Starring New York: Filming the Grime and the Glamour of the Long 1970s

New York City during the long 1970s was a place of high crime and high glamour that still holds tremendous fascination. During this era the city careened from the hopefulness of the Lindsay years to financial default in 1975 to its reemergence, under Mayor Koch, as a center of international finance. These changes form the backdrop for a body of films in which the city itself plays a starring role. The movies picture the city's racial and ethnic populations, its elite enclaves and decaying districts, its sometimes vibrant and often violent street-life, and--by the decade's end--its emerging gentrification that would soon sweep away the vestiges of an iconic, acutely singular metropolis. The films, directed by an emerging generation of filmmakers influenced both by the Italian neo-realists and the French auteurs, sought a higher realism than that offered in conventional Hollywood productions. Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola, Sidney Lumet, Paul Mazursky, Woody Allen, and John Schlesinger capture the excitement and volatility of the period; their films and others effectively narrate the city's changing fortunes. Starring New York examines the drama and dramas of those times, providing a reorientation to the landscape of the city, both as it was and as it is today.

A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature

Wilfred Guerin

Earle Labor

Jeanne C. Reesman

John R. Willingham

Lee, Morgan

Reference

Oxford University Press

Ranging from traditional approaches to the most contemporary perspectives, such as feminist and gender studies, cultural studies, and postcolonial studies, A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature offers readers a variety of clearly articulated approaches to interpreting literature. This thoroughly updated sixth edition applies these diverse approaches to the same six classic works--"To His Coy Mistress," "Young Goodman Brown," "Everyday Use," Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn, and Frankenstein--in a way proven to elicit student analysis by enriching their response to and understanding of the individual works and critical theory. (Andrew Marvell's poem "To His Coy Mistress," Nathaniel Hawthorne's story "Young Goodman Brown," and Alice Walker's story "Everyday Use" are included in full within this volume.)

An account of Columbus's four transatlantic voyages.

Christopher Columbus

Claudio Solarino

Bt Bound

The storied Centenary College of Louisiana was born from the merger of two institutions which for 15 years (1845-1860) flourished with a beautiful campus that included attractive buildings, a strong faculty and academic programs for students who had passed challenging entrance requirements, and a dedicated board of trustees. With handsome buildings, an outstanding faculty, challenging curricula, qualified students, and the support of the Methodist Church and a dedicated board of trustees, the future of the school looked bright indeed. It became an important center of culture as well as academic instruction. Debating societies played an important part of the College's commencement programs as did distinguished outside speakers, usually including the governors of Louisiana and Mississippi. These events often lasted three days and drew crowds of up to 3,000 persons. The Civil War put an end to that glowing era. A battle of the war and attendant vandalism seriously damaged buildings, classrooms, laboratories, library, and dormitories. Closed during the War, when the College re-opened, its existence was financially and physically precarious until 1908, when it moved to the bustling northwest Louisiana town of Shreveport. Even there, its situation was shaky until 1921. In that year, a dynamic new president, the Reverend George Sexton, launched the College on a path of athletic and academic achievement. The athletic heyday lasted until World War II, after which Centenary's renown derived primarily from academics. Even in the direst financial times of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the College consistently graduated noteworthy numbers of students who would be distinguished contributors in a variety of fields of endeavor. Indeed, outstanding professors through the years have enhanced the reputation of Centenary in the chronicles of liberal arts education.

Centenary College of Louisiana, 1825-2000: The Biography of an American Academy

Centenary College of Louisiana Press

Why does the sequence of your yoga practice matter? Morgan Lee, a registered nurse, authorized Ashtanga Yoga teacher, and student of Traditional Oriental Medicine explains the medical benefits behind a yoga practice. Whether new to yoga or an experienced student, this book explains how the sequence of the yoga postures help to improve the human's organ systems.

Why Yoga Works: The Science Behind the Yoga

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Exercise & Fitness

Independently published

Toxic Relationships: 7 Alarming Signs That You Are In A Toxic Relationship ((dating, relationship, relationship advice, friends, friendship, manipulation, control, counseling, conflict, commitment))

Psychology & Counseling

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The Otherworld is ready for you, but are you ready for the Otherworld? What would you tell your own less-experienced self about magic if you could go back in time and make a better start? That is the question this book seeks to address. What might you need to slough off, how far might you need to walk from the comfortable and familiar to truly embrace a magical life? Covering a period of thirteen moons, Standing and Not Falling is a workbook that allows the reader to clear the way before embarking, or to conduct a spiritual detox on themselves before stepping up their practice, or engaging a new beginning. Suitable for practitioners of any type of sorcerous activity from witchcraft to ceremonial magic and beyond. This book takes steady, direct aim at the main causes of disfunction and difficulty that arise for practitioners of the art magical, both individually and in relation to others, and at times also at the key maladies of our age.

Standing and Not Falling

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Moon Books

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