In Blue Screen Sunny Randall is hired by Buddy Bollen, a movie producer who lives in Jesse Stone's Paradise, to protect his main lay, Erin Flint, a B-movie actress. When Erin's sister is murdered, Erin asks Randall to investigate and this brings her in contact with Jesse Stone. The investigation involves the usual Robert B. Parker scene of the detective discussing the case with a local mobster, a close friend, and an intimate friend, shuffling to and back from another big city, discussions on the nature of human nature, and all the other Robert B. Parker stuff.
The process of translating works of literature to the silver screen is a rich field of study for both students and scholars of literature and cinema. The fourteen essays collected here provide an up-to-date survey of the important films based on, or inspired by, nineteenth-century American fiction, from James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans to Owen Wister's The Virginian.
Sounds, narration and lively animation make this dictionary a lively interactive tour that far surpasses the teaching capability of traditional dictionaries in book form. Students will be guided through the world of words in an entirely fresh and exciting way with each word having a big, simple, colorful screen, complete with its own definition, illustration, sound and animation.