Author: Little TichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Little Tich
Author: Little TichLittle Tich
Author: Mary TichPublisher: Hamish Hamilton
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Modernism
Author: Lawrence RaineyPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0631204482
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1217
Book Description
Modernism: An Anthology is the most comprehensive anthology of Anglo-American modernism ever to be published. Amply represents the giants of modernism - James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Samuel Beckett. Includes a generous selection of Continental texts, enabling readers to trace modernism’s dialogue with the Futurists, the Dadaists, the Surrealists, and the Frankfurt School. Supported by helpful annotations, and an extensive bibliography. Allows readers to encounter anew the extraordinary revolution in language that transformed the aesthetics of the modern world .
Adventures in London
Author: James DouglasPublisher: London ; New York : Cassell
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
A Companion to Film Comedy
Author: Andrew HortonPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119169550
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 585
Book Description
A wide-ranging survey of the subject that celebrates the variety and complexity of film comedy from the ‘silent’ days to the present, this authoritative guide offers an international perspective on the popular genre that explores all facets of its formative social, cultural and political context A wide-ranging collection of 24 essays exploring film comedy from the silent era to the present International in scope, the collection embraces not just American cinema, including Native American and African American, but also comic films from Europe, the Middle East, and Korea Essays explore sub-genres, performers, and cultural perspectives such as gender, politics, and history in addition to individual works Engages with different strands of comedy including slapstick, romantic, satirical and ironic Features original entries from a diverse group of multidisciplinary international contributors
The Yellow Peril: Dr. Fu Manchu and the Rise of Chinaphobia
Author: Christopher FraylingPublisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500772290
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
An entirely new perspective on current scaremongering about China’s global ambitions, and on the Western media’s ignorance of Chinese culture A hundred years ago, a character who was to enter the bloodstream of 20th-century popular culture made his first appearance in the world of literature. In his day he became as well known as Count Dracula or Sherlock Holmes: he was the evil genius called Dr. Fu Manchu, described at the beginning of the first story in which he appeared as “the yellow peril incarnate in one man.” Why did the idea that the Chinese were a threat to Western civilization develop at precisely the time when China was in chaos, divided against itself, the victim of successive famines and utterly incapable of being a “peril” to anyone even if it had wanted to be? Even the author of the Dr. Fu Manchu novels, Sax Rohmer, acknowledged that China, “as a nation possess that elusive thing, poise.” And what do the Chinese themselves make of all this? Is it any wonder that they remember what we have carelessly forgotten–the opium wars; the “unfair treaties” that ceded Hong Kong and the New Territories; and the stereotyping of Chinese people in allegedly factual studies? Here cultural historian Christopher Frayling takes us to the heart of popular culture in the music hall, pulp literature, and the mass-market press, and shows how film amplifies our assumptions.
Stravinsky
Author: Eric Walter WhitePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Stravinsky
Author: Stephen WalshPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520227491
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
A meticulously-researched biography of the great 20th-century composer by a biographer who is also a musicologist and who worked to get beyond the often unreliable stories Stravinsky told about his life.
The Speaker
Author: Victorian Automata
Author: Suzy AngerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 100911848X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Speaking to today's fascinations and anxieties surrounding artificial intelligence, this multidisciplinary collection is the first to examine the widespread Victorian interest in human and mechanical automata. This title is part of the Flip it Open programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.