Violent Summer(1959)
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Estate violenta (U.S. title: Violent Summer) is a 1961 Italian award-winning black-and-white drama film directed by Valerio Zurlini, depicting a love affair between a prominent Fascist's young draft-dodging son, portrayed by Jean-Louis Trintignant, and a naval officer's widow, older than he, portrayed by Eleonora Rossi Drago. It is set in the Italian seaside resort of Riccione in July 1943, around the time of the dismissal of Benito Mussolini, during the Allied invasion of Sicily in World War II. Estate violenta is Zurlini's second feature film, with which he made his name as a director.[1]
- Estate violenta foi um ponto de virada no cinema italiano. É o primeiro filme a abordar um ano um tanto tabu, 1943. A queda do fascismo, as convulsões políticas e sociais da Itália em guerra constituem um quadro que confere ao filme toda a sua riqueza.
While Tennessee Williams was a writer who often dwelt on melancholic and violent themes, Suddenly Last Summer is perhaps his most pessimistic vision of both nature and human nature. The play portrays a world in which life on the planet is governed by cruelty, predation and base instincts. I would call it a Darwinian view of life, but I personally think that Darwinism is about more than that.
In response to these problems, California legislators held off from further tax hikes. They could see the surge of smuggling and violent crime in New York at that time, and they wanted no part of it.[191] A 1977 ACIR report was rich in New York-based examples. Chapter three of the report, entitled \"Cigarette Smuggling and Organized Crime,\" cites a 1975 media investigation detailing how just four crime families, employing more than \"500 enforcers, peddlers and distributors[,] smuggle an estimated 480 million packs into the state each year.\"[192]
When he first encountered the work of Cormac McCarthy as a college student in the mid-'90s, Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies Matthew Potts became spellbound by the novelist, whose dark and violent narratives have led readers deep into history (Blood Meridian) and forward into a post-apocalyptic future (The Road).... Read more about Light Beyond Violence
In the summer of 1959 we had a major workshop on non-violent directaction in Miami, Florida which drew participation from all over thecountry, including a number of people, such as Pat and PriscillaStevens, who were to lead sit-ins in the spring and summer of 1960.
Review: Essay Stephen Foster The Musical Performed at the J. Dan Talbott Amphitheatre My Old Kentucky Home State Park, Bardstown, Kentucky. Directed by Rick Dildine. Script and Composition by Paul Green and Jonathan Bolt. he changing color of leaves and the retreat of evening cicadas are not the only signs of the end of summer in Bardstown, Kentucky. In the last days of August, the players of the outdoor drama, Stephen Foster The Musical, retire from their bright stage at My Old Kentucky Home State Park and leave the amphitheatre to the cool autumn nights. Now having finished its forty-seventh season since debuting in 1959,Stephen Foster The Musical has become a summer institution in Bardstown as familiar as its old brick homes and the Nelson County Fair. The outdoor musical is also important for the people of Kentucky. The state legislature adopted Stephen Foster's \" My Old Kentucky Home\" as its official song in 1928; three years ago, in 2002, it designated Stephen Poster The Musical as the official state outdoor musical. Originally authored by the Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright Paul Green in the mid-twentieth century, the drama is a colorful celebration of the music and youth of one of the most popular songwriters of the nineteenth century. The play appeals as strongly to local tradition as to state heritage ( and thus identity); for both reasons, it is an enduring cultural icon. As a drama, Stephen Foster The Musical is a pageant of color and sound displaying all the creativity and energy evident in the music of Stephen C. Foster, by most estimations the most well known American composer in the nineteenth century. As a work of history, the story is only partially complete . For while the musical incorporates excerpts from Stephen Foster's compositions and describes a young Stephen Foster recognizable to historians, the play offers very little to explain the remarkable success of his enduring music. To tell a more complete story, the drama would need better to remind us of the powerful forces that shaped Stephen Foster and the America of the mid-nineteenth century: a land of rapid immigration, violent westward expansion, technological innovation, mocking blackface music, slavery, and sectional conflict. Like all popular phenomena, Stephen Foster's music was a product of the era even as it influenced American people and culture. To tell fully the story of Stephen Foster and his music, the outdoor drama should better introduce the audience to the complicated age in which the composer knew such success. The musical is written in two acts. The first act opens on the streets of Pittsburgh in 1849. There the audience is introduced to Stephen Foster as a young romantic a provincial artist enraptured with music and with Jane McDowell, the daughter of a respected town doctor. Dr. and Mrs. McDowell disapprove of Foster's courtship of their daughter because of the young man's poor financial prospects . The young Stephen Foster's determination to prove himself as a composer and thus win the hand of Jane McDowell serves as the central theme of the play. Foster's friends now encourage his pursuit of fame and love. In the second scene, set on the Foster front porch, the audience is introduced to Lievy Pise, the family's black house servant. Speaking in a heavily accented imitation of slave dialect, Lievy consoles Foster and attempts to cheer him as he OHIO VALLEY HISTORY 74 pines for his forbidden love. The audience is also introduced to Stephen Foster's rowdy collection of neighborhood friends, who support Foster by promoting his music and conspiring with him to win the heart of Jane McDowell. With the support of his group of male friends, Foster composes Oh! Susanna \"for the groundbreaking ceremony of a local factory. The ensemble gathers for a stirring choreographed rendition of the song and afterwards, Foster begins his courtship of Jane McDowell in earnest.
Even after Constitutional Amendments had granted African Americans citizenship and the right to vote, racial discrimination and racial segregation still predominated throughout the South. To rectify the situation, a massive grassroots movement was necessary. The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a mass movement of non-violent protests in which whites and blacks joined forces to put an end to racial discrimination. Some of the most influential and important events in the Movement took place between the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Topeka, Kansas decision and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968. Civil Rights, however, has a long and continuing history in the United States.
Civil rights groups organized non-violent protests, sit-ins, and marches to support desegregation of public services and places, and to support the equality of African Americans in voting rights and citizenship. Vigilante groups like the Ku Klux Klan and social regulations like the Jim Crow Laws denied African Americans these rights through violence, intimidation, and deception. Some state governments even set up tax-funded organizations like the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission (1956-1977) to defend and preserve racial segregation.
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