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Bing Crosby's innovations as recording artist, actor, businessman,
and radio and television performer. A multidisciplinary
exploration, plus personal testimony from family members and
colleagues. Going My Way: Bing Crosby and American Culture is the
first serious study of the singer/actor's art and of his centrality
to the history of twentieth-century popular music, film, and the
entertainment industry. The volume uses a wide range of scholarly
and cultural perspectives to explore Crosby's unique and lasting
achievements. It also includes tributes and reminiscences from
Bing's widow Kathryn, his grandson Steve, his record producer Ken
Barnes, and one of his most popular successors, Michael Feinstein.
Other contributors include Gary Giddins, the author of a widely
acclaimed recent biography of the singer, and Will Friedwald, the
acknowledged expert on the developmentof the "great American
songbook." In addition to studying Bing Crosby's innovations and
remarkable achievements as a recording artist, Going My Way
explores his accomplishments as an actor, businessman, and radio
and television performer. Going My Way makes an impressive case not
only for Crosby's considerable talent and inimitable style, but
also for his raising the quality of popular singing to the level of
art. Contributors: Ken Barnes, Samuel L. Chell, Kathryn Crosby,
Steven C. Crosby, John Mark Dempsey, Bernard F. Dick, Deborah
Dolan, Michael Feinstein, Will Friedwald, Jeanne Fuchs, Gary
Giddins, Peter Hammar, M. Thomas Inge, Malcolm MacFarlane, Eric
Michael Mazur, Martin McQuade, Elaine Anderson Phillips, Ruth
Prigozy, Walter Raubicheck, Linda A. Robinson, Stephen C. Shafer,
David White, F.W. Wiggins Ruth Prigozy is Professor of English at
Hofstra University. Walter Raubicheck is Professor of English and
Chair of the English Department at Pace University.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, The Beautiful and Damned, has
frequently been dismissed as an outlier and curiosity in his
oeuvre, a transitional work from the coming-of-age plot of This
Side of Paradise to the masterful critique of American aspiration
in The Great Gatsby The Beautiful and Damned belongs to a genre
that is widely misunderstood, the "bright young things" novel in
which spoiled and wealthy characters succumb to decay because of
their privilege and lack of purpose. Set between 1913 and 1922,
Fitzgerald's longest novel touches on many of the decisive issues
that mark the passage from the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era
into the Jazz Age: conspicuous consumption, income inequality,
yellow journalism, the Great War, the rise of the movie industry,
automobile travel, Wall Street stock scams, immigration and
xenophobia, and the fixation with youth and aging. Published to
coincide with the novel's centennial in 2022, this collection
approaches The Beautiful and Damned for its insights more than its
faults. Prominent Fitzgerald scholars analyze major themes and
reveal unappreciated issues with attention to history, biography,
literary influence, gender studies, and narratology. While
acknowledging the novel's shortcomings, the essayists illustrate
that The Beautiful and Damned has much more to say about its milieu
than previously recognized. This collection provides a guide for
understanding Fitzgerald's aims while demonstrating the richness of
ideas that this novel explores, alongside the anxieties and
ambitions that reverberate within it.
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Lex Naturalis v1 (Paperback)
Walter Raubicheck; Contributions by David Klassen, Zachary Mabee
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R1,018
Discovery Miles 10 180
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, The Beautiful and Damned, has
frequently been dismissed as an outlier and curiosity in his
oeuvre, a transitional work from the coming-of-age plot of This
Side of Paradise to the masterful critique of American aspiration
in The Great Gatsby. The Beautiful and Damned belongs to a genre
that is widely misunderstood, the "bright young things" novel in
which spoiled and wealthy characters succumb to decay because of
their privilege and lack of purpose. Set between 1913 and 1922,
Fitzgerald's longest novel touches on many of the decisive issues
that mark the passage from the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era
into the Jazz Age: conspicuous consumption, income inequality,
yellow journalism, the Great War, the rise of the movie industry,
automobile travel, Wall Street stock scams, immigration and
xenophobia, and the fixation with youth and aging. Published to
coincide with the novel's centennial in 2022, this collection
approaches The Beautiful and Damned for its insights more than its
faults. Prominent Fitzgerald scholars analyze major themes and
reveal unappreciated issues with attention to history, biography,
literary influence, gender studies, and narratology. While
acknowledging the novel's shortcomings, the essayists illustrate
that The Beautiful and Damned has much more to say about its milieu
than previously recognized. This collection provides a guide for
understanding Fitzgerald's aims while demonstrating the richness of
ideas that this novel explores, alongside the anxieties and
ambitions that reverberate within it.
Five of Hitchcock's most significant films were unavailable to the
public for as long as two decades before their release in 1983-84.
This highly readable volume collects the most important essays
written about Hitchcock and the rereleased films since that time.
Covering the entire range of contemporary film criticism and
theory, these studies demonstrate Hitchcock's centrality to an
understanding of how culture shapes film and how film shapes, and
even creates culture.
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