Author Archive for: ‘Lorraine Mortimer’
Street Scenes: Staging the Self in Immigrant New York 1880-1924
Esther Romeyn, Street Scenes: Staging the Self in Immigrant New York 1880-1924. University of Minnesota Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-081664522 0 US$25.00 (pb) 320pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press) We seem to have acquired a class of individuals whose so-called sense of humor takes the form of uncouth flippancy, a type of mind that stares blankly in the …
Read MoreJean Rouch’s Ciné-Ethnography: at the conjunction of research, poetry and politics
Looking back at it, I think that we had a crazy chance to live through a crazy time. Everything that my generation learned during the previous twenty years was revealed to be an illusion in just one month in May 1940. The army, Verdun, France, honor, dignity, money, church, work, society, family, economic man, libido, historical materialism – everything had …
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