[NEohioPAL]Cleveland Public Library: Curb Your... Ruptures in... Performance Studies

[Donald Boozer]

This week=27s posting from the Literature Department at Cleveland Public =

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Curb Your Enthusiasm=3A The Book=2E
Deirdre Dolan=2E
Home Box Office=2C 2006=2E
=93Curb Your Enthusiasm=3A The Book is a lovingly crafted tribute to the =

show the Washington Post hailed as =91one of the absolutely funniest half=
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hours on television=2E=92=94 =96 from the book jacket=2E


Film Hieroglyphics=3A Ruptures in Classical Cinema=2E
Tom Conley=2E
University of Minnesota Press=2C 2006=2E
(PN1995 =2EC63 2006)
http=3A//www=2Ecpl=2Eorg/cgi-bin/lookup=2Epl=3Fisbn=3D0816649707
(Link contains cover art=2C a summary=2C and table of contents)
=93Author Tom Conley gives special consideration to the points (ruptures)=
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at which story=2C image=2C and writing appear to be at odds with one =

another=2E Conley hypothesizes that major directors =96 Renoir=2C Lang=2C=
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Walsh=2C Rossellini =96 tend unconsciously to meld history and ideology=2E=
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Graphic elements are seen as simultaneously foreign and integral to the =

field of the image=2E=94 =96 from the book jacket=2E


The SAGE Handbook of Performance Studies=2E
Edited by D=2E Soyini Madison and Judith Hamera=2E
SAGE Publications=2C 2006=2E
(PN1590=2ES6 S24 2006)
http=3A//www=2Ecpl=2Eorg/cgi-bin/lookup=2Epl=3Fisbn=3D0761929312
(Link includes table of contents and publisher description)
This book =93brings together=2C in a single volume=2C discussions of the =

major research in performance studies and identifies directions for =

further investigation=2E It is the only comprehensive collection of the =

theories=2C methods=2C politics=2C and practices of performance relating =
to =

life and culture=2E=94 =96 from the book jacket


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Shaker Heights=2C Peninsula=2C or Twinsburg=2C just place a hold through =
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Donald Boozer
Subject Department Librarian
Literature Department
Cleveland Public Library
325 Superior Avenue=2C Cleveland=2C OH 44114
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