Anthony Mann, de verdadero nombre Emil Anton Bundsman, fue hijo de emigrantes judíos alemanes en los Estados Unidos dedicados a la enseñanza. Formado en los ideales del trascendentalismo germano, va trasplantando ese bagaje a la dirección de cine de forma espontánea, casi irreflexiva, cuando vencidos todos los desafíos técnicos y profesionales, se convierte en un director de éxito durante la década de los cincuenta. Su valoración de los espacios en los encuadres y las dialécticas de ocupac...

Anthony Mann. Arpenter l’image est le premier ouvrage en français qui propose une analyse des films majeurs de l’un des plus importants réalisateurs hollywoodiens classiques, Anthony Mann (1906-1967). Celui-ci s’est investi dans les genres les plus importants de l’art cinématographique : film noir, western, film de guerre, péplum. Les auteurs visent, à travers ces analyses, à réfléchir l’image cinématographique et à contribuer à une philosophie de l’image. C’est que l’ambition de Mann est ...

Fay loves making The Friends' Hour for Studio Five, but her boss – Jason – is always angry with her. One day, a young man – Simon Jones – phones her show. Soon Fay must find Simon, and work hard to keep her job. Then her best friend – Wing – stops helping her. What can Fay do now? Can she and Wing stay friends?

Fay loves making 'The Friends Happy Hour' for Studio Five, but her boss – Jason – is always angry with her. One day, a young man – Simon Jones – phones her show. Soon Fay must find Simon, and work hard to keep her job. Then her best friend – Wing – stops helping her. What can Fay do now? Can she and Wing stay friends?

Fay loves making The Friends' Hour for Studio Five, but her boss - Jason - is always angry with her. One day, a young man - Simon Jones - phones her show. Soon Fay must find Simon, and work hard to keep her job. Then her best friend - Wing - stops helping her. What can Fay do now? Can she and Wing stay friends?

Sparks fly when Chance meets tall, sexy Xav at a Wilmington bar and they have the hottest one-nighter of their lives. But Chance doesn't do repeats, Xav seems detached, and they go their separate ways without a word. Later, when closeted Assistant District Attorney C. Evan "Chance" Fairchild meets Dare's Landing's newest deputy sheriff, Xavier "Xav" Constantine, Evan isn't only wary. He's irritated as hell.Xavier is a former FBI agent turned deputy sheriff who is hot on the trail o...

A Globe 100 Best Book of 2024"Literature at the highest level: heartrending, disquieting, fascinating."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Drawing together the best of his short fiction published over the last four decades, Burn Man: Selected Stories showcases Mark Anthony Jarman’s sharply observed characters and acrobatic, voice-driven prose in stories that walk the tightrope between the commonplace and the mystical....

'One of the most productive, imaginative and risk-taking of writers... It is a clever, sexually explicit, fast-moving, full blooded yarn'Irish TimesA Dead Man in Deptford re-imagines the riotous life and suspicious death of Christopher Marlowe. Poet, lover and spy, Marlowe must negotiate the pressures placed upon him by theatre, Queen and country. Burgess brings this dazzling figure to life and pungently evokes Elizabethan England.

When a princess from Xanth ventures to Mundania, she discovers an unexpected world of wonder in the New York Times–bestselling fantasy series.When Prince Dolph set out to find the Good Magician Humphrey, he wound up betrothed to two different women. With the magician still missing, his older sister Princess Ivy takes up the quest—and she's bringing her brother's co-fiancées along for the adventure. First they must retrieve a stolen magic mirror from the evi...

Book two in the New York Times–bestselling author's world history–spanning epic that began with Isle of Woman.Piers Anthony's Shame of Man is a towering saga of remarkable scope, retelling the story of humanity in a daring and exciting way. At once grand in scope and intimate in human detail, Shame of Man recounts the stunning journey of a single family reborn again and again throughout history. Beginning in the earliest origins of our anc...

By the CWA Gold Dagger award-winning author of Other Paths to GloryAnthony Price ingeniously combines the machinations of British Intelligence with the legend of King Arthur in an extraordinary thriller that crackles with suspense from start to finish.A US Air Force plane mysteriously vanishes on a flight from its base in Britain, and its ace pilot with it. The CIA investigates the missing pilot, and makes some odd findings - finding that will take...

From the rough streets of Auburn, Washington to the championship level of the boxing world, follow Greg Haugen's journey through the amateur circuit, the tough man competitions in Alaska, all the way to the professional ranks and a world championship. For the first time, hear him describe in his own words the ups and downs of his boxing career that led to some memorable championship bouts. Anyone who has ever known Haugen, including those who had a true disdain for him, share a common resp...