Staying Up Much Too Late: Edward Hopper's Nighthawks and the Dark Side of the American PsycheMacmillan, 2007年4月1日 - 256 頁 A fascinating study of Edward Hopper's iconic Nighthawks painting and its deep significance for understanding American culture. |
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... feel better than we've ever felt before. The Planet drifts to random insect doom. —WiLLiAM S. BURRoUGHS A preordained belief rather than a lesson learned, American-style optimism hovers above setbacks. But any faith breeds doubt, and in ...
... feel of Hopper's painting, the latter movie's downbeat narrative plays off the optimism of Depression-era songs: Steve Martin plays a lying, selfish, and destitute but always optimistic (he believes in those songs) traveling sheet-music ...
... feel to them. The opening sequence for HBO's The Sopranos, which depicts northern New Jersey as an overdeveloped industrial wasteland, would be one example. Others include the almost apocalyptic urban backdrop of Gordon Theisen □ 12.
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Chapter 2 One Man One Big Damned City | 41 |
Chapter 3 The End of the World Came Sometime Yesterday | 60 |
Chapter 4 When Freedom Means You Dont Know Who You Are | 82 |
Hardcore Nighthawks | 102 |
Wicked Women and WeakWilled Men | 122 |
Chapter 7 Cheap Cigars and ExLax | 144 |
Chapter 8 How to Expect Failure and Avoid Disappointment | 165 |
Chapter 9 Desperate Schemes | 185 |
Chapter 10 America Noir | 205 |
Notes on Sources | 223 |
Acknowledgments | 233 |
Index | 235 |