Most Wanted in Brunswick County

Most Wanted in Brunswick County
Author: Mark W Koenig
Publisher: History Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-06-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781540257178

A roving, shiftless fellow... That's how the newspapers described Jesse C. Walker, who in 1908 was served with an arrest warrant by Brunswick County sheriff Jackson Stanland, with tragic results. Little did Walker know that he was about to set off on twenty-five years of headline-grabbing exploits. Two murders, two wives, three prison escapes, and thousands of miles of travel across eight states are only the surface of the adventures of this North Carolina desperado. Local author Mark W. Koenig relates the untold saga of a man who rocketed to notoriety in the first years of the twentieth century and found atonement decades later.

Most Wanted in Brunswick County: The Saga of the Desperado Jesse C. Walker

Most Wanted in Brunswick County: The Saga of the Desperado Jesse C. Walker
Author: Mark W. Koenig
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2023-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467154229

"A roving, shiftless fellow..." That's how the newspapers described Jesse C. Walker, who in 1908 was served with an arrest warrant by Brunswick County sheriff Jackson Stanland, with tragic results. Little did Walker know that he was about to set off on twenty-five years of headline-grabbing exploits. Two murders, two wives, three prison escapes, and thousands of miles of travel across eight states are only the surface of the adventures of this North Carolina desperado. Local author Mark W. Koenig relates the untold saga of a man who rocketed to notoriety in the first years of the twentieth century and found atonement decades later.

Arresting Images

Arresting Images
Author: Steven C. Dubin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1135214603

Although contemporary art may sometimes shock us, more alarming are recent attempts to regulate its display. Drawing upon extensive interviews, a broad sampling of media accounts, legal documents and his own observations of important events, sociologist Steven Dubin surveys the recent trend in censorship of the visual arts, photography and film, as well as artistic upstarts such as video and performance art. He examines the dual meaning of arresting images--both the nature of art work which disarms its viewers and the social reaction to it. Arresting Images examines the battles which erupt when artists address such controversial issues as racial polarization, AIDS, gay-bashing and sexual inequality in their work.

Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures
Author: Bernard F. Dick
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2021-10-19
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0813196132

Drawing on previously untapped archival materials including letters, interviews, and more, Bernard F. Dick traces the history of Columbia Pictures, from its beginnings as the CBC Film Sales Company, through the regimes of Harry Cohn and his successors, and ending with a vivid portrait of today's corporate Hollywood. The book offers unique perspectives on the careers of Rita Hayworth and Judy Holliday, a discussion of Columbia's unique brands of screwball comedy and film noir, and analyses of such classics as The Awful Truth, Born Yesterday, and From Here to Eternity. Following the author's highly readable studio chronicle are fourteen original essays by leading film scholars that follow Columbia's emergence from Poverty Row status to world class, and the stars, films, genres, writers, producers, and directors responsible for its transformation. A new essay on Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood rounds out the collection and brings this seminal studio history into the 21st century. Amply illustrated with film stills and photos of stars and studio heads, Columbia Pictures is the first book to integrate history with criticism of a single studio, and is ideal for film lovers and scholars alike.

Masters of the Shoals

Masters of the Shoals
Author: Jim McNeil
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2005-12-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780306812804

These are the stories of daring harbor pilots who risked their lives for the Confederacy. This volume brings to life these brave pilots of Cape Fear who saved the South from gradual starvation.

To Hell on a Fast Horse

To Hell on a Fast Horse
Author: Mark Lee Gardner
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2010-02-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0061969532

“So richly detailed, you can almost smell the gunsmoke and the sweat of the saddles. ” —Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers No outlaw typifies America’s mythic Wild West more than Billy the Kid. To Hell on a Fast Horse by Mark Lee Gardner is the riveting true tale of Sheriff Pat Garrett’s thrilling, break-neck chase in pursuit of the notorious bandit. David Dary calls To Hell on a Fast Horse, “A masterpiece,” and Robert M. Utley calls it, “Superb narrative history.” This is spellbinding historical adventure at its very best, recalling James Swanson’s New York Times bestseller Manhunt—about the search for Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth—as it fills in with fascinating detail the story director Sam Peckinpah brought to the screen in his classic film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.

Hip

Hip
Author: John Leland
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0061866075

Hip: The History is the story of how American pop culture has evolved throughout the twentieth century to its current position as world cultural touchstone. How did hip become such an obsession? From sex and music to fashion and commerce, John Leland tracks the arc of ideas as they move from subterranean Bohemia to Madison Avenue and back again. Hip: The History examines how hip has helped shape -- and continues to influence -- America's view of itself, and provides an incisive account of hip's quest for authenticity. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

Film Remakes

Film Remakes
Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2016-10-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1137081686

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive and systematic account of the phenomenon of cinematic remaking. Drawing upon recent theories of genre and intertextuality, Film Remakes describes remaking as both an elastic concept and a complex situation, one enabled and limited by the interrelated roles and practices of industry, critics, and audiences. This approach to remaking is developed across three broad sections: the first deals with issues of production, including commerce and authors; the second considers genre, plots, and structures; and the third investigates issues of reception, including audiences and institutions.

The Confessions of Nat Turner

The Confessions of Nat Turner
Author: William Styron
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1980
Genre: Nat Turner's Rebellion, Virginia, 1831
ISBN: 9780552115278

Presents a fictionalized account of the 1831 slave revolt led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia.