Gerald Horne
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520243729
- eISBN:
- 9780520939936
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520243729.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
John Howard Lawson loved trains. Perhaps his fondness for trains was generated by his fondness for Hollywood. It was in the pivotal year of 1928 that Lawson was employed by MGM “as one of the first ...
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John Howard Lawson loved trains. Perhaps his fondness for trains was generated by his fondness for Hollywood. It was in the pivotal year of 1928 that Lawson was employed by MGM “as one of the first dramatists imported from New York to meet the need of dialogue.” Sister Carrie defeated Lawson. The Flesh and the Devil was typical of the challenges presented by the transition to sound. The Pagan was a sensation globally. Dynamite was adapted from Lawson's sense of the Processional. The Lawsons would bounce between New York and Los Angeles and this trampoline-like odyssey and instability would eventuate in Lawson conclusively deciding to make a commitment—not only, finally, to his spouse but, in a life-transforming maneuver, to the Screen Writers Guild and the Communist Party.Less
John Howard Lawson loved trains. Perhaps his fondness for trains was generated by his fondness for Hollywood. It was in the pivotal year of 1928 that Lawson was employed by MGM “as one of the first dramatists imported from New York to meet the need of dialogue.” Sister Carrie defeated Lawson. The Flesh and the Devil was typical of the challenges presented by the transition to sound. The Pagan was a sensation globally. Dynamite was adapted from Lawson's sense of the Processional. The Lawsons would bounce between New York and Los Angeles and this trampoline-like odyssey and instability would eventuate in Lawson conclusively deciding to make a commitment—not only, finally, to his spouse but, in a life-transforming maneuver, to the Screen Writers Guild and the Communist Party.
Shira Brisman
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226354750
- eISBN:
- 9780226354897
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226354897.003.0003
- Subject:
- Art, Art History
Describing the official postal system established by emperor Maximilian I in 1490, Chapter Two argues that in the earliest decades of the imperial postal system, the representation of messengers ...
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Describing the official postal system established by emperor Maximilian I in 1490, Chapter Two argues that in the earliest decades of the imperial postal system, the representation of messengers called attention to the shifting loci of authority and to the means and efficacies by which art could serve as a bearer of overt and furtive messages. This chapter explores the notion of transit through the iconography of the horse in prints that circulated around northern Europe.Less
Describing the official postal system established by emperor Maximilian I in 1490, Chapter Two argues that in the earliest decades of the imperial postal system, the representation of messengers called attention to the shifting loci of authority and to the means and efficacies by which art could serve as a bearer of overt and furtive messages. This chapter explores the notion of transit through the iconography of the horse in prints that circulated around northern Europe.
David L. Pike
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- November 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780192846167
- eISBN:
- 9780191938528
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780192846167.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
In the mainstream American bunker imaginary, the communal shelter repels by its very nature. Indeed, for all its ideological basis in the defense of freedom from the forces of communism, the communal ...
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In the mainstream American bunker imaginary, the communal shelter repels by its very nature. Indeed, for all its ideological basis in the defense of freedom from the forces of communism, the communal shelter works primarily to express ambivalence towards the bunker fantasy and the shelter society per se. Consequently, it is the space within the bunker fantasy that most readily affords critical articulations of the cost and dangers of nuclearity. That critical affordance comes nearly always at the price of negativity: in the American nuclear imaginary no one is safe when sheltering outside of his own home. Critical public-shelter texts argued that the only way to imagine a resolution to the crisis faced by the world of the early 1960s was through the form of the bunker fantasy.Less
In the mainstream American bunker imaginary, the communal shelter repels by its very nature. Indeed, for all its ideological basis in the defense of freedom from the forces of communism, the communal shelter works primarily to express ambivalence towards the bunker fantasy and the shelter society per se. Consequently, it is the space within the bunker fantasy that most readily affords critical articulations of the cost and dangers of nuclearity. That critical affordance comes nearly always at the price of negativity: in the American nuclear imaginary no one is safe when sheltering outside of his own home. Critical public-shelter texts argued that the only way to imagine a resolution to the crisis faced by the world of the early 1960s was through the form of the bunker fantasy.
