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Focusing on the career of Hal Ashby, the book explores his significant yet underappreciated role in the Hollywood Renaissance of the late 1960s and 1970s. Author Christopher Beach highlights Ashby's versatility and creativity, analyzing his first seven films, including classics like Harold and Maude and Coming Home. Through this examination, Beach argues for Ashby's rightful place in cinematic history alongside contemporaries like Scorsese and Coppola, shedding light on his unique contributions to filmmaking culture during this transformative era.

Exploring the career of Louis Malle, this collection features seventeen interviews that delve into his unique filmmaking approach and the controversial themes he tackled, including suicide and child prostitution. Malle, who navigated both French and American cinema, reflects on his outsider perspective and examines the differences between the two film industries. The interviews reveal his insights on casting, directing, and the interplay between documentary and fiction, offering a deeper understanding of his artistic choices and experiences with notable actors.

The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry is designed to give readers a brief but thorough introduction to the various movements, schools, and groups of American poets in the twentieth century. It will help readers to understand and analyze modern and contemporary poems. The first part of the book deals with the transition from the nineteenth-century lyric to the modernist poem, focussing on the work of major modernists such as Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and W. C. Williams. In the second half of the book, the focus is on groups such as the poets of the Harlem Renaissance, the New Critics, the Confessionals, and the Beats. In each chapter, discussions of the most important poems are placed in the larger context of literary, cultural, and social history.

The book explores the representation of class in American film comedy, tracing its evolution from the 1930s to the present. It analyzes how comedic narratives reflect and critique social hierarchies, using various films as case studies to illustrate the interplay between humor and class dynamics. Through this examination, the work highlights the significance of comedy as a lens for understanding societal attitudes towards class and its implications in American culture over the decades.

Exploring the intersection of contemporary American poetry and culture, the author delves into critical issues such as the decline in poetry's audience, the influential "anthology wars" of the mid-20th century, and the rise of the Poetry Slam movement. Through this analysis, the book seeks to illuminate the role and relevance of poetry in today's cultural landscape, highlighting its evolving dynamics and impact on society.

Through analysis of several key collaborations in American cinema from the silent era to the late twentieth century such as those of D W Griffith and Billy Bitzer, and Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Burks, this book underlines the importance of cinematographers to both the development of cinematic technique and the expression of visual style in film.

Teenager Ruben, entrusted with a time travelling cube, must save the world... it's not just a toy. Ruben's mission is critical; only he and the Cube will prevent the total annihilation of life on Earth.