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Buch, Hörbücher:
Kino in Quebec und Kanada
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Essays on Quebec Cinema (Canadian Series, Band 2)Herausgeber: Joseph I. Jr. Donohoe
Gebundene Ausgabe, 01.08.1991
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Peculiar Passages: Black Women Playwrights, 1875 to 2000Autor: Carol Allen
Taschenbuch, 27.05.2005
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The Wolf at the Door: Stanley Kubrick, History, and the Holocaust (Contemporary Film, Television, and Video, Band 1)Autor: Geoffrey Cocks
Taschenbuch, 28.09.2004
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Parables of Disfiguration: Reason and Excess from Romanticism to the Avant-Garde (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature, Band 79)Robert EisenhauerGebundene AusgabeReason and Excess from Romanticism to the Avant-Garde Gebundenes Buch Parables of Disfiguration examines literary and cinematic texts from the Romantic period forward, offering fresh perspectives on the vicissitudes of reason and excess - seen as moments leading to a seizure by sophia (wisdom). Reading canonical works by Percy Bysshe Shelley, but also less familiar poems such as The Revolt of Islam , Robert Eisenhauer draws attention to a series of transits involving the operation of chance and the playful distortions of the scholarly anagram. Hart Crane and Walt Whitman are seen pursuing Dionysiac vocations in the attempt to advance a poetics of melancholy anatomy. Fellini's landmark film La Dolce Vita recuperates or "re-Vamps" Roman and more exotic ( American) character-types, while parabolically excavating ancient names. Further essays are devoted to William Burroughs's representation of the Arab underclass (with reference to the Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz), Edward Dorn's Heideggerian epic Gunslinger , the city in twentieth-century utopian vision, and the concept of the ephemeral in modernist aesthetics. Parables of Disfiguration concludes by reading Wallace Stevens's wintry and complex " Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" tropically - in the context of haiku verse, the Yucatán, Hunter Thompson's " Gonzo" journalism, Plutarch, and an exquisite vehicle combining excess with vindictive righteousness, the Vincent Black Shadow motorcycle. |
Peculiar Passages: Black Women Playwrights, 1875 to 2000Carol AllenGebundene AusgabeBlack Women Playwrights, 1875 to 2000 Gebundenes Buch This book features African American women playwrights from 1875 to 2000, with an emphasis on the late nineteenth century, a period rarely treated in regard to women's drama. Highlighting the lesser-known Pauline Hopkins, Angelina Weld Grimké, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Eulalie Spence, and May Miller, and the well-known Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Childress, Adrienne Kennedy, and Ntozake Shange, Peculiar Passages argues that these playwrights' efforts define a tradition characterized by quick-change mobility, sensitivity to vernacular forms, and dedication to intertextual dialogue. Situating the plays within a broader context, the book also connects them to minstrelsy, the Passion Play, and the Black Arts Movement. |
Blood Obsession: Vampires, Serial Murder, and the Popular ImaginationJörg WaltjeTaschenbuch |
The Double, the Labyrinth and the Locked Room: Metaphors of Paradox in Crime Fiction and FilmIlana ShilohTaschenbuch |
Scenes in the City: Film Visions of Manhattan Before 9/11 (Framing Film / The History and Art of Cinema, Band 6)David I. GrossvogelTaschenbuch |
The Family in Twentieth-Century American Drama (Modern American Literature / New Approaches)Thaddeus WakefieldGebundene AusgabeGebundenes Buch The central subject of American drama is, arguably, the American family. From Royall Tyler's colonial comedy The Contrast (1787) to August Wilson's King Hedley I I (2000), relationships between husbands, wives, and their children have been used consistently by American playwrights to explore and illuminate the American experience. This study of the family in twentieth-century American drama explores how filial relationships are affected by the capitalistic culture of consumption that permeates twentieth-century American society. By analyzing relationships within both traditional and nontraditional families, this book examines how family members in American plays perceive themselves and others as "things" in American twentieth-century capitalistic society. |
Lillian Hellman and August Wilson: Dramatizing a New American Identity (Modern American Literature / New Approaches, Band 37)Margaret BookerGebundene AusgabeDramatizing a New American Identity Gebundenes Buch This book critically discusses the works of two seemingly different and unconnected playwrights, Lillian Hellman and August Wilson. By analyzing the black presence in Hellman and its counterpart white presence in Wilson, it exposes interracial boundaries and illuminates the architecture of the new American citizen through the examination of stereotypes, the revelation of sources of ongoing racial tension, and suggested solutions. Their dramas rewrite history to reflect their political activism and espouse a shared value system that demands responsible action, equitable reward, and recognition of women and African Americans as equally valuable citizens of American society. |
Gothic Perspectives on the American Experience: Second PrintingGregory G. PepetoneTaschenbuch |
Best-Sellers and Their Film Adaptations in Postwar America: From Here to Eternity, Sayonara, Giant, Auntie Mame, Peyton Place (Modern American Literature / New Approaches, Band 28)Jane HendlerTaschenbuch |
The German-Americans and World War II: An Ethnic Experience (New German-American Studies / Neue Deutsch-Amerikanische Studien, Band 6)Timothy J. HolianTaschenbuchAn Ethnic Experience Broschiertes Buch The German-Americans and World War I I: An Ethnic Experience is a unique study of America's largest ethnic group during one of its most difficult periods. Focusing on Cincinnati, Ohio as a center of German-American life, the author utilizes original source material and first-hand interviews to present the first detailed account of the German-American experience during the years leading up to and through World War I I. Topics discussed include the arrest and internment of German legal resident aliens and German-Americans, as enemy aliens; media portrayals of the German-American element during the war era; and an overview of German-American efforts to gain formal recognition of their wartime ordeal. |
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