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Mavericks

Interviews with the World's Iconoclast Filmmakers

By: Gerald Peary

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Mavericks

Interviews with the World's Iconoclast Filmmakers

By: Gerald Peary

In the New Hollywood Era of the 1960s and 1970s, as weakening studio control granted directors more artistic freedom, the auteur theory, which regards the director as the primary artist among all those who contribute to filmmaking, gained traction. It was embraced by both the media and by directors themselves, who were glad to see their contribution so glorified. One positive was the discovery of filmmakers whose work was under the radar but virtually all the feted directors were white and overwhelmingly heterosexual—only in recent decades have the contributions of marginalized auteur filmmakers been recognized. Mavericks: Interviews with the World's Iconoclast Filmmakers amplifies the voices of a wide-ranging group of groundbreaking filmmakers, including Samira Makhmalbaf, Roberta Findlay, Howard Alk, Ousmane Sembéne, and John Waters, whose identities, perspectives, and works are antithetical to typical Hollywood points of view. Author Gerald Peary, whose experience as a film studies professor, film critic, arts journalist, and director of documentaries culminates in a lifetime of film scholarship, presents a riveting collection of interviews with directors—including Black, queer, female, and non-Western filmmakers—whose unconventional work is marked by their unique artistic points of view and molded by their social and political consciousness. With contextualizing introductions and insightful questions, Peary reveals the brilliance of these maverick directors and offers readers a lens into the minds of these incredible and engaging artists.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813197953

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9780813197951

True North

Victory in the Race to the Pole

By: Gerald R. Pitzl

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True North

Victory in the Race to the Pole

By: Gerald R. Pitzl

The Plaisted Polar Expedition of 1968 was the first indisputable attainment of the North Pole over the Arctic Ocean ice surface from a point of land. The journey took forty-four days of struggle, delays, intense cold, windstorms, and the uncommon determination of dedicated expedition members to achieve the goal. Part 1 of the book covers the daily activities of the ice party as they progressed ever so slowly northward and of the support team at the base camp, working to ensure the necessary logistical tasks to keep the ice party moving. Part 2 shines a light on the navigational practices of Peary in his 1909 quest to reach the North Pole, a claim that even the National Geographic Society, his solid supporter for 111 years, now concluded he did not achieve. His navigation failed him. This became abundantly clear in the analysis.

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Page Publishing Inc

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166241675X

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9781662416750

Mavericks

Interviews with the World's Iconoclast Filmmakers

By: Gerald Peary

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Mavericks

Interviews with the World's Iconoclast Filmmakers

By: Gerald Peary

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813197961

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9780813197968

Beyond The Edge, II

Accounts of Historic, Significant, and Little-Known Expeditions on the Greenland Ice Cap

By: Gerald W. Johnson

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Beyond The Edge, II

Accounts of Historic, Significant, and Little-Known Expeditions on the Greenland Ice Cap

By: Gerald W. Johnson

Before GPS, celestial navigation was an essential part of polar exploration. It was so critical that it was often the cause of the success or failure of expeditions"--

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182

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Hillcrest Publishing Group

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1634137620

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9781634137621

Crowds

By: Gerald Stanley Lee

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Crowds

By: Gerald Stanley Lee

This book, first published in 1913, examines early twentieth century thinking on crowds and human nature. The imagination of crowds and the desire to be good, to be happy and successful, together with the wish for the new are all considered along with the changes in the politics and industry of the time.

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360

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Taylor & Francis

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1000613194

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9781000613193

World History on the Screen

Film and Video Resources

By: Wendy S. Wilson,Gerald H. Herman

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World History on the Screen

Film and Video Resources

By: Wendy S. Wilson,Gerald H. Herman

Help your students develop critical-viewing skills while they deepen their understanding of world history! Enhances exploration of world history through the study of compelling films.

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184

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Walch Publishing

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0825146151

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9780825146152

Raised on Radio

By: Gerald Nachman

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Raised on Radio

By: Gerald Nachman

For everybody "raised on radio"—and that's everybody brought up in the thirties, forties, and early fifties—this is the ultimate book, combining nostalgia, history, judgment, and fun, as it reminds us of just how wonderful (and sometimes just how silly) this vanished medium was. Of course, radio still exists—but not the radio of The Lone Ranger and One Man's Family, of Our Gal Sunday and Life Can Be Beautiful, of The Goldbergs and Amos 'n' Andy, of Easy Aces, Vic and Sade, and Bob and Ray, of The Shadow and The Green Hornet, of Bing Crosby, Kate Smith, and Baby Snooks, of the great comics, announcers, sound-effects men, sponsors, and tycoons. In the late 1920s radio exploded almost overnight into being America's dominant entertainment, just as television would do twenty-five years later. Gerald Nachman, himself a product of the radio years—as a boy he did his homework to the sound of Jack Benny and Our Miss Brooks—takes us back to the heyday of radio, bringing to life the great performers and shows, as well as the not-so-great and not-great-at-all. Nachman analyzes the many genres that radio deployed or invented, from the soap opera to the sitcom to the quiz show, zooming in to study closely key performers like Benny, Bob Hope, and Fred Allen, while pulling back to an overview that manages to be both comprehensive and seductively specific. Here is a book that is generous, instructive, and sinfully readable—and that brings an era alive as it salutes an extraordinary American phenomenon.

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693

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Pantheon

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0307828948

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9780307828941

Case Closed

Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK

By: Gerald Posner

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Case Closed

Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK

By: Gerald Posner

Pulitzer Prize Finalist: “By far the most lucid and compelling account . . . of what probably did happen in Dallas—and what almost certainly did not.” —The New York Times Book Review The Kennedy assassination has reverberated for five decades, with tales of secret plots, multiple killers, and government cabals often overshadowing the event itself. As Gerald Posner writes, “Fifty years after the assassination, the biggest casualty has been the truth.” In this first-ever digital edition of his classic work, updated with a special comment for the fiftieth anniversary, Posner lays to rest all of the convoluted conspiracy theories—concerning the mafia, a second shooter, and the CIA—that have obscured over the decades what really happened in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963. Drawing from official sources and dozens of interviews, and filled with powerful historical detail, Case Closed is a vivid and straightforward account that stands as one of the most authoritative books on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

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Open Road Media

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1480412309

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9781480412309

The Posner Files

By: Gerald Posner

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The Posner Files

By: Gerald Posner

Definitive accounts of JFK’s and Martin Luther King’s assassinations by a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times–bestselling author. Case Closed: A Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestseller, Case Closed is a vivid and straightforward account that stands as one of the most authoritative books on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Drawing from official sources and dozens of interviews, filled with powerful historical detail, and including an updated comment for the fiftieth anniversary, Posner’s “utterly convincing” book lays to rest all of the convoluted conspiracy theories—concerning the mafia, a second shooter, and the CIA—that have obscured what really happened in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963 (Chicago Tribune). “By far the most lucid and compelling account . . . of what probably did happen in Dallas—and what almost certainly did not.” —The New York Times Book Review Killing the Dream: On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr., was killed in Memphis, Tennessee, by a single assassin’s bullet. James Earl Ray was seen fleeing from a rooming house that overlooked the hotel balcony where King was shot. An international manhunt ended two months later with Ray’s capture. Though Ray initially pled guilty, he quickly recanted and for the rest of his life insisted he was an unwitting pawn in a grand conspiracy. In Killing the Dream, expert investigative reporter Gerald Posner cuts through phony witnesses, false claims, and a web of misinformation to put Ray’s conspiracy theory to rest and disclose what really happened the day King was murdered. “A superb book: a model of investigation, meticulous in its discovery and presentation of evidence, unbiased in its exploration of every claim. And it is a wonderfully readable book, as gripping as a first-class detective story.” —The New York Times

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714

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Open Road Media

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1504056183

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9781504056182

The Year of the Genome

A Diary of the Biological Revolution

By: Gerald Weissmann

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The Year of the Genome

A Diary of the Biological Revolution

By: Gerald Weissmann

From stem cells to alternative medicine to the mapping of the genome, a lively and stimulating stroll through today’s great scientific breakthroughs Over the course of one year (2000–01), celebrated essayist and research physician Gerald Weissmann documented the modern age of enlightenment, charting its scientific marvels and new plagues. His diary of “the year of the genome” takes us on a literary exploration of laboratories and beyond to see the impact on human life and culture of Dolly the sheep, mad cow disease, RU 486, the Human Genome Project, AIDS drugs, and a score of other current developments. Whether calling on Ralph Waldo Emerson to explain Craig Venter’s drive to unravel the genome or tracing the effect of Rachel Carson’s legacy on the spread of malaria around the world, Weissmann is an invaluable interpreter of the genetic revolution.

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308

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Macmillan

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0805072926

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9780805072921

American Drama of the Twentieth Century

By: Gerald M. Berkowitz

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American Drama of the Twentieth Century

By: Gerald M. Berkowitz

In this book Professor Berkowitz studies the diversity of American drama from the stylistic, experimental plays of O'Neill, through verse, tragedy and community theatre, to the theatre of the 1990s. The discussions range through dramatists, plays, genres and themes, with full supporting appendix material. It also examines major dramatists such as Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, Sam Shephard, Tennessee Williams and August Wilson and covers not only the Broadway scene but also off Broadway movements and fringe theatres and such subjects as women's and African-American drama.

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Routledge

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1317901738

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9781317901730

The Choice

By: Gerald Yancey

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The Choice

By: Gerald Yancey

No available information at this time. Author will provide once available.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1669841596

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9781669841593

Striving for Perfection

Developing Professional Black Officers

By: Gerald D. Curry

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Striving for Perfection

Developing Professional Black Officers

By: Gerald D. Curry

The success of todays military officers rests squarely on the shoulders of the men and women of the past. In Striving for Perfection, author Gerald D. Curry, a former US Airforce Colonel, reaches back through the annals of history to help todays professional military officers navigate a successful career. Curry shares rarely known insights on historical accomplishments from every major war in US history, from the Revolutionary War through the Global War on Terrorism. He pulls unique examples of success strategies, cultural understandings, and sage advice from African American servicemen and women who have worn the uniform. Striving for Perfection goes beyond the typical leadership principles by offering significant experiences told from an African American perspectivefrom the only people deliberately brought to America for the sole purpose of servitude. Curry shows how black American patriots consistently looked beyond their current circumstances and served gallantly while seeking equality and social justice. This guide describes the barriers that have existed within most African American communities, and it narrates how these neighborhoods continually birth great leaders. Although geared toward military professionals, Striving for Perfection can help all leaders in any profession who supervise and work with African Americans. Introducing proven success strategies, it provides a better understanding of diversity and inclusion.

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iUniverse

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1475984804

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9781475984804

Trying to Fix Stupid

The Autobiography of a Maverick Professor

By: Gerald Newman

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Trying to Fix Stupid

The Autobiography of a Maverick Professor

By: Gerald Newman

A provocative and often hilarious look at teaching -- a beautifully written book that will resonate with anyone who's been a teacher or been taught in America. Gerald Newman, acclaimed author of The Rise of English Nationalism and holder of the Kent State University Distinguished Teaching Award, surveys his youth, education, students, and career in a memoir sparkling with humor and full of arresting portrayals of school life from both sides of the instructor's desk. Sketching his background and confessing his youthful follies and pranks, Newman arrives at his maverick schooldays, depicting a jolly parade of familiar types -- teachers, principals, geeks and Greeks, zany profs and silver-tongued "grandees of the lecture hall." Tracing his progress through the University of Washington, then Harvard, then his thirty-year career at Kent State after the infamous May 4th shooting (1970), he addresses the teacher's main mission to "Fix Stupid," amusingly revisiting battles with wayward students, John Birchers, Henry Kissinger, and other Harvard profs and sundry academics, administrators, and "woke" enthusiasts at Kent State. A historian, he shows his own shaping by great outside forces -- World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam, American political controversy, trendy intellectual fashions. He includes valuable teaching tips, laugh-out-loud accounts of educational travels, and biting commentary on the current political scene. This is a big book, containing much more than one man's life story, written in a light-hearted and entertaining spirit by a very keen observer.

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Wheatmark, Inc.

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1627878947

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9781627878944

Shorter Poems

By: Gerald Burns

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Shorter Poems

By: Gerald Burns

Gerald Burns is a leading practitioner of long-lined, thickly textured verse. "These / long lines are long life to us, go back to Kenneth Irby's 'A Set' I saw first in / a flyer from Lawrence, KS where Burroughs chats with Cage whose spitbubbles / may remind us with Zukofsky the heart of the bluebonnet's black. Anyone can learn from anything, " he writes, and as these lines from "For J. R. Here" indicate, Burns has learned much: his long dragnet lines display a lifetime of wide reading and close observation from an astonishing range of subjects

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Dalkey Archive Press

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1564780260

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9781564780263

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Mavericks

Mavericks

True North

True North

Mavericks

Mavericks

Beyond The Edge, II

Beyond The Edge, II

Crowds

Crowds

World History on the Screen

World History on the Screen

Raised on Radio

Raised on Radio

Case Closed

Case Closed

The Posner Files

The Posner Files

The Year of the Genome

The Year of the Genome

American Drama of the Twentieth Century

American Drama of the Twentieth Century

The Choice

The Choice

Striving for Perfection

Striving for Perfection

Trying to Fix Stupid

Trying to Fix Stupid

Shorter Poems

Shorter Poems

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