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...
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
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...
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...
12 May 2009
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...
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