The Littlest Streetcar

The Littlest Streetcar
Author: Vernon Smith
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781455621897

"Charlie is a maintenance streetcar in New Orleans, the littlest one in the fleet. The other, larger streetars are either faster, prettier, or more popular than he is. But when they need repairs or help, Charlie is the only one who can come to the rescue!"--

Hollywood Highbrow

Hollywood Highbrow
Author: Shyon Baumann
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0691187282

Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art.

Dear Black Girls

Dear Black Girls
Author: Shanice Nicole
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2021-02-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781999058838

Dear Black Girls is a letter to all Black girls. Every day poet and educator Shanice Nicole is reminded of how special Black girls are and of how lucky she is to be one. Illustrations by Kezna Dalz support the book's message that no two Black girls are the same but they are all special--that to be a Black girl is a true gift. In this celebratory poem, Kezna and Shanice remind young readers that despite differences, they all deserve to be loved just the way they are.

Yvain

Yvain
Author: Chretien de Troyes
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1987-09-10
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0300187580

The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.

America Chavez: Made In The Usa

America Chavez: Made In The Usa
Author: Kalinda Vazquez
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre:
ISBN:

Collects America Chavez: Made In The USA (2021) #1-5. America Chavez is incredible ? her origins, her strength, her dimension-shattering star portals! But when the foundation of everything she believes is shaken, America must stand up and confront the parts of herself she's been running from. Her life is about to be shattered into a million pieces by a mysterious adversary. When her tormentor is revealed, their face will be shocking, to say the least ? but it's what they reveal that will rock her world. And then? It's just a matter of whether or not to believe them. From writer Kalinda Vazquez (Marvel's Runaways) and artist Carlos G?mez (AMAZING MARY JANE) comes an explosive, brand-new story all about what made America Chavez who she is ? and what she'll do to protect the ones she loves.

Scavenger Hunt Heist

Scavenger Hunt Heist
Author: Franklin W. Dixon
Publisher: Aladdin
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2017-04-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781536407235

Frank and Joe are on the hunt for "buried treasure" during a school trip--and find a mystery to solve instead!