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The Cine Star Salon

Author : Leah Ranada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Friendships
ISBN : 1039525490

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"Philippine-born Vancouverite Sophia is most grateful for two things: her modest hair salon and Adrian, her mild-mannered fiancé. She is eager to get married, move away from her highly educated but career-frustrated parents, who believe that their daughter can be so much more than a beautician. Then Sophia's estranged friend reaches out from Manila, desperate for help. After a dubious accident, her fiery Auntie Rosy is on the verge of losing the Cine Star Salon--the place where Sophia first felt the call to become a hairstylist. Coming to her auntie's aid is not so easy though. Sophia worries helping might reopen old wounds and threaten the bright future she has planned. Leah Ranada's debut novel is a stirring, rich depiction of the importance of women's work and the ties that bind across oceans and generations. Recalling the work of Doretta Lau, Alex Leslie, and Lauralyn Chow, The Cine Star Salon marks the entry of a vital new voice in Canadian literature."--

The Cine Star Salon

Author : Leah Ranada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1774390329

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Philippine-born Vancouverite Sophia is most grateful for two things: her modest hair salon and Adrian, her mild-mannered fiancé. She is eager to get married, move away from her highly educated but career-frustrated parents, who believe that their daughter can be so much more than a beautician. Then Sophia's estranged friend reaches out from Manila, desperate for help. After a dubious accident, her fiery Auntie Rosy is on the verge of losing the Cine Star Salon--the place where Sophia first felt the call to become a hairstylist and salon owner. Coming to her auntie's aid is not so easy though. Sophia worries helping might reopen old wounds and threaten the bright future she has planned. Leah Ranada's debut novel is a graphic and engaging depiction of the importance of women's work and the loyalties that connect friends across oceans. The Cine Star Salon marks the entry of a vital new voice in Canadian literature.

Last Tide

Author : Andy Zuliani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1774390345

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Ana and Win find themselves stuck, lifting the weight of their pasts, while frustrated by their present jobs: photographing vacant lots and decayed industrial sites, cataloguing the decline of capitalist excess to digitally scrub away humanity, making way for more gentrification. When the pair is sent by their employers to a rustic island in the Pacific Northwest--home to hippies, runaways, and survivalist preppers--they meet Lena, an oceanographer and climate scientist, who has moved to the island in search of "the big one," the cataclysmic earthquake and tsunami that she knows is the island and the West Coast's due; and Kitt, an athleisure clothing mogul, who is overseeing the construction of a vacation home that will serve as his apocalypse-shelter. These four people's lives intertwine as a police investigation throws life on the island into disarray, as activists and agents provocateurs take action, as dormant fault lines begin to tremble. Andy Zuliani's Last Tide is a vital debut novel is an edgy glimpse at a world just beyond tomorrow, and a sharp reminder of what society deems valuable.

Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism

Author : Terri Simone Francis
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253052179

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Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism by Terri Simone Francis Pdf

A history and in-depth analysis of the film career of the iconic Black star, activist, and French military intelligence agent. Josephine Baker, the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, was both liberated and delightfully undignified, playfully vacillating between allure and colonialist stereotyping. Nicknamed the “Black Venus,” “Black Pearl,” and “Creole Goddess,” Baker blended the sensual and the comedic when taking 1920s Europe by storm. Back home in the United States, Baker’s film career brought hope to the Black press that a new cinema centered on Black glamour would come to fruition. In Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism, Terri Simone Francis examines how Baker fashioned her celebrity through cinematic reflexivity, an authorial strategy in which she placed herself, her persona, and her character into visual dialogue. Francis contends that though Baker was an African American actress who lived and worked in France exclusively with a white film company, white costars, white writers, and white directors, she holds monumental significance for African American cinema as the first truly global Black woman film star. Francis also examines the double-talk between Baker and her characters in Le Pompier de Folies Bergère, La Sirène des Tropiques, Zou Zou, Princesse Tam Tam, and The French Way, whose narratives seem to undermine the very stardom they offered. In doing so, Francis illuminates the most resonant links between emergent African American cinephilia, the diverse opinions of Baker in the popular press, and African Americans’ broader aspirations for progress toward racial equality. Examining an unexplored aspect of Baker’s career, Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism deepens the ongoing conversation about race, gender, and performance in the African diaspora.

Movie-star Portraits of the Forties

Author : John Kobal
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0486235467

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Movie-star Portraits of the Forties by John Kobal Pdf

One hundred six famous actresses and actors are portrayed in full-page pictures by twenty-four leading Hollywood photographers

They Live

Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781593763930

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“One of the cleverest, most accessibly in-depth film books released this year . . . a smart-ass novelist exploring a cheesy-cheeky ‘80s sci-fi flick.”—Hartford Advocate Deep Focus is a series of film books with a fresh approach. Take the smartest, liveliest writers in contemporary letters and let them loose on the most vital and popular corners of cinema history: midnight movies, the New Hollywood of the sixties and seventies, film noir, screwball comedies, international cult classics, and more . . . Kicking off the series is Jonathan Lethem’s take on They Live, John Carpenter’s 1988 classic amalgam of deliberate B-movie, sci-fi, horror, anti-Yuppie agitprop. Lethem exfoliates Carpenter’s paranoid satire in a series of penetrating, free-associational forays into the context of a story that peels the human masks off the ghoulish overlords of capitalism. Taking into consideration classic Hollywood cinema and science fiction—as well as popular music and contemporary art and theory—They Live provides a wholly original perspective on Carpenter’s subversive classic.

The Negro Motorist Green Book

Author : Victor H. Green
Publisher : Colchis Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Negro Motorist Green Book by Victor H. Green Pdf

The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.

Magdaragat

Author : Jim Agapito,Hari Alluri,Christine Añonuevo,Kaia M. Arrow,Isabel Palanca Aureus,Leon Aureus,Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio,Kawika Guillermo,Hannah Balba,Monica Anne Batac,Alexa Batitis,Mila Bongco-Philipzig,Isabel Carlin,Rachel Evangeline Chiong,Kay Costales,Gemma Derpo Dalayoan,Ariel Dela Cruz,Nathalie De Los Santos,Sol Diana,Erica Dionora,Carolyn Fe,Renato Gandia,Primrose Madayag Knazan,José Romelo Lagman,Yves Lamson,Grace Sanchez MacCall,Lorina Mapa,Deann Louise C. Nardo,Rafael Palma,Remilyn “Felix” Policarpio,Leah Ranada,Alma Salazar Retuta,Rani Rivera,Aileen Santiago,Carlo Sayo,Maribeth Manalaysay Tabanera,Steffi Tad-y,Vincent Ternida,Jellyn Ayudan,Angelo Santos
Publisher : Cormorant Books
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781770867734

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Magdaragat by Jim Agapito,Hari Alluri,Christine Añonuevo,Kaia M. Arrow,Isabel Palanca Aureus,Leon Aureus,Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio,Kawika Guillermo,Hannah Balba,Monica Anne Batac,Alexa Batitis,Mila Bongco-Philipzig,Isabel Carlin,Rachel Evangeline Chiong,Kay Costales,Gemma Derpo Dalayoan,Ariel Dela Cruz,Nathalie De Los Santos,Sol Diana,Erica Dionora,Carolyn Fe,Renato Gandia,Primrose Madayag Knazan,José Romelo Lagman,Yves Lamson,Grace Sanchez MacCall,Lorina Mapa,Deann Louise C. Nardo,Rafael Palma,Remilyn “Felix” Policarpio,Leah Ranada,Alma Salazar Retuta,Rani Rivera,Aileen Santiago,Carlo Sayo,Maribeth Manalaysay Tabanera,Steffi Tad-y,Vincent Ternida,Jellyn Ayudan,Angelo Santos Pdf

Since first arriving in Canada, the Filipino community has contributed invaluably — and too often invisibly — to the fabric of Canadian society. In this anthology of Filipino-Canadian writing, Magdaragat explores the diverse intricacies of this growing yet underrepresented people, continuing the vital work of recognizing and celebrating their cultural contributions. Writers in this anthology, hailing from across Turtle Island, each provide their singular yet universally resonating insights through stories of new homes and old homelands, of untangling internalized racism and championing solidarity, of the chasms within intergenerational households and the work of repairing them, and more. Poems, essays, short fiction, plays, and speeches — their works collected here showcase a wide breadth of Filipino-Canadian experience. Through stories of sacrifice, violence, and discrimination interspersed with stories of success, recovery, and solidarity, Magdaragat delves into Filipino-Canadian history, the joys and struggles of its present, and the hopes and aspirations for the future.

Atlas of Unknowns

Author : Tania James
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847377449

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When seventeen-year-old Anju wins an all-expenses-paid scholarship to study in New York for a year, she jumps at the chance to leave her home town in Kerala and embrace all that America has to offer. But there are bittersweet consequences ahead, not only for Anju, but also for the father and older sister she has left behind. For when the lie behnd Anju's scholarship is suddenly revealed she is left without a visa and, too proud to confess to her family, goes into hiding. She accepts a job in a suburban beauty salon and the offer of a roof over her head from the kindly Bird, who strangely seems to know more about Anju's past than Anju herself has told her. Meanwhile, Anju's family are on a mission to find her, trying not to contemplate the possibility that they might never see her again… Atlas of Unknownsis vibrant, moving and breathtakingly told -- the debut of an irresistible and utterly original new voice in fiction.

The Man From Sing Sing

Author : E. Phillips Oppenheim
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338042002

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The Man From Sing Sing by E. Phillips Oppenheim Pdf

"The Man From Sing Sing" by E. Phillips Oppenheim. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Cinema by the Bay

Author : Sheerly Avni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119740863

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'A welcome book.' Includes index.

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

Author : Alicia Elliott
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385692397

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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2019 BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL • CBC • CHATELAINE • QUILL & QUIRE • THE HILL TIMES • POP MATTERS A bold and profound meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America from award-winning Haudenosaunee writer Alicia Elliott. In an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about the treatment of Native people in North America while drawing on intimate details of her own life and experience with intergenerational trauma, Alicia Elliott offers indispensable insight into the ongoing legacy of colonialism. She engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrifcation, writing and representation, and in the process makes connections both large and small between the past and present, the personal and political—from overcoming a years-long battle with head lice to the way Native writers are treated within the Canadian literary industry; her unplanned teenage pregnancy to the history of dark matter and how it relates to racism in the court system; her childhood diet of Kraft Dinner to how systemic oppression is directly linked to health problems in Native communities. With deep consideration and searing prose, Elliott provides a candid look at our past, an illuminating portrait of our present and a powerful tool for a better future.

The Big Goodbye

Author : Sam Wasson
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781250301833

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelatory account of the making of a modern American masterpiece Chinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its twist ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the first time is the incredible true story of its making. In Sam Wasson's telling, it becomes the defining story of the most colorful characters in the most colorful period of Hollywood history. Here is Jack Nicholson at the height of his powers, as compelling a movie star as there has ever been, embarking on his great, doomed love affair with Anjelica Huston. Here is director Roman Polanski, both predator and prey, haunted by the savage death of his wife, returning to Los Angeles, the scene of the crime, where the seeds of his own self-destruction are quickly planted. Here is the fevered dealmaking of "The Kid" Robert Evans, the most consummate of producers. Here too is Robert Towne's fabled script, widely considered the greatest original screenplay ever written. Wasson for the first time peels off layers of myth to provide the true account of its creation. Looming over the story of this classic movie is the imminent eclipse of the '70s filmmaker-friendly studios as they gave way to the corporate Hollywood we know today. In telling that larger story, The Big Goodbye will take its place alongside classics like Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and The Devil's Candy as one of the great movie-world books ever written. Praise for Sam Wasson: "Wasson is a canny chronicler of old Hollywood and its outsize personalities...More than that, he understands that style matters, and, like his subjects, he has a flair for it." - The New Yorker "Sam Wasson is a fabulous social historian because he finds meaning in situations and stories that would otherwise be forgotten if he didn't sleuth them out, lovingly." - Hilton Als

Clint Eastwood - The Biography of Cinema's Greatest Ever Star

Author : Douglas Thompson
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781784185749

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Clint Eastwood - The Biography of Cinema's Greatest Ever Star by Douglas Thompson Pdf

Clint Eastwood is a true living legend. For over forty years he has dominated Hollywood and his success both in front of and behind the camera has assured his place in cinema history alongside such superstars as Marlon Brando, John Wayne and Robert De Niro..."Clint" reveals the man behind the myth.Bestselling author Douglas Thompson draws on exclusive interviews with the star, to provide the definitive portrait of Clint Eastwood. From his early days as a jobbing actor on $75 a week to his directorial triumph with "Million Dollar Baby", "Clint" reveals the personal highlights of one of the most celebrated careers in cinema history.

A Little Life

Author : Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804172707

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.