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Cary Grant: A Celebration

Cary Grant: A Celebration

Richard Schickel

Richard Schickel's text, combining critical analysis and a re-interpretation of all the available biographical information, masterfully maps the intersections where a great star's personal history and his screen personality met in a style ...
Woody Allen: A Life in Film

Woody Allen: A Life in Film

Richard Schickel

The bulk of Woody Allen's four-hour interview with Richard Schickel is reproduced in this fascinating biography of a giant in film, with the director's insights into the battle of the sexes, the conflict between reality and illusion, ...
Conversations with Scorsese

Conversations with Scorsese

Richard Schickel

With Richard Schickel as the canny and intelligent guide, these conversations take us deep into Scorsese's life and work. He reveals which films are most autobiographical, and what he was trying to explore and accomplish in other films.
James Cagney: A Celebration

James Cagney: A Celebration

Richard Schickel

A great dancer who became a great actor, James Cagney could play George M. Cohan or Public Enemy No. 1 with equal ease and conviction. This book explains how. (Richard Schickel is chief cinema critic of Time Magazine.)
Clint Eastwood: A Biography

Clint Eastwood: A Biography

Richard Schickel

Schickel pierces Eastwood's monumental reserve to reveal the anger and the shyness, the shrewdness and frankness, the humor and powerful will that have helped make him what he is today. of photos. From the Hardcover edition.
Sacred passion: the art of William Schickel

Sacred passion: the art of William Schickel

Gregory Wolfe

Sacred Passion features 168 full-color photographs highlighting Schickel's vast body of work in painting, sculpture, stained glass, furniture design, and architectural design.
D.W. Griffith: An American Life

D.W. Griffith: An American Life

Richard Schickel

He transformed a nickelodeon novelty into a new art form and a powerful, glamorous American industry.
The Actors:

The Actors:

Richard Schickel

Like Rick Blaine, most of his characters were quite aware of the general principles of conventional morality or, if you prefer, traditional masculine ethics. Therefore, he was never truly a classic existential hero, forced to define himself and his ...
Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity in America

Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity in America

Richard Schickel

This book ranges through our culture for examples of how celebrity shapes our world and bends out minds.
Richard Middleton, the Man and His Work

Richard Middleton, the Man and His Work

Henry Savage

Richard Middleton . . . Frontispiece Camera Portrait by E. O. Hoppé. Facing page Richard Middleton at the Age of 7 . . 10 Richard Middleton in Fancy Dress . . 28 A Bohemian Gathering . . . . 36 Sketch by Herbert Garland. Richard Middleton at ...
Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and ...

Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and ...

Richard S. Newman

Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers Richard S. Newman ... —Richard Allen, “An Address to Those Who Keep Slaves and Approve the Practice” With his coauthorship of the yellow-fever pamphlet, Richard ...
New Historicism and Renaissance Drama

New Historicism and Renaissance Drama

Richard Wilson

Richard Wilson, University of Louisville Kentucky Richard Wilson, Humanities Distinguished Professor of English Richard Dutton, Richard Dutton. First published 1992 by Longman Group Limited Published 2013 by Routledge 2 Park Square, ...
The Stage History of Shakespeare's King Richard the Third

The Stage History of Shakespeare's King Richard the Third

Alice Ida Perry Wood

In 1610, Robert Niccol's new edition of The Mirror for Magistrates appeared, in which there were two poems on Richard the Third, The Two Princes, and Richard III, the last to replace Segar's poem, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester, ...
The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don't Run

The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don't Run

Rob Stone

... Richard Linklater Cinematography: Richard Linklater Editor: Richard Linklater Main Cast: Richard Linklater, James Goodwin, Daniel Kratochvil, Linda Finney, Tracy Crabtree, Linda Levine, Lisa Schiebold, Erin MCafée, Denise Montgomery,  ...
Richard III

Richard III

Richard Andersen

Richard Andersen. Berger, Harry Jr. "Conscience and Complicity in Richard III," in Richard III, edited by Thomas Cartelli. New York: Norton, 2009. Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998.
Programming of Life

Programming of Life

Donald E. Johnson

Dawkins (Richard), “Book Review,” The New York Times, 4/9/89, section 7, p3. Dawkins (Richard), River Out of Eden,1995, p83. Dawkins (Richard), The Blind Watchmaker, 1996B. Dawkins (Richard), Climbing Mount Improbable, 1996C.
The Best Books for Academic Libraries: Language and literature

The Best Books for Academic Libraries: Language and literature

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B78 1991 Burton, Richard D. E., Baudelaire and the Second Republic : writing and revolution / Richard D.E. Burton. Oxford [England] .... PQ2230.S84 Stowe, Richard S. Alexandre Dumas (pere) / by Richard S. Stowe. Boston : Twayne ...
Through the Eyes of Darwin and Genesis:

Through the Eyes of Darwin and Genesis:

Bill Nielsen

Dawkins, Richard. An Appetite for Wonder. New York: Ecco, 2013. Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker. London: Penguin, 1986. Dawkins, Richard. The God Delusion. New York: First Mariner Books, 2008. Dawkins, Richard. The Greatest ...
War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the ...

War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the ...

Richard Toronto

Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction Richard Toronto . Interview by author. Telephone. August 17, 1983. Yerxa, Richard. Interview by author. Telephone. 2008. Letters Ackerman, Forrest J. Letter to ...
Probability's Nature and Nature's Probability - Lite: A ...

Probability's Nature and Nature's Probability - Lite: A ...

Donald E. Johnson

Dawkins (Richard), The Selfish Gene, 1976. Dawkins (Richard),”The Necessity of Darwinism,” New Scientist: 94, 4/15/82, p130. Dawkins (Richard), Scientific American, 6/88. Dawkins (Richard), “Book Review,” The New York Times, 4/9/89,  ...
Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Watson, Bishop of Landaff;

Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Watson, Bishop of Landaff;

Richard Watson

A N E O DOT ES OF THE LIFE OF RICHARD WATSON, BISHOP OF LAN DAFF: WRITTEN BY HIM SELF AT DIFFERENT INTERVALS, AND REVISED IN 1814. PUBLISHED BY HIS SON, RICHARD WATSON, LL.B. PREBENDARY OF ...
Black Boy

Black Boy

Richard Wright

At four years of age, Richard Wright set fire to his home; at five his father deserted the family; by six Richard was - ­ temporarily - an alcoholic.
Life and Inventions of Richard Roberts, 1789-1864

Life and Inventions of Richard Roberts, 1789-1864

Richard Leslie Hills

This is a biography of Richard Roberts, one of Britain's greatest inventors and the father of production engineering.
Archaeopteryx

Archaeopteryx

Richard M. Gaines

Richard M. Gaines. Richard M. Gaines ARCHAEOTERYX A Buddy Book by Richard M. Gaines \ .__. Cover.
The Pursuit of Knowledge: Speeches and Papers of Richard C. ...

The Pursuit of Knowledge: Speeches and Papers of Richard C. ...

Richard C. Atkinson

Speeches and Papers of Richard C. Atkinson Richard C. Atkinson, Patricia A. Pelfrey. University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing ...
U.S. Physician Reference Listing

U.S. Physician Reference Listing

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JOHN HILLIS EVANS' JOHN HM EVANS' JOHN HYNNE EVANS' JONATHAN LYNN EVANS' JOS BERNARD EVANS JR ... EVANS' RICHARD HAROLD EVANS' RICHARD HARVEY EVANS' RICHARD MILNER EVANS' RICHARD R EVANS' ...
Nez Perce

Nez Perce

Richard M. Gaines

Richard M. Gaines ... Furlong Art Direction & Maps: Pat Laurel Border Design: Carey Molter/MacLean & Tuminelly (Mpls.) Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data Gaines, Richard M., 1942The Nez Perce / Richard M. Gaines. p. cm.
A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of ...

A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of ...

Bernard Burke

Richard, of whom presently. 4. James. 2, Dorothy. 4, Agatha. 1. Thomas. 8. Humphrey. 1. Elizabeth. 8. Joan. The and son, Richard Newman, was resident in the city of Cork, 1651, and in t66s was J. P. for the co. He purchased from Sir Richard ...

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