Bøger af Steven Jacobs

Young and full of adventure, Noah Thompson and his wife Ashley have been married for two years and are just starting their life together. They both love life and are fascinated by history, which drove them to take the plunge and buy an old three-story home in desperate need of repair near downtown Wilmington's historic district.Little do they know, hidden within the walls of this fixer-upper, there was a long-forgotten relic of the past. A relic that will take them on an adventure across Wilmington and take them back to the days of the American Civil War like they could have never dreamed.As if called from the past, the young couple seeks to unravel a Civil War mystery. A mystery that includes a love story, tragedy, and the lure of gold aboard a blockade runner lost off the shores of Fort Fisher during the Civil War.Soon enough, the couple will find out the hard way they are not the only ones searching for the lost blockade runner and its cargo. Being pursued at every turn, Noah has no choice and enlists the help of an old friend. An old friend named Connor Grey who just happens to be the great-grandson of the famous detective Hunter Grey.

The end of World War I ushered in the 1920's, which brought a technological boom in the United States, as great strides were being made in the automobile industry as well as cinema, aviation, medicine, and music such as Jazz. However, with the good also came the bad, as crimes such as bank robberies, gambling, drug trafficking, murder, and along with the ratification of the 18th Amendment, Prohibition, corruption, and organized crime.The port city of Wilmington, North Carolina, was not immune to these problems as a rash of murders had taken place in or near the city, and the bodies dumped on the same rural road outside of the town proper. All attempts to catch the perpetrator had failed, so the mayor of Wilmington called the Allied Detective Agency for help. Within days, Allied's newest agent, Detective Hunter Grey, would find himself in the thick of a case that involves murder, betrayal, corruption, and an old family curse before he finally unraveled the mystery of what was going on around the black waters of Whiskey Creek.

While putting the final touches on a case in Charleston, South Carolina, Allied Detective Agency's Hunter Grey gets swept up in a daring bank robbery only to find out from the Charleston Police that this is not the first bank this particular robbery crew has hit.Soon enough, a young rookie detective enlists Hunter's help in chasing down the daring bank robbers. Throughout the investigation, Hunter and Charleston Police Detective Shawn Eason comb through every piece of evidence only to discover, the bank robbers are looking for something in particular. Only when Hunter and Eason find out precisely what the robbers are looking for will they uncover the mystery behind the bank robberies and how the bank heists connect to a long lost pre-Civil War plantation, the family that owned it, and the lure of lost gold.

This book examines key sculptural motifs and cinematic sculpture in film history through a series of case studies and through an extensive reference gallery of 150 different films.

Through the feature films and documentaries of directors including Emmer, Erice, Godard, Hitchcock, Pasolini, Resnais, Rossellini and Storck, Jacobs examines the way films 'animate' artworks by means of cinematic techniques, such as camera movements and editing, or by integrating them into a narrative. He explores how this 'mobilization' of the artwork is brought into play in art documentaries and artist biopics, as well as in feature films containing key scenes situated in museums. The tension between stasis and movement is also discussed in relation to modernist cinema, which often includes tableaux vivants combining pictorial, sculptural and theatrical elements. This tension also marks the aesthetics of the film still, which have inspired prominent art photographers such as Cindy Sherman and Jeff Wall. Illustrated throughout, Jacobs' study of the presence of art in film, alongside the omnipresence of the filmic image in today's art museums, is an engaging work for students and scholars of film and art alike.