TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mendelsohn,Daniel Adam
TI  - How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken: essays 
SN  - 9780061456435 (acidfree paper)
AV  - PN1995 .M432 2008
U1  - 801/.95 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Harper
KW  - Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam,
KW  - Critics
KW  - United States
KW  - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Reviews
KW  - Books
KW  - Theater
N1  - Introduction; How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken --; Part one. Heroines; Novel of the year; (The lovely bones)  --; Not afraid of Virginia Woolf; (The hours) --; Victims on Broadway I; (The glass menagerie) --; Victims on Broadway II; (A streetcar named desire)  --; The women of Pedro AlmodoÌvar; (Volver ) --; Lost in Versailles; (Marie Antoinette) --; Looking for Lucia; (Lucia at the Met) --; Not an ideal husband; (Ted Hughes's Alcestis) --; Part two. Heroics; A little Iliad; (Troy) --; Alexander, the movie!) --; Duty; (300) --; It's only a movie; (Kill Bill, vol. 1) --; Nailed! Dale Peck's hatchet jobs) --; The way out; (Everyman) --; Mighty Hermaphrodite; (Middlesex) --; Part three. Closets; The Passion of Henry James; (The Master) --; The Two Oscar Wildes; (The Importance of Being earnest) --; The tale of two housmans; (The Invention of love) --; The Truman Show; (The stories and letters of Truman Capote) --; Winged messages; (Angels in America) --; An affair to remember; (Brokeback Mountain) --; The man behind the curtain; (John Boswell, Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe) --; Part four. Theater; The Greek way; (Greek tragedies in New York) --; Bitter-Sweet; (Private lives) --; Double Take; (The producers) --; Harold Pinter's celebration; (Pinter retrospective at Lincoln Center) --; Part five. War; Theaters of war; (Thucydides' history) --; The Bad boy of Athens; (Medea on Broadway) --; For the birds; (Nathan Lane's Frogs) --; September 11 at the movies; (World Trade Center and United 93)
N2  - 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
ER  -