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Me and You and Memento and Fargo.(Book review)
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December 22, 2007|
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Me and You and Memento and Fargo by J.J. Murphy. New York and London: Continuum, 2007. 304 pp. Hardcover: $85.00 and Paperback: $19.95.
J. J. Murphy is a critic in search of a theory. Specifically, he's searching for a theory of independent film. He presents the fruits of his labor in his new book, Me and You and Memento and Fargo.
It's a worthy project. While everyone talks about independent films, it's hard to say what qualifies and why. Most theories of independent film are really polemics, aspirational rather than descriptive.
By contrast, ...
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Victoria Woodhull's Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and the Popular Press in Nineteenth-Century America.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; Victoria Woodhull's Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and the Popular Press...225. $37.50.) The author of this study acknowledges that Victoria Claflin Woodhull has become one of the most written about but least remembered...
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Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull.
Magazine article from: Commonweal
; ...book. The fascinating as well as "scandalous" Victoria Claflin Woodhull is the link among a cast of nineteenth-century...revelation that Nancy Reagan consulted astrologers, Victoria Woodhull's clairvoyance and skills as a magnetic healer...
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The Woman Who Ran for President: The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Insight on the News
; ...Woman Who Ran for President: The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull (Bridge Works, 347 pp), a revisionist biography...lying as "one of her strongest coping skills." Victoria Woodhull, nee Claflin, was born in rural Ohio in 1838, one of 10...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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AUTHOR KEEPS WOODHULL FROM BEING A FOOTNOTE.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; ...change.'' Victoria Claflin Woodhull was born in 1838...15, in 1853, Victoria married an alcoholic...handicapped son Victoria joined her younger...sister, Tennessee Claflin, on the...For her part, Woodhull met a man on...
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Woman's Club to present Woodhull re-enactor
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette
; ...downtown Charleston. Woodhull (1838-1927) challenged...Equal Rights Party, Woodhull was an early advocate...profit sharing. Born Victoria California Claflin in Homer, Ohio, in...Biographical notes on Woodhull state that she also...
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Capitol Woman's Club to present Woodhull re-enactor
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette
; ...downtown Charleston. Woodhull (1838-1927) challenged...Equal Rights Party, Woodhull was an early advocate...profit sharing. Born Victoria California Claflin in Homer, Ohio, in...Biographical notes on Woodhull state that she also...
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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`VICTORIA' AHEAD OF HER TIME.(Books)(Review)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; ...Jane Hoback Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored. @ By Mary Gabriel. Algonquin Books...which in each case is the 19th century suffragist Victoria Claflin Woodhull. Woodhull also published a radical newspaper...
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The First Woman To Run For President In 1872
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered
; ...was produced by Joe Richman and Samara Freemark of Radio Diaries. Mr. SCOTT CLAFLIN: My name is Scott Claflin and I'm a descendant of Victoria Claflin Woodhull. The first time I began to become aware of my relative was in 1964 when the Republican...
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BIOGRAPHY GIVES VOICE TO FEMINIST.(COMMENTARY)(Review)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; ...person was Victoria Woodhull. Journalist Mary...women's rights. Victoria Claflin Woodhull was born in Ohio...starting a newspaper, Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly, and...First married at 15, Victoria developed her early...
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 "Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)")
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Women's lib's scarlet woman.(COMMENTARY)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
; ...woman of them all - Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838 -1927...brokerage house, Woodhull, Claflin & Company...years. In 1870, Victoria began publishing a newspaper, Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly. It ran...
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