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Articles with keyword "twentieth century"

A still from "The Soul of Youth." 1920

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Film as Argument

By Bruce Bennett

The early disputatious days of American movies.

Portrait of Carl Sandburg

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A Workingman's Poet

By Danny Heitman

Frankness and plain speaking made Carl Sandburg a celebrity.

Still from "The Red Shoes"

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Saving Grace

By Marilyn Ferdinand

How the Film Foundation restored The Red Shoes and is preserving cinematic history.

Boxcar Bertha

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Knowing the Scorsese

By Bruce Bennett

A Selective Filmography

Lev Tolstoy, 1908

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Done with Tolstoy

By Kevin Mahnken

Famed translators Pevear and Volokhonsky reach another milestone.

Book cover with image of Louis Armstrong and the Hot Five

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Vaudevillian Jazzman

By Steve Moyer

Louis Armstrong's "clarinetisms."

"City Life" by Victor Arnautoff

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New Deal Murals

By Steve Moyer

Meaningful work for Depression-era artists

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Editor's Note, March/April 2013

By David Skinner

Scorsese blurs the line between entertainment and art.

Black Muslim rally, Harlem, 1963

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Civil Rights and the Changing World

By Earl Lewis

How history was made and how it's being written

The Grapes of Wrath's Tom Joad can't find work at a camp.

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Filming the American Novel

By Meredith Hindley

From The Great Gatsby to Sister Carrie, writers tell stories of social climbers and fortune hunters.