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Sit, Ubu, Sit

Gary David Goldberg
Sit Ubu Sit Book PDF

Author : Gary David Goldberg
Publisher : Crown Archetype
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307407405

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Sit, Ubu, Sit by Gary David Goldberg Pdf

A sports-crazed kid from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Gary David Goldberg never imagined he’d end up in Hollywood, let alone make it big there. But as a twenty-five-year-old waiter in Greenwich Village he met Diana, the love of his life; followed her out to Northern California; then moved in and never moved out. He also, without realizing it, put himself on track to found UBU Productions (named after his beloved Labrador retriever) and become a successful creator of such family sitcoms as Family Ties, Brooklyn Bridge, and Spin City.* In Sit, Ubu, Sit, award-winning writer/producer Goldberg tells the mostly upbeat, sometimes difficult, and frequently hilarious tale of his improbable career and the people who have filled it. A love story and a rare behind-the-scenes look at the entertainment industry, Sit, Ubu, Sit proves that it is possible to be creative and successful while holding on to your integrity, your family, and your sense of humor. *with Bill Lawrence

Ubu and the Truth Commission

Jane Taylor,William Kentridge,Handspring Puppet Company
Ubu and the Truth Commission Book PDF

Author : Jane Taylor,William Kentridge,Handspring Puppet Company
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1919713166

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Ubu and the Truth Commission by Jane Taylor,William Kentridge,Handspring Puppet Company Pdf

"Ubu and the Truth Commission" is the full play text of a multi-dimensional theatre piece that tries to make sense of the madness that overtook South Africa during apartheid.

Ubu Roi

Alfred Jarry
Ubu Roi Book PDF

Author : Alfred Jarry
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780486112558

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Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry Pdf

Stunning, controversial work that immediately outraged audiences at the 1896 premiere with its scatalogical references, features a cruel, gluttonous, and grotesque main character — the author's metaphor for modern man.

A Child of the Century

Ben Hecht
A Child of the Century Book PDF

Author : Ben Hecht
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300253689

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A Child of the Century by Ben Hecht Pdf

Ben Hecht’s critically acclaimed autobiographical memoir, first published in 1954, offers incomparably pungent evocations of Chicago in the 1910s and 1920s, Hollywood in the 1930s, and New York during the Second World War and after. “His manners are not always nice, but then nice manners do not always make interesting autobiographies, and this autobiography has the merit of being intensely interesting.”—Saul Bellow, New York Times Named to Time’s list of All-Time 100 Nonfiction Books, which deems it “the un-put-downable testament of the era’s great multimedia entertainer.”

The Rest Is Noise

Alex Ross
The Rest Is Noise Book PDF

Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781429932882

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The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross Pdf

Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

Movies and Midrash

Wendy I. Zierler
Movies and Midrash Book PDF

Author : Wendy I. Zierler
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438466163

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Movies and Midrash by Wendy I. Zierler Pdf

Brings popular cinema and Jewish religious texts into a meaningful dialogue. Finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Modern Jewish Thought and Experience presented by the Jewish Book Council Movies and Midrash uses cinema as a springboard to discuss central Jewish texts and matters of belief. A number of books have drawn on films to explicate Christian theology and belief, but Wendy I. Zierler is the first to do so from a Jewish perspective, exploring what Jewish tradition, text, and theology have to say about the lessons and themes arising from influential and compelling films. The book uses the method of “inverted midrash”: while classical rabbinical midrash begins with exegesis of a verse and then introduces a mashal (parable) as a means of further explication, Zierler turns that process around, beginning with the culturally familiar cinematic parable and then analyzing related Jewish texts. Each chapter connects a secular film to a different central theme in classical Jewish sources or modern Jewish thought. Films covered include The Truman Show (truth), Memento (memory), Crimes and Misdemeanors (sin), Magnolia (confession and redemption), The Descendants (birthright), Forrest Gump (cleverness and simplicity), and The Hunger Games (creation of humanity in God’s image), among others. Wendy I. Zierler is Sigmund Falk Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Feminist Studies at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion and the author of And Rachel Stole the Idols: The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Women’s Writing.

Peter Griffin's Guide to the Holidays

Danny Smith,Seth MacFarlane
Peter Griffin s Guide to the Holidays Book PDF

Author : Danny Smith,Seth MacFarlane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : 1409100464

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Peter Griffin's Guide to the Holidays by Danny Smith,Seth MacFarlane Pdf

The holidays are the best time of the year for the loveable, amiable dunce -- um, I mean everyman extraordinaire, and with this new book he steps into the spotlight and delivers a holiday book that is sure to become a classic. With endless Christmas specials (a couch-potato's dream!), plenty of family merriment, and eggnog that's heavy on the booze, what's not to like about the holiday season? In this unique Yuletide treasure, the fat man offers up a host of holiday memories from the Griffin household, as well as hilarious tips for merry-making the Family Guy way. Funny and sentimental, Peter offers his most important tip: have fun while the festivities last, because you've only got a week or so before it all gets crappy again!

Searching for John Hughes

Jason Diamond
Searching for John Hughes Book PDF

Author : Jason Diamond
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062424846

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Searching for John Hughes by Jason Diamond Pdf

For all fans of John Hughes and his hit films such as National Lampoon’s Vacation, Sixteen Candles, and Home Alone, comes Jason Diamond’s hilarious memoir of growing up obsessed with the iconic filmmaker’s movies—a preoccupation that eventually convinces Diamond he should write Hughes’ biography and travel to New York City on a quest that is as funny as it is hopeless. For as long as Jason Diamond can remember, he’s been infatuated with John Hughes’ movies. From the outrageous, raunchy antics in National Lampoon’s Vacation to the teenage angst in The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink to the insanely clever and unforgettable Home Alone, Jason could not get enough of Hughes’ films. And so the seed was planted in his mind that it should fall to him to write a biography of his favorite filmmaker. It didn’t matter to Jason that he had no qualifications, training, background, platform, or direction. Thus went the years-long, delusional, earnest, and assiduous quest to reach his goal. But no book came out of these years, and no book will. What he did get was a story that fills the pages of this unconventional, hilarious memoir. In Searching for John Hughes, Jason tells how a Jewish kid from a broken home in a Chicago suburb—sometimes homeless, always restless—found comfort and connection in the likewise broken lives in the suburban Chicago of John Hughes’ oeuvre. He moved to New York to become a writer. He started to write a book he had no business writing. In the meantime, he brewed coffee and guarded cupcake cafes. All the while, he watched John Hughes movies religiously. Though his original biography of Hughes has long since been abandoned, Jason has discovered he is a writer through and through. And the adversity of going for broke has now been transformed into wisdom. Or, at least, a really, really good story. In other words, this is a memoir of growing up. One part big dream, one part big failure, one part John Hughes movies, one part Chicago, and one part New York. It’s a story of what comes after the “Go for it!” part of the command to young creatives to pursue their dreams—no matter how absurd they might seem at first.

Alfred Jarry

Alastair Brotchie
Alfred Jarry Book PDF

Author : Alastair Brotchie
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780262528436

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Alfred Jarry by Alastair Brotchie Pdf

This long-awaited biography of Alfred Jarry reconstructs a life both "ubuesque" and pataphysical. When Alfred Jarry died in 1907 at the age of thirty-four, he was a legendary figure in Paris—but this had more to do with his bohemian lifestyle and scandalous behavior than his literary achievements. A century later, Jarry is firmly established as one of the leading figures of the artistic avant-garde. Even so, most people today tend to think of Alfred Jarry only as the author of the play Ubu Roi, and of his life as a string of outlandish “ubuesque” anecdotes, often recounted with wild inaccuracy. In this first full-length critical biography of Jarry in English, Alastair Brotchie reconstructs the life of a man intent on inventing (and destroying) himself, not to mention his world, and the “philosophy” that defined their relation. Brotchie alternates chapters of biographical narrative with chapters that connect themes, obsessions, and undercurrents that relate to the life. The anecdotes remain, and are even augmented: Jarry's assumption of the “ubuesque,” his inversions of everyday behavior (such as eating backward, from cheese to soup), his exploits with gun and bicycle, and his herculean feats of drinking. But Brotchie distinguishes between Jarry's purposely playing the fool and deeper nonconformities that appear essential to his writing and his thought, both of which remain a vital subterranean influence to this day.

Eunoia

Christian Bök
Eunoia Book PDF

Author : Christian Bök
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847672445

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Eunoia by Christian Bök Pdf

'Eunoia', which means 'beautiful thinking', is the shortest English word to contain all five vowels. This book also contains them all, except that each one appears by itself in its own chapter. A unique personality for each vowel soon emerges: A is courtly, E is elegiac, I is lyrical, O is jocular, U is obscene. A triumphant feat, seven years in the making, Eunoia is as playful as it is awe-inspiring.

What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us Bitter

Chuck Lorre
What Doesn t Kill Us Makes Us Bitter Book PDF

Author : Chuck Lorre
Publisher : Dharma Grace Foundation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1451679750

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What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us Bitter by Chuck Lorre Pdf

TV’s most successful comedy producer Chuck Lorre delivers a hilarious collection of vanity cards in print for the first time. Since 1997, fans of some of the most popular sitcoms ever broadcast — The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, Mike & Molly and Dharma & Greg — have been granted a fleeting glimpse each week into the unfettered and uncompromising mind of the incredibly prolific creative force behind those series, Chuck Lorre. That's because Lorre devotes exactly one second of airtime per show to expressing his deepest thoughts at the end of the credits on his now-infamous vanity cards, which for many years could only be enjoyed by freeze-framing on a VCR and squinting to read the tiny, wobbling words. Now, for the first time ever, hundreds of Lorre's witty and insightful musings have been gathered together in a limited-edition, slipcase book from Chuck Lorre himself that reveals a hilarious, thought-provoking and scandalous body of work unlike any other creative endeavor. Veering from philosophical treatises to personal revelations to the occasional furious diatribe, Lorre never shies away from controversy — even in the face of network censorship, as has often happened. But never fear: Every word on the original vanity cards included in this curated selection is here — even the censored texts that never made it to air. Enhanced with sly, ingenious illustrations and designs that capture the off-kilter essence of Lorre's bite-sized dispatches, What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us Bitter will change the way you think about life, the universe and TV — or at least it'll save your eyesight.

Les Guerilleres

Monique Wittig
Les Guerilleres Book PDF

Author : Monique Wittig
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780252094743

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Les Guerilleres by Monique Wittig Pdf

One of the most widely read feminist texts of the twentieth century, and Monique Wittig’s most popular novel, Les Guérillères imagines the attack on the language and bodies of men by a tribe of warrior women. Among the women’s most powerful weapons in their assault is laughter, but they also threaten literary and linguistic customs of the patriarchal order with bullets. In this breathtakingly rapid novel first published in 1969, Wittig animates a lesbian society that invites all women to join their fight, their circle, and their community. A path-breaking novel about creating and sustaining freedom, the book derives much of its energy from its vaunting of the female body as a resource for literary invention.

It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

Moira Hodgson
It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time Book PDF

Author : Moira Hodgson
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780767912716

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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time by Moira Hodgson Pdf

The daughter of a British Foreign Service officer, Moira Hodgson spent her childhood in many a strange and exotic land. She discovered American food in Saigon, ate wild boar in Berlin, and learned how to prepare potatoes from her eccentric Irish grandmother. Today, Hodgson has a well-deserved reputation as a discerning critic whose columns in the New York Observer were devoured by dedicated food lovers for two decades. A delightful memoir of meals from around the world—complete with recipes—It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time reflects Hodgson’s talent for connecting her love of food and travel with the people and places in her life. Whether she’s dining on Moroccan mechoui, a whole lamb baked for a day over coals, or struggling to entertain in a tiny Greenwich Village apartment, her reminiscences are always a treat.

The Shape of Things to Come

Greil Marcus
The Shape of Things to Come Book PDF

Author : Greil Marcus
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781466804227

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The Shape of Things to Come by Greil Marcus Pdf

From the author of Mystery Train and Lipstick Traces, an exhilarating and provocative investigation of the tangle of American identity "America is a place and a story, made up of exuberance and suspicion, crime and liberation, lynch mobs and escapes; its greatest testaments are made of portents and warnings, biblical allusions that lose all certainty in the American air." It is this story of self-invention and nationhood that Greil Marcus rediscovers, beginning with John Winthrop's invocation of America as a "city on the hill," Lincoln's second inaugural address, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech about his American dream. Listening to these prophetic founding statements, Marcus explores America's promise as a New Jerusalem and the nature of its covenant: first with God, and then with its own citizens. In the nineteenth century, this vision of the nation's story was told in public as part of common discourse, to be fought over in plain speech and flights of gorgeous rhetoric. Since then, Marcus argues, it has become cryptic, a story told more in art than in politics. He traces it across the continent and through time, hearing the tale in the disparate voices of writers, filmmakers, performers, and actors: Philip Roth, David Lynch, David Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Sheryl Lee, and Bill Pullman. In The Shape of Things to Come, the future and the past merge in extraordinary and uncanny ways, and Marcus proves once again that he is our most imaginative and original cultural critic.

How to be Idle

Tom Hodgkinson
How to be Idle Book PDF

Author : Tom Hodgkinson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141928548

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How to be Idle by Tom Hodgkinson Pdf

How to be Idle is Tom Hodgkinson's entertaining guide to reclaiming your right to be idle. As Oscar Wilde said, doing nothing is hard work. The Protestant work ethic has most of us in its thrall, and the idlers of this world have the odds stacked against them. But here, at last, is a book that can help. From Tom Hodgkinson, editor of the Idler, comes How to be Idle, an antidote to the work-obsessed culture which puts so many obstacles between ourselves and our dreams. Hodgkinson presents us with a laid-back argument for a new contract between routine and chaos, an argument for experiencing life to the full and living in the moment. Ranging across a host of issues that may affect the modern idler - sleep, the world of work, pleasure and hedonism, relationships, bohemian living, revolution - he draws on the writings of such well-known apologists for idleness as Dr Johnson, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson and Nietzsche. His message is clear: take control of your life and reclaim your right to be idle. 'Well written, funny and with a scholarly knowledge of the literature of laziness, it is both a book to be enjoyed at leisure and to change lives' Sunday Times 'In his life and in this book the author is 100 per cent on the side of the angels' Literary Review 'The book is so stuffed with wisdom and so stuffed with good jokes that I raced through it like a speed freak' Independent on Sunday Tom Hodgkinson is the founder and editor of The Idler and the author of How to be Idle, How to be Free, The Idle Parent and Brave Old World. In spring 2011 he founded The Idler Academy in London, a bookshop, coffeehouse and cultural centre which hosts literary events and offers courses in academic and practical subjects - from Latin to embroidery. Its motto is 'Liberty through Education'. Find out more at www.idler.co.uk.