[NEohioPAL]Cleveland Public Library: Rome, Troy, and England

[Donald Boozer]

The following books pertaining to the performing arts are now available =

from the Literature Department at Cleveland Public Library=2E=2E=2E
The Literature Department is located on the second floor of the Main =

Library=2C downtown Cleveland=2C at East Sixth Street and Superior Avenue=
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Click on the link provided to access the library=92s catalog to reserve =

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Stupendous=2C Miserable City=3A Pasolini=92s Rome=2E
John David Rhodes=2E
University of Minnesota Press=2C 2007=2E
(PN1998=2E3=2EP367 R54 2007)
http=3A//www=2Ecpl=2Eorg/cgi-bin/lookup=2Epl=3Fisbn=3D9780816649303
(Link includes cover art and table of contents)
=93John David Rhodes places the city of Rome at the center of this =

original and in-depth examination of the work of Italian director Pier =

Paolo Pasolini-but it=27s not the classical Rome you imagine=2E Stupendou=
s=2C =

Miserable City situates Pasolini within the history of twentieth-
century Roman urban development=2E The book focuses first on the Fascist =

period=2C when populations were moved into public housing on the =

periphery of the city=2C called the borgate=2C and then turns to the =

progressive social housing experiments of the 1950s=2E These environments=
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were the settings of most of Pasolini=27s films of the early to mid-
1960s=2E=94 =96 from the book jacket


Troy=3A From Homer=92s Iliad to Hollywood Epic=2E
Edited by Martin M=2E Winkler=2E
Blackwell Publishing=2C 2007=2E
(PN1997=2E2 =2ET78 2007)
http=3A//www=2Ecpl=2Eorg/cgi-bin/lookup=2Epl=3Fisbn=3D1405131837
(Link includes cover art and a summary)
=93This is the first book to examine systematically Wolfgang Petersen=27s=
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epic film Troy from archaeological=2C literary=2C cultural=2C and cinemat=
ic =

perspectives=2E The collection addresses the most important aspects of =

the film=3A its use of Homer=27s Iliad and the myth of the Trojan War=2C =
its =

presentation of Bronze-Age archaeology=2C its modern political overtones=2C=
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and its place in film history with regard to both previous epics on the =

Trojan War and the director=27s own earlier work=2E=94 -- from the book j=
acket


Hollywood England=3A The British Film Industry in the Sixties=2E
Alexander Walker=2E
Orion=2C 2005=2E
(PN1993=2E5=2EG7 W2724 2005)
http=3A//www=2Ecpl=2Eorg/cgi-bin/lookup=2Epl=3Fisbn=3D0752857061
(Link includes cover art and reviews)
=93=5BThis=5D is a book of an era as much as of the cinema=2C with the sc=
reen =

often reflecting the mood of the =91Swinging Sixties=2E=92 Alexander Walk=
er =

reveals how=2C for the first time=2C British cinema achieved a truly =

national character=2C with films such as Billy Liar=2C Kes=2C the Beatles=
 =

musicals and the James Bond films=2C and talents such as Ken Russell=2C =

Bryan Forbes=2C Michael Caine=2C and Julie Christie=2E There was a wealth=
 of =

new writers=2C photographers and designers - and yet=2C ironically=2C by =
the =

end of the decade Hollywood sustained ninety-five per cent of British =

film-making=2E=94 -- from the book jacket


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Sandusky=2C Twinsburg=2C or Orriville=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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