Notes From Beyond The Fringe

Author : Andrew Mitchell
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781785906992

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Beyond a Fringe by Andrew Mitchell Pdf

A Times Political Book of the Year A Daily Mail Political Book of the Year A Guardian Political Book of the Year An Independent Political Book of the Year Veering from the hilarious to the tragic, Andrew Mitchell's tales from the parliamentary jungle make for one of the most entertaining political memoirs in years. From his prep school years, straight out of Evelyn Waugh, through the Army to Cambridge, the City of London and the Palace of Westminster, Mitchell has passed through a series of British institutions at a time of furious social change – in the process becoming rather more cynical about the Establishment. Here, he brilliantly lifts the lid on its inner workings, from the punctilio of high finance to the dark arts of the government Whips' Office, and reveals how he accidentally started Boris Johnson's political career – an act which rebounded on him spectacularly. Engagingly honest about his ups and downs in politics, Beyond a Fringe is crammed with riotous political anecdotes and irresistible insider gossip from the heart of Westminster.

Author : Stephen Duncombe
Publisher : Verso
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1859841589

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Notes from Underground by Stephen Duncombe Pdf

Slug & Lettuce, Pathetic Life, I Hate Brenda, Dishwasher, Punk and Destroy, Sweet Jesus, Scrambled Eggs, Maximunrocknroll—these are among the thousands of publications which circulate in a subterranean world rarely illuminated by the searchlights of mainstream media commentary. In this multifarious underground, Pynchonesque misfits rant and rave, fans eulogize, hobbyists obsess. Together they form a low-tech publishing network of extraordinary richness and variety. Welcome to the realm of zines. In this, the first comprehensive study of zine publishing, Stephen Duncombe describes their origins in early-twentieth-century science fiction cults, their more proximate roots in 60s counter-culture and their rapid proliferation in the wake of punk rock. While Notes from Underground pays full due to the political importance of zines as a vital web of popular culture, it also notes the shortcomings of their utopian and escapist outlook in achieving fundamental social change. Duncombe's book raises the larger questionof whether it is possible to rebel culturally within a consumer society that eats up cultural rebellion. Packed with extracts and illustrations from a wide array of publications, past and present, Notes from Underground is the first book to explore the full range of zine culture and provides a definitive portrait of the contemporary underground in all its splendor and misery.

Author : Alan Bennett
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : English wit and humor
ISBN : UCSC:32106008749183

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The Complete Beyond the Fringe by Alan Bennett Pdf

Author : Julie Miller
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1440135835

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Notes from Beyond the Fringe by Julie Miller Pdf

No one ever accused Greg Stott of not having a sense of humor. His retelling of experiences often left his readers begging for more and now there is an entire book dedicated to the events that comprise life (as he knows it). Notes from Beyond the Fringe is a unique and entertaining collection of stories based on one mans view of the world around him. With a distinct and engaging voice, Stott relates his life through vignettes that, while seemingly ordinary in nature, either wind up impacting him or are subsequently addressed by him in a manner that is anything but ordinary. His subjects encompass a wide variety of topics familiar to just about everybody but are liberally skewed in the retelling by influences that began with growing up in a pre-tofu California in the 1950's, were adjusted as a result of teen life endured in a boarding school, befogged by a misspent youth and eventually warped from the effects of being a single parent. Very little escapes Stott's attention and subsequent 'adjustments' to his concept of reality. Whether describing how to deliver 400+ newspapers at speed in a 1965 Volkswagen, explaining difficult situations to his pre-pubescent tax deduction, the acquisition of proper Texas BBQ etiquette or relating his seemingly endless failures in dealing with animals, offspring, relationships, hot rods and amateur carpentry, the stories are both original and told with a perspective that can only come about as the result severe mental instability. Be prepared to spend hours attempting to understand how anyone could have survived so long in an uncontrolled environment and enjoying the humor that is, more often than not, related at the author's expense in Notes from Beyond the Fringe. Your perspective on the world will never be the same.

Author : Alan Bennett
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573640025

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Beyond the Fringe by Alan Bennett Pdf

A collection of comic sketches.

Author : Peter Biskind
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781620974308

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The Sky Is Falling by Peter Biskind Pdf

A Sunday Times (London), Best Book of 2018 “A thoughtful, entertaining, and occasionally profound critical study of the texts that entertain, move and, sometimes, shape us.” —The Spectator (London) “A bold, witty, and brilliantly argued analysis of the role pop culture has played in the rise of American extremism.” —Ruth Reichl “You’ll never look at your favorite movies and TV shows the same way again. And you shouldn’t.” —Steven Soderbergh A bestselling cultural journalist shows how pop culture prepared Americans to embrace extreme politics Almost everything has been invoked to account for Trump’s victory and the rise of the alt-right, from job loss to racism to demography—everything, that is, except popular culture. In The Sky Is Falling bestselling cultural journalist Peter Biskind dives headlong into two decades of popular culture—from superhero franchises such as the Dark Knight, X-Men, and the Avengers and series like The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones to thrillers like Homeland and 24—and emerges to argue that these shows are saturated with the values that are currently animating our extreme politics. Where once centrist institutions and their agents—cops and docs, soldiers and scientists, as well as educators, politicians, and “experts” of every stripe—were glorified by mainstream Hollywood, the heroes of today’s movies and TV, whether far right or far left, have overthrown this quaint ideological consensus. Many of our shows dramatize extreme circumstances—an apocalypse of one sort or another—that require extreme behavior to deal with, behavior such as revenge, torture, lying, and even the vigilante violence traditionally discouraged in mainstream entertainment. In this bold, provocative, and witty investigation, Biskind shows how extreme culture now calls the shots. It has become, in effect, the new mainstream.

Author : Joseph O'Mealy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135697624

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Alan Bennett by Joseph O'Mealy Pdf

Alan Bennett is perhaps best known in the UK for the BBC production of his Talking Heads TV plays, while the rest of the world may recognize him for the film adaptation of his play, The Madness of King George. O'Mealy points out that Bennett is a social critic strongly influenced by Beckett and Swift, interested in depicting and analyzing the role playing of everyday life, a'la sociologist Ervin Goffman.

Author : W. S. Hillis,Edward Burns,Peter Shillingsburg
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472111388

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Text by W. S. Hillis,Edward Burns,Peter Shillingsburg Pdf

Another volume in the distinguished annual

Author : Royal Society (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015038829357

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Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) Pdf

Author : Stuart Ward
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0719060486

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British Culture and the End of Empire by Stuart Ward Pdf

The demise of the British Empire in the three decades following the Second World War is a theme that has been well traversed in studies of post-war British politics, economics and foreign relations. Yet there has been strikingly little attention to the question of how these dramatic changes in Britain's relationships with the wider world were reflected in British culture. This volume addresses this central issue, arguing that the social and cultural impact of decolonisation had as significant an effect on the imperial centre as on the colonial periphery. Far from being a matter of indifference or resigned acceptance as is often suggested, the fall of the British Empire came as a profound shock to the British national imagination, and resonated widely in British popular culture.

Author : Asa Briggs
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1184 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995-03-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 019215964X

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The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume V: Competition by Asa Briggs Pdf

Part of a five-volume history of the rise and development of broadcasting in the United Kingdom.

Author : Stratos V. Konstadinidis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429876219

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A People's Europe by Stratos V. Konstadinidis Pdf

First published in 1999. The aim of this book is to assess the impact of the rules of Community law or absence thereof of some issues which directly and intimately affect the level and quality of living in the European Union and to concentrate on problems experienced first- hand by a number of ordinary people working and living within the EU. Thus, the topics covered range from an attempt to define some key features of the nebulous and controversial concept of ‘citizenship of the Union’ to policy networks and implementation of the Union’s structural funds. Furthermore, in assessing and addressing intensity of the integrationist effort needed, academic specialists tackle the sex, religion and race aspects of discrimination within the Union, critically examine the EU immigration and asylum policy and the limited rights and particular treatment that various categories of third country nationals enjoy under Community and/or national law, analyse the external dimension of the Community’s Human Rights policy and seek to establish whether or not any common ground exists between the cultural identities of the Member States.

Author : Jed Z. Buchwald,I. Bernard Cohen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0262524252

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Isaac Newton's Natural Philosophy by Jed Z. Buchwald,I. Bernard Cohen Pdf

Shedding new light on the intellectual context of Newton's scientific thought, this book explores the development of his mathematical philosophy, rational mechanics, and celestial dynamics. An appendix includes the last paper written by Newton biographer Richard S. Westfall.

Author : Steven H. Shiffrin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000-07-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781400822966

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Dissent, Injustice, and the Meanings of America by Steven H. Shiffrin Pdf

Americans should not just tolerate dissent. They should encourage it. In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Steven Shiffrin makes this case by arguing that dissent should be promoted because it lies at the heart of a core American value: free speech. He contends, however, that the country's major institutions--including the Supreme Court and the mass media--wrongly limit dissent. And he reflects on how society and the law should change to encourage nonconformity. Shiffrin is one of the country's leading first-amendment theorists. He advances his dissent-based theory of free speech with careful reference to its implications for such controversial topics of constitutional debate as flag burning, cigarette advertising, racist speech, and subsidizing the arts. He shows that a dissent-based approach would offer strong protection for free speech--he defends flag burning as a legitimate form of protest, for example--but argues that it would still allow for certain limitations on activities such as hate speech and commercial speech. Shiffrin adds that a dissent-based approach reveals weaknesses in the approaches to free speech taken by postmodernism, Republicanism, deliberative democratic theory, outsider jurisprudence, and liberal theory. Throughout the book, Shiffrin emphasizes the social functions of dissent: its role in combating injustice and its place in cultural struggles over the meanings of America. He argues, for example, that if we took a dissent-based approach to free speech seriously, we would no longer accept the unjust fact that public debate is dominated by the voices of the powerful and the wealthy. To ensure that more voices are heard, he argues, the country should take such steps as making defamation laws more hospitable to criticism of powerful people, loosening the grip of commercial interests on the media, and ensuring that young people are taught the importance of challenging injustice. Powerfully and clearly argued, Shiffrin's book is a major contribution to debate about one of the most important subjects in American public life.

Author : David Pollock
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781804250471

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The Edinburgh Festival by David Pollock Pdf

True, the city's many summer festivals each maintain their own identities. And yet 'The Festival' has stuck as a shorthand which captures the truly eclectic experience of 'doing Edinburgh' which has made the city's very name synonymous with world-leading culture and performance. This book is the first to tell the complete history of the Edinburgh Festival. Arts writer David Pollock paints an extraordinary portrait of the growth, glory years and struggles of this global cultural phenomenon. He introduces a wide cast of key individuals and shows, including Fleabag, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry, Joseph Beuys, The Fall and Six The Musical. The Edinburgh Festival: A Biography provides a unique perspective on the social and cultural history of Scotland and its capital in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. It will delight and intrigue all who have experience of the greatest festival in the world.