Dutchman

Dutchman PDF Author: Amiri Baraka
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Advertising
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Issued to promote the 1967 adaptation to film of Baraka/LeRoy Jones's play , based on his screenplay, directed by Anthony Harvey, and starring Shirley Knight and Al Freeman. For their performances, Knight and Freeman were nominated for awards at the Venice Film Fetival; Knight won. This pressbook inludes sample press copy, credits, and examples of the promotional paper

Voyage of Slaves

Voyage of Slaves PDF Author: Brian Jacques
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440621020
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
Adrift in the Mediterranean, Ben and his loyal dog Ned-cursed by an avenging angel to roam the earth forever-fall into the clutches of a slaver, and have no one to rely on but each other in their quest for freedom.

Culture as Weapon

Culture as Weapon PDF Author: Nato Thompson
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612195741
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215

Book Description
One of the country's leading activist curators explores how corporations and governments have used art and culture to mystify and manipulate us. The production of culture was once the domain of artists, but beginning in the early 1900s, the emerging fields of public relations, advertising and marketing transformed the way the powerful communicate with the rest of us. A century later, the tools are more sophisticated than ever, the onslaught more relentless. In Culture as Weapon, acclaimed curator and critic Nato Thompson reveals how institutions use art and culture to ensure profits and constrain dissent--and shows us that there are alternatives. An eye-opening account of the way advertising, media, and politics work today, Culture as Weapon offers a radically new way of looking at our world.

Approaches to Teaching Baraka's Dutchman

Approaches to Teaching Baraka's Dutchman PDF Author: Matthew Calihman
Publisher: Modern Language Association
ISBN: 1603293566
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 309

Book Description
First performed in 1964, Amiri Baraka's play about a charged encounter between a black man and a white woman still has the power to shock. The play, steeped in the racial issues of its time, continues to speak to racial violence and inequality today. This volume offers strategies for guiding students through this short but challenging text. Part 1, "Materials," provides resources for biographical information, critical and literary backgrounds, and the play's early production history. The essays of part 2, "Approaches," address viewing and staging Dutchman theatrically in class. They help instructors ground the play artistically in the black arts movement, the beat generation, the theater of the absurd, pop music, and the blues. Background on civil rights, black power movements, the history of slavery, and Jim Crow laws helps contextualize the play politically and historically.

Castaways of the Flying Dutchman

Castaways of the Flying Dutchman PDF Author: Brian Jacques
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440623961
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
Fans of the New York Times bestselling Redwall series will be delighted with Brian Jacques' latest. The legend of the Flying Dutchman, the ghost-ship doomed to sail the seas forever, has been passed down throughout the centuries. But what of the boy, Neb, and his dog, Den, who were trapped aboard that ship? What was to become of them? Sent off on an eternal journey of their own, the boy and his dog roam the earth through out the centuries in search of those in need. Braving wind and waves and countless perils, they stumble across a 19th-century village whose very existence is at stake. Saving it will take the will and wile of all the people--and a very special boy and dog. "The swashbuckling language brims with color and melodrama; the villains are dastardly and stupid; and buried treasure, mysterious clues, and luscious culinary descriptions (generally involving sweets) keep the pages turning." (Booklist)

The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave

The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave PDF Author: John Thompson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
"Thompson, born on a Maryland plantation in 1812, escaped to Pennsylvania but fell into a harried itinerant pattern. The passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act put him in danger even in free states ; after six months of work arranged by a Quaker, he and his companion were forced to leave by the appearance of slave hunters. Thompson started to make a life in Philadelphia, marrying and pursuing an education, only to conclude once more that he must run when several other fugitives in his neighborhood were arrested. This time he went to sea, joining a whaling vessel out of New Bedford, which comprises most of the final chapters..."--Dealer's description.

Dutchman and the Slave

Dutchman and the Slave PDF Author: Leroi Jones
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0688210848
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Centered squarely on the Negro-white conflict, both Dutchman and The Slave are literally shocking plays--in ideas, in language, in honest anger. They illuminate as with a flash of lightning a deadly serious problem--and they bring an eloquent and exceptionally powerful voice to the American theatre. Dutchman opened in New York City on March 24, 1964, to perhaps the most excited acclaim ever accorded an off-Broadway production and shortly thereafter received the Village Voice's Obie Award. The Slave, which was produced off-Broadway the following fall, continues to be the subject of heated critical controversy.

The Black Arts Movement

The Black Arts Movement PDF Author: David Robson
Publisher: Lucent Press
ISBN: 9781420500530
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Discusses the Black arts movement in context, so that readers will understand the connection between black history and the broad sweep of America's story.
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