Silent Mystery And Detective Movies
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Author |
: Ken Wlaschin |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 293 |
Release |
: 2009-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780786443505 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0786443502 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Silent Mystery and Detective Movies by : Ken Wlaschin
The silent film era was known in part for its cliffhanger serials and air of suspense that kept audiences returning to theaters week after week. Icons such as Douglas Fairbanks, Laurel and Hardy, Lon Chaney and Harry Houdini were among those who graced the dark and shadowy screen. This reference guide to silent films with mystery and detective content lists more than 1,500 titles in one of entertainment's most popular and enduring genres. While most of the films examined are from North America, mystery films from around the world are included.
Author |
: John Howard Reid |
Publisher |
: Lulu.com |
Total Pages |
: 469 |
Release |
: 2009-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780557122233 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0557122236 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mystery, Suspense, Film Noir and Detective Movies on DVD by : John Howard Reid
Over 1,200 DVDs in the mystery, suspense and film noir categories were examined and rated for this illustrated guide. The book is divided into two main sections. In the first, 218 movies are given the glamour treatment with comprehensive details of players and crews, plus background information and reviews. In the second section, essential details on over 500 films are briefly described. Bonus articles includes a survey of "The Thin Man" series, "Sherlock Holmes," "Humphrey Bogart versus Alan Ladd," "Raymond Chandler on the Big Screen" and "The Big Clock." This book will not only prove most useful for all movie fans, but will enthrall and entertain for years to come.
Author |
: Charles Higham |
Publisher |
: Terrace Books |
Total Pages |
: 242 |
Release |
: 2004-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780299203634 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0299203638 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Murder in Hollywood by : Charles Higham
For more than eighty years, the famous unsolved murder of William Desmond Taylor, the legendary bisexual film director, has generated debate and controversy. Now, best-selling author Charles Higham has solved the crime. Higham uncovers the corruption and intrigue of Los Angeles in the Roaring Twenties—and the film industry moguls’ complete domination of the city’s authorities. When it was discovered that a famous star of the day had probably killed Taylor, a massive cover-up began—from the removal of crucial evidence to the naming of innocent people as killers—which has continued until now to protect the truth. Murder in Hollywood goes beyond the killing to unearth unknown details about the life of Taylor before his arrival in Hollywood, as well as the stories and histories buried by the crooked authorities and criminals involved the case. The author’s exclusive interviews with the culpable star, his unique possession of long-vanished police records, and the support of the present-day Los Angeles county coroner—who examined the evidence as if the murder had taken place now—have ensured a hair-raising thriller. Charles Higham successfully presents the most plausible and convincing solution yet to the mystery. In the process he paints a vivid portrait of Hollywood in the 1920s—from its major stars to its bisexual subculture. The result is a compelling answer to a long-standing mystery and a fascinating study of a place, and an industry that, as today, let people reinvent themselves. Murder in Hollywood is more extraordinary than any crime of fiction and more exciting than any action adventure movie.
Author |
: Brett Halliday |
Publisher |
: Open Road Media |
Total Pages |
: 181 |
Release |
: 2015-06-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781504012775 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1504012771 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bodies Are Where You Find Them by : Brett Halliday
A disappearing corpse draws Miami PI Mike Shayne into a deadly political conspiracy in this hardboiled mystery that inspired the film Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. A year after marrying the toughest PI in Miami, Phyllis Shayne longs for a few weeks alone with her husband. She and Mike are about to board a train to New York when a client shows up at the door. Her face gray and her voice slurred, the mysterious woman passes out before she’s able to get through her story. Mike carries the stranger to his spare bedroom and, trying to save his wife from worry, tells Phyllis to go on to the train station without him; he’ll meet her in a few days. When he goes back to check on the woman, she is dead, with one of her stockings wrapped tightly around her throat. Something is fishy, but it’s about to get far more complicated when the body disappears. The woman arrived just after Mike took a call from Sam Marsh, a close friend who’s in a mayoral race that’s about to turn bloody. To save his friend’s campaign and keep himself out of jail, Mike will have to find the killer—but he’ll have to find the body first. Bodies Are Where You Find Them is the 5th book in the Mike Shayne Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Author |
: John D. Fair |
Publisher |
: University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages |
: 485 |
Release |
: 2020-11-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780826274502 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0826274501 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Muscles in the Movies by : John D. Fair
John Fair and David Chapman tell the story of how filmmakers use and manipulate the appearance and performances of muscular men and women to enhance the appeal of their productions. The authors show how this practice, deeply rooted in western epistemological traditions, evolved from the art of photography through magic lantern and stage shows into the motion picture industry, arguing that the sight of muscles in action induced a higher degree of viewer entertainment. From Eugen Sandow to Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, muscular actors appear capable of performing the miraculous, and with the aid of stuntmen and filming contrivances, they do. By such means, muscles are used to perfect the art of illusion, inherent in movie-making from its earliest days.
Author |
: Ed Gorman |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 709 |
Release |
: 2011-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781440531040 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1440531048 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis By Hook or By Crook by : Ed Gorman
The annual collection edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg available in a hardcover limited edition signed by ALL contributors including: Dennis Lehane, Laura Lippman, Mary Higgins Clark, and others!
Author |
: Angela Marsons |
Publisher |
: Bookouture |
Total Pages |
: 425 |
Release |
: 2015-02-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781909490918 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1909490911 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Silent Scream by : Angela Marsons
Author |
: Stephen Glynn |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 166 |
Release |
: 2019-01-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030051808 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030051803 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis The British Horseracing Film by : Stephen Glynn
This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of horseracing in British cinema. Through comprehensive contextual histories of film production and reception, together with detailed textual analysis, this book explores the aesthetic and emotive power of the enduringly popular horseracing genre, its ideologically-inflected landscape and the ways in which horse owners and riders, bookmakers and punters have been represented on British screen. The films discussed span from the 1890s to the present day and include silent shorts, quota quickies and big-budget biopics. A work of social and film history, The British Horseracing Film demonstrates how the so-called “sport of kings” functions as an accessible institutional structure through which to explore cinematic discussions about the British nation—but also, and equally, national approaches to British cinema.
Author |
: Yan Wei |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 291 |
Release |
: 2020-05-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004431287 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004431284 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Detecting Chinese Modernities by : Yan Wei
In Detecting Chinese Modernities: Rupture and Continuity in Modern Chinese Detective Fiction (1896–1949), Yan Wei historicizes the two stages in the development of Chinese detective fiction and discusses the rupture and continuity in the cultural transactions, mediation, and appropriation that occurred when the genre of detective fiction traveled to China during the first half of the twentieth century. Wei identifies two divergent, or even opposite strategies for appropriating Western detective fiction during the late Qing and the Republican periods. She further argues that these two periods in the domestication of detective fiction were also connected by shared emotions. Both periods expressed ambivalent and sometimes contradictory views regarding Chinese tradition and Western modernity.
Author |
: Basil Glynn |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2019-11-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781350129375 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1350129372 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Mummy on Screen by : Basil Glynn
The Mummy is one of the most recognizable figures in horror and is as established in the popular imagination as virtually any other monster, yet the Mummy on screen has until now remained a largely overlooked figure in critical analysis of the cinema. In this compelling new study, Basil Glynn explores the history of the Mummy film, uncovering lost and half-forgotten movies along the way, revealing the cinematic Mummy to be an astonishingly diverse and protean figure with a myriad of on-screen incarnations. In the course of investigating the enduring appeal of this most 'Oriental' of monsters, Glynn traces the Mummy's development on screen from its roots in popular culture and silent cinema, through Universal Studios' Mummy movies of the 1930s and 40s, to Hammer Horror's re-imagining of the figure in the 1950s, and beyond.