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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783903503321

Titolo

Globalization, culture and social capital [[electronic resource] ] : library professionals on the move / / editor, Stephen O'Connor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bradford, : Emerald Group Press, c2007

ISBN

1-280-92897-2

9786610928972

1-84663-441-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (99 p.)

Collana

Library Management ; ; 28, no. 4/5

Altri autori (Persone)

O'ConnorStephen

Disciplina

020.8

Soggetti

Globalization

Library science - Sociological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Globalisation, culture and social capital: library professionals on the move; Moving on: transferability of library managers to new environments; Working across cultures; Managing libraries overseas: some challenges and opportunities; Managing across cultures: the experiences of three Hong Kong academic library directors; A Scottish enlightenment; The expatriate library director; Transplanting a Director of Libraries: the pitfalls and the pleasures; Consulting across cultures: librarians and project management in Vietnam

Theory, research and practice in library management 2: the balanced product portfolio Book reviews

Sommario/riassunto

Some library directors and other leading professionals in the field of library and information were asked to write about the experiences of taking on a job in another country than their native country. The papers are not academic in a narrow sense of the word, but they form a very coherent and reflective approach to national differences and it is evident that the authors have spent time to reflect on the consequences and effects of a job in another country - and in some cases on another continent. The results are presented in this issue of Library Management. It makes a very interesting read



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777690103321

Autore

Watson Charles S. <1931->

Titolo

Horton Foote [[electronic resource] ] : a literary biography / / Charles S. Watson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2003

ISBN

0-292-79787-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Collana

The Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture ; ; no. 9

Disciplina

812/.54

B

Soggetti

Dramatists, American - 20th century

Screenwriters - United States

Texas Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-270) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- P R E F A C E -- 1 Foote and Wharton, Texas -- 2 Formative Years and the Call of Acting -- 3 Finding a Vocation: From Acting to Writing -- 4 Texas Playwright on Broadway and Tennessee Williams -- 5 Return to Broadway: The Chase -- 6 The Golden Age of Television -- 7 The Trip to Bountiful: Three Versions -- 8 Christian Science -- 9 People and Themes -- 10 Country Music: The Traveling Lady, Baby, the Rain Must Fall, and Tender Mercies -- 11 Adaptations of Harper Lee, Faulkner, O’Connor, and Steinbeck -- 12 The Orphans’ Home Cycle, Part 1 -- 13 The Orphans’ Home Cycle, Part 2 -- 14 One-Acts of the 1980s: Disintegrating Homes and Displaced Persons -- 15 Greek Tragedy and Full-Length Plays across the Hudson -- 16 Amazing Climax: The Young Man from Atlanta -- Conclusion: The Achievement of Horton Foote -- CHRONOLOGY -- GENEALOGY -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Young Man from Atlanta and Academy Awards for the screen adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird and the original screenplay Tender Mercies, as well as the recipient of an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay of The Trip to Bountiful and the William Inge Lifetime Achievement Award, Horton Foote is one of America's most respected writers for stage and screen.



The deep compassion he shows for his characters, the moral vision that infuses his social commentary, and the kindness and humanity that Foote himself radiates have also made him one of our most revered artists—the father-figure who understands our longings for home, for human connections, and for certainty in a world largely bereft of these. This literary biography thoroughly investigates how Horton Foote's life and worldview have shaped his works for stage, television, and film. Tracing the whole trajectory of Foote's career from his small-town Texas upbringing to the present day, Charles Watson demonstrates that Foote has created a fully imagined mythical world from the materials supplied by his own and his family's and friends' lives in Wharton, Texas, in the early twentieth century. Devoting attention to each of Foote's major works in turn, he shows how this world took shape in Foote's writing for the New York stage, Golden Age television, Hollywood films, and in his nine-play masterpiece, The Orphan's Home Cycle. Throughout, Watson's focus on Foote as a master playwright and his extensive use of the dramatist's unpublished correspondence make this literary biography required reading for all who admire the work of Horton Foote.