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Giant: George Stevens, a Life on Film
Marilyn Ann Moss
University of Wisconsin Press, 2004
Library of Congress PN1998.3.S738M67 2004 | Dewey Decimal 791.430233092
Marilyn Ann Moss’s Giant examines the life of one of the most influential directors to work in Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1960s. George Stevens directed such popular and significant films as Shane, Giant, A Place in the Sun, and The Diary of Anne Frank. He was the first to pair Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy on film in Woman of the Year. Through the study of Stevens’s life and his production history, Moss also presents a glimpse of the workings of the classic Hollywood studio system in its glory days.
Moss documents Stevens’s role as a powerful director who often had to battle the heads of major studios to get his films made his way. She traces the four decades Stevens was a major Hollywood player and icon, from his earliest days at the Hal Roach Studios—where he learned to be a cameraman, writer, and director for Laurel and Hardy features—up to when his films made millions at the box office and were graced by actors such as Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Alan Ladd, and Montgomery Clift.
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The Life of a Virus: Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930-1965
Angela N. H. Creager
University of Chicago Press, 2001
Library of Congress QR402.C74 2002 | Dewey Decimal 579.28
We normally think of viruses in terms of the devastating diseases they cause, from smallpox to AIDS. But in The Life of a Virus, Angela N. H. Creager introduces us to a plant virus that has taught us much of what we know about all viruses, including the lethal ones, and that also played a crucial role in the development of molecular biology.
Focusing on the tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) research conducted in Nobel laureate Wendell Stanley's lab, Creager argues that TMV served as a model system for virology and molecular biology, much as the fruit fly and laboratory mouse have for genetics and cancer research. She examines how the experimental techniques and instruments Stanley and his colleagues developed for studying TMV were generalized not just to other labs working on TMV, but also to research on other diseases such as poliomyelitis and influenza and to studies of genes and cell organelles. The great success of research on TMV also helped justify increased spending on biomedical research in the postwar years (partly through the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis's March of Dimes)—a funding priority that has continued to this day.
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Lizards on the Mantel, Burros at the Door: A Big Bend Memoir
By Etta Koch with June Cooper Price
University of Texas Press, 1999
Library of Congress F392.B53K63 1999 | Dewey Decimal 976.4932
A woman who went West with her husband in the 1840s must have expected hardships and privation, but during the 1940s, when Etta Koch stopped off in Big Bend with her young family and a 23-foot travel trailer in tow, she anticipated no more than a civilized camping trip between her old home in Ohio and a new one in Arizona. It was only when she found herself moving into an old rock house without plumbing or electricity in the new Big Bend National Park that Etta realized, "From the sheltered life of a city girl of moderate circumstances, I too would have to face the reality of frontier living."
In this book based on her journals and letters, Etta Koch and her daughter June Cooper Price chronicle their family's first years (1944-1946) in the Big Bend. Etta describes how her photographer husband Peter Koch became captivated by the region as a place for natural history filmmaking-and how she and their three young daughters slowly adapted to a pioneer lifestyle during his months' long absences on the photo-lecture circuit. In vivid, often humorous anecdotes, she describes making the rock house into a home, getting to know the Park Service personnel and other neighbors, coping with the local wildlife, and, most of all, learning to love the rugged landscape and the hardy individuals who call it home.
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Portage Lake: Memories of an Ojibwe Childhood
Maude Kegg
University of Minnesota Press, 1993
Library of Congress E99.C6K445 1993 | Dewey Decimal 977.686
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Roy Pascal and Georg Lukács: Towards a Re-Evaluation of the History of Marxist Literary Criticism in Britain?
Helmut Peitsch
University of London Press, 2018
Library of Congress PN98.C6P45 2018 | Dewey Decimal 801.950941
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The third spring: G.K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Christopher Dawson, and David Jones
Adam Schwartz
Catholic University of America Press, 2005
Library of Congress BX4668.A1S39 2005 | Dewey Decimal 248.242092241
This book is the first detailed examination of these four authors as part of a Roman Catholic, counter-modern community of discourse. It is informed by extensive research in the writers' works, scholarship on them, and their personal papers.
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