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The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

From the ground breaking director of ROCK HUDSON'S HOME MOVIES and FROM THE JOURNALS OF JEAN SEBERG, Mark Rappaport takes us on hilarious and provocative romp through the hidden and not so hidden gay undercurrents of Hollywoods Golden Years. Dan Butler (Frasier) acts as tour guide as he uncovers, despite efforts to launder American cinema of even the faintest traces of gay influences, Hollywood's squeamish fascination with gay eroticism and camp. Through the use of ingenious film clips, along with Rappaport's signature witty insights, THE SILVER SCREEN/COLOR ME LAVENDER brilliantly uncovers the unmistakable homoerotic flirtations, and the ambiguous behavior that richly imbued the peformances of Danny Kaye, Jerry Lewis, Cary Grant, and other film legends. THE SILVER SCREEN/COLOR ME LAVENDER is a rich and funny meditation on American sexual identity, film history and culture that will change the way you look at butch westerns or the campy charades of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in their "buddy" movies forever.

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Purloined Letters: Cultural Borrowing and Japanese Crime Literature, 1868-1937

This engaging study of the detective story's arrival in Japan - and of the broader cross-cultural borrowing that accompanied it - argues for a reassessment of existing models of literary influence between "unequal" cultures. Because the detective story had no pre-existing native equivalent in Japan, the genre's formulaic structure acted as a distinctive cultural marker, making plain the process of its incorporation into late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japanese letters. Mark Silver tells the story of Japan's adoption of this new Western literary form at a time when the nation was also remaking itself in the image of the Western powers. His account calls into question conventional notions of cultural domination and resistance, demonstrating the variety of possible modes for cultural borrowing, the surprising vagaries of inter-cultural transfer, and the power of the local contexts in which "imitation" occurs."Purloined Letters" considers a fascinating range of primary texts populated by wise judges, faceless corpses, wily confidence women, desperate blackmailers, a fetishist who secrets himself for days inside a leather armchair, and a host of other memorable figures. The work begins by analyzing Tokugawa courtroom narratives and early Meiji biographies of female criminals (dokufu-mono, or "poison-woman stories"), which dominated popular crime writing in Japan before the detective story's arrival. It then traces the mid-Meiji absorption of French, British, and American detective novels into Japanese literary culture through the quirky translations of muckraking journalist Kuroiwa Ruiko. Subsequent chapters take up a series of detective stories nostalgically set in the old city of Edo by Okamoto Kido (a Kabuki playwright inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes) and the erotic, grotesque, and macabre works of Edogawa Ranpo, whose pen-name punned on "Edgar Allan Poe."

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Reed & Barton Francis I Sterling Silver Platter Spoon Old Marks

Francis I All Sterling 14" Platter Spoon Old Marks. 14" long 8.2 oz. Made in USA

• All Sterling Silver
• Old Marks
• 8.2 oz
• 14"
• made in USA

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German 5 Mark Silver "Eagle" Two Tone Cut Out Coin Belt Buckle

The coin is a little smaller than a U.S. half dollar. First, a small hole is drilled into the coin. Then, by hand, a very fine jeweler's saw blade is inserted through the hole and worked around the coin's design, cutting away the background, thus leaving the coin's figure floating inside its outer edge. The figure is then selectively layered, by hand, in brilliant gold and silver. Each work of art comes complete, in a belt buckle and nice box.Note: This buckle is U.S. made and is 2-3/8Ó x 3-3/8Ó. It will fit all belts up to 1Ó The outer edge of each buckle is silver and the center is gold.

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WOW Silver Question Mark * CHARM for bracelet

Just ADORABLE! This Question Mark Charm is Crafted of Solid Sterling Silver and stamped .925. Charming Piece! Very Stylish! Link opens for easy attatchment!

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Choral Music of Edward Elgar

"The Choir of Trinity College is mixed; it uses female sopranos and altos. This gives the upper lines a warm, flexible sound ... The choir respond well to [Richard Marlow's] direction and give some fine, shapely performances." -- MusicWeb International "One of the world's greatest choirs." -- ClassicsToday Cambridge's Trinity College Choir is a world-famous mixed choir with over 40 CD recordings. Their first recording on Gothic, featuring Edward Elgar's choral music, includes some of the finest examples of English Romantic music, performed to perfection as only an English choir can! This is one of Richard Marlow's last recordings as Director of Music at Trinity. His innovative career at Trinity spans almost 40 years, where he has also been active as an editor, scholar, and journalist. He has been a visiting professor at universities in Tokyo, Texas, New England, and New Zealand.

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