Profiles historical and contemporary world leaders, athletes, artists, musicians, scientists, and other famous people

Icons: An A-Z Guide to the People Who Shaped Our Time

History

PARK, James

Americas

Collier Books

Icons: An A-Z guide to the people who shaped our time

Maxwell Macmillan International

It was the year when Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner fought The War of the Roses, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles became the latest movie sensation, The Dead Poet's Society held its last meeting, and Oscars were given out to a small, old-fashioned film about inter-racial friendships, Driving Miss Daisy. But some of the biggest surprises happened off- screen. Columbia Pictures, for so long a maker of the American Dream, was sold to Japan's Sony Corporation, and the studios' need for big hits sparked a bidding war so intense that some writers walked away with $1 million for their first script. In this latest edition of THE FILM YEARBOOK leading film writers cast a critical eye over the year's movies and present their own provocative views on the current state of British and American cinema. They praise the films they enjoyed most - from Australia, the US, Italy and elsewhere - analyze those that delivered less than they had hoped for, and lambast those they hated. Here are the credits and critiques of every significant feature film release on either side of the Atlantic. Plus obituaries of the late greats of the silver screen; reviews of the latest crop of film books; and a selection of the most outrageous quotes from the stars.

The Film Yearbook - Volume 9

Reference

Pan/Macmillan

The Cyanide Process of Gold Extraction: A Text-Book for the Use of Metallurgists and Students at Schools of Mines, Etc

Business & Money

Franklin Classics

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The Cyanide Process Of Gold Extraction: A Text-book For The Use Of Mining Students, Metallurgists, And Cyanide Operators

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Learning to dream: The new British cinema

Faber&Faber

British filmmaking is generally written off as a series of creative failures and economic disasters. Nevertheless, great directors, amazing films and even, for a time, successful production companies have evolved in Britain. James Park presents a history of British filmmaking, from the earliest pioneering days to the present. He shows how ruthless American salesmanship and a lack of British initiative crippled the efforts of early filmmakers. Only with the arrival of sound in the 1930s did they regularly achieve popular success, with films such as Hitchcock's "The Thirty-Nine Steps", as well as musical comedies centred around the likes of Gracie Fields and Jessie Matthews. After the Second World War the increased ambitions of filmmakers led to such masterpieces as "The Red Shoes", "The Third Man" and "Kind Hearts and Coronets", but the dark undercurrents in such pictures went against the grain of the major institutions responsible for financing British films during the 1950s. The revival of the 1960s petered out when American finance was withdrawn. And the creative energies triggered by the formation of Goldcrest Films and Channel Four in the early 1980s were rapidly dissipated by over-ambitious companies and over-confident directors. James Park takes a challenging view of the successes and failures of the British cinema. Only when filmmakers learn to appreciate their own cinematic heritage and film executives come to understand the virtures in earlier models of production, can British filmmaking hope for significant achievements in the 1990s.

British Cinema: The Lights That Failed

B.T.BATSFORD LTD

This book includes all the major style-makers, world-wide, from 1945 to the 1990s. A wide range of human endeavours, including art, life and culture, fashion and philosophy, psychology and post-modernism, communication and communism and politics and pop art are covered. The major details of a number of artists, musicians, writers, politicians, directors, actors, sportspeople, religious leaders and philosophers are included. The book features over 1000 entries of individuals who have formed the opinions, theories, policies and images of the cultural climate of the late 20th century.

Cultural Icons

Biographies & Memoirs

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

Cultural Icons: Style Makers and Breakers Since 1945

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

BLOOMSBURY

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