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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Monstrosity Identity and Music
Book SynopsisAlexis Luko is Professor of Musicology and the Director of the School of Music at the University of Victoria, Canada. She is the author of Sonatas, Screams, and Silence: Music and Sound in the Films of Ingmar Bergman (2016).James K. Wright is Professor of Music in the School for Studies in Art and Culture and the College of Humanities at Carleton University, Canada. A McGill University Governor General's Gold Medal recipient, his publications include two award-winning books on Arnold Schoenberg, and They Shot, He Scored (2019), a monograph on the life and work of the prolific film composer Eldon Rathburn.Trade ReviewWe hate monsters, but we need them, and that’s what makes them so endlessly fascinating. For those who take monstrosity seriously, this collection of essays—with topics ranging from Frankenstein’s celebrated creature to werewolves and wraiths—offers plenty of food for thought. * James Wierzbicki, author of Film Music: A History *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Frankenstein in Film, Theatre, Music, Comics and Visual Art 1. Frankenstein’s Frontispiece, the Missing Phallus and the Pornographer: The Alchemy of Conceiving Monstrosities Marie Mulvey-Roberts, University of the West of England, UK 2. Monstrous Encounters: The Aesthetic Psychology of Screen Frankensteins Kevin J. Donnelly, University of Southampton, UK 3. Frankenstein and the Media of Serial Figures Shane Denson, Stanford University, USA 4. Musical Directions, Sound and Song in Presumption, or the Fate of Frankenstein (1823) John Higney, Carleton University, Canada 5. Birth of a ‘Miserable Monster’: The Theatricality of Male Self-Procreation in Stage and Screen Adaptations of Frankenstein André Loiselle, St. Thomas University, Canada 6. Excising the Repulsive: Mysticism and Psychology in Edison’s Frankenstein (1910) Ethan Towns, Trent University, Canada 7. Frankenstein’s Organ Transplant: Adaptation in Afro-Futurist and Electronic Dance Musics Mark McCutcheon, Athabaska University, Canada Part II: Monstrosity in Music, Film and Video Games 8. Monstrosity as a Queer Aesthetic Lloyd Whitesell, McGill University, Canada 9. Twelve-tone Terror: Representing Horror and Monstrosity in Dodecaphonic Film Music James K. Wright, Carleton University, Canada 10. The Horror, the Horror! White Women are the True Monsters in Jordan Peele’s Get Out Frederick W. Gooding, Jr., Texas Christian University, USA 11. Indigeneity as Monstrosity in The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake Murray Leeder, University of Manitoba, Canada 12. A 'Distaste for. . . Allegory' or: In the Bowels of Horror Daniel Humphrey, Texas A&M University, USA 13.Tragic Wraiths, Seductive Sirens and Man-Eating Vampires: Female Monstrosity in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Video Game Sarah Stang, Brock University, Canada Acknowledgements Bibliography Filmography Index
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Open Road Media I Like What I Know
Book SynopsisPublished in 1959, this book is what Vincent Price called his “visual autobiography” — the story of his life through his 48th year as seen through the lens of his greatest passion, the visual arts. Peppered with lively stories about both his art collecting and advocacy as well as his career as an actor, I Like What I Know is written in an approachable and entertaining style, capturing what has drawn fans to Vincent Price throughout his distinguished 65-year-career and in the two decades since his death in 1993.
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1517 Media IRL: Finding Our Real Selves in a Digital World
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Stitched and Beautiful: A journey of self-discovery and self-acceptance.
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Sonrisas Publishing Scooby: The Glory of the Ride
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Sit Your Ass Down and Color: Swear Word Adult Coloring Book: 31 Illustrations Using the Word Ass
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Sit the F*ck Down and Color: Swear Word Adult Coloring Book: 31 Illustrations Using the Word F*ck
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Geometrix One: An Adult Coloring Book
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Stitched and Beautiful/ Beauté en Courtepointe: A journey of self-discovery and self-acceptance./ Un voyage à la découverte et l'acceptation de soi.
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria
Book Synopsis During the last decade, contemporary German and Austrian cinema has grappled with new social and economic realities. The ""cinema of consensus,"" a term coined to describe the popular and commercially oriented filmmaking of the 1990s, has given way to a more heterogeneous and critical cinema culture. Making the greatest artistic impact since the 1970s, contemporary cinema is responding to questions of globalization and the effects of societal and economic change on the individual. This book explores this trend by investigating different thematic and aesthetic strategies and alternative methods of film production and distribution. Functioning both as a product and as an agent of globalizing processes, this new cinema mediates and influences important political and social debates. The contributors illuminate these processes through their analyses of cinema's intervention in discourses on such concepts as ""national cinema,"" the effects of globalization on social mobility, and the emergence of a ""global culture."" The essays illustrate the variety and inventiveness of contemporary Austrian and German filmmaking and highlight the complicated interdependencies between global developments and local specificities. They confirm a broader trend toward a more complex, critical, and formally diverse cinematic scene. This book offers insights into the strategies employed by German and Austrian filmmakers to position themselves between the commercial pressures of the film industry and the desire to mediate or even attempt to affect social change. It will be of interest to scholars in film studies, cultural studies, and European studies. Trade Review"German-language cinema has always been more diverse than film historians admit. The contributions in this volume challenge us to recognize this heterogeneity in recent, post-millennial films from Germany and Austria. Close readings elaborate how filmmakers respond to the tensions that arise as the national and European social landscape changes, with implications for film aesthetics, funding, production, distribution, and reception. At the same time these crisply written chapters redefine the emerging cinema landscape within transnational market dynamics and capital flow. I recommend this volume to readers seeking to understand the multiplicity and hybridity of the post-1990s 'consensus' cinema." -- Marc Silberman, University of Wisconsin, editor of 'The German Wall: Fallout in Europe' (2011)"Cinema by all means has to be dangerous!" (279) When Barbara Pichler quotes the title of Marcus Seibert's book of interviews with young Austrian filmmakers (2006), she also sums up the fifteen articles of this carefully edited volume, which presents a whole host of refreshing new perspectives on the most recent German-language film productions.... With its helpful abstracts, detailed notes, extensive reference lists, four-page filmography, and twelve-page index the book is an invaluable resource to anyone interested in German cinema in general and twenty-first century German cinema in particular. The articles present a forward-looking engagement with social issues that should serve as valuable reading in courses about contemporary Germany, Austria, and Europe, but also courses that want to explore European perspectives on globalization, or courses about the role of art in pursuit of social justice. They would provide a useful contrast, of course, in comparative courses with North American and other film productions. Indirectly the volume presents a strong case in favour of making all the films discussed available in region 1 format with English subtitles so that this exciting new German cinema can find the audience it deserves. -- Sabine von Mering, Brandeis University -- German Politics and Society"Der vorliegende Sammelband ist eine englischsprachige Publikation, die eine vielfèltie und möglichst differenzierte Sicht auf das zeitgenössische deutsche und österreichische Kino anbietet." -- Danila Lipatov (Moskau), Brandeis University -- Medien wissenschaftTable of Contents Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria, edited by Gabrielle Mueller and James M. Skidmore List of Illustrations Acknowledgements 1. Cinema of Dissent? Confronting Social, Economic, and Political Change in German-Language Cinema Gabriele Mueller and James M. Skidmore Challenging Viewing Habits 2. The Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School Marco Abel 3. The Triumph of Hyperreality: A Baudrillardian Reading of Michael Haneke's Cinematic Oeuvre Sophie Boyer 4. Subversions of the Medical Gaze: Disability and Media Parody in Christoph Schlingensief's Freakstars 3000 Morgan Koerner Reassessing and Consuming History 5. Literary Discourse and Cinematic Narrative: Scripting Affect in Das Leben der Anderen Roger Cook 6. Heimat 3: Edgar Reitz's Time Machine Alasdair King 7. Troubled Parents, Angry Children: The Difficult Legacy of 1968 in Contemporary German-Language Film Joanne Leal 8. Creative Chaos as Political Strategy in Recent German-Language Cinema Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien 9. ""Looking for an Old Man with a Black Moustache"": Hitler, Humor, Fake and Forgery in Schtonk! Florentine Strzelczyk 10. Haha, Hitler! Coming to Terms with Dani Levy Peter Gölz Questioning Collective Identities 11. German Fascination for Jews in Oliver Hirschbiegel's Ein ganz gewöhnlicher Jude Myriam Léger 12. Border, Bridge, or Barrier? Images of German-Polish Borderlands in German Cinema of the 2000s Jakub Kazecki 13. The Transnational Deutschkei in Yilmaz Arslan's Brudermord Michael Zimmermann 14. Diasporic Queers: Reading for the Intersections of Alterities in Recent German Cinema Alice Kuzniar An Insider's View 15. The Construction of Reality: Aspects of Austrian Cinema between Fiction and Documentary Barbara Pichler Filmography Notes on Contributors Index Contributors' Bios Marco Abel is associate professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of Violent Affect: Literature, Cinema, and Critique after Representation (University of Nebraska Press, 2008) and is currently working on The Berlin School: Toward a Minor Cinema, which is under contract at Camden House. He teaches film history and theory at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Sophie Boyer is associate professor of German Studies at Bishop's University in Sherbrooke, Quebec. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century poetry and the representation of crime and sexuality in Weimar literature. She is the author of La femme chez Heinrich Heine et Charles Baudelaire: le langage moderne de l'amour (L'Harmattan, 2004). Roger Cook is professor of German and director of Film Studies at the Missouri State University in Springfield. He is the author of By the Rivers of Babylon: Heinrich Heine's Late Songs and Reflections (Wayne State University Press, 1998) and The Demise of the Author: Autonomy and the German Writer 1770-1848 (Peter Lang, 1993), and he is editor with Gerd Gemünden of The Cinema of Wim Wenders: Image, Narrative, and the Postmodern Condition (Wayne State University Press, 1996). Peter Gölz is associate professor of German and chair of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria. He has published on film, contemporary literature, computer-assisted language learning, and vampires. Jakub Kazecki holds an M.A. from Dalhousie University, Halifax, and a Ph.D. from The University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He is currently working as an assistant professor of German at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, Connecticut. Alasdair King is senior lecturer in German and Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. His recent publications include a monograph on Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and numerous articles on German cinema. He is currently working on a monograph on Edgar Reitz's Heimat trilogy as part of a wider research interest in contemporary cinematic engagements with space and time. Morgan Koerner is an assistant professor of German at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. His research focuses on intermediality and laughter in contemporary German theatre performances after unification. Alice Kuzniar is professor of German at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. She has edited Outing Goethe and His Age (Stanford University Press, 1996) and authored Delayed Endings: Nonclosure in Novalis and Hölderlin (University of Georgia Press, 1987), The Queer German Cinema (Stanford University Press, 2000), and Melancholia's Dog: Reflections on Our Animal Kinship (University of Chicago Press, 2006). Joanne Leal is director of the M.A. in European Cultures program at Birkbeck, University of London. She has published on feminist literature and contemporary fiction and film, and she has recently completed a project on the collaborative works of Wim Wenders and Peter Handke (with Martin Brady, King's College London), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (United Kingdom). Myriam Léger is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. Her research interests are in twentieth-century German literature and film, representations of Jewish identity, intersections of politics and literature, and cultural studies. Gabriele Mueller Gabriele Mueller is associate professor of German and affiliated with The Canadian Centre for German and European Studies at York University in Toronto. Her research focuses mainly on contemporary German cinema. She has published on various aspects of post-unification cinema in Germany, in particular, on cinematic contributions to memory discourses. Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien is professor of German and the Courtney and Steven Ross Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. Her book Nazi Cinema as Enchantment: The Politics of Entertainment in the Third Reich (Camden House, 2004) explores how cinema participated in the larger framework of everyday fascism. Currently she is writing a book on national identity in post-wall German cinema. Barbara Pichler is the director of Diagonale, the festival of Austrian film at Graz, which is the main platform for the presentation and discussion of Austrian film. She studied theatre and film at the University of Vienna and at the British Film Institute. An experienced member of film-festival juries, she is also an adjunct lecturer on film at the University of Vienna and the co-editor of moving landscapes: Landschaft und Film (Synema, 2006) and James Benning (FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen, 2007). James M. Skidmore is associate professor and chair of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. Florentine Strzelczyk is associate professor of German and director of the Language Research Centre at the University of Calgary, Alberta. Her research interests include the concept of Heimat in literature and film, and the afterlife of Nazism in North American cinema. She is the author of Unheimliche Heimat: Reibungsflächen zwischen Kultur und Nation (Iudicium, 1999) and co-editor of Glaube und Geschlecht: Fromme Frauen-Spirituelle ErfahrungenReligióse Traditionen (Böhlau, 2008). Michael Zimmermann teaches in the Department of International Languages at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan. His areas of research interest are the twentieth-century novel, film, German as a heritage language, and language pedagogy.
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canadian Television: Text and Context
Book SynopsisCanadian Television: Text and Context explores the creation and circulation of entertainment television in Canada from the interdisciplinary perspective of television studies. Each chapter connects arguments about particular texts of Canadian television to critical analysis of the wider cultural, social, and economic contexts in which they are created. The book surveys the commercial and technological imperatives of the Canadian television industry, the shifting role of the CBC as Canada's public broadcaster, the dynamics of Canada's multicultural and multiracial audiences, and the function of television's "star system." Foreword by The Globe and Mail 's television critic, John Doyle.Trade Review"The compelling and wide-ranging essays in this collection attest to the strength of television studies in Canada even-or especially-at a moment when both the nation and the medium of television have become destabilized critical categories. A welcome addition to the field of media studies in Canada." -- ZoÃ" Druick, Simon Fraser University, co-editor of Programming Reality: Perspectives on English-Canadian Television (WLU Press, 2006)While the digital age transforms all media and globalization erodes national boundaries, television and its domestic contexts are still perceived as serving some form of national interest. Canadian Television: Text and Context celebrates English-Canadian television within this nexus of concerns, asking how our TV texts and the issues they raise provide Canadians with a "collective working through" of our shared realities. Crossing disciplines and genres in rich explorations of forms and practices, this impressive collection signals loud and clear the depth and diversity with which Canadian television studies has arrived. -- Christine Ramsay, University of Regina, editor of Making It Like a Man: Canadian Masculinities in Practice (WLU Press, 2011)Table of Contents Canadian Television: Text and Context, edited by Marian Bredin, Scott Henderson, and Sarah A. Matheson Foreword: One Thing about Television and Ten Things about Canadian TV John Doyle (The Globe and Mail) Part I: Television Studies in the Canadian Context: Challenges and New Directions Introduction Marian Bredin, Scott Henderson, and Sarah A. Matheson 1. From Kine to Hi-Def: A Personal View of Television Studies in Canada Mary Jane Miller 2. (Who Knows?) What Remains to Be Seen: Archives, Access, and Other Practical Problems for the Study of Canadian ""National"" Television Jennifer VanderBurgh Part II: Context of Television Production in Canada 3. Television, Film, and the Canadian Star System Liz Czach 4. Producing Aboriginal Television in Canada: Obstacles and Opportunities Marian Bredin 5. Hypercommercialism and Canadian Children's Television: The Case of YTV Kyle Asquith Part III: Contexts of Criticism: Genre, Narrative, and Form 6. Canadianizing Canadians: Television, Youth, Identity Michele Byers 7. How Even American Reality TV Can Perform a Public Service on Canadian Television Derek S. Foster 8. Television, Nation, and Situation Comedy in Canada: Cultural Diversity and Little Mosque on the Prairie Sarah A. Matheson 9. ""Come On Eileen"": Making Shania Canadian Again Scott Henderson Bibligraphy Contributors Contributors' Bios Kyle Asquith is a lecturer and PhD candidate in the Media Studies program at the University of Western Ontario. His research and teaching interests broadly encompass the complementary fields of advertising and consumer culture, media history, and the political economy of communication. Marian Bredin is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film, and former director of the Centre for Canadian Studies at Brock University. Along with her participation in the Popular Culture Niagara Research Group, her main research interests include Aboriginal media, communications policy, and Canadian television. Most recently she co-edited Indigenous Screen Cultures in Canada for the University of Manitoba Press in 2010. Michele Byers is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Saint Mary's University. She is editor or co-editor of four books on television, and her work on television text, identity, and the archive has appeared in a broad range of journals and edited collections. She has held several SSHRC grants for the study of Canadian television, the most recent of which focuses on Canadian television and ethnicity. Liz Czach is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. Her research interests include home movies, film festivals, and Canadian film. Her articles and reviews have appeared in numerous journals including The Moving Image, Cinema Journal, and Journal of Canadian Studies. She has contributed to the books La Casa Abierta: El cine domestico y sus reciclajes contemporaneos (2010) and Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada (2010). She was a film programmer at the Toronto International Film Festival from 1995 to 2005 and currently organizes Edmonton's Home Movie Day. John Doyle has been television critic at The Globe and Mail since 2000 and was the critic for Broadcast Week, the Globe's television magazine, from 1995 to 2000. His book A Great Feast of Light: Growing Up Irish in the Television Age was published to acclaim in Canada, the United States, Britain, Ireland, and Australia in 2005. His second book, The World Is a Ball: The Joy, Madness and Meaning of Soccer (2010), was also a national bestseller in Canada and has been published in the United States, Britain, Ireland, and Croatia. Derek S. Foster is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film at Brock University. His research consistently focuses on visual rhetoric in the public sphere and ""mining the gap"" between mass communication and speech communication. To this end, he has written numerous publications studying discourses of reality television and the rhetoric surrounding other forms of visual and material culture. His current research combines these foci in examining television-based memorials and commemorative exercises. Scott Henderson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film at Brock University. He received his MA and PhD in Film Studies from the University of East Anglia. His research focuses on issues of identity and representation in popular culture. He has published on diverse subject matter, including YouTube and youth identity, gay and lesbian film, British cinema, Canadian cinema and popular culture, and Canadian radio policy. Sarah A. Matheson is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film and the M.A. in Popular Culture at Brock University. Her main areas of research and teaching are film and popular culture with a special focus on Canadian television studies. Her recent work has appeared in the Canadian Journal of Film Studies and Film and History and in the anthologies Programming Reality: Perspectives on English-Canadian Television and The Tube Has Spoken: Reality TV and History. Mary Jane Miller is retired professor (Emerita) of the Department of Dramatic Arts, Brock University. She has taught television and Canadian television drama and Canadian dramatic literature, publishing articles on both topics. Her books include: Turn Up the Contrast: Canadian Television Drama since 1952 (UBC Press/CBC, 1987); Rewind and Search: Conversations with Makers and Decision Makers of CBC Television Drama (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996); and Outside Looking In: Viewing First Nations People in Canadian Dramatic Television Series ( McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008). Jennifer VanderBurgh is Assistant Professor (Film and Media Studies) in the Department of English at Saint Mary's University in Nova Scotia. Her writing on a diverse range of texts—from Videodrome to Don Messer's Jubilee—has appeared in various journals and edited collections. She is currently writing a book on archives and footprints of television in Toronto and recently coedited an issue of PUBLIC: Art/Culture/Ideas on Screens.
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Avalon Travel Publishing She's a Bad Motorcycle
Book SynopsisWhy do people ride motorcycles? Thomas Krens, curator of The Art of the Motorcycle, the most popular exhibition ever mounted at the Guggenheim Museum, writes: "For much of society, the motorcycle remains a forbidden indulgence, an object of fantasy, and danger." And of envy. No other machine is thought of as the vehicle--"the perfect vehicle" Melissa Holbrook Pierson calls it--of rebellion, lawlessness, and freedom. She's A Bad Motorcycle collects the writings of those who have sought that freedom. From the genre-defining--and exploding--Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance to Chasing Che the motorcycle has inspired a startlingly rich, unabashedly romantic body of writing that celebrates the risks and exhilaration of the journey to self-discovery. The book includes selections from Eric Burdon, Harry Crews, Harlan Ellison, Robert E. Fulton, Jr., Che Guevara, Fred Haefele, S.E. Hinton, Dennis Hopper, Richard La Plante, Erika Lopez, Horace McCoy, Allen Noren, Robert Pirsig, Gary Paulsen, Melissa Holbrook Pierson, Patrick Symmes, Keith Tye, Hunter S. Thompson, Lois Wilson, Daniel R. Wolf and Tom Wolfe, as well as photographs by Bruce Davidson, Martin Dixon, Ann Ferrar, Danny Lyon, Helge Pedersen, and Irving Penn.
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Avalon Publishing Group Asking for a Friend: Three Centuries of Advice on
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University Press of Mississippi Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture
Book SynopsisToo often remembered solely as the psychiatrist and cultural critic whose testimony in Senate subcommittees sparked the creation of the Comics Code, Fredric Wertham was a far more complex man. Author Bart Beaty traces the evolution of Wertham's attitudes toward popular culture and reassesses his place in the debate about pop culture's effects on youth and society. When The Seduction of the Innocent was published in 1954, Wertham (1895-1981) became instantly known as an authority on child psychology. Although he had published several books before Seduction, its sharp criticism of popular culture in general--and comic books in particular--made it a touchstone for debate about issues of censorship, child protection, and freedom of speech. Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture, a fresh perspective on Wertham's career, reinterprets his intellectual legacy and challenges notions about his alleged cultural conservatism. Drawing upon Wertham's published works as well as his unpublished private papers, correspondence, and notes, Beaty reveals a man whose opinions, life, and career offer more subtlety of thought than previously assumed. In particular, the book examines Wertham's change of heart in the 1970s, when he began to claim that comics could be a positive influence in American society. The Wertham that emerges is a critic who was significantly more progressive and multifaceted than his reputation would suggest. Bart Beaty is associate professor of communication and culture at the University of Calgary. His work has been published in the Comics Journal, International Journal of Comic Art, Canadian Journal of Communication, Essays in Canadian Writing, and Canadian Review of American Studies.
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Seal Press From Cradle to Stage
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Universal Publishers Barbie: The Icon, the Image, the Ideal: An Analytical Interpretation of the Barbie Doll in Popular Culture
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Soft Skull Press The Bad News Bears In Breaking Training: A Novel Approach to Cinema
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BearManor Media Poster Art from the Classic Monster Films
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BearManor Media Growing Up with Manos: The Hands of Fate
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Watchmaker Publishing The Real Latin Quarter
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SMK Books Culture and Anarchy
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TwoMorrows Publishing Futuristic
Book SynopsisBlast off to the Space Age, when the future was always bright! Futuristic is a full-color hardcover about a time of limitless possibilities... and anxieties. It covers all aspects of 1950s and '60s pop culture from the duck and cover era of the Cold War, the Space Race, the UFO Craze, and the 1969 moon landing. Read about the movies (The Day the Earth Stood Still, Invasion of the Body Snatchers), TV shows (Tom Corbett: Space Cadet, The Jetsons), and collectibles (robots, rockets, comic books, TV tie-ins) that had us looking to the stars. Also featured are interviews with such comic book creators as William Gaines, Joe Orlando, Julius Schwartz, Robert Kanigher, Ross Andru, Mike Esposito, and Larry Lieber about their sci-fi work, plus recollections from sci-fi movie stars (Kevin McCarthy, Peter Graves, Linda Harrison), TV cast members (from shows including Lost in Space, Star Trek, and The Invaders), and others. A graphically immersive experience written and designed by Mark Voger (Monster Mash, Zowie!), Futuristic is a time trip to a future that never exactly came to pass, but lives on vividly in our imaginations!
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Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of
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Fairleigh Dickinson University Press The Horse in Early Modern English Culture:
Book SynopsisKevin De Ornellas argues that in Renaissance England the relationship between horse and rider works as an unambiguous symbol of domination by the strong over the weak. There was little sentimental concern for animal welfare, leading to the routine abuse of the material animal. This unproblematic, practical exploitation of the horse led to the currency of the horse/rider relationship as a trope or symbol of exploitation in the literature of the period. Engaging with fiction, plays, poems, and non-fictional prose works of late Tudor and early Stuart England, De Ornellas demonstrates that the horse—a bridled, unwilling slave—becomes a yardstick against which the oppression of England’s poor, women, increasingly uninfluential clergyman, and deluded gamblers is measured. The status of the bitted, harnessed horse was a low one in early modern England—to be compared to such a beast is a demonstration of inferiority and subjugation. To think anything else is to be naïve about the realities of horse management in the period and is to be naïve about the realities of the exploitation of horses and other mammals in the present-day world.Trade ReviewEach chapter contains a wealth of contextual and textual references, and De Ornellas characteristically moves across a variety of forms of writing and historical evidence. . . .There is analysis in each chapter that illuminates the main texts considered (the reading of Shirley’s Hide Park is particularly successful and stimulating) and that enables greater understanding of the importance of horse talk. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments and Preface, i. Introduction Chapter One, “Pricked More with the Spur then the Provender”: Hungry Horses and Woodstock Chapter Two, Agency and/or Containment? Man/Woman and Horse/Rider Relationships in Early Modern England Chapter Three, Trampling on the Bald Pate: Morocco the Wonder Horse and the Humiliation of St Paul’s Chapter Four, Laying the World on Your Mare: the Corrupt Horse-Race in Shirley’s Hide Parke Chapter Five, Constructed Combatants: Political Steeds Before, During, and After the Civil Wars Conclusion Bibliography
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Querida Dra. Polo 2: Las cartas secretas de Caso Cerrado / Dear Dr. Polo 2: The Secret Letters of Caso Cerrado
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University Press of Mississippi The Poetics of American Song Lyrics
Book SynopsisThe Poetics of American Song Lyrics is the first collection of academic essays that regards songs as literature and that identifies intersections between the literary histories of poems and songs. The essays by well-known poets and scholars including Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson, Peter Guralnick, Adam Bradley, David Kirby, Kevin Young, and many others, locate points of synthesis and separation so as to better understand both genres and their crafts. The essayists share a desire to write on lyrics in a way that moves beyond sociological, historical, and autobiographical approaches and explicates songs in relation to poetics. Unique to this volume, the essays focus not on a single genre but on folk, rap, hip hop, country, rock, indie, soul, and blues.The first section of the book provides a variety of perspectives on the poetic history and techniques within songs and poems, and the second section focuses on a few prominent American songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Michael Stipe. Through conversational yet in-depth analyses of songs, the essays discuss sonnet forms, dramatic monologues, Modernism, ballads, blues poems, confessionalism, Language poetry, Keatsian odes, unreliable narrators, personas, poetic sequences, rhythm, rhyme, transcription methods, the writing process, and more. While the strategies of explication differ from essay to essay, the nexus of each piece is an unveiling of the poetic history and poetic techniques within songs.Charlotte Pence of Knoxville, Tennessee, is the author of The Writer's Path: Creative Exercises for Meaningful Essays. She is also the winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition for her poetry chapbook The Branches, the Axe, the Missing.
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Wilder Publications John Wesley: A Plain Account of Christian Perfection
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Bloomsbury USA The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets
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Continuum Publishing Corporation DJ Culture in the Mix: Power, Technology, and Social Change in Electronic Dance Music
Book SynopsisThe DJ stands at a juncture of technology, performance and culture in the increasingly uncertain climate of the popular music industry, functioning both as pioneer of musical taste and gatekeeper of the music industry. Together with promoters, producers, video jockeys (VJs) and other professionals in dance music scenes, DJs have pushed forward music techniques and technological developments in last few decades, from mashups and remixes to digital systems for emulating vinyl performance modes. This book is the outcome of international collaboration among academics in the study of electronic dance music. Mixing established and upcoming researchers from the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Australia and Brazil, the collection offers critical insights into DJ activities in a range of global dance music contexts. In particular, chapters address digitization and performativity, as well as issues surrounding the gender dynamics and political economies of DJ cultures and practices.Trade ReviewWhat is enjoyable about the Attias, Gavanas, and Rietveld collection is that it not only draws on perspectives from academics associated with musicology but also includes specialists in social anthropology, cultural studies, communication studies, and media practice. Not only are the local scenes discussed diverse, but the academic perspectives and disciplines represented include multiple views … for this reason, it should be on the radar of scholar’s associated with popular music, and certainly those interested in EDM. Selections from this book would also be well-suited for introductory courses in popular music or music technology. -- Eva J. Egolf * Women and Music *DJ Culture in the Mix offers not only a much broader picture than the standard monolithic account, but a refreshingly different type of picture - a cubist approach, with a dozen viewpoints thrown unpredictably together . . . A timely representation of just how broad the subject is - and should be -- Adam Harper * The Wire *A merit of the book consists of its insights into particular scenes, which is in itself a characterising trait of DJ cultures. Valuable field research, historical research and interviews with scene operators and participants spot light on various contexts...Overall, this makes for a kaleidoscopic look at DJ culture. -- Carlo Nardi, Rhodes University * Dancecult.net *There are good books on dance clubs and dance music, but this is the first volume on the figure of the dance music DJ and it is most welcome. DJ Culture in the Mix is well-organized, up-to-date and genuinely international, and brings together many of the leading figures in dance music studies. Highly recommended. * Will Straw, Ph.D Director, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and Professor, Department of Art History and Communications Studies, McGill University, Canada *Like a good DJ set, DJ Culture in the Mix is an invigorating, well-conceived collection that leaves us both satisfied and eager for more. Many thanks to this excellent group of scholars for a multifaceted exploration of the rich, but little understood world of the electronic dance music DJ. * Mark Katz, author of Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ *Exploring everything from the fractious taste politics of New York gay clubland during the post-disco Eighties to the cult of speed in 21st Century drum ‘n’ bass, DJ Culture In the Mix is a collection of probing, insightful essays that will provide stimulation and enlightenment for dance music scholars and dance music fans alike. * Simon Reynolds, author of Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture *DJ Culture in the Mix fills a long overdue void in DJ and electronic dance music literature. Interdisciplinary in focus and approach, the essays within raise thoughtful questions and offer a range of critical insights into the complexities of DJ cultures and practices around the world. * Rebekah Farrugia, Oakland University, US *One of the strongest points of this collection is the attention it pays to issues of gender in relation to DJs, their careers, and their representations in EDM scenes. … Gavanas and Reitsamer refuse to content themselves with merely observing that the DJ profession is male-dominated, instead striving to understand how this has come to be, how it persists, and what efforts are being made to change it. … DJ Culture in the Mix is an original, valuable, and much-needed contribution to the scholarship of DJS and their activities in the EDM scene. -- Luis-Manuel Garcia * The World of Music (New Series) *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Hillegonda C. Rietveld Chapter 2: Subjectivity in the Groove: Phonography, Digitality, and Fidelity Bernardo Alexander Attias Chapter 3: DJ Technologies, Social Networks, and Gendered Trajectories in European DJ Cultures Anna Gavanas and Rosa Reitsamer Chapter 4: ‘Journey to the Light’? Immersion, Spectacle, and Mediation Hillegonda C. Rietveld Chapter 5: The DJ as Electronic De-Territorializer Mirko M. Hall and Naida Zukic Chapter 6: ‘It’s Not the Mix, It’s the Selection’: Music Programming in Contemporary DJ Culture Kai Fikentscher Chapter 7: Electronic Dance Music and Technological Change: Lessons from Actor-Network Theory - Jonathan Yu Chapter 8: DJ Culture and the Commercial Club Scene in Sydney Ed Montano Chapter 9: DJs and the Aesthetic of Acceleration in Drum ‘n’ Bass Chris Christodoulou Chapter 10: The Forging of a White Gay Aesthetic at the Saint, 1980-84 Tim Lawrence Chapter 11: DJs as Cultural Mediators: the Mixing Work of São Paulo’s Peripheral DJs Ivan Paolo de Paris Fontanari Chapter 12: War on the Dance Floor: Synthscenen’s Military Power Games Johanna Paulsson Chapter 13: DJ-Driven Literature: A Linguistic Remix Simon A. Morrison Contributors Index
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University Press of Mississippi Dave Sim: Conversations
Book SynopsisIn 1977, Dave Sim (b. 1956) began to self-publish Cerebus, one of the earliest and most significant independent comics, which ran for 300 issues and ended, as Sim had planned from early on, in 2004. Over the run of the comic, Sim used it as a springboard to explore not only the potential of the comics medium but also many of the core assumptions of Western society. Through it he analyzed politics, the dynamics of love, religion, and, most controversially, the influence of feminism--which Sim believes has had a negative impact on society. Moreover, Sim inserted himself squarely into the comic as Cerebus's creator, thereby inviting criticism not only of the creation, but also of the creator.What few interviews Sim gave often pushed the limits of what an interview might be in much the same way that Cerebus pushed the limits of what a comic might be. In interviews Sim is generous, expansive, provocative, and sometimes even antagonistic. Regardless of mood, he is always insightful and fascinating. His discursive style is not conducive to the sound bite or to easy summary. Many of these interviews have been out of print for years. And, while the interviews range from very general, career-spanning explorations of his complex work and ideas, to tightly focused discussions on specific details of Cerebus, all the interviews contained herein are engaging and revealing.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Enchanting David Bowie: Space/Time/Body/Memory
Book SynopsisA longstanding, successful and frequently controversial career spanning more than four decades establishes David Bowie as charged with contemporary cultural relevance. That David Bowie has influenced many lives is undeniable to his fans. He requisitions and challenges his audiences, through frequently indirect lyrics and images, to critically question sanity, identity and essentially what it means to be ‘us’ and why we are here. Enchanting David Bowie explores David Bowie as an anti-temporal figure and argues that we need to understand him across the many media platforms and art spaces he intersects with including theatre, film, television, the web, exhibition, installation, music, lyrics, video, and fashion. This exciting collection is organized according to the key themes of space, time, body, and memory - themes that literally and metaphorically address the key questions and intensities of his output.Trade ReviewThis scintillating collection considers David Bowie's contemporaneity, showing how the star looks very different today—and how every different Bowie is a hero, if just for one day. With each chapter like a crystal ball ricocheting around a multi-level labyrinth, Enchanting David Bowie is full of surprises and delights for the fan and scholar alike. * Christopher Schaberg, Associate Professor of English, Loyola University New Orleans, USA, and author of The Textual Life of Airports and _Deconstructing Brad Pitt *Consider for a moment, David Bowie’s extraordinary body of work, not just the music, but also his assimilation of different media practices: writing, painting, performance, film and video. This volume coheres around four thematic vectors–space, time, body and memory–to interrogate Bowie’s remarkable corpus of cultural production. In the process, Enchanting David Bowie–itself a standout work–not only illuminates but also construes ‘Bowie’–or versions of Bowie–that are at once compelling and fascinating. * Constantine Verevis, Associate Professor of Film & Screen Studies, Monash University, Australia *A comprehensive critical study of the enigma that is David Bowie has been a long time coming - and now it's finally here! Enchanting David Bowie: Space/Time/Body/Memory offers a rich, thoughtful and intellectually challenging series of essays that paint a picture of the complex chameleon that is Bowie. The charismatic array of alter egos, the fascination with cosmic travel, the groundbreaking music that sang its way into the souls of many generations, the transformation of music performance into an art form, the transgressive play with gendered identity - this and so much more makes this collection a must have for anyone serious about Bowie, his identity, his music and his iconic status, which continues to spellbind into the twenty-first century. * Angela Ndalianis, Head of Screen and Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia *If Bowie, ever the chameleon, is in the habit of leaving aesthetic corpses behind, the goal of Enchanting Bowie is to dissect them. The volume is organized around four thematic concepts: space, time, body, and memory … This may sound disconcerting to Bowiephiles and musicologists, but the end result is actually quite impressive. Bowie’s performance becomes a supple text that can be endlessly reinterpreted. * LA Review of Books *The overwhelming strength of this volume is its extremely broad definition of Bowie’s ‘work’. From album covers, to a customised jacket, to his atypical eyes, we move far beyond monochrome analysis of lyrical content. Its inter- and cross-disciplinary approach, presenting analysis informed by film-making, fashion, musicology, performance and drama, as well as cultural studies and media and communication, results in some highly creative contributions… The effect of this volume as a whole is that much of Bowie’s output, however familiar to the reader, cannot be viewed in the same way after encountering these contributors’ analyses. * Celebrity Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Toija Cinque, Christopher Moore and Sean Redmond List of Contributors Introduction Section One: Space Section Introduction Chapter 1: Keeping Space Fantastic: The Transformative Journey of Major Tom Michael Lupro, Portland State University, USA Chapter 2: Ziggy’s Urban Alienation : Assembling the Heroic Outsider Ian Chapman, The University of Otago, New Zealand Chapter 3: Desperately Seeking Bowie: How Berlin Bowie Tourism Transcends the Sacred Jennifer Otter and John Sparrowhawk, University of East London, UK Chapter 4: Confronting Bowie’s Mysterious Corpses Tanja Stark, Manager, Canasta Studio, Brisbane, Australia Section Two: Time Section Introduction Chapter 5: Time Again: The David Bowie Chronotope Will Brooker, Kingston University, UK Chapter 6: Bowie’s Covers: the Artist as Modernist David Baker, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia Chapter 7: Ain't There One Damn Flag That Can Make Me Break Down and Cry?: The Formal, Performative and Emotional Tactics of Bowie's Singular Critical Anthem 'Young Americans’ Amedeo D’Adamo, University of Switzerland (It) and the Universita Cattolica, Italy Chapter 8: 2004 (Bowie vs Mashup) Christopher Moore, Deakin University, Australia Section Three: Body Section Introduction Chapter 9: The Eyes of David Bowie Kevin Hunt, Nottingham Trent University, UK Chapter 10: Semantic Shock: David Bowie Toija Cinque, Deakin University, Australia Chapter 11: The Whiteness of David Bowie Sean Remond, Deakin University, Australia Chapter 12: David Bowie is … Customizing Helene Thian, University of the Arts London/London College of Fashion Postgraduate Programme, UK Section Four: Memory Section Introduction Chapter 13: He's Not There: Velvet Goldmine and the Specters of David Bowie Glenn D’Cruz, Deakin University, Australia Chapter 14: Between Sound and Vision: Low and Sense Dene October, University Arts London, UK Chapter 15: Where Are We Now?: Walls and memory in David Bowie’s Berlins Tiffany Naiman, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Chapter 16: ‘You never knew that, that I could do that’: Bowie, Video Art and the Search for Potsdammer Platz Daryl Perrins, University of Glamorgan, UK
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