Long believes that in James' mind, Hawthorne represented a form of the American father that instilled in him both pride and embarrassment. He now demonstrates the ways in which James transformed Hawthorne's basic modes and concerns--rural, moral, romantic--into a more realistic social fiction, though as obsessed with an American sense of sin and inner meanings.

Stresses the evolution of the novels and the ways they relate to each other; traces character conceptions and themes; discusses realistic and romance modes, inner and outer plots, character doubles, and "self."

"Generations of filmmakers and film audiences have been inspired by the work of Ingmar Bergman, which has left indelible impressions on practically everyone everywhere who takes seriously the art of moviemaking." "Robert Emmet Long's Ingmar Bergman: Film and Stage is the first fully illustrated account of each of Bergman's films, from his earliest work in the 1940s to the films of the 1950s that established him as Europe's most important and innovative...

An overview of the 1993 FRI raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, with an examination of other alternative religions being practiced in America.

Collection of articles representing a variety of points of view on the debate about immigration and illegal aliens in the 1990s.

A sophisticated European brother and sister turn up unexpectedly on the doorstep of their staid American cousins. The fortune-hunting Eugenia and her high-spirited brother Felix turn this Puritan world upside down.