Author: VERN. SNEIDER
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781788691376
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This immensely likeable satire of the American civilizing mission in Okinawa was a phenomenon when it was published in 1951. The many-layered novel retains its charm and power today; beneath the comical mayhem that engulfs the village Tobiki we see the pitfalls and possibilities of cultural exchange and nation-building.
The Teahouse of the August Moon
Author: VERN. SNEIDER
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781788691376
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This immensely likeable satire of the American civilizing mission in Okinawa was a phenomenon when it was published in 1951. The many-layered novel retains its charm and power today; beneath the comical mayhem that engulfs the village Tobiki we see the pitfalls and possibilities of cultural exchange and nation-building.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781788691376
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This immensely likeable satire of the American civilizing mission in Okinawa was a phenomenon when it was published in 1951. The many-layered novel retains its charm and power today; beneath the comical mayhem that engulfs the village Tobiki we see the pitfalls and possibilities of cultural exchange and nation-building.
Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen
Author: John Patrick
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573680304
Category : Musicals
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573680304
Category : Musicals
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
A Pail of Oysters
Author: Vern Sneider
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910736357
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A Pail of Oysters tells the moving story of nineteen-year-old villager Li Liu and his quest to recover his family's stolen kitchen god. Li Liu's fate becomes entwined with that of an American journalist who investigates the situation beyond the propaganda, learns of a massacre, and is drawn into the world of the Formosan underground.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910736357
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A Pail of Oysters tells the moving story of nineteen-year-old villager Li Liu and his quest to recover his family's stolen kitchen god. Li Liu's fate becomes entwined with that of an American journalist who investigates the situation beyond the propaganda, learns of a massacre, and is drawn into the world of the Formosan underground.
The King from Ashtabula
Author: Vern Sneider
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kings and queens
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A satire, on some of today's ideas and attitudes, recounting the adventures of a Southeast Asian boy who goes to college in Ashtabula, Ohio, but is called home to be king of the Nakashima Islands.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kings and queens
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A satire, on some of today's ideas and attitudes, recounting the adventures of a Southeast Asian boy who goes to college in Ashtabula, Ohio, but is called home to be king of the Nakashima Islands.
Glenn Ford
Author: Peter Ford
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299281531
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Glenn Ford—star of such now-classic films as Gilda, Blackboard Jungle, The Big Heat, 3:10 to Yuma, and The Rounders—had rugged good looks, a long and successful career, and a glamorous Hollywood life. Yet the man who could be accessible and charming on screen retreated to a deeply private world he created behind closed doors. Glenn Ford: A Life chronicles the volatile life, relationships, and career of the renowned actor, beginning with his move from Canada to California and his initial discovery of theater. It follows Ford’s career in diverse media—from film to television to radio—and shows how Ford shifted effortlessly between genres, playing major roles in dramas, noir, westerns, and romances. This biography by Glenn Ford’s son, Peter Ford, offers an intimate view of a star’s private and public life. Included are exclusive interviews with family, friends, and professional associates, and snippets from the Ford family collection of diaries, letters, audiotapes, unpublished interviews, and rare candid photos. This biography tells a cautionary tale of Glenn Ford’s relentless infidelities and long, slow fade-out, but it also embraces his talent-driven career. The result is an authentic Hollywood story that isn’t afraid to reveal the truth. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Reviewers
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299281531
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Glenn Ford—star of such now-classic films as Gilda, Blackboard Jungle, The Big Heat, 3:10 to Yuma, and The Rounders—had rugged good looks, a long and successful career, and a glamorous Hollywood life. Yet the man who could be accessible and charming on screen retreated to a deeply private world he created behind closed doors. Glenn Ford: A Life chronicles the volatile life, relationships, and career of the renowned actor, beginning with his move from Canada to California and his initial discovery of theater. It follows Ford’s career in diverse media—from film to television to radio—and shows how Ford shifted effortlessly between genres, playing major roles in dramas, noir, westerns, and romances. This biography by Glenn Ford’s son, Peter Ford, offers an intimate view of a star’s private and public life. Included are exclusive interviews with family, friends, and professional associates, and snippets from the Ford family collection of diaries, letters, audiotapes, unpublished interviews, and rare candid photos. This biography tells a cautionary tale of Glenn Ford’s relentless infidelities and long, slow fade-out, but it also embraces his talent-driven career. The result is an authentic Hollywood story that isn’t afraid to reveal the truth. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Reviewers
Demographic Angst
Author: Alan Nadel
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813565510
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Prolific literature, both popular and scholarly, depicts America in the period of the High Cold War as being obsessed with normality, implicitly figuring the postwar period as a return to the way of life that had been put on hold, first by the Great Depression and then by Pearl Harbor. Demographic Angst argues that mandated normativity—as a political agenda and a social ethic—precluded explicit expression of the anxiety produced by America’s radically reconfigured postwar population. Alan Nadel explores influential non-fiction books, magazine articles, and public documents in conjunction with films such as Singin’ in the Rain, On the Waterfront, Sunset Boulevard, and Sayonara, to examine how these films worked through fresh anxieties that emerged during the 1950s.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813565510
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Prolific literature, both popular and scholarly, depicts America in the period of the High Cold War as being obsessed with normality, implicitly figuring the postwar period as a return to the way of life that had been put on hold, first by the Great Depression and then by Pearl Harbor. Demographic Angst argues that mandated normativity—as a political agenda and a social ethic—precluded explicit expression of the anxiety produced by America’s radically reconfigured postwar population. Alan Nadel explores influential non-fiction books, magazine articles, and public documents in conjunction with films such as Singin’ in the Rain, On the Waterfront, Sunset Boulevard, and Sayonara, to examine how these films worked through fresh anxieties that emerged during the 1950s.
The Teahouse of the August Moon
Author: John Patrick
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822211143
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
THE STORY: As told by McClain in the New York Journal-American: ...pursues the career of an Army of Occupation officer stationed in a remote town in Okinawa. His duty is to teach Democracy to the natives, and there is a stern and stupid Colonel brea
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822211143
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
THE STORY: As told by McClain in the New York Journal-American: ...pursues the career of an Army of Occupation officer stationed in a remote town in Okinawa. His duty is to teach Democracy to the natives, and there is a stern and stupid Colonel brea
Ensō
Author: Shin Yu Pai
Publisher: Entre Rios Books
ISBN: 9780997395792
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Shin Yu Pai is a poet known for her wide-ranging collaborations and creative practice engaged as much in physical space as the page. With its blend of personal essays reflecting on the development of her poetics, Ensō places new work next to old, to create not only a mid-career retrospective, but a guidebook for poets interested in moving their practice off the page and into the world around them. From her early work in place-based and ekphrastic poetry to her current experimentation with installation and projections, Ensō highlights the creative process to her poetry--the identities that resonate for her--and her thoughts on cultural hybridity, exchange and appropriation. She speaks deeply of how motherhood transformed her views of what is possible in poetry, reconnecting to her immigrant mother's creative legacy, and how personal and systematic racism and misogyny have shaped her practice, while inviting the reader into a deeper conversation about how a poet writes with and about their community"--
Publisher: Entre Rios Books
ISBN: 9780997395792
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Shin Yu Pai is a poet known for her wide-ranging collaborations and creative practice engaged as much in physical space as the page. With its blend of personal essays reflecting on the development of her poetics, Ensō places new work next to old, to create not only a mid-career retrospective, but a guidebook for poets interested in moving their practice off the page and into the world around them. From her early work in place-based and ekphrastic poetry to her current experimentation with installation and projections, Ensō highlights the creative process to her poetry--the identities that resonate for her--and her thoughts on cultural hybridity, exchange and appropriation. She speaks deeply of how motherhood transformed her views of what is possible in poetry, reconnecting to her immigrant mother's creative legacy, and how personal and systematic racism and misogyny have shaped her practice, while inviting the reader into a deeper conversation about how a poet writes with and about their community"--
Ugly American
Author: William J. Lederer
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393318678
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The ineffectual Ambassador is just one of the handicaps facing the Americans as Southeast Asia becomes increasingly involved with Communism.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393318678
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The ineffectual Ambassador is just one of the handicaps facing the Americans as Southeast Asia becomes increasingly involved with Communism.
A Theatre Project
Author: Richard Pilbrow
Publisher: Plasa Media
ISBN: 9780983479604
Category : Businessmen
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
Publisher: Plasa Media
ISBN: 9780983479604
Category : Businessmen
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description