Let us now praise famous men : three tenant families / James Agee, Walker Evans ; with an introduction to the new edition by John Hersey. by Agee, James, 1909-1955

Let us now praise famous men : three tenant families / James Agee, Walker Evans. by Agee, James, 1909-1955

Let us now praise famous men ; A death in the family, & shorter fiction / James Agee. by Agee, James, 1909-1955

Table of Contents: “…Let us now praise famous men. -- The morning watch. -- A death in the family. -- Stories: -- Death in the desert. -- They that sow in sorrow shall reap. -- A mother's tale.…”

American modernism and depression documentary / Jeff Allred. by Allred, Jeff, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Plausible fictions of the real -- From 'culture' to 'cultural work': literature and labor between the wars -- The road to somewhere: locating knowledge in Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White's You have seen their faces (1937) -- Moving violations: stasis and mobility in James Agee's and Walker Evans's Let us now praise famous men (1941) -- From eye to we: Richard Wright's 12 million black voices, documentary, and pedagogy -- 'We Americans': Henry Luce, life, and the mind-guided camera -- Epilogue: depression documentary and the knot of history.…”
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Succeeding King Lear : literature, exposure, and the possibility of politics / Emily Sun. by Sun, Emily

Table of Contents: “…From the division of labor to the discovery of the common: James Agee and Walker Evans's Let us now praise famous men.…”
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After the machine : visual arts and the erasing of cultural boundaries / by Miles Orvell. by Orvell, Miles

Table of Contents: “…Don't Think of It as Art: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men --…”

Literature at the barricades : the American writer in the 1930s / edited by Ralph F. Bogardus and Fred Hobson.

Table of Contents: “…Consciousness of technique : the prose method of James Agee's Let us now praise famous men /…”
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The work of Andy Warhol / edited by Gary Garrels.

Table of Contents: “…Stuckey -- Let us now praise famous men : Warhol as art director / Nan Rosenthal -- The Andy Warhol line / Benjamin H.D. …”

Agee at 100 : centennial essays on the works of James Agee / edited by Michael A. Lofaro.

Table of Contents: “…Crank; A Continuous Center: Centripetal and Centrifugal Tendencies in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men -- Andrew Crooke; A Blind Work of Nature: The Ethics of Representing Beauty in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men -- Jesse Graves; James Agee's A Death in the Family: Personal Identity and Conflict in an Emerging Appalachia -- Michael A. …”
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The Old Testament : a very short introduction / Michael Coogan. by Coogan, Michael David

Table of Contents: “…-- Interpretive strategies -- The Old Testament and history -- The Old Testament and myth -- The exodus from Egypt: a deep probe -- "Keep my commandments": biblical law -- "Festivals of the Lord": ritual in ancient Israel -- Prophets and prophecies -- Hezekiah and Sennacherib: another deep probe -- Poetry and dissent -- "Let us now praise famous men"--and women -- The enduring significance of the Old Testament.…”
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James Agee in Context New Literary, Visual, Cultural, and Historical Essays. by Lofaro, Michael A.

Table of Contents: “…"Tidmore and the Negro": An Unpublished Chapter from Let Us Now Praise Famous Men | Hugh Davis…”
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The literature of journalism : text and context / [edited by] R. Thomas Berner.

Table of Contents: “…The road to Wigan Pier / George Orwell -- Let us now praise famous men / James Agee -- Hiroshima / John Hersey -- Reporting / Lillian Ross -- The story of a shipwrecked sailor / Gabriel García Márquez -- The earl of Louisiana / A.J. …”

The hungry eye : Walker Evans.

The hungry eye : Walker Evans.

Fugitive images : from photography to video / edited by Patrice Petro.

Table of Contents: “…Corporealized observers : visual pornographies and the "carnal density of vision" / Linda Willams -- Phantom images and modern manifestations : spirit photography, magic theater, trick films, and photography's uncanny / Tom Gunning -- Death and the photographic body / Lynne Kirby -- Inventing monument valley : nineteenth-century landscape photography and the Western film / Edward Buscombe -- Derelict histories : a politics of scale revised / Áine O'Brien -- How to see (photographically) / Régis Durand -- Photography mise-en-film : autobiographical (hi)stories and psychic apparatuses / Philippe Dubois -- An empirical avant-garde : Laleen Jayamanne and Tracey Moffat / Patricia Mellencamp -- Just in time : Let us now praise famous men and the recovery of the historical subject / Charles Wolfe -- Words of light : theses on the photography of history / Eduardo Cadava -- Flat-out vision / Herbert Blau -- After shock/between boredom and history / Patrice Petro -- The pencil of history / John Tagg.…”

Poor people / William T. Vollmann. by Vollmann, William T.

On writing with photography / Karen Beckman and Liliane Weissberg, editors.

Table of Contents: “…Magilow -- The power of what is not there : James Agee's Let us now praise famous men / Stuart Burrows -- Playing doll / Liliane Weissberg -- Situating images : photography, writing, and cinema in the work of Guy Debord / Tyrus Miller -- The generation of postmemory / Marianne Hirsch -- Picturing the specter of history : Zhang Ailing's visual practice / Xiaojue Wang -- Sphinxes without secrets : W.G. …”
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The Hungry eye : Walker Evans / MacNeil/Lehrer Productions.

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Second read : writers look back at classic works of reportage / edited by James Marcus and the staff of the Columbia Journalism Review.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Rick Perlstein on Paul Cowan's The tribes of America -- Nicholson Baker on Daniel Defoe's A journal of the plague year -- Dale Maharidge on James Agee's Let us now praise famous men -- Robert Lipsyte on Paul Gallico's Farewell to sport -- Marla Cone on Rachel Carson's Silent spring -- Ben Yagoda on Walter Bernstein's Keep your head down -- Evan Cornog on A. …”

Literary journalism and the aesthetics of experience / John C. Hartsock. by Hartsock, John C., 1951-