Memoir & Biography

ISBN: 9780813198408
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
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Greta Garbo proclaimed him as her favorite director. Actors, actresses, and even child stars were so at ease under his direction that they were able to deliver inspired and powerful performances. Academy–Award–nominated director Clarence Brown (18... .... Learn More

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 9788772198262
Published by : Aarhus University Press
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Denmark’s Catalyst: The Life and Letters of N.F.S. Grundtvig is the last book in the 6-volume series ‘N.F.S. Grundtvig. Works in English.’ Translator Edward Broadbridge joins forces with Grundtvig scholar Hans Raun Iversen in this new bio... .... Learn More

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 9780813196831
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Screen Classics
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

ISBN: 9780854313044
Published by : Society of Antiquaries of London
Series: Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Volume: 83
Sir George Buc (1560-1622), one of the careful antiquarian scholars of the English Renaissance, is famous in literary history as Master of Revels under King James I, a position in which he was responsible for censorship of Shakespeare’s later play... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780813196701
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
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