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Kristin Thompson (born 1950) is an American film theorist and author whose research interests include the close formal analysis of films, the history of film styles, and "quality television," a genre akin to art film. She wrote two scholarly books in the 1980s which used an analytical technique called neoformalism. She also co-authored two ...
CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties is a 2019 nonfiction book written by Tom O'Neill with Dan Piepenbring. The book presents O'Neill's research into the background and motives for the Tate–LaBianca murders committed by the Manson Family in 1969.
Burn After Reading is a 2008 black comedy film written, produced, edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. [5] It follows a recently jobless CIA analyst, Osborne Cox (John Malkovich), whose misplaced memoirs are found by a pair of dimwitted gym employees (Frances McDormand and Brad Pitt).
Roger Ebert gave the film a four out of four rating and stated: How strange, a movie where a bad man becomes better, instead of the other way around. Tsotsi, a film of deep emotional power, considers a young killer whose cold eyes show no emotion, who kills unthinkingly, and who is transformed by the helplessness of a baby. He didn't mean to ...
The Cobra Event is a 1998 thriller novel by Richard Preston describing an attempted bioterrorism attack on the United States.The perpetrator of the attack has genetically engineered a virus, called "Cobra", that fuses the incurable and highly contagious common cold with one of the world's most virulent diseases, smallpox.
The film features 15 student activists and archival footage of Mario Savio, Todd Gitlin, Joan Baez, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Huey Newton, Allen Ginsberg, Gov. Ronald Reagan and the Grateful Dead. [5] The film is dedicated to Fred Cody, founder of Cody's Books. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. [6]
Taphophobia (from Greek τάφος – taphos, "grave, tomb" [1] and φόβος – phobos, "fear" [2]) is an abnormal (psychopathological) phobia of being buried alive as a result of being incorrectly pronounced dead. [3] Before the era of modern medicine, the fear was not entirely irrational.
In addition to winning major awards for science writing and history, The Information received mostly positive reviews. In May/June 2011 issue of Bookmarks, the book received 4 out of 5 stars, with the critical summary saying, "Readers may find The Information a dense and demanding read, but this illuminating book is well worth the effort".