The autobiography of the actor, director, producer, and television star Leon Askin, traces his life from his youth in Vienna to his experiences as an actor and director. Following his forced exile as a Jewish refugee in 1938, incarceration in France, and U.S. military service, he was able to continue his theater career in the U.S. and also score great success as General Burkhalter in the popular TV series Hogan's Heroes. Featured are Askin's interpretations of major plays based on his most important stage roles and his acclaimed directorial achievements.
Analyzes the unique satirical social and political commentary offered by Hogan’s Heroes during a volatile period in American history. Hogan’s Heroes originally aired between 1965 and 1971 on CBS, corresponding to the most uncertain years of America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. In an era when attitudes about the military, patriotism, and authority were undergoing a sea change, Hogan’s Heroes did not offer direct commentary on the conflict, but instead explored incompetent military leaders, draft dodging, and perpetual war in an absurd storyline about Allied saboteurs inside a World War II German prisoner of war camp. In Hogan’s Heroes, author Robert Shandley argues that the series reveals much about the parameters of comedy on militarism and war before the popularity of comedic social realism that would define later programs, like the more critically acclaimed M*A*S*H. In three chapters, Shandley investigates the significance of Hogan’s Heroes to social, cultural, and television history. First, Shandley places Hogan’s Heroes within its generic and television history contexts, providing background on the genre of "uniform sitcoms" that were popular in the mid-60s. In the second chapter, he places the series within the historical, filmic, and televisual discourses surrounding World War II, including the fact that several of its actors were refugees from the racial politics of Nazi Germany. Finally, Shandley demonstrates how the series uses its generic framework to engage in debates about the conflict in Vietnam and American militarism and shows that Hogan’s Heroes laid the groundwork upon which M*A*S*H would build. Since the storyline and characters in Hogan’s Heroes do not significantly progress throughout the run of the show, Shandley primarily analyzes the show at the episode level to make the most of specific performances and content. While it was moderately successful in its network run between 1965 and 1971, Hogan’s Heroes has enjoyed constant play in syndicated re-release since its cancellation. Fans of this well-loved show and scholars of television history will appreciate this insightful study of Hogan’s Heroes.
This book teaches you how to begin to have a good day on a bad day. It teaches you how to train your brains, how to grow into feeling a sense of well-being, most of the time, in less than six months. It does so by teaching easy to learn positive emotion techniques to be practiced a few minutes several times everyday for several months to create new positive nerve networks in the brain which is now based upon recent advances in neuroscience. Dr. Kelley, an eclectic psychiatrist began to develop the ABCs of Healing Feelings thirty years ago to strengthen the ego strengths of patients for them to benefit from psychotherapy. These techniques are also effective in others for developing an optimal state of well-being for enhanced resilience in various life stressors.
This volume surveys and assesses the contributions of Vsevolod Meyerhold, Erwin Piscator and Bertolt Brecht to theatre-making, which richly exemplify the range of ways that directors address dramatic material, theatrical space and their audiences. Their directorial work marks an unmistakeable interest in developing the political potential of theatre in the early 20th century, although each director offered more to their actors, collaborators and spectators than simply the staging of politics and the political.
Character. Honor. Control. Family. Friendship. All essential elements in the complex matrix called The Human Condition. American futurist Mark Antony Rossi leads an expedition through the conscience to uncover our brightest hopes and stop the forces that punish positive potential.
Literature can have a disturbing effect on its readers. It unsettles our hold on everyday experience and makes us strangers and exiles. Anna Smith argues that this is the side of literature which attracts critic and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva. Kristeva is drawn to states of extremity where language and the psyche are under duress, and in this book Smith examines the way the alchemical properties of words may transform these extremities into what Kristeva calls 'a fire of tongues, an exit from representation'.
Embark on an enchanting journey with “Beyond Horizons: Verses of Adventure,” a mesmerizing poetry collection that captures the essence of wanderlust and the thrill of exploration. Within the pages of this evocative anthology, readers will discover 100 poems that traverse the landscapes of travel, unveiling the beauty and excitement that lie beyond the familiar horizons. Through lyrical prose and vivid imagery, each poem paints a tapestry of destinations – from bustling cities to serene natural wonders – inviting readers to join the poet on a quest for self-discovery and awe-inspiring encounters. The verses resonate with the universal longing for adventure, offering a poetic passport to unexplored territories and a celebration of the transformative power of the journey. “Beyond Horizons” is more than a collection of poems; it is a symphony of emotions that delves into the connections between traveler and terrain, exploring the profound impact of exploration on the soul. As readers traverse the poetic landscapes, they will find themselves amidst the hustle of foreign streets, beneath starlit skies, and atop majestic peaks. Whether you are a seasoned explorer or an armchair adventurer, “Beyond Horizons: Verses of Adventure” invites you to discover the extraordinary in the ordinary and to embrace the spirit of adventure that resides within us all. Let these verses be your guide as you navigate the uncharted realms of the heart and find inspiration in the boundless possibilities that await those who dare to explore
In the visionary tradition of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, One Square Inch of Silence alerts us to beauty that we take for granted and sounds an urgent environmental alarm. Natural silence is our nation’s fastest-disappearing resource, warns Emmy-winning acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton, who has made it his mission to record and preserve it in all its variety—before these soul-soothing terrestrial soundscapes vanish completely in the ever-rising din of man-made noise. Recalling the great works on nature written by John Muir, John McPhee, and Peter Matthiessen, this beautifully written narrative, co-authored with John Grossmann, is also a quintessentially American story—a road trip across the continent from west to east in a 1964 VW bus. But no one has crossed America like this. Armed with his recording equipment and a decibel-measuring sound-level meter, Hempton bends an inquisitive and loving ear to the varied natural voices of the American landscape—bugling elk, trilling thrushes, and drumming, endangered prairie chickens. He is an equally patient and perceptive listener when talking with people he meets on his journey about the importance of quiet in their lives. By the time he reaches his destination, Washington, D.C., where he meets with federal officials to press his case for natural silence preservation, Hempton has produced a historic and unforgettable sonic record of America. With the incisiveness of Jack Kerouac’s observations on the road and the stirring wisdom of Robert Pirsig repairing an aging vehicle and his life, One Square Inch of Silence provides a moving call to action. More than simply a book, it is an actual place, too, located in one of America’s last naturally quiet places, in Olympic National Park in Washington State.
Discusses the works of William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Gordon, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, John Clare, George Darley, and others.
