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Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 312 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
For almost a century, Americans have been losing their hearts and losing their minds in an insatiable love affair with the American musical. It often begins in actors, and reaches its passionate zenith when it comes time for love, marriage, and children, who will start the cycle all over again. Americans love musicals. Americans invented musicals. Americans perfected musicals. But what, exactly, is a musical? In The Secret Life of the American Musical,...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
391 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. Now, with Cinema Speculation, the time has come, and the results are everything his passionate fans--and all movie lovers--could have hoped for. Organized around key American films from the 1970s, all of which he...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, William Shakespeare, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Shakespeare-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original play. These classic plays...
Author
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Was Shakespeare a snob? Poor Naked Wretches challenges the idea that one of the greatest writers of the English language despised working people, showing that he portrayed them with as much insight, compassion, and purpose as the rich and powerful. Moreover, working people play an important role in his dramatic method. Stephen Unwin reads Shakespeare anew, exploring the astonishing variety of working people in his plays, as well as the vast range...
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
254 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of two iconic decades... if you dare. Hear shocking plot summaries that invoke devil worship, satanic children, and haunted real estate! Horror author and vintage paperback book collector Grady Hendrix offers killer commentary and witty insight on these trashy thrillers that tried so hard to be the next Exorcist or Rosemary's Baby. Complete with story summaries and artist and author profiles, this unforgettable...
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 354 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
One of the music world's pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan "went electric" at the Newport Folk Festival, timed to coincide with the event's fiftieth anniversary. On the evening of July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan took the stage at Newport Folk Festival, backed by an electric band, and roared into his new rock hit, Like a Rolling Stone. The audience of committed folk purists and political activists who had hailed him as...
15) Jazz
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xiii, 704 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Counterpoint edition.
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"With Dark Carnivals, author W. Scott Poole, an expert in horror and its impact on American history, reveals how the horror genre as a way of seeing the world has become one of the most incisive critiques of America and its history and influence around the globe"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Grove Press
Language
English
Description
Ginsberg recounts the origin story of the "Beat" name, shares anecdotes of meeting Kerouac, Burroughs, and other writers for the first time, explains his own poetics, elucidates the importance of music (particularly jazz rhythms) to Beat writing and paints a portrait of a group who was leading a literary revolution.