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2 days ago · Valerie Kontakos’ documentary entertainingly relates the saga of a refugee from Nazi Europe whose American Dream was realized via 42nd St. raunch. Over half a century ago, movies were changing ...
4 days ago · The American Dream property, she suggests in an image from 2005 (pictured above), cannot make you happy – instead, greed has made it grotesque with tentacle-like balconies and balustrades.
6 days ago · The American Dream, often represented by the Statue of Liberty signifying new opportunities in life, is a central theme underlying the novel. Following the novel's revival, later critical writings on The Great Gatsby focused on Fitzgerald's disillusionment with the American Dream in the hedonistic Jazz Age, a name for the era which Fitzgerald ...
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 1925
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1 day ago · Box office. $356.3 million [2] American Beauty is a 1999 American black comedy-drama film written by Alan Ball and directed by Sam Mendes in his feature directorial debut. Kevin Spacey stars as Lester Burnham, an advertising executive who has a midlife crisis when he becomes infatuated with his teenage daughter's best friend, played by Mena Suvari.
3 days ago · New Hollywood. The New Hollywood, Hollywood Renaissance, American New Wave, or New American Cinema (not to be confused with the New American Cinema of the 960s that was part of avant-garde underground cinema ), was a movement in American film history from the mid-960s to the early 980s, when a new generation of filmmakers came to prominence.
4 days ago · The American Dream: A Cultural History. Syracuse, NY, Syracuse University Press, 2012, ISBN: 9780815610076; 256pp.; Price: £21.50. This is a useful book, a troubling book, and a book tells us something about the strange state of contemporary publishing. I’ll try and deal with each of these in turn.
3 days ago · Fame and fortune were traditionally part of the 'American Dream,' but as celebrities have more and more freedom to speak directly to their fans and share their experiences, it's clear that it's ...
