From Paul Verhoeven’s The Cold Heart in 1950 to Konrad Petzold’s The Story of the Goose Princess and Her Loyal Horse Falada in 1989, East Germany’s state-sponsored film company, DEFA (Deutsche Film-Ak
In 1965 social scientist Charles S. Liebman published a study that boldly declared the vitality of American Jewish Orthodoxy and went on to guide scholarly investigations of the group for the next fou
One of the most successful series of its time, Have Gun—Will Travel became a cultural phenomenon in the late 1950s and made its star, Richard Boone, a nationwide celebrity. The series offered viewers
Airing on CBS for fourteen seasons (1979–93), Knots Landing was a spinoff of the popular dramaDallas, but ultimately ran longer and took a very different tone on domestic, social, and economic issues
This exhibition catalogue traces more than one hundred years of Cantonese opera in Edmonton within the changing dynamics of Edmonton’s Chinese community. It tells a story of life experiences on the Pr
While many historically significant or interesting plays by white playwrights are easily found in anthologies, few by early African American writers are equally accessible. Indeed until the 1970s, alm
Written around the year 1200 by an unknown Middle High German poet, probably an Austrian knight-cleric, The Song of the Nibelungs is composed of thirty-nine adventures and is divided into two major pa
