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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... movie star easily achieved, that it was, once again—following the twilight of recession and lukewarm liberalism under former peanut farmer Jimmy Carter—“morning in America.” Not that optimism is enough: There are always practical ...
... our 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.
... movie Fat City, the overall look of which was directly inspired by Edward Hopper's desolate 1942 masterpiece, Nighthawks. Haunting but immensely popular (in a country where high art is not highly regarded, useless as it is), this ...
... 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 salesman, who is executed for a ...
... movies as Chinatown (1974), Blue Velvet (1986), Basic Instinct (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), and The Matrix (1999) ... movie's rogue cop protagonist lacks a single sympathetic trait: He's shot a couple of tourists by mistake, has but ...
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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 |