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Fragmented melodies by Wakai, Kangsen Feka

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Nightmare alley film noir and the American dream / by Osteen, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: film noir and the American dream -- "Someone else's nightmare": exploring noir dreamscapes -- Missing persons: self-erasure and reinvention -- Vet noir: masculinity, memory and trauma -- Framed: forging noir identities -- Noir's cars: automobility and amoral space -- Nocturnes in black and blue: memory, morality and jazz melody -- Femmes vital: film noir and women's work -- Left-handed endeavor: crime, capitalism, and the Hollywood left -- Conclusion: American nightmares.…”
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The point is to change it poetry and criticism in the continuing present / by McGann, Jerome J.

Table of Contents: “…Philological investigations -- Truth in the body of falsehood -- The alphabet, spelt from Silliman's leaves -- The apparatus of loss : Bruce Andrews writing -- Art and error, with special thanks to the poetry of Robert Duncan -- Private enigmas and critical functions, with special thanks to the poetry of Charles Bernstein -- From Sight to Shenandoah -- Marxism, romanticism, postmodernism : an American case history -- Looney tunes and unheard melodies : an Oulipian colonescapade, with a critique of "The great-ape love song corpus" and its lexicon -- The evidence of things not seen : a play -- Ivanhoe : a playful portrait -- Modernity and complicity : a conversation with Johanna Drucker.…”
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Striptease the untold history of the girlie show / by Shteir, Rachel, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…"A startled fawn upon the stage" -- Legs -- "Yvette goes to bed": the first undressing acts -- From Ziegfeld to Minsky: respectable undressing and the rise of modern burlesque -- After the doughboys returned: nudity in burlesque and on broadway -- The first strippers and teasers -- Pansies, reformers, and a "frenzy of congregate cootchers": the birth of modern striptease -- A pretty girl is like a melody, sort of -- The burlesque soul of striptease -- "Minskyville" -- "I never made any money until I took my pants off": fans and bubbles around the nation -- "Temporary entertainment for morons and perverts": LaGuardia kicks striptease out of New York -- Gypsy -- From literary strippers to queens of burlesque -- "Clamouring for a table and pounding for an encore": striptease at the world's fair -- Striptease during wartime -- The private lives of strippers -- Stripty-second streets -- The seamy sides of striptease -- Striptease confidential -- You've gotta get a gimmick -- Topless dancing -- 1969: who killed striptease?…”
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American showman Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel and the birth of the entertainment industry, 1908-1935 / by Melnick, Ross

Table of Contents: “…A new art for a new art form: Roxy and the development of motion picture exhibition (1908-1913) -- Broadway melody: Roxy, Riesenfeld, and the deluxe theater movement (1913-1917) -- The movie house as recruiting center: Roxy, World War I documentaries, and the engineering of consent (1917-1918) -- "The man who gave the movies a college education": Roxy, Rapee, and motion pictures at the Capitol Theatre (1919-1922) -- Roxy and the birth of media convergence (1922-1936). …”
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Public cowboy no. 1 the life and times of Gene Autry / by George-Warren, Holly

Table of Contents: “…-- At home and abroad -- Melody ranch -- A town called Gene Autry -- War! -- Sergeant Gene Autry -- Don't fence me in -- Back in the saddle -- Gene Autry, Inc. -- From horses to reindeer, from big screen to small -- Last of the pony riders -- On the road again--and again -- The last round-up.…”
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman and her contemporaries literary and intellectual contexts /

Table of Contents: “…Tuttle -- Creating great women : Mary Austin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Melody Graulich -- From near-dystopia to utopia : a source for Herland in Inez Haynes Gillmore's Angel Island / Charlotte Rich -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman's With her in Ourland : Herland meets heterodoxy / Lisa A. …”
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Encyclopedia of contemporary Christian fiction from C.S. Lewis to Left behind / by Tischler, Nancy M.

Table of Contents: “…Davis (and Isabella Bunn) -- Butler, Robert Olen, Jr. -- Carlson, Melody -- Cavanaugh, Jack -- Collins, Randilyn -- Cramer, W. …”
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Distributed languaging, affective dynamics, and the human ecology. by Thibault, Paul J.

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Bending Opinion Essays on Persuasion in the Public Domain /

Table of Contents: “…Deliberation, free speech and the marketplace of ideas / Ineke Sluiter -- Rhetoric, classicism and democracy: the conveyance of moral and political values in late antique rhetorical education / Manfred Kraus -- Melody and rhythm in ancient political discourse. …”
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"Music makers" and world creators : the forms and functions of embedded poems in British fantasy narratives / by Hausmann, Michaela

Table of Contents: “…Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1954/1955) -- 6.1 Literary Influences and Mythopoeic Project -- 6.2 The Ring Verse -- 6.3 Ludic Lyrics and Poetic Power Play: The Hobbits and Tom Bombadil -- 6.4 Lyrical Lore of Past and Future -- 6.5 Martial Melodies and Death Dirges -- 6.6 Panegyrics for the Past…”
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