Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism ...
 Many works now considered classics were scorned by critics when they were first published. While some of these works received little attention when initially released, others were enormously popular. So too, there is a large body of popular American ... [... more]
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Teenage Nervous Breakdown: Music and Politics in the ...
Teenage Nervous Breakdown: Music and Politics in the Post-Elvis Era combines music and cultural history and criticism to examine how rock and the rock lifestyle have been merchandised first to a teenage audience and eventually to a worldwide consumer ... [... more]
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Docufictions: Essays On The Intersection Of Documentary ...
Through most of the 20th century, the distinction between the fictional narrative film and the documentary was vigorously maintained. The documentary tradition developed side by side with, but in the shadow of, the more commercially successful feature ... [... more]
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Art History and Its Methods
Fernie's Anthology is an Odd Compilation The choices Fernie made in compiling his anthology often seem to make little sense. His Vasari excerpt, for example, is a mish-mosh of badly excerpted Lives and patched together methodology--not one complete, ... [... more]
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Dictionary of the Black Theatre: Broadway, Off-Broadway, ...
Documentation for approximately three hundred shows, from A Trip to Coontown (1898) to 1981's Dreamgirls, is provided in part I. The title of each show is followed by its theatre, opening date, number of performances, complete list of creative personnel, ... [... more]
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Still Beating the Drum: Critical Perspectives on Lewis ...
Lewis Nkosi is one of South Africa’s foremost writers and critics, and one of the few survivors of the exile generation dating from the Drum era. Up until now, however, no full length study has been done on his work. This is a gap in South African ... [... more]
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Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films
STUNNING ACHIEVMENT! This book, by Thomas and Yuko Mihara Weisser of Asian Cult Cinema fame, takes on the "Pink Film" era with an unprecedented scope. The era of the "Pink Films," one of cultural and artistic daring and ... [... more]
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Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination: Ruins, ...
Translated here into English for the first time is a monumental work of literary history and criticism comparable in scope and achievement to Eric Auerbach's Mimesis. Italian critic Francesco Orlando explores Western literature's obsession with outmoded ... [... more]
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Twentieth Century Caribbean Literature
Structured around readings of "critical moments" in the literary history of the Anglophone Caribbean, this book examines: *what it is that we read when we approach Caribbean Literature *how it is that we read it and *what critical, ideological ... [... more]
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Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African ...
In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other emerging artists. By the late 1960s, the company had become a well-known African ... [... more]
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Defining Moments in Books: The Greatest Books, Writers, ...
Written and selected by a range of international writers, academics, and critics, here's an instantly accessible and intelligent look at literary history and criticism over the past century. From key novels to memorable protagonists, admired authors to ... [... more]
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A New History Of Japanese Cinema: A Century Of Narrative ...
In A New History of Japanese Cinema Isolde Standish focuses on the historical development of Japanese film. She details an industry and an art form shaped by the competing and merging forces of traditional culture and of economic and technological ... [... more]
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