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Book Understanding Christoph Hein

Download or read book Understanding Christoph Hein written by Phillip S. McKnight and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Tango Player

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  • Author : Christoph Hein
  • Publisher : Northwestern University Press
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780810111165
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book The Tango Player written by Christoph Hein and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in 1968 Leipzig, Christoph Hein's novel is the story of Dallow, an apolitical academic who has just returned to civilian life after serving twenty-one months in prison. His crime: he was the substitute piano player in a student cabaret in which seditious verses were sung. Dallow returns to a life in of loveless sex, police harassment, and brutality, revealing how a corrupt system perverts all human interaction, and how lives are ruined by malicious caprice.

Book The Distant Lover

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  • Author : Christoph Hein
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780330318839
  • Pages : 178 pages

Download or read book The Distant Lover written by Christoph Hein and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gods of Tango

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  • Author : Carolina De Robertis
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2016-05-17
  • ISBN : 1101872853
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book The Gods of Tango written by Carolina De Robertis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2015 An NBC Latino Selection for Ten Great Latino Books Published in 2015 Arriving in Buenos Aires in 1913, with only a suitcase and her father’s cherished violin to her name, seventeen-year-old Leda is shocked to find that the husband she has travelled across an ocean to reach is dead. Unable to return home, alone, and on the brink of destitution, she finds herself seduced by the tango, the dance that underscores every aspect of life in her new city. Knowing that she can never play in public as a woman, Leda disguises herself as a young man to join a troupe of musicians. In the illicit, scandalous world of brothels and cabarets, the line between Leda and her disguise begins to blur, and forbidden longings that she has long kept suppressed are realized for the first time. Powerfully sensual, The Gods of Tango is an erotically charged story of music, passion, and the quest for an authentic life against the odds.

Book The Linda Wolfe Collection

Download or read book The Linda Wolfe Collection written by Linda Wolfe and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five torn-from-the-headlines true crime books from an Edgar Award–nominated author and “one of our best reporters” (John Leonard). Linda Wolfe delves deep into the crimes that defy explanation—and the twisted minds of those who commit them. In these five books, she combines masterful storytelling with brilliant psychological insight. Wasted: On an August night in 1986, Jennifer Levin left a Manhattan bar with Robert Chambers. The next morning, her strangled, battered body was found in Central Park. This New York Times Notable Book provides a “fascinating, horrifying, and heart-breaking” account of the so-called Preppie Murder, the crime that shocked a city and a nation (Ann Rule). The Professor and the Prostitute: The chilling case of a college professor who bludgeoned to death the prostitute he loved—plus eight other true crimes, including the bizarre story of the Marcus brothers, twin gynecologists, that inspired the David Cronenberg film Dead Ringers. Double Life: The riveting story of how the chief judge of the New York State Court of Appeals was brought down by his sexual obsession with a stunning socialite. The Murder of Dr. Chapman: Wolfe skillfully weaves court transcripts, love letters, and period recollections into an edge-of-your-seat historical thriller about a notorious crime of passion that rocked pre–Civil War America. Love Me to Death: Wolfe embarks on a search for the serial killer who murdered her friend in this “intriguing insider’s look into the convoluted mind of a killer” (The Plain Dealer).

Book That was the Wild East

Download or read book That was the Wild East written by Leonie Naughton and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating exploration of the cultural politics of the East-West unification and its subsequent impact upon German filmmaking

Book The Adventures of a Cello

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  • Author : Carlos Prieto
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2018-04-01
  • ISBN : 1477317864
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book The Adventures of a Cello written by Carlos Prieto and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful biography of a celebrated Stradivarius cello and an inviting overview of cello music and its preeminent composers and performers by world-famous concert cellist Carlos Prieto.

Book The Players Web

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  • Author : Casrule Oxford
  • Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
  • Release : 2023-09-15
  • ISBN : 1649521944
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book The Players Web written by Casrule Oxford and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Players' Web explores the hidden and the obvious connections between people. Everybody tries to hide their tracks when they are involved in things they do not want known. No matter how close people seem to be, there is some things they just cannot reveal. Tango Mitchell is at the center of this web of deceit and treachery. He tries his best to stay above it all, but it is because of him and what he does that makes everyone move. When the people closest to him get caught up in what he is doing, one by one they start losing control. One by one, their actions create opposite and equal reactions somewhere else. When someone in the web reacts, someone else does something no one expected. Will the web survive, or will it entangle its prey?

Book Kaiso

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  • Author : Katherine Dunham
  • Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780299212742
  • Pages : 724 pages

Download or read book Kaiso written by Katherine Dunham and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of writings by and about Katherine Dunham, the African American dancer, anthropologist and social activist. It includes articles, her essays on dance and anthropology and chapters from her volume of memoirs, 'Minefields'.

Book Tango

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  • Author : Richard Palliser
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781857443882
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Tango written by Richard Palliser and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a repertoire for Black against queen's pawn openings based on the dynamic Black Knights Tango. Using illustrative games, this book gives a grounding on the key tactics and strategies behind this ambitious opening, while also highlighting the various tricks and traps that both sides have to watch out for.

Book Players Unleashed

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  • Author : Tanja Sihvonen
  • Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9089642013
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Players Unleashed written by Tanja Sihvonen and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling examination of the the practice and implications of modding as they apply to the bestelling computer game The Sims.

Book U  S  A

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  • Author : Paul Shyre
  • Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
  • Release : 1963
  • ISBN : 9780573617362
  • Pages : 84 pages

Download or read book U S A written by Paul Shyre and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1963 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatised from sections of John Dos Passos' U.S.A. trilogy. A kaleidoscopic cross-section of representative forms of American life from the turn of the century until the depression years.

Book Le Grand Tango

Download or read book Le Grand Tango written by María Susana Azzi and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining deft musical analysis and intriguing personal insight, Azzi and Collier vividly capture the life of Piazolla, the Argentinean musician--a visionary who won worldwide acclaim but sparked bitter controversy in his native land. 42 halftones.

Book  The Lives of Others  and Contemporary German Film

Download or read book The Lives of Others and Contemporary German Film written by Paul Cooke and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers the first book-length academic investigation of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Oscar-winning film The Lives of Others (2006). The aim of this edited collection is twofold. On the one hand, it offers new insight into one of the most successful German films of the past two decades, placing The Lives of Others within its wider historical, political, aesthetic and industrial context. On the other, it offers this group of scholars, which includes many of the leading international figures in the field, opportunity to make a series of interventions on the state of contemporary German film and German film studies.

Book The Geographical Imagination of Annie Proulx

Download or read book The Geographical Imagination of Annie Proulx written by Alex Hunt and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly readable edited collection focuses on the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx. Each contributor to this volume explores a different facet of Proulx's striking attention to geography, place, landscape, regional environments, and local economies in her writing. Covering all of her novels and short story collections, scholars from the United States, Canada, and abroad engage in critical analyses of Proulx's new regionalism, use of geographical settings, and themes of displacement and immigration. Taken together, these essays demonstrate Annie Proulx's contribution to new regionalist understandings of place on local, national, and global scales. Readers will come away with a better understanding of Proulx's particular landscapes_particularly those of Wyoming, New England, Texas, and Newfoundland_and the issues surrounding the significance of these regions in contemporary American culture and literature.

Book DEFA After East Germany

Download or read book DEFA After East Germany written by Brigitta B. Wagner and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2014 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paints a complex portrait of East German film art and representation through examining eighteen key DEFA films following the fall of the Berlin Wall. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, East Germany's DEFA filmmakers had a brief window in which to critique GDR society on either side of the Wende, the sweeping political turn that surrounded the fall of the Berlin Wall andthe opening of the border. Building on the DEFA Film Library's retrospective Wende Flicks series and Indiana University's DEFA Project, this study examines the newly rediscovered filmic artifacts of this transitional cinema, introducing eighteen key films from 1988 to 1994 in essays by German scholars, film professionals, and cultural figures. Accompanying interviews and historical film reviews present a complex portrait of East German film art, itscommunist bloc influences, and its legacy for contemporary German film culture. The resulting anthology combines historical, autobiographical, cultural-political, and journalistic discourses to explore the tension between the hopes and frustrations these films express, the historical exigencies that overshadowed their production and reception, and the politics of their revival. Contributors: Skyler J. Arndt-Briggs, Peter Blank, Claudia Breger, Barton Byg, Knut Elstermann, Peter Kahane, Jennifer M. Kapczynski, Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Thomas Krüger, Helmut Morsbach, Benjamin Robinson, Katrin Schlösser and Frank Löprich, Nicholas Sveholm, Johannes von Moltke, Brigitta B. Wagner. Brigitta B. Wagner is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Film Studies at the Freie Universität and in Time-Based Media at the Universität der Künste in Berlin.

Book DEFA

    Book Details:
  • Author : Seán Allan
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9781571819437
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book DEFA written by Seán Allan and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of the state-sponsored company (DEFA), which was primarily responsible for film production in East Germany from 1946 to 1992. Most of the 16 essays were presented at a conference in Reading, England, at an unspecified date. Looking at specific films and scriptwriters, they analyze the representation of fascism and anti-fascism in the 1940s and 1950s, conflicts between the state and film makers in the 1960s, and social-political criticism of the 1970s and early 1980s. Paper edition (unseen), $25. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR