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On cold winter days, when you're driving through a heavy snowstorm, looking forward through the windshield, you can hardly see where you're going. But if you look in the rearview mirror, you can see a long way behind you. Life can be like that. On days when it's hard to see where you're going, it pays to look at where you've been. In Forever and a Day, author Buck Carson looks back on his life, offering a look at the last ninety-some years.

In this memoir, Carson shares the details of his long-lived life, providing information about growing up in Pennsylvania, his love of baseball,...

"This book will also, hopefully, scare you. We say hopefully, because hopefully they will frighten you at the thought that these images were once in fact perfectly acceptable. They were available to any child of any age with a dime, in a time when comic books were still sold in grocery stores, mom-and-pop convenience stores, gas stations, bus stations, etc. Some of the comics in this book were seen by hundreds of thousands of people, and they saw nothing wrong with them at the time..."

Ist Helena je in Troja gewesen? Wurde der Krieg einst um ein Trugbild von ihr geführt? Und mit welchen Listen könnte es gelingen, der Gewalt der Männer und ihrer Welt zu entkommen? In Norma Jeane Baker von Troja verschmilzt Anne Carson die ikonischen Frauengestalten Marilyn Monroe (geboren Norma Jeane Baker) und Euripides' Helena. Sie erkennen sich als überzeitliche Objekte männlichen Begehrens, und wir erkennen in ihnen widerständige Zauberinnen des Menschengeschicks. Während Kriege ausbrechen und Männer sich und die Welt ins Verderben stürzen, nimmt das Drama seinen Lauf...

His name is synonymous with -independent film, - and for more than twenty-five years, filmmaker John Sayles has tackled issues ranging from race and sexuality to the abuses of capitalism and American culture, aspiring to a type of realism that Hollywood can rarely portray. This collection offers unprecedented coverage of Sayles's craft and content, as it deploys a rich variety of critical methods to explore the full scope of his work. Together the essays afford a deeper understanding not only of the individual films-including his 1980 The Return of the Secaucus Seven (named to the National...