<p>A previously unpublished work by Raymond Chandler. Raymond Chandler’s screenplay for The Blue Dahlia is a valuable addition to the published canon for the writer who has been called “the Shakespeare of hardboiled fiction.” Converted from a never-completed novel, this screenplay is all that survives of the novel Chandler worked on between The Lady in the Lake and The Little Sister. In 1944 Paramount Pictures, where Chandler was under contract, needed a rush script for Alan Ladd. Chandler agreed to cannibalize his novel-in-progress, but—as detailed in producer John Houseman’s memoir—he became stuck and decided that he could only complete his screenplay drunk. The Blue Dahlia was completed on schedule and was well received, earning Chandler his second Academy Award nomination. Although the writer’s screenplay is metamorphosed by other hands in the movie-making process, the screenplay as written has an independent existence, and may be read and judged as a literary work. Indeed, the movie studio archives are a valuable literary resource; and it is inevitable that many screenplays will be published as the study of movies expands. The Blue Dahlia is the story of a war hero who is suspected of having murdered his unfaithful wife. Although it does not involve a private-eye, the work utilizes familiar elements of Chandler’s the loner hero, the quest for justice, the sense of a corrupt society, and— above all—the theme of personal honor.</p>

THE BLUE DAHLIA.

Literature & Fiction

Houseman, John

Chandler,Raymond

Poetry

Southern Illinois University Press

Perhaps best known today for Death of a Hero, which Orwell judged as the best novel of the First World War. Richard Aldington was a contemporary and friend of Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence and T. S. Eliot. With Pound, Aldington and his wife, the American poet H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), founded the Imagist movement in 1912. Notable as a poet, translator, novelist and biographer, Aldington was also a major figure of the Modernist era. This detailed biography, the first to be published, includes a critical appraisal of his major writings.From the late 1930s Aldington lived in the United States, working first on his major anthology Poetry of the English-Speaking World and then on his prize-winning biography, The Duke (on Wellington). His later works included a study of D. H. Lawrence, Portrait of a Genius, But . . and two controversial biographical studies, Pinorman and Lawrence of Arabia. Friends of his later years included Lawrence Durrell, Roy Campbell, Henry Williamson and Alister Kershaw.Aldington was first and foremost an individualist, who had no time for bureaucracy or politics, including Communism. Nonetheless, since the early 1930s, when the Russian translation of Death of a Hero was praised by Maxim Gorky, Aldington has been rated in Russia as one of the foremost English-language writers of the 20th century. Three weeks before his death in July 1962, Aldington made a triumphal Russian tour as guest of the Soviet Writers’ Union.  

Richard Aldington - a Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Doyle, Charles

Arts & Literature

Both a text and a professional reference, ENG (electronic news gathering) illustrates and discusses the new technology and concepts that have revolutionized television news.Combining an academic with a professional approach, this book deals extensively with the uses of electronic news gathering and electronic field production (EFP). It also features the latest in satellite news gathering (SNG) and the distribution of that material.This book, which carries the endorsement of the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA), combines a comprehensive discussion of concepts with instruction in using the technology. It also deals with legal, ethical, operational, and organizational problems that technology has brought to the business of news gathering.Essentially, the authors show how to apply the latest news gathering and microwave technology to researching, writing, reporting, photographing, editing, packaging, producing, and airing television news stories, news packages, newscasts, live reports, and special events.Essays by established professionals supplement the text. These contributors include Tom Wolzien, NBC News, Larry Hatteberg, two-time NPPA News Cameraman of the Year, Lynn Cullen, WTAE-TV, Pittsburgh, and John Premack, WCVB-TV, Boston.The authors have taken a potentially intimidating and complex subject and made it understandable to students and acceptable to practicing professionals. The book is a unique blend of academic and professional material with step-by-step instructions as well as case studies from actual news reporting events.

Eng: Television News and the New Technology

Arts & Photography

Yoakam, Richard D.

Cremer, Charles F.

Photography & Video

Three Comrades: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Screenplay (Screenplay Library)

Humor & Entertainment

REMARQUE,ERICH MARIA

Movies

Bottoms Up! A Pathologist's Essays on Medicine and the Humanities

William C. Ober

Witchcraft

Charles Alva Hoyt

Emerson Centenary Essays

Joel Myerson

Plato on God As Nous

Stephen Menn

Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Donald Pizer

Medical Law for the Attending Physician: A Case Oriented Analysis

Salvatore Francis Fiscina

Health & Medical Law

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