[NEohioPAL]Cleveland Public Library: France, England, and beyond

[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


Fran=E7ois Truffaut and Friends: Modernism, Sexuality, and Film=20
Adaptation.
Robert Stam.
Rutgers University Press, 2006.
(PN1998.3.T78 S74 2006)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=3D0813537258
(Link includes table of contents)
=93One of Fran=E7ois Truffaut=92s most poignantly memorable films, Ju=
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Jim, adapted a novel by the French writer Henri-Pierre Roch=E9. The=
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characters and events of the 1962 film were based on a real-life=20
romantic triangle, begun in the summer of 1920, that involved Roch=
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the German-Jewish writer Franz Hessel, and his wife, the journalist=
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Helen Grund...The book moves beyond Truffaut=92s films to explore the=
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intertwined lives and works of other famous artist/intellectual frien=
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of the threesome, including Marcel Duchamp, Walther Benjamin, and=
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Charlotte Wolff.=94 =96 excerpt from the book jacket


Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins: The Autobiography
Rupert Everett.
Warner Books, 2007.
(PN2287.E843 A3 2007)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=3D0446579637
(Link includes summary)
An element of drama has always attended Rupert Everett, even before h=
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swept to fame with his performances in such films as Another Country=
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and My Best Friend's Wedding. He was in Moscow during the fall of=
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communism; in Berlin the night the Wall came down; and at home in=
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downtown Manhattan on September 11th. By the age of seventeen he was=
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friends with Andy Warhol and Bianca Jagger, and since then he has bee=
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up close and personal with some of the most famous women in the world=
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Julia Roberts, Madonna, Sharon Stone, Donatella Versace. From the=
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eccentricities of the British upper classes to the madness of=20
Hollywood, from the Russian steppes to an Easter egg hunt in Elizabet=
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Taylor's garden, Everett reveals himself as a consummate storyteller=
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and a charming guide to life in the fast lane.--From publisher=20
description.


Virtual Voyages: Cinema and Travel.
Jeffrey Ruoff, editor.
Duke University Press, 2006.
(PN1995.9.T73 V57 2006)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=3D0822337134
(Link includes cover art, summary, and table of contents)
Virtual Voyages illuminates the pivotal role of travelogues within th=
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history of cinema. The travelogue dominated the early cinema period=
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=66rom 1895 to 1905, was central to the consolidation of documentary =
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the 1910s and 1920s, proliferated in the postwar era of 16mm=20
distribution, and today continues to flourish in IMAX theaters and a=
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host of non-theatrical venues. It is not only the first chapter in th=
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history of documentary but also a key element of ethnographic film,=
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home movies, and fiction films. In this collection, leading film=20
scholars trace the intersection of technology and ideology in=20
representations of travel across a wide variety of cinematic forms. I=
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so doing, they demonstrate how attention to the role of travel imager=
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in film blurs distinctions between genres and heightens awareness of=
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cinema as a technology for moving through space and time, of cinema=
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itself as a mode of travel.


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 Cleveland,=
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Shaker Heights, Peninsula, or Twinsburg, just place a hold through th=
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link provided and choose your library as the pickup location.

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Donald Boozer
Subject Department Librarian
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