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Hollywood Divided
The 1950 Screen Directors Guild Meeting and the Impact of the Blacklist
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
On October 22, 1950, the Screen Directors Guild (SDG) gathered for a meeting at the opulent Beverly Hills Hotel. Among the group's leaders were some of the most powerful men in Hollywood -- John Ford, Cecil B. DeMille, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, John Huston, Frank Capra, William Wyler, and Rouben Mamoulian...
Crane
Sex, Celebrity, and My Father's Unsolved Murder
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
On June 29, 1978, Bob Crane, known to Hogan's Heroes fans as Colonel Hogan, was discovered brutally murdered in his Scottsdale, Arizona, apartment. His eldest son, Robert Crane, was called to the crime scene. In this poignant memoir, Robert Crane discusses that terrible day and how he has lived with...
Ann Dvorak
Hollywood's Forgotten Rebel
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Possessing a unique beauty and refined acting skills, Ann Dvorak (1911--1979) found success in Hollywood at a time when many actors were still struggling to adapt to the era of talkies. Seemingly destined for A-list fame, critics touted her as "Hollywood's New Cinderella" after film mogul...
Unsolved History
Investigating Mysteries of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
What constitutes historical truth is often subject to change. Joe Nickell demonstrates the techniques used in solving some of the world's most perplexing mysteries, such as the authenticity of Abraham Lincoln's celebrated Bixby letter, the 1913 disappearance of writer and journalist Ambrose Bierce,...
by Peter Augustine Lawler, Brian A. Smith, Ralph C. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
In 1962, Walker Percy (1916--1990) made a dramatic entrance onto the American literary scene when he won the National Book Award for fiction with his first novel, The Moviegoer. A physician, philosopher, and devout Catholic, Percy dedicated his life to understanding the mixed and somewhat contradictory...
by Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh, Zoe Trodd, Donna Kornhaber
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Though he was a recipient of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature, American novelist John Steinbeck (1902--1968) has frequently been censored. Even in the twenty-first century, nearly ninety years after his work first appeared in print, Steinbeck's novels, stories, and plays...
Homer Simpson Marches on Washington
Dissent through American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The Simpsons questions what is culturally acceptable, showcasing controversial issues like homosexuality, animal rights, the war on terror, and religion. This subtle form of political analysis is effective in changing opinions and attitudes on a large scale. Homer Simpson Marches on Washington explores...
The Liberty Line
The Legend of the Underground Railroad
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
" The underground railroad -- with its mysterious signals, secret depots, abolitionist heroes, and slave-hunting villains -- has become part of American mythology. But legend has distorted much of this history. Larry Gara shows how pre-Civil War partisan propanda, postwar remininscences by fame-hungry...
Patchwork
A Bobbie Ann Mason Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Bobbie Ann Mason burst onto the American literary scene during a renaissance of short fiction that Raymond Carver called a "literary phenomenon." Anne Tyler hailed Mason as "a full-fledged master of the short story." Mason's work, charged with a spirit of exploration, garnered...
Driving with the Dead
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Appalachia is no stranger to loss. The region suffers regular ecological devastation wrought by strip mining, fracking, and deforestation as well as personal tragedy brought on by enduring poverty and drug addiction. In Driving with the Dead, Appalachian poet, teacher, and artist Jane Hicks weaves...
Wendell Berry and Religion
Heaven's Earthly Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Farmer, poet, essayist, and environmental writer Wendell Berry is acclaimed for his ideas regarding the values inherent in an agricultural society. Place, community, good work, and simple pleasures are but a few of the values that form the bedrock of Berry's thought. While the notion of reverence...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
The works of Walt Whitman have been described as masculine, feminine, postcolonial, homoerotic, urban, organic, unique, and democratic, yet arguments about the extent to which Whitman could or should be considered a political poet have yet to be fully confronted. Some scholars disregard Whitman's...
Improvising Out Loud
My Life Teaching Hollywood How to Act
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Jeff Corey (1914--2002) made a name for himself in the 1940s as a character actor in films like Superman and the Mole Men (1951), Joan of Arc (1948), and The Killers (1946). Everything changed in 1951, when he was summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Corey refused to name names...
by Ruth Ann Musick
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Mysterious vanishing hitchhikers, travelers beset by headless dogs, and long-dead moonshiners come alive in this collection of ninety-six Appalachian folktales. Set in coal mines and remote farm cabins, in hidden hollows and on mountain tops, some of these stories look back to the days when West Virginia...