From her fairytale childhood to her impressive array of movies and marriages, Elizabeth Taylor’s life, both on and off the screen, has enchanted, saddened, appalled, and entertained us for the past seven decades.Elizabeth Taylor: The Lady, The Lover, The Legend – the first new biography to be published following her death – strips away the Hollywood veneer to reveal the woman as she really was. Through his incredible depth of knowledge ...
Mitte 40 isser mittlerweile. Aber er spielt, lacht und erzahlt immer noch wie ein Lausbub, und schuttelt dann als selbstverstandlich reflektierter Erwachsener den Kopf uber den eigenen Blodsinn, den er gerade ins Publikum gepfeffert hat. Gro?e Unterhaltung trifft da auf urkomisches Abfeiern der eigenen Bedeutungslosigkeit. Qualtinger meets Fred Fesl, niederbayerische Gstanzl treffen auf Rockn Roll. Feine Alltagsbeobachtungen auf ehrliche Einblic ...
<P>Cinematic analysis has often supported the notion that cinema can be understood by drawing parallels with language. Peter Wyeth contends that this analytical framework often fails to consider the fundamental fact of cinema’s visual nature. In The Matter of Vision, Wyeth seeks to redress this oversight by grounding his analysis in neuroscience and evolutionary biology, finding herein the potential for a qualitatively su ...
<P>In France, both political culture and theatrical performances have drawn upon melodrama. This "melodramatic thread" helped weave the country’s political life as it moved from monarchy to democracy. By examining the relationship between public ceremonies and theatrical performance, James R. Lehning sheds light on democratization in modern France. He explores the extent to which the dramatic forms were ...
"Like Bond, the memoir is droll, pensive and filled with zingers teetering between funny and ferocious."—The New York TimesHailed as “the greatest cabaret artist of [V’s] generation” in the New Yorker, Mx. Justin Vivian Bond makes a brilliant literary debut with this candid and hilarious coming-of-age tale.Bond recalls in vivid detail how it looked and felt to first discover Mom's lipstick (Iced Wa ...
In 1971, Newsweek heralded The Last Picture Show as «the most impressive work by a young American director since Citizen Kane.» Indeed, few filmmakers rivaled Peter Bogdanovich's popularity over the next decade. Riding the success of What's Up, Doc? (1972) and Paper Moon (1973), Bogdanovich became a bona fide celebrity, making regular appearances in his own movie trailers, occasionally hosting late-night television shows, and publicly ...
