Native Informant is Leo Braudy's first book after his widely acclaimed and award-winning history of fame, The Frenzy of Renown. With a verve that breaks down the boundaries between film, literature, and popular culture, Braudy discusses writers and filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock, Daniel Defoe, Ernst Lubitsch, Emile Zola, Susan Sontag, and Richard Condon. His subjects include madness in the eighteenth century, the Hollywood blacklist, westerns, and pornography. Throughout this lively and insightful collection, his perspective is not that of the critic as a detached voice of professional authority but as a member of a particular culture--a native informant--whose gaze looks simultaneously inward and outward, subjective but self-aware. Like the wide-ranging Frenzy of Renown, Native Informant will appeal to specialist and interested reader alike.
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0195052749-7-1
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Anbieter: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Hard Back. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Printing. 304 Pages Indexed. The essays in this collection break down the boundaries that separate film from literature, popular culture fromk lhigh culture, and analyzing and criticizing from teaching and understanding. Braudy views the critic not as a detached voice of professional authority but rather as a membere of a particular culture --- a native informant --- whose gaze looks simultaneously inward and outward, subjective but self-aware. He discusses a wide variety of subjects, including writers and filmmakers --- such as Hitchcock, Defoe, Lubitsch, Emile Zola, Sontage, and Richard Condon --- madness in the 18th centure, the Hollywood blacklist, westerns, pornography, the humanities, and teaching. Eveer sensitive to the mingled strands of language and feeling that constitute both artistic creativity and our response to it, Braudy places each suject in its own time and place, as well as orienting it to current responses. The works presented here, reviess, articles, academic essays, and lectdures, were written for a variety of audiences: Specialists in 18th century English literature, high school and college teachers interested in the study of English, film buffs, film historians, and the fabled general reader. Contents in Six Part: Principles, Authors and Audiences, Body and Text, Fictions of Feeling, the Sway of Genre, and Myths of History. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9305
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Inscribed by author on half-title page "For Carolyn & John - with all love + best wishes from your constant admirer. Leo 2/91" Text is clean. Cover shows minimal wear, light bump at spine. Dust jacket shows light normal shelfwear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 304 pages; Signed by Author. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 4397
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hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Very Good + Hardback. Dust Jacket also in very good condition with a tiny tear at top corner of front cover and some light marks on back cover. Clean copy. x + 304p. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 086360
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Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,750grams, ISBN:0195052749. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 2924319
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