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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... lives, giving happy endings to the enormously expensive movies we watch, a triumphant sensibility to our careers (Millions laid off? A highly adaptable workforce!), sports, news, and bouts of intercourse Gordon Theisen □ 4.
... live out our decidedly imperfect life is, with its cracked sidewalks and refuse-strewn gutters, chipped brick, cold granite facades, and padlocked metal gratings, none of which have anything to say about one solitary person's newfound ...
... lives are on an upward trajectory, that they harbor expectations. Rather, a sense of disaster pervades everything: the diner, the customers, the server, the empty street outside, the buildings across the way. They inhabit a different ...
... lives made suddenly meaningless by tenement fires, murders, and car crashes on the streets beneath New York's glittering office towers. The irascible genius Miles Davis, playing love ballads in a detached, muted tone, as if giving in to ...
... live album called Nighthawks at the Diner in 1974. The opening track, “Eggs and Sausage (in a Cadillac with Susan Michelson),” begins with the lines: “Nighthawks at the diner / of Emma's '49er, there's a rendezvous / of strangers around ...
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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 |