever it meant. It’s about the personal trauma and my paranoia that I was facing and how I turned them into a combination of words and rhymes. I write to free myself from everything that holds me back. It tells about the little details that my eyes and mind miss out sometimes about nature and the people I saw and met in my life. In this poetry book, moments are captured by using words to form a complete coloured photograph in the end. It also focuses on the ups and downs of life, which goes like a roller coaster taking me through highs and lows of life. Through this, I put out my anger and frustration with my ink. It shows the ebb and flow of life, how things are changing with time. It’s a bundle of past, present, and future. In the end, this poetry book will take you into the alleys of my life where I’m learning to fly.

Two Souls to the Wind

By Jack Sloan

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : FriesenPress
Isbn : 1525545876
Pages : 444
Category : Fiction
Reads : 408
File Pdf: two-souls-to-the-wind.pdf

Book Summary:

When working-class Jack meets beautiful, to the manor born, Stevie at a college mixer in the late 1950s, it’s love at first sight. But their class difference isn’t what prevents them from living happily ever after; Jack soon discovers that Stevie is an alcoholic. When she moves to Switzerland for treatment, heartbroken Jack goes to work for the rich and powerful Mr. von Teufel, aka “the devil,” who is used to getting what he wants by any means – even murder. As Jack travels the world from Pittsburgh to Venezuela to Europe, thoughts of Stevie never leave his mind. He is desperate to get her back, even when he must fight for his life against a boss who is more than meets the eye. Part love story, part international intrigue, and part occult thriller, Two Souls to the Wind takes on good and evil and the corruption of wealth while asking the question “Does love truly conquer all?”

Patricia Neal

By Stephen Michael Shearer

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Isbn : 0813180899
Pages : 520
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Reads : 684
File Pdf: patricia-neal.pdf

Book Summary:

Major Motion Picture Adaptation Coming Soon The internationally acclaimed actress Patricia Neal (1926--2010) was a star on stage, film, and television for more than sixty years. On Broadway she appeared in such lauded productions as Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest, winning the first Tony award. In Hollywood she starred opposite the likes of John Wayne, Paul Newman, John Garfield, and Gary Cooper in some thirty films. She is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Alma Brown in Hud, which earned her the 1963 Academy Award for Best Actress. But there was much more to Neal's life. She was born in Packard, Kentucky, though she spent most of her childhood in Knoxville, Tennessee. For a time, Neal became romantically involved with Gary Cooper, her married costar in The Fountainhead. In 1953, Neal wed famed children's author Roald Dahl, a match that would bring her five children and thirty years of dramatic ups and downs. At the pinnacle of her screen career, Neal suffered a series of strokes which left her in a coma for twenty-one days, and Variety even ran a headline erroneously stating that she had died. After a difficult recovery, Neal returned to film acting, earning a second Academy Award nomination for The Subject Was Roses (1968). She appeared in several television movie roles in the 1970s and 1980s and won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Dramatic TV Movie in 1971 for The Homecoming. Adapted as a major motion picture (filmed as An Unquiet Life) starring Hugh Bonneville, Keeley Hawes, and Sam Heughan, Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life is the first critical biography detailing the actress's impressive film career and remarkable personal life. Author Stephen Michael Shearer conducted numerous interviews with Neal, her professional colleagues, and her intimate friends and was given access to the actress's personal papers. The result is an honest and comprehensive portrait of an accomplished woman who lived her life with determination and bravado.

Teaching Stephen King

By A. Burger

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : Springer
Isbn : 1137483911
Pages : 211
Category : Education
Reads : 632
File Pdf: teaching-stephen-king.pdf

Book Summary:

Teaching Stephen King critically examines the works of Stephen King and several ways King can be incorporated into the high school and college classroom. The section on Variations on Horror Tropes includes chapters on the vampire, the werewolf, the undead monster, and the ghost. The section on Real Life Horror includes chapters on King's school shooting novella Rage, sexual violence, and coming of age narratives. Finally, the section on Playing with Publishing includes chapters on serial publishing and The Green Mile, e-books, and graphic novels.

Doing Criticism

By James Chandler

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Isbn : 1119800625
Pages : 320
Category : Literary Criticism
Reads : 116
File Pdf: doing-criticism.pdf

Book Summary:

Not only an accessible hands-on guide to writing criticism across the literary arts, the dramatic arts, and the narrative screen arts, but also a book that makes a case for how and why criticism matters today Doing Criticism: Across Literary and Screen Arts is a practical guide to engaging actively and productively with a critical object, whether a film, a novel, or a play. Going beyond the study of lyric poetry and literature to include motion picture and dramatic arts, this unique text provides specific advice on how to best write criticism while offering concrete illustrations of what it looks like on the page. Divided into two parts, the book first presents an up-to-date account of the state of criticism in both Anglo-American and Continental contexts—describing both the longstanding mission and the changing functions of criticism over the centuries and discussing critical issues that bridge the literary and screen arts in the contemporary world. The second part of the book features a variety of case studies of criticism across media, including works by canonical authors such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and W. B. Yeats; films such as Coppola’s The Conversation andHitchcock’s Vertigo; screen adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day; and a concluding chapter on several of Spike Lee’s film “joints” that brings several of the book’s central concepts to bear on work of a single film auteur. Helping students of literature and cinema write well about what they find in their reading and viewing, Doing Criticism: Across Literary and Screen Arts: Discusses how the bridging of the literary arts and screen arts can help criticism flourish in the present day Illustrates how the doing of criticism is in practice a particular kind of writing Considers how to generalize the consequences of criticism beyond personal growth and gratification Addresses the ways the practice of criticism matters to the practice of the critical object Suggests that doing without criticism is not only unwise, but also perhaps impossible Features case studies organized under the rubrics of conversation, adaptation, genre, authorship and seriality Doing Criticism: Across Literary and Screen Arts is an ideal text for students in introductory courses in criticism, literary studies, and film studies, as well as general readers with interest in the subject.

Homer Simpson Goes to Washington

By Joseph J. Foy

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Isbn : 081318326X
Pages : 260
Category : Social Science
Reads : 309
File Pdf: homer-simpson-goes-to-washington.pdf

Book Summary:

The modern landscape of American entertainment is filled with commentary on the state of the union. Viewers turn to The Daily Show instead of Fox or CNN, satirical films such as Wag the Dog, cartoons like The Simpsons, or controversial action dramas similar to 24 in order to learn more about current events in the United States. Popular culture is educating America more than the nightly news, aiding viewers in their quest to understand the American political system. In Homer Simpson Goes to Washington: American Politics through Popular Culture, Joseph J. Foy and other contributing scholars offer diverse political perspectives through the framework of popular culture. From the classic film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington to the cutting-edge television program Chappelle's Show, a wide spectrum of entertainment media is used to explain the complexities of U.S. politics and how audiences engage with them. Popular culture and politics have never been so intertwined in the American consciousness as they are today. As political knowledge becomes increasingly fragmented, Homer Simpson Goes to Washington explains how popular culture can actually help connect people to their government.

Politics, Hollywood Style

By John Heyrman

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : Lexington Books
Isbn : 1498551939
Pages : 186
Category : Political Science
Reads : 160
File Pdf: politics-hollywood-style.pdf

Book Summary:

This book analyzes major films about the American political process since the 1930s. It considers the films’ major themes about politics, ideology, and representation of race and gender over the past several decades.

Five Women I Love

By Paul E. Pepe

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Isbn : 9781477134559
Pages : 490
Category : Poetry
Reads : 549
File Pdf: five-women-i-love.pdf

Book Summary:

I HAVE BEEN WRITING POETRY FOR ALMOST SIXTY YEARS, FROM THE TIME I FIRST STARTED IN THE PUBLIC RELATIONS BUSINESS, RIGHT TO THE PRESENT. MUCH OF WHAT FOLLOWS IS VERY PERSONAL, BUT I WANTED TO SHARE IT ALL WITH YOU. MOST OF THE POEMS HAVE BEEN WRITTEN FOR MY FIVE LADIES, AND THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED TO THEM WHO HAVE HAD A HUGE IMPACT ON MY LIFE. I SEND THESE WITH LOVE AND GRATITUDE. PEP

The Flaneur (RLE Social Theory)

By Keith Tester

Format : Pdf, ePub, Mobi, Kindle
Publisher : Routledge
Isbn : 1317657276
Pages : 212
Category : Social Science
Reads : 270
File Pdf: the-flaneur.pdf

Book Summary:

Timely and original, this collection of essays from the leading figures in their fields throws new and valuable light on the significance and future of flânerie. The flâneur is usually identified as the ‘man of the crowd’ of Edgar Allen Poe and Charles Baudelaire, and as one of the heroes of Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project. The flâneur’s activities of strolling and loitering are mentioned increasingly frequently in sociology, cultural studies and art history, but rarely is the debate developed further. The Flâneur is the first book to develop the debate beyond Baudelaire and Benjamin, and to push it in unexpected and exciting directions.

Booktownusa.org

A Face In The Crowd | Pdf e-Book Download Full

A Face in the Crowd | Download Pdf - ePub - Kindle - eBook

Book Summary:

Similar Books For Reading

Faces in the Crowd

A Face In The Crowd

Some Faces in the Crowd

A Face in the Crowd

A Face in the Crowd

The Ambivalent Legacy of Elia Kazan

A Face in the Crowd

Related Books

Book Summary:

Book Summary:

Book Summary:

Book Summary:

Book Summary:

Book Summary:

Book Summary:

Book Summary:

Book Summary:

Book Summary:

Book Summary:

Book Summary:

Book Summary:

Book Summary:

Book Summary:

Book Summary:

Book Summary:

Book Summary:

Book Summary:

Book Summary:

Book Summary:

Book Summary:

Book Summary:

Book Summary:

Book Summary:

Book Summary:

Book Summary:

Book Summary:

Book Summary:

Book Summary:

Book Summary: