Terry Chester Shulman
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813178097
- eISBN:
- 9780813178127
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813178097.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
The story of the Costellos is the story of the twentiethcentury’s second most accomplished family of actors—second only to the Barrymores, with whom they intermarried to beget a dynasty of unrivaled ...
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The story of the Costellos is the story of the twentiethcentury’s second most accomplished family of actors—second only to the Barrymores, with whom they intermarried to beget a dynasty of unrivaled importance tothe stage and screen. Maurice Costello became what Photoplay called “the first recognized star in movies,” as well as the first screen heartthrob and the first truly modern screen actor. His daughter Helene was the first actress to star in an all-talking picture, The Lights of New York, in 1928. His daughter Dolores was a major star in her own right before marrying John Barrymore and bearing him a son to carry on the Barrymore name to successive generations of famous actors.
The inner narrative is the story of not just what Hollywood does to actors, but what actors do to themselves. Maurice entangled himself in the movies’ first career-destroying scandal. Successive scandals continued to reduce the family fortunes, as, one by one, the Costellos’ brilliant achievements were eclipsed by their own immutable penchant for self-destruction.Less
The story of the Costellos is the story of the twentiethcentury’s second most accomplished family of actors—second only to the Barrymores, with whom they intermarried to beget a dynasty of unrivaled importance tothe stage and screen. Maurice Costello became what Photoplay called “the first recognized star in movies,” as well as the first screen heartthrob and the first truly modern screen actor. His daughter Helene was the first actress to star in an all-talking picture, The Lights of New York, in 1928. His daughter Dolores was a major star in her own right before marrying John Barrymore and bearing him a son to carry on the Barrymore name to successive generations of famous actors.
The inner narrative is the story of not just what Hollywood does to actors, but what actors do to themselves. Maurice entangled himself in the movies’ first career-destroying scandal. Successive scandals continued to reduce the family fortunes, as, one by one, the Costellos’ brilliant achievements were eclipsed by their own immutable penchant for self-destruction.
Michael Bell
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199208098
- eISBN:
- 9780191709227
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199208098.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature, European Literature
J. M. Coetzee is perhaps the author who most exemplifies at the turn of the century the nature of literary authority; a power and a predicament he has repeatedly thematised while refusing to ...
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J. M. Coetzee is perhaps the author who most exemplifies at the turn of the century the nature of literary authority; a power and a predicament he has repeatedly thematised while refusing to translate the authority of his writing into its supposed political or ideological equivalents. This chapter is devoted mainly to a close reading of The Lives of Animals in its original form and context as one of the 1998 Tanner lectures at Princeton. Costello herself is far from being a simple mouthpiece for the author and her account of the novelist's sympathy is vulnerable as well as eloquent. Although it is often discussed, and not inappropriately, for its thematic contribution to public debate on the human relation to animals, the mutual embedding of formal lecture and fictional narrative gives the work a philosophical focus on the incommunicability of all radical conviction that falls outside conventional norms.Less
J. M. Coetzee is perhaps the author who most exemplifies at the turn of the century the nature of literary authority; a power and a predicament he has repeatedly thematised while refusing to translate the authority of his writing into its supposed political or ideological equivalents. This chapter is devoted mainly to a close reading of The Lives of Animals in its original form and context as one of the 1998 Tanner lectures at Princeton. Costello herself is far from being a simple mouthpiece for the author and her account of the novelist's sympathy is vulnerable as well as eloquent. Although it is often discussed, and not inappropriately, for its thematic contribution to public debate on the human relation to animals, the mutual embedding of formal lecture and fictional narrative gives the work a philosophical focus on the incommunicability of all radical conviction that falls outside conventional norms.
Laura Helen Marks
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780252042140
- eISBN:
- 9780252050886
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042140.003.0003
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter explores the status, meaning, use, and conflation of gendered orifices and bodily fluids in pornographic adaptations of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. In speaking the supposed silences of ...
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This chapter explores the status, meaning, use, and conflation of gendered orifices and bodily fluids in pornographic adaptations of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. In speaking the supposed silences of Dracula, porn adaptations of the novel must carefully navigate gender and sexuality. These adaptations reveal how hardcore film as a whole operates on anxious ground similar to that of Stoker’s novel, simultaneously invoking and resisting sexual anxieties concerning gendered penetration, gendered fluids, and consumption. Dracula, as a culture text, mobilizes queered, gendered, and raced reformulations of consumer and consumed, queering ostensibly straight pornographies, destabilizing supposedly rigid gender dynamics, and resituating the colonial Other. Dracula adaptations invoke and redeploy the racialized implications of nineteenth-century vampirism, channeling racial and sexual subjectivity through vampirism. Dracula penetrates a supposedly sanctified pornotopia, enabling diverse and perverse sexual representations that are instructive in understanding pornography as erotically engaged with sexual fluidity, genre instability, and oscillating power dynamics.Less
This chapter explores the status, meaning, use, and conflation of gendered orifices and bodily fluids in pornographic adaptations of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. In speaking the supposed silences of Dracula, porn adaptations of the novel must carefully navigate gender and sexuality. These adaptations reveal how hardcore film as a whole operates on anxious ground similar to that of Stoker’s novel, simultaneously invoking and resisting sexual anxieties concerning gendered penetration, gendered fluids, and consumption. Dracula, as a culture text, mobilizes queered, gendered, and raced reformulations of consumer and consumed, queering ostensibly straight pornographies, destabilizing supposedly rigid gender dynamics, and resituating the colonial Other. Dracula adaptations invoke and redeploy the racialized implications of nineteenth-century vampirism, channeling racial and sexual subjectivity through vampirism. Dracula penetrates a supposedly sanctified pornotopia, enabling diverse and perverse sexual representations that are instructive in understanding pornography as erotically engaged with sexual fluidity, genre instability, and oscillating power dynamics.
Terry Chester Shulman
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813178097
- eISBN:
- 9780813178127
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813178097.003.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
An introduction to Maurice Costello and the entertainment world as it existed in America at the beginning of the twentiethcentury. As the rise of film brought about the decline of theater, New York ...
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An introduction to Maurice Costello and the entertainment world as it existed in America at the beginning of the twentiethcentury. As the rise of film brought about the decline of theater, New York became a battleground as the two mediums foughteach other for dominance. Maurice, then a struggling stage actor, waded into this maelstrom of cultural and technological change with afamily to support and a growing dissatisfaction with his profession that would eventually lead him to consider a different option.Less
An introduction to Maurice Costello and the entertainment world as it existed in America at the beginning of the twentiethcentury. As the rise of film brought about the decline of theater, New York became a battleground as the two mediums foughteach other for dominance. Maurice, then a struggling stage actor, waded into this maelstrom of cultural and technological change with afamily to support and a growing dissatisfaction with his profession that would eventually lead him to consider a different option.
Terry Chester Shulman
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813178097
- eISBN:
- 9780813178127
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813178097.003.0003
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Maurice meets Mae and they marry in secret. Immediately after the ceremony he leaves her for six months to go on tour. She says nothing of the marriage to her stepfather, Vincent Tresham, leaving ...
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Maurice meets Mae and they marry in secret. Immediately after the ceremony he leaves her for six months to go on tour. She says nothing of the marriage to her stepfather, Vincent Tresham, leaving that task for her new husband upon his return. Maurice and Tresham have words when the truth comes out, andthe newlyweds storm off to begin married life ontheir own. Mae’s introduction to the itinerant life of struggling stage performer goes from bad to worse when she becomes pregnant and, since Maurice is on the road, has to go live with Maurice’s family in the slums of Pittsburgh.Less
Maurice meets Mae and they marry in secret. Immediately after the ceremony he leaves her for six months to go on tour. She says nothing of the marriage to her stepfather, Vincent Tresham, leaving that task for her new husband upon his return. Maurice and Tresham have words when the truth comes out, andthe newlyweds storm off to begin married life ontheir own. Mae’s introduction to the itinerant life of struggling stage performer goes from bad to worse when she becomes pregnant and, since Maurice is on the road, has to go live with Maurice’s family in the slums of Pittsburgh.
David Brackett
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520225411
- eISBN:
- 9780520925700
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520225411.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
There is a well-developed vocabulary for discussing classical music, but when it comes to popular music, how do we analyze its effects and its meaning? This book draws from the disciplines of ...
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There is a well-developed vocabulary for discussing classical music, but when it comes to popular music, how do we analyze its effects and its meaning? This book draws from the disciplines of cultural studies and music theory to demonstrate how listeners form opinions about popular songs, and how they come to attribute a rich variety of meanings to them. Exploring several genres of popular music through recordings made by Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, Hank Williams, James Brown, and Elvis Costello, the book develops a set of tools for looking at both the formal and cultural dimensions of popular music of all kinds.Less
There is a well-developed vocabulary for discussing classical music, but when it comes to popular music, how do we analyze its effects and its meaning? This book draws from the disciplines of cultural studies and music theory to demonstrate how listeners form opinions about popular songs, and how they come to attribute a rich variety of meanings to them. Exploring several genres of popular music through recordings made by Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, Hank Williams, James Brown, and Elvis Costello, the book develops a set of tools for looking at both the formal and cultural dimensions of popular music of all kinds.
David Brackett
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520225411
- eISBN:
- 9780520925700
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520225411.003.0005
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
This chapter examines Elvis Costello's Pills and Soap in relation to writing, music, dancing, and architecture. It looks at Pills and Soap through contemporary critical discourses about his music, ...
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This chapter examines Elvis Costello's Pills and Soap in relation to writing, music, dancing, and architecture. It looks at Pills and Soap through contemporary critical discourses about his music, his own statements about his music, discourses on modernism and postmodernism, on the aesthetics of those with legitimate and popular taste and the conflict between 1960s countercultural and 1970s punk aesthetics. It also considers the gap between Costello's 1994 reflections on the artistic process and his 1983 statement which appears to advocate a Romantic notion of unmediated artistic spontaneity.Less
This chapter examines Elvis Costello's Pills and Soap in relation to writing, music, dancing, and architecture. It looks at Pills and Soap through contemporary critical discourses about his music, his own statements about his music, discourses on modernism and postmodernism, on the aesthetics of those with legitimate and popular taste and the conflict between 1960s countercultural and 1970s punk aesthetics. It also considers the gap between Costello's 1994 reflections on the artistic process and his 1983 statement which appears to advocate a Romantic notion of unmediated artistic spontaneity.
Alan K. Rode
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780813173917
- eISBN:
- 9780813174808
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813173917.003.0012
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter provides a detailed account about the making of Noah’s Ark (1928). Jack Warner threw out Curtiz’s scenario,which was paired with the biblical flood saga.Curtiz ended up directing a ...
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This chapter provides a detailed account about the making of Noah’s Ark (1928). Jack Warner threw out Curtiz’s scenario,which was paired with the biblical flood saga.Curtiz ended up directing a script written by his future wife, Bess Meredyth, and Anthony Coldeway; the entire production was overseen by Darryl Zanuck. Curtiz’s penchant for realism resulted in the infamous flooding sequence that caused multiple injuries and the alleged fatalities of several extras, which remain unproven to this day. Archival interviews with the stars, Dolores Costello and George O’Brien, and the cameraman Byron Haskin add heft to a detailed account of one of Hollywood’s most notorious productions. Although historically categorized as a flop, Noah’s Ark was a financial success that was Hollywood’s last silent epic, despite the mawkish Vitaphone talking sequences.Curtiz was shielded from any repercussions from the flooding debacle by the brothers Warner, and after an opulent post-premiere party at Bess Meredyth’s house, he looked forward to making more films at Warner Bros.Less
This chapter provides a detailed account about the making of Noah’s Ark (1928). Jack Warner threw out Curtiz’s scenario,which was paired with the biblical flood saga.Curtiz ended up directing a script written by his future wife, Bess Meredyth, and Anthony Coldeway; the entire production was overseen by Darryl Zanuck. Curtiz’s penchant for realism resulted in the infamous flooding sequence that caused multiple injuries and the alleged fatalities of several extras, which remain unproven to this day. Archival interviews with the stars, Dolores Costello and George O’Brien, and the cameraman Byron Haskin add heft to a detailed account of one of Hollywood’s most notorious productions. Although historically categorized as a flop, Noah’s Ark was a financial success that was Hollywood’s last silent epic, despite the mawkish Vitaphone talking sequences.Curtiz was shielded from any repercussions from the flooding debacle by the brothers Warner, and after an opulent post-premiere party at Bess Meredyth’s house, he looked forward to making more films at Warner Bros.
Heather Schoenfeld
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226520964
- eISBN:
- 9780226521152
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226521152.003.0003
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This chapter describes the origins and initial developments around Costello v. Wainwright, the 8th Amendment lawsuit against Florida’s prison system. The chapter argues that prison conditions ...
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This chapter describes the origins and initial developments around Costello v. Wainwright, the 8th Amendment lawsuit against Florida’s prison system. The chapter argues that prison conditions litigation grew out of the Civil Right Movement. In addition, it demonstrates how the federal court’s definition of the problem as prison “capacity” and the white supremacist racial project shaped state officials’ options for legal compliance. Finally, it reveals how reformist corrections bureaucrats used the court order to demand more resources for state prisons.Less
This chapter describes the origins and initial developments around Costello v. Wainwright, the 8th Amendment lawsuit against Florida’s prison system. The chapter argues that prison conditions litigation grew out of the Civil Right Movement. In addition, it demonstrates how the federal court’s definition of the problem as prison “capacity” and the white supremacist racial project shaped state officials’ options for legal compliance. Finally, it reveals how reformist corrections bureaucrats used the court order to demand more resources for state prisons.
Stephen Mulhall
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199661787
- eISBN:
- 9780191748301
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199661787.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Mind
In a recent exchange of essays between Stanley Cavell and Cora Diamond, both found reason to take philosophical pleasure as well as philosophical instruction from J. M. Coetzee's decision to deliver ...
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In a recent exchange of essays between Stanley Cavell and Cora Diamond, both found reason to take philosophical pleasure as well as philosophical instruction from J. M. Coetzee's decision to deliver his Tanner lectures in the form of fictional tales devoted to the celebratory occasion on which Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello delivered the Gates Lecture at Appleton College. This chapter attempts to provide an additional layer of complexity to the portrait of Elizabeth Costello by considering a suggestion that prompted by Diamond's original essay, which paired Coetzee's Costello with Ted Hughes' poem ‘Six Young Men’ as her two leading examples of what it might mean to encounter a difficulty of reality.Less
In a recent exchange of essays between Stanley Cavell and Cora Diamond, both found reason to take philosophical pleasure as well as philosophical instruction from J. M. Coetzee's decision to deliver his Tanner lectures in the form of fictional tales devoted to the celebratory occasion on which Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello delivered the Gates Lecture at Appleton College. This chapter attempts to provide an additional layer of complexity to the portrait of Elizabeth Costello by considering a suggestion that prompted by Diamond's original essay, which paired Coetzee's Costello with Ted Hughes' poem ‘Six Young Men’ as her two leading examples of what it might mean to encounter a difficulty of reality.
Michael Hampe
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780226365282
- eISBN:
- 9780226365312
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226365312.003.0010
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter begins with Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello lectures to engage with questions about translating experiences through fictions.
This chapter begins with Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello lectures to engage with questions about translating experiences through fictions.