Carl Freedman: 2 books
Versions of Hollywood Crime Cinema
Studies in Ford, Wilder, Coppola, Scorsese, and Others
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
No society is without crime, prompting Nathaniel Hawthorne’s narrator to make his famous statement inThe Scarlet Letter that, however high its hopes are, no civilization can fail to allot a portion of its soil as the site of a prison. By establishing the category of crime - by drawing a line between...
The Age of Nixon
A Study in Cultural Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
The fundamental argument this book is, first, that Richard Nixon, though not generally regarded as a charismatic or emotionally outgoing politician like Franklin Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan, did establish profound psychic connections with the American people, connections that can be detected both in...