Overview :Growing up an Italian-American in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of New York city, Marianna De Marco longed for college, culture, and upward m... Read More
Overview :America Dreams American Movies: Film, Culture, and the Popular Imagination offers undergraduates in diverse areas of study an overview of ho... Read More
Overview :In this acclaimed book, Torgovnick explores the obsessions, fears, and longings that have produced Western views of the primitive. Crossing... Read More
Overview :Out of the core of experience, these essays began as obsessions. Whether founded in some strongly lived moment, deeply held conviction, long... Read More
Overview :Marianna Torgovnick here argues that we have lived, since the end of World War II, under the power of a war complex a set of repressed ideas... Read More
Overview :From the award-winning author of Crossing Ocean Parkway, a personal memoir about adjusting to loss through books, meditation, and the proces... Read More
Overview :Marianna Torgovnick's "Primitive Passions" investigates Westerners' profound attraction to cultures that we call "primitive." Torgovnick exp... Read More