Author: Robert Morris Seiler
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 1926836995
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
In this authoritative work, Seiler and Seiler argues that the establishment and development of moviegoing and movie exhibition in Prairie Canada is best understood in the context of changing late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century social, economic, and technological developments. From the first entrepreneurs who attempted to lure customers in to movie exhibition halls, to the digital revolution and its impact on moviegoing, Reel Time highlights the pivotal role of amusement venues in shaping the leisure activities of working- and middle-class people across North America.
Reel Time
Author: Robert Morris Seiler
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 1926836995
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
In this authoritative work, Seiler and Seiler argues that the establishment and development of moviegoing and movie exhibition in Prairie Canada is best understood in the context of changing late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century social, economic, and technological developments. From the first entrepreneurs who attempted to lure customers in to movie exhibition halls, to the digital revolution and its impact on moviegoing, Reel Time highlights the pivotal role of amusement venues in shaping the leisure activities of working- and middle-class people across North America.
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 1926836995
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
In this authoritative work, Seiler and Seiler argues that the establishment and development of moviegoing and movie exhibition in Prairie Canada is best understood in the context of changing late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century social, economic, and technological developments. From the first entrepreneurs who attempted to lure customers in to movie exhibition halls, to the digital revolution and its impact on moviegoing, Reel Time highlights the pivotal role of amusement venues in shaping the leisure activities of working- and middle-class people across North America.
Death in Reel Time
Author: Brynn Bonner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451661894
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In this second Family History mystery, a professional genealogist realizes the family history she’s tracing may be repeating itself after her client’s son-in-law turns up dead. A killer makes his final cut. . . . If there’s one thing genealogists Sophreena McClure and Esme Sabatier have learned, it’s that every family has a black sheep— sometimes a whole flock of them. Their new client, Olivia Clement, is hoping to uncover the truth about her ne’er-do-well father, who disappeared before she was born. But Sophreena and Esme have barely begun delving into Olivia’s past when a present-day murder interrupts their schedule. Someone has decided to prune the Clement family tree by getting rid of Olivia’s domineering son-in-law, Blaine Branch. Even without Esme’s psychic gift, it was easy to sense the tension between Blaine and his put-upon wife, Beth. Suspicion quickly falls on a young filmmaker and family friend who’s creating a documentary about their small town. Yet Soph and Esme become convinced someone else wanted to edit Blaine out, permanently. Buried deep in dusty boxes of memorabilia and 1940s film reels are vital clues, but it will take all of Sophreena’s deductive skill to expose the truth—before another victim fades to black.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451661894
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In this second Family History mystery, a professional genealogist realizes the family history she’s tracing may be repeating itself after her client’s son-in-law turns up dead. A killer makes his final cut. . . . If there’s one thing genealogists Sophreena McClure and Esme Sabatier have learned, it’s that every family has a black sheep— sometimes a whole flock of them. Their new client, Olivia Clement, is hoping to uncover the truth about her ne’er-do-well father, who disappeared before she was born. But Sophreena and Esme have barely begun delving into Olivia’s past when a present-day murder interrupts their schedule. Someone has decided to prune the Clement family tree by getting rid of Olivia’s domineering son-in-law, Blaine Branch. Even without Esme’s psychic gift, it was easy to sense the tension between Blaine and his put-upon wife, Beth. Suspicion quickly falls on a young filmmaker and family friend who’s creating a documentary about their small town. Yet Soph and Esme become convinced someone else wanted to edit Blaine out, permanently. Buried deep in dusty boxes of memorabilia and 1940s film reels are vital clues, but it will take all of Sophreena’s deductive skill to expose the truth—before another victim fades to black.
Picture Them Dead
Author: Brynn Bonner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476776814
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
"Make no bones about it, genealogist Sophreena McClure and her psychic business partner Esme Sabatier have a lot of dirty work ahead of them. "The Forgotten man," a skeleton found inside of an unusual coffin in a nearby backyard, is creating a buzz around their small town. But it's the fresh corpse of a mysterious young woman that soon grabs everyone's attention ..."--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476776814
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
"Make no bones about it, genealogist Sophreena McClure and her psychic business partner Esme Sabatier have a lot of dirty work ahead of them. "The Forgotten man," a skeleton found inside of an unusual coffin in a nearby backyard, is creating a buzz around their small town. But it's the fresh corpse of a mysterious young woman that soon grabs everyone's attention ..."--Page 4 of cover.
Reel Bay
Author: Jana Larson
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566896045
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
What was Takako Konishi really doing in North Dakota, and why did she end up dead? Did she get lost and freeze to death, as the police concluded, while searching for the fictional treasure buried in a snowbank at the end of the Coen Brothers’ film Fargo? Or was it something else that brought her there: unrequited love, ritual suicide, a meteor shower, a far-flung search for purpose? The seed of an obsession took root in struggling film student Jana Larson when she chanced upon a news bulletin about the case. Over the years and across continents, the material Jana gathered in her search for the real Takako outgrew multiple attempts at screenplays and became this remarkable, genre-bending essay that leans into the space between fact and fiction, life and death, author and subject, reality and delusion.
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566896045
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
What was Takako Konishi really doing in North Dakota, and why did she end up dead? Did she get lost and freeze to death, as the police concluded, while searching for the fictional treasure buried in a snowbank at the end of the Coen Brothers’ film Fargo? Or was it something else that brought her there: unrequited love, ritual suicide, a meteor shower, a far-flung search for purpose? The seed of an obsession took root in struggling film student Jana Larson when she chanced upon a news bulletin about the case. Over the years and across continents, the material Jana gathered in her search for the real Takako outgrew multiple attempts at screenplays and became this remarkable, genre-bending essay that leans into the space between fact and fiction, life and death, author and subject, reality and delusion.
My Life After Death
Author: Erik Medhus
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1582705607
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In the follow-up to Elisa Medhus's My Son and the Afterlife--"a heartfelt, deeply moving story" (Eben Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of Proof of Heaven)--her son Erik tells his astounding story directly from the afterlife, describing in detail his death, transition, and spiritual renewal. My Life After Death begins on the tragic day when Erik Medhus took his own life. What follows is a moment-by-moment account of the spiritual life he discovers on the other side--told for the very first time in his own words as channeled by medium Jamie Butler and then transcribed by his mother Elisa. Overflowing with his signature honesty and candor, Erik describes more than just a visit to the afterlife. He personally walks us through the experience of dying, transitioning into spirit form, and reveals a detailed look at the life awaiting us on the other side. In this intimate and provocative memoir, crucial questions will finally be answered, including: What does it feel like to die? What is it like to become a spirit? Why and how do spirits communicate with the living? Is there a heaven? Ultimately, Erik's story provides the answers that will help readers find solace and remove the fears surrounding death, showing that love has no boundaries and life does not truly end.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1582705607
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In the follow-up to Elisa Medhus's My Son and the Afterlife--"a heartfelt, deeply moving story" (Eben Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of Proof of Heaven)--her son Erik tells his astounding story directly from the afterlife, describing in detail his death, transition, and spiritual renewal. My Life After Death begins on the tragic day when Erik Medhus took his own life. What follows is a moment-by-moment account of the spiritual life he discovers on the other side--told for the very first time in his own words as channeled by medium Jamie Butler and then transcribed by his mother Elisa. Overflowing with his signature honesty and candor, Erik describes more than just a visit to the afterlife. He personally walks us through the experience of dying, transitioning into spirit form, and reveals a detailed look at the life awaiting us on the other side. In this intimate and provocative memoir, crucial questions will finally be answered, including: What does it feel like to die? What is it like to become a spirit? Why and how do spirits communicate with the living? Is there a heaven? Ultimately, Erik's story provides the answers that will help readers find solace and remove the fears surrounding death, showing that love has no boundaries and life does not truly end.
Still Rolling
Author: Dwight Little
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476649561
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Dwight Little's Hollywood career includes directing and producing major motion pictures for multiple studios, acclaimed television series and even video games. In this memoir, he takes readers along on a movie-making adventure that is by turns funny and brutally honest. There are many on-set interactions with well-known producers and stars along with detailed descriptions of film shoots from the wilds of India to the banks of the River Kwai. Included are tales from the jails of Madrid to the jungles of Fiji and the cold war streets of Budapest. The work seamlessly connects the Golden Age of Hollywood to the highly successful premium television of today. Make or break creative battles, Hollywood intrigues, unpredictable studio executives, and temperamental actors are all documented in colorful detail. Whether the reader is an aspiring filmmaker or just a movie lover, this book has it all, including a unique insight into television directing in the new streaming age and 41 photos, many on-set.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476649561
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Dwight Little's Hollywood career includes directing and producing major motion pictures for multiple studios, acclaimed television series and even video games. In this memoir, he takes readers along on a movie-making adventure that is by turns funny and brutally honest. There are many on-set interactions with well-known producers and stars along with detailed descriptions of film shoots from the wilds of India to the banks of the River Kwai. Included are tales from the jails of Madrid to the jungles of Fiji and the cold war streets of Budapest. The work seamlessly connects the Golden Age of Hollywood to the highly successful premium television of today. Make or break creative battles, Hollywood intrigues, unpredictable studio executives, and temperamental actors are all documented in colorful detail. Whether the reader is an aspiring filmmaker or just a movie lover, this book has it all, including a unique insight into television directing in the new streaming age and 41 photos, many on-set.
Reel Rebels: the London Film-Makers' Co-Operative 1966 to 1996
Author: Joy I. Payne
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 150494626X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The London FilmMakers Cooperative was founded in 1966 by a group of artists who sought to explore the possibilities of the moving image whilst maintaining autonomy over the production, distribution, and exhibition of their work. Although their films were not overtly political, artists nevertheless expressed their political attitudes by creating nonnarrative films, thereby rejecting conventional narrative structures associated with mainstream, commercial cinema, which they perceived as supporting the dominant ideology in society. A return to narrative in the 1980s coincided with the introduction of British Art Cinema and the art-house films of Derek Jarman, Peter Greenaway, and Sally Potter, all of whom made experimental films in the early days of the London Co-op.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 150494626X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The London FilmMakers Cooperative was founded in 1966 by a group of artists who sought to explore the possibilities of the moving image whilst maintaining autonomy over the production, distribution, and exhibition of their work. Although their films were not overtly political, artists nevertheless expressed their political attitudes by creating nonnarrative films, thereby rejecting conventional narrative structures associated with mainstream, commercial cinema, which they perceived as supporting the dominant ideology in society. A return to narrative in the 1980s coincided with the introduction of British Art Cinema and the art-house films of Derek Jarman, Peter Greenaway, and Sally Potter, all of whom made experimental films in the early days of the London Co-op.
The Collective Dream
Author: Sarah Nagaty
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031350138
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This book links two seminal moments in Egypt’s history – the Revolution of 25th January 2011 and the presidency of Gamal Abdel Nasser – through various cultural manifestations. It conceives the concept of “collective dreaming” to map out the subliminal feeling which runs deep through experiences of socially transformative moments. The author has extensively studied the structure of feelings that encompasses the experiences not only of activist minorities but the broader mass of revolutionary movements. In certain historical moments, hopes and aspirations bind together millions of people from all walks of life: students, workers, farmers, and middle-class professionals. Nagaty calls this phenomenon the “collective dream”, something which has been carried through generations of Egyptians. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of social movement studies, cultural studies and cultural sociology.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031350138
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This book links two seminal moments in Egypt’s history – the Revolution of 25th January 2011 and the presidency of Gamal Abdel Nasser – through various cultural manifestations. It conceives the concept of “collective dreaming” to map out the subliminal feeling which runs deep through experiences of socially transformative moments. The author has extensively studied the structure of feelings that encompasses the experiences not only of activist minorities but the broader mass of revolutionary movements. In certain historical moments, hopes and aspirations bind together millions of people from all walks of life: students, workers, farmers, and middle-class professionals. Nagaty calls this phenomenon the “collective dream”, something which has been carried through generations of Egyptians. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of social movement studies, cultural studies and cultural sociology.
Knots
Author: JEAN MICHEL RABATE
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000754081
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This collection of specially commissioned essays offers a wide array of new psychoanalytic approaches impacted by Lacanian theory, queer studies, post-colonial studies, feminism, and deconstruction in the domains of film and literature. We have witnessed a remarkable return to psychoanalysis in those fields, fields from which it had been excluded or discredited for a while. This has changed recently, and we need to understand why. The fourteen essays make use a freshly minted psychoanalytic concepts to read diverse texts, films and social practices. The distinguished authors gathered here, an international group of scholars coming from Japan, China, Korea, India, Belgium, Greece, France, Australia, and the USA, are all cognizant of the advances of theory under the form of deconstruction, feminism, post-colonial studies and trauma studies. These essays take into account the latest developments in Lacanian theory and never bracket off subjective agency when dealing with literature or film. The authors make sense of changes brought to psychoanalytical theory by redefinitions of the Oedipus complex, reconsiderations of the death drive, applications of Lacan’s symptom and the concept of the Real, reassessments of the links between affect and trauma, insights into the resilience of Romantic excess and jouissance, awareness of the role of transference in classical and modernist texts, and pedagogical techniques aimed at teaching difficult texts, all the while testifying to the influence on Lacanian theory of thinkers like Maurice Blanchot, Roland Barthes, Melanie Klein, Didier Anzieu, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, and Slavoj Zizek. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003002727
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000754081
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This collection of specially commissioned essays offers a wide array of new psychoanalytic approaches impacted by Lacanian theory, queer studies, post-colonial studies, feminism, and deconstruction in the domains of film and literature. We have witnessed a remarkable return to psychoanalysis in those fields, fields from which it had been excluded or discredited for a while. This has changed recently, and we need to understand why. The fourteen essays make use a freshly minted psychoanalytic concepts to read diverse texts, films and social practices. The distinguished authors gathered here, an international group of scholars coming from Japan, China, Korea, India, Belgium, Greece, France, Australia, and the USA, are all cognizant of the advances of theory under the form of deconstruction, feminism, post-colonial studies and trauma studies. These essays take into account the latest developments in Lacanian theory and never bracket off subjective agency when dealing with literature or film. The authors make sense of changes brought to psychoanalytical theory by redefinitions of the Oedipus complex, reconsiderations of the death drive, applications of Lacan’s symptom and the concept of the Real, reassessments of the links between affect and trauma, insights into the resilience of Romantic excess and jouissance, awareness of the role of transference in classical and modernist texts, and pedagogical techniques aimed at teaching difficult texts, all the while testifying to the influence on Lacanian theory of thinkers like Maurice Blanchot, Roland Barthes, Melanie Klein, Didier Anzieu, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, and Slavoj Zizek. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003002727
Chrysalis
Author: Lawrence Westdale
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1662423306
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Welcome to the house on Boleskine, home of Aleister Crowley. Head of the occult. A master of magick with the demonic gifts of deception and manipulation. The user and abuser of drugs and narcotics to achieve his own personal goals of transcendence and ascension. Using murder and mayhem as common tools, he's attempting to build his empire, and it looks like nothing stands in his way—except a loving mother and her powerfully gifted daughter. As the harbinger of dark magick and the religious leader of Thelema, a devious cult nestled in the bosom of Northern Scotland's Loch Ness, Aleister strives to create the ultimate hallucinogenic elixir, DMT, for the purpose of activating the pineal gland, a gland that, when activated, will give him the power of telepathic clairvoyance. His ultimate goal? To control and weaponize the interdimensional gateways we know as the portals.Rose McCall is a beautifully divine matriarch whose sole intent is to keep her powerful daughter safe from the clutches of Crowley, who views the daughter as his key to the portal system. Travel to totems from around the world as Aleister attempts to solidify his endgame and reach total ascension for the purpose of becoming a deity to mankind. Rose has different plans, as she uses Aleister's mental incompetence against him to thwart his fulfillment of Satanic totalitarian rule over this dimension and the countless multiverses throughout time. Good and evil are going to clash as the righteous now decide to fight Aleister. Chrysalis is the first in the Aleister Crowley Trilogy: The House on Boleskine.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1662423306
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Welcome to the house on Boleskine, home of Aleister Crowley. Head of the occult. A master of magick with the demonic gifts of deception and manipulation. The user and abuser of drugs and narcotics to achieve his own personal goals of transcendence and ascension. Using murder and mayhem as common tools, he's attempting to build his empire, and it looks like nothing stands in his way—except a loving mother and her powerfully gifted daughter. As the harbinger of dark magick and the religious leader of Thelema, a devious cult nestled in the bosom of Northern Scotland's Loch Ness, Aleister strives to create the ultimate hallucinogenic elixir, DMT, for the purpose of activating the pineal gland, a gland that, when activated, will give him the power of telepathic clairvoyance. His ultimate goal? To control and weaponize the interdimensional gateways we know as the portals.Rose McCall is a beautifully divine matriarch whose sole intent is to keep her powerful daughter safe from the clutches of Crowley, who views the daughter as his key to the portal system. Travel to totems from around the world as Aleister attempts to solidify his endgame and reach total ascension for the purpose of becoming a deity to mankind. Rose has different plans, as she uses Aleister's mental incompetence against him to thwart his fulfillment of Satanic totalitarian rule over this dimension and the countless multiverses throughout time. Good and evil are going to clash as the righteous now decide to fight Aleister. Chrysalis is the first in the Aleister Crowley Trilogy: The House on Boleskine.