Twentieth Century French Drama

Literature & Fiction

GROSSVOGEL, David I.

History & Criticism

Columbia University Press

As recent history continues to show, France and the United states enjoy a love-hate relationship. Expressions of admiration and dismissal of one culture by the other are usually based on superficial judgments derived from well-worn clichés that do little more than perpetuate perceived and real differences between the two societies. Those who study these differences inevitably examine them through their own cultural peculiarities. Marianne and the Puritan attempts to draw these various analyses together by contrasting the different ways each culture constructs the romantic couple through U.S. and French popular cinema. David I. Grossvogel's broad sweeping, comparative, and interdisciplinary study is conducted with great elegance and erudition. It is a must for film studies, literary criticism, francophone studies, art history, and cultural sociology and anthropology.

Marianne and the Puritan: Transformation of the Couple in French and American Films

Reference

Lexington Books

Marianne and the Puritan provides a sociological, political, and aesthetic analysis of French and American cultures as seen through their respective cinemas. Author David I. Grossvogel focuses on highly popular and available French and American films which, taken together and through the 20th century, treat permutations of the couple.

Four Playwrights and a Postscript.

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Limits of the Novel: Evolution of a Form from Chaucer to Robbe-Grillet

Cornell University Press

This exploration of the Ann Landers phenomenon introduces the woman behind the pen--Eppie Lederer--and discusses how America's values toward family, love, sex, marriage, and lifestyle have evolved in the thirty-two years since the advice column's inceptio

Dear Ann Landers: Our Intimate and Changing Dialogue With America's Best-Loved Confidante

Sunflower Books

Humphrey Bogart and Woody Allen have at least this in common: they both represent figures of the American male as Hollywood projected it over the century of its existence. This study offers an historical overview, a psychological and sociological analysis of the American man reflected on the silver screen by examining the icons that drew millions to the box office from the early days of William S. Hart who first shaped the Western until it was reshaped by the likes of John Wayne, Gary Cooper and James Stewart; the immortal comics from Charlie Chaplin on; the great lovers from Rudolph Valentino, through Charles Boyer and Clark Gable; the demigods who cast their radiance beyond picture houses throughout the world like Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy, Marlon Brando, James Dean, and many others whose mesmerizing presence dominated the roles they played.

Vishnu in Hollywood

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Scarecrow Press

Gordian Pr Inc

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