...This chapter examines the so-called contrast narrative, an unusual but influential historical genre in the early nineteenth century. It discusses the idea that historical thought involves a dialogue between two distinct moments but finds no acknowledgment in history's formal structure...

..., participants rely on a different testimonial genre, a cluster of qualities and imaginative ideals, which helps them produce a recording together: 1) testimony in the English-language American context should be personal, in the way that the witness’s voice sounds and allegorical...

...This chapter discusses the work of Tony Palmer, who, together with his friend and former colleague Ken Russell, has devoted so much of his career to this troublesome genre of biographical film—and aroused more praise than blame in the process. As Palmer acknowledged in an article he wrote in 1988...

..., and liturgy intersected, overlapped, bled into one another, and refused to separate themselves out into distinct genres. In this tradition, the highest good could be served by any and all, whose poetic conventions were not separated by rigid considerations of genre. Classical rhetoricians had been aware...

... Sheen Charlie You Only Live Once Jaws genre emotion and Affair to Remember An Aristotle Back Street melodrama Stella Dallas tearjerkers emotion in films and Stanwyck Barbara Denning Richard Grant Cary Kerr Deborah fear horror films and horror emotion in film as What's Eating Gilbert...

... genre in the 1930s, the “drambalet” or the merging of both “drama” and “ballet.” drambalet Benois Alexandre Korovin Konstantin Bakst Leon Diaghilev Sergei Lopukhov Fyodr Balanchine George Petipa Maria Sergeyev Konstantin Sleeping Beauty Soviet arts Le Prophète Les Huguenots...

...This chapter studies the genre of artists' books, which shares with the book as a historical form an essential quality: one's relationship to it is shaped by its material features—its paper, binding, size, weight, and shape. Given the centrality of the text within Judaic tradition...

...” to describe this new form of dialogue. The book, a conversation between Augustine and his reason, fuses the dialogue genre and Roman theater, opening with a search for intellectual and moral self-knowledge before converging on the nature of truth and the question of the soul's immortality. The volume also...

... brutality Catch 22 Heller cockney entertainment of readers Germans Boches Graves Robert serial novel genre Lintier Paul patriotism and anti militarism the absurd Alter Robert Cendrars Blaise meaning Sartre Jean Paul homelessness existential animality Wicks Ulrich Gibbs Philip religion...

...This chapter examines the “Oriental Detective” genre in Hollywood cinema during the 1930s and 1940s. Whereas most discussions of the Oriental detective genre have tended to focus on whether or not the character reflects a positive or negative stereotype for Asian America, this chapter analyzes...

... the modern world of northern Europe and North America have gone relatively unnoticed by people outside the field of anthropology. Spanish culture is also haunted by the ghost of the honor play genre. No matter how vehemently literary critics debunk the notion that the works of Lope de Vega and Calderon offer...

...This chapter discusses the interpretation of the politics and utopianism of a bibliography, which requires a careful reading of its pedestrian genre as it is easily overlooked as a tool of making myths and destroying memories. The chapter recounts how the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO...

... for polymorphous influence based on dynamic cultural interaction. Also treated is the notion of gospel genre, the identity of the evangelists, the themes of their gospels, and brief biographies of five contemporary Greco-Roman historians who serve as major sources of data: Diodorus of Sicily, Plutarch, Suetonius...