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The Anatomy of Harpo Marx / / Wayne Koestenbaum
| The Anatomy of Harpo Marx / / Wayne Koestenbaum |
| Autore | Koestenbaum Wayne |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2012] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (311 p.) |
| Disciplina |
792.702/8092
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| Soggetto topico |
Comedians - United States
Comedians -- United States -- Biography Marx, Harpo Marx, Harpo, 1888-1964 Motion picture actors and actresses - United States Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography Music, Dance, Drama & Film Drama |
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barbra streisand
beauty book club reads books for movie lovers bookstore finds discussion books drama easy to read entertainment industry film and television heart racing how to be funny how to make a comedy film human struggles insightful analysis learning while reading leisure reads life struggle lively love marx brothers nonfiction stories page turner pleasure reading relatable characters romance satisfying endings the art of acting vacation reads walter benjamin what is method acting |
| ISBN |
1-280-11654-4
9786613520838 0-520-95198-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I. Early Ecstatic Emptiness -- II. Later Astonishments -- III. The Idiot Tumbles Back to the Beginning of Time |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790015303321 |
Koestenbaum Wayne
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| Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2012] | ||
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Disarming words [[electronic resource] ] : empire and the seductions of translation in Egypt / / Shaden M. Tageldin
| Disarming words [[electronic resource] ] : empire and the seductions of translation in Egypt / / Shaden M. Tageldin |
| Autore | Tageldin Shaden M |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (369 p.) |
| Disciplina | 418/.02 |
| Collana | FlashPoints |
| Soggetto topico |
Translating and interpreting - Egypt - History - 19th century
Translating and interpreting - Egypt - History - 20th century Postcolonialism - Egypt Comparative literature - Arabic and English Comparative literature - English Language and languages in literature |
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19th century egypt
19th century europe arab and muslim british occupation of egypt colonial history colonized egyptians cultural imperialism edward said egyptian empire egyptian history europe and egypt european colonialism european colonization european empire european orientalism frantz fanon french occupation of egypt hasan al-attar imperialism and nationalism imperialism jacques derrida napoleon postcolonial egypt postructuralist theorists translational seduction walter benjamin |
| ISBN |
1-283-27834-0
9786613278340 0-520-95004-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Overture. Cultural Imperialism Revisited: Translation, Seduction, Power -- 1. The Irresistible Lure of Recognition -- 2. The Dismantling I: Al-'Attār's Antihistory of the French in Egypt, 1798-1799 -- 3. Suspect Kinships: Al-Tahtāwī and the Theory of French-Arabic "Equivalence," 1827-1834 -- 4. Surrogate Seed, World-Tree: Mubārak, al-Sibā'ī, and the Translations of "Islam" in British Egypt, 1882-1912 -- 5. Order, Origin, and the Elusive Sovereign: Post-1919 Nation Formation and the Imperial Urge toward Translatability -- 6. English Lessons: The Illicit Copulations of Egypt at Empire's End -- Coda. History, Affect, and the Problem of the Universal -- Notes -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781507803321 |
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Tageldin Shaden M
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| Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, 2011 | ||
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Imaginary communities [[electronic resource] ] : utopia, the nation, and the spatial histories of modernity / / Phillip E. Wegner
| Imaginary communities [[electronic resource] ] : utopia, the nation, and the spatial histories of modernity / / Phillip E. Wegner |
| Autore | Wegner Phillip E. <1964-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (325 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809/.93372 |
| Soggetto topico |
American fiction - History and criticism
Utopias in literature Comparative literature - American and Russian Comparative literature - Russian and American Russian fiction - History and criticism Modernism (Literature) - United States Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain Modernism (Literature) - Russia Space and time in literature Nationalism in literature Communities in literature |
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16th century
19th century 20th century criticism critique cultural history cultural studies ernst bloch gilles deleuze henri lefebvre homi bhabha jurgen habermas karl mannheim literary criticism literary history literary louis marin martin heidegger mikhail bakhtin modernity nation state paul de man philosophical philosophy political politics slavoj zizek social history social studies social theory thomas more utopian narrative utopian theory utopian utopianism walter benjamin |
| ISBN |
9786612758904
1-282-75890-X 0-520-92676-5 1-59734-668-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Reality of Imaginary Communities -- Chapter One. Genre and the Spatial Histories of Modernity -- Chapter Two. Utopia and the Birth of Nations -- Chapter Three. Writing the New American (Re)Public: Remembering and Forgetting in Looking Backward -- Chapter Four. The Occluded Future: Red Star and The Iron Heel as "Critical Utopias" -- Chapter Five. A Map of Utopia's "Possible Worlds": Zamyatin's We and Le Guin's The Dispossessed -- Chapter Six. Modernity, Nostalgia, and the Ends of Nations in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four -- Notes -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783075603321 |
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Wegner Phillip E. <1964->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 | ||
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Siegfried Kracauer's American Writings : Essays on Film and Popular Culture / / Siegfried Kracauer; Johannes von Moltke, Kristy Rawson
| Siegfried Kracauer's American Writings : Essays on Film and Popular Culture / / Siegfried Kracauer; Johannes von Moltke, Kristy Rawson |
| Autore | Kracauer Siegfried |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2012] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.43 |
| Collana | Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism |
| Soggetto topico |
Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966 -- Criticism and interpretation
Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966. Theorie des Films Motion pictures Motion pictures -- History |
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1950s america
20th century american and european cinema biographical novels book club reads books for movie lovers cinema trends differences in american and european film discussion books easy to read film and cinema film critic books film history film theory gifts for friends history of cinema history how to be a movie critic learning while reading leisure reads page turner performing arts political trends in film postwar history siegfried kracauer speakeasy vacation reads walter benjamin |
| ISBN |
1-280-49209-0
9786613587329 0-520-95200-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface: Notes on This Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Affinities -- part I. A Cultural Critic in New York -- part II. Film Reviews -- part III. Book Reviews -- part IV. Toward a Theory of Film -- Afterword: Kracauer, the Magical Nominalist -- Notes -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789923203321 |
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Kracauer Siegfried
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| Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2012] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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