[NEohioPAL]Cleveland Public Library: Censoring Captured Yellow Crocodiles

[Donald Boozer]

Hopefully, the subject line caught your eye. Check out this week's ti=
tles. This posting from the Literature Department at Cleveland Public=
 Library showcases three books detailing the history of three very di=
fferent locations: New York's Britain, Lower East Side, and the Sovie=
t Union/Russia.
The Literature Department is located on the second floor of the Main =
Library, downtown Cleveland, at East Sixth Street and Superior Avenue=
. Click on the link provided to access the library=92s catalog to res=
erve any of these titles. For more information, visit our location, c=
all 216-623-2881, or email us at =93literature <at> cpl.org.=94

Censorship in Theatre and Cinema.
Anthony Aldgate and James C. Robertson.
Edinburgh University Press, 2005.
(PN2044.G6 A43 2005)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=3D0748619615
(Link includes cover art and summary)
"The first comparative study of censorship in theatre and cinema duri=
ng the last century, this book examines notable twentieth-century cas=
es involving the Lord Chamberlain's theatre censorship and the Britis=
h Board of Film Censors (BBFC)." -- from the back cover


Captured: A Film/Video History of the Lower East Side.
Clayton Patterson.
Seven Stories Press, 2005.
(PN1993.5.U77 C36 2005)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=3D1583226745
(Link includes cover art and table of contents)
"New York's Lower East Side has been a fountain of creativity and art=
 since the turn of the century starting with the Yiddish Theater, a f=
ree-wheeling bazaar of ideas and artists that has challenged and shap=
ed mainstream culture. Captured tells the story of film and video in =
the Lower East Side and the East Village in the artists' own words." =
-- from back cover


Yellow Crocodiles and Blue Oranges: Russian Animated Film Since World=
 War Two.
David MacFadyen.
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005.
(PN1993.5.R9 M22 2005)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=3D0773528717
(Link includes cover art and summary)
"In a historical and theoretical reassessment of animated cinema in R=
ussia since World War Two, Yellow Crocodiles and Blue Oranges examine=
s a large number of Soviet cartoons to decipher what about them allow=
ed them to survive under communism and continue to survive with equal=
 success under capitalism." -- from back cover
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Donald Boozer, Literature Department
Cleveland Public Library
325 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114
donald.boozer at cpl.org
216-623-2881 / 216-623-7050 (fax)
http://www.cpl.org