Spectacular Bodies

Author : Yvonne Tasker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134873012

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Spectacular Bodies by Yvonne Tasker Pdf

While films such as Rambo, Thelma and Louise and Basic Instinct have operated as major points of cultural reference in recent years, popular action cinema remains neglected within contemporary film criticism. Spectacular Bodies unravels the complexities and pleasures of a genre often dismissed as `obvious' in both its pleasure and its politics, arguing that these controversial films should be analysed and understood within a cinematic as well as a political context. Yvonne Tasker argues that today's action cinema not only responds to the shifts in gendered, sexual and racial identities which took place during the 1980s, but reflects the influences of other media such as the new video culture. Her detailed discussion of the homoeroticism surrounding the muscleman hero, the symbolic centrality of blackness within the crime narrative, and the changing status of women within the genre, addresses the constitution of these identities through the shifting categories of gender, class, race, sex, sexuality and nation. Spectacular Bodies also examines the ambivalence of supposedly secure categories of popular cinema, questioning the existing terms of film criticism in this area and addressing the complex pleasures of this neglected form.

Author : Maddie Mortimer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982181772

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Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer Pdf

Lia, her husband, Harry, and their daughter, Iris, are a perfectly balanced family of three with a happy life. But when a devasting diagnosis threatens to derail their lives, the world around them begins to warp and transform, and Lia's carefully hidden secrets come rushing out.

Author : Martin Kemp,Emeritus Professor of the History of Art Martin Kemp,Marina Wallace
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520227921

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Spectacular Bodies by Martin Kemp,Emeritus Professor of the History of Art Martin Kemp,Marina Wallace Pdf

"Illustrated and with essays by Martin Kemp, Spectacular Bodies reveals a new way of seeing ourselves."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Yvonne Tasker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134873005

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Spectacular Bodies by Yvonne Tasker Pdf

While films such as Rambo, Thelma and Louise and Basic Instinct have operated as major points of cultural reference in recent years, popular action cinema remains neglected within contemporary film criticism. Spectacular Bodies unravels the complexities and pleasures of a genre often dismissed as `obvious' in both its pleasure and its politics, arguing that these controversial films should be analysed and understood within a cinematic as well as a political context. Yvonne Tasker argues that today's action cinema not only responds to the shifts in gendered, sexual and racial identities which took place during the 1980s, but reflects the influences of other media such as the new video culture. Her detailed discussion of the homoeroticism surrounding the muscleman hero, the symbolic centrality of blackness within the crime narrative, and the changing status of women within the genre, addresses the constitution of these identities through the shifting categories of gender, class, race, sex, sexuality and nation. Spectacular Bodies also examines the ambivalence of supposedly secure categories of popular cinema, questioning the existing terms of film criticism in this area and addressing the complex pleasures of this neglected form.

Author : Paul Koudounaris
Publisher : Thames and Hudson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0500251959

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Heavenly Bodies by Paul Koudounaris Pdf

An intriguing visual history of the veneration in European churches and monasteries of bejeweled and decorated skeletons Death has never looked so beautiful. The fully articulated skeleton of a female saint, dressed in an intricate costume of silk brocade and gold lace, withered fingers glittering with colorful rubies, emeralds, and pearls—this is only one of the specially photographed relics featured in Heavenly Bodies. In 1578 news came of the discovery in Rome of a labyrinth of underground tombs, which were thought to hold the remains of thousands of early Christian martyrs. Skeletons of these supposed saints were subsequently sent to Catholic churches and religious houses in German-speaking Europe to replace holy relics that had been destroyed in the wake of the Protestant Reformation. The skeletons, known as “the catacomb saints,” were carefully reassembled, richly dressed in fantastic costumes, wigs, crowns, jewels, and armor, and posed in elaborate displays inside churches and shrines as reminders to the faithful of the heavenly treasures that awaited them after death. Paul Koudounaris gained unprecedented access to religious institutions to reveal these fascinating historical artifacts. Hidden for over a century as Western attitudes toward both the worship of holy relics and death itself changed, some of these ornamented skeletons appear in publication here for the first time.

Author : Anthea Callen,Edgar Degas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300054432

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The Spectacular Body by Anthea Callen,Edgar Degas Pdf

Explores the ways in which the human body, especially the female body, was visualized by artists in the late-19th century. The book focuses on the work of Degas and deals with issues of gender, sexuality and visual representation to illuminate the Impressionist's depictions of women.

Author : Daphne Brooks
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0822337223

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Bodies in Dissent by Daphne Brooks Pdf

Performance and identity in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Arican-American creative work.

Author : Cameron Diaz,Sandra Bark
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780062482884

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The Body Book by Cameron Diaz,Sandra Bark Pdf

Cameron Diaz shares her formula for becoming happier, healthier, and stronger in this positive, essential guide grounded in science and inspired by personal experience, a #1 New York Times bestseller. Throughout her career, Cameron Diaz has been a role model for millions of women. By her own candid admission, though, this fit, glamorous, but down-to-earth star was not always health-conscious. Learning about the inseparable link between nutrition and the body was just one of the life-changing lessons that has fed Cameron’s hunger to educate herself about the best ways to feed, move, and care for her body. In The Body Book, she shares what she has learned and continues to discover about nutrition, exercise, and the mind/body connection. Grounded in science and informed by real life, The Body Book offers a comprehensive overview of the human body and mind, from the cellular level up. From demystifying and debunking the hype around food groups to explaining the value of vitamins and minerals, readers will discover why it’s so important to embrace the instinct of hunger and to satisfy it with whole, nutrient-dense foods. Cameron also explains the essential role of movement, the importance of muscle and bone strength and why we need to sweat a little every day. The Body Bookdoes not set goals to reach in seven days or thirty days or a year. It offers a holistic, long-term approach to making consistent choices and reaching the ultimate goal: a long, strong, happy, healthy life.

Author : Yvonne Tasker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 815 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134564934

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The Action and Adventure Cinema by Yvonne Tasker Pdf

This exciting collection addresses action and adventure from the silent to the contemporary period exploring diverse questions of aesthetics, industry and ideology. Action has established itself as one of the leading commercial genres of the New Hollywood cinema, generating extensive debate in the process. Contributors consider how action might best be defined, how it has developed historically, and how it works formally. The critical reception and standing of action and adventure cinema is considered in relation to questions of national culture, violence and the 'art' of cinema. Themes explored include genre and definitions; early action, sensation and melodrama; authorship and action; national and transnational action-adventure traditions; action aesthetics; spectacle and narrative; stars and bodies; class; gender; race and ethnicity. Attempting to evaluate the significance of this type of filmmaking for both popular cinema and film studies, the book underlines the central place of action and adventure within film history.

Author : Maddie Mortimer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982181796

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Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer Pdf

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize This lyrical debut novel is at once a passionate coming-of-age story, a meditation on illness and death, and a kaleidoscopic journey through one woman’s life—told in part by the malevolent voice of her disease. Lia, her husband Harry, and their beloved daughter, Iris, are a precisely balanced family of three. With Iris struggling to navigate the social tightrope of early adolescence, their tender home is a much-needed refuge. But when a sudden diagnosis threatens to derail each of their lives, the secrets of Lia’s past come rushing into the present, and the world around them begins to transform. Deftly guided through time, we discover the people who shaped Lia’s youth; from her deeply religious mother to her troubled first love. In turn, each will take their place in the shifting landscape of Lia’s body; at the center of which dances a gleeful narrator, learning her life from the inside, growing more emboldened by the day. Pivoting between the domestic and the epic, the comic and the heart-breaking, this astonishing novel unearths the darkness and levity of one woman’s life to symphonic effect.

Author : Carol Beckwith,Angela Fisher
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780847834051

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Painted Bodies by Carol Beckwith,Angela Fisher Pdf

The seminal volume on body painting and adornment by the world’s preeminent photographers of African culture. Following the international masterpiece Africa Adorned, Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher have focused on the traditions of body painting spanning the vastly unique cultures of the African continent. In a contemporary world so fascinated with tattoos and piercings, Beckwith and Fisher document the origins of these fashionable adornments as passed down through African tribal culture. Featured are portraits of the richly colored, detailed, and exquisite body paintings of the Surma, Karo, Maasai, Himba, and Hamar peoples, among others. Drawing from expeditions in the field and firsthand experiences with African peoples and cultures over the past thirty years and with more than 250 spectacular photographs, this is the definitive work on the expressiveness and imagination of African cultural painting of the human body.

Author : Ana Elena Puga,Heather L. McKay
Publisher : Latrobe University School of Business
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Drama
ISBN : UCSD:31822035020809

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Spectacular Bodies, Dangerous Borders by Ana Elena Puga,Heather L. McKay Pdf

Author : D. O'Brien
Publisher : Springer
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137384713

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Classical Masculinity and the Spectacular Body on Film by D. O'Brien Pdf

The muscle-bound male body is a perennial feature of classically-inflected action cinema. This book reassesses these films as a cinematic form, focusing on the depiction of heroic masculinity. In particular, Hercules in his many incarnations has greatly influenced popular cultural interpretations of manliness and the exaggerated male form.

Author : Ramesh Mallipeddi
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813938431

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Spectacular Suffering by Ramesh Mallipeddi Pdf

Spectacular Suffering focuses on commodification and discipline, two key dimensions of Atlantic slavery through which black bodies were turned into things in the marketplace and persons into property on plantations. Mallipeddi approaches the problem of slavery as a problem of embodiment in this nuanced account of how melancholy sentiment mediated colonial relations between English citizens and Caribbean slaves. The book’s first chapters consider how slave distress emerged as a topic of emotional concern and political intervention in the writings of Aphra Behn, Richard Steele, and Laurence Sterne. As Mallipeddi shows, sentimentalism allowed metropolitan authors to fashion themselves as melancholy witnesses to racial slavery by counterposing the singular body to the abstract commodity and by taking affective property in slaves against the legal proprietorship of slaveholders. Spectacular Suffering then turns to the practices of the enslaved, tracing how they contended with the effects of chattel slavery. The author attends not only to the work of African British writers and archival textual materials but also to economic and social activities, including slaves’ petty production, recreational forms, and commemorative rituals. In examining the slaves’ embodied agency, the book moves away from spectacular images of suffering to concentrate on slow, incremental acts of regeneration by the enslaved. One of the foremost contributions of this study is its exploration of the ways in which the ostensible objects of sentimental compassion—African slaves—negotiated the forces of capitalist abstraction and produced a melancholic counterdiscourse on slavery. Throughout, Mallipeddi’s keen reading of primary texts alongside historical and critical work produce fresh and persuasive insights. Spectacular Suffering is an important book that will alter conceptions of slave agency and of sentimentalism across the long eighteenth century.

Author : Isaac Marion
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476717463

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Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion Pdf

Alienated from his fellow zombies because of his dislike of having to kill humans and his enjoyment of Sinatra music, "R" meets a living girl who sharply contrasts with his cold and dreary world and whom he resolves to protect in spite of her delicious appearance.