22 June 2009
What's Right With Feminism: How Feminism Has Changed American Society, Culture and How We Live from the 1940's to the Present (Paperback)
From Kirkus Reviews
Failing to deliver on the title’s ambitious promise, this is a scattershot look at feminism, sexism, movies, music, art, homophobia, violence, legislation, Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, and whatever else crops up...
15 June 2009
The Best American Movie Writing 1999 (Paperback)
Amazon.com Review
Peter Bogdanovich is an original in the movie biz–an artist with a scholar’s soul. Or is that vice versa? The director of The Last Picture Show has written several books–learned and loving books–abo...
20 May 2009
An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930 (Hardcover)
Review
“Comprehensive. . . This is more than an impressive work of research and scholarship. This is a rare and special achievement.” — Brian Damude, MFA, Chair, School of Image Arts, Ryerson University”Having this kind...
17 May 2009
The Lights of Home: A Century of Latin American Writers in Paris (Paperback)
Review
As theoretical constructs turn more and more of the past into an abstraction, detailed cultural histories like The Lights of Home give us the breathing space to reimagine global literary life. Deeply informed and painstakingly researche...
16 May 2009
New Negro Artists in Paris: African American Painters and Sculptors in the City of Light, 1922-1934 (Paperback)
This work analyzes the experiences and works of six African American artists who lived and worked in Paris during the Jazz Age: sculptors Elizabeth Prophet and Augusta Savage, and painters Palmer Hayden, Hale Woodruff, Archibald J. Motley, Jr. and A...
From Hanoi to Hollywood: The Vietnam War in American Film (Paperback)
From Library Journal
Mass media representations of the Vietnam War both reflect and impact upon public perceptions and assessments of U.S. history. Editors Dittmar (English, Univ. of Massachusetts) and Michaud (media coordinator, Univ. of Mass...
Virtues and Values: The African and African American Experience (Facets) (Paperback)
This brief volume is excerpted from Peter Paris’s popular and influential work The Spirituality of African Peoples on African and African American Spirituality. Paris shows how the religious and moral values of Africa have pervaded African Ame...
15 May 2009
Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939 (History of the American Cinema , No 5) (Paperback)
Review
“A work of major importance for the serious study of American film.” — Dana Polan, Film Quarterly”Fascinating. . . . Grand Design gives the most convincing picture yet of how the Hollywood system operated...
14 May 2009
Latin American Writers at Work (Modern Library Paperbacks) (Paperback)
From Booklist
Borges, Neruda, Paz, Garcia Marquez, Fuentes, Vargas Llosa–immortals here descend from the firmament of Latin American literature to converse with merely human interviewers for the Paris Review. The writers’ voices...
13 May 2009
He's All Man: Learning Masculinity, Gayness, and Love from American Movies (Hardcover)
From Library Journal
Clum’s (drama & English, Duke) latest does for movies what his earlier Something for the Boys did for theater: it gives readers a definitive treatment of how a popular form represents gay men and, more genera...
12 May 2009
The Making of Americans in Paris: The Autobiographies of Edith Wharton and Gertrude Stein (American University Studies Series Xxiv, American Literature) (Hardcover)
While living in Paris at the beginning of the twentieth century, expatriate American writers Edith Wharton (18621937) and Gertrude Stein (18741946) never crossed paths. Even so, they did rub shoulders in print, in autobiographical essays publish...
FROM HARLEM TO PARIS: Black American Writers in France, 1840-1980 (Paperback)
From Publishers Weekly
This plodding, academic study uses accounts from more than 60 African American writers–Countee Cullen, James Baldwin, Chester Himes et al.–to explain why they were more readily accepted socially in Paris than...
10 May 2009
Children's Nature: The Rise of the American Summer Camp (American History and Culture) (Hardcover)
Review
“An insightful book about the evolution and significance of children’s camps in American social and cultural life. For all of us who loved being at camp in the summer, Children’s Nature is evocative and it provokes man...
09 May 2009
French Fried: The Culinary Capers Of An American In Paris (Hardcover)
From Library Journal
Here are two culinary memoirs by American women now living in France. The similarities end there, as one author went to France for the food and stayed for the life that grew up around her, while the other moved to France f...
08 May 2009
An American in Paris (1951) - 11 x 17 - Style A
11″ x 17″ high quality reproduction poster by Pop Culture Graphics. Printed in the USA. Perfect for framing.
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The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Hardcover)
From Publishers Weekly
This third edition of the 1988 reference, full of the same back-to-basics philosophy of the earlier volumes, promises to once again serve as a lightning rod for lively discussion. Divided into chapters such as “The...
American Film Institute Desk Reference: The Complete Guide to Everything You Need to Know about the Movies (Hardcover)
From Publishers Weekly
“It’s amazing there has never been a source to turn to for all the basic information about the movies,” writes Clint Eastwood in his introduction to The American Film Institute Desk Reference: The Co...
07 May 2009
An American in Paris (1951 Film Soundtrack) [SOUNDTRACK]
Amazon.com essential recording
This is a considerably expanded version of the soundtrack album to Vincente Minnelli’s Oscar-winning film. With two discs and 100 minutes of music (much of which is presented for the first time), these orig...
06 May 2009
An American in Paris (1951. Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron) (1951)
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05 May 2009
The continual pilgrimage : American writers in Paris, 1944-1960 / Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno (Hardcover)
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