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Author : Sean Redmond
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814347195
Interdisciplinary star study of one of the most iconic Hollywood celebrities of the last thirty-five years.
Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1650 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Theodore Roosevelt Gardner
Publisher : Allen A. Knoll Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Cruise ships
ISBN : 1888310103
A clutch of elderly travelers on a round-the-world cruise. Irascible Izzy Yandell, a retired developer, decides to blow his cash on the Oceana Sun, beginning by paying the ship staff to arrange a dinner group with the best potential for intellectual discourse. Dining with Izzy is CEO Burt with his impending kickback scandal; his wife, Ellen, who's smitten with the ship's pianist; Gene, nearly 80 and pursuing a romance; and Hector Rose, a literature prof. living out a Lolita fantasy.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Michael J Rener
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Spencer Golub
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030318895
This book applies Heidegger’s writings to experimental fictions and film genres in order to study a being-there that performs itself beyond liveness and a future that is already here. Theatrical mise-en-scène is analyzed as a way of modeling the Heideggerian ontological-existential, exchanging a deeper presencing for the fictional “now” of liveness. The book is organized around ostensible objects that are in fact things-as-such and performs its theme via time-traveling, interruptions, decompositions, incompleteness, failure, geometric patterning, and above all black pages first cited in Tristram Shandy. This is a nuanced, original work that combines unexpected sources with even more unexpected writing, imagery, and correspondences. It is part of Golub’s ongoing project of lyrically reimagining philosophy and the mise-en-scène of theatrical performance (a presence-room of consciousness) in light of one another.
Author : Ruth O'Donnell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857727282
Tom Cruise is a Hollywood superstar like no other. World famous since his debut in the 1980s, he remains among the highest paid actors. Why has his persona resonated so powerfully with millions of viewers? Using psychoanalytic theory, "Tom Cruise: Performing Masculinity in Post Vietnam Hollywood" demonstrates how his star persona sublimates anxieties about masculinity. Amid Reagan-era military jingoism and concern over declining industrial labour, he represented a new model of American masculinity based on white-collar upward mobility. Spanning blockbuster films such as Risky Business (1983), Jerry Maguire (1996) and the Mission: Impossible series (1996 - 2011), this book illustrates how his characters exemplify entrepreneurialism, charisma, technological gadgetry and verbal acuity to redefine male success. His newly emotive type - 'help me help you' - also successfully overcomes interpersonal conflicts with patriarchal authority and senior women in the workplace, and navigates race relations. The first scholarly study of Tom Cruise's celebrity, this book surveys his entire career and builds on Richard Dyer's 'star theory.' It develops the core dynamic of his star persona, a mix of projected character traits and 'real life' trivia or gossip, and establishes that his box office success reflects his persona's ability to work through the psychodynamic preoccupations of his films. This exceptional appeal evolved, at times characterised by complicity with 1980s materialistic hedonism (Taps, 1981), male spectacle (Magnolia, 1999), or his use of martial technology (War of the Worlds, 2005), and their attendant psychic meanings. Recent shifts in American culture, however, in tandem with Tom Cruise's growing evangelism for the Church of Scientology, may be threatening his appeal. Ultimately, this book offers a picture of how stars reflect the values and crises of their societies, and fills a substantial gap in scholarship on celebrity studies, critical cultural analysis, masculinity studies, and film theory.
Author : Chris Barsanti
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781578595334
Once upon a time, science fiction was only in the future. It was the stuff of drive-ins and cheap double-bills. Then, with the ever-increasing rush of new, society-altering technologies, science fiction pushed its way to the present, and it busted out of the genre ghetto of science fiction and barged its way into the mainstream. What used to be mere fantasy (trips to the moon? Wristwatch radios? Supercomputers capable of learning?) are now everyday reality. Whether nostalgic for the future or fast-forwarding to the present, The Sci-Fi Movie Guide: The Universe of Film from Alien to Zardoz covers the broad and widening range of science-fiction movies. From the trashy to the epic, from the classics to today's blockbusters, this cinefile’s guidebook reviews nearly 1,000 of the biggest, baddest, and brightest from every age and genre of cinematic and TV science fiction. You’ll find more than just Star Wars, Star Trek, and Transformers, with reviews on many overlooked and under-appreciated gems and genres, such as ... • Monsters! Pacific Rim, Godzilla, The Thing, Creature from the Black Lagoon • Superheroes: Thor, Iron Man, X-Men, The Amazing Spider-man, Superman • Avant-garde masterpieces: Solaris, 2001, Brazil • and many, many more categories and movies!!
Author : Anthony L. Brooks
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031313608
This book of 21 chapters shares endeavors associated to the human trait of creative expression within, across, and between digital media in wide-ranging contexts making the contents perfect as a course study book uptake within related educations. Globally located chapter authors share their comprehensive artisan perspectives from works associated with regional cultures, diversities of interpretations, and widespread scopes of meanings. Contents illustrate contemporary works reflecting thought-provoking comprehensions, functions, and purposes, posit as contributing toward shifting of boundaries within the field. Original to this approach is the reflective offerings on creating digitally beyond typical psychological analysis/rapportage. The book's general scope and key uses are thus to contribute to scholarly discussions toward informing future projects by having an intended wide readership including from within educations, to artisans, and wider interested public. Chapter 7 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781444393378
Offering philosophical insights into the popular morning brew, Coffee -- Philosophy for Everyone kick starts the day with an entertaining but critical discussion of the ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, and culture of coffee. Matt Lounsbury of pioneering business Stumptown Coffee discusses just how good coffee can be Caffeine-related chapters cover the ethics of the coffee trade, the metaphysics of coffee and the centrality of the coffee house to the public sphere Includes a foreword by Donald Schoenholt, President at Gillies Coffee Company
Author : Marc Fennell
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460704790
Awesome, weird and wonderful flicks from four corners of the globe Praise for Marc Fennell 'Witty, irreverent and fun ...' Good Reading 'Gold!' Cleo 'A film companion with a difference' Daily News Which nation is best equipped to survive a zombie apocalypse? Why do obese moustachioed Tamil action stars make the best politicians? What fictional country links Predator, Commando and Die Hard 2? Planet According to the Movies is your official armchair guide to our tiny, weird planet as projected on cinema screens. It's 30% travel guide, 30% film reviews, 10% racial profiling handbook and 45% testament to the fact that maths is hard. Australia's most listened-to film critic, Marc Fennell (triple j, SBS TV, That Movie Book), tells the hidden stories behind the movies you know and love -- from the Wizard of Oz to Life of Pi -- and introduces you to a world of cinema you never knew existed. Discover Japan's Calamari Wrestler, Indonesia's Lady Terminator, Turkey's remake of E.T. and North Korea's answer to Godzilla, which was executive-produced by Kim Jong-Il himself. Who needs a plane to travel the world when you can do it all from your couch, you shameful slob! 'Tying it all together is Fennell's irreverent humour and gift for colourful descriptors ... fun and informative.' Empire Magazine
Author : Joseph Kosinski,Ian Edginton,Arvid Nelson,Andree Wallin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-31
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0980233577
In a post-apocalyptic Earth, civilization lives above the clouds and scavengers illegally collect ancient artifacts from the polluted and destroyed surface below. But when one young scavenger discovers a crashed spacecraft planetside- and a beautiful woman within- he rejoices at the find. Little does he realize that his discovery will lead him to a journey filled with romance, adventure and unimaginable danger.
Author : David Foster Wallace
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780759511569
In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness -- a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown (The Soul Is Not a Smithy). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity by delineating the office politics surrounding a magazine profile of an artist who produces miniature sculptures in an anatomically inconceivable way (The Suffering Channel). Or capture the ache of love's breakdown in the painfully polite apologies of a man who believes his wife is hallucinating the sound of his snoring (Oblivion). Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate.
Author : Matt Green
Publisher : Matt Green
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Ever wondered how Morgan Freeman rose to stardom? Morgan Freeman, like many early African American actors, was born into a time of racial segregation and prejudice. Born in Memphis, Tennessee on June 1, 1937, Freeman experienced a rather turbulent childhood. His parents moved to Chicago when Freeman was still a child, hoping to find better work away from the oppressive hand of the racially-explosive South. As his father descended into alcoholism, Freeman’s parents separated and Freeman found himself moving frequently, splitting time between living with his grandparents in Mississippi and moving from town to town with his mother. For more interesting facts you must read the biography. Grab your biography book now!
Author : Jennifer L. Feeley,Sarah Ann Wells
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781452944258
Since the 1927 release of Fritz Lang’s pioneer film Metropolis, science fiction cinema has largely been regarded a Western genre. In Simultaneous Worlds, Jennifer L. Feeley and Sarah Ann Wells showcase authors who challenge this notion by focusing on cinemas and cultures, from Cuba to North Korea, not traditionally associated with science fiction. This collection introduces films about a metal-eating monster who helps peasants overthrow an exploitative court, an inflatable sex doll who comes to life, a desert planet where matchsticks are more valuable than money, and more. Simultaneous Worlds is the first volume to bring a transnational, interdisciplinary lens to science fiction cinema. Encountering some of the best emerging and established voices in the field, readers will become immersed in discussions of well-known works such as the Ghost in the Shell franchise and Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 alongside lesser-known but equally fascinating works by African, Asian, European, and South American filmmakers. Divided into five parts that cover theoretical concerns such as new media economies, translation, the Global South, cyborgs, and socialist and postsocialist cinema, these essays trace cinema’s role in imagining global communities and power struggles. Considering both individual films and the broader networks of production, distribution, and exhibition, Simultaneous Worlds illustrates how film industries across the globe take part in visualizing the perils of globalization and technological modernity. Ultimately, this book opens new ways of thinking about world cinema and our understanding of the world at large.
Author : Julia Urabayen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031505102