The South Never Plays Itself

Author : Ben Beard
Publisher : NewSouth Books
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781588384249

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The South Never Plays Itself by Ben Beard Pdf

Since Birth of a Nation became the first Hollywood blockbuster in 1915, movies have struggled to reckon with the American South—as both a place and an idea, a reality and a romance, a lived experience and a bitter legacy. Nearly every major American filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter has worked on a film about the South, from Gone with the Wind to 12 Years a Slave, from Deliveranceto Forrest Gump. In The South Never Plays Itself, author and film critic Ben Beard explores the history of the Deep South on screen, beginning with silent cinema and ending in the streaming era, from President Wilson to President Trump, from musical to comedy to horror to crime to melodrama. Beard’s idiosyncratic narrative—part cultural history, part film criticism, part memoir—journeys through genres and eras, issues and regions, smash blockbusters and microbudget indies to explore America’s past and troubled present, seen through Hollywood’s distorting lens. Opinionated, obsessive, sweeping, often combative, sometimes funny—a wild narrative tumble into culture both high and low—Beard attempts to answer the haunting question: what do movies know about the South that we don’t?

Author : Dan T. Carter
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781588385406

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Unmasking the Klansman by Dan T. Carter Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Literature
ISBN : UOM:39015030082252

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The Literary World by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Parker Snow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Confederate States of America
ISBN : NYPL:33433067279087

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Southern Generals by William Parker Snow Pdf

Author : Goodman L
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135298784

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Wom Pol Perf S/Afr Thre by Goodman L Pdf

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Frederic Martel
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262346115

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Global Gay by Frederic Martel Pdf

A panoramic view of gay rights, gay life, and the gay experience around the world. In Global Gay, Frédéric Martel visits more than fifty countries and documents a revolution underway around the world: the globalization of LGBT rights. From Saudi Arabia to South Africa, from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv, from Singapore to the United States, activists, culture warriors, and ordinary people are part of a movement. Martel interviews the proprietor of a “gay-friendly” café in Amman, Jordan; a Cuban-American television journalist in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; a South African jurist who worked with Nelson Mandela to enshrine gay rights in the country's constitution; an American lawyer who worked on the campaign for marriage equality; an Egyptian man who fled his country after escaping a raid on a gay club; and many others. He tells us that in China, homosexuality is neither prohibited nor permitted, and that much Chinese gay life takes place on social media; that in Iran, because of the strict separation of the sexes, it seems almost easier to be gay than heterosexual; and that Raul Castro's daughter, a gay rights icon in Cuba, expressed her lingering anti-American sentiments by calling for Pride celebrations in May rather than June. Ten countries maintain the death penalty for homosexuals. “Homophobia is what Arab governments give to Islamists to keep them calm,” one activist tells Martel. Martel finds that although the “gay American way of life” has created a global template for gay activism and culture, each country offers distinctly local variations. And around the world, the status of gay rights has become a measure of a country's democracy and modernity. This English edition, which has been thoroughly revised and updated, has received the French Voices Award for excellence in publication and translation, supported by a grant from the French-American Book Fund.

Author : Goodman L
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135298777

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Women, Politics and Performance in South African Theatre Today by Goodman L Pdf

Part two of a three texts compiled during the years of change in South Africa, charts the impact of Apartheid and the cultural boycott on performance, and examining the role of women in theatre. Part two contains interviews with key theatre practitioners.

Author : Joya Chatterji
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789357081733

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Shadows at Noon by Joya Chatterji Pdf

Shadows at Noon is an ambitious synthesis of decades of research and scholarship which explores the key strands of South Asian history in the twentieth century with clarity and authority. Unlike other narrative histories of the subcontinent that concentrate exclusively on politics, here food, leisure and the household are given equal importance to discussions of nationhood, the development of the state and patterns of migration. While it tells the subcontinent's story from the British Raj to independence and partition and on to the forging of the modern nations of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, the book's structure is thematic rather than chronological. Each of the chapters illuminates on overarching theme or sphere that has shaped South Asia over the course of the century. This format allows the reader to explore particular issues such as the changing character of nationalism or food consumption over time and in depth. Shadows at Noon is a bold, innovative and personal work that pushes back against standard narratives of 'inherent' differences between India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Its purpose is to make contemporary South Asia intelligible to readers who are fascinated by the subcontinent's cultural vibrancy and diversity but are often perplexed by its social and political makeup. And it illuminates the many aspects that its people have in common rather than what divides them.

Author : Bryant Mangum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139619431

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F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context by Bryant Mangum Pdf

The fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald serves as a compelling and incisive chronicle of the Jazz Age and Depression Era. This collection explores the degree to which Fitzgerald was in tune with, and keenly observant of, the social, historical and cultural contexts of the 1920s and 1930s. Original essays from forty international scholars survey a wide range of critical and biographical scholarship published on Fitzgerald, examining how it has evolved in relation to critical and cultural trends. The essays also reveal the micro-contexts that have particular relevance for Fitzgerald's work - from the literary traditions of naturalism, realism and high modernism to the emergence of youth culture and prohibition, early twentieth-century fashion, architecture and design, and Hollywood - underscoring the full extent to which Fitzgerald internalized the world around him.

Author : Derek Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2950 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781136798641

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Censorship by Derek Jones Pdf

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Beatriz Revelles-Benavente,Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040041864

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Feminist Literary and Filmic Cultures for Social Action by Beatriz Revelles-Benavente,Adelina Sánchez-Espinosa Pdf

Feminist Literary and Filmic Cultures for Social Action: Gender Response-able Labs examines teaching and research practices under feminist new materialisms, affect theories and response-ability through literary and visual products, and offers possible bridges between academia and activism to create feminist interventions in contemporary neoliberal structures. Featuring chapters from contributors across a wide range of disciplines, this book follows a methodological framework that blends traditionally opposite categories, such as theory and practice, and explores contemporary literature and films as case studies within innovative “feminist response-able labs”. In Feminist Literary and Filmic Cultures for Social Action readers will encounter a collaborative trans-disciplinary toolbox which can be of use to multiple disciplines and an invaluable resource to advanced undergraduate students, postgraduate researchers and scholars in literary studies, film studies, feminist theories, new materialisms, and affective pedagogies

Author : Pablo Brescia,Mariano Paz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781000789423

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Diego Maradona by Pablo Brescia,Mariano Paz Pdf

This is the first book in English to closely examine the life of Diego Maradona from socio-cultural perspectives, exploring how his status as an icon, a popular sporting hero, and a political figurehead has been culturally constructed, reproduced, and manipulated. The volume looks at representations of Maradona across a wide variety of media, including literature, cinema, popular music, printed and online press, and radio, and in different countries around the world, to cast new light on topics such as the instrumentality of sporting heroes and the links among sport, nationalism, and ideology. It shows how the life of Maradona – from his origins in the barrio through to his rise to god-like status in Naples and as a postcolonial symbol of courage and resistance against imperial powers across the global south, alongside scandal and his fall from grace – powerfully illustrates themes such as the dynamics of gender, justice, and affect that underpin the study of sport, culture, and society. This is essential reading for anybody with an interest in football, sport studies, media studies, cultural studies, or sociology.

Author : Gene A. Plunka
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786481453

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The Plays of Beth Henley by Gene A. Plunka Pdf

Beth Henley's twelve complete plays (three of which have been turned into films) have achieved worldwide production. At age 29, she produced her first full-length drama, Crimes of the Heart, which won a Pulitzer Prize and garnered three Academy Award nominations as a film. Her Mississippi upbringing and her penchant for the eccentricities of southern culture, however, have caused critics to categorize her writing as a kind of southern gothic folklore inspired by feminist ideology. This book, the first critical study of Henley's complete plays, attempts to dispel the common stereotypes that associate Henley's work with regional drama and sociological treatises. It argues instead that Henley can best be perceived as a dramatist who delineates an existential despair manifested in various forms of what Freud calls the modern neurosis. The book maintains that Henley's plays must be understood as universal statements about the angst of modern civilization, and Henley's characters are assessed in light of Freud's proposition that cultural restrictions create neurotic individuals. The introduction provides a brief account of Henley's childhood and career. Early chapters summarize the theory of the modern angoisse espoused in Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, while later chapters relate this theory to thematic and stylistic elements of Henley's most popular play, Crimes of the Heart, as well as Am I Blue, The Wake of Jamie Foster, The Miss Firecracker Contest, The Debutante Ball, The Lucky Spot, Abundance, Signature, Control Freaks, Revelers, L-Play, and Impossible Marriage.

Author : Miriam López Rodríguez,María Dolores Narbona Carrión
Publisher : Universitat de València
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8437058708

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Women's Contribution to Nineteenth-century American Theatre by Miriam López Rodríguez,María Dolores Narbona Carrión Pdf

Esta colección de ensayos muestra los múltiples aspectos de la contribución que hizo la mujer, al teatro americano del siglo XIX. En este estudio se enseñan diversos tipos de mujeres y los roles que desempeñan, así como refleja la manera en que Susan Glaspell y Sophie Treadwell ayudaron a dar forma al teatro, entre muchas otras que escribirían décadas más tarde.

Author : Christopher Schliephake
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780739195765

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Urban Ecologies by Christopher Schliephake Pdf

The term “urban ecology” has become a buzzword in various disciplines, including the social and natural sciences as well as urban planning and architecture. The environmental humanities have been slow to adapt to current theoretical debates, often excluding human-built environments from their respective frameworks. This book closes this gap both in theory and in practice, bringing together “urban ecology” with ecocritical and cultural ecological approaches by conceptualizing the city as an integral part of the environment and as a space in which ecological problems manifest concretely. Arguing that culture has to be seen as an active component and integral factor within urban ecologies, it makes use of a metaphorical use of the term, perceiving cities as spatial phenomena that do not only have manifold and complex material interrelations with their respective (natural) environments, but that are intrinsically connected to the ideas, imaginations, and interpretations that make up the cultural symbolic and discursive side of our urban lives and that are stored and constantly renegotiated in their cultural and artistic representations. The city is, within this framework, both seen as an ecosystemically organized space as well as a cultural artifact. Thus, the urban ecology outlined in this study takes its main impetus from an analysis of examples taken from contemporary culture that deal with urban life and the complex interrelations between urban communities and their (natural and built) environments.