Books written by Krin Gabbard

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  Psychiatry and the Cinema

  Phoebe Cates is taken to see Dr. Ryland , an authority on the " imaginary friend syndrome . " Unfortunately , this rationalist foil fails to see that the companions are real . Duet for One ( 1986 ) Andrei Konchalovsky .

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  Better Git It in Your Soul: An Interpretive Biography of Charles Mingus

  mer to play along with the American and British musicians slated to appear in the film. ... acquitted himself well, often adding a completely different sound to the band when he soloed on, of all things, a musical saw.

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  Screening Genders

  In taking cultural feminism's tenet of “naturalness” to its logical conclusion, Miller risks exclusion from that very community, because to that community, as to mainstream society, she risks appearing to “be” a man. Jennifer Miller is ...

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  Jazz Among the Discourses

  "A remarkable variety of voices and perspectives, and yet the overall thrust of the collection-to establish the groundwork on which a field of jazz studies could be founded-is quite clear.Jazz Among the Discourseswill have an obvious impact ...

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  Better Git It in Your Soul: An Interpretive Biography of Charles Mingus

  Bryan Wagner, “Disarmed and Dangerous: The Strange Career of BrasCoupé,” Representations 92 (2005): 117–51. 86. Ibid., 131. 87. Ibid., 149. 88. Bechet, Treat It Gentle, 8. 89. Lyle Saxon, Edward Dreyer, and Robert Tallant, ...

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  Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture

  Krin Gabbard explores the often hidden & unacknowledged contribution of African American culture to Hollywood movies.

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  Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture

  The book also looks at how trumpets have been manufactured over the centuries and at the price that artists have paid for devoting their bodies and souls to this most demanding of instruments.

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  Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture

  A swinging cultural history of the instrument that in many ways defined a century The twentieth century was barely under way when the grandson of a slave picked up a...

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  Jammin' at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema

  Preface Introduction: Whose Jazz, Whose Cinema? 1: The Ethnic Oedipus: The Jazz Singer and Its Remakes 2: Black and Tan Fantasies: The Jazz Biopic 3: Jazz Becomes Art 4: Signifyin(g) the Phallus: Representations of the Jazz Trumpet 5: Duke ...

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  Psychiatry and the Cinema

  Surveys the history of the treatment of psychiatry in movies and provides psychoanalytical analyses of a variety of films