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Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 194
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Beyond the Stars: Stock characters in American popular film

Beyond the Stars: Stock characters in American popular film
Author: Paul Loukides
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1990
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780879724795

The third of five volumes of new scholarship on American movie conventions. The 19 essays explore cinematic representations of such material items as food, weapons, clothing, tools, technology, and art and literature. Not illustrated. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $13.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Lloyd Register of Shipping 1927 Sailing Vessels

Lloyd Register of Shipping 1927 Sailing Vessels
Author: Lloyd Register Foundation
Publisher: Lloyd's Register
Total Pages: 922
Release: 1927-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN:

The Lloyd's Register of Shipping records the details of merchant vessels over 100 gross tonnes, which are self-propelled and sea-going, regardless of classification. Before the time, only those vessels classed by Lloyd's Register were listed. Vessels are listed alphabetically by their current name.

The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks

The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks
Author: Fred W. Edmiston
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2009-05-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0786443278

Carleton A. Coon, Sr., and Hoe L. Sanders formed the Coon-Sanders Orchestra in 1919 in Kansas City, Missouri. Three years later, under the name "Nighthawks," the band began broadcasting experimental, highly-popular midnight radio programs over Kansas City's WDAF. Their music was played all over the world, and the band remained one of America's top bands until Coon's death in 1932. Here is the complete history of the Coon-Sanders Orchestra, the band whose saucy, and bustling music and carefree and extravagant musicians symbolized the era between World War I and the Great Depression.