[NEohioPAL]Cleveland Public Library: Triumph, Tragedy, and Truth

[Donald Boozer]

This week's posting from the Literature Department at Cleveland Publi=
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Library...
The Literature Department is located on the second floor of the Main=
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Library, downtown Cleveland, at East Sixth Street and Superior Avenue=
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Click on the link provided to access the library=92s catalog to reser=
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any of these titles. For more information, visit our location, call 2=
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623-2881, or email us at =93literature <at> cpl.org.=94

Stardust Lost: The Triumph, Tragedy, and Mishugas of the Yiddish=20
Theater in America.
Stefan Kanfer.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
(PN3035 .K35 2006)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=3D1400042887
(Link includes cover art and an excerpt)
"Meticulously unraveling the history of Jewish theater, [the author]=
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begins with the drama of the Old Testament and moves through time and=
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space...Fleeing anti-Semitic edicts, the Jews of Eastern Europe push=
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westward, migrating first to England and then to America. With them=
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come the extravagant personages who bring drama -- in every sense of=
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the word -- to Manhattan's Lower East Side." -- from the book jacket

Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence
Stevie Simkin.
Palgrave, 2006.
(PN1995.9.V5 S55 2006)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=3D1403944113=20
(Link includes cover art and a summary)
"Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence is a highly original=
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study that considers two genres set four hundred years apart - reveng=
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tragedies of the early seventeenth century and violent cinema of the=
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last thirty years. What happens when we connect The White Devil with=
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Basic Instinct, The Changeling or Titus Andronicus with Straw Dogs,=
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Doctor Faustus with Se7en, Taxi Driver or Robocop with The Spanish=
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Tragedy?"=97from the book jacket

Shooting the Truth: The Rise of American Political Documentaries.=
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James McEnteer.
Praeger, 2006.
(PN1995.9.D6 M38 2006)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=3D0275987604
(Link includes cover art, a summary, and table of contents)
=93Tracing the origins of a an oppositional documentary movement to t=
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Vietnam era, McEnteer shows how a strong independent documentary=20
tradition grew from television=92s failure to sustain a commitment to=
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public interest.=94 =96 from the book jacket


Remember, books highlighted here can be borrowed through any CLEVNET=
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library with the touch of a button. Whether you're from Shaker Height=
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Cleveland, Peninsula, or Twinsburg, just place a hold through the lin=
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provided and choose your library as the pickup location.
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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