Robert Cohen

Milk - The Deadly Poison

This is a complete guide to the business of beginning an acting career in theatre, film, or television, on both coasts and in the heartland. The book offers counsel to acting majors on actor training approaches, career positioning, finding an agent, auditioning, interviewing, and making long-range career decisions.

Raw Facts about Careers in Acting

Acting Professionally

Watching his career and marriage disintegrate, Samuel Karnish meets a Hasidic couple from Brooklyn and begins an unlikely friendship with them, an event that leaves him morally confused and doubting his own faith. 15,000 first printing. Tour.

A Novel

Here and Now

Designed for courses in beginning or intermediate acting, this text is a contemporary, personal, and provocative resource for students who strive to become great—not merely good—performers.

Acting Power

"... Investigates to what end billions of dairy industry dollars have been used to influence the FDA and Congress as well as the scientific and medical establishment, misleading us about the dangers of consuming milk and dairy products."--Dust jacket.

The Deadly Poison

Milk

Reginald E. Zelnik

"This is a superb book. We are well-launched into a new generation of '60s scholarship, and The Free Speech Movement will be at the center of it. The analysis and personal recollection mix well, arguing persuasively for the never-to-be-underestimated place of contingency in history."—Todd Gitlin, author of Media Unlimited and The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage "This powerful book not only will be the classic work on the Free Speech Movement but also will be combed as a basis for hypotheses and new research on the movements of the '60s. It's absolutely thrilling, full of large implications for history, social movements, and character. The book contributed to my self-knowledge (personal, political, and professional) and will do the same for others. It combines humor and a firsthand, I-was-there flavor with provocative analyses. As a serious, original work of scholarship, this gives edited volumes back their good name."—Jesse Lemisch, Professor of History Emeritus, John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, and author of The American Revolution Seen from the Bottom Up "This book gets the Free Speech Movement and its significance exactly right-from the civil rights origins to refusing to idealize the moment at the expense of what came later. And no two better editors could be doing it."—Michael Rogin, author of Ronald Reagan, The Movie, And Other Episodes in Political Demonology "As a journalist, I was in Berkeley's Sproul Plaza to witness the mass arrests of the Free Speech Movement demonstrators in December 1964. As a citizen, I've always known that this was one of the pivotal moments in the great political and moral awakening of the 1960s. As a reader, I found much to feast on in this splendid and thoughtful collection of essays, about a movement whose effects and inspiration are with us still."—Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa "The Free Speech Movement was a pivotal moment in the evolution of student rights and university responsibilities. These splendid essays memorialize this period and offer competing perspectives on its meaning. Though differing widely in conclusions, collectively and individually they stand testament to the conviction that 'the price of freedom is eternal vigilance' and that 'the critical test of freedom of expression is the right of others to speak out on behalf of what we believe to be wrong.'"—Geoffrey R. Stone, author of Eternally Vigilant: Freedom of Speech in the Modern Era "This rich and entertaining set of essays offers remarkable insight into the genesis, development, and consequences of the Free Speech Movement. Written largely by participants and close observers, these essays offer both personal and analytical assessments of the roles of students, faculty, and administrators. Above all, the chapters on Mario Savio demonstrate his unusual capacity for leadership-charismatic without being dogmatic, committed to the cause while retaining a capacity to think and deal openly with dissent. This book should be read by anyone interested in understanding university and national politics in the '60s."—Chancellor Robert M. Berdahl, University of California, Berkeley

Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s

The Free Speech Movement

Gustave Glotz

Le premier volume de l’Histoire grecque de Gustave Glotz couvre la période depuis les origines jusqu’aux guerres médiques.

Histoire grecque. Tome 1

Sonia Murrow

Howard Zinn's a People's History of the United States in the Classroom and Beyond

Rethinking America's Past

‘Robert Cohen’s book, Acting Power, follows the tradition of his other book, Acting One, and has been the veritable bible for acting teachers for the last quarter century.’ – David Krasner, Emerson College ‘This book, above all else, is an attempt to explore the qualities of acting power.... to suggest to you, the actor, an approach toward not merely good acting but powerful acting. Great actors display the power to frighten – and the power to seduce – and can shift between the one and the other like a violinist can her notes.’ – From the Preface The first edition of Acting Power was a groundbreaking work of acting theory which applied sociological and psychological principles to actor training. The book went on to influence a generation of theatre and performance studies students and academics, and was translated into five languages. This carefully revised 21st Century Edition (re)considers, in the context of today’s field: questions such as ‘should actors act from the inside or the outside?’ and ‘should the actor live the role or present the role?’; contemporary research into communication theory, cybernetics, and cognitive science; brilliantly illuminating and witty exercises for solo study and classroom use, and a through-line of useful references to classic plays; penetrating observations about the actor’s art by more than 75 distinguished professional actors and directors. Cohen’s elegant and rigorous updates emphasise the continuing relevance of his uniquely integrated and life-affirming approach to this field. The new edition draws on his extraordinarily rich career as teacher, scholar, director, translator and dramaturg. It is a recipe for thrilling theatre in any genre.

The 21st Century Edition

Bio-bibliographisches Handbuch zu Peter Weiss' "Ästhetik des Widerstands"

Der fast tausendseitige Roman von Peter Weiss mit dem ungewöhnlichen Titel Die Ästhetik des Widerstands (erschienen 1975-1981), ist vom Kultbuch - von Kennern in eine Reihe mit Joyce, Proust und Musil gestellt - zum Bestseller geworden, er «gehört zu den Grundbüchern unseres Jahrhunderts» (Thomas Metscher). Doch bleiben die ungewöhnlichen Schwierigkeiten dieses Texts: sein formaler Avantgardismus, die Radikalität seines Antifaschismus, sein Festhalten an der historischen Mission der Arbeiterklasse im Kampf um die Befreiung. Die vorliegenden Versuche gehen aus vom Charakter der Ästhetik des Widerstands als Kunstwerk: Untersuchungen zur Form mit dem Ziel, die Interpretation von Geschichte in Weiss' Roman zu erhellen. Die Versuche sind, bei allem wissenschaftlichen Anspruch, um Klarheit und Lesbarkeit bemüht. Sie sind gedacht als vielfältiges Interpretationsangebot, als Brücke zur Praxis zum produktiven Leser, zur produktiven Leserin.

Versuche über Weiss' Ästhetik des Widerstands

Romain Roussel

Le quatrième et dernier volume de l’Histoire grecque initiée par Gustave Glotz. Il vient clore cette somme en traitant de l’empire d’Alexandre le Grand.

Histoire grecque. Tome 4

Milk A-Z

Leben und Werk

Peter Weiss in seiner Zeit

David J Snyder

A “brilliant, comprehensive collection” of scholarly essays on the importance and wide-ranging activities of southern student activism in the 1960s (Van Gosse, author of Rethinking the New Left). Most accounts of the New Left and 1960s student movement focus on rebellions at the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University, and others northern institutions. And yet, students at southern colleges and universities also organized and acted to change race and gender relations and to end the Vietnam War. Southern students took longer to rebel due to the south’s legacy of segregation, its military tradition, and its Bible Belt convictions, but their efforts were just as effective as those in the north. Rebellion in Black and White demonstrate how southern students promoted desegregation, racial equality, free speech, academic freedom, world peace, gender equity, sexual liberation, Black Power, and the personal freedoms associated with the counterculture of the decade. The original essays also shed light on higher education, students, culture, and politics of the American south. Edited by Robert Cohen and David J. Snyder, the book features the work of both seasoned historians and a new generation of scholars offering fresh perspectives on the civil rights movement and many others.

Southern Student Activism in the 1960s

Rebellion in Black & White

These days, Bonnie Saks is lucky to gets four consecutive hours of shut-eye, what with her bed-wetting young son, her unfinished doctoral thesis, her meager teaching salary, and the fact that she’s pregnant by a lover about as reliable as her ex-husband. Meanwhile, Ian Ogelvie, an ambitious young research scientist, is setting up a study of a promising new sleep aid. Their chance encounter forms the backdrop for this richly exuberant portrait of contemporary America, encompassing everything from the slippery evasions of love to the intricate network that binds together the pharmaceutical industry, managed care, and a shadow population of lost, sleepless souls. At once entertaining and philosophic, Inspired Sleep heralds a major voice in American fiction.

Inspired Sleep

Bonnie doit affronter tant de difficultés que seule la difficulté ne lui paraît pas difficile : son mari est parti écrire de mauvaises pièces de théâtre en Amérique du Sud, elle élève seule ses deux petits garçons, elle n'arrive pas à finir sa thèse, ses étudiants n'apprécient pas ses cours, ses aventures amoureuses, dont la dernière lui vaut d'être de nouveau enceinte, sont peu satisfaisantes et, surtout, elle ne dort pas. Ou mal. Ou pas assez. Jusqu'à ce qu'elle apprenne l'existence d'un nouveau médicament lancé par une firme pharmaceutique qui cherche des cobayes humains. C'est à cette occasion qu'elle rencontre tan, un psychiatre qui poursuit des recherches sur le sommeil paradoxal dans le laboratoire où est mis au point le produit miracle. C'est un homme plutôt seul, qui habite chez sa soeur après l'incendie de son dernier appartement, croit être amoureux d'une de ses collègues et nourrit un intérêt quasi obsessionnel pour les animaux de laboratoire. Un récit plein d'humour dont le sujet principal est le cerveau, à travers ses troubles, insomnies et dépressions.

roman

Nuits insomniaques

This anthology of plays provides a balance of historical and contemporary masterpieces. The introductory remarks provide historical, literary, and bibliographic context.

Twelve Plays for Theatre

Maeva Marcus

Steven A. Steinbach

Research Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Constitutional Studies Maeva Marcus

Professor in the Department of Teaching & Learning Robert Cohen

'With Liberty and Justice for All?' is designed to help teachers and students generate analysis and debate in our nation's classrooms about an aspect of US history that has produced intense disagreements about rights and wrongs: constitutional history. For more than two centuries, Americans have argued about what the US Constitution permits or requires (or not), and what values and ideals it enshrines (or not) - indeed, who is to be included (or not) in the very definition of 'We the People.' This book provides abundant resources to explore key moments of debate about the Constitution and its meaning, focusing on fundamental questions of citizenship and rights.

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