[NEohioPAL]Cleveland Public Library: China, Vaudeville, and Louis Malle

[Donald Boozer]

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

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China on Screen=3A Cinema and Nation=2E
Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar=2E
Columbia University Press=2C 2006=2E
(PN1993=2E5=2EC4 B44 2006)
http=3A//www=2Ecpl=2Eorg/cgi-bin/lookup=2Epl=3Fisbn=3D0231137079
(Link includes cover art and table of contents)
=93Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar=2C leaders in the field of Chinese film =

studies=2C explore more than one hundred years of Chinese cinema and =

nation=2E Providing new perspectives on key movements=2C themes=2C and =

filmmakers=2C Berry and Farquhar analyze the films of a variety of =

directors and actors=2C including Chen Kaige=2C Zhang Yimou=2C Hou Hsiao =

Hsien=2C Bruce Lee=2C Jackie Chan=2C Maggie Cheung=2C Gong Li=2C Wong Kar=
-wai=2C =

and Ang Lee=2E They argue for the abandonment of =22national cinema=22 as=
 an =

analytic tool and propose =22cinema and the national=22 as a more =

productive framework=2E With this approach=2C they show how movies from =

China=2C Hong Kong=2C Taiwan=2C and the Chinese diaspora construct and =

contest different ideas of Chinese nation-as empire=2C republic=2C or =

ethnicity=2C and complicated by gender=2C class=2C style=2C trans-nationa=
lism=2C =

and more=2E=94 =96 from back cover


Women Vaudeville Stars=3A Eighty Biographical Profiles=2E
Armond Fields=2E
McFarland=2C 2006=2E
(PN1968=2EU5 F54 2006)
http=3A//www=2Ecpl=2Eorg/cgi-bin/lookup=2Epl=3Fisbn=3D0786425830
(Link includes cover art)
=22This book tells the stories of 80 women who were among the top =

vaudeville acts in the late 19th and early 20th century=2E The author =

summarizes the history of women in the performance industry and traces =

the lifespan of vaudeville=2E Biographies of the performers appear in =

order of the date they entered vaudeville=22 -- Provided by publisher=2E


The Films of Louis Malle=3A A Critical Analysis=2E
Nathan C=2E Southern with Jacques Weissgerber=2E
McFarland=2C 2006=2E
(PN1998=2E3=2EM34 S68 2006)
http=3A//www=2Ecpl=2Eorg/cgi-bin/lookup=2Epl=3Fisbn=3D0786423005
(Link includes cover art and table of contents)
With films like Le Souffle au c=9Cur and Au revoir les enfants=2C French =

writer-director Louis Malle compiled a remarkable forty year career=2E =

Yet Malle=92s work has not received the critical attention it is due =96 =

largely because for nearly thirty years several of his films remained =

unavailable to the public=2E  This is the first book-length critical =

study of Malle=92s entire =9Cuvre=2C covering Le Monde du silence (The Si=
lent =

World=2C 1956) through Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)=2E Each motion picture=
 =

is examined as an individualistic exploration of its own subjects and =

themes=2C with form and style relative to content=2E=2E=2E=2EA bibliograp=
hy of =

major books and articles on Malle is included=2C as is a Malle =

filmography=2E

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Donald Boozer
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Literature Department
Cleveland Public Library
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