Latter Day Screens

Author : Brenda R. Weber
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781478005292

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Latter-day Screens by Brenda R. Weber Pdf

From Sister Wives and Big Love to The Book of Mormon on Broadway, Mormons and Mormonism are pervasive throughout American popular media. In Latter-day Screens, Brenda R. Weber argues that mediated Mormonism contests and reconfigures collective notions of gender, sexuality, race, spirituality, capitalism, justice, and individualism. Focusing on Mormonism as both a meme and an analytic, Weber analyzes a wide range of contemporary media produced by those within and those outside of the mainstream and fundamentalist Mormon churches, from reality television to feature films, from blogs to YouTube videos, and from novels to memoirs by people who struggle to find agency and personhood in the shadow of the church's teachings. The broad archive of mediated Mormonism contains socially conservative values, often expressed through neoliberal strategies tied to egalitarianism, meritocracy, and self-actualization, but it also offers a passionate voice of contrast on behalf of plurality and inclusion. In this, mediated Mormonism and the conversations on social justice that it fosters create the pathway toward an inclusive, feminist-friendly, and queer-positive future for a broader culture that uses Mormonism as a gauge to calibrate its own values.

Author : Richard Bernard
Publisher : Cedar Fort Publishing & Media
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781462129539

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Digital Scripture Study for the Busy Latter-Day Saint: 7 Minutes a Day by Richard Bernard Pdf

Scripture study is one of the keys to receiving revelation, but in today’s busy world, it’s never been more difficult—or more essential—to study the scriptures and be guided by the Spirit. Richard Bernard teaches how to engage in scripture study in just 7 minutes a day and how that can lead to revelation. Plus, in a 15-day guide, he shows you how to take advantage of and organize your Gospel Library in those same 7 minutes. Bring meaning and purpose back into your scripture study while creating an easy-access, life-long personal library of your spiritual journey.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Mormon Church
ISBN : PRNC:32101013372089

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The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Robert Bray,R. Barton Palmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107433847

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Modern American Drama on Screen by William Robert Bray,R. Barton Palmer Pdf

From its beginnings, the American film industry has profited from bringing popular and acclaimed dramatic works to the screen. This is the first book to offer a comprehensive account, focusing on key texts, of how Hollywood has given a second and enduring life to such classics of the American theater as Long Day's Journey into Night, A Streetcar Named Desire and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Each chapter is written by a leading scholar and focuses on Broadway's most admired and popular productions. The book is ideally suited for classroom use and offers an otherwise unavailable introduction to a subject which is of great interest to students and scholars alike.

Author : J. Michael Hunter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313391682

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Mormons and Popular Culture by J. Michael Hunter Pdf

Many people are unaware of how influential Mormons have been on American popular culture. This book parts the curtain and looks behind the scenes at the little-known but important influence Mormons have had on popular culture in the United States and beyond. Mormons and Popular Culture: The Global Influence of an American Phenomenon provides an unprecedented, comprehensive treatment of Mormons and popular culture. Authored by a Mormon studies librarian and author of numerous writings regarding Mormon folklore, culture, and history, this book provides students, scholars, and interested readers with an introduction and wide-ranging overview of the topic that can serve as a key reference book on the topic. The work contains fascinating coverage on the most influential Mormon actors, musicians, fashion designers, writers, artists, media personalities, and athletes. Some topics—such as the Mormon influence at Disney, and how Mormon inventors have assisted in transforming American popular culture through the inventions of television, stereophonic sound, video games, and computer-generated animation—represent largely unknown information. The broad overview of Mormons and American popular culture offered can be used as a launching pad for further investigation; researchers will find the references within the book's well-documented chapters helpful.

Author : R. Barton Palmer,William Robert Bray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107652408

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Modern British Drama on Screen by R. Barton Palmer,William Robert Bray Pdf

This collection of essays offers the first comprehensive treatment of British and American films adapted from modern British plays. Offering insights into the mutually profitable relationship between the newest performance medium and the most ancient. With each chapter written by an expert in the field, Modern British Drama on Screen focuses on key playwrights of the period including George Bernard Shaw, Somerset Maugham, Terence Rattigan, Noel Coward and John Osborne and the most significant British drama of the past century from Pygmalion to The Madness of George III. Most chapters are devoted to single plays and the transformations they underwent in the move from stage to screen. Ideally suited for classroom use, this book offers a semester's worth of introductory material for the study of theater and film in modern Britain, widely acknowledged as a world center of dramatic productions for both the stage and screen.

Author : Jon Krakauer
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-08
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781400078998

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Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. • Now an acclaimed FX limited series streaming on HULU. “Fantastic.... Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song.” —San Francisco Chronicle Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God; some 40,000 people still practice polygamy in these communities. At the core of Krakauer’s book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, polygamy, savage violence, and unyielding faith. Along the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America’s fastest growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.

Author : Mike Ingham
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031451980

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Anglo-American Stage and Screen Drama by Mike Ingham Pdf

Anglo-American Stage and Screen Drama analyses and discusses the contemporary role of stage and screen drama as a critical forum for progressive thinking in an increasingly polarised geopolitical world. The book addresses the cultural politics of socially engaged 21st century stage plays and films, and makes the case for drama as a sociopolitical forum, in which the complex and contentious issues that confront society can be explored and debated. It conceives of Anglophone political drama as a significant intervention in today’s culture wars, representing the latter as a convenient distraction from the ongoing depredations of neoliberalism. In the main part of the book selected case-study plays and films from each of the first two decades illustrate drama’s capacity to influence critical debate on social justice issues. All of the case-study texts under discussion express a powerful aesthetics of resistance to right-wing ideology, and promote inclusive and enlightened values. This broader orientation underlines drama’s role as a channel for critical agency in today’s putative post-socialist, post-democratic climate.

Author : Paula James
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441184665

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Ovid's Myth of Pygmalion on Screen by Paula James Pdf

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Author : Hester Bradley,Imelda Whelehan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137111531

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Screen Adaptation by Hester Bradley,Imelda Whelehan Pdf

Adaptation studies has historically been neglected in both the English and Film Studies curricula. Reflecting on this, Screen Adaptation celebrates its emergence in the late 20th and 21st centuries and explores the varieties of methodologies and debates within the field. Drawing on approaches from genre studies to transtexuality to cultural materialism, the book examines adaptations of both popular and canonical writers, including William Shakespeare, Jane Austen and J.K.Rowling. Original and provocative, this book will spark new thinking and research in the field of adaptation studies. Mapping the way in which this exciting field has emerged and shifted over the last two decades, the book is also essential reading for students of English Literature and Film.

Author : Sarah Nilsen,Sarah E. Turner
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781479891535

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The Colorblind Screen by Sarah Nilsen,Sarah E. Turner Pdf

The election of President Barack Obama signaled for many the realization of a post-racial America, a nation in which racism was no longer a defining social, cultural, and political issue. While many Americans espouse a “colorblind” racial ideology and publicly endorse the broad goals of integration and equal treatment without regard to race, in actuality this attitude serves to reify and legitimize racism and protects racial privileges by denying and minimizing the effects of systematic and institutionalized racism. In The Colorblind Screen, the contributors examine television’s role as the major discursive medium in the articulation and contestation of racialized identities in the United States. While the dominant mode of televisual racialization has shifted to a “colorblind” ideology that foregrounds racial differences in order to celebrate multicultural assimilation, the volume investigates how this practice denies the significant social, economic, and political realities and inequalities that continue to define race relations today. Focusing on such iconic figures as President Obama, LeBron James, and Oprah Winfrey, many chapters examine the ways in which race is read by television audiences and fans. Other essays focus on how visual constructions of race in dramas like 24, Sleeper Cell, and The Wanted continue to conflate Arab and Muslim identities in post-9/11 television. The volume offers an important intervention in the study of the televisual representation of race, engaging with multiple aspects of the mythologies developing around notions of a “post-racial” America and the duplicitous discursive rationale offered by the ideology of colorblindness.

Author : Thomas Cartelli,Katherine Rowe
Publisher : Polity
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780745633923

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New Wave Shakespeare on Screen by Thomas Cartelli,Katherine Rowe Pdf

The past several years have witnessed a group of experiments in 'staging' Shakespeare on film. This book introduces and applies the analytic techniques and language that are required to make sense of this wave. It maps a vocabulary for interpreting Shakespeare film; addresses script-to-screen questions about authority and performativity; and more.

Author : Tom Rice
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253018489

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White Robes, Silver Screens by Tom Rice Pdf

The Ku Klux Klan was reestablished in Atlanta in 1915, barely a week before the Atlanta premiere of The Birth of a Nation, D. W. Griffith’s paean to the original Klan. While this link between Griffith's film and the Klan has been widely acknowledged, Tom Rice explores the little-known relationship between the Klan’s success and its use of film and media in the interwar years when the image, function, and moral rectitude of the Klan was contested on the national stage. By examining rich archival materials including a series of films produced by the Klan and a wealth of documents, newspaper clippings, and manuals, Rice uncovers the fraught history of the Klan as a local force that manipulated the American film industry to extend its reach across the country. White Robes, Silver Screens highlights the ways in which the Klan used, produced, and protested against film in order to recruit members, generate publicity, and define its role within American society.

Author : Antonio Traverso
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315412672

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Southern Screens: Cinema, Culture and the Global South by Antonio Traverso Pdf

Southern Screens: Cinema, culture and the global South adopts a transversal south-south approach to the study of screen culture across national and cultural territories. It examines the conditions by which screen culture participates in the generation, sharing, and circulation of new knowledge that is both southern and about the global South. The contributors, all of them residents of the world’s southernmost nations, examine new and traditional media that manifests an affinity with southern cultural imaginaries and territories identifiable through the sociological category of "Global South." Some of their chapters engage in analysis linked to specific national contexts, others follow comparative approaches to screen culture across national, regional, and socio-historical borders. Sketching a new tapestry of references to other areas of southern social science and cultural theory, Southern Screens traces a critical genealogy that here finds a productive place within an emerging, comparative discussion of the screen cultures of the Global South. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies.

Author : Michael Ingham
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317555216

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Stage-Play and Screen-Play by Michael Ingham Pdf

Dialogue between film and theatre studies is frequently hampered by the lack of a shared vocabulary. Stage-Play and Screen-Play sets out to remedy this, mapping out an intermedial space in which both film and theatre might be examined. Each chapter’s evaluation of the processes and products of stage-to-screen and screen-to-stage transfer is grounded in relevant, applied contexts. Michael Ingham draws upon the growing field of adaptation studies to present case studies ranging from Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan and RSC Live’s simulcast of Richard II to F.W. Murnau’s silent Tartüff, Peter Bogdanovich’s film adaptation of Michael Frayn’s Noises Off, and Akiro Kurosawa’s Ran, highlighting the multiple interfaces between media. Offering a fresh insight into the ways in which film and theatre communicate dramatic performances, this volume is a must-read for students and scholars of stage and screen.