Douglas Messerli

My Year 2000: Leaving Something Behind

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Produktbeschreibung

My Year is the title of Douglas Messerli's ongoing cultural memoirs, which began in 2000 with the turn of the 21st century.

Produktdetails

• My Year Nr.1
• Verlag: Green Integer
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 112mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781557134431
• ISBN-10: 155713443X
• Artikelnr.: 48505851

Autorenporträt

Poet, fiction writer, dramatist, and essayist Douglas Messerli is the editor of Green Integer and, previously, Sun & Moon Press. He has won numerous awards for his writing and editing, and was named Officier de l'order des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.

Inhaltsangabe

Looking Backward in Order to Safely Go Forward: An Introduction
Before the Curtain Rises
The Moment to Say No
Leaving Elsinore
A Historical-Romantic, Tragi-Comical, Post-Modern, Sentimental Mystery
A New Way of Seeing
Leaving the Door Open
Ricochet
Responsible Parties
The Miracle of Our Empty Hands
The People are a Fantasy
The Frightened Rabbit Flattens Against the Grass
Normalizing Violence
A Long Sleep
A Sleepwalker on a Roof
Inside the Wound
Statement
Poetry and Perception
Majorie Perloff: Interview with Douglas Messerli
Experiment and Traditional Forms in Contemporary Literature
Leaving Something Behind
Three Renoir Films of Art and Life
Reel Life
Recreating the Past
The Theater of Love
Acting and Perceiving
Bending Time
Six Stories of São Paulo: The 2nd Night (The Professor of Everything and
the Professor of Nothing)
Six Stories of São Paulo: The 3rd Night (The Raw and the Cooked)
Six Stories of São Paulo: The 4th Night (Crybaby)
Six Stories of São Paulo: The 5th Night (Hello, Goodbye)
Six Stories of São Paulo: The 6th Night (Memorial)
Two Beckett Films
Mouth on Fire
Be Again
Poet to Painter
The Emperor is an Emperor is an Emperor
Why Does the Concubine Have to Die?
Cataloguing Evil
Saving the Drowned
Performers
Shall We Dance?: Some Masterpieces of Film Dance
Groucho Marx
Bill Robinson
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (2)
Eleanor Powell and Fred Astaire
Ray Bolger and Judy Garland
James Cagney
The Nicholas Brothers, Katherine Dunham, and Company
Carmen Miranda
Ann Miller
Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, and Léonide Massine
Fred Astaire: The Ceiling Dance
Donald O'Connor and Gene Kelly
Tommy Rall, Bob Fosse, Ann Miller, Carol Haney, and Jeanne Coyne
Cyd Charisse and Gene Kelly
Vera-Ellen and Danny Kaye
Bob Fosse and Tommy Rall
Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, and Michael Kidd
Marge and Gower Champion
Gene Nelson, Charlotte Greenwood, and Chorus
Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr
Carol Haney
Gwen Verdon
Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, Yvonne Wilder, Tucker Smith, Eliot Feld, Tony
Mordante, and Choruses
Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, and Chorus
Ron Moody and Boy Chorus
Difficult Dances
Missing the Ball
Funeral March
The Marvelously Loony Imagination of Man
Swinging at the Swingers
Wellman's Crowtet
A Linguistic Fantasia
Music from Another World
You Can't Go Home Again
There are No Such Things as Crows
Two American Satires
Speaking in Tongues
Out of Step
In a Tight Spot
Paranoia in the Library Stacks
A Western Quartet
What the Night Does to a Man
Leaving Nothing to Chance
Geriatric Heroes
Irritable Comfort
What Isn't to be Done?, or Take the Money and Run
12 Last Days of the Soviet Union
Day One: Gogol's Coat
Day Two: Waiting for Tea
Day Three: Africa
Day Four: Lives of the Artists
Day Five: Hurry, Hurry!
Day Six: The Train
Day Seven: Too Many Churches
Day Eight: Candies in the Snow
Day Nine: The Resort Hotel
Day Ten: Moscow Thanksgiving
Day Eleven: Breaking the Rules
Day Twelve: Trying to Leave
Four Films by Andrei Tarkovsky
The Star at the Bottom of the Well
Creating the Impossible
Hope
Waiting for Something Else
Index