when examining les carabiniers, his take on the war movie, one must see godard's purpose in two parts; one, as an anti-war movie, and two, as an anti-war-movie movie. that is, in addition to the visual social commentary which displays the standard horrific shots of dismemberment and...
“The Event”), published in 1938, andThe Waltz Invention. The problem of art again appears in Nabokov’s best novel in Russian,The Gift, the story of a young artist’s development in the spectral world of post-World War I Berlin. This novel, with its reliance on literary parody, was...
In this article, I investigate the matrix of transatlantic literary exchange in Vladimir Nabokov's (1955) in order to suggest how the novel's rehabilitation of an international decadent aesthetics constitutes a radical challenge to the American literary establishment in the post-war. I begin by ...
An item in the 24 Aug 1962LATrevealed that producerJames B. Harrisand directorStanley Kubrickformed their business partnership while serving in the US Army during World War II. On 27 Apr 1960,Varreported “Production Code Administrator” Geoffrey Shurlock’s relief over the lack of news about ...
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As a case history, "Lolita" will become, no doubt, a classic in psychiatric circles. As a work of art, it transcends its expiatory aspects; and still more important to us than scientific significance and literary worth, is the ethical impact the book should have on the serious reader; ...
I welcomed its desultory character and pseudoliterary aspects, attending to it whenever I had nothing better to do. On the other hand, I was urged by a war-time university in New York to complete my comparative history of French literature for English-speaking students. The first volume ...
Charles Frederick Worth was born in England and spent his young adulthood working for textile merchants in London while researching art history at museums. In 1845 he moved to Paris and worked as a salesman and a dressmaker before partnering with Otto Bobergh to open the dressmaking shop, Worth...
This is a brief study of the Cold War rhetoric of the Reader's Digest. Joanne P. Sharp chooses to focus on this magazine for a few reasons. First, the Digest had a circulation so high that it quickly became "the single most important voi... S Susan - 《Journal of American History》...
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