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In this groundbreaking investigation into the nature and meanings of melodrama in American culture between 1880 and 1920, Ben Singer offers a challenging new reevaluation of early American cinema and the era that spawned it. Singer looks back to the sensational or "blood and thunder" melodramas (e.g., The Perils of Pauline, The Hazards of Helen, etc.) and uncovers a fundamentally modern cultural expression, one reflecting spectacular transformations in the sensory environment of the metropolis, in the experience of capitalism, in the popular imagination of gender, and in the exploitation of the thrill in popular amusement. Written with verve and panache, and illustrated with 100 striking photos and drawings, Singer's study provides an invaluable historical and conceptual map both of melodrama as a genre on stage and screen and of modernity as a pivotal idea in social theory.
Customer Reviews:
Fantastic book on silent cliffhanger serials!.......2004-08-12
This book is a well written description of the origins and history of the silent cliffhanger serials. The author explains how the chapterplays are similar to and an expansion on the "melodrama" genre of stageplays and 1 reel films popular in the early 1900's.
The second half of the book is the heart of it, focusing on the serials themselves. The book has a number of old trade magazine advertisements for serials that show the excitement and drama serials conveyed to those theater patrons so many years ago.
This is a good companion to the books on silent serials by Kalton Lahue published back in the 1960's.
Readable introduction.......2002-11-14
This study has many of the earmarks of a Ph. D. dissertation--muted claims and qualifiers, allusions to the Frankfort School, periodic summaries--but it's a lucid, jargon-free beginning of a conversation that's long overdue. Many great American texts (literary as well as cinematic) have been excluded from academic canons and college reading lists on the grounds that they don't belong in the ironic, modernist tradition. By showing that melodrama is modernity's child, not its antithesis, Singer invites us to pay serious attention to texts whose only crime may be full disclosure of meaning and undeniable influencing of the witness.
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Excellent biographical Sketch........2005-05-15
This is a thoroughly enjoyable brief biographical and analytical sketch of John Coltrane's development from a good sideman to the most influential jazz musician of his era. Coltrane's intensity and his approach to his art is wonderfully portrayed. There are anecdotes from various performances and recording sessions as well as brief forays into his personal life and struggles with addiction. Nisenson writes with the appropriate level of reverence for a man who has given so much through his music and includes numerous quotes from other musicians ,especially Miles Davis on Coltrane and what made him unique. My only complaint is the book is too short. I finished it wanting more.
ALONE IN THE HOUSE WITH COLTRANE.......2004-10-14
ALONE IN THE HOUSE WITH COLTRANE
-for eric nissenson
Lift the music into your own life.
Reggie Workman says, I used to follow John
like you would follow the sun. I'm listening.
The dogs are here. How can I be alone?
The clarinetist Don Byron says,
If a cat is taking risks at a moment,
years later you can still hear the edge of it.
I'm looking at all that gold paint Rex put
everywhere-in Coltrane's shirt
and in the saxophone itself.
Four song titles in gold criss-cross
their way through four bronze portraits
of Coltrane. The seeker is always alone.
Rex knew he was going back to Arkansas
when he gave me this painting.
There's as much music in the story
as there is in the music.
I had a couple of pieces and went with them.
They got mixed in with other stuff.
Some of it was right.
It helped take me down the road.
The tree pruner knocks on my door.
We talk about the Sweet Gum Tree
overlooking the Garden Room in the front yard.
Stems blow out of phase in old trees
like this. Blowing in and rebounding,
instances of the giant limbs pulling apart
under strong forces are rare. Support
at the extremities moves them where they
want to move. Do you know Coltrane? I ask.
Not personally, he says. I pull a notebook
from the back pocket of my jeans.
Coltrane follows the line to see what
it will bear, He adds drummers and saxophones,
as well as bells, to be limbs and branches,
to see what will happen in wind.
"You turn those trees into music," I say.
No way. I'm a climber. I've been looking at your tree.
It's been taken care of, I can go anywhere in that tree
I need to be in the wind. When I'm in a tree
I'm searching for those underlying principles-
the bones underneath it all. The pruner
knows the story without knowing
the music. I grew up in a house with no rules.
I needed limits. Vibrations and harmonies
cross-platforms to growing things.
I know the language of jazz and trees.
My wife doesn't. She thinks it's elevator music.
I walk him in the house,
show him Rex's painting of Love Supreme.
I'm astounded by the length of time
I rested here, in a lazy mix of myth and story.
Dear Eric, Your book arrives first,
but Simpkins' is the life I am looking for.
At first I think he's enough.
I love the way he opens up the story
through voice alone, introducing Coltrane and the players
like family at a holiday meal.
Impeccable manners and intimate talk.
It's the story the way my mother might tell it,
positive and straight to God.
I mark your Kesey story in the Preface
as one I'll share with friends.
I still think I have what I need in the story
Rex is an artist and teacher. Early 30's.
My friend. He painted murals
of black history in Yakima on community walls
for ten years before going back to Arkansas this summer.
The tree pruner shows up at my door.
Your book thrills me. ascension.
Baseball, Jesus Seminar, Textual criticism.
Three sources and the truth will set us free.
No compromises. The conversation
Coltrane would have chosen to have.
The one no one asked for.
Criticism as trance. The way Hugh Kenner
helped us with Pound. Or Taylor Branch with King.
An era as much as a man. For the poet
the poem is already an artifact.
About your courage.
Write what you know and then write above that.
Starting with Coltrane must have helped.
Work brings the duende against our will.
For moments like this: This is why Coltrane is a genius.
For showing me where to go: Dear Lord is the peaceful side
of the search for God, and Transition, the darker, terror-laden side.
For Ascension is a time capsule,
and meditation is cleaning the mirror of the self.
Like you say, credulity is in short supply.
Your careful writing on Jarrett and Marsalis
is as important as everything you say about Miles:
He never got over losing Coltrane.
I wrote my son what you said about Hendrix.
Nothing could have prepared us for Bush the younger.
Coltrane wouldn't recognize anger as anger.
It wouldn't make any sense to him.
Why are you angry? is a very funny question.
Mydentist creates a plastic form for my teeth.
He's interested in grinding teeth.
I put it in my mouth, a kind of bridle.
What will happen to my dreams, I ask.
I am interested in the left-handed way to God.
Never at home in my own church. Done with striving?
I've got friends who listen to Coltrane.
Barry Grimes gives me the Atlantic Years.
He looks at a word and sees the ocean.
Dan Peters finds Coltrane in the reservoir.
And what do you hear?
Opening with the bass and cymbals
I don't know if I can tell between
the soprano sax and the bass clarinet
when they get going. I want to hear
Dolphy's birds though. Coltrane's
way up high in India. Drum and bass
going at it. I can hear Dolphy now
in that bass clarinet. He's coming in low.
There's the piano a note at a time.
Tyner awfully quiet. I'm in India
but not any place I know.
I like knowing this comes after A Love Supreme.
The piano is starting to rumble now,
standing up to those drums. There's
a knock at the door. My dog barks.
I open my eyes. I haven't been sleeping.
I hear music stop and start.
Up against the wall. I've carried
these words my adult life.
I know policemen who could listen to this.
This morning alongside Meditations,
I turn to the last poems of Dr. Williams.
The smell of the heat is boxwood
when rousing us. These are desert poems
from 1954. Don't let me be a pretender, Lord,
not a pretender. This is my prayer.
I read before and after Asphodel, grateful.
And the last one, The Rewaking,
from 1962, Sooner or later,
we must come to the end
of striving. I turn back,
all works of the imagination,
interchangeable, and forward,
new ice on a country pool,
It doesn't matter what I choose,
In Deep Religious Faith,
invention is the heart of it.
The young fundamentalist tree climber
is more interesting to me than all of the priests of this world.
Jim Bodeen
Oct 1-13, 2004
Trane's Effect.......2003-06-29
I'm what I guess, a Trane enthusiast who gobbles up anything to read with the name Coltrane in it, always less critical with what I've read, perhaps only allowing for disappointment. I have always found Nisenson's books enjoyable to read, as you will find this one. His information, passion and experience connecting stories only furthered my understanding of John Coltrane's ability to affect so many, in so many ways explanable and unexplanable! Buy It! You won't be disappointed!
Thoughtful approach.......2003-03-18
Too often the words written about the career of John Coltrane lapse into idolatry or overanalysis. Biographies by J.C. Thomas and Cuthbert Simpkins lack a sense of critical judgment, while Bill Cole's work is fine for the musician but difficult for the lay listener. Frank Kofsky's "Black Nationalism and the Revolution in Music," meanwhile, attempted to put Coltrane's music in a political framework he never intended.
Eric Nisenson's "Ascension," refreshingly, focuses on Coltrane's music, attempting to understand not only where it came from but also the extent of its influence on jazz since the saxophonist's death in 1967. Nisenson is clearly a fan of the music, but to his credit, his admiration does not cloud his critical judgment.
One important accomplishment of Nisenson's book is to establish a context for Coltrane's creativity and his late-life forays into free jazz. He revisits Coltrane's early life in North Carolina, where he grew up in relatively comfortable surroundings, exposed to the music of the church and of his father, a tailor and amateur musician. Nisenson also emphasizes Coltrane's early apprenticeships with Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Bostic, Cleanhead Vinson and his time in Philadelphia, a hothouse of jazz playing that produced many an important contemporary, including Lee Morgan, Benny Golson and Jimmy Heath.
In addition, Nisenson thoroughly explores Coltrane's important time with Miles Davis, during which he mastered not only his chordal approach but also the modal approach to music and improvisation that Miles took on with "Kind of Blue." And he thoroughly documents Trane's later interest in the Eastern, African and other world music, which strongly influenced many of his albums as a leader.
In fact, Nisenson's attention to the searching quality of Coltrane's mind and his music generates the key theme of the book: that the saxophonist's greatness was derived not only from his musical mastery but from his unceasing search for new modes of expression. It was this search, Nisenson argues, that ultimately led Coltrane to embrace the avant-garde experiments undertaken by younger musicians such as Archie Shepp, Albert Ayler and Pharaoh Sanders in the last few years of his life.
Nisenson does not downplay the courage required of Coltrane to push the limits of his music long after his fame had been established, and he could have played it safe, but neither does he shy away from being critical of some of the musician's later cacophonous efforts.
The sole criticism I have of the book is that it seems to reach the conclusion that since Coltrane, Miles and Ornette Coleman, there has been little in the way of true creativity on the jazz scene. A response would require another review, but suffice it to say that I disagree; that the current jazz scene may be more fragmented, and undoubtedly many musicians are playing it safe, but also that there are many young and older jazz musicians making very creative music on small labels.
That aside, this is a very worthwhile read for long-time listeners of Coltrane or for those coming to his music for the first time.
I recommend it.......2003-03-03
An excellent introduction for newcomers to Coltrane. Highly readable and sustains the reader's interest. No, it isn't perfect - I was amazed the author could discuss Weather Report and make no mention whatsoever of Jaco Pastorius, for one example. But if you want to know something of Coltrane, his music and his times I highly recommend this book.
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Title: Ascension: John Coltrane and His Quest.
Author: V.J. Panetta
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Date: September 1, 1995
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The world just got a little more dangerous.
Fantasy Flight Games is proud to announce a second book of deadly machinations that DMs can use to pulp, pulverize, and puree their player characters. In the tradition of the original Traps & Treachery, this book will include hundreds of new poisons, mechanical traps, magical traps, and mind-bending dungeon puzzles. The book will be generously illustrated by more of the clever mechanical illustrations that graced the first Traps & Treachery book.
Customer Reviews:
Everything I want out of a d20 book........2006-03-13
This book is the best d20 supplement I've read in a long time. Finally, a book that isn't bloated with new Core Classes, Prestige Classes and Feats. This book is filled with 100+ innovative, deadly traps that will challenge any party of PC's. The chapter on poisons adds new depth to the Assassin's arsenal. I especially liked the last chapter on puzzles. There are a lot of good ideas there. I just wish that section was a little longer. All in all, an excellent book that offers up plenty of new material for the devious DM.
Good Book.......2003-03-16
I have read this book and am wishing i had the time to use all the traps in it. They are all wonderfully made and would provide hours of torture to PCs. Only four stars because this book goes so into detail, that every time you explain a room, players will bug you about one small thing and become quite paranoid, which slows the game just a little. Other than that, this is the best source of traps that i have ever seen and every DM should have a copy, just don't let the players get their hands on it.
Book Description
You can achieve success in anything you do!This program will show you how to do it!Napoleon Hill summed up his philosophy of success in Think and Grow Rich, one of the best selling inspirational business books ever.Now in Napoleon Hill's Key to Success, Hills seventeen essential principles of personal achievement are expanded in detail for the first time, with concrete advice on their use and implementation. Anyone seeking personal and financial improvement will find invaluable mental exercises, self-analysis techniques, powerful encouragement, and straightforward advice in this illuminating guide.In addition to Hill's many true-life examples of the principles in action, there are also contemporary illustrations featuring dynamos like Bill Gates, Peter Lynch, and Donna Karan.In these richly rewarding tapes you will learn the secrets of: *filling your life with purpose and direction *perfecting your personality *fanning your creative spark *building your self-discipline *profiting from the Golden Rule *budgeting time and money *finding and keeping the source of all wealth In addition you'll discover countless other lessons to spur your efforts, steel you strength, fulfill your ambition-and make your dreams come true!
Customer Reviews:
Classic.......2007-03-25
Napoleon hill is the recognized expert on all things success. In this excellent book he discusses the 17 principles of personal achievement, including:
Using the Mastermind Principle
Focusing Your Attention
Learning From Defeat
Going the Extra mile
Improving Your Mental Attitude
This book is well worth reading. For more information on creating personal wealth, try "The 17 Principles of Creating Wealth," by Phillip Collinsworth.
Napolean Hill? Of course its good!.......2007-01-19
"Each night I burn the records of the day; At sunrise every soul is born again" WOW! That was not written by Mr Hill, but he was smart enough to add it to his book. There is so much good stuff in this book I do not know where to start. Other reviewers here have written more on the contents of the book, read theirs to get an idea.
All I can say is that if you read and understand this book, then follow what you have learned, there is no way you cannot succeed in life. This book is filled with wisdom. If you are struggling in your life or on the job and need help, the help you need is in this book. Good luck on your journey!
Among my first batch of books...greatest influence on attaining personal achievement in life!.......2006-07-21
The first batch of significant books that had the greatest influence on me in terms of attaining personal achievement includes mostly Napoleon Hill's books:
- The Law of Success;
- Think & Grow Rich;
- The Keys to Success;
- Success through a Positive Mental Attitude;
- Succeed & Grow Rich through Persuasion;
The others were from Clement Stone, Dale Carnegie, & Earl Nightingale.
That was the early 70's when I had just started work as a young engineer.
The author, Napoleon Hill, had impressed me most by his relentless dedication in spending some two to three decades of his life in pursuing & researching the success secrets of the rich & famous...with a little help from Andrew Carnegie, of course.
As matter of fact, many of the famous people he interviewed were also favourite role models of mine e.g. Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, just to name a few
Till this day, I have never forgotten what he said:
"The most powerful instrument we have in our hands is the power of our mind."
I have never ceased to be fascinated by the simplicity & the potency of his ABCs of personal achievement: CONCEIVE, BELIEVE & ACHIEVE!
It is certainly enlightening to note that even Stephen Covey had drew inspiration from Napoleon Hill's work even though he never made that credit. He only admitted that the 7 Habits had its origins from "200 years of success literature in the United States." That remark itself is self explanatory.
Anthony Robbin's Mastery program as embodied in his books as well as his audio/video resources is no exception, even though he has been influenced in larger extent by NLP.
If you look at & compare the 17 principles of personal achievement in 'The Law of Success' &/or the 13 Steps to Riches in 'Think & Grow Rich', one can obviously see the uncanny resemblance of the 7 Habits & the Mastery principles...in one way or another.
At this juncture, let me outline the principal theme of each book:
The Law of Success: the original course on the fundamentals of success - all the seventeen essential principles of personal achievement;
Think & Grow Rich: The seventeen essential principles are reframed & condensed in terms of thirteen concrete steps to wealth creation (in actuality, this is a condensation of the Law of Success);
The Keys to Success: a further elaboration of the seventeen essential principles with concrete suggestions, exercises & advice;
Success Through Positive Mental Attitude: joint authorship with Clement Stone, with a further emphasis on developing a positive mental attitude;
Succeed & Grow Rich Through Persuasion: joint authorship with Clement Stone, with a further emphasis on developing master salesmanship & networking;
[It is pertinent to note that Clement Stone actually built his insurance business empire with these principles.]
My most productive, personal learning experience from Napoleon Hill's work is the understanding - & application - of his success principle #1: Develop Definiteness of Purpose.
[Very surprisingly, J Y Pillay, former Chairman of Singapore Airlines, - who had been credited for building the airline to what it is today, A GREAT WAY TO FLY! - also credited his work axiom to this same success principle, but he attributed it to an ancient Hindu scripture known as Bhagavad Gita.]
I am certainly gratified to note that Napoleon Hill's work had casted so much influence on - & empowered - so many people in the world, including myself.
The Distilled Power Of Thinking And Growing Rich..........2006-04-29
Sure, this is a wonderful starter kit (yes, I do have this book...) in addition to Hill's other books like "Think and Grow Rich", "The Master Key To Riches", et al. But more than that, it is a primer that makes you hungry for the mental nourishment of his full "Law Of Success" which I have just ordered through Amazon. And why am I giving this distillation five stars? C'mon, isn't it obvious, through these *distilled* principles you get a pretty good taste of the "spirit-voice" of Napoleon Hill. And when he says in later versions of "Think and Grow Rich" - 'through these pages we have met'. You know what he means here, even though it is shortened and edited. So, I've said enough, get started, happy reading.
Captain Josh/Joshua Clayton
Truly inspirational. Builds upon "Think and Grow Rich". .......2006-02-13
There are thousands of self-help books out in the market and hundreds of self proclaimed "gurus" who have made a living by copying the wisdom in Napoleon Hill's books. As I went through some of those books I realized that there was not much in them that Hill had not already written about. I recommend quality over quantity. Instead of reading through many books, I recommend that you study the following works of Hill and internalize his wisdom:
1. The Think and Grow Rich Action Pack (1937) - I recommend the Action Pack edition,
2. Napoleon Hill's Keys to Success: The 17 Principles of Personal Achievement - this book,
3. Your Right To Be Rich [Unabridged] - this consists of 12 hours of live lectures covering the 17 principles, that Hill conducted in Chicago in 1954.
By internalizing, I mean studying in depth - analyzing the ideas, making notes and summaries. I own more CDs by Hill, but I believe that these 3 items make the perfect study plan on the Philosophy of Personal Achievement.
This philosophy is the end product of two decades of research conducted by Napoleon Hill. His research started when Andrew Carnegie (the steel tycoon who was then the richest man on earth) gave him the assignment of organizing a Philosophy of Personal Achievement. Hill, who was a poor journalist, armed with just an introductory letter from Carnegie, set out to interview over five hundred successful people including Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, John D. Rockefeller, George Eastman, William Wrigley Jr. and Charles M. Schwab. Hill then revealed the priceless wisdom of his research in the form of the thirteen steps to success (in Think and Grow Rich) and the seventeen Principles of Personal Achievement (in courses and lectures he conducted).
This particular book goes beyond the 13 steps in Think and Grow Rich. It covers the following 17 Principles of Personal Achievement (also known as the 17 Keys to Success):
1. Develop a Definiteness of Purpose
2. Establish a Mastermind Alliance
3. Assemble an Attractive Personality
4. Use Applied Faith
5. Go the Extra Mile
6. Create Personal Initiative
7. Build a Positive Mental Attitude
8. Control Your Enthusiasm
9. Enforce Self-Discipline
10. Think Accurately
11. Control Your Attention
12. Inspire Teamwork
13. Learn from Adversity and Defeat
14. Cultivate Creative Vision
15. Maintain Sound Health
16. Budget Your Time and Money
17. Use Cosmic Habitforce
The concepts taught by Napoleon Hill transformed my life. Everything he wrote about or talked about is thought provoking. He was wise, humble and funny. His philosophy is universal; he did not mix it with religion. The riches he referred to were more than money, for the Philosophy of Personal Achievement can be applied to anything in life.
Hill was well ahead of his time. "Think and Grow Rich" has a chapter dedicated to some of today's most important issues - Specialized Knowledge, Decision Making, Imagination and Organized Planning (in which he deals with Leadership). And his principles deal with Teamwork, Creative Vision, Health, etc.
I am greatly indebted to Napoleon Hill. The purpose of my writing this is to spread awareness of his work so that more people can benefit from it. This, I believe is the best way in which Hill would have liked to have been repaid.
If my review was helpful to you, I request you to select "Yes" so that the rating is improved and more readers will get to read it. Please also see the website of the Napoleon Hill Foundation, naphill dot org, which has helpful resources.
Book Description
Achieve success in anything you do-this program shows you how to do it!World-renowned motivational author Napoleon Hill summed up his philosophy of success in Think and Grow Richreg;, one of the bestselling inspirational business books of all time. In Napoleon Hill's Keys to Success, Hill's seventeen essential principles of personal achievement are expanded on in detail, with concrete advice on their use and implementation.In these richly rewarding, full context tapes, you will learn the secrets of: filling your life with purpose and direction perfecting your personality fanning your creative spark building self-discipline profiting from the Golden Rule budgeting time and money discovering and preserving the source of all wealthIn this invaluable audiobook, anyone seeking personal and financial improvement will find a wealth of straightforward advice, powerful encouragement, mental exercises, and self-analysis techniques that produce results. In addition to Hill's many personal true-life stories of the seventeen principles in action, dynamos like Bill Gates, Peter Lynch , and Donna Karan serve as contemporary examples of what can be achieved.Napoleon Hill's Keys to Success is an inspiring motivational audiobook that tells people how to fulfill their ambitions and achieve success.
Customer Reviews:
Timeless Advice.......2007-09-03
Hill's book has timeless advice to help guide you on the road to success. Although this book was originally written many years ago, it has been updated with current examples and ideas.
Another "textbook" for students of life.
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