Author: Lester D. Friedman
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Keywords: american, cinema, decades, culture, screen, themes, 1970s, variations
Number of Pages: 285
Published: 2007-04-15
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0813540224
ISBN-13: 9780813540221

A smug glance at the seventies-the so-called Me Decade-unveils a kaleidoscope of big hair, blaring music, and broken politics-all easy targets for satire, cynicism, and ultimately even nostalgia. American Cinema of the 1970s, however, looks beyond the strobe lights to reveal how profoundly the seventies have influenced American life and how the films of that decade represent a peak moment in cinema history. Far from a placid era, the seventies was a decade of social upheavals. Events such as the killing of students at Kent State and Jackson State universities, the Watergate investigations, th

Author: Lester Friedman
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Keywords: american, cinema, decades, culture, screen, themes, 1970s, variations
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-02-20
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0813540232
ISBN-13: 9780813540238

A smug glance at the seventies--the so-called "Me Decade"--unveils a kaleidoscope of big hair, blaring music, and broken politics--all easy targets for satire, cynicism, and ultimately even nostalgia. American Cinema of the 1970s, however, looks beyond the strobe lights to reveal how profoundly the seventies have influenced American life and how the films of that decade represent a peak moment in cinema history. Far from a placid era, the seventies was a decade of social upheavals. Events such as the killing of students at Kent State and Jackson State universities, the Waterga

Author: Lester Friedman
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Keywords: thatcherism, cinema, british, started, fires
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-01-15
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1904764711
ISBN-13: 9781904764717

Fires Were Started is a provocative analysis of the responses of British film to the policies and political ideology of the Conservative governments of Margaret Thatcher and it represents an original and stimulating contribution to our knowledge of British cinema. This second edition includes revised and updated contributions from some of the leading scholars of British cinema, including Thomas Elsaesser, Peter Wollen and Manthia Diawara. The book discuss prominent filmmakers such as Peter Greenaway, Derek Jarman, Ken Russell, Nicolas Roeg and Stephen Frears, it also explores some lesser know

Authors:John Lester Miller, Ed Friedman,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: thumb, rules, communications, optical
Number of Pages: 428
Published: 2002-11-20
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0071387781
ISBN-13: 9780071387781

We are taking the unique rules of thumb format that drove the authors’ previous Photonics Rules of Thumb, and creating a new volume for the Optical telecommunications field. Rules of thumb are short-cuts, tricks, and methods that industry vets have developed through long years of trial and error. These books share such rules with less experienced readers, who find such information incredibly valuable.

Authors:David Desser, Lester D. Friedman,
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: filmmakers, jewish, american
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2003-11-07
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0252071530
ISBN-13: 9780252071539

Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Sidney Lumet, and Paul Mazursky, all sons of East European Jews, remain among the most prominent contemporary American film directors. In this revised, updated second edition of American Jewish Filmmakers, David Desser and Lester D. Friedman demonstrate how the Jewish experience gives rise to an intimately linked series of issues in the films of these and other significant Jewish directors. The effects of the Holocaust linger, both in gripping dramatic form (Mazursky’s Enemies, a Love Story) and in black comedy (Brooks’s The Producers). In his trilogy co

Authors:Lester D. Friedman, Brent Notbohm,
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Keywords: filmmakers, conversations, interviews, spielberg, steven
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2000-04-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 157806113X
ISBN-13: 9781578061136

Authors:Herman Friedman, Thomas W. Klein, Andrea L. Friedman
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: infection, stress, psychoneuroimmunology
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1995-10-20
List price: $309.95
ISBN-10: 0849376386
ISBN-13: 9780849376382

Psychoneuroimmunology is the emerging science devoted to studying the two-way relationship between the nervous and immune systems. Psychoneuroimmunology, Stress, and Infection highlights the latest information concerning microbial infections in both man and animals as related to stress and especially stress hormones.The volume focuses on psychoneuroimmunology as it impacts the immune system in general and also the relationship between neurological events which influence susceptibility and/or resistance to infectious agents such as bacteria, fungi and viruses, as well as parasites. Prominent re