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La Strada
Federico Fellini, Director
Rutgers University Press
The performances by Giulietta Masina as the waif Gelsomina, Richard Basehart as the fool, and Anthony Quinn as the strongman Zampano, have been acclaimed for their power and sometimes ridiculed for their sentimentality. The debates over what these characters and the story represent, and the position of the film within the neorealist genre, continue today. This translation and critical edition of the continuity script for "La Strada" is a guide to the film. The notes to the shooting script enable the reader to reconstruct some of Fellini's changes while shooting the film. The edition also contains an introduction, which analyzes the work's place in film history and provides a number of articles on the film's production. Fellini's most interviews and statements on "La Strada" are included as well.
Bible Believers
Fundamentalists in the Modern World
Rutgers University Press
Examines the daily life of the congregation of a Fundamentalist church in a suburb in the Northeast.
To Be A Slave in Brazil
1550-1888
Rutgers University Press
This book places the slave in the center of the history not simply as a type of labor, but as an actor whose culture, actions and decisions influenced the operation of the system. It is written with verve and grace for a general readership.
Papers of William Livingston
Papers of William Livingston, vol. 4
By Carl Prince
Rutgers University Press
American Mainline Religion
Its Changing Shape and Future
By Wade Clark Roof and William McKinney
Rutgers University Press
American Mainline Religion provides a new "mapping" of the families of American religion and the underlying social, cultural, and demographic forces that will reshape American religion in the century to come. Going beyond the headlines in daily newspapers, Roof and McKinney document the decline of the Protestant establishment, the rise of a more assimilated and public-minded Roman Catholicism, the place of black Protestantism and Judaism, and the resurgence of conservative Protestantism as a religious and cultural force.
Hope Leslie
Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts
By Catherine Maria Sedgwick; Edited by Mary Kelley
Rutgers University Press
Hope Leslie (1827), set in the seventeenth-century New England, is a novel that forced readers to confront the consequences of the Puritans’ subjugation and displacement of the indigenous Indian population at a time when contemporaries were demanding still more land from the Cherokees, the Chickasaws, and the Choctaws.
Stories from the Country of Lost Borders by Mary Austin
Edited by Marjorie Pryse
Rutgers University Press
Mary Austin's The Land of Little Rain (1903) and Lost Borders (1909), both set in the California desert, make intimate connections between animals, people, and the land they inhabit. For Austin, the two indispensable conditions of her fiction were that the region must enter the story "as another character, as the instigator of plot," and that the story must reflect "the essential qualities of the land."
Culture Builders
A Historical Anthropology of Middle Class Life
By Jonas Frykman and Orvar Lofgren
Rutgers University Press
Culture Builders deals primarily with the ways in which ideas about the good and proper life are anchored in the trivialities and routines of everyday life: in the sharing of a meal, in holiday-making, and in the upbringing of children. .
The White Plague
Tuberculosis, Man and Society
Rutgers University Press
DuBos et. al. examine the social aspects of the TB epidemic, along with some of the biological factors. They show how TB was romaticized, how it was portrayed as a demon coming to rob the healthy of life, and how it sparked scientific invention - in particular the stethescope. The introduction is wonderful as it lays out the basic parts of the book.