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Angela Gheorghiu

A Life for Art

By: Angela Gheorghiu,Jon Tolansky

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Angela Gheorghiu

A Life for Art

By: Angela Gheorghiu,Jon Tolansky

The biography of the great soprano, in her own words

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Brandeis University Press

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ISBN 10

1611689120

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9781611689129

Reflections '97

A special issue of the journal Musical Performance

By: Jon Tolansky

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Reflections '97

A special issue of the journal Musical Performance

By: Jon Tolansky

Reflections, the Yearbook of the Music Performance Research Centre, is published as an issue within the international journal Musical Performance series. It features articles written by musicians and interviews with performers. Reflections '97 includes an interview with the tenor Jon Vickers and a personal memoir of the conductor Carlos Kleiber.

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112

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Routledge

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1134425139

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9781134425136

Evil Arabs in American Popular Film

Orientalist Fear

By: Tim Jon Semmerling

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Evil Arabs in American Popular Film

Orientalist Fear

By: Tim Jon Semmerling

2006 — Runner-up, Arab American National Museum Book Awards The "evil" Arab has become a stock character in American popular films, playing the villain opposite American "good guys" who fight for "the American way." It's not surprising that this stereotype has entered American popular culture, given the real-world conflicts between the United States and Middle Eastern countries, particularly since the oil embargo of the 1970s and continuing through the Iranian hostage crisis, the first and second Gulf Wars, and the ongoing struggle against al-Qaeda. But when one compares the "evil" Arab of popular culture to real Arab people, the stereotype falls apart. In this thought-provoking book, Tim Jon Semmerling further dismantles the "evil" Arab stereotype by showing how American cultural fears, which stem from challenges to our national ideologies and myths, have driven us to create the "evil" Arab Other. Semmerling bases his argument on close readings of six films (The Exorcist, Rollover, Black Sunday, Three Kings, Rules of Engagement, and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut), as well as CNN's 9/11 documentary America Remembers. Looking at their narrative structures and visual tropes, he analyzes how the films portray Arabs as threatening to subvert American "truths" and mythic tales—and how the insecurity this engenders causes Americans to project evil character and intentions on Arab peoples, landscapes, and cultures. Semmerling also demonstrates how the "evil" Arab narrative has even crept into the documentary coverage of 9/11. Overall, Semmerling's probing analysis of America's Orientalist fears exposes how the "evil" Arab of American popular film is actually an illusion that reveals more about Americans than Arabs.

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316

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University of Texas Press

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0292795734

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9780292795730

Angela Gheorghiu

A Life for Art

By: Angela Gheorghiu

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Angela Gheorghiu

A Life for Art

By: Angela Gheorghiu

Angela Gheorghiu is one of the most passionate and talented artists working in opera today, a larger-than-life figure whose intensity and drive, on stage and off, have commanded the attention of the opera world. Largely composed of exclusive interviews with the artist, this authorized biography of the internationally acclaimed soprano, covers Gheorghiu's life and career from her childhood in Communist Romania to her spectacular Covent Garden debut in 1992 and up to the present day. In it, Gheorghiu shares new insights into the performance of many of her iconic stage roles and her collaborations with opera's leading lights. Also featured are commentaries and reminiscences by such celebrated figures in the music and art worlds as Grace Bumbry, JosŽ Carreras, Pl‡cido Domingo, Marilyn Horne, Bryn Terfel, and Franco Zeffirelli.

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University Press of New England

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1512603074

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9781512603071

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Reflections '97

Reflections '97

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Evil Arabs in American Popular Film

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