The Resource The ghost script : a graphic novel, Jules Feiffer
The ghost script : a graphic novel, Jules Feiffer
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- Summary
- "Hollywood is haunted. 1953. Ghosts abound. In particular, the ghost of Detective Sam Hannigan<U+0015>murdered in Bay City twenty-two years earlier by Addie Perl, the hired assassin who then bought a Hollywood nightclub with her blood money. Among the nightclub<U+0019>s favored clientele is Sam<U+0019>s widow, Elsie. Blinded by a Japanese bullet while on a USO tour in the South Pacific, Elsie has been reinvented into <U+001c>Miss Know-It-All,<U+0029> a Hollywood gossip columnist. But blind Elsie is haunted by the ghost of her husband, Sam, who asks her accusingly: <U+001c>If Miss Know-It-All knows so much, why can<U+0019>t she find Cousin Joseph, the man who had me killed?<U+0029> Hollywood is haunted. Spooks abound. Agents Shoen and Kline, investigators for the House Un-American Activities Committee, manipulate the blacklisted, buxom, over-the-hill starlet-turned-hooker Lola Burns into working for them and naming the names she had once refused to betray. Hollywood is haunted. Communist screenwriters Oz McCay and Faye Bloom are noisily plotting, boozing, and laughing their way toward their impending disaster. Hollywood is haunted. As an inside joke, writer-director Annie Hannigan<U+0015>Sam and Elsie<U+0019>s daughter<U+0015>comes up with the idea of a <U+001c>Ghost Script<U+0029> that may or may not exist but is rumored to expose the inside story of the Hollywood blacklist and the names of its undercover masterminds, most notably the reclusive philanthropist Lyman Murchison, a superpatriot with a dirty secret. Hollywood is haunted. Stumbling his way through this maze is private eye Archie Goldman, a tough-talking, nebbishy good guy who<U+0019>s never been in a fight he didn<U+0019>t lose. Archie<U+0019>s single aim is to live up to the memory of the ghost who haunts him: Detective Sam Hannigan. Trail along with Archie into the middle of this muddle, as he tracks the arc of history and finds that it has rounded itself off into a circular firing squad."-- book jacket flap
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 149 pages
- Isbn
- 9781631493133
- Label
- The ghost script : a graphic novel
- Title
- The ghost script
- Title remainder
- a graphic novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Jules Feiffer
- Subject
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- Detective and mystery comic books, strips, etc
- Ghosts -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Graphic novel
- Graphic novels
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Noir fiction
- Blacklisting of entertainers -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Private investigators -- California -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Hollywood is haunted. 1953. Ghosts abound. In particular, the ghost of Detective Sam Hannigan<U+0015>murdered in Bay City twenty-two years earlier by Addie Perl, the hired assassin who then bought a Hollywood nightclub with her blood money. Among the nightclub<U+0019>s favored clientele is Sam<U+0019>s widow, Elsie. Blinded by a Japanese bullet while on a USO tour in the South Pacific, Elsie has been reinvented into <U+001c>Miss Know-It-All,<U+0029> a Hollywood gossip columnist. But blind Elsie is haunted by the ghost of her husband, Sam, who asks her accusingly: <U+001c>If Miss Know-It-All knows so much, why can<U+0019>t she find Cousin Joseph, the man who had me killed?<U+0029> Hollywood is haunted. Spooks abound. Agents Shoen and Kline, investigators for the House Un-American Activities Committee, manipulate the blacklisted, buxom, over-the-hill starlet-turned-hooker Lola Burns into working for them and naming the names she had once refused to betray. Hollywood is haunted. Communist screenwriters Oz McCay and Faye Bloom are noisily plotting, boozing, and laughing their way toward their impending disaster. Hollywood is haunted. As an inside joke, writer-director Annie Hannigan<U+0015>Sam and Elsie<U+0019>s daughter<U+0015>comes up with the idea of a <U+001c>Ghost Script<U+0029> that may or may not exist but is rumored to expose the inside story of the Hollywood blacklist and the names of its undercover masterminds, most notably the reclusive philanthropist Lyman Murchison, a superpatriot with a dirty secret. Hollywood is haunted. Stumbling his way through this maze is private eye Archie Goldman, a tough-talking, nebbishy good guy who<U+0019>s never been in a fight he didn<U+0019>t lose. Archie<U+0019>s single aim is to live up to the memory of the ghost who haunts him: Detective Sam Hannigan. Trail along with Archie into the middle of this muddle, as he tracks the arc of history and finds that it has rounded itself off into a circular firing squad."-- book jacket flap
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Feiffer, Jules
- Dewey number
- 741.5/973
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PN6727.F4
- LC item number
- G48 2018
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- comics graphic novels
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Graphic novel
- Private investigators
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Detective and mystery comic books, strips, etc
- Ghosts
- Blacklisting of entertainers
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The ghost script : a graphic novel, Jules Feiffer
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 29 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 149 pages
- Isbn
- 9781631493133
- Lccn
- 2018009886
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- chiefly color illustrations
- System control number
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- on1005123885
- (OCoLC)1005123885
- 977991
- Label
- The ghost script : a graphic novel, Jules Feiffer
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 29 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 149 pages
- Isbn
- 9781631493133
- Lccn
- 2018009886
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- chiefly color illustrations
- System control number
-
- on1005123885
- (OCoLC)1005123885
- 977991
Subject
- Detective and mystery comic books, strips, etc
- Ghosts -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Graphic novel
- Graphic novels
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Noir fiction
- Blacklisting of entertainers -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Private investigators -- California -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Comics (Graphic works)
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