| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xix, 456 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. HEROINES. Novel of the year: The lovely bones -- Not afraid of Virginia Woolf: The Hours -- Victims on Broadway I: The Glass Menagerie -- Victims on Broadway II: A Streetcar Named Desire -- The women of Pedro Almodóvar: Volver -- Lost in Versailles: Marie Antoinette -- Looking for Lucia: Lucia at the Met -- Not an ideal husband: Ted Hughes's Alcestis -- 2. HEROICS. A little Iliad: Troy -- Alexander, the movie! -- Duty: 300 -- It's only a movie: Kill Bill: Vol. 1 -- Nailed! Dale Peck's Hatchet Jobs -- The way out: Everyman -- Mighty Hermaphrodite: Middlesex -- 3. CLOSETS. The Passion of Henry James: The Master -- The Two Oscar Wildes: The Importance of Being Earnest -- The tale of two Housmans: The Invention of Love -- The Truman Show: The Stories and Letters of Truman Capote -- Winged messages: Angels in America -- An affair to remember: Brokeback Mountain -- The man behind the curtain: John Boswell, Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe -- 4. THEATER. The Greek Way: Greek tragedies in New York -- Bitter-Sweet: Private Lives -- Double Take: The Producers -- Harold Pinter's Celebration: Pinter retrospective at Lincoln Center -- 5. WAR. Theaters of War: Thucydides' History -- The Bad Boy of Athens: Medea on Broadway -- For the birds: Nathan Lane's Frogs -- September 11 at the movies: World Trade Center and United 93. |
| Summary |
A collection of essays that mostly appeared in the New York Review of Books in which the classicist/critic looks at contemporary culture through its movies, books and theater. |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Reviews.
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Books -- Reviews.
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Theater -- Reviews.
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| ISBN |
9780061456435 (acid-free paper) |
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0061456438 (acid-free paper) |
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