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The first in-depth critical analysis of Ritt's films and a justification of his renown as America's premier social-issues filmmaker In a Hollywood career that spanned more than thirty years, Martin Ritt (1914-1990) directed twenty-six films. Among them were some of Hollywood's most enduring works -- Hud, Hombre, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Molly Maguires, The Front, and Norma Rae. In addition to displaying a passionate commitment to...

Exploration of the comic strip for elements that make the funnies one of the most appealing of the popular arts

American art from one of the premier collections of work by self-taught artists

Among America's garden cities, one of the most remarkably beautiful is New Orleans. Now the exotic New Orleans garden can live not only in romance but also in settings very close to home. Whether in the Vieux Carre or in the humid hinterlands, anyone hoping to recreate such a romantic spot in the climes of the Gulf Coast region should consult Charlotte Seidenberg's essential handbook.In this new edition of a favorite manual among New Orleans g...

When Art Spiegelman's Maus-a two-part graphic novel about the Holocaust-won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992, comics scholarship grew increasingly popular and notable. The rise of "serious" comics has generated growing levels of interest as scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals continue to explore the history, aesthetics, and semiotics of the comics medium.Yet those who write about the comics often assume analysis of the medium didn't begin ...

A collection of interviews with the most intriguing film director to emerge in Denmark since the days of his great mentor in spirit Carl Theodor Dreyer

A lush, evocative novel about a mysterious girl who survives a devastating hurricane in old Louisiana

Questions about the cultural interaction between whites and enslaved blacks in the antebellum South have long aroused controversy. Was there one dominant culture? Two separate cultures? One shared culture? Were interaction and interchange between the races possible? The essays collected here attempt to give answers and conclusions and to bring the picture of cultural life in the antebellum South into clearer focus. With essays and commentaries...

An appreciative retrospective of the art of a noted turn-of-the century painter

From the late 1930s to the mid-1950s, five big movie studios-Paramount, Warner Bros., Twentieth Century-Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), and RKO-dominated Hollywood's film industry. This "big studio system" operated primarily as a series of assembly-line production factories. Ideally, each churned out fifty-two movies a year, enough to supply showcase theaters across the country with a new lineup each week-with profit being the overriding goal....

A treasury of tribal lore told by past and present Choctaw storytellers Including stories from the 1700s to today, Choctaw Tales showcases the mythic, the legendary and supernatural, the prophecies and histories, the animal fables and jokes that make up the rich and lively Choctaw storytelling tradition. The stories display intelligence, artistry, and creativity as Choctaw narrators, past and present, express and struggle with beliefs, values,...

In-depth discussions with former NFL players and coaches on a wide range of topics, including masculinity, injury and pain, big-time college recruiting, college athletics and academics, relationships with fathers and coaches, encounters with Jim Crow and desegregation, and strikes and labor relations in the NFL

Conversations with Don DeLillo Edited by Thomas DePietro In novel after award-winning novel, Don DeLillo (b. 1936) exhibits his deep distrust of language and the way it can conceal as much as it reveals. Not surprisingly, DeLillo treats interviews with the same care and caution. For years, he shunned them altogether. As his fiction grew in popularity, especially with White Noise, and he began to confront the historical record of our times in b...

A collection of interviews and articles from 1938-2004 that shows how the cartoonist managed to keep his art and stories fresh for over seventy years of production

Over thirty years of interviews that provide a revealing glimpse into the director's vision as he discusses his varied experiences as a filmmaker

A biography of the proper Charlestonian who wrote of the Gullahs of Catfish Row and inspired a Gershwin masterpiece

Chronicles the wonderful and wacky history of the popular tourist spots that filled this area before Walt Disney built his mammoth theme park. 15 color photos. 220 b&w, photos. 235 illustrations.

John Wilkes Booth: A Sister's Memoir by Asia Booth Clarke edited by Terry Alford A sister's affectionate look into the complex mind and character of her brother, the man who killed Lincoln. Asia Booth Clarke's memoir is an indispensable resource for perceiving the complexities of her ill-fated brother. Indeed, as has been said, she "turns on the light in the Booth family living room." Certainly no outsider could give such insights into the tur...

This collection of twenty-one unabridged interviews puts us immediately in the company of one of the presiding literary figures of our times. This revered editor, poet, literary historian, and critic encapsulates seven decades of American literature in these conversations that took place between 1942 and 1985.Full of insights and strong opinions, direct, salty, Cowley converses candidly with his interviewers about himself and about many subjec...