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A Drunkard's Social Protest.......2007-02-21
Of all the prolific quantity of social criticism which appeared in the post-Stalin, pre-Glasnost era, this is certainly one of the most over-priced and insignificant entries. The detailed exposition of the ravages of alcohol abuse is disgustingly tedious, and hints of the author's supposed familiarity with the stable of excellent pre-revolution Russian writers is as unconvincing as his apparent attribution of his alcoholic behavior to the social structure. In short, the editorial praise dredged up to sell this thing vastly overstates its merits, despite a few mildly interesting flights of hallucigenic fancy. Since the author died at age 55, he may have accurately portrayed his own struggle with depraved alcoholism.
Best book ever, even if you are not an alcoholic.......2006-06-18
Answering the most important age old philosophical question... Is it moral to go through life sober?
Intense, shocking, deep, great........2006-01-24
As one of my professors noted, this book is about what, how much and in what order you can drink. It describes with a minute precision the drinking traditions of the Soviet times. You will find an immense list of alcoholic and semi-alcoholic beverages sold, made and consumed by the male population in the state of constant desperation of life. Halfway into the book, Erofeev provides the reader with a peculiar set of cocktail recipes (for example "Komsomol Girl's Tear) that include such bizzare ingredients as nail polish, gasoline, shoe polish, cologne, and others. The amazing and the sad part is that Soviets did drink such poisonous mixtures.
In between Erofeev's wanderings on the subject of drinking, you will find some very deep philosophical thoughts, a hopeless story of the Soviet reality, and a vague description of his love towards the "red-haired bitch."
Ironically, Erofeev was diagnosed with the throat cancer. While he was still operable, several European medical institutions offered their expertise and help in saving Venedikt's life. As you could've guessed, the Soviet government did not allow him the visa to leave the country. So, Erofeev tragically died.
Called a poem, Moscow to the End of the Line (Moscow to Petushki in Russian) is a lyrical cry of one soul's desperation.
The perfect imagery is not yet literature.......2004-12-18
Obviously, the poem is not a good literature. It is very uneven, with episodes of strikingly different literary strength: from near-perfect accounts of drunk's perceptions to feeble moralizing.
The writer's goal of presenting himself as Soviet-era incarnation of the Russian Silver-era intelligent is laughable. To make his point, he resorts to several crooked arguments.
Firstly, the superficial reasoning, "they, too, drunk excessively." This is untrue, since even Esenin and Majakovsky committed suicide perfectly sober. In the critical minutes, their mind was clear. The writer, on the contrary, exhalts the mindlesness.
Secondly, the non-acceptance of evil. But while the real intelligentsia worked to change the world, or at least clearly opposed it, and usually offered a solution, even if mystic, the writer elevates his inability to do anything positive into the theory. Oscar Wilde, a contrarian par excellence, lashed out on the society, but never praised the drunken coma.
Thirdly, a pretense at erudition. But an acquaintance with few isolated historical facts is no equivalent of digested knowledge.
The writer's claim of the highest morality is immediately discredited by silly and unnecessary anti-Semitic turns.
The hero reminds of Dostoevsky's (Demons) degraded pseudo-intelligentsia ugly precisely because it is a mere pretense.
Is it a coincidence that Erofeev became widely popular at the same time as, for example, Nautilus Pompilius? Hardly so. His ideas resonated in the society which had lost the old ideals and saw no new ones. Two thousands years ago, the same thoughts were expressed in apocalypses. Now, the apocalypse became internalized: it is no longer a death of all brought about by someone on a black horse, but personal death to the world. While the latter recalls of the mystic experience, of people consciously leaving the society in search of the inner self, this is not what the writer suggests. Like a person scattering his inheritance in drunken endeavors, the writer kills the major human endowment, his soul. His appeal might therefore be likened to that of crusaders: the darkest evil made permissible by dressing it in demagogy of good intentions.
Is his message something of meaning? Yes, but that meaning is of Raskolnikoff's mold: any means are allowed for the supposedly more spiritual beings (dropped-out students and common drunks, in fact) toward the materialist population. Only the people content with living in this world could be truly spiritual. Confucius said something like, "In a country of no Humanity, a shame is being rich and renown. But in a country of Humanity, a shame is in poverty and seclusion." His point was that a person should work on himself, preparing himself to live in the state of Humanity.
The poem might serve as warning. It is Venichka's decadence, not his supervisors who punished him. At the same time he drunken himself into delirium, the Soviet dissidents in prisons, labor camps, or boiler-houses worked to change the society.
The most dangerous is the poem's appearance of straightforward decadence. The writer, on the contrary, argues for his way of life as the only decent one. This makes him close to Slavophil writers of the nineteenth century. The poem is consciously patterned in the neo-Christ fashion: the journey is allegorical of the way to Golgotha, culminating in the hero's Passion. This inhumane drunk, who lost an ability to love, to dream, to suffer, for whom alcohol remains the only passion, and vomiting - the only concern, is not a bearer of panhuman morals he poses as.
translation.......2004-06-09
Moscow Circles (J.R Dorrel) is a better translation than Moscow to the End of the Line (H. William Tjalsma). It's more faithful to the original. I've read them both and prefer it by quite a bit. Moscow Circles is a little hard to find though. Moscow to the End of the Line is still a great read if thats all you can find. This is probably my favorite Russian book!
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Moscow to the End of the Line
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This digital document is an article from The Review of Contemporary Fiction, published by Review of Contemporary Fiction on June 22, 1993. The length of the article is 447 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Will Bravo's Christmas Pasts.......2002-12-06
Jillian Diamond has a visit from Will Bravo's grandmother Mad Mavis McCormick's ghost on her first night in Mavis' house! Will is Mavis' favorite and she wants him to be happy and knows Jilly can help him be. Jilly was loaned the house by Caitlin Bravo, Will's mother, but she neglected on purpose to say that Will "Scrooge" Bravo would be spending Christmas and New Year's at the house too. Jilly wants a reprieve from her family and Will hates the holidays and holds up in the house every year. Caitlin sees an opportunity to matchmake and takes advantage of it. Stranded due to a snowstorm Will & Jilly find that they do like each other and do find love. Jilly helps Will deal with all his emotions due to having bad things happen to him over the years during this wonderful season of the year and he helps Jilly with her mixed emotions about "needing" a man. It takes several days and nights but they do find their HEA. Ms Rimmer wrote a wonderful book in this miniseries. I've enjoyed all 3 of The Sons of Caitlin Bravo mini and have enjoyed all 12 Bravos series books along with all her others.
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Contains the most popular and important stories from van Vogt's wide and varied career.
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Timeless classics of science fiction.......2003-08-21
Most of these classic stories are from the years 1939-1950, an era where A.E. van Vogt was, along with Robert Heinlein, the most popular science fiction author in America. And although much science fiction written so many years ago has become dated, van Vogt's stories, for the most part, are still fresh and exciting.
If you have never read van Vogt, be prepared to be swept away from the very first sentence. His stories are not always logical, nor are all loose ends always tidied up, but they move along at breakneck speed, are filled with ideas, and will contain moments that you will remember forever.
From a historic perspective, you will see some of the first science fiction stories dealing with human-alien warfare (The Sound, The Rull), humans that can travel back through time (The Search), encounters with energy vampires (Asylum), humans of varied nationalities populating a spaceship that explores the galaxy, and beyond (Black Destroyer, War of Nerves), and so much more.
A few of van Vogt's classic novels have recently been reprinted, but sadly most of his work is out of print. Here is probably your last chance to own a large collection of his best short stories - stories that are timeless classics of science fiction.
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Explores the emotional and spiritual battlegrounds common in the experience of today's military wife. This book speaks from the author's personal experiences and offers Scriptural encouragement to millions of others who bear similar burdens of fear, loneliness, anger, disappointment, temptation, and separation from loved ones.
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A faith-inspired testimony and advice guides .......2004-11-05
Written by the devout Christian wife of two decades to a career military sailor and commissioned officer in service to America, Hope for the Home Front: God's Timeless Encouragement for Today's Military Wife is a faith-inspired testimony and advice guides for dealing with the particular trials and tribulations of spouses separated by their loved ones by vast distances and even the threat of death in service to one's country. Topics addressed include how to confront fear with faith, raising children when their father is absent for long periods of time in service to one's country, learning how to stay together when duty forces a couple to be apart so much, and more. A deeply powerful testimony that combines personal experience, trust in God's plan, and practical wisdom into a heartfelt whole.
Hope for the Home Front: God's Timeless Encouragement for To.......2004-09-17
Finally, a book that explains the emotional and spiritual aspect of being a military wife and mother. It's easy to find books about moving in the military, or what types of insurance you need, or how to use the commissary, etc. or even coping with one-time deployments and separations. This book goes beyond that. I feel like Marshele Carter Waddell spoke to me directly and to my friends whose husbands are gone many months of each and every year. I have highlighted passages over and over in her book and read it each night. The Scripture readings are wonderful and I have posted them around my house as well. I highly recommend it, for military and civilians.
Addresses EVERY need...........2003-11-19
This book was better than I hoped it would be! It has encouraged me so much! She uses personal experience and scripture to equip you for the challenges faced daily during deployment. It's not a pitty-party, it's encouraging and uplifting. I couldn't put it down!
If you are the wife of a deployed service member, this book is for you. It is for everyone--enlisted and officer! I LOVE this book. I'm taking it to my church's spouse's group. I'm sure they will all love it too!
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The remarkable diversity of Malaysia and its exciting cuisines is brought to life in this unique collection, providing an in-depth look at the melding and fusion of Asian cultures from the regions top chefs and restaurants. Learn to prepare such delectable dishes like Salted Fish and Pineapple Curry, Black Pepper Crab, Eggplant with Basil, Spicy Barbecued Chicken, and Pickled Papaya, among others.
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Definitely authentic Malaysian recipes........2003-11-20
As a Malaysian living in US, I can vouch for the authenticity of the recipes in this book. At this juncture, I would like to address some concerns raised in Arun J Gavali's review. First & foremost, Malaysia is a Muslim country where pork is not "kosher", hence the lack of pork recipes unless you're referring strictly to the foods of the Chinese ethnic group (2nd largest ethnic group in Malaysia). Beef & other meat recipes are limited owing to the fact that the landscape of Malaysia does not permit wide pasturage for raising cattle. Chicken & fish are much more widely consumed. Most of the fresh ingredients such as turmeric, galangal, pandan (screwpine) leaves, kaffir lime leaves, daun kesum & wild ginger bud, can be found in Thai or Vietnamese grocery stores. They may come fresh or frozen, depending on the store. As for keeping them fresh, freeze them by wrapping them first in parchment or in another plastic bag, before putting them into ziploc freezer bags, to prevent freezer burns. I've been successful at keeping them fresh for a couple of months this way. Better yet, seal them in vacuum packs (if you have one of those vacuum packing machines) before freezing. I always separate them into smaller portions before freezing so that I only have to defrost what I would need later for cooking. You can get a rough idea of how much you would need each time by going through the recipes in the book, especially where the curries are concerned. I only anticipate difficulty in locating ingredients for 1 recipe, Nasi Kerabu (rice with fresh herbs), since some of the herbs listed are truly indigenous to Malaysia only. Apart from this, there's nothing to prevent you from enjoying other recipes in this book, especially with the suggested substitutes. The book does present a very good cross-section of the most popular Malaysian foods and serve more than adequately to introduce the novice to the very wide variety of food found in Malaysia. To include more recipes would be overwhelming in my opinion, to most people who aren't familiar with or even unsure of the outcome of these recipes. If you truly want to try more, you should travel to Malaysia and plan on feasting everyday while you're there. Otherwise, I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to try some great Malaysian food.
Excellent for some recipes... worth considering other books........2003-03-30
I started with the Food of Asia, which I think is excellent. I decided to check into some specific cuisines, such as Malaysia, of the seven cuisines that are presented in the Food of Asia. I am a little torn.
The individual books in the "Food of" series by Periplus have extensive introductions. There are not as many recipes as I had hoped for. The ingredients list, along with the accompanying commentaries, are about the same, with an equivalent number of photos, as the Food of Asia. The Food of Asia contains many of the recipes, however, some do not have a photo.
I would have hoped for more recipes and more vegetables. The recipes that are worth the purchase: Spicy Rice with Chicken, Hot Sour Fish Curry, Spicy Shrimp In A Sarong, Butter Shrimp, Black Pepper Crab, Indian Fish Curry, Portuguese Baked Fish, Chicken Satay, Spicy Barbacued Chicken, Barbacued Chicken Wings, Dry Mutton Curry, Chicken Curry, Devil Chicken Curry, Chicken Rice, Srir-Fried Peas, Snake Gourd and Spicy Pumpkin. There are few if any beef, pork or other meats, and many of the vegetables will not be found in a grocery store.
The ingredients list is thourough, with substitutions for (or omission of) many hard-to-find ingredients, but is a little more stringent than other books I have read. For example, shallot or onion was offered as a substitute for asofoetida in a different book, whereas here no substitute is given. On the contrary, macadamia nuts are suggested as a substitute, or even almonds or cashews, for candlenuts. But again, the Food of Asia offered asparagus as a substitute for fern tips, and zuchini or green beans for snake gourd, both of which can be hard if not impossible to find. The books on separate cuisines do not have such substitutions.
A word of caution, many of the ingredients are difficult to find even online. There are also several "fresh" ingredients, such as kaffir lime leaves, salam leaves, duan kasum, etc, that have to be shipped fresh and stay for only a short while. Other cuisines, like Thai, have more availability of authentic ingredients as well as spice mixes that really help save time.
I think that the Food of Asia may be a better starting point and that searching for other cookbooks that have versions of the really good recipes plus many more recipes is advisable.
Hope this helps.
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Authentic Malaysian for experienced cooks.......2003-11-23
This is a great book on Malaysian food. All the recipes I've tried so far turned out really well. Unfortunately only 'Halal' recipes are featured. Hence, truly original Malaysian recipes such as the 'Bah Kut Teh' and 'Pork Vindaloo' are missing because they contain pork. Was disappointed that the 'Yee Sang', an original M'sian must-have dish for the Chinese New Year, is also missing. And the 'Nasi Ayam' ('Chicken Rice') featured is not the one made popular by Hainanese migrants, but is instead the Malay equivalent. Also, note that the recipes in this book tend to be the 'gourmet' version - this means that you'll need 15 ingredients to make the same dish that your grandmother used to make using only 5 ingredients. However, the results are undeniably delicious.
Excellant and authentic, with super photos.......1997-07-27
Been to Malaysia and miss the food? Can't go but wonder what it tastes like? This book is for you. The recepies are authentic, easy to follow, and represent everything from "haute cuisine" to hawker food sold from street stalls. For those unfamiliar with this spicy, peppery cooking, the book includes beautiful pictures and a glossery {with photographs) of all unusual ingrediants. It was originally reccomended to me by a Malaysian friend, and I strongly support her suggestion
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Cowboy Clothing and Gear: The Complete Hamley Catalog of 1942
Hamley & Co.
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Saddle and Western Gear Catalog, 1938
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Complete republication of rare 1942 catalog showcases goods of premier manufacturer: finely tooled saddles, Stetson hats, silver spurs, cowhide chaps, boots, leather riding suits, much more. Complete data on price, color, size, etc. Superb resource for collectors, western buffs, artists looking for Western graphic art. New Introduction. 650 illustrations.
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Create a bounty of beautiful quilted baskets! A dozen old-fashioned basket blocks get a makeover from topselling author Nancy Mahoney, known best for her quick-and-easy approach to quiltmaking.
· Choose from 14 projects, including a few make-in-a-weekend designs
· Learn to sew basket blocks in a fraction of the time required by traditional methods
· Get creative with pieced borders and striking secondary patterns
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Whether it's down the street or across the globe, this book uncovers and explores the most obscure and the most innovative bars, pubs, and cafes, as well as coffee houses, hotel lounges, and Internet cafes that exist today. This book takes the reader around the world in search of the most interesting designs in the most cosmopolitan cities, including London, Venice, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Osaka.
Not a feature goes unnoticed, from the enticing entrances and intriguing interiors, to the creation of logos and graphics and how they can best contribute to the space's appeal. Designers, would-be entrepreneurs, current owners, and every client will enjoy this inspiring and satisfying tribute.
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Not a very useful book........2004-06-30
I own a pretty sucessful bar in Santa Barbara California and decided last year to give the restaurant biz a shot. I know I know, but I was drunk.
Anyway, before I could back out, the lease was signed, big pieces were moving...I was pretty freaked.
I decided to learn all I could about the biz. From Management, to Design I ordered a blizzard of books on those and other subjects.
In the design genre I was very disappointed with this book. I (like some other reviewers here) found the interiors to look dated and generally "uncool". That is very much a matter of opinion, but really, the best teacher for me in design was to simply cruise around and put my head in a bunch of restaurants.
I good book (just outside the design genre) that takes design into consideration (more from a functional standpoint) is a book called "Restaurants That Work: Case Studies of the Best in the Industry". I recommend that one highly.
Good luck.
Christian Hunter
Owner - Sevilla Restaurant, Santa Barbara California
A VERY GOOD COLLECTION OF NEW IDEAS.......2003-10-09
A usefull tool for all the people that are somehow involved in the restaurant bussiness.Lots of cool places around the world showing a huge amount of solutions and perpectives.
mediocre at best.......2002-02-06
I would not recommend this book to anyone who is seriously looking into the finer points of restaurant design. Many of the chosen establishments have a very dated look to them, the photography is not up to par (so its not even good enough for the coffee table) and overall this book is a big snore. I am disappointed enough to return it, which I will be doing today. Definitely not worth the price. For a better read, try Restaurants That Work, by Martin E. Dorf.
Inspiration Abounds.......2001-08-14
I truly enjoyed the pictorial nature of this book. The descriptive text is also written in a visual style. I would have liked to read more about the concept inspirations and possibly some costs and expense of the designs. i have visited some of these wonderful spaces and would also liked to have addresses to visit more "Bars, Pubs and Cafes" during my travels.
An Architect's Perspective..........2000-07-13
As an architect who has considerable experience with designing Bars, Hotels, & similar hospitality spaces, I applaud Julie Taylor's overall creative vision. This publication's attention to detail, descriptive project narratives, and beautiful photography will satisfy the most critical designer; at the same time acting as a wonderful conversation piece for any casual reader. It's simply a beautiful book to look at! I reccommend this book as a great resource to architects & designers looking for inspiration; as well as anyone who appreciates interesting spaces, as opposed to the same old drabby places Americans have become accustomed to!
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Graphiscape: Tokyo is a guide to the graphic blood that flows in the visual arteries of Tokyo. Graffiti, posters, neon lighting, street art, color schemes, perspectives and forms are just some of the graphic elements collated as inspiration in these hip sourcebooks for graphic designers and visual creatives.
The book is organized around structure, communication, problem solving and originality - all problems that drive design itself - but with the raw edge of organic development. Design is site specific; the flavor of each city is tasted through the vast variety of its visual elements that can be called graphic design in its widest sense.
With its partner volume on New York (ISBN 2880467675), this fascinating book emphasizes the site-specific nature of design as a city's lifeblood, contrasting east and west.
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Perfect!.......2006-02-19
I bought this book both as an appreciator of Japanese culture and from a design standpoint. As a graphic designer, I often like to show some form of Japanese flavor in my work so, this book was invaluable to me to look at the city I love so much from a new perspective. Ideas can come from anything and anywhere; thank you for giving me some new ones in this book. It's great!
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In this academic work of film and literary criticism, Judith Halberstam examines the monster as cultural object. She discusses classic gothic texts such as Frankenstein and Dracula, and then looks at the impact of changing technology (horror movies with special effects) for depicting monsters. Her argument is that the gothic in its more lurid, unabashedly violent, and perverse forms may be more empowering to the reader/viewer than in its carefully articulated, understated, and sublimated forms. H-Net Reviews calls Skin Shows an "intelligent, well-informed, and provocative piece of writing" and writes that its "greatest strength ... is that it allows for other critics of the Gothic to proceed more self-consciously about the presuppositions that particularly psychoanalysis has introduced into the academic discussion." One caveat, though: the language is somewhat turgid, with awkward verbs such as "gothicize" and "metaphorize."
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In this examination of the monster as cultural object, Judith Halberstam offers a rereading of the monstrous that revises our view of the Gothic. Moving from the nineteenth century and the works of Shelley, Stevenson, Stoker, and Wilde to contemporary horror film exemplified by such movies as Silence of the Lambs, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Candyman, Skin Shows understands the Gothic as a versatile technology, a means of producing monsters that is constantly being rewritten by historically and culturally conditioned fears generated by a shared sense of otherness and difference.
Deploying feminist and queer approaches to the monstrous body, Halberstam views the Gothic as a broad-based cultural phenomenon that supports and sustains the economic, social, and sexual hierarchies of the time. She resists familiar psychoanalytic critiques and cautions against any interpretive attempt to reduce the affective power of the monstrous to a single factor. The nineteenth-century monster is shown, for example, as configuring otherness as an amalgam of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Invoking Foucault, Halberstam describes the history of monsters in terms of its shifting relation to the body and its representations. As a result, her readings of familiar texts are radically new. She locates psychoanalysis itself within the gothic tradition and sees sexuality as a beast created in nineteenth century literature. Excessive interpretability, Halberstam argues, whether in film, literature, or in the culture at large, is the actual hallmark of monstrosity.
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A New Approach to Gothic.......2000-05-08
Indeed, the literary genre that we know as the gothic is inexhaustible in its interpretive capacity. From Freud's theory of the Uncanny and Mourning/Melancholia, to Feminist theories and reader response approaches (such as that of Norman Holland's), the gothic as a literary outsider has come a long way from its inception as a marginal form of literature to become one of the most studied and complex form of writing. Halberstam's book is one of the latest critical offerings of reading the Gothic, and it is indeed a timely arrival of an otherwise over-determined reading of this particular genre from the various theoretical approaches (interesting as they may be). Halberstam's approach, grounded in history and racism, renews the gothic's early preoccupation with otherness and the fear of it, but which emphasizes the societal fear of the alien/foreign other, and not so much the struggle between the public and private selves (the beloved of psychoanalytical theory). Her most interesting chapter is the reading of Stoker's `Dracula' as an anti-semitic propoganda text; indeed, I have appropriated some of her ideas in my view on postcolonial gothic, for I find that her theoretical stance has much to offer in this new and under-emphasized aspect of gothic literature. Halberstam's careful and brilliant intertwining of psychoanalysis, race-relations theory (history) and literary deconstruction is also critically executed in clear, precise language. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who wishes to have a fresh outlook on gothic literature.
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Black and White Media: Black Images in Popular Film and Television
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Britain And The American Cinema
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This book looks at aspects of the relationship between British and American cinema covering the period from the First World War until the 1960s. It deals with the ways in which the two industries have sought to intervene in the affairs of the other, and examines how British subject matter drawn from history, literature, drama, biography has had a place in the American film since the earliest days. The history of the British cinema - its institutions and its films - has been closely intertwined with the history of the American cinema since films were first made and viewed in the late 19th century. In many ways it has been a one-sided relationship with Hollywood exerting a powerful influence on the British film industry, shaping the ways in which it set about constructing a national cinema and effectively defining the notion of cinema during its heyday from the 1920s to the 1950s. In other ways, however, Britain has had an influence on American cinema. Occasionally, British films have made an impact in the American market, and actors and directors such as Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcock have become integral to the history of the American film. In addition to this, Britain through its literature and history has provided a rich source of subject matter for American films, from Sherlock Holmes films in the 20s, horror films in the 30s, to Arthurian epics in the 50s and Shakespeare adaptations in the 90s.
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Britain and the Cinema in the Second World War
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Censorship and the Permissive Society: British Cinema and Theatre, 1955-1965
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ASIN: 0198112416 |
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A key decade in the postwar social and cultural history of Britain, the period saw the country emerge from the "doldrums era" of the fifties, to the permissive society of the "swinging sixties." A noticeable move towards "decensorship" increasingly loosened the traditional constraints imposed
on literature, stage, and films. Anthony Aldgate shows, however, that censorship impeded the progression of the artistic and creative renaissance of this period. Drawing upon a mass of recently released or hitherto unseen documentation, the author charts the impact of the censorship process between
1955 and 1965 upon playwrights and directors, many of whom endured the rigorous scrutiny of the film and theatre censors.
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- Not what I expected - Where are the images??"
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Christmas at the Movies: Images of Christmas in American, British and European Cinema (Cinema and Society)
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Whether we love it or hate it, Christmas has always played a special role in the cinema, and Christmas movies like It's a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street have a special place in popular affections. Christmas at the Movies takes a good look at these popular films, decoding the messages they convey about popular preoccupations and attitudes and about the different societies that produce them. Written in an entertaining and illuminating style, this book gives a brand new view of Christmas and its rituals.
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Not what I expected - Where are the images??".......2006-04-14
Okay - probably my bad for not really reading through the description in-depth but this is NOT a book of images of Christmas in the movies - it's more a discussion of those movies. There are limited photos of course -- but not what you would expect from a book with this title. I sent it back before reading because I was interested in more of a photo book so I can't judge the overall content but do want other potential buyers to know what the book is really about.
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Cinema and the Great War (Cinema and Society)
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Cinema and the Great War explores the way in which WWI has been represented in anti- war cinema. Kelly deals with both anti-war films made after WWI and recent films such as Kubrick's Paths of Glory and King and Country.
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Despotic Bodies and Transgressive Bodies: Spanish Culture from Francisco Franco to Jesus Franco (Suny Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture)
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Explores new ways to think about privacy and disclosure.
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- If you like movies you'll like this book!
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Differences in the Dark
Michael T. Gilmore
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-- Wilson Quarterly
George Bernard Shaw once quipped that America and England are two cultures separated by a common language. In this innovative attempt to place the movies and theater in the larger context of American and English cultural differences, Michael Gilmore demonstrates that the most interesting way to understand the distinctions between the two cultures is by looking closely at each country's favorite art form.
Differences in the Dark is a fresh, wide-ranging look at the meaning of America's fascination with movies and movie stars, and the way the soul of Britain is reflected in its tenacious love affair with the stage.
Gilmore shows how the characteristic features of American experience are inscribed in how movies, the quintessentially American idiom, are made and viewed. In the private, solitary nature of film-viewing (in contrast to the more communal, interactive experience of seeing a play), and in American actors' tendency to play themselves, not their characters, from role to role, American movies express a strong sense of individualism and a tendency to escape the limits of time for the freedom of space. An art form built of sophisticated technology and cutting and splicing of time and space, Gilmore argues, resonates deeply in the country of reinvented lives and wide-open spaces.
At the same time, the English tradition of class and collective memory is perfectly served by an art form that requires disciplined memorization and the submergence of the individual within a role that, in many cases, existed before the actor was born. Unlike the mechanical products of Hollywood or Disneyland, drama by its very nature cannot be mass-produced.
Bringing together such diverse topics as theme parks, realism, and social class, as well as the role of Jewish immigrants in the making of Hollywood (and their virtual exclusion from Great Britain) and the connection between the movies and the African-American community, Differences in the Dark is one of the most original and engaging cross-cultural studies to appear in many years.
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If you like movies you'll like this book!.......1998-12-11
Those familiar with Dr. Gilmore's seminal text on American Romanticism may perhaps be initially startled at the theoretical daring of *Differences in the Dark*; thoughtful readers will, however, find in this chiaroscuristic artefact a blueprint for their post-Y2K lives. If, as Toni Morrison suggests, we are all merely "playing in the dark," then genre-based critiques of filmic performance are destined to subtend the vernacular. I think Gilmore's book is a good summer read, being very readable. People who have found themselves to enjoy works such as *Fried Green Tomatoes* and *A Circle of Friends* will lap up Gilmore's book like a warm saucer of milk.
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Eden, Suez and the Mass Media: Propaganda and Persuasion during the Suez Crisis
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This work looks at the way the media in Britain can, in times of crisis, be used as an instrument of propaganda. Through a study of the Eden Government's battle for the hearts and minds of the British and American people during the 1956 Suez Crisis, Tony Shaw dispels the myth that the BBC and Fleet Street were passive observers of events and faithfully reflected public opinion. Using government documents and media sources, he explores Eden's efforts to create a climate of opinion for military action against Egypt, and the war of nerves against the Nasser regime that followed.
Arguing that, despite his reputation as one of Fleet Street's most celebrated victims, Eden was a remarkably successful propagandist, Shaw attributes this success to the unhealthy intimacy between the press and government in Britain, Fleet Street's over-willingness to censor itself, and the government's efforts to turn the BBC into a straight organ of propaganda. The book includes an interesting comparison between Eden's propaganda policy and Thatcher's during the 1982 Falklands Crisis.
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