Memoir & Biography
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Hans Christian Andersen – A Cultural Icon [Hardback]
Anne Klara Bom (Author)
£42.00ISBN: 9788772190174
Published by : Aarhus University Press
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Hans Christian Andersen is an cultural icon. But what is an icon exactly? And how did Hans Christian Andersen become one? In Denmark and abroad. This book looks into the different meanings and uses of the word icon and into the making of the cultu... .... Learn More -
Jessica Lange: An Adventurer's Heart [Hardback]
Anthony Uzarowski (Author)
£25.50ISBN: 9780813197258
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
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Brilliant, beautiful, driven, uncompromising, elusive, iconic - Jessica Lange is one of the most gifted and fascinating actors of her generation. From her rise to fame in Dino De Laurentiis's remake of King Kong (1976) and her Oscar-winning perfor... .... Learn More -
Dance Works: Stories of Creative Collaboration [Paperback]
Allison Orr (Author); Liz Lerman (Author)
£16.50ISBN: 9780819500243
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
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Ride along with choreographer Allison Orr and her civic collaborators as they reflect on their dances together
In 2001, Allison Orr made a dance with 13 City of Austin firefighters. Over the next 20 years, her unique practice of collabora... .... Learn More -
Stone Breaker: The Poet James Gates Percival and the Beginning of Geology in New England [Hardback]
Kathleen L. Housley (Author)
£18.50ISBN: 9780819500281
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books
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Percival probed the volcanic origins of rock via geology and the seething nature of his psyche via poetry.
Stone Breaker is an in-depth, accessible biography of a true American polymath, James Gates Percival. A poet, linguist, and unstabl... .... Learn More -
The Woman Who Dared: The Life and Times of Pearl White, Queen of the Serials [Hardback]
William M. Drew (Author)
£36.50ISBN: 9780813196831
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
Not yet published - available for pre-order
In the early days of motion pictures - before superstars, before studio conglomerates, before even the advent of sound - there was a woman named Pearl White (1889-1938). A quintessential beauty of the time, with her perfectly tousled bob and come-... .... Learn More -
Harvard, Hollywood, Hitmen, and Holy Men: A Memoir [Hardback]
Paul W. Williams (Author)
£20.50ISBN: 9780813196671
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
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The movie director Paul Williams is a real-life Forrest Gump. Williams' experiences form a unique and often wild constellation of encounters with star power, political power, and spiritual power - a life cycle that led to fame and fortune and to i... .... Learn More -
Katherine Jackson French: Kentucky's Forgotten Ballad Collector [Paperback]
Elizabeth DiSavino (Author)
£22.00ISBN: 9780813196701
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
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The second woman to earn a PhD from Columbia University
face=Calibri>– and the first from south of the Mason-Dixon Line to do so
face=Calibri>– Kentucky native Katherine Jackson French broke boundaries. ... .... Learn More -
Ida Lupino: A Biography [Paperback]
William Donati (Author)
£18.00ISBN: 9780813196480
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
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British-born actress, singer, director, and producer Ida Lupino (1918-1995) cut one of the most alluring profiles of any Hollywood persona during the forties and fifties. The star of classic films such as They Drive by Night (1940), High Sierra (1... .... Learn More -
Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa [Paperback]
Steve Ryfle (Author); Ed Godziszewski (Author); Yuuko Honda-Yun (Other); Martin Scorsese (Other)
£18.50ISBN: 9780819500410
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
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The first comprehensive biography of the director behind Godzilla and other Japanese sci-fi classics.
Ishiro Honda was arguably the most internationally successful Japanese director of his generation, with an unmatched succession of scien... .... Learn More -
A Front Row Seat [Hardback]
Nancy Olson Livingston (Author)
£25.50ISBN: 9780813196190
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
From her idyllic childhood in the American midwest, to her Oscar-nominated performance in Sunset Boulevard (1950) and the social circles of New York and Los Angeles, actress Nancy Olson Livingston has lived abundantly. In her memoir, ... .... Learn More
