Show boat by Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945

“…Show boat.…”

The female complaint : the unfinished business of sentimentality in American culture / by Berlant, Lauren Gail, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Poor Eliza -- Pax Americana : the case of Show boat -- National brands, national body : Imitation of life -- Uncle Sam needs a wife : citizenship and denegation -- Remembering love, forgetting everything else : Now, voyager -- "It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes" : femininity, formalism, and Dorothy Parker -- The compulsion to repeat femininity : Landscape for a good woman and The life and loves of a she-devil.…”

The female complaint : the unfinished business of sentimentality in American culture / by Berlant, Lauren Gail, 1957-2021

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction: intimacy, publicity, and femininity -- Poor Eliza -- Pax americana : the case of Show Boat -- National brands, national body : imitation of life -- Uncle Sam needs a wife : citizenship and denegation -- Remembering love, forgetting everything else : now, Voyager -- "It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes" : femininity, formalism, and Dorothy Parker -- The compulsion to repeat femininity : landscape for a good woman and the life and loves of a she-devil.…”
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The holiday in his eye : Stanley Cavell's vision of film and philosophy / by Rothman, William

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Cavell Reading Cavell -- 2 Introduction to Reading Cavell's "The World Viewed" (with Marian Keane) -- 3 Sights and Sounds (with Marian Keane) -- 4 The Acknowledgment of Silence (with Marian Keane) -- 5 Cavell's Philosophy and What Film Studies Calls "Theory" -- Statement Read at Plenary Session of the 1991 Society for Cinema Studies Annual Meeting -- 6 Response to Vivian Sobchack's The Address of the Eye -- 7 Pursuits of Happiness: Cavell in Transition -- 8 In Defense of Pursuits of Happiness -- 9 Viewing the World in Black and White -- Now, Voyager -- Stella Dallas -- Blonde Venus -- Show Boat -- Imitation of Life -- 10 Cavell's Creation -- Who Is Stanley Cavell? …”
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