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With storytelling and collaboration as core principles, industry
insiders Adam Leipzig (former President of National Geographic
Films), and Barry Weiss (former head of animation at Sony
Pictures), with Michael Goldman (prominent journalist and industry
expert), guide students through the skills and the craft of video
and filmmaking. With unparalleled access to the industry's most
accomplished and insightful professionals, budding filmmakers will
learn techniques from the very best. This book is one students will
keep, and keep using, for years. The book can be purchased with the
breakthrough online resource, LaunchPad, which combines an e-book
with a wealth of time-saving teaching and learning tools. This
includes additional case studies and videos tools which enable
instructors create video assignments for the class, group, and
individual. Launchpad also includes a selection of How Do I? videos
- exclusive interviews with filmmakers that offer real advice to
students.
"A Free Ballot and a Fair Count" examines the efforts by the
Department of Justice to implement the federal legislation passed
by Congress in 1870-71 known as the Enforcement Acts. These laws
were designed to enforce the voting rights guarantees for
African-Americans under the recently ratified Fifteenth Amendment.
The Enforcement Acts set forth a range of federally enforceable
crimes aimed at combating white southerners' attempts to deny or
restrict black suffrage. There are several aspects of this work
that distinguish it from other, earlier works in this area.
Contrary to older interpretative studies, Goldman's primary thesis
is that, the federal government's attempts to protect black voting
rights in the South did not cease with the Supreme Court's hostile
rulings in U.S. v. Reese and U.S. v. Cruikshank in 1875. Nor, it is
argued, did enforcement efforts cease at the end of Reconstruction
and the so-called Compromise of 1877. Rather, federal enforcement
efforts after 1877 reflected the continued commitment of Republican
Party leaders, for both humanitarian and partisan reasons, to what
came to be called "the free ballot and a fair count." Another
unique aspect of this book is its focus on the role of the federal
Department of Justice and its officials in the South in the
continued enforcement effort. Created as a cabinet-level executive
department in 1870, the Justice Department proved ill-equipped to
respond to the widespread legal and extra-legal resistance to black
suffrage by white southern Democrats in the years during and after
Reconstruction. The Department faced a variety of internal problems
such as insufficient resources, poor communications, and local
personnel often appointed more for their political acceptability
than their prosecutorial or legal skills. By the early 1890s, when
the election laws were finally repealed by Congress, enforcement
efforts were sporadic at best and largely unsuccessful. The end of
federal involvement, coupled with the wave of southern state
constitution revisions, resulted in the disfranchisement of the
vast majority of African-American voters in the South by the
beginning of the Twentieth Century. It would not be until the 1960s
and the "Second Reconstruction" that the federal government, and
the Justice Department, would once again attempt to ensure the
"free ballot and a fair count."
On Easter Sunday in 1873, more than one hundred black men were
gunned down in Grant Parish, Louisiana, for daring to assert their
right to vote. Several months earlier, in Lexington, Kentucky,
another black man was denied the right to vote for simply failing
to pay a poll tax. Both events typified the intense opposition to
the federal guarantee of black voting rights. Both events led to
landmark Supreme Court decisions. And, as Robert Goldman shows,
both events have much to tell us about an America that was still
deeply divided over the status of blacks during the Reconstruction
era.
Goldman deftly highlights the cases of United States v. Reese
and United States v. Cruikshank within the context of an ongoing
power struggle between state and federal authorities and the
realities of being black in postwar America. Focusing especially on
the so-called Reconstruction Amendments and Enforcement Acts, he
argues that the decisions in Reese and Cruikshank signaled an
enormous gap between guaranteed and enforced rights. The Court's
decisions denied the very existence of any such guarantee and,
further, conferred upon the states the right to determine who may
vote and under what circumstances.
In both decisions, lower court convictions were overturned
through suprisingly narrrow rulings, despite the larger
constitutional issues involved. In Reese the Court justified its
decision by voicing only two sections of the Enforcement Acts,
while in Cruikshank it merely voided the original indictments as
being "insufficient in law" by failing to allege that the Grant
Parish murders had been explicitly motivated by racial
concerns.
Such legalistic reasoning marked the grim beginning of a nearly
century-long struggle to reclaim what the Fifteenth Amendment had
supposedly guaranteed. As Goldman shows, the Court's decisions
undermined the fledgling efforts of the newly formed justice
department and made it increasingly difficult to control the racial
violence, intimidation, poll taxes, and other less visible means
used by white southern Democrats to "redeem" their political power.
The result was a disenfranchised black society in a hostile and
still segregated South. Only with the emergence of a nationwide
civil rights movement and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 did things
begin to change.
Readable and insightful, Goldman's study offers students,
scholars, and concerned citizens a strong reminder of what happens
when courts refuse to enforce constitutional and legislated
law--and what might happen again if we aren't vigilant in
protecting the rights of all Americans.
When Curt Flood, all-star center fielder for the St. Louis
Cardinals, refused to be traded to the Philadelphia Phillies in
1968, he sent shock waves throughout professional baseball that
ultimately reached the Supreme Court. Flood challenged the game's
reserve clause system that bound players to teams as if they were
property; and while others had previously spoken out against this
arrangement, protected by Congress and the courts for a century, he
was the first to pursue his grievance as doggedly or as far.
Robert Goldman now offers a new look at Flood's efforts to shake
the foundations of major league baseball. "One Man Out" takes
readers back to the pre-steroid era when baseball was as much a
passion as a pastime-and when race was often still a factor-to
focus on decisions made in the courtrooms rather than the
dugouts.
Flood claimed that the prevailing system was illegal because it
violated the Sherman antitrust laws by allowing teams to monopolize
the sport in a way that impeded players' freedom and financial
gain-and was even unconstitutional because it, in effect, imposed a
form of slavery. Baseball owners countered that players owed their
success to the reserve system because it maintained competitive
balance among teams and heightened interest in the game, which
helped fund their high salaries.
Although the Supreme Court ruled against Flood, it left the door
open to legislation that would remove baseball's special exemption
from antitrust regulation and to future collective bargaining. With
its credibility enhanced, the players' union continued negotiations
until it finally won a version of free agency very similar to
Flood's, with his final vindication coming in the form of the Curt
Flood Act of 1998.
In replaying the confrontation between Flood and baseball
commissioner Bowie Kuhn, Goldman demonstrates that even a lost
lawsuit, with its game-like competition, can be a landmark. And by
telling the inside story of the case, he highlights a key labor
relations issue in America's most popular sport. Concise and
balanced, and written in a fast-paced narrative style, "One Man
Out" reminds students, general readers, and fans that Flood holds a
unique and important place in both baseball and American law.
"A Free Ballot and a Fair Count" examines the efforts by the
Department of Justice to implement the federal legislation passed
by Congress in 1870-71 known as the Enforcement Acts. These laws
were designed to enforce the voting rights guarantees for
African-Americans under the recently ratified Fifteenth Amendment.
The Enforcement Acts set forth a range of federally enforceable
crimes aimed at combating white southerners' attempts to deny or
restrict black suffrage. There are several aspects of this work
that distinguish it from other, earlier works in this area.
Contrary to older interpretative studies, Goldman's primary thesis
is that, the federal government's attempts to protect black voting
rights in the South did not cease with the Supreme Court's hostile
rulings in U.S. v. Reese and U.S. v. Cruikshank in 1875. Nor, it is
argued, did enforcement efforts cease at the end of Reconstruction
and the so-called Compromise of 1877. Rather, federal enforcement
efforts after 1877 reflected the continued commitment of Republican
Party leaders, for both humanitarian and partisan reasons, to what
came to be called "the free ballot and a fair count." Another
unique aspect of this book is its focus on the role of the federal
Department of Justice and its officials in the South in the
continued enforcement effort. Created as a cabinet-level executive
department in 1870, the Justice Department proved ill-equipped to
respond to the widespread legal and extra-legal resistance to black
suffrage by white southern Democrats in the years during and after
Reconstruction. The Department faced a variety of internal problems
such as insufficient resources, poor communications, and local
personnel often appointed more for their political acceptability
than their prosecutorial or legal skills. By the early 1890s, when
the election laws were finally repealed by Congress, enforcement
efforts were sporadic at best and largely unsuccessful. The end of
federal involvement, coupled with the wave of southern state
constitution revisions, resulted in the disfranchisement of the
vast majority of African-American voters in the South by the
beginning of the Twentieth Century. It would not be until the 1960s
and the "Second Reconstruction" that the federal government, and
the Justice Department, would once again attempt to ensure the
"free ballot and a fair count."
Shakespeare's texts are seen by the poet and critic Michael Goldman
as designs for theatrical experience--the complex emotional,
physical, and intellectual transaction between actor and audience
that brings alive Shakespeare's imagination and makes it immediate
to our own. Mr. Goldman's particular concerns are these: what the
audience responds to in an acted play; how Shakespeare controls and
shapes this response; what the response means, and why it matters.
Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
This intensely personal book develops a new approach to the
study of action in drama. Michael Goldman eloquently applies a
method based on a crucial fact: our experience of a play in the
theater is almost exclusively our experience of acting.
Originally published in 1985.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
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