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| Introduction | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Comedy | |
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| Speechless (Charlie Chaplin / Buster Keaton) | |
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| Hanging Tough (Harold Lloyd) | |
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| There Ain't No Sanity Claus (Groucho Marx and Brothers) | |
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| This Guy Wouldn't Give You the Parsley off His Fish (Jack Benny) | |
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| Cowardly Custard (Bob Hope) | |
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| Idiot Semi-Savant (Jerry Lewis) | |
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| Film | |
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| Best Picture, 1889 (Edison: The Invention of the Movies) | |
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| Who Was That Masked Man? (Lon Chaney) | |
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| Reviving Ghosts (Olive Thomas / Hindle Wakes) | |
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| The Pulse of the World (Fritz Lang) | |
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| Ways We Weren't (Vitaphone Shorts) | |
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| Naked Truth (Children of Paradise) | |
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| Things That Go Bump (Horror Films) | |
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| A Few Stops on the Way to the Grave (Films Noir) | |
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| Hokum Became Him (William Wyler) | |
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| Primal Fear (Nightmare Alley) | |
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| Tales of Treachery and Loyalty (Jules Dassin / Jacques Becker) | |
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| Incomparable (Greta Garbo) | |
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| Awash in Ambiguity (Marlon Brando) | |
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| Going His Way (Bing Crosby) | |
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| Blond and Beaming (Doris Day) | |
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| The Two Leons (Animal Farm / Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Volume Two) | |
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| Kong Has Crazed His Mind (Ray Harryhausen) | |
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| All the Screen's a Stage (Jean Renoir) | |
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| Eternal Times Square (Shadows) | |
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| Once upon a Time on the Via Veneto (La Dolce Vita / Divorce Italian Style) | |
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| Charming Imagination (L'eclisse) | |
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| I Spy (The Counterfeit Traitor) | |
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| McCarey Nods (Satan Never Sleeps) | |
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| Across the Pacific (Zero Focus / The Demon) | |
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| "My Life Makes Me Cry" (The Insect Woman) | |
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| The Holland Line (Dutch Movies) | |
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| Still Curious (I Am Curious) | |
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| Broken Promises (The Honeymoon Killers) | |
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| Calm, Cool, and Now Collected (Steve McQueen) | |
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| Rock Heads (Martin Scorsese) | |
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| Real Reality TV (The UP Series) | |
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| Roll Out the Sixties and We'll Have a Wonderful Time (Berkeley in the Sixties / Letter to the Next Generation) | |
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| 'Round and Around and Around (Twist) | |
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| Color Him Purple (Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones) | |
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| Call It Anything (Miles Electric) | |
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| Savage Servility (Glory) | |
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| Simplicity Itself (Robert Bresson) | |
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| Pretty Boy (Alain Delon) | |
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| French Doubt (Too Beautiful for You / May Fools) | |
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| Blown Away (A Shock to the System / Pretty Woman / The Hot Spot / White Palace) | |
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| WWII and the Whole Truth (The Big Red One / Devils on the Doorstep / British War Collection) | |
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| Music | |
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| Mixing Hot Licks with Vanilla (Fats Waller / Glenn Miller) | |
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| Brush Up Your Porter (Cole Porter) | |
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| Long-Playing (Duke Ellington) | |
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| Jazz for the Eyes (The Sound of Jazz / Jazz on a Summer's Day) | |
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| Regrets, They've Had a Few (Sinatra) | |
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| Ambassadors (A Great Day in Harlem / The Real Ambassadors) | |
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| Explosive (Count Basie) | |
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| "I'm Supposed to Deliver" (B. B. King) | |
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| Brother Al (Al Cohn) | |
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| The Arranger (Gil Evans) | |
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| A New Kind of Virtuosity (Christopher Earl) | |
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| Beale Street Talks (Harold Mabern) | |
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| Old Man Rivers (Sam Rivers) | |
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| Who's Gonna Throw That Minstrel Boy a Coin? (Bob Dylan) | |
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| Fresh Flowers (Albert Ayler) | |
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| Put Your Voice Where Your Mouth Is (Lip-syncing) | |
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| On Her 90th Birthday (Billie Holiday) | |
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| Books | |
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| "Harsh as the sound of a man's snore was the name of Khufu" (Norman Mailer) | |
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| The Grove of Academe (The New Grove Dictionary of American Music) | |
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| Carrying a Torch (The Modern Library) | |
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| Muddy Waters, I Presume (Alan Lomax) | |
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| Soupspoon's Blues (Walter Mosley) | |
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| Short and Acerbic (M. M. Liberman) | |
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| Oxford Jazz (Sheldon Meyer) | |
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| A Public Burning (Ralph Ellison) | |
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| Doin That Waitin (Albert French) | |
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| Closed Minds (Saul Bellow) | |
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| Laughing Man (Moss Hart) | |
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| He's Got No Kick Against Modern Jazz (Robert Christgau) | |
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| Mr. Ellington, Meet Mr. Matisse (Alfred Appel Jr.) | |
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| Fighting for Freedom and Bad Taste (Sammy Davis Jr.) | |
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| Pops and Pops (Louis Armstrong and Paul Whiteman: Two Kings of Jazz) | |
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| Seduced (Classics Illustrated) | |
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| Fear and Trembling (Friedrich Durrenmatt) | |
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| Kaddish for the Jews (Soma Morgenstern) | |
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| Index | |