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Author : Dana L. Cloud
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0814254659
Explores truth claims in contemporary U.S. political rhetoric and the viability of an empirical standard for political truths.
Author : Holly Parker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781616496975
Learn how to use denial to help you when you are facing tragedy and how to recognize and move past denial when it becomes counterproductive. Denial is often seen as an inability or unwillingness to face unpleasant or difficult realities--from financial losses, to illnesses like alcoholism, to larger social issues like climate change. In some instances, denial can be detrimental because it can keep you stuck in a cycle of destructive behaviors. However, denial can also be very useful for helping you get through hard times, allowing you to tap into your resiliency for emotional survival.With great insight and originality, author Holly Parker shows you how to use denial as a buffer in the face of tragedy and how to know when your use of denial has become counterproductive or detrimental. Through a fresh, comforting, and clinically-based perspective, Parker takes the shame out of denial with practical and relatable solutions to uncovering, reframing, and harnessing this very normal coping technique. Hands-on exercises and compelling personal stories help you apply this information to your situation and come to accept your need for denial when it helps, and break through it to face life’s challenges with courage when it hurts.
Author : Jennifer L. Pozner
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781580053754
Nearly every night on every major network, “unscripted” (but carefully crafted) “reality” TV shows routinely glorify retrograde stereotypes that most people would assume got left behind 35 years ago. In Reality Bites Back, media critic Jennifer L. Pozner aims a critical, analytical lens at a trend most people dismiss as harmless fluff. She deconstructs reality TV’s twisted fairytales to demonstrate that far from being simple “guilty pleasures,” these programs are actually guilty of fomenting gender-war ideology and significantly affecting the intellectual and political development of this generation’s young viewers. She lays out the cultural biases promoted by reality TV about gender, race, class, sexuality, and consumerism, and explores how those biases shape and reflect our cultural perceptions of who we are, what we’re valued for, and what we should view as “our place” in society. Smart and informative, Reality Bites Back arms readers with the tools they need to understand and challenge the stereotypes reality TV reinforces and, ultimately, to demand accountability from the corporations responsible for this contemporary cultural attack on three decades of feminist progress.
Author : Melissa J. Morgan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0448445395
Gaby’s had it with “The Chelsea Show.” So she embarks on her own attention-seeking campaign, and claims the boy on a Survivor-type TV program for teens is her brother. At first this seems like the perfect getpopular- quick scheme. That is, until the boy wins the competition and is awarded the grand prize: a trip to Australia, leaving immediately, WITH HIS ENTIRE FAMILY!!! Forget popularity—unless Gaby figures out a way to convince her bunkmates that she’s on the next flight out to Australia, she’ll never be able to show her face at Lakeview again.
Author : Bruce Hemming,Sara Freeman
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Electromagnetic pulse
ISBN : 1460980387
"Three small groups of people trying to stay sane and survive in a world controlled by chaos"--Cover, p. [4].
Author : S.C. Wynne
Publisher : S.C. Wynne
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Gay Mystery When a contestant is mauled to death by a tiger on the set of a reality TV show, Detective Cabot Decker isn’t sure why he gets the call. He hunts murderers for a living. He doesn’t babysit uptight Hollywood producers because their pet cat misbehaves. Jax Thornburn is a rising star in Hollywood, but something sinister is happening on the set of his hit reality show. Reality TV always has the potential to go off the rails, but people are dying, and Jax is positive someone is trying to kill him too. Despite Decker’s initial feeling Jax is overreacting, after several attempts on the hotshot producer’s life, even Decker has to admit someone seems to want Jax dead.
Author : Wendy N. Wyatt,Kristie Bunton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826441850
Reality television is continuing to grow, both in numbers and in popularity. The scholarship on reality TV is beginning to catch up, but one of the most enduring questions about the genre-Is it ethical?-has yet to be addressed in any systematic and comprehensive way. Through investigating issues ranging from deception and privacy breaches to community building and democratization of TV, The Ethics of Reality TV explores the ways in which reality TV may create both benefits and harms to society. The edited collection features the work of leading scholars in the field of media ethics and provides a comprehensive assessment of the ethical effects of the genre.
Author : Jennifer Pozner
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781580052658
Nearly every night on every major network, “unscripted” (but carefully crafted) “reality” TV shows routinely glorify retrograde stereotypes that most people would assume got left behind 35 years ago. In Reality Bites Back, media critic Jennifer L. Pozner aims a critical, analytical lens at a trend most people dismiss as harmless fluff. She deconstructs reality TV’s twisted fairytales to demonstrate that far from being simple “guilty pleasures,” these programs are actually guilty of fomenting gender-war ideology and significantly affecting the intellectual and political development of this generation’s young viewers. She lays out the cultural biases promoted by reality TV about gender, race, class, sexuality, and consumerism, and explores how those biases shape and reflect our cultural perceptions of who we are, what we’re valued for, and what we should view as “our place” in society. Smart and informative, Reality Bites Back arms readers with the tools they need to understand and challenge the stereotypes reality TV reinforces and, ultimately, to demand accountability from the corporations responsible for this contemporary cultural attack on three decades of feminist progress.
Author : Chuck Klosterman
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780571314140
With an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and an effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter, Klosterman attacks the entire spectrum of postmodern America: reality TV, Internet porn, breakfast cereal, serial killers, Pamela Anderson, literary Jesus freaks, and the real difference between apples and oranges (of which there is none). Sex, Drugs and Coca Puffs is ostensibly about movies, sport, television, music, books, video games and kittens, but really it's about us. All of us.
Author : Shaunda Kennedy Wenger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0615614299
Growing up in a family of vampires, witches, werewolves, and other assorted embarrassments can be tough on a girl who is just trying to be normal and fit in. When the school plans a Halloween ball, dressing up proves to be a lot harder than it should. Mackenzie has high hopes to at least talk with the boy she likes, but first she has to make it out of the house ALIVE, or at least looking like she's not Half-Dead. What is a "good" girl to do? When reality bites, it make take more than a little bit of family magic to see her through.
Author : Road of Flowers
Publisher : Cloudary Holdings Limited (Webnovel)
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
[Webnovel provides the latest update of Ma'am You Have Been Uncovered novels] [Two-faced Languid Rich Male Lead vs. Deeply Hidden Beautiful Female Lead] Qin Ran had grown up in the countryside. She disappears in the third year of high school and ends up suspended for a year. One year later, she is brought to Yun Cheng by her mother to attend First Middle School. Her mother tells her: "Your stepfather is from a prestigious family, your brother is a genius, and your younger sister is a top student. Don't be an embarrassment to them." Anybody who is anybody in Beijing all receives a warning from Master Juan of the Cheng family: Master Juan's wife is from the countryside and doesn't know how to socialize nor make connections... her temper is also really bad, so please be tolerant of her. One day, when Master Juan is investigating a certain big shot, his subordinate stares at the sockpuppet—an online identity used for purposes of deception—he had accidentally revealed. It's from the wife that supposedly doesn't know anything... He falls into silence. The two bigshots has probably been hiding their sockpuppets from each other in order not to make the other party feel inferior.
Author : Jason Shiga
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781613121535
Jimmy is a stereotypical geek who works at the library in Oakland, California, and is trapped in his own torpidity. Sara is his best friend, but she wants to get a life (translation: an apartment in Brooklyn and a publishing internship). When Sara moves to New York City, Jimmy is rattled. Then lonely. Then desperate. He screws up his courage, writes Sara a letter about his true feelings, and asks her to meet him at the top of the Empire State Building (a nod to their ongoing debate about Sleepless in Seattle). Jimmy's cross-country bus trip to Manhattan is as hapless and funny as Jimmy himself. When he arrives in the city he's thought of as "a festering hellhole," he's surprised by how exciting he finds New York, and how heartbreaking—he discovers Sara has a boyfriend! Jason Shiga's bold visual storytelling, sly pokes at popular culture, and subtle text work together seamlessly in Empire State, creating a quirky graphic novel comedy about the vagaries of love and friendship. Praise for Empire State: "He [Shiga] displays a wicked sense of comic timing." -Publishers Weekly "Empire State: A Love Story (Or Not) is funny, sweet, geeky and affecting, and definitely worth a read." -Wired.com "Shiga's illustrations . . . are unique and endearing, and his images of NYC are instantly recognizable." -am New York "If Woody Allen grew up in Oakland rather than Manhattan, he'd most likely see the world, and especially New York City, as Jason Shiga does in Empire State." -Big Think.com
Author : Christy Wampole
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231546034
A new strain of realism has emerged in France. The novels that embody it represent diverse fears—immigration and demographic change, radical Islam, feminism, new technologies, globalization, American capitalism, and the European Union—but these books, often best-sellers, share crucial affinities. In their dystopian visions, the collapse of France, Europe, and Western civilization is portrayed as all but certain and the literary mode of realism begins to break down. Above all, they depict a degenerative force whose effects on the nation and on reality itself can be felt. Examining key novels by Michel Houellebecq, Frédéric Beigbeder, Aurélien Bellanger, Yann Moix, and other French writers, Christy Wampole identifies and critiques this emergent tendency toward “degenerative realism.” She considers the ways these writers draw on social science, the New Journalism of the 1960s, political pamphlets, reportage, and social media to construct an atmosphere of disintegration and decline. Wampole maps how degenerative realist novels explore a world contaminated by conspiracy theories, mysticism, and misinformation, responding to the internet age’s confusion between fact and fiction with a lament for the loss of the real and an unrelenting emphasis on the role of the media in crafting reality. In a time of widespread populist anxieties over the perceived decline of the French nation, this book diagnoses the literary symptoms of today’s reactionary revival.
Author : Peter Hanson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-02-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786413344
When Steven Soderbergh exploded onto movie screens with sex, lies, and videotape in 1989, it represented more than the arrival of an important new director--it heralded the arrival of an entire generation of important new directors. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction), Kevin Smith (Dogma), David Fincher (Fight Club), M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense), Ben Stiller (Reality Bites), Michael Bay (Pearl Harbor), and dozens of others are all members of Generation X, the much talked about but much misunderstood successors to baby boomers. This book is a critical study of the films directed by Gen Xers and how those directors have been influenced by their generational identity. While Generation X as a whole sometimes seems to lack direction, its filmmakers have devoted their careers to making powerful statements about contemporary society and their generation's role in it. Each section of the book deals with an aspect of Gen X filmmaking, including the influence of popular culture, postmodern narrative devices, "slackerdom" and the lack of direction, disenfranchisement and nihilism, the ever-evolving role of technology, gender issues and sexuality, the question of race, the influence of older filmmakers, and visions of the future.
Author : Cristina Degli-Esposti
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 1571811060
A collection of 13 essays from a fall 1994 conference in Kent, Ohio. They cover the ideological, the mnemonic, the parodic, and the media; issues of cross-cultural identity and national cinemas; postmodernism and tourism, (post)history, and colonization; and auteurial presences. Specific topics include Aladdin as a postmodern text, de- authorizing the auteur, imaginary geographies in contemporary French cinema, and the dual paternity of Querelle. No subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR