The Men Who Couldn't Stop Crying, and Other Unbearable Realities

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Death of a Salesman Sources: Making Willy Loman: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/01/25/making-willy-loman Interview with Mike Nichols: https://deadline.com/2012/05/mike-fleming-interviews-director-mike-nichols-will-death-of-a-salesman-revival-bring-him-eighth-tony-award-279398/ Arthur Miller vs. Columbia Pictures: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1537-4726.2004.00136.x Mike Nichols, Following in Kazan’s Footsteps: http://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/03/01/theater/201203-death-of-a-salesman-interactive.html?mcubz=3

L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat Sources: Lumiere’s Arrival of the Train: Cinema’s Founding Myth: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/171125 Did A Silent Film About A Train Really Cause Audiences To Stampede? https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/did-a-silent-film-about-a-train-really-cause-audiences-to-stampede

War of the Worlds Sources: Radiolab: War of the Worlds: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/war-worlds The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic: https://slate.com/culture/2013/10/orson-welles-war-of-the-worlds-panic-myth-the-infamous-radio-broadcast-did-not-cause-a-nationwide-hysteria.html America under attack I: a reassessment of Orson Welles' 1938 war of the worlds broadcast: https://www.proquest.com/openview/2c129259dc4d373b566d4c1c98281b36/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=47035 AT&T Operators Recall War of the Worlds Broadcast: https://youtu.be/R29BTsoIHpQ

Iliad/Enargeia Sources: Memorial by Alice Oswald, 2011 From Enargeia to Immersion: The Ancient Roots of a Modern Concept: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/style.51.1.0034

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