[NEohioPAL]Cleveland Public Library: Warhol, India, and Baseball

[Donald Boozer]

The following books relating to the performing arts are available in =

the Literature Department=2C second floor of the Main Cleveland Public =

Library=2C downtown Cleveland=2C at East Sixth Street and Superior Avenue=
=2E =

Click on the link provided to access the library=92s catalog to reserve =

any of these titles=2E For more information=2C visit our location=2C call=
 216-
623-2881=2C or email us at =93literature =3Cat=3E cpl=2Eorg=2E=94


Andy Warhol Screen Tests=3A The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonn=E9=
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Callie Angell=2E
Abrams=2C 2006=2E
(PN1998=2E3=2EW366 A54 2006 v=2E1)
http=3A//www=2Ecpl=2Eorg/cgi-bin/lookup=2Epl=3Fisbn=3D0810955393
(Link includes cover art=2C table of contents=2C and a review)
=22The films that Andy Warhol made in the 1960s are now recognized as =

among the most important works of his career=2E One of the most ambitious=
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projects of Warhol=27s cinema is the Screen Tests=2C a series of 472 shor=
t=2C =

black-and-white portraits of Warhol=27s friends=2C colleagues=2C and =

acquaintances filmed over a period of three years=2C from 1964 through =

1966=2E=22 =22Taken as a whole=2C the Screen Tests are a conceptual portr=
ait of =

a New York era - the complex=2C interconnected avant-garde art world of =

the mid-1960s=2E They also offer a reflected portrait of Warhol himself -=
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his friendships and connections=2C his egalitarianism and his ambition=2C=
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his fascination with personality and the human face=2C his eye for talent=
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and for beauty=2C his mastery of the photographic=2C cinematic image=2E=22=
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from the book jacket


Fingerprinting Popular Culture=3A The Mythic and the Iconic in Indian =

Cinema=2E
Edited by Vinay Lal and Ashis Nandy=2E
Oxford University Press=2C 2006=2E
(PN1993=2E5=2EI8 F58 2006)
http=3A//www=2Ecpl=2Eorg/cgi-bin/lookup=2Epl=3Fisbn=3D0195679180
(Link includes table of contents)
=93Cinema in India has always been a play of middle-class sensibilities =

and fantasy life=2E And=2C this middle class now seems to have come into =

its own=2E From the time of Indira Gandhi=2C the political agendas of =

political parties and leaders have been increasingly shaped by middle-
class consciousness and popular cinema has become for this class both =

an ideological phalanx and a major vehicle of self-expression=2E The =

media-exposed public in turn has become more accessible through the =

mythic structures and larger-than-life figures of popular cinema=2E The =

medium has become a new=2C more powerful language of public discourse=2E=94=
 --
 from the book jacket


Stars=2C Stripes and Diamonds=3A American Culture and the Baseball Film=2E=

Marshall G=2E Most and Robert Rudd=2E
McFarland=2C 2006=2E
(PN1995=2E9=2EB28 M67 2006)
http=3A//www=2Ecpl=2Eorg/cgi-bin/lookup=2Epl=3Fisbn=3D0786425180
(Link includes cover art and table of contents)
=93This critical study treats baseball cinema as a film genre and =

explores the functions of baseball ideology as it is represented in =

that genre=2E With commentary on 85 films=2C it focuses on how Hollywood=92=
s =

presentation of baseball has promoted dominant values and bridged =

cultural divides=2E=94 -- from the book jacket


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

Sandusky=2C Twinsburg=2C or Wadsworth=2C just place a hold through the li=
nk =

provided and choose your library as the pickup location=2E
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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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216-623-2881 / 216-623-7050 (fax)
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