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| 21. |  | Title: On the edge of America: California modernist art, 1900-1950  Author: Karlstrom, Paul J Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art | Art History | California and the West | United States History | Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: To many, California's social and cultural identity has set it apart from the rest of the nation. Identified almost exclusively with Hollywood and popular culture, the entire region has been denied a meaningful relationship to mainstream twentieth-century modernism. This groundbreaking collection emp . . . [more] Matches in book (238): ...Visual Music and Film-As-An-Art Before 1950... Similar Items...Visual Music and Film-As-An-Art Before 1950... ...ASIFA [Association Internationale du Film d'Animation] Canada Bulletin 12 no.... |
| 22. |  | Title: The country of memory: remaking the past in late socialist Vietnam Author: Tai, Hue-Tam Ho 1948- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Southeast Asia | Film | Gender Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Popular Culture | Asian History Publisher's Description: The American experience in the Vietnam War has been the subject of a vast body of scholarly work, yet surprisingly little has been written about how the war is remembered by Vietnamese themselves. The Country of Memory fills this gap in the literature by addressing the subject of history, memory, an . . . [more] Matches in book (210): ...Dang Nhat Minh to formally close his film with a reprise of socialist realist... Similar Items...elegiac vision that closes the film, she wrongly imagines he is killed in a... ...state ascribed to war, the revisionist films of the 1980s reveal the contours of... |
| 23. |  | Title: Six screenplays Author: Riskin, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film Publisher's Description: Screenwriter Robert Riskin (1897-1955) was a towering figure even among the giants of Hollywood's Golden Age. Known for his unique blend of humor and romance, wisecracking and idealism, Riskin teamed with director Frank Capra to produce some of his most memorable films. Pat McGilligan has collected . . . [more] Matches in book (150): ...Reviews," Frank Capra: The Man and His Films , pp. 110–116. Poague, The Cinema... Similar Items...ad-lib, somewhat garbled in the film, could be either "dips a beak" or "tips a... ...popularized the term in the musical film Golddiggers of 1933 . 14. An "autogyro"... |
| 24. |  | Title: Refried Elvis: the rise of the Mexican counterculture Author: Zolov, Eric Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Latin American History | Popular Culture | Chicano Studies | Latin American Studies | Contemporary Music Publisher's Description: This powerful study shows how America's biggest export, rock and roll, became a major influence in Mexican politics, society, and culture. From the arrival of Elvis in Mexico during the 1950s to the emergence of a full-blown counterculture movement by the late 1960s, Eric Zolov uses rock and roll to . . . [more] Matches in book (196): ...Films and Videos Consulted... Similar Items...24, 259 ; critique of, 209 , 211 -17; film versions of, 199 , 206 , 218 -19, 304... ...impact of this and other related films, "The press did not cease to point out... |
| 25. |  | Title: Indian traffic: identities in question in colonial and postcolonial India Author: Roy, Parama Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Postcolonial Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | South Asia | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: The continual, unpredictable, and often violent "traffic" between identities in colonial and postcolonial India is the focus of Parama Roy's stimulating and original book. Mimicry has been commonly recognized as an important colonial model of bourgeois/elite subject formation, and Roy examines its p . . . [more] Matches in book (138): ...Erik, and S. Krishnaswamy . Indian Film . 2d ed. New York: Oxford University... Similar Items...Cultural Identity: Reflections on Films from Japan, India, and China , edited by... ...Dhondy, Farrukh . Keeping Faith: Indian Film and Its World. Daedalus 114 (Fall... |
| 26. |  | Title: Over the edge: remapping the American West Author: Matsumoto, Valerie J Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: American Studies | California and the West | Popular Culture | History | United States History | Californian and Western History | German Studies Publisher's Description: From the Gold Rush to rush hour, the history of the American West is fraught with diverse, subversive, and at times downright eccentric elements. This provocative volume challenges traditional readings of western history and literature, and redraws the boundaries of the American West with absorbing . . . [more] Matches in book (60): ...and inspiration drawn from Hollywood films to assert: "Silicon Valley is the... Similar Items...half of Ben-Hur that in the 1959 film no mention is made of the hero's attempt... ...train Jewish troops. After the race the film concerns itself only with Ben-Hur's... |
| 27. |  | Title: In a cold crater: cultural and intellectual life in Berlin, 1945-1948 Author: Schivelbusch, Wolfgang 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | German Studies | European History | Literature | Film | Music Publisher's Description: Although the three conspicuous cultures of Berlin in the twentieth century - Weimar, Nazi, and Cold War - are well documented, little is known about the years between the fall of the Third Reich and the beginning of the Cold War. In a Cold Crater is the history of this volatile postwar moment, when . . . [more] Matches in book (228): ...Chapter 6— Film... Similar Items...Chapter 6— Film... ...Neugründung der GDBA/Verband für Bühne, Film, Musik," May 20, 1945, Sassenbach-... |
| 28. |  | Title: An American engineer in Stalin's Russia: the memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932-1934 Author: Witkin, Zara 1900-1940 Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Autobiography | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: In 1932 Zara Witkin, a prominent American engineer, set off for the Soviet Union with two goals: to help build a society more just and rational than the bankrupt capitalist system at home, and to seek out the beautiful film star Emma Tsesarskaia.His memoirs offer a detailed view of Stalin's bureaucr . . . [more] Matches in book (59): ...The Films of Emma Tsesarskaia... Similar Items...villages, 208 Pravda , 234 Pravov, I. (film director), 11 Preobrazhenskaia, O. (... ...film director), 11 Press Department (Foreign Office), 259 Prokofiev, G. E. (... |
| 29. |  | Title: A skeptic among scholars: August Frugé on university publishing Author: Frugé, August 1909- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Reference | Publishing Publisher's Description: When August Frugé joined the University of California Press in 1944, it was part of the University's printing department, publishing a modest number of books a year, mainly monographs by UC faculty members. When he retired as director 32 years later, the Press had been transformed into one of the la . . . [more] Matches in book (57): ...11 Hollywood and Berkeley Getting into the Film Business... Similar Items...70 , 99 , 128 , 157 , 160 , 307 -9. See also Film Quarterly; Hollywood Quarterly... ...cinematic movies, still believing that film is an art form in itself." After the... |
| 30. |  | Title: William Grant Still: a study in contradictions Author: Smith, Catherine Parsons 1933- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Music | Composers | African American Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: During the 1930s and 1940s William Grant Still (1895-1978) was known as the "Dean of Afro-American Composers." He worked as an arranger for early radio, on Broadway, and in Hollywood; major symphony orchestras performed his concert works; and an opera, written in collaboration with Langston Hughes, . . . [more] Matches in book (66): ...Grant—writings "Writing Music for Films" (Still talk), 77 "Writings by William... Similar Items...level of musical understanding of the film audience, but from the instructions... ...The difference in the music for a film and for any other dramatic medium is... |
| 31. |  | Title: Grounds for play: the Nauṭaṅkī theatre of North India Author: Hansen, Kathryn Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | Cultural Anthropology | South Asia Publisher's Description: The nautanki performances of northern India entertain their audiences with often ribald and profane stories. Rooted in the peasant society of pre-modern India, this theater vibrates with lively dancing, pulsating drumbeats, and full-throated singing. In Grounds for Play , Kathryn Hansen draws on fie . . . [more] Matches in book (47): ...Indian Filmography: Silent and Hindi Films (1897-1969 ). Bombay: J. Udeshi,... Similar Items...45, 63 , 209 , 218 -19, 233 , 302 ; film, 83 , 209 , 220 , 248 -51, 303 ; folk,... ...course of fate . B. Amar simh rathor (film Yamuna Kinare ) matvale ki goli... |
| 32. |  | Title: Becoming Chinese: passages to modernity and beyond Author: Yeh, Wen-Hsin Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | China | Asian Literature | Asian History Publisher's Description: This volume evaluates the dual roles of war and modernity in the transformation of twentieth-century Chinese identity. The contributors, all leading researchers, argue that war, no less than revolution, deserves attention as a major force in the making of twentieth-century Chinese history. Further, . . . [more] Matches in book (226): ...THE POSTWAR FILM SCENE... Similar Items...nature of these postwar epic narratives, the films were phenomenally popular.... ...they caused a sensation that propelled the film industry to the forefront of the... |
| 33. |  | Title: High anxieties: cultural studies in addiction Author: Brodie, Janet Farrell Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature | Media Studies | Gender Studies | Cognitive Science | Social and Political Thought | Art | Sociology Publisher's Description: High Anxieties explores the history and ideological ramifications of the modern concept of addiction. Little more than a century old, the notions of "addict" as an identity and "addiction" as a disease of the will form part of the story of modernity. What is addiction? This collection of essays illu . . . [more] Matches in book (17): ...8 An Intoxicated Screen Reflections on Film and Drugs... Similar Items...An Intoxicated Screen Reflections on Film and Drugs MAURIZIO VIANO 134 PART V.... ...to start working on the C.I.A. Films, insofar as they are produced within a... |
| 34. |  | Title: Chuck Jones: a flurry of drawings Author: Kenner, Hugh Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: American Studies | Film | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Creator of the mono-maniacal Wile E. Coyote and his elusive prey, the Road Runner, Chuck Jones has won three Academy Awards and been responsible for many classics of animation featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Elmer Fudd. Who better to do Chuck Jones than Hugh Kenner, master wordsmith . . . [more] Matches in book (79): ...More important are the key Jones films on VCR tapes. If you've trouble finding... Similar Items...done with it? Jones credits a National Film Board of Canada production on the... ...know about, not having seen the NFB film. The Coyote's decomposition, it is safe... |
| 35. |  | Title: Playing with power in movies, television, and video games: from Muppet Babies to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Author: Kinder, Marsha Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | Television and Radio | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: How do children today learn to understand stories? Why do they respond so enthusiastically to home video games and to a myth like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? And how are such fads related to multinational media mergers and the "new world order"? In assessing these questions, Marsha Kinder provides . . . [more] Matches in book (135): ...The Tutor Code of Classical Cinema," Film Quarterly 29, no. 1 (1974): 22-31. 15.... Similar Items...The Tutor Code of Classical Cinema." Film Quarterly 29, no. 1 (1974): 22-31.... ...Doane, Mary Ann. "Film and the Masquerade: Theorising the Female Spectator."... |
| 36. |  | Title: Rethinking the borderlands: between Chicano culture and legal discourse Author: Gutiérrez-Jones, Carl Scott Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: American Studies | Chicano Studies | Literature | Language and Linguistics | Law | Social and Political Thought | Rhetoric | Postcolonial Studies | United States History | United States History Publisher's Description: Challenging the long-cherished notion of legal objectivity in the United States, Carl Gutiérrez-Jones argues that Chicano history has been consistently shaped by racially biased, combative legal interactions. Rethinking the Borderlands is an insightful and provocative exploration of the ways Chicano . . . [more] Matches in book (121): ...46. See also Melancholia Movies. See Films Mulattos, literary representations... Similar Items...conventional grounding for the historical problems that the film sets in motion.... ...120-36. Fregoso, Rosa Linda. "Chicana Film Practices: Confronting the Manyheaded... |
| 37. |  | Title: Empire of ecstasy: nudity and movement in German body culture, 1910-1935 Author: Toepfer, Karl Eric 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | German Studies | Gender Studies | Dance Publisher's Description: Empire of Ecstasy offers a novel interpretation of the explosion of German body culture between the two wars - nudism and nude dancing, gymnastics and dance training, dance photography and criticism, and diverse genres of performance from solo dancing to mass movement choirs. Karl Toepfer presents t . . . [more] Matches in book (162): ...the relation between dance and pantomime prevented the film from being made.... Similar Items...Kuckhoff, Adam, 55 Kuhle Wampe (film), 372 n Kupfer-Meyer, Hilde, 60 Küpferova,... ...und Härtel, 1919. Diehl, Oskar. Mimik im Film. Munich: Müller, 1922. Diem, Carl.... |
| 38. |  | Title: The two-headed deer: illustrations of the Rāmāyaṇa in Orissa Author: Williams, Joanna Gottfried 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art | Art History | South Asia Publisher's Description: India's epic poem, the Ramayana, is a dramatic, ever-evolving tale of a prince and his bride, their adventures and dilemmas, and demons. Joanna Williams studies the art of the Ramayana in Orissa, a region known for its elegantly carved temples. There she researched both literary and visual art works . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...film, 4 , 5 flashback, 6 , 71 -72, 74 , 80 , 116 , 180 n. 7 flash-forward, 6 ,... Similar Items...mriga * . See magic deer Maya Mriga (film), 4 Maya Sita, 24 , 29 , 35 -36, 87 -... ...of Indian culture began with the films of Satyajit Ray What captivated me most... |
| 39. |  | Title: The vanishing vision: the inside story of public television Author: Day, James 1918- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Media Studies | American Studies | Sociology | Television and Radio | History Publisher's Description: This spirited, first-ever history of public television offers an insider's account of its topsy-turvy, forty-year odyssey. James Day, a founder of San Francisco's KQED and a past president of New York's WNET, chronicles public television's fascinating evolution from its inauspicious roots in the 195 . . . [more] Matches in book (93): ...Five Years, 1946–1981. Part II: Live, Film and Tape Series. Metuchen, N.J. :... Similar Items...time I thought it was innocuous" ("Woody's Film Too Tasteless for TV," New York... ...Ellin Stein, "Quality Time," American Film (Jan-Feb. 1986). 25. "Ten Years of... |
| 40. |  | Title: Women, culture, and politics in Latin America Author: Bergmann, Emilie L 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Women's Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: The result of a collaboration among eight women scholars, this collection examines the history of women's participation in literary, journalistic, educational, and political activity in Latin American history, with special attention to the first half of this century. Matches in book (62): ...Kathleen Newman teaches Latin American film and mass communications theory at... Similar Items...audio-visual." Publication of Film Studies Department, Carleton University (... ...needed to adore her. . . . But the film star gives over to us her sustained... |