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Takes the reader on a journey through the literature of the Beat Generation. This work travels through Jack Kerouac's ""Duluoz Legend"", following Kerouac's quests for identity, community, and spiritual knowledge. It offers a look at the common traits of the Beat writers - their use of primitivism, shamanism, myth and magic and spontaneity.

Examines the lost films and directors of the 1950s. Contrasting traditional themes of love, marriage, and family, the author's 1950s film world unveils once-taboo issues of rape, prostitution, and gangs. Television shows such as ""Captain Midnight"" and ""Ramar of the Jungle"" are juxtaposed with the cheerful world of ""I Love Lucy"" and ""Howdy Doody"".

This text provides an analysis of the workings of the Royal Shakespeare Company from it's beginings in 1879 as a week-long festival to it's current incarnation. The company's five theatres are looked at, as is the process of crafting a reportoire and the RSC's four succesive artistic directors.

Julia Dent Grant wrote her reminiscences with the vivacity and charm she exhibited throughout her life, telling her story in the easy flow of an afternoon conversation with a close friend. Mrs. Grant was raised the pampered daughter of a Missouri planter, and she later remembered her girlhood as an idyll that she wished could have lasted.Many of the anecdotes she relates give fascinating glimpses into a very troubled period of American history. A dramatic reminiscence recounts the night that Lincoln was assassinated. Mrs. Grant insisted that she and her husband turn down an invitation to the theater in favor of returning home. It saved her husband's life: he had also been marked for assassination.Throughout these memoirs, which she ends with her husband's death, Mrs. Grant strives to correct the misconceptions she believed were being circulated about him. She wanted posterity to share her pride in this man, whom she saw as one of America's greatest heroes.

Examines the lighting of early modern English drama from both historical and aesthetic perspectives. This book traces the contrasting traditions of sunlit amphitheaters and candlelit hall playhouses, describes the different lighting techniques, and estimates the effect of these techniques both indoors and outdoors.

This collection of 11 essays reveal the complexity of silent films and explore the era in which they were produced. The writers demonstrate that minorities and women responded to the times through film.

Establishes the rhetorical analysis of science as a respected field of study. This book summarizes the state of the field and demonstrates the role of rhetorical analysis in the sciences. It appeals to rhetoricians, historians, philosophers, and sociologists interested in science.