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Napalm an American biography / by Neer, Robert M., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- Hero -- Harvard's genius -- Anonymous research no. 4 -- American kamikazes: suicide bomber bats -- We'll fight mercilessly -- The American century -- Soldier -- Freedom's furnace -- Vietnam syndrome -- Seeing is believing -- Indicted -- Pariah -- Baby burners -- Law catches fire -- The third protocol -- Judgment day -- The weapon that dare not speak its name -- Epilogue: the whole world is watching.…”
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Planet Beethoven : classical music at the turn of the millennium / by Yang, Mina

Table of Contents: “…Glenn Gould, the last of the musical geniuses -- East meets West in the concert hall -- Millennial passions -- Interlude 3. …”
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Planet Beethoven : classical music at the turn of the millennium / by Yang, Mina

Table of Contents: “…Glenn Gould, the last of the musical geniuses -- East meets West in the concert hall -- Millennial passions -- Interlude 3. …”
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The birthday book by Censorinus

Table of Contents: “…Happy birthday -- How to honor the genius of the birthday -- What is the spirit of the birthday? …”
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The birthday book by Censorinus

Table of Contents: “…Happy birthday -- How to honor the genius of the birthday -- What is the spirit of the birthday? …”
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Psychology at the movies by Young, Skip Dine

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the many sides of psychology & the many faces of the movies -- The search for meaning: psychological interpretations in the movies -- Psychopathology, psychotherapy & psycho-psychologists & their patients in the movies -- Crazy genius: the psychology of filmmakers -- Picturing the audience: psychological profiles of moviegoers -- The cinematic moment: emotions & the comprehension of movies -- Reflecting on the screen: the reception of movies -- The movies made me do it: the effects of film effects on behavior -- Movies as equipment for living: the functions of film -- Conclusion: putting the pieces together.…”
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Psychology at the movies by Young, Skip Dine

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the many sides of psychology & the many faces of the movies -- The search for meaning: psychological interpretations in the movies -- Psychopathology, psychotherapy & psycho-psychologists & their patients in the movies -- Crazy genius: the psychology of filmmakers -- Picturing the audience: psychological profiles of moviegoers -- The cinematic moment: emotions & the comprehension of movies -- Reflecting on the screen: the reception of movies -- The movies made me do it: the effects of film effects on behavior -- Movies as equipment for living: the functions of film -- Conclusion: putting the pieces together.…”
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A disturbing and alien memory southern novelists writing history / by Mitchell, Douglas L., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…"Memory enough for the best and bravest of us all": William Gilmore Simms and the failure of romantic history -- "It will be as I now remember it": Thomas Nelson Page and the old south -- "The exasperated genius of Africa": William Wells Brown and African American history -- "A disturbing and alien memory": Allen Tate, modernism, and the use of the past -- "History is blind, but man is not": Robert Penn Warren and the rebuke of the past -- "The conflict is behind me now": Shelby Foote writes the Civil War.…”
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A disturbing and alien memory southern novelists writing history / by Mitchell, Douglas L., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…"Memory enough for the best and bravest of us all": William Gilmore Simms and the failure of romantic history -- "It will be as I now remember it": Thomas Nelson Page and the old south -- "The exasperated genius of Africa": William Wells Brown and African American history -- "A disturbing and alien memory": Allen Tate, modernism, and the use of the past -- "History is blind, but man is not": Robert Penn Warren and the rebuke of the past -- "The conflict is behind me now": Shelby Foote writes the Civil War.…”
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George Ohr : sophisticate and rube / by Lippert, Ellen J.

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George Ohr : sophisticate and rube / by Lippert, Ellen J.

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Dying swans and madmen ballet, the body, and narrative cinema / by McLean, Adrienne L.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : ballet in tin cans -- A channel for progress : theatrical dance, popular culture, and (the) American Ballet -- Gender, genre, and the ballet film through 1947 : part 1, the life of a ballerina is indeed tough -- Gender, genre, and the ballet film through 1947 : part 2, the man was mad--but a genius! -- If you can disregard the plot : the red shoes in an American context -- The second act will be quite different : cinema, culture, and ballet in the 1950s -- Turning points : -- Ballet and its bodies in the "post-studio" era.…”
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Dying swans and madmen ballet, the body, and narrative cinema / by McLean, Adrienne L.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : ballet in tin cans -- A channel for progress : theatrical dance, popular culture, and (the) American Ballet -- Gender, genre, and the ballet film through 1947 : part 1, the life of a ballerina is indeed tough -- Gender, genre, and the ballet film through 1947 : part 2, the man was mad--but a genius! -- If you can disregard the plot : the red shoes in an American context -- The second act will be quite different : cinema, culture, and ballet in the 1950s -- Turning points : -- Ballet and its bodies in the "post-studio" era.…”
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White people do not know how to behave at entertainments designed for ladies & gentlemen of colour William Brown's African & American theater / by McAllister, Marvin Edward, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…. -- American Taste and Genius -- BUILDING AN AMERICAN THEATER -- 67 --4. -- Tom and Jerry Meets Three-Fingered Jack -- THE AFRICAN COMPANY'S BALANCING ACT -- 103 5. …”
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Inventing Stonewall Jackson a Civil War hero in history and memory / by Hettle, Wallace, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Confederate enigma : Stonewall Jackson's image during the Civil War -- The minister and the martyr : Robert Lewis Dabney and Stonewall Jackson biography -- A romantic's Civil War : John Esten Cooke, Stonewall Jackson, and the ideal of individual "genius" -- Domesticating a Confederate hero : Mary Anna Jackson's story of Stonewall Jackson -- Soldiers' stories : Jackson, memoirs, and the lost cause -- Mary Johnston and Stonewall Jackson : a Virginia suffragist and the politics of historical fiction -- Symbol of the South : Allen Tate, Stonewall Jackson, and the lost cause -- Of gods and generals.…”
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Inventing Stonewall Jackson a Civil War hero in history and memory / by Hettle, Wallace, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Confederate enigma : Stonewall Jackson's image during the Civil War -- The minister and the martyr : Robert Lewis Dabney and Stonewall Jackson biography -- A romantic's Civil War : John Esten Cooke, Stonewall Jackson, and the ideal of individual "genius" -- Domesticating a Confederate hero : Mary Anna Jackson's story of Stonewall Jackson -- Soldiers' stories : Jackson, memoirs, and the lost cause -- Mary Johnston and Stonewall Jackson : a Virginia suffragist and the politics of historical fiction -- Symbol of the South : Allen Tate, Stonewall Jackson, and the lost cause -- Of gods and generals.…”
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White people do not know how to behave at entertainments designed for ladies & gentlemen of colour William Brown's African & American theater / by McAllister, Marvin Edward, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…. -- American Taste and Genius -- BUILDING AN AMERICAN THEATER -- 67 --4. -- Tom and Jerry Meets Three-Fingered Jack -- THE AFRICAN COMPANY'S BALANCING ACT -- 103 5. …”
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Wittgenstein at the movies cinematic investigations /

Table of Contents: “…Wittgenstein at the movies : an introduction / Béla Szabados and Christina Stojanova -- Showing, Not Saying : Filming a Philosophical Genius / William Lyons -- Remarks on the Scripts for Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein / Michael O'Pray -- The World Hued : Jarman and Wittgenstein on Colour / Steven Burns -- Sketches of Landscapes : Wittgenstein after Wittgenstein / Daniel Steuer -- "How It Was Then" : Home Movies as History in Péter Forgács's Meanwhile Somewhere / William C. …”
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Wittgenstein at the movies cinematic investigations /

Table of Contents: “…Wittgenstein at the movies : an introduction / Béla Szabados and Christina Stojanova -- Showing, Not Saying : Filming a Philosophical Genius / William Lyons -- Remarks on the Scripts for Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein / Michael O'Pray -- The World Hued : Jarman and Wittgenstein on Colour / Steven Burns -- Sketches of Landscapes : Wittgenstein after Wittgenstein / Daniel Steuer -- "How It Was Then" : Home Movies as History in Péter Forgács's Meanwhile Somewhere / William C. …”
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Romantic Sobriety : Sensation, Revolution, Commodification, History / by Wang, Orrin Nan Chung, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Romantic sobriety; Kant all lit up: romanticism, periodicity, and the catachresis of genius -- Part II: Theory. De man, Marx, Rousseau, and the machine; against theory beside romanticism: mute bodies, fanatical seeing; the sensation of the signifier; ghost theory -- Part III: Texts. …”
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