Product Description: These reminiscences of Secession, War, and Eeconstruction it lias seemed to me a duty to record. An actor tlierein, accident of fortune afforded me exceptional advantages for an interior dew. The opinions expressed are sincerely entertained, but of tlieir correctness sucli readers as I may find must judge...read more

Product Description: 8vo. xiii, 247 pp, preface, 1. W. B. Yeats: Early Plays; 2. Fenollosa and Pound: Agents of Transmission; 3. The Japanese No: Art and Accomplishment; 4. W. B. Yeats: Plays for Dancers; 5. W. B. Yeats: Later Assimilation; appendix, notes, selected bibliography, index...read more

Book by Taylor, Richard

Product Description: Book by Taylor, Richard

This is a new, substantially revised and enlarged edition of Richard Taylor's work on propaganda and film in Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. Taylor examines how each government used the cinema's potential for mass political propaganda, analyzing and discussing films which exemplify important aspects of propaganda in process, and which are available for viewing. For this new edition, Richard Taylor makes use in particular of the flood of new material emerging from the former Soviet Union to examine two further classic Stalinist films. Grigori Alexandrov's musical comedyThe Circus (1936) celebrated in spectacular Hollywood fashion the supposed superiority of the Soviet way of life and new constitution. The Fall of Berlin (1949), by contrast, is a vast-scale and overtly-propagandistic paean to Stalin's pivotal role in the Second World War. Richard Taylor also revises and up-dates his coverage of Nazi Germany, including fresh illustrative material and an up-to-date bibliography. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Much has been written about Soviet literature and its political significance in the years following the October Revolution, but little has been written about the cinema in the same context. And yet in 1922 Lenin said, 'Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important...read more

Product Description: The discussion of good and evil must not be confined to the sterile lecture halls of academics but related instead to ordinary human feelings, needs, and desires, says noted philosopher Richard Taylor. Efforts to understand morality by exploring human reason will always fail because we are creatures of desire as well...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Taylor, Richard

Traces the life and career of the popular actress, looks at family relationships, and discusses her most important film roles

Profiles the highly public yet enigmatic woman who has been the wife of a president and a billionaire and who is today an editor, revealing details of her personal life

Product Description: GIRTY is the story of Simon Girty, probably the man most hated by Americans during the Revolutionary War. An acquaintence of Simon Kenton and Daniel Boone, he sided with the Indians and British and fought against the Americans on the frontier throughout the Ohio Valley...read more