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It Came from the 80s!
Interviews with 124 Cult Filmmakers
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
From their heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, B movies declined in popularity through the 1970s. As the big Hollywood studios began to make genre films with sky-high budgets, independent producers of low-budget movies could not compete in theaters. The sale of American International Pictures in 1979 and...
Film Censorship in America
A State-by-State History
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Since the first films played in nickelodeons, controversial movies have been cut or banned across the United States. Far from Hollywood, regional productions such as Oscar Micheaux’s provocative race films and Nell Shipman’s wildlife adventures were censored by men like Major M.L.C. Funkhouser,...
Iranian and Diasporic Literature in the 21st Century
A Critical Study
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
The most populous Islamic country in the Middle East, Iran is rife with contradictions, in many ways caught between the culture and governments of the Western—more dominant and arguably imperalist—world and the ideology of conservative fundamentalist Islam. This book explores the present-day writings...
The Hatpin Menace
American Women Armed and Fashionable, 1887-1920
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Between 1887 and 1920, the humble hatpin went from an unremarkable item in every woman’s wardrobe, to a fashion necessity, to a dangerous weapon (it was said). Big hair and big hats of the era meant big hatpins, and their weaponized use sparked controversy. There were “good” uses of hatpins,...
William Inge
Essays and Reminiscences on the Plays and the Man
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
William Inge’s popular plays of the 1950s received Tony nominations (Bus Stop [1956], and Dark at the Top of the Stairs [1958]) and won a Pulitzer Prize (Picnic [1953]). As a screenwriter, he won an Academy Award (Splendor in the Grass [1961]). Yet Inge’s career ended in perceived failure, depression...
America Writes Its History, 1650-1850
The Formation of a National Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
By turns irreverent, sympathetic and amusing, America Writes Its History, 1650–1850 adds to the public discourse on national identity as advanced through the written word. Highlighting the contributions of American writers who focused on history, the author shows that for nearly 200 years writers...
Jews on Broadway
An Historical Survey of Performers, Playwrights, Composers, Lyricists and Producers, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Fanny Brice, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Barbra Streisand, Alan Menken, Stephen Sondheim—Jewish performers, composers, lyricists, directors, choreographers and producers have made an indelible mark on Broadway for more than a century. Award-winning producer Stewart F. Lane chronicles the emergence...
"I Used to Be a Highbrow but Look at Me Now"
Phrenology, Detection, and Cultural Hierarchy in S. S. Van Dine
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
This article reads Willard Huntington Wright’s work against his anxieties about cultural hierarchy and value, utilizing archival work in Wright’s papers at the University of Virginia and unearthing a previously unknown series of crime stories that he published under another pseudonym a decade...
Shared Walls
Seattle Apartment Buildings, 1900-1939
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
The 1900 edition of Polk’s Seattle City Directory listed four apartment buildings. By 1939, that number had grown to almost 1,400. This study explores the circumstances that prompted the explosive growth of this previously unknown form of housing in Seattle and takes an in-depth look at a large...
The Woman Suffrage Statue
A History of Adelaide Johnson's Portrait Monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony at the United States Capitol
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Relegated to the Crypt of the Capitol building for 76 years, the Portrait Monument has stood in the Rotunda since 1997. Often referred to as the Suffrage Statue, it memorializes pioneering feminists Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and is the sole sculptural representation...
Women on Southern Stages, 1800-1865
Performance, Gender and Identity in a Golden Age of American Theater
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Women played an integral role in the theater of the Antebellum and Civil War South. Yet their contributions have largely been overlooked by history. Southern actresses were important public figures who helped mold gender identity through their theatrical performances. Although cast in parts written...
by Katherine H. Adams, Michael L. Keene
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
During the years 1880 to 1940, the glory days of the American circus, a third to a half of the cast members were women—a large group of very visible American workers whose story needs telling. This book, using sources such as diaries, autobiographies, newspaper accounts, films, posters, and route...
Bebe Daniels
Hollywood's Good Little Bad Girl
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Bebe Daniels had one of the most diverse and lengthy careers in show business. From her beginnings as a child on the vaudeville circuit to her resurgence as a radio and television star in postwar Britain, Daniels’ story has not been told. Best remembered for her work in silent films, Daniels was...
Louise Blanchard Bethune
America's First Female Professional Architect
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Louise Blanchard Bethune, the subject of this biography, was America’s first female professional architect. She belonged to the influential group of pioneer architects—Daniel Burnham, John Root and Louis Sullivan—who supported her in becoming a fellow of the American Institute of Architects....