Since When
Title | Since When PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Berkson |
Publisher | Coffee House Press |
Total Pages | 333 |
Release | 2018-11-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1566895375 |
Bill Berkson was a poet, art critic, and joyful participant in the best of postwar and bohemian American culture. Since When gathers the ephemera of a life well-lived, a collage of bold-face names, parties, exhibitions, and literary history from a man who could write "of [Truman Capote's Black and White] ball, which I attended as my mother’s escort, I have little recollection" and reminisce about imagining himself as a character from Tolstoy while tripping on acid at Woodstock. Gentle, witty, and eternally generous, this is Bill, and a particular moment in American history, at its best.
Since When Is Fran Drescher Jewish?
Title | Since When Is Fran Drescher Jewish? PDF eBook |
Author | Chiara Ferrari |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | 177 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0292723156 |
“Since when is Fran Drescher Jewish?” This was Chiara Francesca Ferrari’s reaction when she learned that Drescher’s character on the television sitcom The Nanny was meant to be a portrayal of a stereotypical Jewish-American princess. Ferrari had only seen the Italian version of the show, in which the protagonist was dubbed into an exotic, eccentric Italian-American nanny. Since When Is Fran Drescher Jewish? explores this “ventriloquism” as not only a textual and cultural transfer between languages but also as an industrial practice that helps the media industry foster identification among varying audiences around the globe. At the heart of this study is an in-depth exploration of three shows that moved from global to local, mapping stereotypes from both sides of the Atlantic in the process. Presented in Italy, for example, Groundskeeper Willie from The Simpsons is no longer a belligerent, alcoholic Scotsman but instead easily becomes a primitive figure from Sardinia. Ironically, The Sopranos—a show built around Italian-Americans—was carefully re-positioned by Italian TV executives, who erased the word “mafia” and all regional references to Sicily. The result of Ferrari’s three case studies is evidence that “otherness” transcends translation, as the stereotypes produced by the American entertainment industry are simply replaced by other stereotypes in foreign markets. As American television studios continue to attempt to increase earnings by licensing their shows abroad, Since When Is Fran Drescher Jewish? illuminates the significant issues of identity raised by this ever-growing marketplace, along with the intriguing messages that lie in the larger realm of audiovisual cultural exchange.
Since We're Friends
Title | Since We're Friends PDF eBook |
Author | Celeste Shally |
Publisher | Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. |
Total Pages | 33 |
Release | 2012-04-10 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1616086564 |
A boy describes his friendship with Matt, whose autism spectrum disorder causes him to behave strangely at times, and how he make things easier for Matt at school and in their neighborhood.
Letters Written from Colombia During a Journey from Caracas to Bogotá and Thence to Santa Martha, in 1823
Title | Letters Written from Colombia During a Journey from Caracas to Bogotá and Thence to Santa Martha, in 1823 PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Hall |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 268 |
Release | 1824 |
Genre | Colombia |
ISBN |
Herald of Gospel Liberty
Title | Herald of Gospel Liberty PDF eBook |
Author | Elias Smith |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 868 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | Theology |
ISBN |
Records of the Cape Colony from February 1793 [to: July 1806-May 1809
Title | Records of the Cape Colony from February 1793 [to: July 1806-May 1809 PDF eBook |
Author | Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 536 |
Release | 1900 |
Genre | Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) |
ISBN |
Nature; or the Poetry of Earth and Sea. From the French ... [by W. H. D. Adams]. With ... designs by Giacomelli, etc
Title | Nature; or the Poetry of Earth and Sea. From the French ... [by W. H. D. Adams]. With ... designs by Giacomelli, etc PDF eBook |
Author | Madame Athénaïs MICHELET |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 470 |
Release | 1872 |
Genre | |
ISBN |