Stanley Kubrick Biography Goes Beyond Rumors and Mystique
David Mikics casts Stanley Kubrick as a kind of modernist tragedian, showing how meticulous planning often gives way to vanity, error, or random chaos.
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Irving Berlin: New York Genius (By the Book)
Exploring the interplay of Irving Berlin's life with the life of New York City, noted biographer James Kaplan offers a visceral narrative of Berlin as self-made man and witty, wily, tough Jewish immigrant. Enjoy this excerpt of Kaplan's book, Irving Berlin: New York Genius.
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The City Beneath: A Century of Los Angeles Graffiti (By the Book)
With discussions of characters like Leon Ray Livingston (a.k.a. "A-No. 1"), credited with consolidating the entire system of hobo communication in the 1910s, and Kathy Zuckerman, better known as the surf icon "Gidget", Susan A. Phillips' lavishly illustrated The City Beneath: A Century of Los Angeles Graffiti, excerpted here from Yale University Press, tells stories of small moments that collectively build into broad statements about power, memory, landscape, and history itself.
Hayao Miyazaki’s Films Help Us See Ourselves “with Eyes Unclouded”
Japanese Studies scholar Susan Napier’s Miyazakiworld reveals an animation auteur with an urgent message to convey about our future – and ourselves.
‘Homintern’ Is Not as Subversive and Liberating as Its Subject Matter
What was unique and liberating about the gay influence on Western culture? Gregory Woods tells only part of the story in Homintern.
Acting Connects Us All, Which Is ‘Why Acting Matters’
Through memorable, entertaining stories about actors and a brief history of acting in Britain and the United States, David Thomson reveals why acting matters so much to us all.