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Black & White & Noir explores America's pulp modernism through penetrating readings of the noir sensibility lurking in an eclectic array of media: Office of War Information photography, women's experimental films, and African-American novels, among others. It traces the dark edges of cultural detritus blowing across the postwar landscape, finding in pulp a political theory that helps explain America's fascination with lurid spectacles of crime.
We are accustomed to thinking of noir as a film form popularized in movies like The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, and, more recently, Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. But it is also, Paula Rabinowitz argues, an avenue of social and political expression. This book offers an unparalleled historical and theoretical overview of the noir shadows cast when the media's glare is focused on the unseen and the unseemly in our culture. Through far-ranging discussions of the Starr Report, movies such as Double Indemnity and The Big Heat, and figures as various as Barbara Stanwyck, Kenneth Fearing, and Richard Wright, Rabinowitz finds in film noir the representation of modern America's attempt to submerge and mask its violent history of racial and class anatagonisms. Black & White & Noir also explores the theory and practice of stilettos, the ways in which girls in the 1950s viewed film noir as a secret language about their mothers' pasts, the extraordinary tone-setting photographs of Esther Bubley, and the smutty aspect of social workers' case studies, among other unexpected twists and provocative turns.
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A collection of quotables from those gritty movies from the mid-forties to the mid-fifties featuring losers and drifters, dreamers and grifters, immortalized by the TV late show.
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Scary.......2000-09-24
Man some of these quotations are just downright scary Kind of like the movies they came from. What a great book I take my hat off to the author this really impressed me. All I can add is buy this one now.
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Histoires de blanc & noir: Hommage a Aurelie Nemours : 23 mai-19 aout 1996
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Schwarz und Weiss / Black and White / Noir et Blanc : Männer Fotos / Photographs of Men / Photographie de L'Homme (German / English / French)
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This digital document is an article from Cineaste, published by Cineaste Publishers, Inc. on March 22, 2003. The length of the article is 1691 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Jazz and cocktails: reassessing the white and black mix in film noir.(Critical essay)
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Play the world's most beautiful classical music quickly and easily with this high-quality selection of short, favorite, accessible compositions by the world's greatest composers — Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Haydn, Liszt, Shubert, Tchaikovsky, and others. Includes Beethoven's Für Elise, Three Norwegian Dances by Grieg, Liszt's Consolation, Macdowell's To a wild rose, Schumann's Träumerei, and many more.
Customer Reviews:
Not for Early Players.......2007-08-06
I play piano and the pieces in this book are scaled down from the originals, but they are not easy for early players. I wouldn't recommend for this type of player. I bought it for my daughter, and she found it very frustrating. So it's on the shelf for now. The preface of the book even states that "Early Players" in the title was probably a stretch. For intermediate players, it's fine and probably just the challenge that they need.
Nice Collection But Not For Beginners.......2007-06-17
As advertised this book has ninety-seven classic compositions from esteemed composers. Included are several selections from Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Mozart and many other well known piano masters. There are really no pieces for very early beginners though perhaps 25% of the collection could be played fairly comfortably by a student who has mastered book two in most piano teaching series. The other 75% is definitely for an intermediate to advanced student and as another reviewer noted there are no guides for fingering and there are also no or few markings for pedalings or dynamics. The editor states in a note this is an asset because it makes for a "cleaner" page but again perhaps not the best format for a beginning student. A glossary of musical terms is included as well as dates of birth and death for each composer.
Beautiful piano book.......2007-05-11
As a music student, it is hard to find cheap, good quality collections, but this one is excellent. Instead of being printed on harsh, white paper, the music is printed on a softer more ivory colored paper. Makes those late nights practicing a little easier on the eyes! Great book, lots of variety!
NOT an 'Easy' piano book as stated.......2007-03-23
This is definitely not for someone with basic piano knowlege or even lessons 'a few years ago'. This is a challenging book for someone who hasn't been playing for awhile (or recently). I'm through book 2 of Alfred's adult lessons (and played as a kid) and it is challenging for me. I'll put it away for later.
misleading- more for a intermediate to advanced.......2007-03-13
This is not for the beginner. I would agree that you need to be through Alfred's third book, before attempting this.
Book Description
Expert settings of 26 American folk classics by a well-known composer and arranger for young pianists. Includes "Amazing Grace," "Aura Lee," "Blue Tail Fly," "The Gift to Be Simple," "Go Down Moses," "Pop Goes the Weasel," "Shortnin' Bread" and "Sweet Betsy from Pike."
Customer Reviews:
Excellent.......2007-01-15
Product was exactly what I wanted and it arrived in a timely manner. Very satisfied
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This collection of remarkable jewels by Mozart will be invaluable to teachers and students. The book features some of Mozart's earliest works, a few of which were composed when the young Wolfgang was only six years old. Already present are signs of remarkable taste and talent: beautiful melody, impeccable formal construction, and unsurpassed elegance. These pieces are wonderful tools for teaching articulation, independence of the hands, and the classical style. Recordings of this literature are difficult to locate so this pack includes a beautifully refined recording by the editor. Contents: Air in A-flat major (KV Anh. 109b Nr. 8 [15ff]) * Allegro in B-flat major (KV 3) * Allegro in F major (KV 1c) * Andante in C major (KV 1a) * Andante in E-flat major (KV 15mm) * Contradance in G major (KV 15e) * Larghetto in F major * Minuet in B-flat major (KV 15pp) * Minuet in C major (from KV 6) * Minuet in D major (KV 7) * Minuet in D major (KV 94 [73h]) * Minuet in E-flat major (KV 15qq) * Minuet in F major (KV 2) * Minuet in G major (KV 1e/1f) * Minuet in G major (KV 15c) * Minuet in G major (KV 15y)
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Fun-to-play, easy piano arrangements of 21 perennial favorites include "Danny Boy," "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling," "My Wild Irish Rose," "The Wearing of the Green," "Sweet Rosie O'Grady," and much more (many include lyrics). Beginning pianists of all ages will enjoy this spirited and modestly priced collection of classic Irish airs.
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Not bad for a beginner book.......2000-06-09
I bought the book thinking it was a bit more than it is. Wherever there aren't notes, there are pictures to color...Definitely for children. However it did have a lot of famous songs such as "Danny Boy" and "When Irish Eyes are Smiling." If you are looking for an introduction to celtic music and you are at a beginner level of piano, this book is great. However, you get what you pay for...
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Fun-to-play, pedagogically sound arrangements include the theme from the "Raindrop" Prelude, "Minute" Waltz, the charming "Lullaby," and melodic highlights from the most familiar preludes, mazurkas, waltzes, impromptus, and etudes. Also features "Fantaisie-impromptu," the delightful "Butterfly" Etude, the world-famous "Military" Polonaise and "Heroic" Polonaise, 23 in all.
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Here are 101 pieces by the masters of the symphony, ballet, and opera, plus Gilbert and Sullivan favorites and Christmas songs. All have been arranged for the beginning to intermediate grades.
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A collection of Bach pieces set for easy piano by Mugellini.
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Arrangements and original compositions for piano by John Brimhall. Songs include: Theme from the Aristocats, Baby Elephant Walk, By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Call Me Irresponsible, Chim Chim Cher-ee, (They Long To Be) Close To You, Dizzy, Dominique, Everything Is Beautiful, Greensleeves, Home For the Holidays, I Left My Heart In San Francisco, Jean, King of the Road, Kum Ba Yah, Little Green Apples, Misty, Midnight Cowboy, Moon River, Put On a Happy Face, Put Your Hand in the Hand, Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head, Sentimental Journey, Shenandoah, Speak Softly Love (Love Theme from "The Godfather"), Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, Theme from Love Story, A Time For Us (Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet), Vaya Con Dios, Whatever Will Be Will Be, Wipe Out. Plastic Bound Edition.
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