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100 1 $aMendelsohn, Daniel Adam,$d1960-
245 10 $aHow beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken :$bessays /$cDaniel Mendelsohn.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bHarperCollins,$c2008.
300 $axix, 456 p. ;$c24 cm.
505 00 $gIntroduction.$tHow beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken --$gPart one. Heroines.$tNovel of the year$t(The lovely bones) --$tNot afraid of Virginia Woolf$t(The hours) --$tVictims on Broadway I$t(The glass menagerie) --$tVictims on Broadway II$t(A streetcar named Desire) --$tThe women of Pedro Almodóvar$t(Volver) --$tLost in Versailles$t(Marie Antoinette) --$tLooking for Lucia$t(Lucia at the Met) --$tNot an ideal husband$r(Ted Hughes's$tAlcestis) --$gPart two. Heroics.$tA little Iliad$t(Troy) --$tAlexander, the movie! --$tDuty$t(300) --$tIt's only a movie$t(Kill Bill, vol. 1) --$tNailed!$rDale Peck's$tHatchet jobs) --$tThe way out$t(Everyman) --$tMighty Hermaphrodite$t(Middlesex) --$gPart three. Closets.$tThe passion of Henry James$t(The Master) --$tThe two Oscar Wildes$t(The Importance of being earnest) --$tThe tale of two Housmans$t(The Invention of love) --$tThe Truman Show$t(The stories and letters of$rTruman Capote) --$tWinged messages$t(Angels in America) --$tAn affair to remember$t(Brokeback Mountain) --$tThe man behind the curtain$r(John Boswell,$tSame-sex unions in premodern Europe) --$gPart four. Theater.$tThe Greek way$t(Greek tragedies in New York) --$tBitter-sweet$t(Private lives) --$tDouble take$t(The producers) --$tHarold Pinter's celebration$r(Pinter retrospective at Lincoln Center) --$gPart five. War.$tTheaters of war$r(Thucydides'$tHistory) --$tThe bad boy of Athens$t(Medea on Broadway) --$tFor the birds$t(Nathan Lane's$tFrogs) --$tSeptember 11 at the movies$t(World Trade Center and United 93).
520 $aA collection of essays that mostly appeared in the New York Review of Books in which the classicist/critic looks at contemporary culture through its movies, books and theater.
650 0 $aMotion pictures$vReviews.
650 0 $aBooks$vReviews.
650 0 $aTheater$vReviews.
600 10 $aMendelsohn, Daniel Adam,$d1960-$xCriticism and interpretation$xHistory$y20th century.
600 10 $aMendelsohn, Daniel Adam,$d1960-$xCriticism and interpretation$xHistory$y21st century.
650 0 $aCritics$zUnited States.
650 0 $aInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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