Miss Lonelyhearts, the Glossary

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1. 55 relations: Advice column, Advice to the Lovelorn, Alan Schneider, Amorality, Back to the Future Part II, Biff Tannen, Black comedy, Commodification, Détournement, Dore Schary, Eric Roberts, Evelyn Waugh, Existentialism, Expressionism, Fox Film, Great Depression, Guy Debord, Henri Bergson, Horace Liveright, Howard Teichmann, Irony, J. D. McClatchy, Jo Mielziner, Juilliard School, Lee Tracy, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Lonelyhearts, Lost Weekend (song), Lowell Liebermann, Marx's theory of alienation, Marxism, Mass production, Messiah complex, Michael Dinner, Montgomery Clift, Music Box Theatre, Myrna Loy, Nathanael West, Novella, Opium of the people, Owner's manual, Patricia Zipprodt, Philip K. Dick, PopMatters, Robert Ryan, Situationist International, Sociological imagination, The Dream Life of Balso Snell, The Loved One (book), The Loved One (film), ... Expand index (5 more) »

2. 1933 American novels
3. Novels by Nathanael West

Advice column

An advice column is a column in a question and answer format.

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Advice to the Lovelorn

Advice to the Lovelorn is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring Lee Tracy, Sally Blane, Paul Harvey and Sterling Holloway.

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Alan Schneider

Alan Schneider (December 12, 1917 – May 3, 1984) was an American theatre director responsible for more than 100 theatre productions.

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Amorality

Amorality (also known as amoralism) is an absence of, indifference towards, disregard for, or incapacity for morality.

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Back to the Future Part II

Back to the Future Part II is a 1989 American science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis from a screenplay by Bob Gale; both wrote the story.

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Biff Tannen

Biff Howard Tannen is a fictional character in the ''Back to the Future'' trilogy.

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Black comedy

Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, bleak comedy, morbid humor, gallows humor, black humor, or dark humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.

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Commodification

Commodification is the process of transforming inalienable, free, or gifted things (objects, services, ideas, nature, personal information, people or animals) into commodities, or objects for sale.

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Détournement

A détournement, meaning "rerouting, hijacking" in French, is a technique developed in the 1950s by the Letterist International, and later adapted by the Situationist International (SI),Report on the Construction of Situations (1957) that was defined in the SI's inaugural 1958 journal as "he integration of present or past artistic productions into a superior construction of a milieu.

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Dore Schary

Isadore "Dore" Schary (August 31, 1905 – July 7, 1980) was an American playwright, director, and producer for the stage and a prolific screenwriter and producer of motion pictures.

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Eric Roberts

Eric Anthony Roberts (born April 18, 1956) is an American actor.

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Evelyn Waugh

Arthur Evelyn St.

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Existentialism

Existentialism is a family of views and forms of philosophical inquiry that explores the issue of human existence.

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Expressionism

Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century.

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Fox Film

The Fox Film Corporation (also known as Fox Studios) was an American independent company that produced motion pictures.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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Guy Debord

Guy-Ernest Debord (28 December 1931 – 30 November 1994) was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, critic of work, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International.

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Henri Bergson

Henri-Louis Bergson (18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a French philosopherHenri Bergson.

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Horace Liveright

Horace Brisbin Liveright (pronounced "LIVE-right," anglicized by Horace's father from the German Liebrecht; 10 December 1884 – 24 September 1933) was an American publisher and stage producer.

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Howard Teichmann

Howard Miles Teichmann (January 22, 1916 - July 7, 1987) was a Broadway playwright and biographer.

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Irony

Irony, in its broadest sense, is the juxtaposition of what on the surface appears to be the case and what is actually the case or to be expected.

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J. D. McClatchy

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Jo Mielziner

Joseph Mielziner (March 19, 1901 – March 15, 1976) was an American theatrical scenic, and lighting designer born in Paris, France.

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Juilliard School

The Juilliard School is a private performing arts conservatory in New York City.

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Lee Tracy

William Lee Tracy (April 14, 1898 – October 18, 1968) was an American stage, film, and television actor.

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Lloyd Cole and the Commotions

Lloyd Cole and the Commotions were a British rock and pop band that formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 1982.

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Lonelyhearts

Lonelyhearts, also known as Miss Lonelyhearts, is a 1958 American drama film directed by Vincent J. Donehue.

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Lost Weekend (song)

"Lost Weekend" is a song by the British pop and rock band Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, released in 1985 as the second single from their second studio album Easy Pieces.

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Lowell Liebermann

Lowell Liebermann (born February 22, 1961, in New York City) is an American composer, pianist and conductor.

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Marx's theory of alienation

Karl Marx's theory of alienation describes the estrangement (German: Entfremdung) of people from aspects of their human nature (Gattungswesen, 'species-essence') as a consequence of the division of labour and living in a society of stratified social classes.

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Marxism

Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis.

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Mass production

Mass production, also known as flow production, series production, series manufacture, or continuous production, is the production of substantial amounts of standardized products in a constant flow, including and especially on assembly lines.

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Messiah complex

The messiah complex is a mental state in which a person believes they are a messiah or prophet and will save or redeem people in a religious endeavour.

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Michael Dinner

Michael Dinner (born May 20, 1953) is an American director, producer, and screenwriter for television.

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Montgomery Clift

Edward Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920 – July 23, 1966) was an American actor.

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Music Box Theatre

The Music Box Theatre is a Broadway theater at 239 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Myrna Loy

Myrna Loy (born Myrna Adele Williams; August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993) was an American film, television and stage actress.

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Nathanael West

Nathanael West (born Nathan Weinstein; October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940) was an American writer and screenwriter.

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Novella

A novella is a narrative prose fiction whose length is shorter than most novels, but longer than most novelettes and short stories.

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Opium of the people

The opium of the people or opium of the masses (Opium des Volkes) is a dictum used in reference to religion, derived from a frequently paraphrased partial statement of German revolutionary and critic of political economy Karl Marx: "Religion is the opium of the people." In context, the statement is part of Marx's analysis that religion's role is as a metaphysical balm for the real suffering in the universe and in society.

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Owner's manual

An owner's manual (also called an instruction manual or a user guide) is an instructional book or booklet that is supplied with almost all technologically advanced consumer products such as vehicles, home appliances and computer peripherals.

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Patricia Zipprodt

Patricia Zipprodt (February 24, 1925 – July 17, 1999) was an American costume designer.

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Philip K. Dick

Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982), often referred to by his initials PKD, was an American science fiction writer and novelist.

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PopMatters

PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers aspects of popular culture.

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Robert Ryan

Robert Bushnell Ryan (November 11, 1909 – July 11, 1973) was an American actor and activist.

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Situationist International

The Situationist International (SI) was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists.

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Sociological imagination

Sociological imagination is a term used in the field of sociology to describe a framework for understanding social reality that places personal experiences within a broader social and historical context.

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The Dream Life of Balso Snell

The Dream Life of Balso Snell is a 1931 novel by American author Nathanael West. Miss Lonelyhearts and The Dream Life of Balso Snell are novels by Nathanael West.

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The Loved One (book)

The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy (1948) is a short satirical novel by British novelist Evelyn Waugh about the funeral business in Los Angeles, the British expatriate community in Hollywood, and the film industry.

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The Loved One (film)

The Loved One is a 1965 black-and-white black comedy film directed by British filmmaker Tony Richardson.

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The Man in the High Castle

The Man in the High Castle (1962), by Philip K. Dick, is an alternative history novel wherein the Axis Powers won World War II. Miss Lonelyhearts and the Man in the High Castle are American novels adapted into television shows.

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Twentieth Century Pictures

Twentieth Century Pictures, Inc. was an independent Hollywood motion picture production company created in 1933 by Joseph Schenck (the former president of United Artists) and Darryl F. Zanuck from Warner Bros. The company product was distributed by United Artists (UA), and leased space at Samuel Goldwyn Studios.

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United Artists

United Artists (UA) is an American film production company owned by Amazon MGM Studios.

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University of Southern California

The University of Southern California (USC, SC, Southern Cal) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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USC Thornton School of Music

The USC Thornton School of Music is a private music school in Los Angeles, California.

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See also

1933 American novels

• Ann Vickers (novel)
• Anthony Adverse (novel)
• Better Angel
• Company K
• Farmer Boy
• Female (novel)
• Footprints Under the Window
• Glory of the Seas
• God's Little Acre
• Hag's Nook
• Heavy Weather (Wodehouse novel)
• Imitation of Life (novel)
• Lamb in His Bosom
• Miss Lonelyhearts
• Murder in Trinidad (novel)
• New Land (novel)
• Oil for the Lamps of China
• Ojo in Oz
• Pity Is Not Enough
• Requiem (Fisher novel)
• South Moon Under
• Swords of Steel
• Tarzan and the City of Gold
• The American Gun Mystery
• The Apprentice of Florence
• The Dark Garden
• The Disinherited (novel)
• The Duke Comes Back (novel)
• The Farm (Bromfield novel)
• The Forgotten Daughter
• The House on the Roof
• The Kennel Murder Case
• The Mad Hatter Mystery
• The Man of Bronze
• The Password to Larkspur Lane
• The Port of Peril
• The Siamese Twin Mystery
• The Sign of the Twisted Candles
• The Werewolf of Paris
• The White Cockatoo (novel)
• The Winged Girl of Knossos
• To a God Unknown
• When Worlds Collide
• Yesterday's Burdens
• Young Pioneers (novel)

Novels by Nathanael West

• A Cool Million
• Miss Lonelyhearts
• The Day of the Locust
• The Dream Life of Balso Snell

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Lonelyhearts

Also known as Miss Lonelyhearts (TV film).

, The Man in the High Castle, Twentieth Century Pictures, United Artists, University of Southern California, USC Thornton School of Music.