[NEohioPAL] Books at Cleveland Public Library

[Donald Boozer]

The following books pertaining to the performing arts are just a 
sampling of the variety available from the Literature Department at 
Cleveland Public Library...
The Literature Department is located on the second floor of the Main 
Library, downtown Cleveland, at East Sixth Street and Superior Avenue. 
Click on the link provided to access the library’s catalog to reserve 
any of these titles. For more information, visit our location, call 216-
623-2881, or email us at “literature <at> cpl.org.”

Time Frames: Japanese Cinema and the Unfolding of History.
Scott Nygren.
University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
(PN1993.5.J3 N94 2007)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=0816647089
(Link includes cover art, a review, and table of contents)
"Until 1951, when Kurosawa's 'Rashomon' won the Golden Lion award for 
best film at the Venice Film Festival, Japanese cinema was isolated 
from world distribution and the international discourse on film. After 
this historic event, however, Japanese cinema could no longer be 
ignored. Scott Nygren takes up the central question of which and whose 
Japan do critics and historians mean when reviewing the country's 
cinema-an issue complicated by assumptions about cultural purity, 
Japan's appropriation of Western ideas and technologies, and the very 
existence of a West and an Orientalist non-West.” -- from book jacket

Women Players in England, 1500-1660: Beyond the All-Male Stage.
Edited by Pamela Allen Brown and Peter Parolin.
Ashgate, 2005.
(PN2590.A36 W66 2005)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=0754609537
(Link includes table of contents and a summary)
"Offering evidence of women's extensive contributions to the theatrical 
landscape, this volume sharply challenges the assumption that the stage 
was 'all male' in early modern England. The editors and contributors 
argue that the pervasiveness of female performance affected cultural 
production, even on the professional London stages that used men and 
boys for women's parts. English spectators saw women players in 
professional and amateur contexts, in elite and popular settings, at 
home and abroad. Women acted in scripted and improvised roles, 
performed in local festive drama, and took part in dancing, singing, 
and masquing." -- from book jacket

Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-
1949.
Judith Weisenfeld.
University of California Press, 2007.
(PN1995.9.N4 W45 2007)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=9780520251007
"From the earliest years of sound film in America, Hollywood studios 
and independent producers of 'race films' for black audiences created 
stories featuring African American religious practices. In the first 
book to examine how the movies constructed images of African American 
religion, Judith Weisenfeld explores these cinematic representations 
and how they reflected and contributed to complicated discourses about 
race, the social and moral requirements of American citizenship, and 
the very nature of American identity." -- from book jacket

Remember, books highlighted here can be borrowed through any CLEVNET 
library with the touch of a button. Whether you're from Cleveland, 
Sandusky, Orrville, or Lorain, just place a hold through the link 
provided and choose your library as the pickup location.
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Donald Boozer
Subject Department Librarian
Literature Department
Cleveland Public Library
325 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114
donald.boozer at cpl.org
216-623-2881 / 216-623-7050 (fax)
http://www.cpl.org