[NEohioPAL]Cleveland Public Library: 9 Parts of Desire, Riskin, and Hughes

[Donald Boozer]

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9 Parts of Desire=2E
Heather Raffo=2E
Northwestern University Press=2C 2006=2E
(PS3618=2EA378 H43 2006)
Winner 2005 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Special Commendation
Lucille Lortel Award for Best Solo Show
http=3A//www=2Ecpl=2Eorg/cgi-bin/lookup=2Epl=3Fisbn=3D9780810123458
=22Heather Raffo=27s 9 Parts of Desire is a portrait of the extraordinary=
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(and ordinary) lives of a cross section of Iraqi women=3A a sexy painter=2C=
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a radical Communist=2C a doctor=2C an exile=2C wives=2C and lovers=2E Del=
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into the many conflicting aspects of what it means to be a woman in the =

age-old war zone that is Iraq=2C this poetic work is an unusually timely =

meditation on the ancient=2C the modern=2C and the feminine=2E=22 =96 fro=
m book =

jacket


In Capra=92s Shadow=3A The Life =26 Career of Screenwriter Robert Riskin=2E=

Ian Scott=2E
The University Press of Kentucky=2C 2006=2E
(PS3535=2EI82 Z86 2006)
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(Link includes cover art=2C a summary=2C and table of contents)
=22Because screenwriter Robert Riskin spent most of his career =

collaborating with legendary Hollywood director Frank Capra=2C Riskin=27s=
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own unique contributions to film have been largely overshadowed=2E With =

five Academy Award nominations to his credit for the monumental films =

Lady for a Day=2C Mr=2E Deeds Goes to Town=2C You Can=27t Take It with Yo=
u=2C =

Here Comes the Groom=2C and It Happened One Night (for which he won the =

Oscar)=2C Riskin is often imitated but rarely equaled=2E=22 -- from book =

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Don=92t You Forget About Me=3A Contemporary Writers on the Films of John =

Hughes=2E
Edited by Jaime Clarke=2E
Foreword by Ally Sheedy=2E
Simon Spotlight Entertainment=2C 2007=2E
(PN1998=2E3=2EH84 D66 2007)
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(Link includes table of contents)
=93No one captured the teen portion of the eighties as poignantly as =

writer-director John Hughes=2E Sixteen Candles=2C The Breakfast Club=2C W=
eird =

Science=2C Pretty in Pink=2C Ferris Bueller=27s Day Off=2C and Some Kind =
of =

Wonderful are timeless tales of love=2C angst=2C longing=2C and self-
discovery that illuminated and assuaged the anxieties of an entire =

generation=2E Fondly nostalgic=2C filled with wit and surprising insights=
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=5Bthis book=5D contains original essays from a skillfully chosen crop of=
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novelists and essayists on the films=27 far-reaching effects on their own=
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lives -- an irresistible read for anyone who came of age in the =

eighties (or just wishes they did)=2E=94 -- from back cover


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library with the touch of a button=2E Whether you=27re from Cleveland=2C =

Shaker Heights=2C Twinsburg=2C or Wadsworth=2C just place a hold through =
the =

link provided and choose your library as the pickup location=2E
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Donald Boozer
Subject Department Librarian
Literature Department
Cleveland Public Library
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