Susan Sontag
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A compilation of sixteen essays, written in the last years of the author's life, offers reflections on her commitment to the power of literature, the resistence to injustice as an ethical duty, and the problems of post-9/11 Ameria.́
6) Women
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
The photographs by Annie Leibovitz in Women, taken especially for the book, encompass a broad spectrum of subjects: a rap artist, an astronaut, two Supreme Court justices, farmers, coal miners, movie stars, showgirls, rodeo riders, socialites, reporters, dancers, a maid, a general, a surgeon, the First Lady of the United States, the secretary of state, a senator, rock stars, prostitutes, teachers, singers, athletes, poets, writers, painters, musicians,...
Series
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Famed writer and critic Susan Sontag's sole documentary project, shot in Israel on the fly in the final days and immediate aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Not only does the film scrutinize the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict, it also brilliantly underscores the deepening divisions within the Jewish thought over the very question of Palestinian sovereignty. Banned by Israeli authorities upon its initial release, it's a visually visceral portrait...
Series
[Syberberg Films] volume 451
Publisher
Distributed by Facets Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
In a series of 22 tableaux set on a soundstage, Syberberg makes use of puppets, props, a Wagnerian soundtrack, and rear-screen projection to evoke Nazi Germany, the origins of the Third Reich, and the aftermath that followed.
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman."--