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Hauptmann - Heinemann
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 363.00The Dictionary of German Literature. The 20th Century contains authors writing in German whose main work was created in the 20th century. Volume 15 includes articles on Gerhart Hauptmann, Marlen Haushofer, Christoph Hein und Helmut Heißenbüttel. In line with the Dictionary's orientation, there are also entries on numerous well-known representatives... more...
Schaubühne, Band 1
De Gruyter 1840; US$ 126.00Arnim, Achim; Grimm, Wilhelm: Ludwig Achim's Von Arnim Sämmtliche Werke: Schaubühne, Band 1: Band 5 more...
Making the White Man's Indian
ABC-CLIO 2005; US$ 66.00The image in Hollywood movies of savage Indians attacking white settlers represents only one side of a very complicated picture. In fact sympathetic portrayals of Native Americans stood alongside those of hostile Indians in the silent films of D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, and flourished during the early 1930s with Hollywood's cycle of pro-Indian... more...
Reel Black Talk
ABC-CLIO 1997; US$ 182.00As evidenced in interviews included in this volume, many African American filmmakers consider themselves artists first, their ethnicity being only part of what influences their work. This is the first book by an African American on contemporary African American filmmakers. Here directors and producers speak for themselves, posing challenges to current... more...
George Raft
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2013; US$ 45.00In the early 1930s, George Raft, an actor and dancer from New York City's Hell's Kitchen, gained a name for himself playing stylish and charismatic gangsters in films like 1932's original Scarface. Raft's own real-life connection to the New York mob added frightening authenticity to his portrayals, and his star quality coincided with... more...
Grace is Enough
B&H Publishing Group 2007; US$ 19.99Television star Willie Aames and his wife Maylo Upton recount their Hollywood highs and lows and the grace they’ve found by moving to small-town Kansas. more...
The Vital Lie
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 37.50The Vital Lie is the first book to examine the reality-illusion conflict in modern drama from Ibsen to present-day playwrights. The book questions why vital lies, lies necessary for life itself, are such an obsessive concern for playwrights of the last hundred years. Using the work of fifteen playwrights, Abbott seeks to discover... more...









