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Jack Kerouac's Forgotten Families

By: James T. Jones

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Jack Kerouac's Forgotten Families

By: James T. Jones

A unique biography of Jack Kerouac, which gives a greater understanding of the 'King of the Beats' by exploring the lives of the five people who knew him best: his daughter (Jan Kerouac), wives (Edie Parker, Joan Haverty, Stella Sampas) and nephew (Paul Blake, Jr). Not one of these people seem to have benefited from the connection, as the late Jan Kerouac amply demonstrates in her interview with the author. She discusses at length her 15 months as a prostitute, her own marital problems, her hospitalization, and her life as a writer, including a wild book tour for Baby Driver.

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ECW Press

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1550223755

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9781550223750

The Year's Work in the Punk Bookshelf, Or, Lusty Scripts

By: Brian James Schill

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The Year's Work in the Punk Bookshelf, Or, Lusty Scripts

By: Brian James Schill

This is the story of the books punks read and why they read them. The Year's Work in the Punk Bookshelf challenges the stereotype that punk rock is a bastion of violent, drug-addicted, uneducated drop outs. Brian James Schill explores how, for decades, punk and postpunk subculture has absorbed, debated, and reintroduced into popular culture, philosophy, classic literature, poetry, and avant-garde theatre. Connecting punk to not only Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud, but Dostoevsky, Rimbaud, Henry Miller, Kafka, and Philip K. Dick, this work documents and interprets the subculture's literary history. In detailing the punk bookshelf, Schill contends that punk's literary and intellectual interests can be traced to the sense of shame (whether physical, socioeconomic, cultural, or sexual) its advocates feel in the face of a shameless market economy that not only preoccupied many of punks' favorite writers but generated the entire punk polemic.

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396

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Indiana University Press

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0253029449

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9780253029447

Social Life in the Movies

How Hollywood Imagines War, Schools, Romance, Aging, and Social Inequality

By: James J. Dowd

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Social Life in the Movies

How Hollywood Imagines War, Schools, Romance, Aging, and Social Inequality

By: James J. Dowd

Through an analysis of hundreds of Hollywood movies, this book examines some of the most contentious social issues of our time, including racism, social inequality, sexism, and gerontophobia. With studies of some of the most enduring film genres in Hollywood’s history, including romantic films such as Casablanca, war movies from World War II through the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, alienation films, including Five Easy Pieces and Lost in Translation, the school movie, from Goodbye, Mr. Chips to other films set in academia, including Dead Poets Society and Dangerous Minds, the book outlines and demonstrates the sociological approach to viewing films and highlights the socially conservative nature of much Hollywood movie production, which draws on common stereotypes and reinforces dominant cultural values - but is also capable of challenging and serving to change them.

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188

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Routledge

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1000208419

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9781000208412

Critical Mass

Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs

By: James Wolcott

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Critical Mass

Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs

By: James Wolcott

James Wolcott’s career as a critic has been unmatched, from his early Seventies dispatches for The Village Voice to the literary coverage made him equally feared and famous to his must-read reports on the cultural weather for Vanity Fair. Bringing together his best work from across the decades, this collection shows Wolcott as connoisseur, intrepid reporter, memoirist, and necessary naysayer. We begin with “O.K. Corral Revisited,” Wolcott’s career-launching account of the famed Norman Mailer–Gore Vidal dust-off on the original Dick Cavett Show. He goes on to consider (or reconsider) the towering figures of our culture, among them Lena Dunham Patti Smith, Johnny Carson, Woody Allen, and John Cheever. And we witness his legendary takedowns, which have entered into the literary lore of our time. In an age where a great deal of back scratching and softball pitching pass for criticism, Critical Mass offers a bracing taste of the real thing.

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0767930630

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Use My Name

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The Year's Work in the Punk Bookshelf, Or, Lusty Scripts

The Year's Work in the Punk Bookshelf, Or, Lusty Scripts

Social Life in the Movies

Social Life in the Movies

Critical Mass

Critical Mass

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