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Author : Antonia Lant,Ingrid Periz
Publisher : New Left Books
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123299963
A compendious anthology of women's writing on film.
Author : Pamela Oxendale
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781449711122
Elton Mac McCoy, a rookie US Marshal, must protect a small child from the Chicago Mob in a decade when the Mafia ruled the streets, the police, and City Hall. Six-year-old Cianna, the sole witness to her familys murders, carries the burden of testifying against the powerful and charismatic Mob boss, Ray Lombardo. Lombardo, censured by an aging but shrewd godfather, finds himself under pressure to wipe out the incriminating witness or lose face with the administration he has set his sights on ruling. A psychologists decision, a judges ruling, a corrupt police officer, and a sharp-shooting sniper work to stop Cianna from ever entering the courtroom. But as Cianna walks the white marbled halls of the Chicago Federal Building, Mac senses a rush of victory. Has he failed to remember the pervasive influence of his underworld adversary?
Author : Edward Hailstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Art objects
ISBN : MINN:31951001989182P
Author : William A. Kinnison
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984546340
Ghost stories were very popular with college students at the end of the nineteenth century and the start of the twentieth. They still are today. As a college president, I sometimes told ghost stories to students on Halloween. One student wrote, The next time that the darkness closes in, the wind blows through the trees, rustling the crisp dry leaves, and the owls come out, screeching into the clear and starry night and soaring through the darkness to grab its prey from under the leaves, think twice about the spirited haunting that seems to frequent our stately campus. As the tales of campus hauntings grew, we concluded that our campus surely was Americas most haunted campus. I assured the students that these were only stories. It was not the ghosts that aroused their fears; it was their fears that aroused the ghosts.
Author : Philippa Call Bush
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : WISC:89098855307
Author : Anna Cottrell
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781474425667
Maps materiality's importance in the emergent posthuman future of architecture
Author : Anne Hbert
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0887841732
This magnificent final novel from Anne Hbert completes an internationally acclaimed literary oeuvre that was fearless in it's explorations of the dark and violent side of human passion.
Author : Nayaswami Jyotish Novak,Nayaswami Devi Novak
Publisher : Crystal Clarity Publishers
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781565895386
A Reservoir of Solace and Inspiration ...in a world increasingly overshadowed by conflict and division. Touch of Inner Power, is the sixth volume compiled from the authors’ popular blog series A Touch of Light has illuminated the paths of spiritual seekers across the globe. This pivotal collection of essays offers a blueprint to navigate the rocky terrains of modern life with grace, dignity, and joy. Nayaswami Jyotish and Nayaswami Devi share personal stories, practical advice, and uplifting messages based on their more than half a century of building, serving, and living in a worldwide spiritual community steeped in the eternal wisdom and teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda. Touch of Inner Power is a call to arms to rally our inner warriors not to conquer an external world but to harness the resilience and strength required to persevere and triumph in the provinces of our internal battlefields.
Author : Paul H. Downing
Publisher : Carriage Assoc. of America
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1970-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
LETTERS TO THE EDITORTHE SURREY OR SHOULD IT HAVE BEEN DENOMINATED THE WHITECHAPEL THE GREAT WAGON RACE Recorded by Lt. Col. Norman I. Stuckey . ENGLISH DRIVERS ON PARADE by Marylian Wntney. . . . PLANS FOR MAKING A STRAIGHT SILL SURREY WITH DOORS by]. Lawrence Hill MEMOIRS OF THE CARRIAGE DAYS by Marion W. Rivinus . IMPERIAL AUSTRIAN PARADE HORSE by Diana von Schinkel Buntin THE TROTTING PONIES OF ARROMANCHES by Dulcie Vaughan TRAFFIC - 18th CENTURY STYLE by Ruth Rush JUDGING THAT HURTS by Sallie Walrond THE NEW ENGLAND REGION OF THE CARRIAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA THE CARRIAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA by ] erry T. Ballantine FULLNESS OF DAYS by Lord Halifax
Author : Helen O'Hara
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781472144416
'A fascinating polemic' Sunday Times 'A powerful, sobering and vital work' The Mail on Sunday 'A page-turning read, peppered with humour' Sight & Sound 'A must read' Edgar Wright A call to arms from Empire magazine's 'geek queen', Helen O'Hara, that explores women's roles - both in front of and behind the camera - since the birth of Hollywood, how those roles are reflected within wider society and what we can do to level the playing field. Hollywood was born just over a century ago, at a time of huge forward motion for women's rights. With no rules in place to stop them, there were women who forged ahead in many areas of filmmaking. Yet, despite the work of early pioneers like Dorothy Arzner, Mabel Normand, Mary Pickford and Alice Guy-Blaché, it soon came to embody the same old sexist standards. Women found themselves fighting a system that fed on their talent, creativity and beauty but refused to pay them the same respect as their male contemporaries - until now . . . The tide has finally begun to turn. A new generation of women, both in front of and behind the camera, are making waves in the industry and are now shaping some of the biggest films to hit our screens. In Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film, film critic Helen O'Hara takes a closer look at the pioneering and talented women of Hollywood and their work in film since Hollywood began. And in understanding how women were largely written out of Hollywood's own origin story, and how the films we watch are put together, we can finally see how to put an end to a picture that is so deeply unequal - and discover a multitude of stories out there just waiting to be told.
Author : Angela Jill Lederach
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781503635692
On November 24, 2016, the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia signed a revised peace accord that marked a political end to over a half-century of war. Feel the Grass Grow traces the far less visible aspects of moving from war to peace: the decades of campesino struggle to defend life, land, and territory prior to the national accord, as well as campesino social leaders' engagement with the challenges of the state's post-accord reconstruction efforts. In the words of the campesino organizers, "peace is not signed, peace is built." Drawing on nearly a decade of extensive ethnographic and participatory research, Angela Jill Lederach advances a theory of "slow peace." Slowing down does not negate the urgency that animates the defense of territory in the context of the interlocking processes of political and environmental violence that persist in post-accord Colombia. Instead, Lederach shows how the campesino call to "slowness" recenters grassroots practices of peace, grounded in multigenerational struggles for territorial liberation. In examining the various layers of meaning embedded within campesino theories of "the times (los tiempos)," this book directs analytic attention to the holistic understanding of peacebuilding found among campesino social leaders. Their experiences of peacebuilding shape an understanding of time as embodied, affective, and emplaced. The call to slow peace gives primacy to the everyday, where relationships are deepened, ancestral memories reclaimed, and ecologies regenerated.
Author : Vicki Callahan
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0814333001
Illustrates the rich relationship between film history and feminist theory. Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History brings together a diverse group of international feminist scholars to examine the intersections of feminism, history, and feminist theory in film. Editor Vicki Callahan has assembled essays that reflect a range of methodological approaches--including archival work, visual culture, reception studies, biography, ethno-historical studies, historiography, and textual analysis--by a diverse group of film and media studies scholars to prove that feminist theory, film history, and social practice are inevitably and productively intertwined. Essays in Reclaiming the Archive investigate the different models available in feminist film history and how those feminist strategies might serve as paradigmatic for other sites of feminist intervention. Chapters have an international focus and range chronologically from early cinema to post-feminist texts, organized around the key areas of reception, stars, and authorship. A final section examines the very definitions of feminism (post-feminism), cinema (transmedia), and archives (virtual and online) in place today. The essays in Reclaiming the Archive prove that a significant heritage of film studies lies in the study of feminism in film and feminist film theory. Scholars of film history and feminist studies will appreciate the breadth of work in this volume.
Author : Annie Berke
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520972025
A rich account that combines media-industry history and cultural studies, Their Own Best Creations looks at women writers' contributions to some of the most popular genres of postwar TV: comedy-variety, family sitcom, daytime soap, and suspense anthology. During the 1950s, when the commercial medium of television was still being defined, women writers navigated pressures at work, constructed public personas that reconciled traditional and progressive femininity, and asserted that a woman's point of view was essential to television as an art form. The shows they authored allegorize these professional and personal pressures and articulate a nascent second-wave feminist consciousness. Annie Berke brings to light the long-forgotten and under-studied stories of these women writers and crucially places them in the historical and contemporary record.
Author : John Marx,Mark Garrett Cooper
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231546607
Are homecoming games and freshman composition, Twitter feeds and scholarly monographs really mortal enemies? Media U presents a provocative rethinking of the development of American higher education centered on the insight that universities are media institutions. Tracing over a century of media history and the academy, Mark Garrett Cooper and John Marx argue that the fundamental goal of the American research university has been to cultivate audiences and convince them of its value. Media U shows how universities have appropriated new media technologies to convey their message about higher education, the aims of research, and campus life. The need to create an audience stamps each of the university’s steadily proliferating disciplines, shapes its structure, and determines its division of labor. Cooper and Marx examine how the research university has sought to inform publics and convince them of its value to American society, from the rise of football and Great Books programs in the early twentieth century through a midcentury communications complex linking big science, New Criticism, and design, from the co-option of 1960s student activist media through the early-twenty-first-century reception of MOOCs and the latest promises of technological disruption. The book considers the ways in which universities have used media platforms to reconcile national commitments to equal opportunity with corporate capitalism as well as the vexed relationship of democracy and hierarchy. By exploring how media engagement brought the American university into being and continues to shape academic labor, Media U presents essential questions and resources for reimagining the university and confronting its future.
Author : Maggie Hennefeld
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231559812
Can you really die from laughing too hard? Between 1870 and 1920, hundreds of women suffered such a fate—or so a slew of sensationalist obituaries would have us believe. How could laughter be fatal, and what do these reports of women’s risible deaths tell us about the politics of female joy? Maggie Hennefeld reveals the forgotten histories of “hysterical laughter,” exploring how women’s amusement has been theorized and demonized, suppressed and exploited. In nineteenth-century medicine and culture, hysteria was an ailment that afflicted unruly women on the cusp of emotional or nervous breakdown. Cinema, Hennefeld argues, made it possible for women to laugh outrageously as never before, with irreversible social and political consequences. As female enjoyment became a surefire promise of profitability, alarmist tales of women laughing themselves to death epitomized the tension between subversive pleasure and its violent repression. Hennefeld traces the social politics of women’s laughter from the heyday of nineteenth-century sentimentalism to the collective euphoria of early film spectatorship, traversing contagious dancing outbreaks, hysteria photography, madwomen’s cackling, cinematic close-ups, and screenings of slapstick movies in mental asylums. Placing little-known silent films and an archive of remarkable, often unusual texts in conversation with affect theory, comedy studies, and feminist film theory, this book makes a timely case for the power of hysterical laughter to change the world.
