Tushingham Richard (7 results)
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Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.Redux Books
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Paperback. Condition: New. New softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. (6 x 0.6 x 9 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes footnotes and bibliography. 250 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The writing of these stories began when a sixteen-year-old black girl sitting in a high school class i…n Trenton N.J raised her hand. Her all black class had been assigned the task of writing a short essay on any personal experience with a white person. She raised her hand to say simply, "I don't know any white people except my teachers." Then other hands throughout the class sprung up as other students expressed the same problem. Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of the blockbuster bestseller, Between the World and Me, created the 2015 book as a warning letter to his then fifteen-year-old son. Early in the book, he likewise confessed, "when I was your age, the only people I knew were black." Coates wrote the book as a message of danger to black America. "The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body--it is heritage. The power of the American state and the weight of an American legacy necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black." While his book draws on his own anguished experiences as a black teenager and black man in America, he also widely summons the many stories, past and present, of black oppression in America. When African-American novelist Toni Morrison called Between the World and Me "required reading," she cemented his standing as the preeminent African American voice of his generation. Indivisible in no way questions either the truth or the immense importance of the notorious stories which led Coates to his conclusion that the physical threat to black America continues relentlessly. In 1921 Tulsa Oklahoma, a white mob burns down 35 blocks of black residences and businesses. While visiting Mississippi in 1955, Emmitt Till, a 14-year old African American from Chicago, is lynched by two white men. In 1963 Birmingham Alabama, Sheriff Bull Conner directs his police force to use fire hoses and attack dogs on African American Civil Rights protesters. In 1992 Los Angeles, race riots erupt with 63 people killed and over 12,000 arrested. That history carries ceaselessly into the present as stories of black-white conflict continue to seize current headlines. On a 2012 night in Florida, George Zimmerman, a white neighborhood watchman and Trayvon Martin, a black teenager, confront each other and violently struggle. Trayvon dies. In 2014 Ferguson Missouri, a white police officer shoots an unarmed black teenager. The story of white police shooting unarmed black males repeats itself in one American city after another. In Charleston, S.C., a 21-year old white male who self-identified as a "white supremacist" walks into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church and guns down nine church members. When TV show host Stephen Colbert interviewed Coates in 2017, he expressed both understanding and admiration for Coates message. He also offered an opportunity for Coates to soften his stark pessimism. "Do you see any hope that we could have better race relations?" Coates rejected it. "No, I would have to make s--- up to answer that question in a satisfying way." When Colbert and Coates discussed "race relations" on The Late Show, they were reasonably following the lead of academics, activists who frame the topic of race relations as a "national issue." Georgetown Sociology Professor Michael Eric Dyson pronounced, "White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief in the superiority of some while others are believed to be innately inferior. It is a machine operating in perpetuity." Civil rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton preached, "Discrimination and inequality still saturate our society.throu.
The Knack. And How to Get It Pressbook 1965 Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks
Directed by Richard Lester / Starring Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks, Michael Crawford
Published by United Artists 1965
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Seller: AcornBooksNH, New Harbor, ME, U.S.A.AcornBooksNH
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Soft cover. Condition: VG+. A VG+ folded pressbook with no cuts. Size: 14" x 18". Poster.
The Knack.and How to Get It (Original photograph from the 1965 film)
Richard Lester (director); Ann Jellicoe (playwright); Charles Wood(screenwriter); Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks, Michael Crawford, Donal Donnelly, William Dexter (starring)
Published by Woodfall Film Productions, London 1965
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Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerVintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1965 film. With manuscript annotations in pencil on the verso. Set amidst the cultural shifts of the 1960s. Colin (Michael Crawford), an awkward school teacher is desperately trying to have the kind of sexual experiences as his womanizing friend Tolen (Ray Brooks). When Nancy (Ri…ta Tushingham) arrives in London from the countryside Tolen's macho disposition and Colin's trepidation's are brought to the surface. Shot on location in London. 9.5 x 7 inches. Fine.
More imagesThe Knack. and How to Get It (Original photograph from the 1965 film)
Richard Lester (director); Ann Jellicoe (play); Charles Wood (screenwriter); Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks, Michael Crawford, Donal Donnelly (starring)
Published by Woodfall Film Productions, London 1965
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Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerVintage borderless candid photograph from the 1965 film, showing actors Ray Brooks and Charlotte Rampling lounging at the beach. With a printed mimeo snipe on the verso, along with manuscript annotations regarding layout and the stamp of Keystone Agency. Based on Ann Jellicoe's 1962 play. An awkward young man seeks out the help…of his slick, womanizing flatmate in learning how to seduce women, but trouble arises when they both set their marks on the same girl. Although nominally a comedy, a film that bears far more similarity to a kitchen sink drama, due largely to its polarizing final act. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Set and shot on location in London. 7.25 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus, with light wear and soil to the verso.
The Knack. and How to Get It (Original photograph of Lucy Bartlett and Charlotte Rampling from the 1965 film)
Richard Lester (director); Ann Jellicoe (play); Charles Wood (screenwriter); Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks, Michael Crawford, Donal Donnelly (starring)
Published by N.p., N.p. 1965
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Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerVintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1965 film, showing actresses Lucy Bartlett and Charlotte Rampling in between takes, wearing matching wetsuits. Based on Ann Jellicoe's 1962 play. An awkward young man seeks out the help of his slick, womanizing flatmate in learning how to seduce women, but trouble arise…s when they both set their marks on the same girl. Although nominally a comedy, a film that bears far more similarity to a kitchen sink drama, due largely to its polarizing final act. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Set and shot on location in London. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine.
