Alan J. Pakula's political thriller All the President's Men (1976) was met with immediate critical and commercial success upon its release, finishing second at the box office and earning seven Academy Award nominations.Through a close reading of key scenes, performances and stylistic decisions, Christian Keathley and Robert B. Ray show how the film derives its narrative power through a series of controlled oppositions: silence vs. noise; stationary vs. moving camera; dark ...

Journey into four legendary worlds of classic science fiction with The Frank Herbert, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, and Ray Bradbury Short Story Collection. This anthology brings together visionary tales of space exploration, futuristic societies, strange technologies, alien encounters, and the fragile line between humanity and the unknown. Perfect for fans of vintage science fiction, golden age sci-fi, dystopian imagination, and thought-provoking speculative fiction.

Like Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, Sara Paretsky and Thomas Harris, you, too, can learn the trade secrets of quality detective fiction.It's true. Just one year from now, you can deliver a completed mystery novel to a publisher--by writing only on weekends. Authors Robert J. Ray and Jack Remick guide you through the entire mystery-writing process, from creating a killer to polishing off the final draft. Each weekend you'll focus on a specific task--learning the basics of nov...

Who doesn't dream of writing a novel while holding on to a day job? Robert J. Ray and coauthor Bret Norris can help readers do just that, with this proven practical and accessible step-by-step guide to completing a novel in just a year's worth of weekends. The Weekend Novelist shows writers of all levels how to divide their writing time into weekend work sessions, and how to handle character, scene, and plot. This new, revised version is f...

Speaking about the kind of filmmaking now known as Classic Hollywood, the most popular and influential cinema ever invented, Vincente Minnelli once gave away its secret: "I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things. They're things that the audience is not conscious of, but that accumulate." What are those hidden things? Can we invent a method that will enable us to discover them? Robert Ray attempts to answer those questions by looking closely at...

A society where murder has become entertainment, robots programmed to protect humanity at any cost, mysterious passages into other worlds, and astronauts discovering that the darkness may not be empty await in Lost Sci-Fi Books 121 thru 140, featuring twenty vintage science fiction stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60s.Robert Sheckley opens the collection with Seventh Victim, a future where legalized hunting has transformed killing into a carefully regu...

Robert B. Ray examines the ideology of the most enduringly popular cinema in the world--the Hollywood movie. Aided by 364 frame enlargements, he describes the development of that historically overdetermined form, giving close readings of five typical instances: Casablanca, It's a Wonderful Life, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Godfather, and Taxi Driver. Like the heroes of these movies, American filmmaking has avoided commitment, in both p...

After over a century of existence, the cinema still has its mysteries. Why, for example, is the job we call movie stardom unlike any other in the world? How do films provide so much unconcealed information that we fail to notice? What makes it hard to define what counts as “acting”? How do movies like Casablanca and Breathless store the film and world histories of their generations? How can we reconcile auteurism’s celebration of the movie director’s authority wi...

Provocative and illuminating essays on Thoreau's masterwork, shedding new light on its enduring inspiration and philosophical depth.In 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved from his parents' house in Concord, Massachusetts, to a one-room cabin he built himself on the land of his mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson. He described his time there, just over two years, as an experiment in "living deliberately." His daily journal entries became the source material for Walden,...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 131 thru 140 - Ten Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60sThe Creatures That Time Forgot by Ray BradburyA Practical Man's Guide by Jack VanceChristmas on Ganymede by Isaac AsimovA Walk in the Dark by Arthur C. ClarkeThe Repairman by Harry HarrisonProgeny by Philip K. DickWatchbird by Robert SheckleyThe Door in the Wall by H. G. WellsHome is the Spaceman by Geor...

Hooponopono seems like magic, but it is not magic at all. It is real and within your grasp. Return to Zeropoint is our system of teaching how to use Hooponopono in an easy and straightforward manner. We take away the pain of learning and get to the nuts and bolts without struggle and strife. Leave your problems and pain behind, and move forward with the life of joy that you deserve. It is within your grasp.

Darkness, our most primitive fear since shadows first stirred.Within the pages of this horror anthology you will be taken back into the past, down to the depths of the ocean and across the borderline between our world and the next. You will see snapshots from the lives of small children, old-time cockney gangsters and aimless stoners. You will journey into the darkest house on the darkest street, wander hospital basements, and take a flight in the comfort of first ...