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Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture demonstrates that the director, best remembered for his overblown biblical epics, was one of the most remarkable film pioneers of the Progressive Era. In this innovative work, which integrates cultural history and cultural studies, Sumiko Higashi shows how DeMille artfully inserted cinema into genteel middle-class culture by replicating in his films such spectacles as elaborate parlor games, stage melodramas, department store displays, Orientalist world's fairs, and civic pageantry. The director not only established his signature as a film author by articulating middle-class ideology across class and ethnic lines, but by the 1920's had become a trendsetter, with set and costume designs that influenced the advertising industry to create a consumer culture based on female desire. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped material from the DeMille Archives and other collections, Higashi provides imaginative readings of DeMille's early feature films, viewing them in relation to the dynamics of social change, and she documents the extent to which the emergence of popular culture was linked to the genteel tradition.

Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Film --- DeMille, Cecil B. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 82:791.43 --- 82:791.43 Literatuur en film --- Literatuur en film --- DeMille, Cecil Blount, --- De Mille, Cecil B. --- DeMille, Cecil Blount

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Alongside Moctezuma and Benito Juárez, Pancho Villa is probably the best-known figure in Mexican history. Villa legends pervade not only Mexico but the United States and beyond, existing not only in the popular mind and tradition but in ballads and movies. There are legends of Villa the Robin Hood, Villa the womanizer, and Villa as the only foreigner who has attacked the mainland of the United States since the War of 1812 and gotten away with it. Whether exaggerated or true to life, these legends have resulted in Pancho Villa the leader obscuring his revolutionary movement, and the myth in turn obscuring the leader. Based on decades of research in the archives of seven countries, this definitive study of Villa aims to separate myth from history. So much attention has focused on Villa himself that the characteristics of his movement, which is unique in Latin American history and in some ways unique among twentieth-century revolutions, have been forgotten or neglected. Villa’s División del Norte was probably the largest revolutionary army that Latin America ever produced. Moreover, this was one of the few revolutionary movements with which a U.S. administration attempted, not only to come to terms, but even to forge an alliance. In contrast to Lenin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, and Fidel Castro, Villa came from the lower classes of society, had little education, and organized no political party. The first part of the book deals with Villa’s early life as an outlaw and his emergence as a secondary leader of the Mexican Revolution, and also discusses the special conditions that transformed the state of Chihuahua into a leading center of revolution. In the second part, beginning in 1913, Villa emerges as a national leader. The author analyzes the nature of his revolutionary movement and the impact of Villismo as an ideology and as a social movement. The third part of the book deals with the years 1915 to 1920: Villa’s guerrilla warfare, his attack on Columbus, New Mexico, and his subsequent decline. The last part describes Villa’s surrender, his brief life as a hacendado, his assassination and its aftermath, and the evolution of the Villa legend. The book concludes with an assessment of Villa’s personality and the character and impact of his movement.

Villa, Francisco --- Villa, Pancho --- Mexico --- History --- Revolution, 1910-1920 --- Chihuahua (Mexico : State) --- Villa, Pancho, - 1878-1923. --- Mexico - History - Revolution, 1910-1920. --- Chihuahua (Mexico : State) - History. --- Social movements --- History. --- Villa, Pancho, --- Movements, Social --- Social history --- Social psychology --- Vilʹi︠a︡, Pancho, --- Villa, Francisco, --- Arrango, Doroteo, --- Arango, Doroteo, --- Germán, Doroteo Arango, --- Arango Arámbula, José Doroteo,

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Women, Palestinian Arab --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Gender Studies & Sexuality --- Palestinian Arab women --- Social conditions. --- Political activity. --- Social conditions --- Political activity --- Femmes arabes palestiniennes --- Conditions sociales --- Activité politique

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Stanley Katz, Douglas Greenberg and a group of international scholars examine the state of constitutions around the world. The essays discuss the transition from authoritarian to democratic regimes, examining the obstacles to democracy and comparing the world-wide experiences of constitutionalism.

Representative government and representation --- Democracy --- Constitutional history --- Constitutional law --- Congresses.

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Folklore --- Authenticity (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- History. --- Philosophy. --- #VCV monografie 1999 --- History --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- authenticity --- folklore --- Germany --- United States --- folklore [discipline] --- United States of America