Starring Madame Modjeska

Author : Beth Holmgren
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253005191
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Starring Madame Modjeska written by Beth Holmgren and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “important . . . meticulously researched” prize-winning biography of the pre-eminent Polish star of the nineteenth century global stage (CosmopolinReview.com). In reintroducing “a little-remembered actress to a new American audience” biographer Beth Holgram delivers a revelatory portrait of Helena Modjeska—from unparalleled European success to her reign as the most acclaimed, and most recognized female celebrity in the late nineteenth-century United States. In 1876, Poland’s leading actress, Helena Modrzejewska, accompanied by her husband, the self-stylized Count Bozente, emigrated to southern California to give up her career and establish a utopian commune. In light of its failings, it hardly fulfilled the real dreams of Madame Helena. Within a year, she changed her surname to Modjeska, and made her American debut at San Francisco’s California Theatre. Godmother to Ethel Barrymore, and sharing the Shakespearian stage with such luminaries as Otis Skinner, Edwin Booth, and Maurice Barrymore, Helena Modjeska became the leading star in the United States, where she reigned for the next thirty years. In this “Impressive . . . achievement,” Holmgren traces Modjeska’s fabulous life and career from her illegitimate birth in Krakow, to her successive reinventions of herself as a trans-continental diva, and finally to her enduring legacy (Women’s Review of Books). All in all, Starring Madame Modjeska “makes for great drama” (NewPages.com).

Author : Beth Holmgren
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253208293
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Works in Stalin's Time written by Beth Holmgren and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... Holmgren gives a superb comparative analysis of the literary legacy of the two memoirists." --Times Literary Supplement "Beth Holmgren's book is a highly original and very productive critical appraisal of the work of Likiia Chukovskaia and Nadezhda Mandelstam." --The Russian Review "This fine book, with its copious, informative notes and good bibliography, will interest students of 20th-century literature and theorists of autobiography, feminist criticism, and gender studies." --Choice "... a fascinating book that provides a powerful testament to the strength and endurance of women in a particularly ghastly period of history." --Signs "... impressive, eloquently written... an integrated comparative study of two very different female survivors of the Stalinist night." --Caryl Emerson "... a bold scholarly act.... The writing is excellent throughout." --Barbara Heldt Two extraordinary women writers are evoked as models of women's heroic roles in preserving Russian culture in Stalin's time. A fresh and eloquent approach to the literature of the Stalinist age.

Author : Choi Chatterjee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415893410
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Americans Experience Russia written by Choi Chatterjee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans Experience Russia analyzes how American scholars, journalists, and artists experienced and interpreted Russia/the Soviet Union over the last century. It critically engages with postcolonial theories which posit that a self-valorizing, unmediated west dictated the colonial encounter. In examining the fiction, film, journalism, treatises, and histories Americans produced out of their 'Russian experience, ' this volume closely analyzes these texts, locates them in their sociopolitical context, and gauges how their producers' profession, politics, gender, class, and interaction with native Russian interpreters conditioned their authored responses to Russian/Soviet reality.

Author : Giuliana Muscio
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823279391
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Napoli/New York/Hollywood written by Giuliana Muscio and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cinema history illuminates the role of southern Italian performance traditions on American movies from the silent era to contemporary film. In Napoli/New York/Hollywood, Italian cinema historian Giuliana Muscio investigates the significant influence of Italian immigrant actors, musicians, and directors on Hollywood cinema. Using a provocative interdisciplinary approach, Muscio demonstrates how these artists and workers preserved their cultural and performance traditions, which led to innovations in the mode of production and in the use of media technologies. In doing so, she sheds light on the work of generations of artists, as well as the cultural evolution of “Italian-ness” in America over the past century. Muscio examines the careers of Italian performers steeped in an Italian theatrical culture that embraced high and low, tragedy and comedy, music, dance, acrobatics, naturalism, and improvisation. Their previously unexplored story—that of the Italian diaspora’s influence on American cinema—is here meticulously reconstructed through rich primary sources, deep archival research, extensive film analysis, and an enlightening series of interviews with heirs to these traditions, including Francis Coppola and his sister Talia Shire, John Turturro, Nancy Savoca, James Gandolfini, David Chase, Joe Dante, and Annabella Sciorra.

Author : Antoni Gronowicz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modjeska, Her Life and Loves written by Antoni Gronowicz and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helena Goscilo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
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Download or read book Poles Apart written by Helena Goscilo and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Forrest Izard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heroines of the Modern Stage written by Forrest Izard and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Beth Holmgren
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 082297505X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rewriting Capitalism written by Beth Holmgren and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holmgren examines how capitalism in turn-of-the-century Russia and the Kingdom of Poland affected the elitist culture of literature, publishing, book markets, and readership. Holmgren also draws parallels with and assesses recent literary and publishing developments in Russia and Poland, shedding light on the current book market and the literature of Eastern Europe as a whole. In this ground-breaking book, Beth Holmgren examines how—in turn-of-the-century Russia and its subject, the Kingdom of Poland—capitalism affected the elitist culture of literature, publishing, book markets, and readership. Rewriting Capitalism considers how both "serious" writers and producers of consumer culture coped with the drastic power shift from "serious" literature to market-driven literature.

Author : Blake Allmendinger
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496225066
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geographic Personas written by Blake Allmendinger and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geographic Personas explores how writers, dancers, actors, imposters, and con artists were influenced by three transformative factors—population growth, technology, and literary realism—that contributed to their personal reinvention during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the American West.

Author : Nathaniel Carll Goodwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nat Goodwin's Book written by Nathaniel Carll Goodwin and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: