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Sitting pretty the life and times of Clifton Webb / by Webb, Clifton, 1893-1966

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The noses have it -- First vision of a name in lights -- Art and opera -- Making progress and moving up -- Dancing into Xanadu -- To Europe in search of adventure -- In love with Jeanne Eagels -- Great plays, then the great war -- The war starts, Blithe spirit leads to Laura -- More movies, more parties, and Garbo -- A top box-office draw -- Stars and stripes forever -- Clifton and Mabelle, together forever.…”
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At the font of the marvelous exploring oral narrative and mythic imagery of the Iroquois and their neighbors / by Wonderley, Anthony Wayne, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : oral narrative of the Iroquois and their neighbors -- Iroquois star lore : what does it mean? -- War in the west : nineteenth-century Iroquois legends of conquest -- Killer lizards, Eldritch fish, and horned serpents -- Old good twin : Sky Holder during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- The story of Windigo -- The friendly visitor : an Iroquois stone giant goes calling in Algonquian country -- Mythic imagery in Iroquoian archaeology.…”
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The aircraft designers : a Grumman historical perspective / by Ciminera, Michael V., Grumman, Nothrop

Table of Contents: “…The early years -- The war years -- Postwar years : first jets -- The dynamic 1950s and 1960s, and the Gulfstream legacy -- Lineage of airborne early warning systems -- The F-111B and the lineage of the F-14 -- Future systems -- Lineage of battlefield surveillance : RGWs, Pave Mover, and Joint Stars -- Lineage of electronic warfare -- Grumman in perspective -- Appendix: Aircraft designers and key teammates -- About the author -- Supporting materials.…”
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Playing America's game baseball, Latinos, and the color line / by Burgos, Adrian, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Latinos play America's game -- A national game emerges -- Early maneuvers -- Holding the line -- Baseball should follow the flag -- "Purest bars of Castilian soap" -- Making Cuban stars -- Becoming Cuban senators -- Playing in the world Jim Crow made -- Latinos and baseball's integration -- Troubling the waters -- Latinos and baseball's global turn -- Saying it is So-sa! …”
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The Adrienne Kennedy reader by Kennedy, Adrienne

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Introduction vii -- Werner Sollors --Because of the King of France 3 --ADRIENNE KENNEDY IN ONE ACT -- Funnyhouse of a Negro 11 -- On the Writing of Funnyhouse ofa Negro 27 -- The Owl Answers 29 -- A Lesson in Dead Language 43 -- A Rat's Mass 47 -- Sun 55 -- A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White 62 -- Electra (Euripides) 79 -- Orestes (Euripides) 99 --An Evening with Dead Essex 117 --THE ALEXANDER PLAYS -- She Talks to Beethoven 139 -- Ohio State Murders 151 -- The Film Club (A Monologue by Suzanne Alexander) 174 -- Dramatic Circle 182 --Letter to My Students on My Sixty-first Birthday by Suzanne Alexander 197 -- Motherhood 2000 228 -- Secret Paragraphs about My Brother 234 -- June and Jean in Concert (Concert of Their Lives) 239 -- A Letter to Flowers 262 -- Sisters Etta and Ella (excerpt from a narrative) 291 -- Grendel and Grendel's Mother 300 --Copyright and Original Publication Information 307.…”
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Fans, bloggers, and gamers exploring participatory culture / by Jenkins, Henry, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Excerpts from "Matt Hills interviews Harry Jenkins" -- Star trek rerun, reread, rewritten: fan writing as textual poaching -- "Normal female interest in men bonking": selections from the Terra nostra underground and Strange bedfellows / Shoshanna Green, Cynthia Jenkins -- "Out of the closet and into the universe": queers and Star trek / John Campbell -- "Do you enjoy making the rest of us feel stupid?"…”
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John Sayles by Shumway, David R.

Table of Contents: “…John Sayles: critical realist -- John Sayles: independent -- John Sayles: realist -- Beginnings: return of the Secaucus seven -- Establishing a career -- Lianna and Baby it's you -- The brother from another planet and Springsteen videos -- Matewan -- Men out -- Place and melodrama: city of hope and passion fish -- Stories -- Lone star -- Men with guns -- Limbo -- Millennial sayles -- Casa de los babys -- Silver city -- Honeydripper.…”
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Progressive country : how the 1970s transformed the Texan in popular culture / by Mellard, Jason

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "Too much ain't enough," or, The Texan in the late twentieth century -- The empire of Texas : Lone Star regionalism sets the stage, 1936-1968 -- Home with the armadillo : Austin's progressive country music scene -- This new cross between Baba Ram Dass and Sam Bass : cosmic cowboydom and the 1970s -- The vanishing Texan : the party of the fathers realigns -- You a real cowboy? …”
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Reality television and Arab politics contention in public life / by Kraidy, Marwan, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Big brother in Bahrain -- The Saudi-Lebanese connection -- Contesting reality: Star academy and Islamic authenticity in Saudi Arabia -- Gendering reality: Kuwait in the eye of the storm -- A battle of nations: Superstar and the Lebanon-Syria media war -- The "new Middle East"? …”
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Upheaval in Charleston earthquake and murder on the eve of Jim Crow / by Williams, Susan Millar

Table of Contents: “…-- A world turned upside down -- The earthquake hunters -- Aftershocks -- An angry God -- Labor Day -- "Bury the dead and feed the living" -- The comforts of science -- Relief -- Waiting for the apocalypse -- Rising from the ruins -- The old joy of combat -- Wrapped in the stars and stripes -- Fault lines -- Standing over a volcano -- Killing Captain Dawson -- The trial -- Epilogue : rebuilding the walls.…”
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David Baker a legacy in music / by Herzig, Monika, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Indiana Avenue and Crispus Attucks High School / Lissa May -- A star is born / Monika Herzig -- New beginnings / Monika Herzig and Nathan Davis -- Defining jazz education / JB Dyas -- 21st century bebop / Monika Herzig and Brent Wallarab -- The composer / David Ward-Steinman -- David Baker and the Smithsonian : a personal perspective / John Edward Hasse -- Social engagement / Willard Jenkins -- Coda / Monika Herzig.…”
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Go west, young women! the rise of early Hollywood / by Hallett, Hilary A., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Hollywood bohemia -- The movie menace -- A star is born: rereading Hollywood's first sex scandal -- Conclusion: the girl from Hollywood.…”
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Dreaming America Popular Front Ideals and Aethetics in Children's Plays of the Federal Theatre Project / by Frost, Leslie Elaine

Table of Contents: “…Raising up an educated audience : Federal Children's Theatre -- The Revolt of the beavers : "we should have called it Rumplestiltskin" -- "I looked him right square in the eye" : the story of Little Black Sambo in the Federal Theatre Project -- Shadows of war and homefront patriotism : anti-fascism and the innocent child in the Federal A letter to Santa Claus and Hollywood's The little princess -- Wishing on a star : Pinocchio's journey from the Federal stage to Disney's world.…”
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Dreaming America : Popular Front Ideals and Aethetics in Children's Plays of the Federal Theatre Project / by Frost, Leslie Elaine

Table of Contents: “…Raising up an educated audience : Federal Children's Theatre -- The Revolt of the beavers : "we should have called it Rumplestiltskin" -- "I looked him right square in the eye" : the story of Little Black Sambo in the Federal Theatre Project -- Shadows of war and homefront patriotism : anti-fascism and the innocent child in the Federal A letter to Santa Claus and Hollywood's The little princess -- Wishing on a star : Pinocchio's journey from the Federal stage to Disney's world.…”
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Dreaming America : Popular Front Ideals and Aethetics in Children's Plays of the Federal Theatre Project / by Frost, Leslie Elaine

Table of Contents: “…Raising up an educated audience : Federal Children's Theatre -- The Revolt of the beavers : "we should have called it Rumplestiltskin" -- "I looked him right square in the eye" : the story of Little Black Sambo in the Federal Theatre Project -- Shadows of war and homefront patriotism : anti-fascism and the innocent child in the Federal A letter to Santa Claus and Hollywood's The little princess -- Wishing on a star : Pinocchio's journey from the Federal stage to Disney's world.…”
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Nordic exposures Scandinavian identities in classical Hollywood cinema / by Lunde, Arne Olav

Table of Contents: “…Scandinavians, the talkie revolution, and the crisis of foreign voice -- Charlie Chan is Swedish: the Asian racial masquerades and Nordic otherness of Warner Oland -- Two-faced women: Hollywood's and Third Reich cinema's war for the Nordic female star.…”
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Death blow to Jim Crow the National Negro Congress and the rise of militant civil rights / by Gellman, Erik S.

Table of Contents: “…: the Congress splits in Washington -- Finding the north star in New York : home front battles during the Second World War -- The world's "firing line" : South Carolina's postwar internationalism -- Conclusion : gone with what wind?.…”
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Disciplining Germany youth, reeducation, and reconstruction after the Second World War / by Fisher, Jaimey

Table of Contents: “…The Nazi "revolution" as youth uprising -- The Jugendproblem (youth problem): youth and reeducation in the early postwar public sphere -- Germany's youthful "catastrophe": guilt and modernity in the early postwar period -- Modernity's better others: youth in Jaspers's postwar university and Wiechert's reconstructive agenda -- Children of the rubble: youth, pedagogy, and politics in early DEFA films -- Reconstructing film in the western zones: stars of youthful sexuality -- Conclusion: Mobilizing youth for the Cold War.…”
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Black aperture : poems / by Rasmussen, Matt

Table of Contents: “…--I am not a poem--tom black--field with whales--after suicide--in the whoever's hotel room this is--vacation cage--monet as a verb--we're not the stars, we're what's between them--seed--chekhov's gun-- II elegy in x parts--III outgoing--land o' lakes--a poem in which leaves again figure prominently--burial--aperture.…”
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The strange career of the Black athlete African Americans and sports / by Wigginton, Russell Thomas

Table of Contents: “…the categorization of African-American star athletes, 1892-1946 -- When the rooster crows : African American athletes in the struggle for civil rights, 1954-1968 -- The rules have changed but the game is still the same : black athletes' achievements in the civil rights era and beyond -- She's done more for her country than what the U.S. could have paid her for : African American women and sports.…”
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