How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken : essays /
Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960-
How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken : essays / Daniel Mendelsohn. - 1st ed. - New York : Harper, c2008. - xix, 456 p. ; 24 cm.
How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken -- Novel of the year Not afraid of Virginia Woolf Victims on Broadway I Victims on Broadway II The women of Pedro AlmodoÌvar Lost in Versailles Looking for Lucia Not an ideal husband A little Iliad Alexander, the movie!) -- Duty It's only a movie Nailed! Dale Peck's hatchet jobs) -- The way out Mighty Hermaphrodite The Passion of Henry James The Two Oscar Wildes The tale of two housmans The Truman Show Winged messages An affair to remember The man behind the curtain The Greek way Bitter-Sweet Double Take Harold Pinter's celebration Theaters of war The Bad boy of Athens For the birds September 11 at the movies (The lovely bones) -- (The hours) -- (The glass menagerie) -- (A streetcar named desire) -- (Volver ) -- (Marie Antoinette) -- (Lucia at the Met) -- (Ted Hughes's Alcestis) -- (Troy) -- (300) -- (Kill Bill, vol. 1) -- (Everyman) -- (Middlesex) -- (The Master) -- (The Importance of Being earnest) -- (The Invention of love) -- (The stories and letters of Truman Capote) -- (Angels in America) -- (Brokeback Mountain) -- (John Boswell, Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe) -- (Greek tragedies in New York) -- (Private lives) -- (The producers) -- (Pinter retrospective at Lincoln Center) -- (Thucydides' history) -- (Medea on Broadway) -- (Nathan Lane's Frogs) -- (World Trade Center and United 93). Introduction. Part one. Heroines. Part two. Heroics. Part three. Closets. Part four. Theater. Part five. War.
A 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.
9780061456435 (acidfree paper) 0061456438 (acid-free paper)
2007048282
Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960- --Criticism and interpretation--History--20th century.
Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960- --Criticism and interpretation--History--21st century.
Critics--United States.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Motion pictures--Reviews.
Books--Reviews.
Theater--Reviews.
PN1995 / .M432 2008
801/.95 809.4
How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken : essays / Daniel Mendelsohn. - 1st ed. - New York : Harper, c2008. - xix, 456 p. ; 24 cm.
How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken -- Novel of the year Not afraid of Virginia Woolf Victims on Broadway I Victims on Broadway II The women of Pedro AlmodoÌvar Lost in Versailles Looking for Lucia Not an ideal husband A little Iliad Alexander, the movie!) -- Duty It's only a movie Nailed! Dale Peck's hatchet jobs) -- The way out Mighty Hermaphrodite The Passion of Henry James The Two Oscar Wildes The tale of two housmans The Truman Show Winged messages An affair to remember The man behind the curtain The Greek way Bitter-Sweet Double Take Harold Pinter's celebration Theaters of war The Bad boy of Athens For the birds September 11 at the movies (The lovely bones) -- (The hours) -- (The glass menagerie) -- (A streetcar named desire) -- (Volver ) -- (Marie Antoinette) -- (Lucia at the Met) -- (Ted Hughes's Alcestis) -- (Troy) -- (300) -- (Kill Bill, vol. 1) -- (Everyman) -- (Middlesex) -- (The Master) -- (The Importance of Being earnest) -- (The Invention of love) -- (The stories and letters of Truman Capote) -- (Angels in America) -- (Brokeback Mountain) -- (John Boswell, Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe) -- (Greek tragedies in New York) -- (Private lives) -- (The producers) -- (Pinter retrospective at Lincoln Center) -- (Thucydides' history) -- (Medea on Broadway) -- (Nathan Lane's Frogs) -- (World Trade Center and United 93). Introduction. Part one. Heroines. Part two. Heroics. Part three. Closets. Part four. Theater. Part five. War.
A 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.
9780061456435 (acidfree paper) 0061456438 (acid-free paper)
2007048282
Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960- --Criticism and interpretation--History--20th century.
Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960- --Criticism and interpretation--History--21st century.
Critics--United States.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Motion pictures--Reviews.
Books--Reviews.
Theater--Reviews.
PN1995 / .M432 2008
801/.95 809.4