Sumiko higashi (63 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture demonstrates that the director, best remembered for his overblown biblical epics, was one of the most remarkable film pioneers of the Progressive Era. In this innovative work, which integrates cultural history and cultural studies, Sumiko Higashi shows how DeMille artfully inserted cinema into genteel middle-class culture by replicating in his films such spectacles as elaborate parlor games, stage melodramas, department store displays, Orientalist world's fairs, and civic pageantry. The director not only established his signature as a film author by articulating middle-class ideology across class and ethnic lines, but by the 1920's had become a trendsetter, with set and costume designs that influenced the advertising industry to create a consumer culture based on female desire. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped material from the DeMille Archives and other collections, Higashi provides imaginative readings of DeMille's early feature films, viewing them in relation to the dynamics of social change, and she documents the extent to which the emergence of popular culture was linked to the genteel tradition.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture demonstrates that the director, best remembered for his overblown biblical epics, was one of the most remarkable film pioneers of the Progressive Era. In this innovative work, which integrates cultural history and cultural studies, Sumiko Higashi shows how DeMille artfully inserted cinema into genteel middle-class culture by replicating in his films such spectacles as elaborate parlor games, stage melodramas, department store displays, Orientalist world's fairs, and civic pageantry. The director not only established his signature as a film author by articulating middle-class ideology across class and ethnic lines, but by the 1920's had become a trendsetter, with set and costume designs that influenced the advertising industry to create a consumer culture based on female desire. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped material from the DeMille Archives and other collections, Higashi provides imaginative readings of DeMille's early feature films, viewing them in relation to the dynamics of social change, and she documents the extent to which the emergence of popular culture was linked to the genteel tradition.…

Condizione: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 264 pp. Tightly bound. Spine not compromised. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Light foxing page edges.

Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st. 1st printing with number 1 in line on copyright page. Near fine or better - looks about new with no markings or noticeable wear.

Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. ".show that the director best remembered today for overblown biblical epics was in fact one of the most remarkable pioneers in the film industry during the Progressive Era." 264 pages; 6 x 9 ".

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Very good paperback. Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy; text also very good. Shelfwear is very minor. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Good with DJ. Unmarked.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. This book is in very good condition; no remainder marks. It does have some shelfwear. Inside pages are clean.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: As New. Brand new trade paperback, slight shelf wear with slight soiling of cover and page edges, otherwise new.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: N-Fine. First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight over-all clean un-read copy. This copy has some light sover soil,light pagedge soil and some minor edgewear. Book.

paperback. Condizione: Very Good. University of California Press, c.1994, 1st.trade paperbk.prtg. 8vo. 264pp. F $.

Soft Cover. Condizione: Very Good. 2025 JUNEFILED IN DR BIOS.

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. 1st Edition. 1994 University of California Press softcover. First paperback printing. xii, 264 pages, illustrated. Condition: Like new, with no marks or writing to book. No sign of wear or distress.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture demonstrates that the director, best remembered for his overblown biblical epics, was one of the most remarkable film pioneers of the Progressive Era. In this innovative work, which integrates cultural history and cultural studies, Sumiko Higashi shows how DeMille artfully inserted cinema into genteel middle-class culture by replicating in his films such spectacles as elaborate parlor games, stage melodramas, department store displays, Orientalist world's fairs, and civic pageantry. The director not only established his signature as a film author by articulating middle-class ideology across class and ethnic lines, but by the 1920's had become a trendsetter, with set and costume designs that influenced the advertising industry to create a consumer culture based on female desire. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped material from the DeMille Archives and other collections, Higashi provides imaginative readings of DeMille's early feature films, viewing them in relation to the dynamics of social change, and she documents the extent to which the emergence of popular culture was linked to the genteel tradition. …

hardcover. Condizione: Good. includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: worn and wrinkled dust-jacket with small chips and tears around edges, good enough orange hardcover but with weak glued binding, especially at about page 37 and with slightly wrinkled paper in lower inside corner near start of book. HIGASHI, SUMIKO. Virgins, vamps, and flappers: The American silent movie heroine. St. Albans, Vt.: Eden Press Women's Publications, 1978, vi, 226pp., . Series: Monographs in women's studies CONTENTS: Lillian Gish: apotheosis of the Victorian heroine -- America's sweetheart: Million Dollar Mary -- The vampire -- Reels of redemption: the sentimental heroine and the fallen woman -- The working girl: statistics vs Cinderella -- The "new woman" -- Sex and marriage in the Jazz Age -- The uncharacteristic heroine. 9780888310286 ISBN 0888310285. …

Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. (xv) 387 pp. Green cloth lettered in silver on the spine; headband; illustrated with black and white photographs. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. The Chapters are: INTRODUCTION: America's Vietnam War Films: Marching Toward Denial by Linda Dittmar and Gene Michaud. ONE: Wide Angles: History in the Remaking: Historical Memory Film and the Vietnam Era by Michael Klein; Losing Vietnam: Covering the War in an Age of Technology by Rick Berg; The War about the War: Vietnam Films and American Myth by Leo Cawley; They Were Called and They Went: The Political Rehabilitation of the Vietnam Veteran by Harry W. Haines. TWO: Close-ups: Representation in Detail: Never Having to Say You're Sorry: Rambo's Rewriting of the Vietnam War by Gaylyn Studlar and David Desser; Rambo: Getting to Win This Time by Gregory A. Waller; Missing in Action: The Vietnam Construction of the Movie Star by Tony Williams; The Politics of Ambivalence: Apocalypse Now as Prowar and Antiwar Film by Frank P. Tomasulo; The Deer Hunter: Superman in Vietnam by Leonard Quart. THREE: Other Frames: Subtext and Difference: The Colonialist Subtext in Platoon by Clyde Taylor; Night of the Living Dead: A Horror Film about the Horrors of the Vietnam Era by Sumiko Higashi; Boys Will Be Men: Oedipal Drama in Coming Home by Michael Selig; Reproducing Fathers: Gender and the Vietnam War in U.S. Culture by Susan Jeffords; Portrait of a Disabled Vietnam Veteran: Alex Cutter of Cutter's Way by Martin F. Norden; Strange Hells: Hollywood in Search of America's Lost War by Keven Bowen. FOUR: Other Forms: Documenting the Vietnam War by David E. James; Imaging the Other: Representations of Vietnam in Sixties Political Documentary by Michael Renov; We Aren't on the Wrong Side - We ARE the Wrong Side: Peter Davis Targets American Hearts and Minds by David Grosser; Dear America: Transparency Authority and Interpretation in a Vietnam War Documentary by Barry Dornfeld; followed by: Appendix A: Chronology: The United States Vietnam and American Film; Appendix B: Selected Filmography: The Vietnam War on Film; and an index. Size: 8vo. Book. …

brossura. Condizione: come nuovo. New. Some minor shelf wear. English., Ill. bn: --, Ill. colori: --, Peso: 455 gr.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 264 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New. Num Pages: 310 pages, 32 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; APF; HBTB; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 397. . 2014. Paperback. . . . .

paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Condizione: New. The magazine Photoplay pioneered the construction of both female stars as social types and fans as aspiring consumers in the first mass consumption society. The construction of female identity based on goods and performance in a consumer society resulted in multiple, fragmented, and unstable selves - a legacy evident in postmodern culture today. Num Pages: 310 pages, 32 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; APF; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492. . 2014. Hardback. . . . .…

Condizione: New. pp. 312 1st ed. 2014 edition NO-PA16APR2015-KAP.