Meanings Of Ripley

Author : Elizabeth Graham
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527553446

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Meanings of Ripley by Elizabeth Graham Pdf

Ellen Ripley of the Alien Quadrilogy has become an iconic female figure in the male dominated genre of science fiction/action/horror since her first appearance in 1979. This collection offers readers varied interpretations of Ripley that are grounded in the social context and theoretical perspectives that were dominant prior to and during the time the films were released. Specifically, the rise of Second Wave Feminism—and the backlash against it—provides a backdrop for this collection. Is Ripley a feminist hero? A patriarchal woman and mother? Does she embody de Beavoir’s “myth of the feminine”? Does she exhibit sexual agency? Does she offer us a glimpse of individual autonomy that moves away from dichotomous gender roles? These are the primary questions explored in this collection. While the focus is clearly on Ripley, the arguments go beyond the confines of the films by examining the relationship between the individual and society in which both are product and producer of the other, and illustrate that social artifacts such as film can provide insights into the lived experiences of our world. The contributors come from a variety of backgrounds including Literature, Cinema Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, Philosophy, Sociology, Theatre History, and reside in Canada and the United States. They represent a range from junior to senior scholars. While science fiction is clearly an interest of all these individuals, it is not the primary area of research for most of them. By bringing voices from multiple disciplines into the discussion about Ripley, this collection offers readers perspectives that deviate from and yet complement the current trend in film criticism and, thus, contributes to opening up discussions about such characters and the genre to a wider audience.

Author : Nathan Ripley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501179075

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Find You in the Dark by Nathan Ripley Pdf

In this chilling debut thriller, in the vein of Dexter and The Talented Mr. Ripley, a family man obsessed with digging up the undiscovered remains of serial killer victims catches the attention of a murderer prowling the streets of Seattle. Martin Reese is obsessed with murder. For years, he has been illegally buying police files on serial killers and studying them in depth, using them as guides to find missing bodies. He doesn’t take any souvenirs, just photos that he stores in an old laptop, and then he turns in the results to the police anonymously. Martin sees his work as a public service, a righting of wrongs that cops have continuously failed to do. Detective Sandra Whittal sees it differently. On a meteoric rise in police ranks due to her case-closing efficiency, Whittal is suspicious of the mysterious caller—the Finder, she names him—leading the police to the bodies. Even if the Finder isn’t the one leaving bodies behind, who’s to say that he won’t start soon? On his latest dig, Martin searches for the first kill of Jason Shurn, the early 1990s murderer who may have been responsible for the disappearance of his sister-in-law, whom he never met. But when he arrives at the site, he finds a freshly killed body—a young and recently disappeared Seattle woman—lying among remains that were left there decades ago. Someone else knew where Jason Shurn buried his victims . . . and that someone isn’t happy that Martin has been going around digging up his work. When a crooked cop with a tenuous tie to Martin vanishes, Whittal begins to zero in on the Finder. Hunted by a real killer and by Whittal, Martin realizes that in order to escape the killer’s trap, he may have to go deeper into the world of murder than he ever thought.

Author : Patricia Highsmith
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393344752

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The Boy Who Followed Ripley by Patricia Highsmith Pdf

"Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that 'penniless young man without a past' who will stop at nothing." —Frank Rich The Boy Who Followed Ripley, the fourth novel in the Ripley series, is one of Patricia Highsmith's darkest and most twisted creations. Tom Ripley meets a young American runaway who has a dark secret that he is desperate to hide. Soon this unlikely pair is drawn into the seamy underworld of Berlin and a shocking kidnapping. In this masterful thriller, Highsmith shatters our perceptions of her most famous creation by letting us glimpse a more compassionate side of this amoral charmer.

Author : Patricia Highsmith
Publisher : Random House
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 9780099283584

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Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith Pdf

A Ripley mystery.

Author : Ximena Gallardo C.,Jason Smith
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0826415709

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Alien Woman by Ximena Gallardo C.,Jason Smith Pdf

This text examines the construction of sex and gender in the four science-fiction films comprising the Alien saga (starring Sigourney Weaver). It will be useful to researchers and teachers in film, mass communication, women's studies, gender studies and genre studies.

Author : Patricia Highsmith
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393344738

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Ripley Under Water by Patricia Highsmith Pdf

"Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that 'penniless young man without a past' who will stop at nothing." —Frank Rich Now part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, "a bisexual psychopath and art forger who murders without remorse when his comforts are threatened" (New York Times Book Review), was Patricia Highsmith's favorite creation. In these volumes, we find Ripley ensconced on a French estate with a wealthy wife, a world-class art collection, and a past to hide. In Ripley Under Ground (1970), an art forgery goes awry and Ripley is threatened with exposure; in The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980), Highsmith explores Ripley's bizarrely paternal relationship with a troubled young runaway, whose abduction draws them into Berlin's seamy underworld; and in Ripley Under Water (1991), Ripley is confronted by a snooping American couple obsessed with the disappearance of an art collector who visited Ripley years before. More than any other American literary character, Ripley provides "a lens to peer into the sinister machinations of human behavior" (John Freeman, Pittsburgh Gazette).

Author : John Boyne
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385692922

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A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne Pdf

The new novel from the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and The Heart's Invisible Furies, a seductive Highsmithian psychodrama following one brilliant, ruthless man who will stop at nothing in his pursuit of fame. If you look hard enough, you can find stories pretty much anywhere. They don't even have to be your own. Or so would-be writer Maurice Swift decides very early on in his career. A chance encounter in a West Berlin hotel with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann gives him an opportunity to ingratiate himself with someone more powerful. For Erich is lonely, and he has a story to tell. Whether or not he should do so is another matter. Once Maurice has made his name, he sets off in pursuit of other people's stories. He doesn't care where he finds them--or to whom they belong--as long as they help him rise to the top. Stories will make him famous but they will also make him beg, borrow and steal. They may even make him do worse. A psychological drama of cat and mouse, A Ladder to the Sky shows how easy it is to achieve the world if you are prepared to sacrifice your soul.

Author : Lily Xiao Hong Lee,Warren J. Samuels
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315489834

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The Heterodox Economics of Gardiner C. Means by Lily Xiao Hong Lee,Warren J. Samuels Pdf

This collection brings together articles written by Gardiner C. Means, a leading institutionalist and post-Keynesian economist. Means studies the modern corporation and its implications for the institution on private property and the economic systems as a whole. The selections illuminate Means' analysis of the corporate revolution, the role of administered pricing and the consequences for macro-economic instability in the American economy. The book includes the controversial theoretical chapters for his proposed Harvard dissertation, his essay on industrial prices and their inflexibility, the causes of depression, administered prices and the risk of inflation, his analysis of stagflation and the control of inflation. An essay by his widow, Caroline F. Ware, examines the resistance of the American economics profession to Means' theory of administered prices.

Author : Melville Madison Bigelow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Accident insurance
ISBN : UOM:35112101617217

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Reports of All the Published Life and Accident Insurance Cases: Cases determined in the courts of America, England, and Ireland, between January, 1871, and January, 1872, together with most of the prior English cases by Melville Madison Bigelow Pdf

Author : Amanda Ripley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781451654431

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The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley Pdf

Following three teenagers who chose to spend one school year living in Finland, South Korea, and Poland, a literary journalist recounts how attitudes, parenting, and rigorous teaching have revolutionized these countries' education results.

Author : Patricia Highsmith
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393332148

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Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith Pdf

An American classic and the inspiration for the motion picture starring Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow. It’s here, in the first volume of Patricia Highsmith’s five-book Ripley series, that we are introduced to the suave Tom Ripley, a young striver seeking to leave behind his past as an orphan bullied for being a “sissy.” Newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan, Ripley meets a wealthy industrialist who hires him to bring his playboy son, Dickie Greenleaf, back from gallivanting in Italy. Soon Ripley’s fascination with Dickie’s debonair lifestyle turns obsessive as he finds himself enraged by Dickie’s ambivalent affections for Marge, a charming American dilettante, and Ripley begins a deadly game. “Sinister and strangely alluring” (Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly) The Talented Mr. Ripley serves as an unforgettable introduction to this smooth confidence man, whose talent for self-invention is as unnerving—and unnervingly revealing of the American psyche—as ever.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119519655

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Department of the Interior and related agencies appropriations for 1985 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Pdf

Author : Amy Ephron
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781984813282

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The Other Side of the Wall by Amy Ephron Pdf

In this new adventure with Tess and Max, internationally bestselling author Amy Ephron takes readers to London at Christmastime, where a new fantastical journey awaits. It's Christmas break and Tess and Max are in London, staying at the posh Sanborn House with their Aunt Evie. As they wait for their parents to arrive, there is an unusual snowstorm that makes the city seem as if it's caught in a snow globe. Perfect weather for an adventure in Hyde Park. But when Max, Tess, and Aunt Evie leave to search for a cab, they find a horse and carriage and driver curiously waiting for them at the curb. And that's just the beginning... Soon Tess is charmed by a mysterious boy named Colin who lives at the hotel all year round--on the 8th floor. But Max is sure the elevator only had 7 floors the day before. And how come everyone at the hotel seems to ignore Colin? Things seem to get stranger and stranger. There's a 1920s costume party in Colin's parents' apartment. A marble that seems to be more than it appears. And a shadow that passes mysteriously by Tess and Max's hotel window. Tess wants to figure out what's going on, but finds only more questions: Is it just a coincidence that Colin's last name is Sanborn, the same as the hotel? Why does the cat's-eye marble look eerily similar to the crystal at the top of their hotel room key? And, most importantly, what happened in that hotel one Christmas long, long ago? In this mysterious story sprinkled with holiday enchantment, Amy Ephron transports readers into the magic of London at wintertime, where it's just possible that what seems imaginary is real, and your wishes might come true. Praise for The Other Side of the Wall: "Tess especially follows in that lineage of strong, intelligent female characters – a sort of Lucy Pevensie/Hermione Granger hybrid who is a leader, who believes in magic." —Teen Vogue "Another time-bending mystery . . . nicely paced, starting slow and accelerating to breakneck speed by the end. This story is both charming and vaguely creepy." —School Library Journal “Ephron renders this magical world with such assertive beauty that readers of all ages, who are fortunate enough to believe in the power of magic, will enjoy immersing themselves in the roller-coaster fun of these stories, and come to trust, even if for a short time, that in this ‘alternate universe’ it is possible for us to come together and ‘touch the sky.’” —Jewish Journal "A very entertaining middle-grade read [that] will captivate and entice you to read more....This is a good old classic family adventure that you will want to both read and own." —Mr. Ripley's Enchanted Books

Author : Henry Gannett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Names, Geographical
ISBN : HARVARD:TZ1FSL

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The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States by Henry Gannett Pdf

Author : New York (State). State Survey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : New York (State)
ISBN : UOM:39015082283733

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Special Report of New York State Survey on the Preservation of the Scenery of Niagara Falls, and ... Annual Report on the Triangulation of the State by New York (State). State Survey Pdf

The Special report ... on the preservaton of the scenery of Niagara Falls contains also a "facsimile [of a portion] of the first London edition of Father Hennepin's descreption of Niagara" with title: A new description of a vast country in America, extending above four thousand miles between New France and New Mexico ... by L. Hennepin ... London, 1698. (t.-p., 29-32 p. fold. pl.)