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The Sopranos
Dana Polan“In its original run on HBO, The Sopranos mattered, and it matters still,” Dana Polan asserts early in this analysis of the hit show, in which he sets out to clarify the impact and importance of the series in both its cultural and media ...
Jane Campion
Dana PolanIn this book, Dana Polan examines the phenomenon of "The Piano" and how it develops from the early shorts and first features. It then examines the director's later work.
Scenes of Instruction: The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film
Dana B. Polan"Polan's book offers the first pedagogical history of the emergence of film studies courses within the American university system prior to World War II, based on an amazing wealth of little known or even unknown material.
The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and ...
Laura U. MarksI am also grateful to Ken Wissoker of Duke University Press and to Dana Polan and Catherine Russell, the readers whose thoughtful and incisive comments helped bring the manuscript through its gangly adolescence. My unbounded thanks ...
Vincente Minnelli: The Art of Entertainment
PreviewIt Could Be Oedipus Rex Denial and Difference in The Band Wagon; or, The American Musical as American Gothic DANA POLAN Written at the beginning of the 1980s, this essay had as its immediate critical context the sheer importance that ...
The Dana Saga: Three Centuries of the Dana Family in Cambridge
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow DanaFor the details of these various grants of land to Richard Dana, see Elizabeth Ellery Dana, The Dana Family in America, Cambridge, 1942, pp. 41-42. "The Records of the Town of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, 1901, pp. 135, 151 ...
Julia Child’s The French Chef
Dana PolanOther scholars who have written on food, such as Gary Allen, Madonna Berry, Frances Bonner, Isabelle de Solier, Meredith Eliassen, Joanne Hollows, Sharon Hudgins, Zilkia Janer, Nathalie Jordi, Jessamyn Neuhaus, and Wayne Wooden all ...
Comedy of Philosophy, The: Sense and Nonsense in Early ...
Lisa TrahairFrank Krutnik, “The Clown-Prints of Comedy,” Screen 25.4–5 (1984); Peter Kramer, “Derailing the Honeymoon Express: Comicality and Narrative Closure in Buster Keaton's The Blacksmith,” The Velvet Light Trap 23 (1989). 9. Dana Polan ...
The Dana Family in America
Elizabeth Ellery DanaHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana carried on the work, which was unfin- ished at the time of the compiler's death. It was completed by the Dana Genealogical Committee and edited for publication by Thomas de Valcourt.
Papers of John Adams
John Adams1Probably Francis Dana Jr. (1777–1853), who graduated from Harvard in 1796 ( Eliza- beth Ellery Dana, Dana Family in ... AA wrote Elizabeth Ellery Dana, Francis Dana's wife, indicating that her unborn daughter should be named Harriet and ...
Jane Campion: Cinema, Nation, Identity
PreviewDana Polan points out that Campion's films draw upon a number of different genres, describing them variously as women's cinema, romantic cinema, fatal melodrama, the woman's gothic, costume films, satire, art films, and screwball comedy, ...
Slavish Shore: The Odyssey of Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Jeffrey L. AmestoyEugene Exman, The Brothers Harper (New York: Harper and Row, 1965), 106– 109. Dana Sr. to Dana, 4 February 1840, quoted in Metzdorf, “Publishing History,” 317 (emphasis in original). Dana to Dana Sr., 20 February 1840, ibid., 318. Ibid.
District and County Reports: Containing Reports of Cases ...
Pennsylvania. CourtsAt the date of testator's death in 1914 the stirpes were nine in number, and consisted of four living brother and sisters of testator's father, namely, Anderson Dana, Frances Dana Miller, Helen Dana Mills and Mary Dana Piatt, and the issue of ...
Broadcast News and Writing Stylebook
Robert A. PapperIn most cases the name goes on the first line and the title on the second: CG: Dana Greene Cityville Police Chief CG: Dana Greene Village County Sheriff CG: Dana Greene Ohio Lt. Governor CG: Dana Greene Alaska Governor TITLE AND ...
Women and Power in American History
More editionsElizabeth Ellery Dana, Diary for 1870, entries for Mar. 19, May 20, and May 23, Dana Family Papers, Schlesinger Library. 19. Elizabeth Ellery Dana, Diary for 1868, entries for Oct. 9, Nov. 5, for example. The whole family commented on Aunt ...
Post's Pulp and Paper Directory
More editionsDANA MILLS— writing— Smith-Dixon Co., Baltimore. Md. DANA MILLS— flat writing— Bay State Paper Co., Boston. DANA MILLS— writing— Whitakcr Paper Co.. Cincinnati, Ohio. DANISH BOND— B. D. Rising Paper Co., Housatonic, Mass.
Dana's Minerals and How to Study Them (After Edward ...
Cornelius S. HurlbutRev. ed. of: Minerals and how to study them / Edward Salisbury Dana. 3rd ed. l949. Includes index. ISBN 0-47l-l5677-9 (paper : alk. paper) l. Mineralogy. 2. Crystallography. I. Sharp, W. Edwin. II. Dana, Edward Salisbury, l849-l935. Minerals ...
The Superfoods Cookbook
Dana JacobiWritten by Dana Jacobi, 'Good For You' contains a selection of easy, healthy recipes that can be used every day.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Dana House
Donald HoffmannCourtesy: Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, the Dana-Thomas House 4 7. R. D. Lawrence house. Courtesy: Lincoln Library 7 8. Central Block. Photo: author 7 9. Lawrence Building. Photo: author 8 10. Susie Lawrence Dana. Courtesy: ...
Publications
More editionsFor the first topic of the meeting Elizabeth Ellery Dana read the following paper: LIEUTENANT JAMES DANA AT THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL Among the men from Connecticut who marched to Cambridge for the relief of Boston, early in ...
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
More editionsLetters accompanying donations should include the price of the work and the name and address of the source from which it may be purchased. THE DANA FAM1LY 1N AMER1CA, by Elizabeth Ellery Dana. 1956. 6 x 9, cloth, plates, portraits, ...
Cowboy For Keeps
Kristi GoldA rodeo cowboy running from relationships, Will couldn't offer the fairy-tale marriage and family that Dana longed for. And with endearing Dana stripping away the barriers that protected his heart, Will wanted to run again.
Mastering My Mistakes in the Kitchen: Learning to Cook with ...
Dana CowinFor years, Dana Cowin kept a dark secret: From meat to veggies, broiling to baking, breakfast to dinner, she ruined literally every kind of dish she attempted.
Tell Us Something True
Dana ReinhardtOnce again Dana Reinhardt has written a charming, compassionate, very clever comedy, and this one reminds us how a big lie can reveal the truth.” —Laura McNeal, author of Dark Water, National Book Award Finalist “Tell Us Something ...
Friend Me: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, and Social Networking
Dana Rasmussen"Edited by Dana Rasmussen from high quality Wikipedia articles"--Cover.
Through a Mother's Eyes, the Dana White Story: An ...
June WhiteAs a single mom and high school dropout June worked hard to give Dana a better life.
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