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Library of AmericaSummary: The late Susan Sontag was not a photographer, yet her famous book On Photography is required reading in almost every serious photography course in the world. Her novels and nonfiction books such as Illness as a Metaphor have been translated into a score of languages. And she also wrote and directed films and plays. In this program, the renowned writer and human rights activist talks with Bill...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Sontag, Susan
Summary: With the publication of her first book, Against Interpretation, in 1966, Susan Sontag placed herself at the forefront of an era of cultural and political transformation. "What is important now," she wrote, "is to recover our senses ... In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art." She would remain a catalyzing presence, whether writing about camp sensibility, the films of Jean-Luc...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: She is insulted at being called "the most intelligent woman in America" because it implies that the category of intelligent women is substantially smaller than that of men. Should she feel honored to be considered an outstanding member of a spurned caste? In this program, Susan Sontag, discoverer of camp and diagnostician of the intellectual and artistic ills of late-20th-century America, tells...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Sontag, Susan
Summary: Presents excerpts from the early writings of the author, with reflections on her meetings with influential writers and intellectuals, her literary ambitions, and her criticisms of other writers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5409 SONKaplan, Alice Yaeger.
Summary: Examines how spending time abroad in Paris changed the lives and outlooks of three notable American women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2012