The Devil And The Dolce Vita

Author : Roy Domenico
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813234335

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The Devil and the Dolce Vita by Roy Domenico Pdf

Italy’s economic expansion after World War Two triggered significant social and cultural change. Secularization accompanied this development and triggered alarm bells across the nation’s immense Catholic community. The Devil and the Dolce Vita is the story of that community – the church of Popes Pius XII, John XXIII and Paul VI, the lay Catholic Action association, and the Christian Democratic Party – and their efforts in a series of culture wars to preserve a traditional way of life and to engage and tame the challenges of a rapidly modernizing society. Roy Domenico begins this study during the heady days of the April 1948 Christian Democratic electoral triumph and ends when pro-divorce forces dealt the Catholics a defeat in the referendum of May 1974 where their hopes crashed and probably ended. Between those two dates Catholics engaged secularists in a number of battles – many over film and television censorship, encountering such figures as Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. The Venice Film Festival became a locus in the fight as did places like Pozzonovo, near Padua, where the Catholics directed their energies against a Communist youth organization; and Prato in Tuscany where the bishop led a fight to preserve church weddings. Concern with proper decorum led to more skirmishes on beaches and at resorts over modest attire and beauty pageants. By the 1960s and 1970s other issues, such as feminism, a new frankness about sexual relations, and the youth rebellion emerged to contribute to a perfect storm that led to the divorce referendum and widespread despair in the Catholic camp.

Author : Timothy Holme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1989-09-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 051700559X

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The Devil and the Dolce Vita by Timothy Holme Pdf

Author : Alison Dagnes,Mark Sachleben
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781623562229

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Scandal! by Alison Dagnes,Mark Sachleben Pdf

There are many types of political scandals: sex, corruption, and election scandals are but a few. Political scandals are public events that have tremendous consequence on citizenry and can undermine democratic institutions-when we pay attention to scandal, we risk ignoring weightier matters. This volume brings together an array of academics to explore the impact of political scandals. What makes this book different from others is the wide spectrum of perspectives brought together to help analyze a single subject.

Author : Richard Dyer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838719838

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La dolce vita by Richard Dyer Pdf

Fellini's La dolce vita has been a phenomenon since before it was made, a scandal in the making and on release in 1960 and a reference point ever since. Much of what made it notorious was its incorporation of real people, events and lifestyles, making it a documentation of its time. It uses performance, camera movement, editing and music to produce a striking aesthetic mix of energy and listlessness, of exuberance and despair. Richard Dyer's study considers each of these aspects of the film – phenomenon, document, aesthetic – and argues that they are connected. Beginning with the inspirations and ideas that were subsequently turned into La dolce vita, Dyer then explores the making of the film, the film itself and finally its critical reception, providing engaging new insights into this mesmerising piece of cinema.

Author : Stav Sherez
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571312368

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The Devil's Playground by Stav Sherez Pdf

In a forgotten corner of a rainlashed park in Amsterdam, the body of a tramp is found. With scarring on his body which suggests he may be the latest victim of a serial killer terrorizing the city, the police can find no name, only the telephone number of a young Englishman. Jon Reed is summoned from London to identify the body, of the man he knew as Jake Colby. With a killer on the loose, he and the detective in charge of the case are determined to help uncover the truth of what happened to his mysterious friend, no matter where that may lead them.

Author : Jack Fritscher
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0299203042

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Popular Witchcraft by Jack Fritscher Pdf

Popular Witchcraft: Straight from the Witch's Mouth, inspired by the British Gerald Gardner's Witchcraft Today, was the first book to be published on popular American witchcraft and remains the classic survey of white and black magic. Newly revised and updated for twenty-first-century readers, the author--an ordained but marvelously fallen exorcist--tells all about the evil eye, the queer eye, women and witch trials, the Old Religion, magic Christianity, Satanism, and New Age self-help. Jack Fritscher sifts through legends of sorcery and the twisted history of witchcraft, including the casting of spells and incantations, with a focus on the growing role of witchcraft in popular culture and its mainstream commercialization through popular music, Broadway, Hollywood, and politics. As seriously historical as it is fun to read, there is no other book like it.

Author : Terry A. Burgess
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465348609

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Hear The Devil's Cry by Terry A. Burgess Pdf

When Sheila Myhra receives a mysterious message from her dead mother, all hell breaks loose, especially since the message was written in Navajo twenty-one years before Sheila was born. Because of a recent tragedy, Sheila has vowed to stop using her powers, but when her best friend is kidnapped all bets are off. Using herself as ransom for her friend, Sheila becomes mired in a plot as thick as oil and as old as evil. While trying to solve her mother's message, Sheila is pulled deep into the Arizona desert where the power to end the fuel crisis lies hidden and protected by an ancient spell; a power that has been used by the armies of the Israelites, Nazi Germany, and even al-Qaeda. Hot on Sheila’s tail is a Fort Worth businessman hell-bent-for-leather to use that power for his own profit. When he learns of the true treasure Sheila is hiding, things really heat up. Breaking her vow may not be enough to stop the madman and prevent global disaster. And in the struggle to protect her friends Sheila must make the ultimate decision—who will live and who will die.

Author : Paul Martelli,Vittorino dal Cengio
Publisher : Helion and Company
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781909982093

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On the Devil's Tail by Paul Martelli,Vittorino dal Cengio Pdf

This is the riveting true story of Paul Martelli, a fifteen-year-old German-Italian, who fought in Pomerania, on the Eastern Front, in 1945 as a member of the 33. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS "Charlemagne" and, later, as a soldier with French forces during three years (1951-1954) in the Tonkin area, Vietnam. Paul recounts his time at the Sennheim military training base, where he was introduced to the rigorous discipline of body and mind: he then goes back to 1940, during the German invasion of France, when he was still a boy in Lorraine, hinting at his motivations for enlisting with the Waffen SS. He reveals his and many young soldiers' exciting and often humorous escapades at Greifenberg, his first love with a German girl helping refugees, his experiences and feelings during the combats at Kšrlin, during the strenuous defense of Kolberg, while regrouping at Neustrelitz and at the German defeat. With a companion he ends up at a castle delivering a group of women camp prisoners to a Russian officer, living in disguise among enemy soldiers until he escapes and surrender to the Americans. After his sentence, imprisonment, evasions and military service in Morocco, Paul is sent to fight in defense of bases north of Hanoi, Vietnam. He survives three years of fierce combats, assaults, ambushes, night patrols, fatal traps and mortal risks but, deep down, he compares his service with the Waffen SS during the last year of war with the inefficiency of the French Expeditionary Force in the Far East and comes out deeply frustrated. At almost 26, he has fought and lost in two wars, both against the communists, be they Soviet or Viet-Minh. Unemployed, and with the ideals of a 'Nouvelle Europe' in pieces, he briefly joins the French Foreign Legion, his last hope, but in the end choses another path. This is a unique memoir, packed with incident and recounting the story of one individual caught up in a series of life-changing events.

Author : William E. Knight
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781553693970

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The Devil's End Game by William E. Knight Pdf

Thirty-eight years after the end of World War II, detective Leopold Czernik is hired by a Holocaust survivor to try to track down art works stolen from his family by the Nazis. His investigations lead him into a tangled web of violence, treachery and murder.

Author : Joe Eszterhas
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781466852419

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The Devil's Guide to Hollywood by Joe Eszterhas Pdf

In The Devil's Guide to Hollywood, bestselling author and legendary bad-boy screenwriter Joe Eszterhas tells everything he knows about the industry, its players and screenwriting itself—from the first blank sheet of paper in the Olivetti to the size of the credit on the one-sheet. "There's just one hunk of funny anecdote after another, quotes from everyone who ever mattered in the movie biz, and the thing is jam-packed with screenwriterly advice. Plus it's hilariously funny, ribald, sexy and brilliant."—Liz Smith Often practical and always entertaining, The Devil's Guide to Hollywood distills everything one of Hollywood's most accomplished screenwriters knows about the business, from writing advice to negotiation tricks, from the wisdom of past players to the feuds of current ones. Eszterhas has selected his personal pantheon of the most loved and loathed players in the business and treats the reader to a treasure trove of stories, quotes and wisdom from those luminaries, who include William Goldman (loathes) and Zsa Zsa Gabor (loves). The Devil's Guide to Hollywood could only have been written by someone who loves the business as much as Eszterhas does—but who also has its number. "Eszterhas delivers a dishy, catty mix of reminiscences and Hollywood trivia...his forte is skewering sycophants and phonies in this opinionated showcase of the underside of Hollywood life."—Publishers Weekly

Author : Stephen a Di Biase,Sherman Morrison
Publisher : Premier Insights LLC
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-21
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781507881347

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La Dolce Vita by Stephen a Di Biase,Sherman Morrison Pdf

"La Dolce Vita" describes my life's journey from a lower middle-class family to the ranks of a Fortune 500 executive while enduring the challenges of a lifetime of poor health. The learning is that a good life is possible if one looks upon adversity as a source of advantage while focusing on what’s important and managing the urgent appropriately.

Author : John Webster
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350059955

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The White Devil by John Webster Pdf

This fully re-edited, modernised play text is accompanied by insightful commentary notes, while its lively introduction explains why Webster's interests in complex female lead characters and questions of social tension related to sexuality, gender, race, and law and equity – unusual for the play's time – have led to its increasing relevance for modern audiences and readers. Exploring the challenges of staging this highly melodramatic play, Lara Bovilsky guides you through the most interesting points of its rich performance history, and explores the onslaught of recent productions with race-conscious and regendered casts. Analysing its masterful poetry, she shows how the work can be harnessed to engage debate about the abuse of political and religious authority, the troubling fruits of economic desperation, and personal freedom, and empowers you to do likewise. Supplemented by a plot summary, annotated bibliography, production images, and essential contextual grounding in the court scandals that inspired Webster's tragedy and Webster's unusual composition practices, this edition is the most enlightening and engaging you will find.

Author : Steven Jacobs
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474410915

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Screening Statues by Steven Jacobs Pdf

A dynamic, scholarly engagement with Susanne Bier's work

Author : Hollis Alpert
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743213097

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Fellini by Hollis Alpert Pdf

Fellini follows the life and career of master Italian film director, Federico Fellini. Drawing on interviews with the filmmaker himself, as well as his colleagues, Hollis Alpert investigates the man and the legend while defining the boundaries between the two. “Hollis Alpert’s new biography is filled with wonderful anecdotes about Fellini’s creative life. The book makes me want to see the films all over again.” — Paul Mazursky

Author : Eric Michael Mazur
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780313013980

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Encyclopedia of Religion and Film by Eric Michael Mazur Pdf

Comprising 91 A–Z entries, this encyclopedia provides a broad and comprehensive introduction to the topic of religion within film. Technology has enabled films to reach much wider audiences, enabling today's viewers to access a dizzying number of films that employ diverse symbolism and communicate a vast array of viewpoints. Encyclopedia of Religion and Film will provide such an audience with the tools to begin their own exploration of the deeper meanings of these films and grasp the religious significance within. Organized alphabetically, this encyclopedia provides more than 90 entries on the larger religious traditions, the major film-producing regions of the globe, the films that have stirred controversy, the most significant religious symbols, and the more important filmmakers. The included topics provide substantially more information on the intersection of religion and film than any of the similar volumes currently available. While the emphasis is on the English-speaking world and the films produced therein, there is also substantial representation of non-English, non-Western film and filmmakers, providing significant intercultural coverage to the topic.