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Sparrows can't sing : East End kith and kinship in the 1960s
No full textSparrows Can’t Sing (1963) was the only feature film directed by
the late and much lamented Joan Littlewood. Set and filmed in
the East End, where she worked for many years, the film deserves
more attention than it has hitherto received. Littlewood’s career
spanned documentary (radio recordings made with Ewan MacColl
in the North of England in the 1930s) to directing for the stage
and the running of the Theatre Royal in London’s Stratford East,
often selecting material which aroused memories in local audiences
(Leach 2006: 142). Many of the actors trained in her Theatre
Workshop subsequently became better known for their appearances
on film and television. Littlewood herself directed hardly any material
for the screen: Sparrows Can’t Sing and a 1964 series of television
commercials for the British Egg Marketing Board, starring Theatre
Workshop’s Avis Bunnage, were rare excursions into an area of practice
which she found constraining and unamenable (Gable 1980: 32).
The hybridity and singularity of Littlewood’s feature may answer,
in some degree, for its subsequent neglect. However, Sparrows Can’t
Sing makes a significant contribution to a group of films made in
Britain in the 1960s which comment generally on changes in the
urban and social fabric. It is especially worthy of consideration,
I shall argue, for the use which Littlewood made of a particular
community’s attitudes – sentimental and critical – to such changes and
for its amalgamation of an attachment to documentary techniques
(recording an aural landscape on location) with a preference for nonnaturalistic
delivery in performance
Mobile Press-Register sleeve MP0118913
No full textEddie Duke, mayor of Creola, Joan Stringfellow, Creola / Saraland office / Eddie Duke - man / Mayor - Creola / Joan Stringfellow - woman / Council place 4 - Creola / Candidate announcement / [Work order included
Notes i documents sobre Joan Boscà : noves atribucions i algunes qüestions sobre la seva residència barcelonesa
No full textEl present article presenta les vicissituds per les que va passar el poeta Joan Boscà Almugàver, per tal d'establir una residència fixa a la ciutat de Barcelona, establint alhora, un vincle entre ell i alguns artistes del moment. Al mateix temps es presenta una composició poètica inèdita que pot resultar ser un poema perdut de Boscà.The present article explains the difficulties suffered by the poet Joan Boscà Almugàver to fix his residence in Barcelona, where he met some artists of the period. Also, it includes an unpublished poem the author thinks might be by the same Boscà
Joan\u27s Ale was New
No full textProcession of men drinking Joan\u27s alehttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/kgbsides_uk/1970/thumbnail.jp
Notes i documents sobre Joan Boscà: noves atribucions i algunes qüestions sobre la seva residència barcelonesa
No full textThe present article explains the difficulties suffered by the poet Joan Boscà Almugàver to fix his residence in Barcelona, where he met some artists of the period. Also, it includes an unpublished poem the author thinks might be by the same BoscàEl present article presenta les vicissituds per les que va passar el poeta Joan Boscà Almugàver, per tal d’establir una residència fixa a la ciutat de Barcelona, establint alhora, un vincle entre ell i alguns artistes del moment. Al mateix temps es presenta una composició poètica inèdita que pot resultar ser un poema perdut de Bosc
Notes i documents sobre Joan Boscà : noves atribucions i algunes qüestions sobre la seva residència barcelonesa
No full textEl present article presenta les vicissituds per les que va passar el poeta Joan Boscà Almugàver, per tal d'establir una residència fixa a la ciutat de Barcelona, establint alhora, un vincle entre ell i alguns artistes del moment. Al mateix temps es presenta una composició poètica inèdita que pot resultar ser un poema perdut de Boscà.The present article explains the difficulties suffered by the poet Joan Boscà Almugàver to fix his residence in Barcelona, where he met some artists of the period. Also, it includes an unpublished poem the author thinks might be by the same Boscà
Enigmas
No full textArising from the 2020 Darwin College Lectures, this book presents eight essays from prominent public intellectuals on the theme of Enigmas. Each author examines this theme through the lens of their own particular area of expertise, together constituting an illuminating and diverse interdisciplinary volume. Enigmas features contributions by professor of physics Sean M. Carroll, author Jo Marchant, writer and broadcaster Adam Rutherford, professor of earth sciences Tamsin A. Mather, professor of the history of the book Erik Kwakkel, reader in cultural history Tiffany Watt Smith, mathematician and public speaker James Grime, assistant professor of positive AI J. Derek Lomas, and explorer Albert Y.- M. Lin. This volume will appeal to anyone fascinated by puzzles and mysteries, solved and unsolved
Joan Fitzpatrick: In Memoriam
No full textJoan Fitzpatrick graduated from Harvard Law School in 1975. Women were then beginning to enter the legal profession in increasing numbers, but role models were still important in encouraging women to become equal partners in our profession. Joan was an especially effective role model for our students. I think she realized that. It was one of the things that drove her to excel in everything she did. Joan told me—more than once in fact—that she earned every penny she made. It was a point of pride to her. She was a hard worker whose work yielded very important results. And she was the kind of teacher who would make students think: If Professor Fitzpatrick can do that, then I can also do great and important things. Joan joined our faculty in 1984. In her eighteen years with us, she became an internationally known and respected authority on human rights. She was a primary author or editor of six books, the author or co-author of fourteen book chapters, and the author or co-author of about forty scholarly articles. Joan spoke on issues of international human rights throughout North America and Europe. In the words of one of her admirers, she was brilliant, eloquent, and internationally renowned
Emmett Kelly with Joan Shepherd author of "The Girl on the Left Bank [01]
No full textBlack and white photograph of Emmett Kelly (with his clown makeup) and Joan Shepherd author of "The Girl on the Left Bank," taken by Maxwell Coplan
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