Douglas Field
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613010 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas Field |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas |
| FAMILY NAME | Field |
| SIGNATURE | FIELD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8441-6366 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction
In his landmark essay ‘Projective Verse’ (1950), Charles Olson famously made a link between the act of poetic authorship and the operation of the typewriter. Due ‘to its rigidity and its space prec
The Spirit Lives! An Interview With Douglas Blazek
Born in Chicago, 1941, Douglas Blazek has been publishing poetry since the early 1960s, a decade in which he became one of the key architects of the Mimeograph Revolution. His first poems were publ
Huge urgency and consummate skill
Jim Pennington is a printer and small press publisher who trained at London's North-Western Polytechnic and the London College of Printing. Over the course of his long career, he has worked as a print room and production manager first for the British Safety Council (1971–75) then for the anti-poverty charity War on Want (1975–79) and then for the Lithosphere Printing Co-operative (1979–1991), among others. In parallel, Pennington ran Aloes Books,…
D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation
American Cold War Culture
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748619238);Although it is fifty years since the height of the Cold War, recent events have seen a resurgence of surveillance, paranoia and nuclear threats. Cultural critics and politicians are drawing parallels between the threat of Communism in the 1950s and 1960s and the present 'axis of evil'. This book taps into this interest, drawing on work from prominent academics as well as new theorists working in t…
All Those Strangers
The book examines how James Baldwin’s fiction and nonfiction shaped and responded to key political and cultural developments in the United States from the 1940s to the 1980s. It is animated by an examination of how external forces molded Baldwin’s personal, political, and psychological development and gave shape to his writing. The book views Baldwin through a cultural-historical lens alongside a more traditional literary critical approach. Cruci…
Interview with David Linx
Interview with David Linx Douglas Field (bio) David Linx is an award-winning, Belgium-born jazz singer, instrumentalist, composer, and songwriter. He has worked with many notable musicians, including Steve Coleman, Clark Terry, Johnny Griffin, Me’Shell Ndegéocello, Ibrahim Maalouf, Kenny Wheeler, Roy Ayers, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Toots Thielemans and the Count Basie Orchestra, Natalie Dessay, and many others. His recent albums include A Different Por…
Afterword
Afterword Rich Blint (bio) and Douglas Field (bio) In 1963, James Baldwin delivered an address titled, “The Artist’s Struggle for Integrity,” at the Community Church in New York. From the outset, the speech, reprinted in Randall Kenan’s recently edited volume, The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings, proffered two propositions by the author and activist: “that the poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the …
Even Better than the Real Thing
Even Better than the Real Thing:Boris Vian, Vernon Sullivan, and Film Noir Douglas Field (bio) The light-skinned Negro who passes permanently cuts himself off completely from the colored world. . . . Sometimes he prepares for the adventure by learning Spanish, French, Italian or Portuguese. He thus becomes a foreigner, and as everyone knows, a foreigner is apt to be any shade of color —Herbert Asbury, "Who is a Negro?" (1946) In 1947, a year afte…
A Historical Guide to James Baldwin
With contributions from major scholars of African American literature, history, and cultural studies, A Historical Guide to James Baldwin focuses on the four tumultous decades that defined the great author’s life and art. Providing a comprehensive examination of Baldwin’s varied body of work that includes short stories, novels, and polemical essays, this collection reflects the major events that left an indelible imprint on the iconic writer: civ…
James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain
Reviewed by: James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain: Historical and Critical Essays, and: James Baldwin's God: Sex, Hope, and Crisis in Black Holiness Culture Douglas Field (bio) Henderson, Carol E. , ed. James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain: Historical and Critical Essays. New York: Peter Lang, 2006. Hardcover. 162 pp. Hardy III, Clarence E. James Baldwin's God: Sex, Hope, and Crisis in Black Holiness Culture. Knoxville, T.N.: The U of…
James Baldwin's Later Fiction
Daughters of the Diaspora
Looking for Jimmy Baldwin
In an interview conducted shortly after the release of his film, Looking For Langston (1989), Isaac Julien remarked that his project could easily have been titled "Looking For Jimmy."1 Instead, Julien's film, which explores the relationship between the black gay artist and the community, is dedicated to Baldwin, whose photograph weaves in and out of Julien's meditation on Langston Hughes. Julien's use of Baldwin's image renders visible a gay blac…
The evidence of a film not seen
(2003). The evidence of a film not seen: An interview with Caryl Phillips. Wasafiri: Vol. 18, No. 39, pp. 24-26
Looking for Jimmy Baldwin
In an interview conducted shortly after the release of his film, Looking For Langston (1989), Isaac Julien remarked that his project could easily have been titled "Looking For Jimmy."1 Instead, Julien's film, which explores the relationship between the black gay artist and the community, is dedicated to Baldwin, whose photograph weaves in and out of Julien's meditation on Langston Hughes. Julien's use of Baldwin's image renders visible a gay blac…
The evidence of a film not seen
(2003). The evidence of a film not seen: An interview with Caryl Phillips. Wasafiri: Vol. 18, No. 39, pp. 24-26
James Baldwin's Later Fiction
Daughters of the Diaspora
Looking for Jimmy Baldwin
In an interview conducted shortly after the release of his film, Looking For Langston (1989), Isaac Julien remarked that his project could easily have been titled "Looking For Jimmy."1 Instead, Julien's film, which explores the relationship between the black gay artist and the community, is dedicated to Baldwin, whose photograph weaves in and out of Julien's meditation on Langston Hughes. Julien's use of Baldwin's image renders visible a gay blac…
James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain
Reviewed by: James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain: Historical and Critical Essays, and: James Baldwin's God: Sex, Hope, and Crisis in Black Holiness Culture Douglas Field (bio) Henderson, Carol E. , ed. James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain: Historical and Critical Essays. New York: Peter Lang, 2006. Hardcover. 162 pp. Hardy III, Clarence E. James Baldwin's God: Sex, Hope, and Crisis in Black Holiness Culture. Knoxville, T.N.: The U of…
A Historical Guide to James Baldwin
With contributions from major scholars of African American literature, history, and cultural studies, A Historical Guide to James Baldwin focuses on the four tumultous decades that defined the great author’s life and art. Providing a comprehensive examination of Baldwin’s varied body of work that includes short stories, novels, and polemical essays, this collection reflects the major events that left an indelible imprint on the iconic writer: civ…
Even Better than the Real Thing
Even Better than the Real Thing:Boris Vian, Vernon Sullivan, and Film Noir Douglas Field (bio) The light-skinned Negro who passes permanently cuts himself off completely from the colored world. . . . Sometimes he prepares for the adventure by learning Spanish, French, Italian or Portuguese. He thus becomes a foreigner, and as everyone knows, a foreigner is apt to be any shade of color —Herbert Asbury, "Who is a Negro?" (1946) In 1947, a year afte…
Interview with David Linx
Interview with David Linx Douglas Field (bio) David Linx is an award-winning, Belgium-born jazz singer, instrumentalist, composer, and songwriter. He has worked with many notable musicians, including Steve Coleman, Clark Terry, Johnny Griffin, Me’Shell Ndegéocello, Ibrahim Maalouf, Kenny Wheeler, Roy Ayers, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Toots Thielemans and the Count Basie Orchestra, Natalie Dessay, and many others. His recent albums include A Different Por…
Afterword
Afterword Rich Blint (bio) and Douglas Field (bio) In 1963, James Baldwin delivered an address titled, “The Artist’s Struggle for Integrity,” at the Community Church in New York. From the outset, the speech, reprinted in Randall Kenan’s recently edited volume, The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings, proffered two propositions by the author and activist: “that the poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the …
All Those Strangers
The book examines how James Baldwin’s fiction and nonfiction shaped and responded to key political and cultural developments in the United States from the 1940s to the 1980s. It is animated by an examination of how external forces molded Baldwin’s personal, political, and psychological development and gave shape to his writing. The book views Baldwin through a cultural-historical lens alongside a more traditional literary critical approach. Cruci…
American Cold War Culture
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748619238);Although it is fifty years since the height of the Cold War, recent events have seen a resurgence of surveillance, paranoia and nuclear threats. Cultural critics and politicians are drawing parallels between the threat of Communism in the 1950s and 1960s and the present 'axis of evil'. This book taps into this interest, drawing on work from prominent academics as well as new theorists working in t…
D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation
Introduction
In his landmark essay ‘Projective Verse’ (1950), Charles Olson famously made a link between the act of poetic authorship and the operation of the typewriter. Due ‘to its rigidity and its space prec
The Spirit Lives! An Interview With Douglas Blazek
Born in Chicago, 1941, Douglas Blazek has been publishing poetry since the early 1960s, a decade in which he became one of the key architects of the Mimeograph Revolution. His first poems were publ
Huge urgency and consummate skill
Jim Pennington is a printer and small press publisher who trained at London's North-Western Polytechnic and the London College of Printing. Over the course of his long career, he has worked as a print room and production manager first for the British Safety Council (1971–75) then for the anti-poverty charity War on Want (1975–79) and then for the Lithosphere Printing Co-operative (1979–1991), among others. In parallel, Pennington ran Aloes Books,…
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