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Medievalia et Humanistica Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.5771/9781538172889

Cornel Bonca

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Chapter 4: Stupidity of the Signifier 第四章：能指的愚蠢

Medievalia et Humanistica Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.5771/9781786616210-69

Cindy Zeiher

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Cinema of Swords 刀剑电影

Medievalia et Humanistica Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.5771/9781493065639

Lawrence Ellsworth

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A Disturbance in the Force 原力的扰动

Medievalia et Humanistica Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.5771/9781493075287

Steve Kozak

{"title":"A Disturbance in the Force","authors":"Steve Kozak","doi":"10.5771/9781493075287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9781493075287","url":null,"abstract":"Bea Arthur as the owner of the Mos Eisley Cantina. Long scenes entirely of Wookies bleating at each other, without subtitles. Harvey Korman, in drag, as a four-armed Space Julia Child. Six minutes of Jefferson Starship performing for Art Carney and a bored Imperial Guard. Mark Hamill, fresh from his near-fatal motorcycle accident, slathered in pancake makeup. A salacious holographic burlesque from Diahann Carroll. Even by the standards of the 1970s, even compared to Jar-Jar Binks, the legendary 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special is a peerlessly cringeworthy pop-culture artifact. George Lucas, who completely disowned the production, reportedly has said, “If I had the time and a sledgehammer, I would track down every copy of that show and smash it.” Just how on earth did this thing ever see the light of day? To answer that question, as Steven Kozak shows in this fascinating and often hilarious inside look into the making of the Special, you have to understand the cultural moment in which it appeared—a long, long time ago when cheesy variety shows were a staple of network television and Star Wars was not yet the billion-dollar multimedia behemoth that it is today. Kozak explains how the Special was one piece of a PR blitz undertaken by Lucas and his colleagues as they sought to protect the emerging franchise from hostile studio executives. He shows how, despite the involvement of some of the most talented people in the business, creative differences between movie and television writers led to a wildly uneven product. He gives entertaining accounts of the problems that plagued production, which included a ruinously expensive cantina set; the acrimonious departure of the director and Lucas himself; and a furious Grace Slick, just out of rehab, demanding to be included in the production. Packed with memorable anecdotes, drawing on extensive new interviews with countless people involved in the production, and told with mingled affection and bewilderment, this never-before-told story gives a fascinating look at a strange moment in pop-culture history that remains an object of fascination even today.","PeriodicalId":36003,"journal":{"name":"Medievalia et Humanistica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147914204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Part III: Feminist Icon 第三部分：女权主义偶像

Medievalia et Humanistica Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.5771/9781538153895-89

Regina Luttrell

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Carefully Taught 认真教

Medievalia et Humanistica Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.5771/9781493065417

Cary Ginell

{"title":"Carefully Taught","authors":"Cary Ginell","doi":"10.5771/9781493065417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9781493065417","url":null,"abstract":"Carefully Taught looks at American history as depicted in forty Broadway musicals. Presented chronologically according to the musical timeframe, award-winning theater critic and author Cary Ginell dissects the stories, characters, and songs to not only examine how Broadway viewed historical events, epochs, and personalities, but also to capture how dramatic license separated fact from fantasy. The chosen musicals fall into a variety of categories: biographies of famous Americans, (Andrew Jackson and Fiorello LaGuardia), stories with national conflicts (Hamilton, South Pacific), events that captured the attention of the American public (Floyd Collins, Newsies), and sociological studies or satires of specific eras (The Music Man, Hair). Many books have been written about Broadway, but Carefully Taught, from the song \"You've Got To Be Carefully Taught\"in South Pacific, uniquely approaches American history from two vantage points: the point of view of the playwright and composer accompanied with the context of how these events were seen when they were produced versus how they are seen today. Ginell’s research of contemporary theater reviews and in-depth studies of productions’ back stories play off his knowledge gained from his quarter century as a theater critic in Southern California.The combination is a complete overview of American history on the stage from the coveted balcony seat.","PeriodicalId":36003,"journal":{"name":"Medievalia et Humanistica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147895733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Book of Broadway Musical Debates, Disputes, and Disagreements 百老汇音乐剧辩论、争论和分歧之书

Medievalia et Humanistica Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.5771/9781493067954

Peter Filichia

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A Visual History of Walking Sticks and Canes 手杖和手杖的视觉历史

Medievalia et Humanistica Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.5771/9781538144961

Anthony Moss

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2 Addressing lgbtq+ Issues With Preservice Teachers in Conservative Spaces 与保守空间的职前教师解决lgbtq+问题

Medievalia et Humanistica Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.5771/9781475853605-23

Mari Riojas-Cortez

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1 Preparing Early Childhood Teachers for the Importance of Seeing Color in Children 让幼儿教师认识到儿童看颜色的重要性

Medievalia et Humanistica Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.5771/9781475853605-1

Mari Riojas-Cortez

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