1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910962840503321

Autore

Propp V. I︠A︡ (Vladimir I︠A︡kovlevich), <1895-1970.>

Titolo

Theory and history of folklore / / Vladimir Propp ; translated by Ariadna Y. Martin and Richard P. Martin and several others ; edited, with an introduction and notes by Anatoly Liberman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 1984

ISBN

0-8166-8187-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (lxxxi, 252 pages) : portrait

Collana

Theory and history of literature ; ; v. 5

Altri autori (Persone)

LibermanAnatoly

Disciplina

398.2/0947

Soggetti

Folk literature, Russian - History and criticism

Tales - Soviet Union - History and criticism

Tales - History and criticism

Folklore - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Editor's Note; Introduction; I. The Nature of Folklore; II. The Wondertale; III. Heroic Poetry; IV. Supplement; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; General Index; Index of Foreign Terms

Sommario/riassunto

The Russian folklorist Vladimir Propp published his first book, Morphology of the Folktale, in 1928. Since it was translated to English, in 1958, it has become an international bestseller and is well known as a major theoretical work in oral literature. Now, Anatoly Liberman has selected seven essays and three chapters from his later books which together reveal the full range of Propp's thought in Theory and History of Folklore. This will help readers see that his work is essentially a theory of narrative.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968968403321

Titolo

City that never sleeps : New York and the filmic imagination / / edited by Murray Pomerance

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-280-94721-7

9786610947218

0-8135-4134-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PomeranceMurray <1946->

Disciplina

791.43/627471

Soggetti

New York (N.Y.) In motion pictures

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 (p. 259-266) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prelude: To Wake Up in the City That Never Sleeps / Pomerance, Murray -- MEMORY ALL ALONE IN THE MOONLIGHT -- "I Love New York!": BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY' S / Lehman, Peter / Luhr, William -- A Day in New York: On the Town and The Clock / Bukatman, Scott -- Paradise Lost and Found: A Bronx Tale / Grant, Barry Keith -- THERE'S A PLACE FOR US -- Woody Allen's New York / Rothman, William -- From Mean Streets to the Gangs of New York / Massood, Paula J. -- Can't Take My Eyes Off of You / Gerstner, David A. -- A Clean, Well-Lighted Place / Pomerance, Murray -- WHISPERING ESCAPADES OUT ON THE D TRAIN -- "When We See the Ocean, We Figure We're Home" / Desser, David -- He Cuts Heads: Spike Lee and the New York Experience / Sterritt, David -- New York Class-Passing Onscreen in the 1930's / Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey -- STAYIN' ALIVE. City of Danger and Adjustment -- City of Nightmares: The New York of Sidney Lumet / Grace, Pamela -- Urban Irrational: Rosemary's Baby, Polanski, New York / McElhaney, Joe -- The City That Never Shuts Up: Aural Intrusion in New York Apartment Films / Weis, Elisabeth / Thom, Randy -- Wretched Refuse: Watching New York Ethnic Slum Films in the Aftermath of 9/11 / Carr, Steven Alan -- Night World: New York as a Noir Universe / Dixon, Wheeler Winston -- Works Cited and Consulted -- Notes on Contributors -- Index



Sommario/riassunto

New York, more than any other city, has held a special fascination for filmmakers and viewers. In every decade of Hollywood filmmaking, artists of the screen have fixated upon this fascinating place for its tensions and promises, dazzling illumination and fearsome darkness. The glittering skyscrapers of such films as On the Town have shadowed the characteristic seedy streets in which desperate, passionate stories have played out-as in Scandal Sheet and The Pawnbroker. In other films, the city is a cauldron of bright lights, technology, empire, egotism, fear, hunger, and change--the scenic epitome of America in the modern age. From Street Scene and Breakfast at Tiffany's to Rosemary's Baby, The Warriors, and 25th Hour, the sixteen essays in this book explore the cinematic representation of New York as a city of experience, as a locus of ideographic characters and spaces, as a city of moves and traps, and as a site of allurement and danger. Contributors consider the work of Woody Allen, Blake Edwards, Alfred Hitchcock, Gregory La Cava, Spike Lee, Sidney Lumet, Vincente Minnelli, Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Andy Warhol, and numerous others.