Chasing Salomé
Chasing Salomé

Author: Martin Turnbull

Publisher:

Published: 2019-08-23

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9781687336163

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Hollywood, 1920 Alla Nazimova has reached the pinnacle of success. She is the highest-paid actress in town, with a luxurious estate, the respect of her peers, adoration of her fans, and a series of lovers that has included the first wife of her protégé, Rudolph Valentino. But reaching the top is one thing. Staying there is an entirely different matter. Nazimova dreams of producing a motion picture of Oscar Wilde's infamous "Salomé." It will be a new form of moviemaking: the world's first art film. But the same executives at Metro Pictures who hailed Nazimova as a genius when she was churning out hit after hit now turn their backs because her last few movies have flopped. Taking matters into her own hands, Nazimova decides to shoot "Salomé" herself. But it means risking everything she has: her reputation, her fortune, her beautiful home, and even her lavender marriage. But will it be enough to turn her fortunes around? Or will Hollywood cut her out of the picture? From the author of the Hollywood's Garden of Allah novels and based on a true story, "Chasing Salomé" takes us inside Nazimova's struggle to achieve a new level of stardom by raising the flickers to an art form.

This Is My Son
This Is My Son

Author: Sharon Lindsay

Publisher: Sharon Lindsay

Published: 2007-10

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 1603830138

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Mary and Joseph knew that their son, Jesus, was the Messiah appointed by God, but what did that mean in terms of the boy's purpose and role? Jesus felt equally puzzled until the fiery hand of the Holy Spirit drew back the curtain that separates the earthly from the heavenly realms and instruction began.

Salome's Modernity
Salome's Modernity

Author: Petra Dierkes-Thrun

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2014-07-28

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0472036041

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Oscar Wilde's 1891 symbolist tragedy Salom has had a rich afterlife in literature, opera, dance, film, and popular culture. Salome's Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression is the first comprehensive scholarly exploration of that extraordinary resonance that persists to the present. Petra Dierkes-Thrun positions Wilde as a founding figure of modernism and Salom as a key text in modern culture's preoccupation with erotic and aesthetic transgression, arguing that Wilde's Salom marks a major turning point from a dominant traditional cultural, moral, and religious outlook to a utopian aesthetic of erotic and artistic transgression. Wilde and Salom are seen to represent a bridge linking the philosophical and artistic projects of writers such as Mallarm , Pater, and Nietzsche to modernist and postmodernist literature and philosophy and our contemporary culture. Dierkes-Thrun addresses subsequent representations of Salome in a wide range of artistic productions of both high and popular culture through the works of Richard Strauss, Maud Allan, Alla Nazimova, Ken Russell, Suri Krishnamma, Robert Altman, Tom Robbins, and Nick Cave, among others.

The Real Chimpanzee
The Real Chimpanzee

Author: Christophe Boesch

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-07-23

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 0521110084

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Encapsulates the behaviour of wild chimps, discussing the differences observed in populations across the species, and levels of social behaviour.

Salome/Elektra
Salome/Elektra

Author: Richard Strauss

Publisher: Alma Books

Published: 2018-01-01

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 0714545120

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Richard Strauss turned his genius to opera at the turn of the twentieth century, and this guide contains the texts and introductions to his first two masterpieces in what was, for him, a new genre. Despite obvious similarities - both operas consisting of one act, centred upon one female title role - the works are quite different in subject and treatment.Salome, based on Oscar Wilde's notorious play, has a kaleidoscopic range of orchestral colour and a lurid climax. Elektra, derived from the myths of the ancient Greeks and the first collaboration between Strauss and Hofmannsthal, is a study in neurosis, ripe for Jungian comparative analysis.Contents: Richard Strauss and the Unveiling of 'Salome', Paul Banks; Salome: Libretto by Hedwig Lachmann; Salome: English translation by Tom Hammond; Hofmannsthal's 'Elektra': from Drama to Libretto, Kenneth Segar; Elektra and the 'Elektra Complex', Christopher Wintle; Elektra: Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal; Elektra: English translation by Anthony Hose; Strauss's Orchestra in 'Salome' and 'Elektra', Jonathan Burton

The Chase
The Chase

Author: Ron Charles

Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.

Published: 2020-03-25

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 1646702107

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The Chase is the second of the three-volume continuum entitled The Hunt. Volume 1 was entitled The Search. It recorded my search for historical documents that confirmed the truth about the life of Jesus, as recorded in the four Gospels of the Bible. Volume 2, The Chase, is a record of the application of the documentation found in The Search, to the truth regarding the life of Jesus, as recorded in the four Gospels of the Bible. Volume 3, The Find, will use historical documents found and applied to the life of Jesus to identify and conform his position as Messiah, forgiving Savior and Eternal King. The second volume, The Chase, of the set of three explores the earthly life of Jesus within the context of known Greco-Roman history, customs, philosophies, and manners of the time. Jesus was born into this world during the time of the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus (January 27 BC to August 14 AD). He lived, ministered and was put to death during the reign of Roman emperor Caesar Tiberius (September 14 AD to March 37 AD). Jesus was born into part of the world governed by Herod the Great, a vassal king appointed by the emperor.

A Man Called Jesus
A Man Called Jesus

Author: Rick Herrick

Publisher: Sunstone Press

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 1611393159

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Have you ever wondered about Nazareth as a place to live in the first century? How about Jesus the miracle worker: how did he do the great deeds reported of him in the New Testament? A Man Called Jesus answers these questions and more. It recreates Jesus as a Jew in contrast to the first Christian of the early church. It’s a novel that makes one central assumption about the historical Jesus. He was a man all about love. In doing so it creates a Jesus that is relevant for all times and all places.

Sisters of Salome
Sisters of Salome

Author: Toni Bentley

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9780803262416

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'Sisters of Salome' explores how four influential dancers embraced the persona of the femme fatale & transformed the misogynist image of a dangerously sexual woman into a form of personal liberation.

Ava and Salomé
Ava and Salomé

Author: Patricia L. Woodard

Publisher: Archway Publishing

Published: 2016-12-19

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 1480840998

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Ava is seven years old when her grandmother offers her a very special trip for her birthday. She lives in New Bern, North Carolina, but her grandmothers gift gives her the chance to visit Cali, Colombia. Ava is thrilled but also a little hesitant. She doesnt speak much Spanish, and shes never been on a long flight across the ocean before. But her grandmother used to live in Cali, and Ava has heard all her amazing stories and becomes curious about the country of Colombia and its people. Will they be very different from Ava? Will she fit in? When she meets Salomalso seven years oldAvas worries soon disappear as she realizes Saloms family is quite similar to her own. With Saloms help, Ava discovers new food, cat and frog art, and when not to take a picture. She also learns that a goat is not always a goat! The girls laugh, have fun, and dance til they drop, all the while learning new words in a foreign tongue. Ava finds that making new friends can happen anywhere, and she cant wait to return to Colombia for more adventures.