[Place of publication not identified] : 3DD Entertainment, [2018]
Introduction: Fred Zinnemann (3:57); Zinnemann: Career Beginnings (2:50); Zinnemann: First Features (5:06); Post WW II (4:17); Films about Soldiers Returning (5:51); "From Here to Eternity" (2:22); "Oklahoma!" (3:46); "The Sundowners" (3:53); "A Man for All Seasons" (3:57); Overcoming Legal Battles (4:02); Zinnemann: Final Films (4:18); Credits: Fred Zinnemann (0:42);
Disaster in the sky: The Hindenburg and the Challenger -- Christmas truce -- Attack on Pearl Harbor -- Grand heist: Colonel Blood's theft of the British crown jewels and the Great Train robbery -- Conspiracy to kill: the real day of the Jackal and Wolf's lair -- Reach for the stars: Galileo's trial and Yuri Gagarian's flight -- Dinosaurs and duplicity: discovery of the first dinosaur and Piltdown man -- Terror - Made in America: The assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the Oklahoma City bombing -- Cold war spies: Gary Powers U-2 spy plane and Colonel Rudolf Abel -- Affairs of the crown: The execution of Anne Boleyn and the abdication of Edward VIII.
Abyss: the narrative spine needs a chiropractor -- Cutthroat island: shiver me structure -- Inherit the wind: Play's the first thing, the screenplay's the second -- Singin' in the rain: the perfect film that shouldn't work -- Pulp fiction: reinventing structure -- Usual suspects: the great script that could have been greater -- High noon: Aristotle goes out west -- Citizen Kane -- Bonfire of the vanities: third act suicide -- Last action hero: deconstruction self-destructs -- Fargo: satire isn't always what closes on Saturday night -- Jewel of the Nile: your subtext is showing, the problem of the false second act -- Groundhog day: the unexpected, expected structure -- Searchers: the third act hiccup -- Verdict: dialogue as litany -- Tender mercies: less is more, lots more -- Some like it hot: fewer scenes, bigger laughs -- Prizzi's honor: the passive second act protagonist -- Day of the jackal: the antagonist as protagonist -- Network: the catalytic monster -- Chinatown: the elusive antagonist -- Casablanca: the antihero as protagonist -- Havana: Casablanca lite -- Treasure of the Sierra Madre: the greatest adventure -- Falling in love: the good guys ought to be the bad guys.
New York : Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Company, 2020.
9780316441421 : PAP 18.99
An office for ungentlemanly warfare -- Tertia Optio -- Surprise attack in Korea -- Special forces -- Ruin and rule in Guatemala -- Kings, shahs, monarchs, and madmen -- The KGB's office of liquid affairs -- Green light -- The special group -- An assassination capability -- JFK, KIA -- The studies and observations group -- Kill or capture -- Green Berets -- Revenge -- Colonel Qaddafi's Libya -- Reagan's preemptive neutralization -- Parachute assassins, Saddam Hussein, and Osama bin Laden -- Operation love storm -- Carlos the jackal -- The engineer -- War in Afghanistan -- Poke the bear -- War in Iraq -- Imad Mugniyah -- The moral twilight zone -- Just war -- The hidden hand.
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