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Ang Lee - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Ang Lee - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Taiwanese born, Ang Lee (b. 1954) has produced diverse films in his award-winning body of work. Sometimes working in the West, sometimes in the East, he creates films that defy easy categorization and continue to amaze audiences worldwide. Lee has won an Academy Award two times for Best Director--the first Asian to win--for films as different as a small drama about gay cowboys in Brokeback Mountain (2005), and the 3D technical wizardry in Life of Pi (2012). He has garnered numerous accolades and awards worldwide. Lee has made a broad range of movies, including his so-called "Father Knows Best" trilogy made up of his first three films: Pushing Hands (1992), The Wedding Banquet (1993), and Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), as well as 1970s period drama The Ice Storm (1997), martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), superhero blockbuster Hulk (2003), and hippie retro trip Taking Woodstock (2009). Thoughtful and passionate, Lee humbly reveals here a personal journey that brought him from Taiwan to his chosen home in the United States as he struggled and ultimately triumphed in his quest to become a superb filmmaker. Ang Lee: Interviews collects the best interviews of this reticent yet bold figure.

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Ang Lee - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Ang Lee - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Taiwanese born, Ang Lee (b. 1954) has produced diverse films in his award-winning body of work. Sometimes working in the West, sometimes in the East, he creates films that defy easy categorization and continue to amaze audiences worldwide. Lee has won an Academy Award two times for Best Director--the first Asian to win--for films as different as a small drama about gay cowboys in Brokeback Mountain (2005), and the 3D technical wizardry in Life of Pi (2012). He has garnered numerous accolades and awards worldwide.Lee has made a broad range of movies, including his so-called "Father Knows Best" trilogy made up of his first three films: Pushing Hands (1992), The Wedding Banquet (1993), and Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), as well as 1970s period drama The Ice Storm (1997), martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), superhero blockbuster Hulk (2003), and hippie retro trip Taking Woodstock (2009).Thoughtful and passionate, Ang Lee humbly reveals here a personal journey that brought him from Taiwan to his chosen home in the United States as he struggled and ultimately triumphed in his quest to become a superb filmmaker. Ang Lee: Interviews collects the best interviews of this reticent yet bold figure.KARLA RAE FULLER, Chicago, Illinois, is an associate professor in the Cinema Art + Science Department at Columbia College Chicago. She is the author of Hollywood Goes Oriental: Cauc-Asian Performance in American Film.

DKK 858.00
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General Stephen D. Lee - Herman Hattaway - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

General Stephen D. Lee - Herman Hattaway - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

This biographical portrait by a well known Civil War historian brings much deserved attention to an exceptional Confederate military figure who became one of the New South''s most progressive leaders. Herman Hattaway''s clear, swift narrative depicts Lee in brilliant performance at Second Manassas, Chickasaw Bayou, Nashville, and after the war as a leader who used his military skills and discipline to work in bringing prosperity and education into the defeated South. After the war Lee established a home in Mississippi and found fulfillment in his calling to be the first president of Mississippi A & M College (today Mississippi State University), where he preached the message of applying brain power to farming. His admirers bestowed upon him the title "Father of Industrial Education in the South." Though the significance of Stephen D. Lee was long overlooked in historical perspectives of the Civil War and the development of the New South, Hattaway''s appreciative study has remedied a

DKK 312.00
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Anatomy of Four Race Riots - Lee E. Williams Ii - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Anatomy of Four Race Riots - Lee E. Williams Ii - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Anatomy of Four Race Riots: Racial Conflict in Knoxville, Elaine (Arkansas), Tulsa and Chicago, 1919-1921by Lee E. Williams and Lee E. Williams IIAnatomy of Four Race Riots is a study of the terrible racial violence that erupted in four different American communities during the post World War I years, racial violence that left hundreds dead or injured and a massive amount of destruction in its wake. Although the igniting incident or event varied somewhat, there was a similarity in the racial climate that existed in each town. The emerging blacks, boosted economically and idealistically by the war effort, were viewed as a threat by some of the whites. The bloody confrontations described here were grave evidence of the intensity of the fear and hatred that existed between a portion of the races. Lee E. Williams (deceased) was Dean for Administration at Jackson State University.Lee E. Williams II is Professor of History at the University of Alabama, Huntsville.

DKK 312.00
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Art for the Middle Classes - Cynthia Lee Patterson - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Art for the Middle Classes - Cynthia Lee Patterson - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

A history of the periodicals that brought art and sophistication to a rising bourgeoisie in the heartlandHow did the average American learn about art in the mid-nineteenth century? With public art museums still in their infancy, and few cities and towns large enough to support art galleries or print shops, Americans relied on mass-circulated illustrated magazines. One group of magazines in particular, known collectively as the Philadelphia pictorials, circulated fine art engravings of paintings, some produced exclusively for circulation in these monthlies, to an eager middle-class reading audience. These magazines achieved print circulations far exceeding those of other print media (such as illustrated gift books or catalogs from artunion membership organizations).Godey''s, Graham''s, Peterson''s, Miss Leslie''s, and Sartain''s Union Magazine included two to three fine art engravings monthly, "tipped in" to the fronts of the magazines, and designed for pull-out and display. Featuring the work of a fledgling group of American artists who chose American rather than European themes for their paintings, these magazines were crucial to the distribution of American art beyond the purview of the East Coast elite to a widespread middle-class audience. Contributions to these magazines enabled many an American artist and engraver to earn, for the first time in the young nation''s history, a modest living through art.Author Cynthia Lee Patterson examines the economics of artistic production, innovative engraving techniques, regional imitators, the textual "illustrations" accompanying engravings, and the principal artists and engravers contributing to these magazines.Cynthia Lee Patterson, Bartow, Florida, is assistant professor of English at University of South Florida Polytechnic. Her articles have appeared in American Periodicals, Journal of American History, and the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.

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Conversations with Lee Smith - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Conversations with Lee Smith - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

"I lead a kind of staid life, actually, and oftentimes the characters will do things i would never dream of doing, or be ways i would never dare to be."How does a girl from Grundy, Virginia, become a successful writer? The interviews and profiles in Conversations with Lee Smith tell the story of one woman''s discovery of her coal-mining hometown as a potential "literary place."In this first book of interviews with Smith, she revels in character and sense of place as cornerstones to her art. "What interests me most in writing are the characters," she says. "I have a lot of trouble thinking of plots, but I love to create the people. I think a person that you create is coming out of some aspect of yourself."Smith''s career spans three decades-beginning in 1968 with the publication of The Last Day the Dog Bushes Bloomed-and includes ten novels, three collections of stories, one novella, and numerous essays, nearly all of which, since 1980, have focused on her native Appalachia.It is through conversation with others that Lee Smith (b. 1944) lives and breathes. Social to the core, defined by her love of talk, her penchant for a story, Smith-like her most memorable storytelling characters, from Granny Younger to Ivy Rowe-comes alive through her own voice. Reading a conversation with Smith is like sitting on the porch with your first cousin, all the old stories tumbling out in a rush.In interviews, Smith tells why we hear echoes of the novelist''s life in Crystal Spangler, the main character in Black Mountain Breakdown (1980), who is literally immobilized by her passivity. While Smith''s own story in no way resembles the particulars of Crystal''s, Smith reveals in these interviews her own struggle with the assigned gender roles of her region.Forthright and direct, Smith traces the arc of her career as she talks. In research she conducted for her breakthrough novel Oral History (1983), Smith discovered that the power of her voice lay at home. In Fair and Tender Ladies (1988), Smith created the remarkable Ivy Rowe at a time when she herself personally needed a strong role model. Smith then moved on to The Devil''s Dream (1992), a multigenerational tale of the evolution from traditional mountain music to commercialized country music. Just as Smith herself found her voice as a writer when she went home to her mountain roots, so too Katie Cocker-the Dolly Parton-type star of the novel-reconnects with her mountain heritage.As she talks about these novels and her other works of fiction, Smith beckons us to come close and listen and joins her characters as a strong Appalachian woman in her own right.Linda Tate is an independent scholar and was formerly an associate professor of English at Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, W.V. She has written A Southern Weave of Women: Fiction of the Contemporary South (1994) and has been published in such periodicals as Mississippi Quarterly, Resources for American Literary Study, and Journal of Appalachian Studies.

DKK 267.00
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Big Jim Eastland - J. Lee Annis Jr. - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Big Jim Eastland - J. Lee Annis Jr. - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

For decades after the Second World War, Senator James O. Eastland (1904-1986) was one of the more intransigent leaders of the Deep South''s resistance to what he called "the Second Reconstruction." And yet he developed, late in his life, a very real friendship with state NAACP chair Aaron Henry. Big Jim Eastland provides the life story of this savvy, unpredictable powerhouse. From 1947 to 1978, Eastland wore that image of resistance proudly, even while recognizing from the beginning his was the losing side. Biographer J. Lee Annis Jr. chronicles such complexities extensively and also delves into many facets lesser known to the general public. Born in the Mississippi Delta as part of the elite planter class, Eastland was appointed to the US Senate in 1941 by Democratic Governor Paul B. Johnson Sr. Eastland ran for and won the Senate seat outright in 1942 and served in the Senate from 1943 until his retirement in 1978. A blunt man of few words but many contradictions, Eastland was an important player in Washington, from his initial stint in 1941 where he rapidly salvaged several key local projects from bungling intervention, to the 1970s when he shepherded the Supreme Court nominees of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford to Senate confirmation. Annis paints a full picture of the man, describing the objections Eastland raised to civil rights proposals and the eventual accommodations he needed to accept after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

DKK 276.00
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How the Other Half Laughs - Jean Lee Cole - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

How the Other Half Laughs - Jean Lee Cole - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Taking up the role of laughter in society, How the Other Half Laughs: The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920 examines an era in which the US population was becoming increasingly multiethnic and multiracial. Comic artists and writers, hoping to create works that would appeal to a diverse audience, had to formulate a method for making the "other half" laugh. In magazine fiction, vaudeville, and the comic strip, the oppressive conditions of the poor and the marginalized were portrayed unflinchingly, yet with a distinctly comic sensibility that grew out of caricature and ethnic humor. Author Jean Lee Cole analyzes Progressive Era popular culture, providing a critical angle to approach visual and literary humor about ethnicity--how avenues of comedy serve as expressions of solidarity, commiseration, and empowerment. Cole's argument centers on the comic sensibility, which she defines as a performative act that fosters feelings of solidarity and community among the marginalized. Cole stresses the connections between the worlds of art, journalism, and literature and the people who produced them--including George Herriman, R. F. Outcault, Rudolph Dirks, Jimmy Swinnerton, George Luks, and William Glackens--and traces the form's emergence in the pages of Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's Journal-American and how it influenced popular fiction, illustration, and art. How the Other Half Laughs restores the newspaper comic strip to its rightful place as a transformative element of American culture at the turn into the twentieth century.

DKK 312.00
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How the Other Half Laughs - Jean Lee Cole - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

How the Other Half Laughs - Jean Lee Cole - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Taking up the role of laughter in society, How the Other Half Laughs: The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920 examines an era in which the US population was becoming increasingly multiethnic and multiracial. Comic artists and writers, hoping to create works that would appeal to a diverse audience, had to formulate a method for making the "other half" laugh. In magazine fiction, vaudeville, and the comic strip, the oppressive conditions of the poor and the marginalized were portrayed unflinchingly, yet with a distinctly comic sensibility that grew out of caricature and ethnic humor. Author Jean Lee Cole analyzes Progressive Era popular culture, providing a critical angle to approach visual and literary humor about ethnicity--how avenues of comedy serve as expressions of solidarity, commiseration, and empowerment. Cole's argument centers on the comic sensibility, which she defines as a performative act that fosters feelings of solidarity and community among the marginalized. Cole stresses the connections between the worlds of art, journalism, and literature and the people who produced them--including George Herriman, R. F. Outcault, Rudolph Dirks, Jimmy Swinnerton, George Luks, and William Glackens--and traces the form's emergence in the pages of Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's Journal-American and how it influenced popular fiction, illustration, and art. How the Other Half Laughs restores the newspaper comic strip to its rightful place as a transformative element of American culture at the turn into the twentieth century.

DKK 858.00
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Beyond The Chinese Connection - Crystal S. Anderson - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Beyond The Chinese Connection - Crystal S. Anderson - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

From Bruce Lee to Samurai Champloo, how Asian fictions fuse with African American creative sensibilitiesIn this study, Crystal S. Anderson explores the cultural and political exchanges between African Americans, Asian Americans, and Asians over the last four decades. To do so, Anderson examines such cultural productions as novels (Frank Chin''s Gunga Din Highway [1999], Ishmael Reed''s Japanese by Spring [1992], and Paul Beatty''s The White Boy Shuffle [1996]); films (Rush Hour 2 [2001], Unleashed [2005], and The Matrix trilogy [1999-2003]); and Japanese animation (Samurai Champloo [2004]), all of which feature cross-cultural conversations. In exploring the ways in which writers and artists use this transferral, Anderson traces and tests the limits of how Afro-Asian cultural production interrogates conceptions of race, ethnic identity, politics, and transnational exchange.Ultimately, this book reads contemporary black/Asian cultural fusions through the recurrent themes established by the films of Bruce Lee, which were among the first--and certainly most popular--works to use this exchange explicitly. As a result of such films as Enter the Dragon (1973), The Chinese Connection (1972), and The Big Boss (1971), Lee emerges as both a cross-cultural hero and global cultural icon who resonates with the experiences of African American, Asian American, and Asian youth in the 1970s. Lee''s films and iconic imagery prefigure themes that reflect cross-cultural negotiations with global culture in post-1990 Afro-Asian cultural production.Crystal S. Anderson, Elon, North Carolina, is an associate professor of English at Elon University. Her work has been published in African American Review, MELUS, Extrapolation, and Ethnic Studies Review.

DKK 312.00
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Beyond The Chinese Connection - Crystal S. Anderson - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Beyond The Chinese Connection - Crystal S. Anderson - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

From Bruce Lee to Samurai Champloo, how Asian fictions fuse with African American creative sensibilitiesIn this study, Crystal S. Anderson explores the cultural and political exchanges between African Americans, Asian Americans, and Asians over the last four decades. To do so, Anderson examines such cultural productions as novels (Frank Chin''s Gunga Din Highway [1999], Ishmael Reed''s Japanese by Spring [1992], and Paul Beatty''s The White Boy Shuffle [1996]); films (Rush Hour 2 [2001], Unleashed [2005], and The Matrix trilogy [1999-2003]); and Japanese animation (Samurai Champloo [2004]), all of which feature cross-cultural conversations. In exploring the ways in which writers and artists use this transferral, Anderson traces and tests the limits of how Afro-Asian cultural production interrogates conceptions of race, ethnic identity, politics, and transnational exchange.Ultimately, this book reads contemporary black/Asian cultural fusions through the recurrent themes established by the films of Bruce Lee, which were among the first--and certainly most popular--works to use this exchange explicitly. As a result of such films as Enter the Dragon (1973), The Chinese Connection (1972), and The Big Boss (1971), Lee emerges as both a cross-cultural hero and global cultural icon who resonates with the experiences of African American, Asian American, and Asian youth in the 1970s. Lee''s films and iconic imagery prefigure themes that reflect cross-cultural negotiations with global culture in post-1990 Afro-Asian cultural production.Crystal S. Anderson, Elon, North Carolina, is an associate professor of English at Elon University. Her work has been published in African American Review, MELUS, Extrapolation, and Ethnic Studies Review.

DKK 858.00
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Activism in the Name of God - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Activism in the Name of God - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Contributions by Janet Allured, Lisa Pertillar Brevard, Jami L. Carlacio, Cheryl J. Fish, Angela Hornsby-Gutting, Jennifer McFarlane-Harris, Neely McLaughlin, Darcy Metcalfe, Phillip Luke Sinitiere, P. Jane Splawn, Laura L. Sullivan, and Hettie V. Williams Activism in the Name of God: Religion and Black Feminist Public Intellectuals from the Nineteenth Century to the Present recognizes and celebrates twelve Black feminists who have made an indelible mark not just on Black women''s intellectual history but on American intellectual history in general. The volume includes essays on Jarena Lee, Theressa Hoover, Pauli Murray, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, to name a few. These women''s commitment to the social, political, and economic well-being of oppressed people in the United States shaped their work in the public sphere, which took the form of preaching, writing, singing, marching, presiding over religious institutions, teaching, assuming leadership roles in the civil rights movement, and creating politically subversive print and digital art. This anthology offers readers exemplars with whose minds and spirits we can engage, from whose ideas we can learn, and upon whose social justice work we can build. The volume joins a burgeoning chorus of texts that calls attention to the creativity of Black women who galvanized their readers, listeners, and fellow activists to seek justice for the oppressed. Pushing back on centuries of institutionalized injustices that have relegated Black women to the sidelines, the work of these Black feminist public intellectuals reflects both Christian gospel ethics and non-Christian religious traditions that celebrate the wholeness of Black people.

DKK 267.00
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