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It combines a wide array of approaches, from cultural history and social anthropology to phenomenology. Connecting an analysis of literary and cultural texts with approaches from design theory, the book proposes a new way of understanding American culture as design. It is one of the unique characteristics of American culture that it creates—or, rather, \u003ci\u003edesigns\u003c\/i\u003e—potency out of its inner conflicts and apparent disunities. That which we describe as an identifiable ‘American identity’ is actually the product of highly vulnerable, alternating processes of dissolution and self-affirmation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Introduction: Welcome to the Twilight Zone.\u003cp\u003eMoveable Fictions—Cultural (Dis)Unity and Boundary Transgression.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Designs of Literary and Cultural Practice.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eDesign Thinking and the Cultural Field of ‘America’.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eLongue Durée\u003c\/i\u003e of Moveable Designs in American Cultural History.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePart I Theoretical Framework.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e2 Moveable Designs: Liminal Aesthetics and Cultural Production.\u003c\/p\u003e  Designing Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast.  \u003cp\u003eAmerica as Fiction—Literature as Performance.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eLiminal Aesthetics and Liquid Modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCulture as Design—The (Not So) Secret Lives of Aesthetic Objects.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePart II Contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e3 \u003ci\u003eTrans\u003c\/i\u003eAmerica: Cultural Hybridity and Transgendered Desire from the Colonial Era to Modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Heterogeneity and Transgendered Desire.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Making of ‘America’: From the Colonial Era to the Nation State.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eRevolutionary Compacts: Transgendered Imagery and the Invention of ‘Columbia’.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eConclusion: From Transnational America to Transnation.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e4 The ‘American in Chains’: (Cons)Piracy and the Specter of North Africa in U.S. Barbary Captivity Narratives.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: North Africa in the Early U.S. Cultural Imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Specter of Algiers in Barbary Captivity Narratives.\u003c\/p\u003e  Algiers as a Counter-Image to the Early U.S. Republic in \u003ci\u003eThe Algerine Spy in Pennsylvania\u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003cp\u003eSpaces of Imperialism in \u003ci\u003eSlaves in Algiers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Algerine Captive\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eConclusion: U.S. Exceptionalism and the Birth of the Orient as America’s Other.\u003c\/p\u003e  5 Open Doors, Closed Spaces: The Transatlantic Imaginary in American Urban Writing from the Post-Revolutionary Era to Modernism.  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Toward an Aesthetics of Cross-Atlantic Mapmaking.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFrom Open City to Shrinking City.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Labyrinthine Aesthetics of the Walking City.\u003c\/p\u003e  Open Doors and Walled Streets: Atlantic Cities as Imagined Landscapes.  \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Shades of the Open City in U.S. Transatlantic Writing.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePart III Case Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e6 White Bo(d)y in Wonderland: Cultural Alterity and Sexual Desire in Tod Browning’s \u003ci\u003eWhere East Is East\u003c\/i\u003e (1929).\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Essentialist Topographies—Where East Is East, and West Is West.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Codes of Colonial Discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e  Economies of Stereotyping.  \u003cp\u003eMetonymic Displacement and Ethnic Masquerade.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMetaphysical Condensation and Animal Imagery.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFetishization of the Orient.\u003c\/p\u003e  Allegories of (De-)Historicization.  \u003cp\u003eComic Ethnicity and Explosive Body Language.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eConclusion: The Uses and Abuses of Orientalist Imagery.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e7 Cinematic Literature: Intermedial Aesthetics, Juvenile Rebellion, and Carnal Subjectivity in J.D. Salinger’s \u003ci\u003eThe Catcher in the Rye\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: J.D. Salinger—An Undercover Story.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Catcher in the Rye\u003c\/i\u003e as a Cinematic Text.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eJuvenile Rebellion and the Rhetoric of Disgust.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Carnal Identification and Cinematic Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e8 Animal Laughter: Carnivalesque Humor and the Aesthetics of Dehierarchization in Mister Ed.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Sitcom Genre and Carnivalesque Humor.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eRendering the ‘Impossible’ Possible: Postcolonial Theory and the Animal Subaltern.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBestial Ambivalence and the Aesthetics of Shapeshifting.\u003c\/p\u003e  Pushing the Boundaries of Human and Non-human: Mister Ed as a Liminal Animal Denizen.  \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Empowering the Subjugated Other.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePart IV State of Affairs and Outlook.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e9 Astronautic Subjectivity: Postmodern Culture and the Embodiment of Space in American Science Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e  Introduction: Fashioning the Astronautic Subject.  \u003cp\u003ePostmodern Subjectivity and the Body Without Organs.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Gender of Astronauts.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMan as Mother, Or, Gender Trouble in Space.\u003c\/p\u003e  The Astronautic Subject as Cultural Figuration.  \u003cp\u003eTranssexual Galaxies: The Mechanics of Engenderneering.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Burning Bridges, Engendering New Selves.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e10 Coda: Thinking ‘America’ in the Age of the Liminal.\u003c\/p\u003e  Works Cited and Consulted.","brand":"Springer International Publishing AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48743072039255,"sku":"9783031136108","price":74.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783031136108.jpg?v=1720063987"},{"product_id":"shakespeare-and-community-performance-9783031332661","title":"Shakespeare and Community Performance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores how productions of Shakespearean plays create meaning in specific communities, with special attention to issues of access, adaptation, and activism. 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Turned On: Hard-core Screen Cultures 1. Pornography in the Multiplex, by Brian McNair 2. The Dark Side of Hard-core: Critical Documentaries on the Sex Industry, by Karen Boyle 3. Art School Sluts: Authenticity and the Aesthetics of Altporn, by Feona Attwood 4. Pornogogy: Teaching the Titillating, by Mark Jones and Gerry Carlin Part Two. Come Again? Hard-core in History 5. 'White Slavery', Or the Ethnography of 'Sexworkers', by Linda Williams 6. Lost in Damnation: The Progressive Potential of Behind the Green Door, by Darren Kerr 7. The Limits of Pleasure? Max Hardcore and Extreme Porn, by Stephen Maddison 8. Playmates of the Caribbean: Taking Hollywood, Making Hard-core, by Claire Hines Part Three. Fluid Exchanges: Hard-core Forms and Aesthetics 9. Fashionably Laid: The Styling of Hard-core, by Pamela Church Gibson and Neil Kirkham 10. Shortbus: Highbrow Hard-core, by Beth Johnson 11. Homespun: Finnporn and the Meanings of the Local, by Susanna Paasonen 12. 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Interrogating Lesbian Pornography: Gender, Sexual Iconography and Spectatorship\t, by Rebecca Beirne Selected Filmography Index","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864253378903,"sku":"9780231162135","price":25.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231162135.jpg?v=1722271085"},{"product_id":"hollywood-and-hitler-19331939-9780231163927","title":"Hollywood and Hitler 19331939","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe behind-the-scenes story of Hollywood’s struggle with Nazism before the outbreak of war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a rich blend of art and politics, Doherty brings to light the story of how Hollywood handled Nazism during Hitler's reign. Recommended. Library Journal (starred review) Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939 tracks the advance of fascism, and the movie industry's reaction on screen and in private... [A] fascinating work. -- Kate Muir The Times (London) A lively study of Hollywood's relationship to Nazism. -- Emily Greenhouse Culture Desk blog, The New Yorker Wide-ranging and brightly written. -- Dave Kehr The New York Times Book Review A lively, detailed account and a worthy successor to his books Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934 and Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration. -- Philip Kemp Times Higher Education A remarkable and stimulating account of an important part of movie history and American history. -- Rob Hardy The Commercial Dispatch [Doherty's] books on American cinema from the 1930s to the 1950s are essential reading: Pre-Code Hollywood and Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen \u0026amp; the Production Code Administration... No one has told this story in as comprehensive or convincing a fashion. As always, Doherty's work is well researched. -- Clayton Koppes Cineaste A witty writer familiar with Hollywood history and manners, Doherty places the studios' craven behavior within a general account of the political culture of the movies in the thirties and forties. -- David Denby The New Yorker [A] riveting read. -- Merve Emre The Millions Mr. Doherty fully understands the studio system and how it juggled interference from its own internal agency, the Production Code Administration. He doesn't deny the greed and fear that motivated studios, but he puts the behavior in context. -- Jeanine Basinger Wall Street Journal Meticulously researched and captivating. -- Noah Isenberg Times Literary Supplement Doherty masterfully describes how the movie industry, mostly headed by Jews, ultimately came together at a time when the nation needed unity... The book is crisply written, well documented. -- Burton Boxerman St. Louis Jewish Light Doherty's well researched Hollywood and Hitler 1933-1939 throws fascinating new light on America and the rise of Nazism. -- Philip French The Observer [A] wide-ranging, scrupulously researched and highly entertaining study. -- Philip French Sight and Sound [A] judicious and comprehensive history of the period. -- Mark Horowitz Tablet Doherty provides a more nuanced and accurate account of Hollywood's relationship with Hitler, and his book should be considered the authority on the subject. -- M. Todd Bennett American Historical Review Hollywood and Hitler is an excellent addition to Doherty's impressive oeuvre, well worth reading for its important insights, strong narrative, and mastery of the period. -- David Welky Journal of American Studies Doherty's book is well documented and brings together a corpus made of lesser-known, yet signifying feature films. -- Yves Laberge Journal of American Culture Thorough and elegantly written. -- Saverio Giovacchini Journal of American History Doherty brings fresh eyes and a witty pen to re-examine the business of US cinema production and distribution in the turbulent pre-war years... A valuable contribution to scholarship on the subject. -- Vincent O'Donnell Media International Australia An important contribution to the history of Hollywood's response to the Nazi efforts to censor US films targeted for export to Germany... Highly recommended. Choice Vividly written, academically unpretentious, and indispensable for historians and students of film. -- Bernard F. Dick American Studies [Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939] is painstakingly researched and offers film historians, as well as historians of World War II, a rich, insightful, and engaging portrait of an industry and a world in turmoil. -- Brian Faucette Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television Meticulously researched... [Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939] provides an informed backdrop to scholars looking to contextualize and analyze individual films from the era. -- Rochelle Miller Film \u0026amp; History A tour de force of film history, deftly weaving together many strands of Hollywood and world history to explain Hollywood's vexed and often vexing relationship to the rise of Nazism. -- Leslie Fishbein American Jewish History Doherty offers a compelling prequel to his own Projections of War: Hollywood,American Culture,and World War II and an indispensible contribution to the emerging body of work on the relationships between Hollywood and Berlin in the 1930s. -- Hannah Graves Film Quarterly Top notch, exhaustively researched film history book by a superb historian. Hollywood Progressive\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrologue: Judenfilm!  1. Hollywood-Berlin-Hollywood  \"The Hitler Anti-Jew Thing\" The Aryanization of American Imports The Aryanization of Hollywood's Payroll 2. Hitler, \"A Blah Show Subject\" The Disappearance of Jews qua Jews The Unmaking of The Mad Dog of Europe \"What about the Jews The Story of a Hollywood Girl in Naziland: I Was a Captive of Nazi Germany (1936) 3. The Nazis in the Newsreels \"The Swastika Man\" \"Naziganda\" 4. The Hollywood Anti-Nazi League \"Unheil Hitler!\" The Politics of Celebrity 5. Mussolini Jr. Goes Hollywood 6. The Spanish Civil War in Hollywood \"Censored Pap!\" Walter Wanger's Blockade (1938) Loyalist Red Screen Propaganda 7. Foreign Imports \"German Tongue Talkers\"  Anti-Nazism in the Arty Theaters \"Nazi Scrammers\" 8. \"The Blight of Radical Propaganda\" Trouble from Rome Over Idiot's Delight (1939) Trouble from Berlin Over The Road Back (1937) Trouble from Washington with the Dies Committee 9. Inside Nazi Germany with the March of Time  10. \"Grim Reaper Material\" History Unreels \"The Present Persecutions in Germany\" 11. There Is No Room for Leni Riefenstahl in Hollywood 12. \"The Only Studio with Any Guts\" The Warner Bros. Patriotic Shorts The Activist Moguls \"The Picture That Calls a Swastika a Swastika!\": Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) 13. Hollywood Goes to War Epilogue: The Motion Picture Memory of Nazism Thanks and Acknowledgments Notes Index","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864253903191,"sku":"9780231163927","price":75.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231163927.jpg?v=1722271089"},{"product_id":"philosophers-on-film-from-bergson-to-badiou-9780231176033","title":"Philosophers on Film from Bergson to Badiou","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilosophers on Film from Bergson to Badiou\u003c\/i\u003e is an anthology of writings on cinema and film by many of the major thinkers in continental philosophy. The book presents a selection of fundamental texts, each introduced by the editor, Christopher Kul-Want, who places the philosophers within a historical and intellectual framework.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAny film lover in or freshly out of school may just have their life changed with this little diddy. * CriterionCast *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilosophers on Film\u003c\/i\u003e is an important collection, especially for students first breaking into film studies or scholars who desire quick reference to diverse groundbreaking texts. -- ANDREW KETTLER, University of South Carolina * Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television *\u003cbr\u003eThe contemporary philosophers included in this anthology have been prominent in Anglophone discourse in the humanities over the last twenty years, yet their contributions to film theory have not been addressed in a systematic fashion. \u003ci\u003ePhilosophers on Film from Bergson to Badiou\u003c\/i\u003e offers a coherent framework for approaching this diverse group of philosophers, and the summaries of the arguments of the individual selections are informed, accurate, and accessible. This anthology promises to serve an important function in cinema studies. -- Ronald Bogue, University of Georgia\u003cbr\u003eAn essential collection that gathers the most important works, both classical and contemporary, on film and philosophy. It covers all of the field’s complex configurations from the continental tradition: philosophy of film, philosophy in film, as well as film as philosophy. No serious film philosopher will be able to leave home without it. -- John Ó Maoilearca, Kingston University, London\u003cbr\u003eThis important and comprehensive collection offers a complex and carefully chosen series of texts that set out the difficult and urgent relations between film and philosophy, as well as between popular cultures and critical thinking over the last century. 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Weiner, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eJames Bond in World and Popular Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames Bond Will Return\u003c\/i\u003e takes a chronological, anthological approach to the study of the cinematic Bond, enabling a totalizing view of the so-called ‘Bond experience.’ This is the most expansive and well-organized coverage of the Bond cinematic universe to date, representing film and cultural history par excellence. -- Ian Kinane, author of \u003ci\u003eIan Fleming and the Politics of Ambivalence\u003c\/i\u003e and general editor of the \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of James Bond Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: James Bond—Agent of Continuity and Change, by Claire Hines, Terence McSweeney, and Stuart Joy\u003cbr\u003e1. Bond and the New Elizabethans: Tradition and Modernity in\u003ci\u003e Dr. No \u003c\/i\u003e(1962), by Laura Crossley\u003cbr\u003e2. “A Real Labour of Love, as They Say”: James Bond as a Sexual Plaything in\u003ci\u003e From Russia with Love\u003c\/i\u003e (1963), by Lucy Bolton\u003cbr\u003e3. The Midas Touch: Eastmancolor, the Bond Franchise, and \u003ci\u003eGoldfinger \u003c\/i\u003e(1964), by Keith M. Johnston\u003cbr\u003e4. The Popular Geopolitics of \u003ci\u003eThunderball \u003c\/i\u003e(1965): Look Up, Look Down, and Look Everywhere!, by Klaus Dodds\u003cbr\u003e5. Bond in the East: Orientalism and the Exotic in\u003ci\u003e You Only Live Twice\u003c\/i\u003e (1967), by Robert Shail\u003cbr\u003e6. The Other Fellow:\u003ci\u003e On Her Majesty’s Secret Service\u003c\/i\u003e (1969), by James Chapman\u003cbr\u003e7.\u003ci\u003e Diamonds Are Forever\u003c\/i\u003e (1971): 007 and Transatlantic States of Emergency, by Ian Scott\u003cbr\u003e8. From Harlem to San Monique: Spatial Dichotomies, Voodoo, and Cultural Identity in \u003ci\u003eLive and Let Die\u003c\/i\u003e (1973), by Fran Pheasant-Kelly\u003cbr\u003e9. “We All Get Our Jollies One Way or Another”: The Perversity and Pleasure of Christopher Lee in\u003ci\u003e The Man with the Golden Gun\u003c\/i\u003e (1974), by Julie Lobalzo Wright\u003cbr\u003e10. \u003ci\u003eThe Spy Who Loved Me\u003c\/i\u003e (1977)—Nobody Does It Better: “Keeping the British End Up” at a Time of National Crisis, by Terence McSweeney\u003cbr\u003e11. \u003ci\u003eMoonraker \u003c\/i\u003e(1979) and the Canvas of Escapism, by Steven Gerrard\u003cbr\u003e12. The Spectre of Death: Revenge and Retribution in\u003ci\u003e For Your Eyes Only\u003c\/i\u003e (1981), by Stuart Joy\u003cbr\u003e13. The (Clown) Suited Hero: James Bond, Costume, Gender and Disguise in \u003ci\u003eOctopussy \u003c\/i\u003e(1983), by Claire Hines\u003cbr\u003e14. Scowls and Cowls: Grace Jones, Costume Design, and\u003ci\u003e A View to a Kill\u003c\/i\u003e (1985), by Randall Stevens\u003cbr\u003e15. “A Time When Indiscriminating Bed-Hopping Is Definitely Not Advisable”: Safe-Sex References in the UK Press Reception of \u003ci\u003eThe Living Daylights\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), by Stephanie Jones\u003cbr\u003e16. Bond in the New World Orders:\u003ci\u003e Licence to Kill\u003c\/i\u003e (1989), by Stacey Peebles\u003cbr\u003e17. Cold War Nostalgia, (Geo)Political Progress, and James Bond in \u003ci\u003eGoldenEye\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), by Tatiana Konrad\u003cbr\u003e18. Bond by the Numbers: \u003ci\u003eTomorrow Never Dies\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), by Llewella Chapman\u003cbr\u003e19. Bond at the Crossroads: \u003ci\u003eThe World Is Not Enough\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), by Tobias Hochscherf\u003cbr\u003e20. The Digital Domain of\u003ci\u003e Die Another Day\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), by Christopher Holliday\u003cbr\u003e21. 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Scowls and Cowls: Grace Jones, Costume Design, and\u003ci\u003e A View to a Kill\u003c\/i\u003e (1985), by Randall Stevens\u003cbr\u003e15. “A Time When Indiscriminating Bed-Hopping Is Definitely Not Advisable”: Safe-Sex References in the UK Press Reception of \u003ci\u003eThe Living Daylights\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), by Stephanie Jones\u003cbr\u003e16. Bond in the New World Orders:\u003ci\u003e Licence to Kill\u003c\/i\u003e (1989), by Stacey Peebles\u003cbr\u003e17. Cold War Nostalgia, (Geo)Political Progress, and James Bond in \u003ci\u003eGoldenEye\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), by Tatiana Konrad\u003cbr\u003e18. Bond by the Numbers: \u003ci\u003eTomorrow Never Dies\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), by Llewella Chapman\u003cbr\u003e19. Bond at the Crossroads: \u003ci\u003eThe World Is Not Enough\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), by Tobias Hochscherf\u003cbr\u003e20. The Digital Domain of\u003ci\u003e Die Another Day\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), by Christopher Holliday\u003cbr\u003e21. 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Read this impressively researched study and decide.\" -- Nigel Andrews Financial Times \"An engaging new biography ... an unusually animated and revealing tour of Hollywood in the 1920s and '30s.\" -- Noah Isenberg Bookforum \"An important book on a pivotal figure in Hollywood history... Vieira's biography is an invaluable resource.\" -- Camille McCutcheon, University of South Carolina Upstate Jrnl Of American Culture \"Vieira takes students of movie history deep into the bowels of MGM.\" -- Robert Fulford The National Post \"A fast-paced and well-researched new biography of Thalberg.\" -- Kent Jones Film Comment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part One The Merger\u003cbr\u003e 1 The Boy Wonder\u003cbr\u003e 2 A Funny Little Man\u003cbr\u003e 3 Three Shaky Little Stars\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part Two The Perfection of Silence\u003cbr\u003e 4 A Studio Style\u003cbr\u003e 5 Wicked Stepchildren\u003cbr\u003e 6 A Business of Personalities\u003cbr\u003e 7 Top of the Heap\u003cbr\u003e 8 “More Stars Than There Are\u003cbr\u003e in Heaven”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part Three The Talkies\u003cbr\u003e 9 The Golden Silents\u003cbr\u003e 10 All-Talking, All-Singing,\u003cbr\u003e All Profitable\u003cbr\u003e 11 The Production Code\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part Four “His Brain Is the Camera”\u003cbr\u003e 12 Visiting Royalty\u003cbr\u003e 13 New Morals for Old\u003cbr\u003e 14 The Right to Be Wrong\u003cbr\u003e 15 Hollywood Icarus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part Five The Thalberg Unit\u003cbr\u003e 16 The New Setup\u003cbr\u003e 17 Honor with Credit\u003cbr\u003e 18 “To Hell with Art!”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part Six The Crown Prince of Hollywood\u003cbr\u003e 19 “Napoleon Thalberg”\u003cbr\u003e 20 A Feverish Energy\u003cbr\u003e 21 A Labor of Love\u003cbr\u003e 22 The Gods Are Jealous\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part Seven The Legacy\u003cbr\u003e 23 Unfinished Projects\u003cbr\u003e 24 Marie Antoinette\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: The M-G-M Films\u003cbr\u003e of Irving Thalberg\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Select Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Illustrations","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864862175575,"sku":"9780520260481","price":34.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520260481.jpg?v=1722273244"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/collections\/performing-arts.oembed?page=13","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}