Not Hollywood. Independent Film at the Twilight of the American Dream, Paperback - Sherry B. Ortner

The pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner explores the culture and practices of independent filmmaking in the U.S., arguing that during the pa...

Famed anthropologist Ortner tracks down representative classmates from her mostly Jewish Newark, NJ high school class of '58 in order to examine cl...

Reducere. The Sherpas were dead, two more victims of an attempt to scale Mt. Everest. Members of a French climbing expedition, sensitive perhaps about leavin...

In Anthropology and Social Theory the award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner draws on her longstanding interest in theories of cultural prac...

Reducere. The New York Times bestselling investigation into white-collar unemployment from ``our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism``--The New Y...

`Thompson's best work of the past three decades' New York Times Book Review

Reducere. Now in paperback, "a phenomenal blend of science and cultural history" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), About Time gives readers a peek into the c...

Reducere. Join Thea Stilton and the Thea Sisters on an adventure packed with mystery and friendship!The Thea Sisters are taking a road trip across America al...

Reducere. America was the place Smith had dreamed of his whole life.There, his character, determination, and ambition had propelled him to the top of society...

How the optimism gap between rich and poor is creating an increasingly divided societyThe Declaration of Independence states that all people are en...

Reducere. The steady immigration of black populations from Africa and the Caribbean over the past few decades has fundamentally changed the racial, ethnic, a...

Reducere. DescriptionA brilliant blend of Shop Class as Soulcraft and The Orchid Thief, Earl Swift's wise, funny, and captivating Auto Biography follows an o...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Michael SaymanNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 131 x 202 x 21Cover type: Paperback /...

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Reducere. From Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben to the Jolly Green Giant and Ronald McDonald, corporate icons sell billions of dollars' worth of products. But only ...

Reducere. First published in 1990, Songs of the Doomed is back in print -- by popular demand In this third and most extraordinary volume of the Gonzo Papers,...

Reducere. It's a time of transition for the American Right. The old ideas are failing. The conservative movement is disintegrating. And the European American...

Reducere. For millions of Americans, Solomon D. Butcher's photographs epitomize the sod-house frontier. His images from western Nebraska constitute the most ...

Reducere. This book lays out a new paradigm for developing minority businesses so that they can fully contribute to our national competitive advantage and pr...

Reducere. DescriptionLong out of print in English, and here offered for the first time in a restored format, The Twilight of the Gods, l mir Bourges' acknowl...

The author has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. Whether discussing t...

Reducere. In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, Patrick Radden Keefe investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle...

Reducere. "DON'T believe the naysayers. The American Dream--the fable that says if you work hard and follow the rules, you'll make it--is alive and well."--N...

Reducere. At fifteen, Linda Darnell left her Texas home and normal adolescence to live the Hollywood dream promoted by fan magazine and studio publicity offi...

Reducere. Winner of the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Brave, clear-eyed, and passionate, Stakes Is High is the book we need to guide us past crisis mode a...

Reducere. WHAT IS JESUS WORTH TO YOU?It's easy for American Christians to forget how Jesus said his followers would actually live, what their new lifestyle w...

Reducere. DescriptionConventional financial mindsets are failing too many people. We save, invest, and borrow the way Wall Street, banks, and the financial m...

Publisher: Steerforth PressAuthor(s): Robert KerbeckNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 226 x 28Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. There may not be a more fascinating a historical period than the late fourteenth century in Europe. The Hundred Years' War ravaged the continent, y...

This volume examines how the political, economic and social changes of the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood and how it responded to them.

Reducere. "On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously declared that separate educational facilities for blacks and whites are inherently ""unequal"" and,...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Natasha WarikooIllustration(s): 4 tablesNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

Reducere. The unbelievable true story of Harrison Post--the enigmatic lover of one of the richest men in 1920s Hollywood--and the battle for a family fortune...

Reducere. Finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book PrizeFour undocumented Mexican American students, two great teachers, one robot-building contest . . . and a...

Reducere. Now in its updated and expanded fourth edition, Here's Looking at You: Hollywood, Film & Politics examines how the tangled relationship between Hol...

Reducere. DescriptionNew Delhi was intended to impress and to encapsulate the values of the British Empire, in other words to project 'soft' power. This book...

Reducere. The Vanishing reveals the plight and possible extinction of Christian communities across Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Palestine after 2, 000 years in th...

Reducere. DescriptionAndrew Bacevich is a leading American public intellectual, writing in the fields of culture and politics with particular attention to wa...

Romanul lui Nathanael West despre decadenta hollywoodiana de la sfarsitul anilor '30 constituie un excelent material pentru cinematografie.O creati...

'One must be superior to mankind in force, in loftiness of soul--in contempt'In these two devastating works, Nietzsche offers a sustained and often...

Reducere. In The End of Science, John Horgan makes the case that the era of truly profound scientific revelations about the universe and our place in it is o...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Stephen Edred FlowersEditor: Joshua BuckleyEditor: Michael MoynihanThroughout the United States and Europe, a revival of in...

Reducere. As America struggles to point its way out of the COVID-19 pandemic, we can't lose sight of the economic problems that existed before the crisis. Ev...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert B. PippinThe crime melodramas of the 1940s known now as film noir shared many formal and thematic elements, from unu...

Why does a disease that killed only a handful of Americans like ebola provoke panic, but the flu-which kills tens of thousands each year-is dismiss...

This is a classic account of the life and death of a Highland community. The author weaves his own humorous and perceptive account of crofting with...

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