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Song and dance man
Grandpa demonstrates for his visiting grandchildren some of the songs, dances, and jokes he performed when he was a vaudeville entertainer.
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Film criticism, the Cold War, and the blacklist
Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist examines the long-term reception of several key American films released during the postwar period, focusing on the two main critical lenses used in the interpretation of these films: propaganda and allegory. Produced in response to the hearings held by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) that resulted in the Hollywood blacklist, these films’ ideological message and rhetorical effectiveness was often muddled by the inherent difficulties in dramatizing villains defined by their thoughts and belief systems rather than their actions. Whereas anti-Communist propaganda films offered explicit political exhortation, allegory was the preferred vehicle for veiled or hidden political comment in many police procedurals, historical films, Westerns, and science fiction films. Jeff Smith examines the way that particular heuristics, such as the mental availability of exemplars and the effects of framing, have encouraged critics to match filmic elements to contemporaneous historical events, persons, and policies. In charting the development of these particular readings, Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist features case studies of many canonical Cold War titles, including The Red Menace, On the Waterfront, The Robe, High Noon, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
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The Bunny Rabbit Show!
Introduces ten rabbits who like to dance, sing, jump, and wiggle their noses in unison to entertain their audience, but anyone is welcome to join the chorus line after donning a pair of bunny ears.
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Female Performers in British and American Fiction
The Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and linguistics, on English and American literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, on the new English literatures, as well as on general and comparative literary studies, including aspects of cultural and literary theory. _x000D_.
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Farty Marty
Although Mary Jane Lemon loves her cat Marty, others are offended by the sounds and smells that come from his rear until Ms. Chen, a voice tutor, discovers that Marty's \"audio output\" is quite remarkable.
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Recoding the chaste kisaeng in Yi Hae-jo's Kang myŏng-hwa chŏn
Korea's abrupt transition into modernization was followed closely by Japanese colonialism at the turn of the twentieth century. With this social and political upheaval came the sudden hegemony of novel ideologies over an established traditional Confucian system. In public discourse and literary representations of early modern Korea, women figured as emblems of the country's larger existential crisis. In addition, the kisaeng (generally known as female entertainers in pre-modern Korea) occupied a precarious ambiguity in the public sphere as innovators of new cultural trends and persistent obstacles to domestic morality. This study examines this ambiguity as a productive, creative deliberation regarding changing roles of women in Korea. I focus in particular on the hybridization of traditional imagery depicting female chastity (chŏngchŏl) in Yi Hae-jo's fictionalized biography of the kisaeng, Kang Myŏng-hwa, which localized aesthetics of feminism and free love ideology for Korean reading publics. Through the biographical text of Kang Myŏng-hwa chŏn, the chaste kisaeng archetype relives the classical narrative of Ch'un-hyang and her virtuous wifely love for an aristocrat. In effect, Ch'un-hyang is remythologized in Kang Myŏng-hwa in the twentieth-century as a bridge between the past and modernity.
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Salt of the earth
Ramon Quintero strikes for equity of wages as well as health and safety issues, but at home, he mistreats his wife. When the men are forced to end their picketing, she joins the other women who demand to play a role, against their husbands' wishes. Written, directed, and produced by members of the original blacklisted \"Hollywood Ten,\" Salt of the Earth is a powerful, persuasive drama. Newly restored from original archival film elements!
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Figgs & phantoms
Chronicles the adventures of the unusual Figg family after they leave show business and settle in the town of Pineapple.
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Buddha Mountain
At one point in this film, three youngsters lost in the countryside wait at a railway station called \"Buddha Mountain\" for a train without knowing if any will ever come. Alienated by society and their families, they move together into the home of a retired Peking opera performer. The carefree tenants and rigid landlady expose not only their conflicting lifestyles but also everyone's painful past. They gradually learn to embrace and find strength in each other despite divisions. On a trip to a remote village, a monk asks for their help to rebuild a temple among ruins from the 2008 Schechuan earthquake. The labor turns into a ritual for them to move on. This reunion of China's prominent female filmmaker Li Yu and the iconic star Fan Bingbing after Lost in Beijing is graced by Taiwan's cinematic treasure Sylvia Chang. With an exuberant and haunting story, she inquires how individuals reconstruct their inner selves facing impermanence in all forms.
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