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Dying to Belong: Gangster Movies in Hollywood and Hong Kong

Dying to Belong: Gangster Movies in Hollywood and Hong Kong

Martha Nochimson

2007 by Martha P. Nochimson blackwell publishing 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK 550 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia The right of Martha P. Nochimson to be ...
Screen Couple Chemistry: The Power of 2

Screen Couple Chemistry: The Power of 2

Martha P. Nochimson

The Power of 2 Martha P. Nochimson. F I 1 11 STUDIES; GENDER S T H D I E S ; C U 1 T U I A L STUDIES . book that I read with great interest, often thrilling in its insights, Screen Couple Chemistry is an important piece of scholarship in the ...
David Lynch Swerves: Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland ...

David Lynch Swerves: Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland ...

Martha Nochimson

In David Lynch Swerves, Nochimson navigates the complexities of Lost Highway, The Straight Story, Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire with uncanny skill, shedding light on the beauty of their organic compositions; their thematic critiques ...
David Lynch Swerves: Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland ...

David Lynch Swerves: Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland ...

Martha P. Nochimson

In David Lynch Swerves, Nochimson navigates the complexities of Lost Highway, The Straight Story, Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire with uncanny skill, shedding light on the beauty of their organic compositions; their thematic critiques ...
No End to Her: Soap Opera and the Female Subject

No End to Her: Soap Opera and the Female Subject

Martha Nochimson

"Combines an array of critical methodologies to come to terms with a culturally persuasive but vastly undervalued media form.The scholarship is quite extraordinary.
Top Hat

Top Hat

Peter William Evans

Astaire and Rogers are examples of what Martha P. Nochimson calls the “ synergistic” – as distinct from the merely “ironic” or “functional” – couple, capable of conveying “genuine expression about intimacy by breaking up conventional ...
The Passion of David Lynch: Wild at Heart in Hollywood

The Passion of David Lynch: Wild at Heart in Hollywood

Martha P. Nochimson

In this innovative book, she draws on these strategies to offer close readings of Lynch's films, informed by unprecedented, in-depth interviews with Lynch himself.
World on Film: An Introduction

World on Film: An Introduction

Martha P. Nochimson

Providing students with basic background information on the home cultures and auteurs of world cinema, this engrossing text allows them to appreciate the significance of each film on its own terms.
Mulholland Drive

Mulholland Drive

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... performers are actresseswho actas actresses, the sound booth is a non- operational set piece presentedasa non-operational setpiecefora Hollywood movie, and thesound stage is a setpiecefor Mulholland Drive. 42 Martha P. Nochimson, ...
The Cinema of David Lynch: American Dreams, Nightmare Visions

The Cinema of David Lynch: American Dreams, Nightmare Visions

Erica Sheen

CHAPTER TWELVE All I Need is the Girl': The Life and Death of Creativity in Mulholland Drive Martha P. Nochimson From his first feature-length film, Eraserhead (1977), David Lynch has manifested an intense interest in the female performer.
A Companion to Wong Kar-wai

A Companion to Wong Kar-wai

Martha P. Nochimson

InDirectory of World Cinema: China, edited by Gary Bettinson. Bristol: Intellect. Bettinson, Gary (2015) The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai: Film Poetics and the Aesthetics of Disturbance. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. Bhabha  ...
Martha Stewart: A Biography

Martha Stewart: A Biography

Joann F. Price

In her Newsweek article, Laura Shapiro described Martha as “the Barbara Cartland (well-known British romance author) of food, and she has a succinct explanation for her phenomenal success—“My ideas are good,” she (Martha) states.
Martha: the life and work of Martha Graham

Martha: the life and work of Martha Graham

Agnes De Mille

The author, a celebrated choreographer and a friend of Martha Graham for more than sixty years, traces Graham's life and career and discusses her training as a student, her early successes, and her development of a new language of dance
Martha Graham: une fleur de serre exotique

Martha Graham: une fleur de serre exotique

Claudie Servian

201 Martha Graham, in Alice Helpern, op., cit., p. 9. « I wanted significant movement, I did not want it to be beautiful or fluid. I wanted it to be fraught with inner meaning, with excitement and surge. » 202 Id., Ibid., p.215. 203 Martha Graham ...
The American descendants of Henry Luce, 1640 to 1978

The American descendants of Henry Luce, 1640 to 1978

Martha Fletcher McCourt

MARTHA'S VINEYARD-16<*0-1978" by Martha Fletcher McCourt, has been donated free of charge to the fDllouing libraries and historical societies: 1. The GENERAL SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS— sent to the Historian ...
Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring

Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring

Jan Greenberg

A picture book about the making of Martha Graham's Appalachian Spring, her most famous dance performance Martha Graham : trailblazing choreographer Aaron Copland : distinguished American composer Isamu Noguchi : artist, sculptor, craftsman ...
Adolescence: Talks and Papers by Donald Meltzer and Martha ...

Adolescence: Talks and Papers by Donald Meltzer and Martha ...

Martha Harris

This volume contains a representative selection of talks and writings by Martha Harris and Donald Meltzer on the key developmental phase of adolescence, from their teachings both separately and together over many years.
Martha Ann's Quilt for Queen Victoria

Martha Ann's Quilt for Queen Victoria

Kyra E. Hicks

Martha Ann's Quilt for Queen Victoria is the true story of Martha Ann Ricks, an ex-slave who spent fifty years saving spare coins to fulfill her dream of meeting the Queen of England.
Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine

Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine

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Martha Fletcher McCourt. Vol I. The American Descendants of Rev. John Smith of Martha's Vineyard- Those who Went West. 1976. Vol. II. Martha Fletcher McCourt. Tillamook History a Sequel to Tillamook Memories. Lila V. Cooper Boge. 1975 ...
Color Atlas and Synopsis of Womens Cardiovascular Health

Color Atlas and Synopsis of Womens Cardiovascular Health

Martha Gulati

... .1 5 Nkechinyere Ijioma, MBBS, and Martha Gulati, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA 1 Heart Disease in Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Kavita Sharma, MD, and Martha Gulati, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA 2 Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease ...
Institutions and the Right to Vote in America

Institutions and the Right to Vote in America

Martha E. Kropf

Kimball, David C. and Martha Kropf. Forthcoming. “Voter Competence with Cumulative Voting.” Social Science Quarterly. Kimball, David C., Martha Kropf and Lindsay Battles. 2006. “Helping America Vote? Election Administration, Partisanship ...
Lazarus, Mary and Martha: Social-scientific Approaches to ...

Lazarus, Mary and Martha: Social-scientific Approaches to ...

Philip Francis Esler

Lazarus, Martha, and Mary: reframing the discussion -- Social identity and prototypes: a social-scientific model for historical and theological application -- Johannine processing of the past in relation to Lazarus, Martha, and Mary -- ...
Discovering Martha

Discovering Martha

Joanne Rocklin

Does the mysterious purple guitar possess magic or does learning to play it merely motivate Martha, a sixth-grader going through an awkward stage, to change her life a little?
Ramus, Critical Studies in Greek and Roman Literature

Ramus, Critical Studies in Greek and Roman Literature

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... the age of the former Jupiter 26 MARTHA MALAMUD Martha Malamud.
Martha's Journey

Martha's Journey

Maureen Lee

Martha's journey there will be a tough one, but with courage and the support of her friends and family, it will be the most important undertaking of her life.
Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach

Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach

Martha C. Nussbaum

Martha Nussbaum proposes a kind of feminism that is genuinely international.
Just Desserts -- Martha Stewart: The Unauthorized Biography

Just Desserts -- Martha Stewart: The Unauthorized Biography

Jerry Oppenheimer

Domestic Goddess, Martha Stewart, once considered the epitome of perfection, has done a one-eighty.
Political Emotions

Political Emotions

Martha C. Nussbaum

Martha Nussbaum asks: How can we sustain a decent society that aspires to justice and inspires sacrifice for the common good?
The Mobilization of Intellect: French Scholars and Writers ...

The Mobilization of Intellect: French Scholars and Writers ...

Martha Hanna

Yet, as Martha Hanna points out, there were ambiguities and insecurities in such fields as Kantian ideas, classicism, and science.
The Complete Guide to Preventing Foreclosure on Your Home: ...

The Complete Guide to Preventing Foreclosure on Your Home: ...

Martha Maeda

Legal Secrets to Beat Foreclosure and Protect Your Home Now Martha Maeda, Maurcia DeLean Houck. By Martha Maeda and Maurcia DeLean Houck Includes information on the new March 2010 adjustments to the Home Affordable ...

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