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More editionsFemme Noir: Bad Girl of Film By Karen Burroughs Hannsberry, McFarland, 1998, 633 pp., ISBN 0-7864-0429-9, $95.00. In this hefty and expensive dictionary, Karen Burroughs Hannsberry provides brief biographies of forty- nine women who ...
Bad Boys: The Actors of Film Noir
Karen Burroughs HannsberryThe film noir male is an infinitely watchable being, exhibiting a wide range of emotions, behaviors, and motivations.
Femme Noir: Bad Girls of Film
Karen Burroughs HannsberryThough often thought of as primarily a male vehicle, the film noir offered some of the most complex female roles of any movies of the 1940s and 1950s.
Media Organizations and Convergence: Case Studies of Media ...
Gracie L. Lawson-BordersThanks to the numerous other people whom I interviewed and assisted me while in the field at the three media locations. A special thanks to my copyeditor, Karen Burroughs Hannsberry, for her work on the early manuscript. Last, but not least, ...
Reference & User Services Quarterly
More editionsBy Karen Burroughs Hannsberry. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1998. 633p. acid free $75 (ISBN 0-7864-0429-9). Film and Television In-Jokes: Nearly 2,000 Intentional References, Parodies, Allusions, Personal Touches, Cameos, Spoofs and ...
Dames in the Driver's Seat: Rereading Film Noir
Jans B. WagerSome critics suggest that Greer was a neophyte, a claim that her filmography, as delineated by Karen Burroughs Hannsberry in Femme Noir: Bad Girls of Film, disputes.3 Just prior to the release of Out of the Past, in which she plays femme ...
Bad Boys: The Actors of Film Noir
Karen Burroughs Hannsberry"Madeleine Carroll, in Paris, Divorces Sterling Hayden." Los Angeles Examiner, May 9, 1946. Mann, Roderick. "Sterling Hayden Talks on Beards, Barges and Booze." Los Angeles Times, November 14, 1982. . "Sterling Hayden: The Beard ...
William S. Burroughs: A Life
Barry MilesWilliam Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible. London: Virgin, 1992. ———. The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1957– 1963. New York: Grove, 2000. Morgan, Ted. Literary Outlaw: TheLife and Times of William S. Burroughs.
William S. Burroughs vs. The Qur'an
Michael Muhammad KnightWhether this depiction of Alamut was historically ac- curate did not seem to matter; Burroughs wrote that since Sabbah had left ... When Williams questioned Sabbah's amoralism, Burroughs answered, “It's obvious that what you want to do is, ...
The Green Ghost: William Burroughs and the Ecological Mind
Chad WeidnerMicheal Sean Bolton says that not only does Burroughs' writing problematize the narrative voice, but “through the notion of the word virus, [Burroughs] institutes a host/parasite binary within the individual's subjectivity,” which results in what can ...
William S. Burroughs
Jennie SkerlDiscusses the development of William S. Burroughs' career as a writer and analyzes the themes and techniques of his novels
Interzone
William S BurroughsInterzone portrays the development of Burroughs's mature writing style by presenting a selection of pieces from the mid-1950s.
William S. Burroughs at the front: critical reception, 1959-1989
Jennie SkerlThe essays cover Burroughs’ major novels—including the cut-up and new trilogies—the censorship issue, and his work in film and painting.
Jerusalem's Glory Breaking Forth into the World:
Jeremiah BurroughsThis classic work by Jeremiah Burroughs is a series of sermons that will ignite the prayer life of the Christian to press God to fulfill all that He has promised.
Gospel Fear
Jeremiah BurroughsIn 7 sermons on Isaiah 66:2 (But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word) and 2 Kings 22:19, Burroughs encourages us to cultivate a tender heart by cultivating a healthy fear of ...
The Adding Machine: Selected Essays
William S. BurroughsBurroughs reviews his reviewers, explains his famous "cup-up" method, and discusses the role coincidence has played in his life and his work.
Conversations with William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs" Kazin's view applies as well for the other interviews in this collection. Allen Hibbard is an associate professor of English and the director of graduate studies at Middle Tennessee State University.
My Education: A Book of Dreams
William S BurroughsAlways a rich source of imagery in Burroughs's own fiction, in this book dreams become a direct and powerful force in themselves.
The Excellency of Holy Courage in Evil Times:
Jeremiah BurroughsPuritan works by Jeremiah Burroughs are always chock-full of sound doctrine, exemplifying God’s grace and the truth of the Gospel. This book is no exception. It is a work that in his day, and ours, has profound applications.
Nova Express
William S BurroughsThe third book of Burroughs's linguistically prophetic 'cut-up' trilogy - following The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded - Nova Express is a hilarious and Swiftian parody of bureaucracy and the frailty of the human animal.
Forever Stardust: David Bowie Across the Universe
Will BrookerOne way into understanding this approach to Bowie is through Micheal Sean Bolton's 2014 monograph on William Burroughs. On an immediate level, the parallels between Bowie and Burroughs are extremely suggestive. Bowie, of course ...
Queer Burroughs
J. RussellIn Jennie Skerl and Robin Lydenberg, eds.William S. Burroughs: At the Front: Critical Reception, 1959–1989. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991, pp. 197–208. Shepherd, Simon, and Mick Wallis, eds.
The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
William S BurroughsProduced at a time when he was at his most extreme and messianic, The Job lays out his abrasive, incisive, paranoiac, maddened and maddening worldview in interviews interspersed with stories and other writing.
Beat Culture: Lifestyles, Icons, and Impact
PreviewA quick review of Burroughs is available in Jennie Skerl, “William S. Burroughs,” in The Beats: Literary Bohemians in Postwar America, 16, The Dictionary of Literary Biography, ed. Ann Charters, 1983; a comprehensive critical biography is Ted ...
William S. Burroughs
Phil BakerIn William S. Burroughs, Phil Baker investigates this cult writer’s life and work—from small-town Kansas to New York in the ’40s, Mexico and the South American jungle, to Tangier and the writing of Naked Lunch, to Paris and the Beat ...
Annual Report of the State Board of Education, Together with ...
More editions... Lizzie E. Olney, Abby M. B. Slade. Harriet M. While. Agnes F. Williams, Florence A. Williams. Grammar Schools. Mary L. Brown, Kate K. Bull, Eleanor II. Burroughs, Laura C. Burroughs, Annie E. Campbell, Annie Carnoe, Charlotte K. Clarke, ...
Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. ...
William S. BurroughsIn late summer 1953, as he returned to Mexico City after a seven-month expedition through the jungles of Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru, William Burroughs began a notebook of final reflections on his four years in Latin America.
Sharp Eyes: John Burroughs and American Nature Writing
PreviewElizabeth Donaldson IN 1903, naturalist John Burroughs published "Real and Sham Natural History" in the Atlantic Monthly, beginning a famous, sometimes bitter, public debate that would later become known as the nature fakers controversy.
The Moon Maid
Edgar Rice BurroughsThe moon maid is Edgar Rice Burroughs's stunning epic of a world conquered by alien invaders from the moon and of the hero Julian, who champions the earth's struggle for freedom, peace, and dignity.
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