Contemporary film history 2nd edition

A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates, or simply A General History of the Pyrates is a 1724 book published in Britain containing biographies of contemporary pirates, which was influential in shaping popular conceptions of pirates.
Its author uses the name Captain Charles Johnson, generally considered a pen name for one of London's writer-publishers.
The prime source for the biographies of many well-known pirates, the book gives an almost mythical status to the more colourful characters, and it is likely that the author used considerable artistic license in his accounts of pirate conversations.
The book also contains the name of the pirate flag the Jolly Roger and shows the skull and bones design.

From Russia with Love is a 1963 spy film and the second in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, as well as Sean Connery's second role as MI6 agent 007 James Bond.

Halloween is a 1978 American independent slasher film directed, co-written, and scored by John Carpenter.
Starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis, with P.
J.
Soles and Nancy Loomis in supporting roles, the film is set mostly in the fictional town of Haddonfield, Illinois, the plot centers on a mental patient, Michael Myers, who was committed to a sanitarium for murdering his teenage sister on Halloween night when he was a child.
Fifteen years later, having escaped and returned to his hometown, he stalks teenage babysitter Laurie Strode and her friends while under pursuit by his psychiatrist Dr.
Samuel Loomis.

Lifeforce is a 1985 science fiction horror film directed by Tobe Hooper, adapted by Dan O'Bannon and Don Jakoby, and starring Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay, Mathilda May, and Patrick Stewart.
Based on Colin Wilson's 1976 novel The Space Vampires, the film portrays the events that unfold after a trio of humanoids in a state of suspended animation are brought to Earth after being discovered in the hold of an alien space ship by the crew of a European Space Shuttle.

The Bourne Ultimatum is a 2007 action-thriller film directed by Paul Greengrass.
Although it shares its name with the 1990 novel The Bourne Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum, its plot is entirely different.
The screenplay was written by Tony Gilroy, Scott Z.
Burns and George Nolfi and based on a screen story of the novel by Gilroy. The Bourne Ultimatum is the third installment in the Jason Bourne film series, after The Bourne Identity (2002) and The Bourne Supremacy (2004).
The fourth film, The Bourne Legacy, was released in August 2012, without the involvement of Damon, and the fifth film, Jason Bourne, was released in July 2016.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding.
It is a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel.
It was first published on 28 February 1749 in London and is among the earliest English works to be classified as a novel.
It is the earliest novel mentioned by W.
Somerset Maugham in his 1948 book Great Novelists and Their Novels among the ten best novels of the world.

Things is a 1989 Canadian independent direct-to-video horror film, directed by Andrew Jordan and written by Jordan and Barry J.
Gillis.
The film was shot in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough, Ontario, with a cast consisting of co-writer Barry J.
Gillis and pornographic film star Amber Lynn.
Its plot follows two friends who, while visiting a relative's house, encounter a horde of hostile creatures that are the results of experiments by a demented doctor.