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  • Taylor & Francis Performance and the Culture of Nationalism

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd The Music and Noise of the Stooges 196771

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    Book Synopsis The Stooges have come to be considered one of the most important rock bands, especially in regard to the formation of punk. By emphasizing their influence on later developments, however, critics tend to overlook the significance of the band in their own context and era. The Music and Noise of the Stooges, 1967-71 addresses such oversights. Utilizing the lenses of cultural criticism and sound studies (drawing on the thinking of Theodor Adorno, Jacques Attali, and Pierre Bourdieu, among others), as well as contemporary and archival texts, this extensively researched study analyzes the trajectory and musical output of the original Stooges. During the late 1960s and early 70s, a moment when the dissonant energy of rock'n'roll was more than ever being subsumed by the record industry, the Stooges were initially commercial failures, with the band's noisy music and singer Iggy Pop's bizarre onstage performances confusing their label, Elektra Records. As Begnal argues, thTrade Review“…[Begnal] frames the Stooges’ output and achievement in terms of cultural and literary criticism and sound studies…most interesting is Begnal’s contextual analyses of the group as products of ‘60s social and political upheaval, who as scholars of jazz and blues were heavily steeped in the racial and cultural dialogues of the time. Within this he also dissects the relationship between market forces and the avant garde, and the record industry’s role as agents of capitalism and commodification.”Mojo“…author Michael S. Begnal has dredged up some surprising and provable influences on the band’s intentions to smelt their initial psychy improvisation into tangible riffs and steadily solidified albums…this is a fresh reminder of those intriguing early days, adding smarts back into a story that is often lazily wound down into a bunch of memes about Iggy not wearing shirts…the investigation into the words and sounds of ‘Loose’ along will keep most uber-fans engrossed…there are useful [interviews] from old articles throughout that you might not ever have come across before.”Ugly Things, 64“This ain’t just any ol’ Stooges book but one which really deals with the deep down whys and wherefores of just what the group was up to during their original pre-RAW POWER romp…TONS of pertinent information, a whole load of it unknown even to me…that is presented here along with the insight and workings of what was so unique and downright special about the Stooges…Begnal put[s] it into heady but understandable terms..really, this is worth the while.”Blog to Comm (blogsite of Black to Comm)Table of ContentsIntroduction: "A Strange Type of Life"1 Becoming the Stooges2 Action, Reaction, Advance3 The Making of Fun House4 Fun House in the World5 The Third Elektra Album That Never WasConclusion: Becoming "Classic"BibliographyDiscographyFilmography

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Transnational Convergence of East Asian Pop Culture

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  • Taylor & Francis A Calendar of British Taste from 1600â1800

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd A Calendar of British Taste from 16001800 Being a Museum of Specimens Landmarks Chronologically Arranged Routledge Revivals

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Ethnicity and Kinship in North American and European Literatures Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

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  • Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies

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  • Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage

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  • Taylor & Francis From Medievalism to EarlyModernism

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Popular Postcolonialisms

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  • Taylor & Francis Rethinking GK Chesterton and Literary Modernism Parody Performance and Popular Culture

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Indie TV

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    Book SynopsisThis edited collection is the first book to offer a wide-ranging examination of the interface between American independent film and a converged television landscape that consists of terrestrial broadcasters, cable networks and streaming providers, in which independent film and television intersect in complex, multifaceted and creative ways.The book covers the long history of continuities and connections between the two sectors, as seen in the activities of PBS, HBO or Sundance. It considers the movement of filmmakers between indie film and TV such as Steven Soderbergh, Rian Johnson, the Duplass brothers, Joe Swanberg, Lynn Shelton and Gregg Araki; details the confluence of aesthetic and thematic elements seen in shows such as Girls, Breaking Bad, Master of None, or Glow; points to a shared interest in regional sensibilities evident in shows like One Mississippi or Fargo; and makes the case for documentaries and web series as significaTrade Review"Indie TV is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of the interrelationships between media industries. Lyons and Tzioumakis have assembled a formidable group of scholars to make the powerful collective argument that cinema and television are, and always have been, inseparable. The many layers of indie TV revealed within will inspire film and TV historians, as well as those analyzing contemporary digital media and production cultures."Jennifer Holt, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA"When I praised this book to a non-academic friend, he readily and enthusiastically rattled off titles of multi-season and limited-episode series that immediately came to mind as cutting-edge examples of 'indie TV' and its cultural reach and resonance. Clearly, 'indie TV' has public purchase, and this far-ranging anthology, strong equally in conceptualization and industrial and aesthetic analysis, pinpoints why. The volume offers rich examples, sharp and smart insight, and welcome attention to diversity, on-screen and behind, around gender, race, ethnicity."Dana Polan, Cinema Studies, NYU, USATable of ContentsPart 1: Indie Film and Television: Historical Relationships 1. Indie (Film on) TV: A Tale of two very Close Friends 2. Same Word, Different Medium: The Evolution of Indie TV since the 2000s’ Part 2: Indie Film and Television: Industrial Continuities 3. (Re-)Branding Sundance: Entering the Indie TV Market 4. Packaging the 'Purest' form of Indie TV: Michael Sugar, Talent Management and Indie-Auteur Clients’ 5. ‘The Things That Keep Us Up at Night’: Blumhouse Television and Indie Horror’s Small Screen Dispersal Part 3: Filmmakers Migration from Indie Film to TV (and back) 6. From Brick to Breaking Bad: ‘Quality’ Television Style, Authorship and ‘Cinematic’ Status 7. Mumblecore’s Second Act: Millennial Indie Moviemaking’s Migration to Television 8. Apocalyptic Visions and Commercial Constraints: Gregg Araki’s Negotiation of Emerging Modes of Indie TV Auteurship Part 4: Indie TV: Aesthetic and Institutional Trajectories 9. Prestige TV, Comedy, and the Indie Aesthetic 10. Netflix, Race and Cinephilia: Master of None and Indie TV 11. 'It may Be Where the Future of Independent Production Is Happening': Netflix and Indie Aesthetics in GLOW 12. Affect, Tabloid Reality TV and Indie Cinema Part 5: Indie TV and Regional Sensibilities 13. Fargo (2014-2020): Indie Cinema, Midwest Mobsters, and Indie TV 14. Gender, Family, and Therapeutic Regionalism in One Mississippi Part 6: Indie TV and Alternative Practices 15. Indie TV in the Streaming Era 16. Web Series as Indie TV: Intersectional Identities and Intersecting Media 17. ‘A Decade of Distinction’: A&E IndieFilms and the Channelling of Documentary

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Philosophical Issues in Indian Cinema

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd The Genesis and Structure of the Hungarian Jazz Diaspora

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd The Genesis and Structure of the Hungarian Jazz Diaspora

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Anthropology and Modern Life Routledge Classics

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Racism and Xenophobia in Early TwentiethCentury American Fiction

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Indigenous Reconciliation and Decolonization

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd LGBTQ Visibility Media and Sexuality in Ireland

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Thinking with Stephen J. Ball

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  • Taylor & Francis Lesbians and White Privilege

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  • Taylor & Francis Lesbians and White Privilege

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd The Effectiveness of Educational Policy for BiasFree Teacher Hiring

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  • Taylor & Francis Trauma Memory The Holocaust in Contemporary Culture

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Trauma Memory

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    Book SynopsisOver the past decades, the memory of the Holocaust has not only become a common cultural consciousness but also a cultural property shared by people all over the world. This collection brings together academics, critics and creative practitioners from the fields of Holocaust Studies, Literature, History, Media Studies, Creative Writing and German Studies to discuss contemporary trends in Holocaust commemoration and representation in literature, film, TV, the entertainment industry and social media. The essays in this trans-disciplinary collection debate how contemporary culture engages with the legacy of the Holocaust now that, 75 years on from the end of the Second World War, the number of actual survivors is dwindling. It engages with ongoing cultural debates in Holocaust Studies that have seen a development from, largely, testimonial presentations of the Holocaust to more fictional narratives both in literature and film. In addition to a number of chapters focusing in partTable of ContentsPart I: IntroductionIntroduction: the Holocaust in Contemporary CultureChristine Berberich1. ‘To tell the story’: cultural trauma and holocaust metanarrative Anna Clare HunterPart II: New Trends in Holocaust Fiction2. No laughing matter: humor and the Holocaust in Woody Allen, Shalom Auslander, and Howard Jacobson Christopher Madden3. From silence to testimony: performing trauma and postmemory in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is IlluminatedAudrey Bardizbanian4. Whose trauma is it? A trauma-theoretical reading of The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak Zuzana Burákóva5. ‘I think I’m beginning to understand. What I’m writing is an infranovel’: Laurent Binet, HHhH and the problem of ‘writinghistory’Christine Berberich6. ‘Beyond words’: representing the ‘Holocaust by bullets’ Sue Vice7. Still struggling with German history: W.G. Sebald, Gunter Demnig and activist memory workers in Berlin today Kirsten GrimstadPart III: The Holocaust in Contemporary Culture8. Remembering the ‘unwanted’ victims: initiatives to memorialize the National Socialist euthanasia program in Germany Caroline Pearce9. Figuring the Grey Zone: the Auschwitz Sonderkommando in contemporary cultureDominic Williams10. Instagram and Auschwitz: a critical assessment of the impact social media has on Holocaust representation Gemma Commane and Rebekah Potton11. Encountering Auschwitz: touring the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Claire GriffithsAfterword: Conclusion Christine Berberich

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Graphic Narratives of Organised Crime Gender and Power in Europe

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Marxism and Decolonization in the 21st Century

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