Search Results - "TheStreet"

Street Scenes Brecht, Benjamin and Berlin / by Whybrow, Nicolas

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Street smart : the New York of Lumet, Allen, Scorsese, and Lee / by Blake, Richard Aloysius

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At the end of the street in the shadow : Orson Welles and the city / by Grey, Matthew Asprey

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Designing modern America Broadway to Main Street / by Innes, Christopher, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Styling for the modern age -- Egos at work -- Theatrical fashions -- Stage and screen -- Society scenery -- A century of progress -- Riding into the future -- The world of tomorrow -- Car culture -- Street scenes -- Reaching for the sky -- Suburban heaven -- Lifestyle begins in the kitchen -- Selling modernity -- Afterword : then and now.…”
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The films of Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro by Rausch, Andrew J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Mean streets (1973) -- Taxi driver (1976) -- New York, New York (1977) -- Raging bull (1980) -- The king of comedy (1982) -- Goodfellas (1990) -- Cape Fear (1991) -- Casino (1995) -- Epilogue.…”
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Benjamin's passages : dreaming, awakening / by Gelley, Alexander

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Contexts of the aesthetic -- Epigones in the house of language: Benjamin and Kraus -- Benjamin on atget: empty streets and the fading of aura -- Entering the passagen -- Citation as incitation: the political agenda of the passagenarbeit -- Messianism, "weak" and otherwise -- Forgetting, dreaming, awakening.…”
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The performing arts in medieval Islam shadow play and popular poetry in Ibn Daniyāl's Mamluk Cairo / by Guo, Li, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Life as a play. Eye doctor and street buffoon -- Court panegyrist and jester -- Satirist and shadow playwright -- Legacy and controversy. …”
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Understanding Don DeLillo / by Veggian, Henry

Table of Contents: “…Series editor's preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Understanding Don Delillo -- Jargon and genre : Americana, End zone, and Great Jones Street -- Opacity and transparency : White noise and Mao II -- Artists and prophets : The body artist, Cosmopolis, and Falling man -- With, to, and against the novel : the short stories.…”
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Hey presto! Swift and the quacks / by Ormsby-Lennon, Hugh

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Si vulgus vult decipi, decipiatur -- Classis stage-itinerant -- From gabble and harangue to quack's bill -- Universal improvement of mankind -- Ejaculating the soul -- Aping the medicine show: Mencken, Salmon, Yworth -- Doctor and presto -- Dumfounding -- Apollonius of Tyana -- Beginnings and endings, terrae filius on Grub Street.…”
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Moral Enterprise Literature and Education in Antebellum America / by Pacheco, Derek Andrew, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Education and the "Alexandrian library" -- Bibliographic nationalism : marketing America in Horace Mann's school library -- "Disorders of the circulating medium" : Hawthorne's early children's literature -- "Contact with the world" : Elizabeth Peabody's West Street bookshop -- "Conversation of a better order" : Margaret Fuller from the classroom to the dial -- Coda. …”
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Moral Enterprise : Literature and Education in Antebellum America / by Pacheco, Derek Andrew, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Education and the "Alexandrian library" -- Bibliographic nationalism : marketing America in Horace Mann's school library -- "Disorders of the circulating medium" : Hawthorne's early children's literature -- "Contact with the world" : Elizabeth Peabody's West Street bookshop -- "Conversation of a better order" : Margaret Fuller from the classroom to the dial -- Coda. …”
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Close readings analyses of short fiction from multiple perspectives by students of Auburn University Montgomery /

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Art and merchandise in Keith Haring's Pop Shop / by Raffel, Amy

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The films of Edgar G. Ulmer

Table of Contents: “…Ulmer / Noah Isenberg -- The search for community / John Belton -- On the graveyards of Europe: the horror of modernism in The black cat / Herbert Schwaab -- From nine to nine / DJ Turner -- Exile on 125th Street: Germans, Jews, and Africans: Americans in Moon over Harlem / Jonathan Skolnik -- Forging the new Jew: Ulmer's Yiddish films / Vincent Brook -- When you get to the fork, take it: from Ulmer's Yiddish cinema to Woody Allen / Miriam Strube -- A world destroyed by gold: shared allegories of capital in Wagner's Ring and Ulmer's Isle of forgotten sins / Andrew Repasky McElhinney -- Ulmer and the noir femme fatale / Alena Smieskova -- Detour's detour / David Kalat -- Fantasy and failure in Strange illusion / Hugh S. …”
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August Wilson completing the twentieth-century cycle /

Table of Contents: “…Beginning again, again: business in the street in Jitney and Gem of the ocean / Alan Nadel -- Contesting black male responsibilities in August Wilson's Jitney / Dana A. …”
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Kazan revisited

Table of Contents: “…Kazan goes to Washington : a case study in misguided ambivalence / Victor Navasky -- Man on a tightrope : Kazan as liberal anticommunist / Brenda Murphy -- "Independence" and the "art film" : Baby doll and after / Brian Neve -- The search for humor and humanity in Baby doll and A face in the crowd / Sam Wasson -- A straight director's queer eye, 1951-1961 / Mark Harris -- The other side of the story : Elia Kazan as director of female pain / Savannah Lee -- Documentary and democracy in Boomerang! and Panic in the streets / Andrew Tracy -- Elia Kazan and the semidocumentary composing urban space / Patrick Keating -- Choreographing emotions : Kazan's cinemascope staging / Lisa Dombrowski -- Lost river / Richard Schickel -- Late Kazan, or the ambiguities / Haden Guest.…”
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The philosophy of Martin Scorsese

Table of Contents: “…Skoble ; Goodfellas, Gyges, and the good life / Dean A. Kowalski ; Mean streets : beatitude, flourishing, and unhappiness / Mark T. …”
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The crime films of Anthony Mann / by Alvarez, Max Joseph, 1960-

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