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Running Away from Myself: A Dream Portrait of America Drawn from the Films of the Forties
210 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1969
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Barbara Deming
25 books17 followersBarbara Deming (July 23, 1917 – August 2, 1984) was an American feminist and advocate of nonviolent social change.
arbara Deming was born in New York City. She attended a Friends (Quaker) school up through her high school years.
Deming directed plays, taught dramatic literature and wrote and published fiction and non-fiction works. On a trip to India, she began reading Gandhi, and became committed to a non-violent struggle, with her main cause being Women's Rights. She later became a journalist, and was active in many demonstrations and marches over issues of peace and civil rights. She was a member of a group that went to Hanoi during the Vietnam War, and was jailed many times for non-violent protest.
In 1975, Deming founded The Money for Women Fund to support the work of feminist artists. Deming helped administer the Fund, with support from artist Mary Meigs. After Deming's death in 1984, the organization was renamed as The Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.[5] Today, the foundation is "oldest ongoing feminist granting agency" which "gives encouragement and grants to individual feminists in the arts (writers, and visual artists)"
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arbara Deming was born in New York City. She attended a Friends (Quaker) school up through her high school years.
Deming directed plays, taught dramatic literature and wrote and published fiction and non-fiction works. On a trip to India, she began reading Gandhi, and became committed to a non-violent struggle, with her main cause being Women's Rights. She later became a journalist, and was active in many demonstrations and marches over issues of peace and civil rights. She was a member of a group that went to Hanoi during the Vietnam War, and was jailed many times for non-violent protest.
In 1975, Deming founded The Money for Women Fund to support the work of feminist artists. Deming helped administer the Fund, with support from artist Mary Meigs. After Deming's death in 1984, the organization was renamed as The Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.[5] Today, the foundation is "oldest ongoing feminist granting agency" which "gives encouragement and grants to individual feminists in the arts (writers, and visual artists)"
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January 2, 2015
This book was highly-recommended to me, but I found it rather tedious and obvious throughout much of its discourse, in which the author attempts to categorize protagonistic activity in films of the 1940s. Some of her ideas are of interest, particularly one involving what George Bailey's REAL discovery was at the climax of It's A Wonderful Life. But much of the prose is near-turgid, detailed synopses of movie plots go on for pages, her quotations of dialog are apparently often from (faulty) memory or from early script drafts, as many of her quotes simply aren't in the movies themselves, and she varies without rhyme or reason between using character names and the names of the actors when describing a film. ("Bogart takes Ilsa in his arms," etc.) As stated, some of it is of interest, but with the exception of a section on the Chandler and Hammett films, I was impatient for the book to end.
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