Frederick Wasser's Books

Twentieth Century Fox

By: Frederick Wasser

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

This is the first scholarly history of Fox from its origins in 1904 to the present. It builds upon research and histories of individual periods to describe how one company responded to a century-long evolution of the audience, nationally and globally. In the beginning, William Fox grabbed a once-in-a-millennium opportunity to build a business based on a genuinely new art form. This study explores the enduring legacy of F.W. Murnau, Will Rogers, Shirley Temple, John Ford, Spyros Skouras, George Lucas, James Cameron, and many others, offering discussion of those behind and in front of the camera, delving deeply into the history and evolution of the studio. Key films covered include The Iron Horse, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, Forever Amber, All About Eve, Cleopatra, The Sound of Music, Planet of the Apes, Star Wars, Titanic, and Fight Club, providing an extensive look at the successes and flops that shaped not only Twentieth Century Fox, but the entire Hollywood landscape. Through a chronological study, the book charts the studio’s impact right up to the present day, providing a framework to allow us to look to the future of moviemaking and film consumption. Lively and fresh in its approach, this book is a comprehensive study of the studio for scholars, students, and enthusiasts of Hollywood cinema, film history, and media industries.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

298

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317415272

ISBN 13

9781317415275

The Loom of Language

By: Frederick Bodmer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Loom of Language

By: Frederick Bodmer

Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples. It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages -- Teutonic, Romance, Greek -- helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of roots and phonetic patterns. It presents by common-sense methods the most helpful approach to the mastery of many languages; it condenses vocabulary to a minimum of essential words; it simplifies grammar in an entirely new way; and it teaches a language as it is actually used in everyday life.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

724

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Published Date

ISBN 10

039330034X

ISBN 13

9780393300345

A German Conversation-Grammar: Being a New and Practical Method of Learning the German language

By: Frederick Leypoldt,Emil Otto,William Cook

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A German Conversation-Grammar: Being a New and Practical Method of Learning the German language

By: Frederick Leypoldt,Emil Otto,William Cook

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

610

Publisher

BoD – Books on Demand

Published Date

ISBN 10

3368860070

ISBN 13

9783368860073

Ivory's Ghosts

The White Gold of History and the Fate of Elephants

By: John Frederick Walker

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ivory's Ghosts

The White Gold of History and the Fate of Elephants

By: John Frederick Walker

“[A] tour de force examination of the history of ivory . . . and the demise of the elephant and human decency in the process of this unholy quest.” —The Huffington Post Praised for the nuance and sensitivity with which it approaches one of the most fraught conservation issues we face today, John Frederick Walker’s Ivory’s Ghosts tells the astonishing story of the power of ivory through the ages, and its impact on elephants. Long before gold and gemstones held allure, ivory came to be prized in every culture of the world—from ancient Egypt to nineteenth-century America to modern Japan—for its beauty, rarity, and ability to be finely carved. But the beauty came at an unfathomable cost. Walker lays bare the ivory trade’s cruel connection with the slave trade and the increasing slaughter of elephants in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By the 1980s, elephant poaching reached levels that threatened the last great herds of the African continent, and led to a worldwide ban on the ancient international trade in tusks. But the ban has failed to stop poaching—or the emotional debate over what to do with the legitimate and growing stockpiles of ivory recovered from elephants that die of natural causes. “Ivory’s Ghost is essential reading for anyone concerned with conservation and with the tenuous future of one of the most magnificent creatures our earth has ever seen.” —George B. Schaller, author of A Naturalist and Other Beast

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

320

Publisher

Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

Published Date

ISBN 10

155584913X

ISBN 13

9781555849139

Through The Hindenburg Line; Crowning Days On The Western Front

By: Frederick Arthur McKenzie

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Through The Hindenburg Line; Crowning Days On The Western Front

By: Frederick Arthur McKenzie

Arthur McKenzie was a member of the fiercely proud band of Canadians who made that trip across the Atlantic to fight alongside the British other Dominion troops. He served from the days of 1915 to the end of the war in 1918, surviving the many terrible dangers of the front-line. He recounts the tales of the band of brothers that he fought with, and the “family” feeling that permeated the Candian troops from the commanding General right down to the lowliest private. The author’s main focus is in describing his experience in the battles that he took part in during 1917 and 1918 as the title suggests including at Vimy ridge and at Passchendaele and Amiens in 1918. He describes the different elements of trench warfare, from raiding the enemy line with knob-kerries and grenades, to the shelling, tanks and mayhem of a full offensive “push”. A great First World War Memoir. Author — McKenzie, Frederick Arthur, 1869-1931 Text taken, whole and complete, from the edition published in London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1918. Original Page Count – 429 pages

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

312

Publisher

Pickle Partners Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1782890971

ISBN 13

9781782890973

The Redemption of Things

Collecting and Dispersal in German Realism and Modernism

By: Samuel Frederick

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Redemption of Things

Collecting and Dispersal in German Realism and Modernism

By: Samuel Frederick

Collecting is usually understood as an activity that bestows permanence, unity, and meaning on otherwise scattered and ephemeral objects. In The Redemption of Things, Samuel Frederick emphasizes that to collect things, however, always entails displacing, immobilizing, and potentially disfiguring them, too. He argues that the dispersal of objects, seemingly antithetical to the collector's task, is essential to the logic of gathering and preservation. Through analyses of collecting as a dialectical process of preservation and loss, The Redemption of Things illustrates this paradox by focusing on objects that challenge notions of collectability: ephemera, detritus, and trivialities such as moss, junk, paper scraps, dust, scent, and the transitory moment. In meticulous close readings of works by Gotthelf, Stifter, Keller, Rilke, Glauser, and Frisch, and by examining an experimental film by Oskar Fischinger, Frederick reveals how the difficulties posed by these fleeting, fragile, and forsaken objects help to reconceptualize collecting as a poetic activity that makes the world of scattered things uniquely palpable and knowable.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

345

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1501761587

ISBN 13

9781501761584

Book's by Frederick Wasser

Twentieth Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox

The Loom of Language

The Loom of Language

A German Conversation-Grammar: Being a New and Practical Method of Learning the German language

A German Conversation-Grammar: Being a New and Practical Method of Learning the German language

Ivory's Ghosts

Ivory's Ghosts

Through The Hindenburg Line; Crowning Days On The Western Front

Through The Hindenburg Line; Crowning Days On The Western Front

The Redemption of Things

The Redemption of Things

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email