Southern Crossroads: Perspectives on Religion and CultureWalter Conser University Press of Kentucky, 12 sept 2010 - 390 páginas " In this first-ever biography of Greer Garson, Michael Troyan sweeps away the many myths that even today veil her life. The true origins of her birth, her fairy-tale discovery in Hollywood, and her career struggles at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer are revealed for the first time. Garson combined an everywoman quality with grace, charm, and refinement. She won the Academy Award in 1941 for her role in Mrs. Miniver , and for the next decade she reigned as the queen of MGM. Co-star Christopher Plummer remembered, ""Here was a siren who had depth, strength, dignity, and humor who could inspire great trust, suggest deep intellect and whose misty languorous eyes melted your heart away!"" Garson earned a total of seven Academy Award nominations for Best Actress, and fourteen of her films premiered at Radio City Music Hall, playing for a total of eighty-four weeks--a record never equaled by any other actress. She was a central figure in the golden age of the studios, working with legendary performers Clark Gable, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Errol Flynn, Joan Crawford, Robert Mitchum, Debbie Reynolds, and Walter Pidgeon. Garson's experiences offer a fascinating glimpse at the studio system in the years when stars were closely linked to a particular studio and moguls such as L.B. Mayer broke or made careers. With the benefit of exclusive access to studio production files, personal letters and diaries, and the cooperation of her family, Troyan explores the triumphs and tragedies of her personal life, a story more colorful than any role she played on screen. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 42
Página 4
... gospel mu- sic traditions, southern religion has moved out and beyond over the crossroads. But other influences, such as Buddhism and Afro-Cuban Santeria or Jewish and Scottish heritage, have likewise come into the South, and the ...
... gospel mu- sic traditions, southern religion has moved out and beyond over the crossroads. But other influences, such as Buddhism and Afro-Cuban Santeria or Jewish and Scottish heritage, have likewise come into the South, and the ...
Página 9
... gospel quartets and country music bands , is a powerful expression of southern reli- gious life . Nurtured in Nashville and Memphis , in local congre- gations and regional songfests , this music sometimes transgressed boundaries ...
... gospel quartets and country music bands , is a powerful expression of southern reli- gious life . Nurtured in Nashville and Memphis , in local congre- gations and regional songfests , this music sometimes transgressed boundaries ...
Página 10
... gospel - quartet numbers . All of these young performers who had grown up in the countryside near Memphis knew the ... gospel quartets that were so active around Memphis , an epicenter of white and black gospel traditions . ' " Just a ...
... gospel - quartet numbers . All of these young performers who had grown up in the countryside near Memphis knew the ... gospel quartets that were so active around Memphis , an epicenter of white and black gospel traditions . ' " Just a ...
Página 13
... gospel quartets who sang from the new songbooks. these institutions and practices provided a structure for a southern spiri- tuality rooted in religious music.7 the Louvins lived through the modernization of southern re- ligious music ...
... gospel quartets who sang from the new songbooks. these institutions and practices provided a structure for a southern spiri- tuality rooted in religious music.7 the Louvins lived through the modernization of southern re- ligious music ...
Página 14
... gospel songs there that music critic Colin Escott says influenced Williams's approach to music in general more than anything else . ' With Hank Williams we encounter a version of southern spirituality that is different from what ...
... gospel songs there that music critic Colin Escott says influenced Williams's approach to music in general more than anything else . ' With Hank Williams we encounter a version of southern spirituality that is different from what ...
Índice
9 | |
27 | |
39 | |
Prime Minister | 63 |
Contextualizing the Apocalyptic Visions of McKendree Robbins Long | 89 |
Flannery OConnor and the Southern Code of Manners | 133 |
Meetings at the Buddhist Temple | 147 |
Feedimg the Jewish Soul in the Delta Diaspora | 164 |
These Untutored Masses | 249 |
Purgatory in the Carolinas | 275 |
Baptist Women and the South | 303 |
Lynching Relgiion | 318 |
Fundamentalism in Recent Southern Culture | 354 |
Copyrights and Permissions | 369 |
Contributors | 371 |
375 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Southern Crossroads: Perspectives on Religion and Culture Walter H. ConserJr.,Rodger M. Payne Vista previa restringida - 2008 |
Southern Crossroads: Perspectives on Religion and Culture Walter Conser No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2010 |
Términos y frases comunes
African American American South Archaeology artist associated Azusa Baptist Church believed Bible Buddhist Catholic Chapel Hill Christ Christian clan congregations Cuban Delta Jews denominational Elvis Elvis Presley ethnic evangelical experience Faith fundamentalist Georgia God’s gospel gospel music Greensboro Grundfest Guild heritage Highland Holiness movement Holiness-Pentecostal Ibid identity images Jesus Joel Joel Osteen John kashrut Klumok Lakewood leaders Little Havana living Long’s lynching McKendree Robbins Long Memphis Methodist minister ministry Mississippi monk moral Negro North Carolina North Carolina Press O'Connor ordination Osteen outsider art paintings pastor Pentecostal Plantation popular practices prayers preacher preaching Presbyterian Presley Protestant Protestantism racial region religious music revival ritual role sacred saints Sambimb Santeria Scottish Scottish American Scottish-heritage singing slave religion slavery social society songs souls Southern Baptist Southern Baptist Convention southern culture southern religion tartan temple theological tion traditional University of North Warner Sallman women worship York