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by Richard Plunz
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016

Since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century as the nation's "metropolis," New York has faced the most challenging housing problems of any American city, but it has also led the nation in innovation and reform. The horrors of the tenement were perfected in New York at the same time that the very...
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Class Act

The Jazz Life of Choreographer Cholly Atkins

by Cholly Atkins, Jacqui Malone
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2003

Cholly Atkins's career has spanned an extraordinary era of American dance. He began performing during Prohibition and continued his apprenticeship in vaudeville, in nightclubs, and in the army during World War II. With his partner, Honi Coles, Cholly toured the country, performing with such jazz masters...
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by Edward Said
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2007

Music at the Limits is the first book to bring together three decades of Edward W. Said's essays and articles on music. Addressing the work of a variety of composers, musicians, and performers, Said carefully draws out music's social, political, and cultural contexts and, as a classically trained...
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Hollywood Science

Movies, Science, and the End of the World

by Sidney Perkowitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2007

Whether depicting humans battling aliens or a brave geologist saving lives as a volcano erupts, science-fiction films are an exciting visual and sensuous introduction to the workings of science and technology. These films explore a range of complex topics in vivid and accessible ways, from space travel...
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Mankind Beyond Earth

The History, Science, and Future of Human Space Exploration

by Claude Piantadosi
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013

Seeking to reenergize Americans' passion for the space program, the value of further exploration of the Moon, and the importance of human beings on the final frontier, Claude A. Piantadosi presents a rich history of American space exploration and its major achievements. He emphasizes the importance...
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The Philosopher’s Touch

Sartre, Nietzsche, and Barthes at the Piano

by François Noudelmann
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012

Renowned philosopher and prominent French critic François Noudelmann engages the musicality of Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Roland Barthes, all of whom were amateur piano players and acute lovers of the medium. Though piano playing was a crucial art for these thinkers, their musings...
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The Don Giovanni Moment

Essays on the Legacy of an Opera

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Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006

Mozart's Don Giovanni is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work redefines the terms of power, seduction, and morality, and the resulting conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment and romanticism. The...
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Cold War Modernists

Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy

by Greg Barnhisel
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015

European intellectuals of the 1950s dismissed American culture as nothing more than cowboy movies and the A-bomb. In response, American cultural diplomats tried to show that the United States had something to offer beyond military might and commercial exploitation. Through literary magazines, traveling...
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by Donald Grout, Hermine Weigel Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2003

When first published in 1947, A Short History of Opera immediately achieved international status as a classic in the field. Now, more than five decades later, this thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition informs and entertains opera lovers just as its predecessors have. The fourth edition...
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The End of Cinema?

A Medium in Crisis in the Digital Age

by André Gaudreault, Philippe Marion
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015

Is a film watched on a video screen still cinema? Have digital compositing, motion capture, and other advanced technologies remade or obliterated the craft? Rooted in their hypothesis of the "double birth of media," André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion take a positive look at cinema's ongoing...
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Studios Before the System

Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space

by Brian Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

By 1915, Hollywood had become the epicenter of American filmmaking, with studio "dream factories" structuring its vast production. Filmmakers designed Hollywood studios with a distinct artistic and industrial mission in mind, which in turn influenced the form, content, and business of the...
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by Michel Chion
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017

Michel Chion is well known in contemporary film studies for his innovative investigations into aspects of cinema that scholars have traditionally overlooked. Following his work on sound in film in Audio-Vision and Film, a Sound Art, Words on Screen is Chion's survey of everything the seventh art gives...
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Our Savage Art

Poetry and the Civil Tongue

by William Logan
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2009

The most notorious poet-critic of his generation, William Logan has defined our view of poets good and bad, interesting and banal, for more than three decades. Featured in the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, and the New Criterion, among other journals, Logan's eloquent,...
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In Translation

Translators on Their Work and What It Means

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Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013

The most comprehensive collection of perspectives on translation to date, this anthology features essays by some of the world's most skillful writers and translators, including Haruki Murakami, Alice Kaplan, Peter Cole, Eliot Weinberger, Forrest Gander, Clare Cavanagh, David Bellos, and José Manuel...
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