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The motion picture industry in its earliest days seemed as ephemeral as the flickering images it produced. Considered an amusement fad even by their exhibitors, movies nevertheless spread quickly from big-city vaudeville houses to towns and rural communities across the nation. Small-town audiences, looking for more than the lurid melodramas and slapstick comedies popular in cities, often lined up to see films with conservative and educational themes: scenic panoramas, biblical tableaux, newsreels, and manufacturing scenes.
In this social history of the cinema during the silent-film era, Kathryn H. Fuller charts the gradual homogenization of a diverse American movie audience as itinerant shows gave way first to nickelodeon theaters and then to more luxurious picture palaces.
Fuller suggests that fan magazines helped to reduce the distinctions between rural and urban moviegoers and created a nationwide popular culture of film consumption. Analyzing the articles, advertisements, and letters in such publications as Motion Picture Story Magazine and Photoplay, Fuller shows that these fan magazines--which initially catered to adult readers--shifted their focus by the late 1910s to young women who, entranced by Hollywood glamour, eagerly bought products endorsed by the stars.
Although the transformation of the movies into big-time entertainment had multiple sources, Fuller argues that ultimately the maturation of the film industry depended on the support of both urban and rural middle-class audiences. Providing the fullest portrait to date of the small-town audience's changing habits and desires, At the Picture Show demonstrates for the first time how a fan culture emerged in the United States, and enriches our understanding of mass media's relationship to early twentieth-century American society.
For that small but populous slice of the world reachable by radio station WOR (New York City and environs), Jean Shepherd was once a nightly fixture, back in the days when radio talk didn't shock. On the air, he would tell tales of his Indiana boyhood, which he eventually refined enough to write down. Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories collects the stories that first appeared in magazines in the 1960s and '70s. For that slightly larger slice of the world that has seen the hysterical 1983 movie A Christmas Story, the book's characters and setting will be instantly recognizable: the film was cobbled together from Shepherd's stories. (One thing you have to say for the man, not only was he funny, but boy, could he recycle.)
Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories guides you through every triumph and crisis of Shepherd's boyhood. One of the most entertaining involved the hijacking of the family's precious Easter ham:
BLAM!
The kitchen door flew open. It had been left ajar just a crack to let the air come in to cool the ham.
I rushed to the kitchen just in time to see 4,293 blue-ticked Bumpus hounds roar through the screen door in a great, roiling mob. The leader of the pack--the one that almost got my old man every day--leaped high onto the table and grabbed the butt end of the ham in his enormous jaws. They were in and out in less than five seconds.
"HOLY CHRIST!" The old man leaped out of his chair.
"THE HAM! THE HAM! THOSE GODDAMN DOGS! THE HAM!!"
They say comedy is tragedy plus time; that's why growing up is so funny. Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories--like its author--never disappoints.
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A bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana, reissued in a strikingly designed trade paperback edition.
Before Garrison Keillor and Spalding Gray there was Jean Shepherd: a master monologist and writer who spun the materials of his all-American childhood into immensely resonant--and utterly hilarious--works of comic art.
Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories is a universal (and achingly funny) orchestration of Midwestern puberty rites, from the gut-wrenching playground antics of one Delbert Bumpus, to the supernal glow surrounding unapproachable high school beauty Daphne Bigelow, to the memorable disaster that was Shepherd's (and everyone else's) junior prom.
A comic genius who bridges the gap between James Thurber and David Sedaris, Shepherd may have accomplished for Holden, Indiana, what Mark Twain did for Hannibal, Missouri.
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Bravo!.......2007-07-14
What else could I add to these reviews except to echo the testimonials that Shepherd and his characters created the ONLY time that a piece of literature ever caused me to involuntarily burst out laughing. Bravo Jean, and R.I.P.
Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories: And Other Disasters.......2007-01-11
Jean Shepard is without a doubt the most hilarious writer that America can claim! It is impossible to read any of his books without a belly laugh and for those of us born before television arrived, he captures the essence of sitting in front of the radio painfully waiting for DRINK OVALTINE codes! He is a ray of sunshine for all who read his books...and they are ALL worth reading!
Talking and Remembering.......2004-12-11
Jean Shepard contributed to our culture with the stories that resulted in "A Christmas Story." He's hard to dislike, for that work alone.
Here, though, you get more exposure to Jean's other side. He is cynical, and not all that charming about it. He stereotypes, and it reminds us of how we used to be about assuming traits in people based on their race or ethnic origin. He excuses a lot of pretty bad behavior and, worse, expects us to agree with him that it is cute.
Well, that's the bad stuff. The good stuff is that he still has a grasp of American rhythym that's hard to find most places. You will enjoy his fresh view of our experiences, and, if you overlook your potential reactions like the foregoing paragraph describes, you'll hear an authentic descriptive voice which is now gone.
Give it to the High School Student on your list - .......2004-12-10
And watch them live it this spring. I was introduced to this book by my High School English teacher 30 years ago. It was hilarous then. I have just given it to my own 16 year old son in gleeful anticipation of him living the prom ritual this year.
A bona fide laff-riot.......2002-12-17
I made the mistake of reading this on an airplane once. I almost had an aneurysm trying to stifle my laughter. This is a book that you'll read over and over. Only, be forewarned; you'll have to buy multiple copies--once you lend it to a friend, you'll never see it again.
How outraged and disgusted I am that a writer could behave with the lack of integrity this author has. No matter what her opinion on FMS is, lying to and manipulating survivors to get their stories is unconscionable and must surely bring the rest of the work under suspicion.
Those who want to have a look at the questionable background of the FMS and some of its chief supporters would do well to read Charles L. Whitfield's "Memory and Abuse".
diagnosis for disaster.......2003-02-26
I shared my abuse experience with Claudette Wassil-Grimm to help other survivors. I was told by her that her book was going to help support incest survivors by telling their experiences. I was mislead and in her book she claimed that I had false memories. My words were used for her own agenda. I don't want this to happen to anyone else.
Diagnosis for Diaster.......2001-10-12
I thought this book was well researched and well written. One of the best on False Memory Syndrome. Even though there are over 60 books out on the subject I believe this is the easiest to read and explains the problem thoroughly. It is not filled with big words and psychological jargon, which would only confuse a reader not versed in this field. Yet it explains the problem in detail and with obvious research into the subject. I liked the way she talked to the families involved in this terrible syndrome and gave helpful analysis and answers to the problem. It was especially helpful the way she gave 16 reasons why anyone would believe anything so painful, if it were not true. Then there were appropriate chapters to explain each reason more fully. This is the only book I have seen on this subject to do it this way. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand the subject more thoroughly.
Diagnosis for Diaster.......2001-10-12
I thought this book was well researched and well written. One of the best on False Memory Syndrome. Even though there are over 60 books out on the subject I believe this is the easiest to read and explains the problem thoroughly. It is not filled with big words and psychological jargon, which would only confuse a reader not versed in this field. Yet it explains the problem in detail and with obvious research into the subject. I liked the way she talked to the families involved in this terrible syndrome and gave helpful analysis and answers to the problem. It was especially helpful the way she gave 16 reasons why anyone would believe anything so painful, if it were not true. Then there were appropriate chapters to explain each reason more fully. This is the only book I have seen on this subject to do it this way. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand the subject more thoroughly.
NOT the best review on the subject.......1998-02-26
The bias of the author is so strong towards the FMS side, she unquestionly quotes FMS proponents rather than try to maintain a moderate stance and assess both sides of the controversy. I do not recommend this book. It is not well researched, it is more propaganda than critique. I DO recommend Memory, Trauma Treatment, and the Law, just out this year and a very thorough and fair look at the issues.
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-- Tom Conley, author of Film Hieroglyphs: Ruptures in Classic Cinema
Using the media's coverage of the death of Princess Diana as a departing point, Wheeler Dixon presents a sharply critical assessment of the current state of movies--from the cult of celebrity, to the nature of public surveillance, to the role of print and television media in shaping our shared consciousness--unveiling our fascination with disaster. Dixon argues that movies such as James Cameron's Titanic replay the same Hollywood disaster plotlines with greater wizardry and less humanity than the films of fifty years ago. Contemporary cinema has become simply a memory of itself. Dixon draws on the effects of new technologies, the role of the "star" system, and the development of media conglomerates to explain why Hollywood has become so repetitive. Looking at a wide range of film genres, from obscure horror to blockbuster disaster movies, Dixon weaves together the elements that entice and manipulate audience expectations and emotions. Throughout the book, he examines the role of televisual media (cable, video, instant print magazines, digitally stored photos) in capturing the public's attention, and how these media could instead be used to open movie audiences to new stories and experiences.With its broad scope and frank tone, Disaster and Memory offers a refreshing and controversial perspective on the past, present, and future of Hollywood.
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This collection of Angus Calder's works focuses on how wars are transformed after they have been fought as well as the mechanisms that repress and reconstruct war, often during the battle itself. Revisiting campaign sites from the plains of Troy to recent conflicts in the Balkans with an eye toward how each conflict has been remembered, this book examines how those memories reflect reality. Included is a discussion of D-Day commemorations, as well as a variety of literary and public representations of war.
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It is by avoiding accidents that the process industries will improve their public image. Lessons from Disaster focuses upon the apparent inability of organizations to learn, and retain in long-term, the lessons drawn from accidents.
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In the spring of 1986, Mohamed Makhzangi was living in Kiev, an Egyptian doctor studying in the Ukraine. As a result, he--like thousands of other--found himself living a nuclear nightmare when the Chernobyl plant had a catastrophic meltdown. Despite numerous failsafe protections, human error sent massive quantities of deadly radiation into the serene spring of the Soviet sky. In superbly crafted prose, Memories of a Meltdown describes the days that followed from Makhzangi?s dual perspective, as both an outsider and a victim. Described by the author as an "anti-memoir", this assemblage of impressions in the aftermath of the mltdown offers a searing account of factual events distilled through the filter of literature. Blending the realism of journalism with the emotional resonance of fiction, Makhzangi conveys the quiet but steadily mounting atmosphere of fear and panic, the dubious reliability of official statements, and an overall loss of the sense of safety, of anything ever being right with the world again. From the balding colleague who is concerned only about whether his hair will fall out, to a grandfather, fetching his young grandson a drink, who believes that there is less contamination in cool tap water than hot, Makhzangi portrays people unwilling or unable to believe in the magnitude of the disaster unfolding around them. In the finest tradition of literary reportage, Makhzangi masterfully conveys here the loneliness.
The 1995 event at Mt. Carmel shocked all of America and has since spawned a plethora of books regarding the "truth" about the Branch Davidians. Memories of the Branch Davidians is the story told from the inside. The oral history of Bonnie Haldeman, the mother of Vernon Howell (David Koresh), it offers an intimate, first-hand account of how a boy named Vernon Howell became David Koresh. Haldeman paints a picture of Koresh that could only be told by one who knew both his greatest strengths and his deepest faults.
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Memories of catastrophes--both those which occur naturally and those which are consequences of human actions--loom large in the modern consciousness. The volume opens with an investigation of the concepts of catastrophe and collective memory, and the relationships between them. Arguing that a pervasive catastrophic memory may be as disabling as it is instructive, Gray and Oliver stress the necessity of rendering the phenomenon subject to secular critical inquiry. The value of such an approach is then demonstrated in a series of case studies.
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The DJ RESOURCE presents a brand new Party Games book with party contests, wedding reception games, party themes and activities for GROWN UPS... with some really fun stuff for kids too!
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Beginning Web Programming with HTML, XHTML, and CSS teaches you how to write Web pages using HTML, XHTML, and CSS. It follows standards-based principles, but also teaches readers ways around problems they are likely to face using (X)HTML.
While XHTML is the "current" standard, the book still covers HTML because many people do not yet understand that XHTML is the official successor to HTML, and many readers will still stick with HTML for backward compatibility and simpler/informal Web pages that don't require XHTML compliance.
The book teaches basic principles of usability and accessibility along the way, to get users into the mode of developing Web pages that will be available to as many viewers as possible from the start. The book also covers the most commonly used programming/scripting language — JavaScript — and provides readers with a roadmap of other Web technologies to learn after mastering this book to add more functionality to their sites.
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Beginning Web Programming with HTML, XHTML, and CSS teaches you how to write Web pages using HTML, XHTML, and CSS. It follows standards-based principles, but also teaches readers ways around problems they are likely to face using (X)HTML.
While XHTML is the "current" standard, the book still covers HTML because many people do not yet understand that XHTML is the official successor to HTML, and many readers will still stick with HTML for backward compatibility and simpler/informal Web pages that don't require XHTML compliance.
The book teaches basic principles of usability and accessibility along the way, to get users into the mode of developing Web pages that will be available to as many viewers as possible from the start. The book also covers the most commonly used programming/scripting language — JavaScript — and provides readers with a roadmap of other Web technologies to learn after mastering this book to add more functionality to their sites.
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Hard to follow.......2007-06-04
I have gone from being frustrated with this title to disliking it intensely. I would suggest alternate materials such as the O'Reilly publication, "HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide."
First, "BWP w/HTML, XHTML, and CSS" is dated. Its publication date is 2004. This text often complains that features "are not supported by browsers" that have since been updated. There are more current materials published within the last year. (And on the subject of browsers, I have not found a single mention of Mozilla, Safari, or Opera in this book).
Second, the author's presentation is often difficult to follow. Concedely it is a difficult subject to organize when there are "live" tags, "deprecated" tags, the ongoing effort to separate stylistic elements into CSS, and different browswers' idiosyncracies with which to deal. Duckett, however, is next to hopeless in separating these subjects.
Most critical is the fact that this book is a very unhappy blend between an introductory tutorial and a reference "bible." Duckett will introduce a basic concept -- say, "tables" and will then load up on all of the attributes that the element might take. Learning the key ideas gets lost in the process. The book often leads off into asides and references to more advanced topics that will easily lose the initiate. It is no coincidence that several of the reviews here use the word "intermediate" in connection with this text.
The author does not seem to understand the principle that individuals learn by working from the "known" step-by-step to the "unknown." Instead, he seems to rely upon the idea that "if I throw everything at them in a random fashion, they'll figure out a good amount of it."
As an example of its "random walk" approach, Chapter 4 first provides a sound introduction into the use of colors and making references to images. The closing section of the chapter, however, branches off into a discussion of the
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Working At Play: A History of Vacations in the United States
Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America
Inventing Popular Culture: From Folklore to Globalization (Blackwell Manifestos)
Romancing the Folk: Public Memory and American Roots Music (Cultural Studies of the United States)
Radio Voices: American Broadcasting, 1922-1952
Bravo!.......2007-07-14
Talking and Remembering.......2004-12-11
Shoddy Research Methods.......2003-03-19
NOT the best review on the subject.......1998-02-26
