1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463510903321

Autore

Neibaur James L. <1958->

Titolo

James Cagney films of the 1930s / / James L. Neibaur

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-4422-4220-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Disciplina

791.4302/8092

B

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1. From the Streets to the Stage; CHAPTER 2. Sinner's Holiday (1930, WARNER BROS.); CHAPTER 3. The Doorway to Hell (1930, WARNER BROS.); CHAPTER 4. Other Men's Women (1931, WARNER BROS.); CHAPTER 5. The Public Enemy (1931, WARNER BROS.); CHAPTER 6. The Millionaire (1931, WARNER BROS.); CHAPTER 7. Smart Money (1931, WARNER BROS.); CHAPTER 8. Blonde Crazy (1931, WARNER BROS.); CHAPTER 9. Taxi! (1932, WARNER BROS.); CHAPTER 10. The Crowd Roars (1932, WARNER BROS.); CHAPTER 11. Winner Take All (1932, WARNER BROS.)

CHAPTER 12. Hard to Handle (1933, WARNER BROS.)CHAPTER 13. Picture Snatcher (1933, WARNER BROS.); CHAPTER 14. The Mayor of Hell (1933, WARNER BROS.); CHAPTER 15. Footlight Parade (1933, WARNER BROS.); CHAPTER 16. Lady Killer (1933, WARNER BROS.); CHAPTER 17. Jimmy the Gent (1934, WARNER BROS.); CHAPTER 18. He Was Her Man (1934, WARNER BROS.); CHAPTER 19. Here Comes the Navy (1934, WARNER BROS.); CHAPTER 20. The St. Louis Kid (1934, WARNER BROS.); CHAPTER 21. Devil Dogs of the Air (1935, WARNER BROS.); CHAPTER 22. G Men (1935, WARNER BROS.); CHAPTER 23. The Irish in Us (1935, WARNER BROS.)

CHAPTER 24.  A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935, WARNER BROS.)CHAPTER 25. Frisco Kid (1935, WARNER BROS.); CHAPTER 26. Ceiling Zero (1936, WARNER BROS.); CHAPTER 27. Great Guy (1936, GRAND NATIONAL); CHAPTER 28. Something to Sing About (1937, GRAND



NATIONAL); CHAPTER 29. Boy Meets Girl (1938, WARNER BROS.); CHAPTER 30. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938, WARNER BROS.); CHAPTER 31. The Oklahoma Kid (1939, WARNER BROS.); CHAPTER 32. Each Dawn I Die (1939, WARNER BROS.); CHAPTER 33. The Roaring Twenties (1939, WARNER BROS.); CHAPTER 34. Cagney after the Thirties; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>This book provides a film-by-film look at the thirty-two movies James Cagney made during the 1930s, from his supporting role in </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Sinner's Holiday</span><span> (1930) to the end of the decade as an established star of </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Angels with Dirty Faces</span><span> (1938) and </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">The Roaring Twenties</span><span> in 1939.</span></span>

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450247003321

Autore

Vasseleu Cathryn <1957, >

Titolo

Textures of light : vision and touch in Irigaray, Levinas, and Merleau-Ponty / / athryn Vasseleu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998

ISBN

1-134-76521-5

1-134-76520-7

1-280-18232-6

0-203-28238-8

0-203-04770-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (166 p.)

Collana

Warwick studies in European philosophy

Disciplina

121/.35

Soggetti

Vision

Light

Touch

Philosophy, French - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A portion of the text has appeared as Illuminating Passion: Irigaray's



Transfiguration of Night, in Teresa Brennan and Martin Jay (eds), Vision in Context, New York and London: Routledge, 1996.--P. [vii].

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-151) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Book Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""

Sommario/riassunto

Textures of Light draws on the work of Luce Irigaray, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Emmanuel Levinas to present an outstanding and ground breaking study of the vital importance of light in Western thought. Since Plato's allegory of the cave, light and the role of sight have been accorded a unique position in Western thought. They have stood as a metaphor for truth and objectivity and the very axis of modern rationalism. More recently however, this status has come under significant criticism from continental and feminist thought which has stressed the privileging of subjectivity and masculinity in