The University Press Of Kentucky: 775 books
by Ken Hada, Ryan Weldon, Daniel Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Director and producer Tim Burton impresses audiences with stunning visuals, sinister fantasy worlds, and characters whose personalities are strange and yet familiar. Drawing inspiration from sources as varied as Lewis Carroll, Salvador Dalí, Washington Irving, and Dr. Seuss, Burton's creations frequently...
by Eve Golden
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Comedic film actress Kay Kendall, born to a theatrical family in Northern England, came of age in London during the Blitz. After starring in Britain's biggest cinematic disaster, she found stardom in 1953 with her brilliant performance in the low-budget film, Genevieve. She scored success after success...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
Academy Award--winning director Martin Scorsese is one of the most significant American filmmakers in the history of cinema. Although best known for his movies about gangsters and violence, such as Mean Streets, Goodfellas, Casino, and Taxi Driver, Scorsese has addressed a much wider range of themes...
by Gary R. Edgerton, Jeffrey P. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The founding of Home Box Office in the early 1970s was a harbinger of the innovations that transformed television as an industry and a technology in the decades that followed. HBO quickly became synonymous with subscription television and became the leading force in cable programming. Having interests...
Selma to Saigon
The Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
The civil rights and anti--Vietnam War movements were the two greatest protests of twentieth-century America. The dramatic escalation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam in 1965 took precedence over civil rights legislation, which had dominated White House and congressional attention during the first half...
Eisenhower and Cambodia
Diplomacy, Covert Action, and the Origins of the Second Indochina War
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Although most Americans paid little attention to Cambodia during Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency, the nation's proximity to China and the global ideological struggle with the Soviet Union guaranteed US vigilance throughout Southeast Asia. Cambodia's leader, Norodom Sihanouk, refused to take sides...
Kontum
The Battle to Save South Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
In the spring of 1972, North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam in what became known as the Easter Offensive. Almost all of the American forces had already withdrawn from Vietnam except for a small group of American advisers to the South Vietnamese armed forces. The 23rd ARVN Infantry Division and its...
The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture
Liberty vs. Authority in American Film and TV
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Popular culture often champions freedom as the fundamentally American way of life and celebrates the virtues of independence and self-reliance. But film and television have also explored the tension between freedom and other core values, such as order and political stability. What may look like healthy,...
Veit Harlan
The Life and Work of a Nazi Filmmaker
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Veit Harlan (1899--1964) was one of Germany's most controversial and loathed directors. After studying with theatre and film pioneer Max Reinhardt and beginning a promising career, he became one of Joseph Goebbels's leading filmmakers under the National Socialist regime. Harlan's Jud Süss ( Jew Suss,...
The Godfather of Tabloid
Generoso Pope Jr. and the National Enquirer
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
They're hard to miss at grocery stores and newsstands in America -- the colorful, heavily illustrated tabloid newspapers with headlines promising shocking, unlikely, and sometimes impossible stories within. Although the papers are now ubiquitous, the supermarket tabloid's origin can be traced to one...
Lord of the Rings
The Mythology of Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
" With New Line Cinema's production of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, the popularity of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien is unparalleled. Tolkien's books continue to be bestsellers decades after their original publication. An epic in league with those of Spenser and Malory, The Lord of the Rings...
by Gene Logsdon
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
When Gene Logsdon realized that he experienced the same creative joy from farming as he did from writing, he suspected that agriculture itself was a form of art. Thus began his search for the origins of the artistic impulse in the agrarian lifestyle. The Mother of All Arts is the culmination of Logsdon"s...
China's Encounter with Global Hollywood
Cultural Policy and the Film Industry, 1994-2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
In recent years, the film industry in the People's Republic of China has found itself among the top three most prolific in the world. When the Chinese government introduced a new revenue-sharing system in 1994, the nation's total movie output skyrocketed with gross box-office receipts totaling billions...
Clark Clifford
The Wise Man of Washington
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
One of the most renowned Washington insiders of the twentieth century, Clark Clifford (1906--1998) was a top advisor to four Democratic presidents. As a powerful corporate attorney, he advised Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Jimmy Carter. As special counsel to Truman, Clifford...