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"Momo Ayase and Okarun are on opposite sides of the paranormal spectrum regarding what they'll believe in and what they won't. Their quest to prove each other wrong leads them down a path of secret crushes and paranormal battles they'll have to participate in to believe! Momo Ayase strikes up an unusual friendship with her school's UFO fanatic, whom she nicknames "Okarun" because he has a name that is not to be said aloud. While Momo believes in spirits, she thinks aliens are nothing but nonsense. Her new friend, meanwhile, thinks the exact opposite. To settle matters, the two set out to prove each other wrong--Momo to a UFO hotspot and Okarun to a haunted tunnel! What unfolds next is a beautiful story of young love...and oddly horny aliens and spirits?"-- Publisher marketing

Two African American twenty-somethings have a one-night stand. And a night they barely remember becomes a day they will never forget. A tale of sex, race, bicycles and modern urban life. Deals with the challenge of being a minority in a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco.

• Machine generated contents note: Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: They Called It T.O.B.A. Chapter 1. "Whistling Coons" No More: Race Uplift & the Path to T.O.B.A.
• Chapter 2. Hebrew, Negro, and American Owners: Black Vaudeville and Interracial Management
• Chapter 3. T.O.B.A Forms: The Interracial Business Plan for a New Negro Business
• Chapter 4. The Multiple Meanings of T.O.B.A: The Performers' Perspective
• Chapter 5. A Responsibility to Community: Circuit Theaters and Black Regional Audiences
• Chapter 6. "Trouble in Mind": The End of T.O.B.A. Time
• Epilogue: T.O.B.A.'s Legacy
• Appendix
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.

"Black vaudevillians and entertainers joked that T.O.B.A. stood for "tough on black artists." But the Theater Owner's Booking Association (T.O.B.A.) played a foundational role in the African American entertainment industry and provided a training ground for icons like Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Sammy Davis Jr., the Nicholas Brothers, Count Basie, and Butterbeans and Susie. Michelle R. Scott's institutional history details T.O.B.A.'s origins and practices while telling the little-known stories of the managers, producers, performers, and audience members involved in the circuit. Looking at the organization over its eleven-year existence (1920-1931), Scott places T.O.B.A. against the backdrop of what entrepreneurship and business development meant in black America at the time. Scott also highlights how intellectuals debated the social, economic, and political significance of black entertainment from the early 1900s through T.O.B.A.'s decline during the Great Depression.Clear-eyed and comprehensive, T.O.B.A. Time is a fascinating account of black entertainment and black business during a formative era"-- Provided by publisher.

• He who gets slapped (1924)
• Greed (1924)
• The big parade (1925)
• Putting pants on Philip (1927)
• White shadows in the south seas (1928)
• The Broadway melody (1929)
• Hallelujah (1929)
• Freaks (1932)
• Tarzan the ape man (1932)
• Grand hotel (1932)
• Dancing lady (1933)
• The good earth (1937)
• Love finds Andy Hardy (1938)
• The wizard of oz (1939)
• Gone with the wind (1939)
• Puss gets the boot (1940)
• Mrs. Miniver (1942)
• Song of Russia (1944)
• Meet me in St Louis (1944)
• The postman always rings twice (1946)
• On the town (1949)
• Battleground (1949)
• The red badge of courage (1951)
• Singin' in the rain (1952)
• The blackboard jungle (1955)
• Forbidden planet (1956)
• Jailhouse rock (1957)
• Cat on a hot tin roof (1958)
• Ben-hur : a tale of the Christ (1925)
• Ben-hur (1959)
• North by northwest (1959)
• How the west was won (1962)
• Dr. No (1963)
• The man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964-1968)
• Doctor Zhivago (1965)
• Blow-up (1966)
• How the grinch stole Christmas! (1966)
• The dirty dozen (1967)
• : a space odyssey (1968)
• Shaft (1971)
• Hollywood : the dream factory (1972)
• The phantom of Hollywood (1974)
• That's entertainment! (1974)
• Rocky (1976)
• Coma (1978)
• Heaven's gate (1980)
• Hero at large (1980), or Being there (1979), or The formula (1980)
• Pennies from heaven (1981)
• Running scared (1986)
• Get shorty (1995).

"Discusses the films that, for one reason or another, changed the trajectory of MGM and the film industry in general"-- Provided by publisher.

This book explores the vast array of animals that populate detective fiction. If the genre begins, as is widely supposed, with Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue", then detective fictions very first culprit is an animal. Animals, moreover, consistently appear as victims, clues, and companions, while the abstract conception of animality is closely tied to the idea of criminality. Although it is often described as an essentially conservative form, detective fiction can unsettle the binary of human and animal to intersect with developing concerns in animal studies: animal agency, the ethical complexities of human/animal interaction, the politics and literary aesthetics of violence, and animal metaphor. Gathering its 14 essays into sections on ontologies, ethics, politics, and forms, Animals in Detective Fiction provides a compelling and nuanced analysis of the central role creatures play in this enduringly popular and continually morphing literary form. Ruth Hawthorn is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Lincoln. She is currently completing a monograph on American detective fiction for the BAAS Paperbacks series with Edinburgh University Press. Her research interests include crime fiction, the literature of LA, and ecocriticism. John Miller is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield, President of ASLE-UKI (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, UK and Ireland), and co-editor of Palgrave Studies in Animals in Literature. His books include Empire and the Animal Body (Anthem, 2014) and The Heart of the Forest (British Library Publishing, 2022).

• DVD; Film ve Özel seçenekler
• Sound Disc; Müzik ve Şiirler.

Arif, diagnosed with cancer, separates from his wife whose pregnancy he does not know by leaving a letter behind. He starts a new life away from everyone in a village on the coast. One day Zuhal comes to Arif with his daughter. She is about to go to the USA for a better life for her daughter and herself. Zuhal wants her daughter to stay with Arif for a while. The daughter's short stay with her father will have a powerful impact on their lives.

"The English Theatrical Avant-Garde 1900 - 1925 presents a fresh look at the theatrical experiments of the English stage in the early twentieth century. Why might that be important? It is important because the Edwardian theatre is queerer than you might think. Where the majority of writing on the early Twentieth-Century theatrical avant-garde is concerned with European movements and experiments, English activity of the period is instead seen as parochial and conservative - mainly realism and issues-based drama. This book presents a new model of how avant-gardes might work; a model based not on masculine individualism but on communal inclusion. In describing this fascinating material, the author introduces us to many new figures and shows familiar ones in new light: there's Florence Farr, independent woman; Bob Trevelyan, radical pacifist and music drama pioneer; Granville Barker doing fairy plays while de-dramatising drama; Laurence Housman, socialist, homosexual, scripting St Francis; and the oddly modern J.M. Barrie. Together they made theatre practices rich in their diversity but consistent in their attempt to be new, producing a theatrical avant-garde unlike any other. This is a vital and indispensable new study for scholars and students of early Twentieth Century theatre in England and beyond"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: film and history
• Microhistory and documentary film
• The archive and the microhistorical documentary
• Péter Forgács's home movie chronicle of the 20th century: The malestrom, Free fall, and Class lot
• The incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II: Something strone within, A family gathering, From a silk cocoon, and History and memory
• Rithy Panh's autobiographical narrative of the Cambodian Genocide: The missing picture
• Identities and conflicts in Israel and Palestine: Isreal: a home movie, For my children, My terrorist, My land Zion, and A world not ours
• The immigrant experience in Jonas Mekas's Lost, lost, lost
• Epilogue: looking to the future.

"Traditional historical documentaries strive to project a sense of objectivity, producing a top-down view of history that focuses on public events and personalities. In recent decades, in line with historiographical trends advocating "history from below," a different type of historical documentary has emerged, focusing on tightly circumscribed subjects, personal archives, and first-person perspectives. Efrén Cuevas categorizes these films as "microhistorical documentaries" and examines how they push cinema's capacity as a producer of historical knowledge in new directions. Cuevas pinpoints the key features of these documentaries, identifying their parallels with written microhistory: a reduced scale of observation, a central role given to human agency, a conjectural approach to the use of archival sources, and a reliance on narrative structures. Microhistorical documentaries also use tools specific to film to underscore the affective dimension of historical narratives, often incorporating autobiographical and essayistic perspectives, and highlighting the role of the protagonists' personal memories in the reconstruction of the past. These films generally draw from family archives, with an emphasis on snapshots and home movies. Filming History from Below examines works including Péter Forgács's films dealing with the Holocaust such as The Maelstrom and Free Fall; documentaries about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Rithy Panh's work on the Cambodian genocide; films about the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War such as A Family Gathering and History and Memory; and Jonas Mekas's chronicle of migration in his diary film Lost, Lost, Lost"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Holocaust Synecdoche: Surrendering to the Simplifying Impulse
• 3. Second-Generation Fiction and the Legacy of the Hinge Generation
• 4. Visualising the Holocaust: Landmarks, Photographs and Post-Memory
• 5. Contemporary Fiction and Embodied Experience: Feeling the Holocaust
• 6. Between Irreverence and Impiety: Laying the Foundations for a Rosean Approach to Holocaust Representation
• 7. Conclusion.

This book discusses the issues underlying contemporary Holocaust fiction. Using Gillian Roses theory of Holocaust piety, it argues that, rather than enhancing our understanding of the Holocaust, contemporary fiction has instead become overly focused on gratuitous representations of bodies in pain. The book begins by discussing the locations and imagery which have come to define our understanding of the Holocaust, before then highlighting how this gradual simplification has led to an increasing sense of emotional distance from the historical past. Holocaust fiction, the book argues, attempts to close this emotional and temporal distance by creating an emotional connection to bodies in pain. Using different concepts relating to embodied experience from Sonia Kruks notion of feeling-with to Alison Landsbergs prosthetic memory the book analyses several key examples of Holocaust literature and film to establish whether fiction still possesses the capacity to approach the Holocaust impiously. David John Dickson is a literature specialist, focusing on fiction relating to the Holocaust. He has previously published papers relating to the ethical representation of the Holocaust past from Heather Morriss presentation of gendered suffering, to the fictional representation of death in the gas chamber. He also has an interest in the history of the Jewish ghetto police, and has published a paper relating to the confessional diary of Calel Perechodnik.

Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis connects insights from the field of literary animal studies with the urgent issues of climate change and environmental degradation, and features considerations of new interventions by literature in relation to these pressing questions and debates. This volume informs academic debates in terms of how nonhuman animals figure in our cultural imagination of topics such as climate change, extinction, animal otherness, the posthuman, and environmental crises. Using a diverse set of methodologies, each chapter presents relevant cases which discuss the various aspects of these interstices. This volume is an intersection between literary animal studies and climate fiction intended as an interdisciplinary intervention that speaks to the global climate debate and is thus relevant across the environmental humanities. Sune Borkfelt lectures at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is author of Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity (2022). Matthias Stephan is associate professor at Aarhus University, coordinator of the Centre for Studies of Otherness, author of Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century, and general editor of Otherness: Essays and Studies.

"Queenie follows the life of Stephanie Saint-Clair-the infamous criminal who made herself a legend in Harlem in the 1930s. Born on a plantation in the French colony of Martinique, Saint-Clair left the island in 1912 and found success in New York, rising up through poverty and battling extreme racism to become the ruthless queen of Harlem's mafia and a fierce defender of the Black community. A racketeer and a bootlegger, Saint-Clair dedicated her wealth and compassion to the struggling masses of Harlem, giving loans and paying debts to those around her. But with Prohibition ending, and under threat by Italian mobsters seeking to take control of her operation, she launched a merciless war to save her territory and her skin. Author Aurelie Levy and co-writer and illustrator Elizabeth Colomba's meticulous details-in both story and art-bring Saint-Clair's story to life in a tense narrative, against a sometimes bloody backdrop of jazz and voodoo. The story tackles the themes of colonization, corruption, police violence, and racial identity, but above all, Queenie celebrates the genius of a woman forgotten by history"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: Negotiating Empire
• The Straits of Messina: Geography and Empire
• Drepanum and the Limits of the Aeneid
• Venus' other son: Cupid and Ovid's empire of poetry
• Claudian, Etna, and the Loss of Proserpina
• The Redemption of Proserpina
• Quando n'apparve una montagna: Purgatory and the Voyage of Ulysses
• Purgatorio, Etna, and the empire of love.

"In this book, Sarah Spence explores the role of Sicily in the European imagination through the myth of Proserpina, who was abducted by the god of the underworld from the same Mediterranean island. Drawing on the author's training in both classics and medieval studies, the book explores how mythic narrative reflects ideas about ancient and medieval empires and engages with debates about the nature of the classical tradition as it evolved during the Middle Ages. Spence argues that the narrative structure of the Proserpina myth, the history of Sicily, and ideas about empire come to reflect, refract, and refine one another through literature, including works by Cicero, Vergil, Ovid, Claudian, and Dante. More broadly, Spence considers the way in which literature offers a space for political deliberation and imagination. While Roman poets focus on Proserpina's abduction as a means for discussing the problems of imperial expansion, for example, high medieval renderings of the myth-invoked in discussions of a new Christian empire shaped by the Crusades-instead focus on the loss of Proserpina, her eventual return, and the necessary negotiations her return involves. In this way, the tale of Proserpina and the history of Sicily trace the changing needs and understandings of empire, literature, and the complicated links between the two"-- Provided by publisher.

Smilin' Jack is attempting to make an emergency run to Tulsa with two passengers aboard, but a thick fog has rolled in and he's worried. All the airports he can contact are closed and he's running out of gas. Suddenly, a CB radio op breaks into the flight channel, requesting info about baking a cake. He tries to get her off the line, but when she understands his flying trouble, talks him to a deserted high school ball stadium that might work. It does! He brakes just short of the bleachers. Now he wants to thank "Miss Angel Food Cake" for saving four lives, but doesn't have her real name or call numbers. This will take some investigating.

"Stages of Reckoning is a crucial conversation about how racialized bodies and power intersect within actor training spaces. This book provokes embodied and intellectual discomfort for the reader to take risks with their ideologies, identities, and practices and to make new pedagogical choices for students with racialized identities. Centering the voices of actor trainers of color to acknowledge their personal experience and professional pedagogy as theory, this volume illuminates actionable ideas for text work, casting, voice, consent practices, and movement while offering decolonial approaches to current Eurocentric methods. These offerings invite the reader to create spaces where students can bring more of themselves, their communities, and their stories into their training and as fodder for performance making that will lead to a more just world. This book is for people in high/secondary schools, higher education, and private training studios who wish to teach and direct actors of color in ways that more fully honor their multiple identities"-- Provided by publisher.

When the circus closed, Tiny Tim and his sister Dotty returned to the Brown farm at Corntassel Corners. Their monkey Jitters went along with them. It was good to be back home! Everything is an adventure when you are only a few inches tall, and travel with a monkey.

• Introduction: Asian American literature and Asian American graphic novels / Eleanor Ty
• Countervisualizing barbed wire, guard towers, and latrines in George Takei and Harmony Becker's They called us enemy / Monica Chiu
• Ethics of storytelling: teaching Thi Bui's The best we could do / Stella Oh and erin Khuê Ninh
• Bitch Planet's Meiko Maki is down for justice! / Jeanette Roan
• Anachronistic figures and counternarratives: comics as a subversive form in American born Chinese and Johnny Hiro / Jin Lee
• "A Storm of a Girl Silently Gathering Force": peminist girlhoods in the comics of Trinidad Escobar and Malaka Gharib / Melinda Luisa de Jesús
• Questioning the "look" of normalcy and the borders of South/Asian Americans: Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan, and the comic superhero / Shilpa Davé
• (Un)masking a Chinese American superhero: Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew's The shadow hero / Lan Dong
• Posthumanist critique in Jillian Tamaki's Boundless / Eleanor Ty
• Drawing disease and disability: ethical optics and space in Adrian Tomine's Killing and dying / Stella Oh.

"By looking at storytelling, form, and style in graphic novels and comics such as Ms. Marvel, George Takei's They Called Us Enemy, Thi Bui's The Best We Could Do, Gene Luen Yang's The Shadow Hero, and others, this volume demonstrates how Asian American creators in the twenty-first century employ graphic narrative to show Asian Americans as complex, nuanced individuals"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1. Worldbuilding in the age of digital (trans)media
• 2. Immersive sci-fi machines: worlds, genres, and seriality
• 3. Film diegesis and multiverse
• 4. Worldbuilding and film style
• 5. Cyberspace: the simulated world of the "Matrix".

"This essay examines the primacy of worldbuilding in the age of CGI, transmedia practices and "high concept" fiction by studying the principles that govern the creation of a multiverse in a wide range of film and TV productions. Emphasis is placed on Hollywood sci-fi movies and their on-screen representation of imaginary machines that mirror the film medium, following in the tradition of Philip K. Dick's writings and the cyberpunk culture. A typology of worlds is established, as well as a number of analytical tools for assessing the impact of the coexistence of two or more worlds on the narrative structure, the style (uses of color, editing practices), the generic affiliation (or hybridity), the seriality and the discourse produced by a given film (particularly in fictions linked to post-9/11 fantasies). Among the various titles examined, the reader is offered a detailed analysis of the Resident Evil film series, Total Recall and its remake, Dark City, the Matrix trilogy, Avatar, Source Code and other time-loop films, TRON and its sequel, Christopher Nolan's Tenet, and several TV shows - most notably HBO's Westworld, but also Sliders, Lost, Fringe and Counterpart." -- publisher's description

A Boy's Own Story is a now-classic coming-of-age story, but with a twist: the young protagonist is growing up gay during one of the most oppressive periods in American history. Set in the time and place of author Edmund White's adolescence, the Midwest of the 1950s, the novel became an immediate bestseller, and for many readers was not merely about gay identity but the pain of being a child in a fractured family while looking for love in an anything-but-stable world. And yet the book quickly contributed to the literature of empowerment that grew out of the Stonewall riots and subsequent gay rights era. Readers are still swept up in the main character's thoughts and dry humor, and many today remain shocked by the sexually confessional, and bold, nature of his revelations, his humorous observations and the comic situations and scenes the strangely erudite youthful narrator describes, and the tenderness of his loneliness and the vivid aching of his imagination. A Boy's Own Story is lyrical, witty, unabashed, and authentic. Now, to bring this landmark novel to new life for today's readers, White is joined by co-writers Brian Alessandro & Michael Carroll and artist Igor Karash for a stunning graphic novel interpretation. The poetic nuances of White's language float across sumptuously painted panels which evoke 1950s Cincinnati, 1980s Paris, and every dreamlike moment in between. A creative adaptation of the original 1982 A Boy's Own Story with additional personal and historical elements from the authors' lives.

"Nico isn't like most children. At night, when he sleeps, Nico's dreams come to life, and he enters into a fantastic world of adventure, along with his friend, Góreck. But one night, Nico doesn't return, and Góreck is left alone, in the darkness. To find his friend, Góreck must leave the familiar land of dreams, and enter a labyrinth of memories. Traversing a land between dreams and reality, Góreck must find Nico and rescue him, or be lost forever within the Maze"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction / Jim Shedden and Barbara Sternberg
• A short institutional history of Canadian experimental film / Michael Zryd
• Moments of perception / Stephen Broomer
• More moments / Jim Shedden and Barbara Sternberg.

"Moments of Perception is a landmark book that maps avant-garde film across the country from the 1950s to the present day, including its contradictions and complexities. Featuring a major essay on the history of the movement by film scholar Michael Zryd and profiles of key filmmakers by Stephen Broomer and editors Jim Shedden and Barbara Sternberg, Moments of Perception offers a fresh perspective on the ever-evolving history of Canada's experimental film and moving-image media arts."-- Back cover.

• The Literature of Manchuria: An Overview
• Making Manchuria Chinese:
• Chinese Northeastern Writers Revisited
• Literary Territorialization through Linguistic Hybridity:
• The Manchukuo Chinese Writer Gu Ding and His Novel
• New Life
• A National Space on the Extraterritorial Frontier: Korean
• Literature of Manchuria through the Lens of Translation
• The Frontier Legacy in Postwar Japanese Literature:
• Abe Kōbō's Manchurian Past and His Border Thoughts
• Conclusion: From Manchuria to Taiwan:
• A Cross-Frontier Perspective on Zhong Lihe's Literature.

"Xiao Hong, Yom Sang-sop, Abe Kōbō and Zhong Lihe-these iconic literary figures from China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan all described Manchuria extensively in their literary works. Now China's Northeast but a contested frontier in the first half of the twentieth century, Manchuria has inspired writers from all over East Asia to claim it as their own, employing novel themes and forms for engaging nation and empire in modern literature. Many of these works have been canonized as quintessential examples of national or nationalist literature--even though they also problematize the imagined boundedness and homogeneity of nation and national literature at its core. Through the theoretical lens of literary territorialization, Miya Xie reconceptualizes modern Manchuria as a critical site for making and unmaking national literatures in East Asia. Xie ventures into hitherto uncharted territory by comparing East Asian literatures in three different languages and analyzing their close connections in the transnational frontier. By revealing how writers of different nationalities constantly enlisted transnational elements within a nation-centered body of literature, Territorializing Manchuria uncovers a history of literary co-formation at the very site of division and may offer insights for future reconciliation in the region"-- Provided by publisher.

• Evolution of Webtoons in the Digital Platform Era
• Platformization of Korean Webtoons
• Webtoon's Digital Sphere: Snack Culture and Binge-Reading
• Transmedia Storytelling of Webtoons in Big-Screen Culture
• Webtoons' Transnational Transmediality
• Sociocultural Perspectives on Webtoonists
• Webtoons' New Perspectives

"The rise of webtoons has fundamentally altered the Korean cultural market due to the growth of transmedia storytelling-the flow of a story from the original text to various other media platforms-and the convergence of cultural content and digital technologies. Understanding Korean Webtoon Culture analyzes webtoons through the lens of emerging digital cultures and illuminates snack culture and binge-reading as new forms of digital culture that webtoon platforms capitalize on to capture shifting cultural consumption"-Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher.

A high speed rocket engine hurled through the forest. At its controls was Flash Gordon who was racing to rescue Dale Arden, being held capitve by cruel Emperor Ming. With Flash was his old friend, Dr. Zarkov, and a new ally, Katon. Suddenly, the rocket lurched from the track and plunged through the trees. Flash flung the first two bandits and threw them to the ground, then he heard a familiar voice, "Hold everything, men! It's Flash Gordon."

This volume gathers excerpts from the diary of celebrated Chilean experimental film director Raul Ruiz. A continuation of Poetics of Cinema 1 and Poetics of Cinema 2--his seminal volumes on new narrative modes--Notes, Recollections and Sequences of Things Seen follows the late stage of Ruiz's career, from 1990 to 2011, in which he realized more ambitious productions. These new films generated significant economic and aesthetic challenges, and he observed the increasing distance between his dream of a handmade, nonindustrial, shamanic-inspired cinema--as set out in the Poetics of Cinema--and his reality. Selected by Bruno Cueno and Erik Bullot, friends of Ruiz, the writings also express the filmmaker's pragmatic side, such as his prescriptions for implementing the theoretical concepts outlined in Poetics. A preface by Bullot and notes by Cuneo contextualize the excerpts.

A band of sky pirates is menacing air flights. Captain Horton has been given orders to arrest the leaders and stop the piracy. Because The Phantom has sprung one of the pirate leaders from prison, Melville Horton is certain The Phantom is a pirate. Horton is on a flight with Diana Palmer, who facing the evidence presented by Horton, feels she must share some of The Phantom's history. Just then, the sky pirates force their plane to land. To Diana's shock, The Phantom is among the pirates.

FBI Agent X-9 discovers forged art and a murder aboard a ship.

Smilin' Jack was getting ready for his second marriage when a messenger arrived with the news that his first wife had been found--a captive of the Japanese for the last two years. As he's preparing to drive out ot the church parking lot, he gets another message: his requested transfer to a combat crew has been approved and he leaves at once. The first missions go as planned and they bring home a flyer they spotted on a raft in the middle of the ocean. The flyer reports he'd been captured by the Japanese but rescued by a white woman. There have been rumors of a woman, dubbed the Coral Princess, who frees American captives. Smilin' Jack and others have called the stories "propwash." A day later, the B Squadron sets out on a mission but are surprised by Japanese Zeros rising like hornets. The plane, carrying Wagon-Wheels, takes a hit and Wagon-Wheels is captured. He learns he will be subjected to "slow death" interrogation the next morning. That night, he hears a noise outside his cell and sees a white woman dispatch the Japanese guard. The Coral Princess is real!

"A memoir by the late journalist and critic Janet Malcolm"-- Provided by publisher.

• Foreword by Chuck Lorre
• Introduction: How the reunion came to be
• Where it all started
• Casting Leonard, Sheldon...and Katie
• The pilot
• take two
• Laying the foundation...literally
• Time for a hot beverage...stairway to 4A
• Growing pains and a miracle disguised as a writers' strike
• The Comic-Con initiation
• Anything but a sophomore slump
• Time for a hot beverage...atom breaks
• Note cards, a special cologne, and an eidetic memory
• Time for a hot beverage...hoodies, orthopedic shoes, and alien pins: the secrets of costume design
• The universe expands
• The love story of Leonard & Penny and Johnny & Kaley
• With great risk comes even greater reward
• Jim Parsons and the role that changed everything
• The syndication explosion
• The sensational season six
• Behind the scenes of stage 25
• The Emmys, a scavenger hunt, and the storyline Kaley Cuoco hated
• The toughest year yet
• Time for a hot beverage...lunch break
• "The opening night excitation"
• Miscarriage, pregnancy, and the very real truths about parenthood
• The pay cuts, a set shake-up, and the proposal that brought the house down
• Luke Skywalker comes to Pasadena
• Time for a hot beverage...secrets of the whiteboards
• Back to the past: brining Young Shledon to life
• The Lorre legacy
• The decision to end the show
• The final goodbye
• Epilogue.

"The Big Bang Theory is a television phenomenon. To the casual viewer, it's a seemingly effortless comedy, with relatable characters tackling real-life issues, offering a kind of visual comfort food to its millions of dedicated fans. But the behind-the-scenes journey of the show from a failed pilot to a global sensation is a fascinating story that even the most die-hard fans don't know in its entirety. THE BIG BANG THEORY: THE DEFINITIVE, INSIDE STORY OF THE EPIC HIT SERIES is a riveting, entertaining look at the sitcom sensation, with the blessing and participation of co-creator Chuck Lorre and executive producer Steve Molaro, as well as Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg, Kunal Nayyar, Melissa Rauch, Mayim Bialik, and more. Glamour senior editor Jessica Radloff, who has written over 150 articles on the series (and even had a cameo in the finale!), gives readers an all-access pass to its intrepid producing and writing team and beloved cast. It's a story of on-and-off-screen romance told in hilarious and emotional detail, of casting choices that nearly changed everything (which even some of the actors didn't know until now), of cast members bravely powering through personal tragedies, and when it came time to announce the 12th season would be its last, the complicated reasons why it was more difficult than anyone ever let on. Through hundreds of hours of interviews with the sitcom's major players, Radloff dives into all this and much more. The book is the ultimate celebration of this once-in-a-generation show and a must-have for all fans"-- Provided by publisher.

Mail-order catalog, with synopses and prices for 29 of Brakhage's 8mm films, mostly from the Songs cycle. With separate price list for three dozen 16mm films available for private purchase (with exhibition restrictions). Introduced by a short text from Jane Brakhage (i.e. Wodening), explaining price increases owing to increasing lab costs.

• Contents Acknowledgments A Note on Sources Family Tree
• Introduction Beginnings "One of the Most Popular Girls in Town" "Unusual Box Office Attraction" "If You Stutter, They Find You Guilty Right Away" "A Good Actress, a Beauty, and a Comedy Starring Bet" "It's Very Convenient to Have a Double" "Drinking Champagne Out of a Tin Cup" "Why Don't We Forget the Play That's Written and Let Marion Do as She Does?" "I Cannot Do Sound Pictures" "A Butterfly with Glue on Her Wings" "I Didn't Want a Part Where I Just Sit on My Tail and Recite Poetry" "Just Make One Good Picture a Year" "What Difference Does It Make If You Walk Up to the Altar?" "Marion Has to Take the First Step Herself" "The Girl Who Lies by My Side at Night" "My Bounty Is as Boundless as the Sea" "Not If They Offered Me Mars on a Silver Platter" "I Don't Think She Was Afraid of Death" Epilogue
• Filmography Notes Bibliography Index .
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The comprehensive critical biography of silent-screen star Marion Davies, who fittingly referred to herself as "the captain of my soul." From Marion Davies's humble days in Brooklyn to her rise to fame alongside press baron William Randolph Hearst, the public life story of the film star plays like a modern fairy tale shaped by gossip columnists, fan magazines, biopics, and documentaries. Yet the real Marion Davies remained largely hidden from view, as she was wary of interviews and trusted few with her true life story. In Captain of Her Soul, Lara Gabrielle pulls back layers of myth to show a complex and fiercely independent woman, ahead of her time, who carved her own path. Through meticulous research, unprecedented access to archives around the world, and interviews with those who knew Davies, Captain of Her Soul counters the public story. This book reveals a woman who navigated disability and social stigma to rise to the top of a young Hollywood dominated by powerful men. Davies took charge of her own career, negotiating with studio heads and establishing herself as a top-tier comedienne, but her proudest achievement was her philanthropy and advocacy for children. This biography brings Davies out of the shadows cast by the Hearst legacy, shedding light on a dynamic woman who lived life on her own terms and declared that she was "the captain of her soul.".
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"JEWels is the first of its kind: the living tradition of Jewish stories and jokes transformed into poems, recording and reflecting Jewish experience from ancient times through the present day. In this novel hybrid--jokes and stories boiled down to their essence in short poems--Jewish witticism is preserved side by side with evocative storytelling and deepened with running commentary and questions for discussion. Illuminated here are jewels from journeys, from the Old Country, from Torah, shaped by the Holocaust, in glimpses of Jewish American lives, in Jewish foods, in conversations with God, and on the meaning of life. Jewish comedians (Lenny Bruce, Jackie Mason) appear alongside writers and musicians (Elie Wiesel, Sholem Aleichem, Itzhak Perlman) and Hasidic rabbis (the Baal Shem Tov, Rabbi Nachman of Breslov), yet most of the tellers are ordinary Jews. In this cacophony of ongoing dialogue, storytellers, rabbis, poets, and scholars chime in with interpretations, quips, and related stories and life experiences. In JEWels each of us can see our own reflection."-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: The Spanish Civil War and its Jewish cultural phenomenon
• Textualities of war in journalism, epistolaries, and music. León Azerrat alias Ben-Krimo: a Moroccan Jew in the Spanish Civil War / Asher Salah
• Beyond music: Hanns Eisler (1898-1962) / Antonio Notario Ruiz
• Simón Radowitzky: revolution, exile, and a wandering Jew imaginary / Leonardo Senkman
• Max Aub, the exile who returns to the diaspora / Mauricio Pilatowsky Braverman
• The holy war on fascism / Deborah Green
• Textualities of memory and postmemory in contemporary literature and thought. Jewish Argentine perspectives and intellectual mission around the Spanish Civil War: the cases of Alberto Gerchunoff and Enrique Espinoza / Melina Di Miro
• "The world exists and we are part of it": the Inzikh's poetic response to the Spanish Civil War / Golda van der Meer
• A better Earth: Spain's land and inquisition in Jewish Canadian Spanish Civil War literature / Emily Robins Sharpe
• A novel that never was: Ruth Rewald's Vier Spanische Jungen / Tabea Alexa Linhard
• Using the Kabbalah to make sense of the Spanish War: Angelina Muñiz-Huberman's War of the unicorn (1983) / E. Helena Houvenaghel
• A Jewish-Spanish outlook on the Civil War in La canción de Ruth by Marifé Santiago Bolaños / Rose Duroux
• Conclusion: Poetic justice for the lost Spain: deciphering Jewish keys in modern and contemporary imaginaries / Cynthia Gabbay.

"A study of works written by 20th- and 21st-century authors producing Jewish poetics around their experience and memory of the Spanish Civil War"-- Provided by publisher.

History of Marathi journalism.

"Newspapers played a key role in shaping and reflecting public opinion during the Irish Revolution, 1910-23. County Cork was home to Skibbereen's Southern Star and Skibbereen Eagle, and Cork city institutions the Cork Examiner and Cork Constitution, along with the Cork Free Press. These papers were joined by a number of fascinating but short-lived radical papers like Terence MacSwiney's Fianna Fáil. This book is not just concerned with the journalistic output of these papers and their diverse political outlooks, but also their staff, engaging with newsboys and editors alike. This inverts typical historical approaches which traditionally use newspapers primarily as historical sources, whereas this study showcases them as historical forces. Of course, these papers operated during an incredibly violent time. This book highlights how editors and journalists at this time did not sit on the sidelines during the conflict but were centrally involved and experienced very real danger; newspaper owners and employees were threatened, attacked and shot. This book examines the experience of these papers, and the consequential, and often devastating censorship and suppression they experienced. Engaging with the leading issues of the day and acting as a microcosm of the conflicts and disputes that engulfed Ireland as a whole, the newspapers of Cork city and Skibbereen entered the revolutionary decade with opposing views and many enjoyed a rivalry that added a spice to their coverage. This is the story behind these storytellers."--Back cover.

Drawing on a wide range of examples from the literary and visual canons - short stories, novels, films, television programmes, video games, graphic novels, artworks and more - in both cult and popular culture, this extensively illustrated book examines how science fiction has provided a human response to science, exploring every reaction from complacency to exhilaration, and from hope to terror. Across five chapters this volume reviews the role played by science fiction in exploring our world and a multitude of ideas about our relationship with the human condition. This encompasses a fascinating range of themes - machines, travel, aliens (the Other), communication, threats and anxiety. Featuring a range of essays by experts on the subject as well as interviews with well-known science-fiction authors and reproductions of classic ephemera, graphics and objects throughout, it also focuses on the darker elements of this fascinating genre - the anxieties, fears, dystopias, monsters and apocalypses that have populated science fiction from the beginning. Ultimately, science fiction asks what makes us human, and what lies in the future to test, threaten and even destroy humanity. This publication has these questions at its core, making it especially relevant for a contemporary readership in an age preoccupied with the climate emergency, the coronavirus pandemic, the development of nuclear missiles and military technologies, and other global challenges.Exhibition: Science Museum, London, UK (06.10.2022 - 04.05.2023).

Roman Jakobson stands alone in his semiotic theory of poetic analysis which combines semiotics, linguistics and structuralist poetics. This groundbreaking book proposes methods for developing Jakobson's theories of communication and poetic function. It provides an extensive range of examples of the kinds of Formalist praxis that have been neglected in recent years, developing them for the analysis of all poetry but, especially, the poetry of our urban future. Throughout the book the parameters of a city poetic genre are proposed and established; the book also develops the theory of the function of shifters and deixis with special reference to women as narrators. It also instantiates an experimental poetic praxis based on the work of one of Jakobson's great influences, Charles Sanders Peirce. Steadfastly adhering to the text in itself, this volume reveals the often surprising, hitherto unconsidered structural and semiotic patterns within poems as a whole.

"Entangled Performance Histories is the first book-length study that applies the concept of "entangled histories" as a new paradigm in the field of theater and performance historiography. "Entangled histories" denotes the interconnectedness of multiple histories that cannot be addressed within national frameworks. The concept refers to interconnected pasts, in which historical processes of contact and exchange between performance cultures affected all involved. Presenting case studies from across the world-spanning Africa, the Arab-speaking world, Asia, the Americas, and Europe-the book's contributors systematically expand, exemplify, and examine the concept of "entangled histories," thus introducing various innovative concepts, theories and methodologies for investigating reciprocally consequential processes of interweaving performance cultures from the past. Bringing together examples of entanglements in theater and performance histories from a broad variety of geographical and historical backgrounds, the book's contributions build together a broad basis for a possible and necessary paradigmatic shift in the field of theater and performance historiography. Ideal for researchers and students of history, theater, performance, drama and dance, this volume opens novel perspectives on the possibilities and challenges of investigating the entangled histories of theater and performance cultures on a global scale"-- Provided by publisher.

"Traditionally, the definition of political cinema assumes a relationship between cinema and politics, but Mauro Resmini sees this relationship as an impasse. He turns to Italian cinema to explore how films have reinvented the link between popular art and radical politics in Italy from 1968 to the early 1980s, a period of intense political and cultural struggles known as the long '68"-- Provided by publisher.

"In the dead of night, eighty-three-year-old Marcel Grob is sequestered by an investigating judge who questions him about his past. Particularly beginning on June 28, 1944, the day when "Marzell," like ten thousand of his German-speaking peers from the French borderland province of Alsace, became a member of the Nazis' infamous Waffen SS. But did the teenager volunteer, or was he conscripted by the Nazis? To establish the truth of his troubled past, Marcel Grob will have to revisit painful memories as an adolescent forced to fight in Italy with the sinister Reichsfuhrer division. Determined to prove his innocence, Marcel begins the story of a long journey into night"-- Provided by publisher.

"Both the Palestinian and Israeli film categories-despite obvious overlaps and relatedness and while keeping in mind the inherent asymmetry of power dynamics-are at the forefront of engaging gender and sexuality"-- Provided by publisher.

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• Introduction: Deaf characters and deaf cultures in texts for children / John Stephens and Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
• Part 1: Narratives of deafness
• Writing the hearing line: representing childhood, deafness, and hearing through creative nonfiction / Jessica Kirkness
• Mandy: a critical look at the portrayal of a deaf character / Cynthia Neese Bailes
• Caped crusaders and lip-reading Pollyannas: the narrative and ideological function of humor in representations of deaf culture for young people / Nerida Wayland
• "The deaf man turned a deaf ear": metaphors of deafness and the critical gaze in the works of la Comtesse de Segur, 1858-1865 / Helene Charderon
• Subjectivity, theory of mind, and the creation of deaf characters in fiction / John Stephens
• "The only thing you can't do is hear": Hurt Go Happy by Ginny Rorby / Helene Ehriander
• Part 2: Deaf cultures in visual texts
• "We are just as confused and lost as she is": the primacy of the graphic novel form in exploring conversations around deafness / Sara Kersten-Parrish
• Childhood spaces and deaf culture in Wonderstruck and A Quiet Place / Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
• (Mis-)communication scripts and cognition in Japanese deaf fictional film A Silent Voice (Koe no Katachi) / Helen Kilpatrick
• Sociopolitical contexts for the representation of deaf youth in contemporary South Korean film / Sung-Ae Lee
• Local Hawai'i children's literature: revitalizing Hawai'i sign language at the edge of extinction / Nina Benegas, Stuart Ching, and Jann Pataray-Ching
• Part 3: Deafness and cultural difference
• Intersections of deaf and queer embodiment in fiction for young people: "able-bodied sexual subjects" / Josh Simpson
• Didacticism or seeking harmony with nature: contrasting presentations of deafness in contemporary Chinese children's literature / Lijun Bi and Xiangshu Fang
• Examining deaf culture in coming-of-age novels within a multicultural framework / Angela Schill
• Coda. From doctors' offices to doctor of philosophy: a deaf woman's journey / Corinne Walsh

Contributions by Cynthia Neese Bailes, Nina Batt, Lijun Bi, Helene Charderon, Stuart Ching, Helene Ehriander, Xiangshu Fang, Sara Kersten-Parish, Helen Kilpatrick, Jessica Kirkness, Sung-Ae Lee, Jann Pataray-Ching, Angela Schill, Josh Simpson, John Stephens, Corinne Walsh, Nerida Wayland, and Vivian Yenika-Agbaw Children, Deafness, and Deaf Cultures in Popular Media examines how creative works have depicted what it means to be a deaf or hard of hearing child in the modern world. In this collection of critical essays, scholars discuss works that cover wide-ranging subjects and themes: growing up deaf in a hearing world, stigmas associated with deafness, rival modes of communication, friendship and discrimination, intergenerational tensions between hearing and nonhearing family members, and the complications of establishing self-identity in increasingly complex societies. Contributors explore most of the major genres of children's literature and film, including realistic fiction, particularly young adult novels, as well as works that make deft use of humor and parody. Further, scholars consider the expressive power of multimodal forms such as graphic novel and film to depict experience from the perspective of children. Representation of the point of view of child characters is central to this body of work and to the intersections of deafness with discourses of diversity and social justice. The child point of view supports a subtle advocacy of a wider understanding of the multiple ways of being D/deaf and the capacity of D/deaf children to give meaning to their unique experiences, especially as they find themselves moving between hearing and Deaf communities. These essays will alert scholars of children's literature, as well as the reading public, to the many representations of deafness that, like deafness itself, pervade all cultures and are not limited to specific racial or sociocultural groups.
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• Foreword, Alexandra Hagen and John A. Williams Part I: Historical Memory and National Identity: Representations of the Violent 20th Century
• Who Gets to Be a National Hero? The Representation of North African Muslims in Days of Glory and Free Men, Priscilla Charrat Nelson Screen Warriors: Danish Soldiers and National Identity in April 9th and A War, Ian Roberts Escaping the Labyrinth of Silence: Cultural Change and the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials in Contemporary German Film, Susanne Lenne Jones Normalizing the Nazi Past in German Comedy? The Complexities of Laughter in Look Who's Back, Marina Durnin Part II: Moving to and from Western Europe: Migrants, Their Enemies, and Their Allies
• Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Contemporary German Film: Portrayals of a Nation between Tolerance and Xenophobia in We Are Young. We Are Strong and A Very German Welcome, Markus Spitz Transnational Mobility and Migration in The Edge of Heaven, Sarra Kassem Eastern Passage: Emigration from Romania to Western Europe in Code Unknown and Occident, Maria Ionita Part III: Personhood: Everyday Lives and Ethical Values
• Toni Erdmann: A Thought-Provoking Depiction of European 'Modernization' Processes, Patricia de Almeida Kruger and Marcos Soares The Kindness of Men: Compassion in The Great Beauty and Weekend, John Alexander Williams.
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Over the past several decades, liberal western Europe's attempts to improve human rights, social equality, and political democracy have increasingly conflicted with countervailing tendencies. The 2000s brought its own range of conflicts, including an upsurge in terrorism, economic downturn, and growing divisions over matters of ethnicity, religion, and history. During the 2010s, a new wave of refugees and immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa further split xenophobic, anti-Muslim nationalists from those who welcomed the non-European "Other". And now, Europe is undergoing the unexpected shock of a virulent pandemic that has already spawned another round of economic devastation and socio-political unrest. Studying contemporary western European film uncovers how the cinema can reflect on and contribute to discourses of conflict and survival in the new century. This edited collection uncovers the ways western Europe's filmmakers have taken it upon themselves to represent and interrogate this new era of uncertainty, and to pose implicitly the broadly political question of "whither Europe?". The chapters demonstrate a broad theoretical and methodological understanding of filmmakers as thinking citizen-artists who are directly involved in their society's discussions of the past, the present, and the future. Far from merely "reflecting" their times, filmmakers have become activists who use their art to reflect on their times and to encourage their audiences to think critically about Europe's problems and potentials.
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• 1.Terry Gilliam, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote and Cinephilia Chris Broodryk 2.Ideology Through the Looking Glass: Terry Gilliam's Lewis Carroll and the Politics of Comedy in Jabberwocky and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Garreth O'Brien 3.Carnival and the Imaging of Language in Terry Gilliam's Jabberwocky (1977) and Monty Python and The Holy Grail (1975) Ian Bekker 4.Subversion of the Cosmos in Time Bandits David Robinson 5."'I Think It Has Something to Do with Free Will': Time Bandits as Gilliam's Theodicy" Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. 6."Meet to Eat. The Restaurant as Narrative Setting in Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985) and The Fisher King (1991)" Sabine Planka 7."A Bittersweet Apocalypse: Averted Endings and Suspended Hope in 12 Monkeys" Andrew Grossman 8."The Art of Deserts in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" Philip van der Merwe 9."Between the Forest and Civilization: Liminal Spaces in Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm (2005)" Sabine Planka and Philip van der Merwe 10."Tideland and the Ossification of the Imaginary Faculties" Jonathan Fruoco 11."Wonderland and the Wasteland: The Colorfully Dirty Mise en Scene of The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (2009)" Ivy Roberts
• 12. "Black Hole: The Zero Theorem and the Pointless Quest, " Michael Charlton 13."The Zero and One Theorem: A Meta/Physics of the Digital, " Ulrich Meurer Afterword: Gilliam's Legacy Karen Randell.
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A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam provides a fresh, up-to-date exploration of the director's films and artistic practices, ranging from his first film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) up until his recently released and latest film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018). This volume presents Gilliam as a director whose films weave an avant-garde cinematic style, imaginative exaggeration, and social critique together. Consequently, while his films can seem artistically chaotic and can, thus, have the effect of frustrating and upsetting the viewer, the essays in this volume show that this is part of a very disciplined creative plan to achieve the defamiliarization of various accepted notions of human and social life.
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• Introduction Jane Potter
• Part I. Literary Contexts
• 1. The Poetic Marketplace Vincent Trott
• 2. Poetic Tradition and Innovation: Georgians and Others Alisa Miller
• 3. Poetic Avant-Garde: Modernism and Little Magazines Alex Goody
• 4. Poetic Cultural Exchange: Continental European Literary Scene Ann-Marie Einhaus
• 5. Poetic Form and Language Sandie Byrne
• Part II. Nations and Voices
• 6. Germany and Austria-Hungary Karen Leeder
• 7. Czech War Poetry Zuzana Rihova
• 8. France Nicolas Beaupre
• 9. Belgium Geert Buelens
• 10. Great Britain Stuart D Lee
• 11. Ireland Gerald Dawe
• 12. Russia Katharine Hodgson
• 13. Serbia Dunja Dusanic
• 14. USA Hazel Hutchison
• 15. Italy Amy Boylan
• 16. South Africa Gerhard Genis
• 17. Australia and New Zealand Harry Ricketts
• 18. Canada Joel Baetz
• 19. South Asian Poetry Santanu Das
• Part III. Poets
• 20. Non-combatant and Others Carol Acton
• 21. Edward Thomas (1878-1917) Guy Cuthbertson
• 22. Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) Laurence Campa
• 23. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) and Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) John Greening
• 24. Anna Akhmatova (1886-1966) Alexandra Harrington
• 25. Mary Borden (1886-1968) Angela K. Smith
• 26. Georg Trakl (1887-1914) Rudiger Groener
• 27. Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) Jean Liddiard
• 28. Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) Philip Lancaster
• 29. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) Jane Potter
• 30. David Jones (1895-1974) Thomas Dilworth
• Part IV. Coda: Legacies of World War One Poetry Jane Potter.
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Situating First World War poetry in a truly global context, this book reaches beyond the British soldier-poet canon. A History of World War One Poetry examines popular and literary, ephemeral and enduring poems that the cataclysm of 1914-1918 inspired. Across Europe, poets wrestled with the same problem: how to represent a global conflict, dominated by modern technology, involving millions of combatants and countless civilians. For literary scholars this has meant discovering and engaging with the work of men and women writing in other languages, on other fronts, and from different national perspectives. Poems are presented in their original languages and in English translations, some for the very first time, while a Coda reflects on the study and significance of First World War poetry in the wake of the Centenary. A History of World War One Poetry offers a new perspective on the literary and human experience of 1914-1918.
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• Proem: 'Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act, 2013' Julie MorrissyIntroduction: Law and Literature / The Irish Case Adam Hanna and Eugene McNultyOpening Argument: Interpretation in Law and Literature Tom Hickey and David Kenny Part I: Alternative Jurisdictions
• 1. Saying Unsaid: Law Transformed in Annemarie Ni Churreain's Bloodroot (2017)Adam Geare
• y2. Laughter Before the Law: Censorship, Caricature and Hunger Strike in Modern Irish Literature and Art Barry Sheil
• s3. Citizenship and Connection in Doireann Ni Ghriofa's Clasp (2015) Adam Hanna
• 4. Writing Law(lessness): Legal Pluralism and Narrative Structure in Emily Lawless's Hurrish (1886). Heather Laird Part II: The Writer in Court
• 5. Imagination versus the Law: Oscar Wilde Noreen Dood
• y6. Fiat Justitia Ruat Caelum - Revisiting the Wildes on Trial Gearoid O'Flaherty
• 7. World War II Treason Trials and the Legacy of Irish Rebellion in Rebecca West's The Meaning of Treason (1948) Katherine Ebur
• y8. Legible Letters: The Cases of Patrick Pearse and the 'English' Alphabet Colum Kenny Part III: The Court in Writing
• 9. Through a Legal Looking-Glass: Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent (1800) and the LawMax Barret
• t10. Rape Narratives, Women's Testimony, and Irish Law in Asking for It and Dark Chapter Rebecca Anne Barr
• 11. 'Pleading My Cause': Literature and the Law in Irish Romanticism James Kell
• y12. The Judge and The Human Hansard in Brian Friel's Theatre Virginie Roche-Tieng
• o13. Moral Legibility: Dion Boucicault and the Melodramatic Legal Scene Eugene Mc Nulty .
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Law and Literature: The Irish Case is a collection of fascinating essays by literary and legal scholars which explore the intersections between law and literature in Ireland from the eighteenth century to the present day. Sharing a concern for the cultural life of law and the legal life of culture, the contributors shine a light on the ways in which the legal and the literary have spoken to each other, of each other, and, at times, for each other, on the island of Ireland in the last three centuries. Several of the chapters discuss how texts and writers have found their ways into the law's chambers and contributed to the development of jurisprudence. The essays in the collection also reveal the juridical and jurisprudential forces that have shaped the production and reception of Irish literary culture, revealing the law's popular reception and its extra-legal afterlives. List of contributors: Rebecca Anne Barr, Max Barrett, Noreen Doody, Katherine Ebury, Adam Gearey, Tom Hickey, James Kelly, Colum Kenny, David Kenny, Heather Laird, Julie Morrissy, Gearoid O'Flaherty, Virginie Roche-Tiengo, Barry Sheils.
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The volume asks how the literatures of the Americas and the Caribbean present multiple or internally differentiated spaces and how these are distinguished or traversed by different temporalities. The historical and (post)colonial experiences of these areas turns them into especially fertile ground for the exploration of the connections between landscape/geography and historical/temporal palimpsests as well as the specificities of literary form. The contributions are dedicated to individual, yet conceptually interconnected studies of staggered, multiple, non-simultaneous temporalities in modern and contemporary literature. The volume adopts a comparative perspective throughout and intends to foster the dialogue between the study of Latin/American and Caribbean literatures-in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English. Therefore, the individual essays are not grouped according to geographical or linguistic areas, but follow a trajectory from spatiotemporal constellations of the 19th century to ruined/catastrophic landscapes and the geopoetic inscriptions of time in regions. The essays should appeal to all readers interested in World Literature, Hemispheric Studies as well as temporal approaches to space and geography.
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• 1. The domestic near future 1: renewing time
• 2. The domestic near future 2: bodies
• 3. The state of art: creativity and scale
• 4. Diagnostic dead-ends: seeking the emergent form
• 5. The art of history: Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Moon
• 6. Identity and power: historical returns and breaks
• 7. In search of revolution: territory and history
• 8. The genre of revolution: Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140.
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A growing awareness of climate change and looming planetary crisis has put unprecedented pressure on the near future, leading to an increasing amount of fiction being set there. But what do these disparate works have in common, other than their temporal setting? And what can the imagination of the near future tell us about where we live now? The Near Future in 21st Century Fiction ranges across novels and films to reveal how our contemporary near future splits between two divergent paths. One seeks to retreat from climate change and the disruption it threatens to affluent lifestyles; the other tries to imagine new forms of community, and radical change, but struggles to locate a genre adequate to the task. It in this struggle, however, that we begin to glimpse the outlines of an emergent near future form: a revolution fit for the Anthropocene.
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• Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction A. Keith Kelly List of Seasons and Episodes: HBO's Game of Thrones Breaking the Wheel: Game of Thrones and the American Zeitgeist Daniel Vollaro Dangerous Nostalgia: Fantasies of Medievalism, Race, and Identity Robert Allen Rouse Game of Victims and Monsters: Representation of Sexual and Female Violence Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun Subversion or Reinforcement? Patriarchy and Masculinity Andrew Howe "I'll go with anger": Female Rage in and at Game of Thrones Lindsey Mantoan The Developing Verbal Power of Daenerys: A Pragmatics Analysis Graham P. Johnson "Who has a better story than Bran the Broken?": The Power of Disability Narratives Jan Doolittle Wilson Magic's Failure to Reanimate Fantasy Jason M. Embry A Brief Conclusion on the Conclusion A. Keith Kelly About the Contributors Index.
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This collection of essays examines the structures of power and the ways in which power is exercised and felt in the fantasy world of Game of Thrones. It considers how the expectations of viewers, particularly within the genre of epic fantasy, are subverted across the full 8 seasons of the series. The assembled team of international scholars, representing a variety of disciplines, addresses such topics as the power of speech and magic; the role of nationality and politics; disability, race and gender; and the ways in which each reinforces or subverts power in Westeros and Essos.
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• Foreword / by Joseph Papp
• Producers
• Playwrights
• Directors And Choreographers
• Actors
• Designers
• Scenery
• Costumes
• Lighting
• Architects
• Beyond Broadway
• Chronology

A comprehensive study recreates the history of the American stage, includes a review of trends and fashions, and shows a complete production schedule, from playwright to casting call.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Bodies
• 3. Contagion
• 4. Practitioners and Patients
• 5. Institutions
• 6. Further reading Index.
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Theatre and Medicine offers a tour of this interdisciplinary terrain. Organized into four distinct topics, each represents crucial ways of understanding the theatre-medicine relationship. From discussions on the somatic underpinnings of the body that medicine and theatre take as their subject through to the historical association of theatre and contagion, and the pervasive role of doctors and the practitioners of alternative medicine in Western theatre and role of patients on and off stage. Together, this brief study considers the institutional contexts of theatre's medical performances in the early twenty-first century.
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• Acknowledgements Preface Ang Lee (Filmmaker) Introduction Maaret Koskinen (Stockholm University, Sweden) and Louise Wallenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden)
• 1. Hour of the Wolf: Nightmares and Creativity Margarethe von Trotta (Film Director, Germany)
• 2. Working with Bergman: Interview with Film and Television Producers Katinka Farago and Mans Reutersward Maaret Koskinen (Stockholm University, Sweden)and Louise Wallenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden)
• 3. Ambiguity and the Making of Nattvardsgasterna/Winter Light Paisley Livingston (Lingnan University, Hong Kong and Uppsala University, Sweden)
• 4. The Passion of Anna: The Wondrous Alchemy Between Actors and Landscape, Interview with Atom Egoyan Maaret Koskinen (Stockholm University, Sweden) and Louise Wallenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden)
• 5. Scenes from On and Off the Set: Ingmar Bergman, Power and Metoo Maaret Koskinen (Stockholm University, Sweden)
• 6. For Good or For Bad? Bergman's Ambivalent Influence - Some Observations Linus Tunstroem (Independent Scholar, Sweden)
• 7. Jacobi's Burden: "Jewish" Figurations in Fanny och Alexander Jonathan Rozenkrantz (Lund University, Sweden)
• 8. Producing The Magic Flute (1975): Conversation with Mans Reutersward and Katinka Farago Maaret Koskinen (Stockholm University, Sweden) and Louise Wallenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden)
• 9. Metareference, Metalepsis, and Music in Liv Ullmann's and Ingmar Bergman's Faithless Alexis Luko (Carleton University, Canada)
• 10. Bergman's The Magician: The Art of Creating Illusions Allan Havis (University of California, San Diego, USA)
• 11. Author, Auteur, Actor: 21 Fragments on Bergman, Ullmann, and Persona James Schamus (Columbia University, USA)
• 12. Dear Director: Adapting Bergman's Failures and Leftovers Into a Play, and a Fan-letter Into a Film Marcus Lindeen (Writer/ Director, Sweden)
• 13. Making (the) Silence Speak: Remake, Retake, Rectify Louise Wallenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden) Conclusion Maaret Koskinen (Stockholm University, Sweden)and Louise Wallenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden) Bibliography Filmography Contributor bios Index.
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Ingmar Bergman's rich legacy as film director and writer of classics such as The Seventh Seal, Scenes From a Marriage, and Fanny and Alexander has attracted scholars not only in film studies but also of literature, theater, gender, philosophy, religion, sociology, musicology, and more. Less known, however, is Bergman from the perspective of production studies, including all the choices, practices, and routines involved in what goes on behind the scenes. For instance, what about Bergman's collaborations and conflicts with film producers? What about his work with musicians at the opera, technicians in the television studio, and actors on the film set. What about Bergman and MeToo? In order to throw light on these issues, art practitioners such as film directors Ang Lee and Margarethe von Trotta, film and opera director Atom Egoyan, and film producer and screenwriter James Schamus are brought together with academics such as philosopher and film scholar Paisley Livingston, musicologist Alexis Luko, and playwright and performance studies scholar Allan Havis to discuss Bergman's work from their unique perspectives. In addition, Ingmar Bergman at the Crossroads provides, for the first time, in-depth interviews with Bergman's longtime collaborators Katinka Farago and Mans Reutersward, who both have first-hand experience of working intimately as producers in film and television with Bergman, covering more than 5 decades. In an open exchange between individual and institutional perspectives, this book bridges the often-rigid boundaries between theoreticians and practitioners, in turn pointing Bergman studies in new directions.
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• book 1. Music
• book 2. Dramatics

• Puppeteer's handbook (page 1 to 28)
• Theatre handbook (page 1 to 23)
• Puppet's booth (page 1 to 10)
• How to make marionettes (page 1 to 29)

Information on how to build a marionette theater. Includes details of lighting, properties and methods of puppet manipulation
Museum Extension Project produced approx. one million items primarily designed for visual education purposes in Pennsylvania's tax-supported public schools, colleges and libraries

• Introduction
• 1. Status
• 2. Refutation
• 3. Similitude
• 4. Style Acknowledgments Bibliography of Secondary Sources Index.
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Kathy Eden reveals the unexplored classical rhetorical theory at the heart of iconic Renaissance literary works. Kathy Eden explores the intersection of early modern literary theory and practice. She considers the rebirth of the rhetorical art-resulting from the rediscovery of complete manuscripts of high-profile ancient texts about rhetoric by Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, and Tacitus, all unavailable before the early fifteenth century-and the impact of this art on early modern European literary production. This profound influence of key principles and practices on the most widely taught early modern literary texts remains largely and surprisingly unexplored. Devoting four chapters to these practices-on status, refutation, similitude, and style-Eden connects the architecture of the most widely read classical rhetorical manuals to the structures of such major Renaissance works as Petrarch's Secret, Castiglione's Book of the Courtier, Erasmus's Antibarbarians and Ciceronianus, and Montaigne's Essays. Eden concludes by showing how these rhetorical practices were understood to work together to form a literary masterwork, with important implications for how we read these texts today. .
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"A young woman becomes pregnant after having a sexual relationship with a married man and chooses to aborts the pregnancy. Three years later, now happily married, she is haunted by the ghost of her unborn child who apparently seeks the love and affection that she was denied. This is no sentimental love story, it is a gothic horror story, very much so. The theme of sin and temporal punishment involving a controversial legal and moral issue make it intellectually interesting as well as very frightening."--Internet Movie Database

From myth to Musk, astrology to astronomy, Dr Stuark Clark selects the very best writing about the Red Planet. From its very first sighting, Mars has been a source of fascination for humanity. Named for the Roman god of war, this red planet has been explored more than any other beyond Earth and continues to occupy a distinctive place in our imagination. It's an environment that may even foster life. In The Book of Mars, Dr Stuart Clark selects one hundred pieces of writing about the planet. It is a collection that brings together fact and fiction, dreams and fears, centuries of observation and more recent feats of interstellar exploration. From classic writers of science fiction - Stanley G. Weinbaum, Arthur C. Clarke, H.G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, Pamela Sargent, Roger Zelazny - to distinguished experts in astronomy, astrobiology and aerospace engineering; from Hugo and Nebula Award-winning authors - Kim Stanley Robinson, Mary Robinette Kowal - to trail-blazing journalists and science communicators; from Andy Weir's The Martian to Elon Musk's SpaceX programme, The Book of Mars is an extraordinary overview both of the Red Planet and of the way scientific investigation diffuses into culture.
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In the hothouse environment of the 1963 Turkish/Greek conflict in Cyprus, a young Turkish girl gets separated from her father, a Karagöz shadow play master

• Chapter 1 Learning to Spin the Hero Web: Adult Mentorship That Inspires and Empowers in Spider-Man Stories Mary T. Christel
• Chapter 2 Foggy Nelson: A Journey from Best Friend to Hero in Daredevil Gian S. Pagnucci
• Chapter 3 From Typical Teen to Sidekick: The Transformation of Xander in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Jennifer Marmo
• Chapter 4 The Wakanda Design Group Walter D. Greason
• Chapter 5 Overcoming Great Fear: Jessica Cruz, Mental Illness, and the Green Lantern Corps Eric Hasty
• Chapter 6 What it Means to be Noble: An Examination of Donna Noble's Importance within the Doctor Who Universe Ariel Mickey
• Chapter 7 Mission Control: Barbara Gordon's Oracle Breaks the Mold Stephen M. Zimmerly
• Chapter 8 Iris's Impact and Inspiration: The Importance of Iris West in The Flash Jennifer L. Toney
• Chapter 9 Hermione as the Hero: Using Empathy and Connection to Save the Wizarding Community and Educate the Wizard's Ego Melissa Caliendo & Kerry Carley Rizzuto
• Chapter 10 What I Need Is You: The Partnership of Bruno Carrelli and Kamala Khan in the Ms. Marvel Comics Margaret A. Robbins
• Chapter 11 You Be the Hero, I Remain the Sidekick?: Rick Jones' Quest to Save Humanity Anke Marie Bock
• Chapter 12 Agent Margaret 'Peggy' Carter: Captain America's Moral Compass Christopher Jeansonne
• Chapter 13 Alfred Pennyworth, a Superhero's Mentor: Understanding Effective Mentorship Through Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy William O. George III, Wendy Gray Morales, & Jacob George
• Chapter 14 Humans and Gods: Steve Trevor and Etta Candy Navigating Wonder Woman's Universe Maryanne A. Rhett.
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The Human in Superhuman: The Power of the Sidekick in Popular Culture spotlights the often overlooked but very crucial sidekick in superhero narratives. From the classic companion Alfred Pennyworth to the supportive best friend Foggy Nelson, this collection examines a variety of sidekick characters and their importance to the hero's journey in '''in each story. Ultimately, rather than viewing the lack of superpowers as a flaw, the essays show that it is precisely human qualities like compassion, empathy, and encourage that enable the sidekicks to help their heroes grow. Chapters include discussions of Spider-Man, Daredevil, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Doctor Who, and more.
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• 1. Introduction.- Part I: The Son Who Stutters.-
• 2. Stuttering Orators and Their Counterparts.-
• 3. Five Victorian Sons.-
• 4. Four Modern Sons.- Part II: The Son with Other Challenges.-
• 5. The Guilty Son.-
• 6. The Anorexic Son.-
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• 7. The Patricidal Son.-
• 8. Afterword.
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The Stuttering Son: A Literary Study of Boys and Their Fathers examines stuttering, a condition which overwhelmingly affects boys, in terms of the complex relationships a number of male authors have had with their fathers. Most of these writers, from Cotton Mather to John Updike, were themselves stutterers; for two others, Melville and Kafka, the focus shifts to how similar family tensions contributed to their interest in the related condition of anorexia. A final section looks at the patricidal impulse lurking behind much of this analysis, as evident in Dostoyevsky, Shakespeare's Hamlet, and Nietzsche. By focusing on the issue of a boy's emotional development, this book attempts to re-establish the value of a broadly psychological approach to understanding stuttering.
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Donald Duck gets sent to traffic school. Bolivar the St. Bernard shows Donald that he can go where he wants and when he wants. Donald's hot water heater springs a leak

Mickey is listening to music on his all-wave radio one evening when a message breaks through. "Dot-dot-dot, dash-dash-dash, dot-dot-dot" -- that's Morse code for S-O-S! The next part of the message said "attacked by s---" and the message ended. Mickey rushed to Captain Doberman. The Captain reported this was the fourth S-O-S that had been reported this month! Worse, a ship was found going full speed ahead with not one single person on it. The Captain needs someone to look into it and find whatever is stopping the messages and kidnapping the people on the ships. Would Mickey be interested in rejoining the Air Force and looking into it? He sure was! Mickey ran into his old friend, the mechanic Gloomy. He and Captain Doberman have just the invention Mickey will need for this job: The Submarplane! With the turn of a switch, the speedy plane can fold up its wings and dive deep into the sea. They will send a decoy out in the area and wait for an attack, but this decoy will have Mickey and the Submarplane on board

Minnie has been acting strange lately, but insists there's nothing wrong. She has been getting ready for a visit from her Uncle Dudley Mousegomery and his wife, Aunt Martha Mousegomery. They are very, very rich and Aunt Martha has a suitcase of beautiful jewels. Goofy has planned a "Come as you were when you received this invitation" Party, and before she opens it, Aunt Martha opens her suitcase and puts on some of her jewelry. The party is a great success, but at the height of it, all the lights go out. When Mickey the lights are back on, Aunt Martha lets out a scream. Her pearls and tiara are gone!

• Reading Infrastructure / Kelly Mee Rich, Nicole M. Rizzuto, and Susan Zieger
• Spatial Histories of Racial Capitalism
• Roads, Bridges, and Ports: Infrastructures of Plantation Agriculture in the British Caribbean, 1627-1840 / Ramesh Mallipeddi
• Internal Empire: The Neoclassical Architecture of Racial Capitalism / Louis Moreno
• Infrastructure and Intimacies: Early Black Women's Writing and the Care Work of Colonialism / Samantha Pinto
• Affect and Technologies
• Fine-Tuning Frantz Fanon's Infrastructural Affects / Yanie Fecu
• Embodied Subjects and Infrastructural Failure in Chris Abani's GraceLand / Janice Ho
• Border Zones: Infrastructure and Human Migration in Exit West and EXIT /
• Sangina Patnaik
• An "Elastic Severalty": Distributive Infrastructuralism in Namwali Serpell's The Old Drift / Jeannie Im
• Energy, Environment, Extraction
• Poetic Ultrasound: Atmosphere, Photography, and the Natural Aesthetics of Wind Power / Georgiana Banita
• To Be Addressed by Nuclear Reactors: Radiation Exposure and the Aesthetics of Life Itself / Rahul Mukherjee
• Cocaine Logistics and the Neoliberal Art of Credibility / Susan Zieger
• Afterword. Rediscoveries of the Ordinary; or, All That Is Solid . . . / Jennifer Wenzel

A critical reading of the unstable structures that organize biological and social life This timely and radically interdisciplinary volume uncovers the aesthetics and politics of infrastructure. From roads and bridges to harbors and canals, infrastructure is conventionally understood as the public works that allow for the circulation of capital. Yet this naturalized concept of infrastructure, driven by capital's restless expansion, is haunted by imperial tendencies to occupy territory, extract resources, and organize life. Infrastructure thus undergirds the living nexus of modernity in an ongoing project of racialization, affective embodiment, and environmental praxis. Rather than merely making visible infrastructure's modes of power, however, The Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure brings literary methods to bear on the interpretive terrain, reading infrastructural space and temporalities to show that their aesthetic and sensorial experience cannot be understood apart from histories of production and political economies. Building on critical infrastructure studies in anthropology, geography, and media studies, this collection demonstrates the field's vitality to scholars working across the humanities, including in literary, visual, and cultural studies. By querying the presumed invisibility of infrastructure's hidden life, the volume's contributors revitalize ongoing literary debates about reading surface and depth. How, they ask, might infrastructure and aesthetics then function as epistemic tools for rethinking each other? And what urgency do they acquire in light of current crises that bear on death, whether biological, social, or planetary?
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• Introduction
• Chronology
• Filmography
• A reaction to current conditoins / Film Monthly
• City of no angels / Alireza Motamedi
• A discussion with Asghar Farhadi, Director of "Dancing in the dust": Snakes on a plain! / Omid Najvan
• Whiich part of the city is beuatiful? / Shadmehr Rastin
• An interview with Asghar Farhadi and Mani Haghighi: A special day / Houshang Golmakani and Abbas Yari
• The autopsy of Elly / Saeed Ghotbizadeh
• Bitter truth, Sweet expediency, and denied redemption / Massoud Mehrabi
• The butterfly effect: Asghar Farhadi and Ali Mosaffa in conversation about "The Past" / Hossein Moazezinia
• An Interview with Asghar Farhadi about "The Salesman": This hdden hell / Massoud Mehrabi
• No one knows what the past holds / Amir Pouria
• A country without heroes / Ehsan Khoshbakht -- Index

The winner of two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film in only five years, Asghar Farhadi (b. 1972) has become Iran's most prominent director since the late Abbas Kiarostami. Around the world, especially in the international festival circuit, Farhadi is considered one of the great dramatist filmmakers of his generation. His reputation and influence in his home country is even greater, though also prone to misunderstandings, controversies, and divided critical reception. This volume offers a unique perspective into Farhadi's career in several key respects. Beginning with his work in television, the interviews collected here chart his rise from theater student to Iranian dramatist to celebrated international filmmaker. The majority of the interviews were conducted in Persian and have been translated into English for the first time. In the course of his career, Farhadi has become the new hope for Iran. On both nights of his Oscar wins, Iranians flooded the streets with joy in a rare (and illegal) celebration. Yet, like other contemporary Iranian filmmakers who have struggled to reconcile their national identity with their global repute as international filmmakers, Farhadi is at once feted and under fire by his own government. In addition to making recent films outside Iran, he has taken advantage of his celebrity status to make controversial statements on topics ranging from Donald Trump to poverty and capital punishment in Iran. He even asked Iran's Judiciary to pardon Jafar Panahi, prompting the government to temporarily withdraw permission to shoot his renowned 2011 film A Separation. Asghar Farhadi: Interviews addresses the important dimensions that characterize contemporary Iranian filmmaking and shed light on what Farhadi sees as his role and responsibilities as an Iranian filmmaker in a global age.
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Literary theory flourished in Central and Eastern Europe throughout the twentieth century, but its relation to Western literary scholarship is complex. This book sheds light on the entangled histories of exchange and influence both within the region known as Central and Eastern Europe, and between the region and the West. The exchange of ideas between scholars in the East and West was facilitated by both personal and institutional relations, both official and informal encounters. For the longest time, however, intellectual exchange was thwarted by political tensions that led to large parts of Central and Eastern Europe being isolated from the West. A few literary theories nevertheless made it into Western scholarly discourses via exiled scholars. Some of these scholars, such as Mikhail Bakhtin, become widely known in the West and their thought was transposed onto new, Western cultural contexts; others, such as Ol'ga Freidenberg, were barely noticed outside of Russian and Poland. This volume draws attention to the schools, circles, and concepts that shaped the development of theory in Central and Eastern Europe as well as the histoire croisee - the history of translations, transformations, and migrations - that conditioned its relationship with the West.
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• Introduction 1.What is Modernism? What is Cinema? 2.Cinema and the Modernist Arts: The Cult of the Image 3.Cinematic Modernism in the Silent Film Era 4.Postwar Cinematic Modernism: From Neorealism to the New Wave 5.Postwar Cinematic Modernism: Critical Perspectives 6.The Return of Cinematic Modernism 7.Contemporary Cinematic Modernism: Currents and Controversies 8.Contemporary Cinematic Modernism: An International Style - Commentaries on Ten Contemporary Films Appendix Notes Bibliography Index.
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Cinema was the most important new artistic medium of the twentieth century and modernism was the most important new aesthetic movement across the arts in the twentieth century. However, what exactly is the relationship between cinema and modernism? Cinematic Modernism and Contemporary Film explores how in the early twentieth century cinema came to be seen as one of the new technologies which epitomised modernity and how cinema itself reflected ideas, hopes and fears concerning modern life. Howard Finn examines the emergence of a new 'international style' of cinema, combining a poetic aesthetic of the image with genre-based fictional narrative and documentary realism. He provides concise accounts of how theorists such as Andre Bazin, Siegfried Kracauer, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Ranciere have discussed this cinematic aesthetic, clarifying debates over terms such as 'realism', 'classical' and 'avant-garde' as well as recent controversies over terms such as 'slow cinema' and 'vernacular modernism'. He further argues the influence of modernism through close readings of many contemporary films, including films by Abbas Kiarostami, Bela Tarr, Jia Zhangke, and Angela Schanelec. Drawing on a broad range of examples, including Soviet montage, Italian neorealism, postwar new waves and the 'new cinema' of Taiwan and Iran, this book explores the cultural significance of modernism and its lasting influence over cinema.
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Uncovers the impact of architectural practices and discourses on the sexual imagination. This book sheds light on the contributions of architecture and its literary representations to a series of changes taking place in sexual culture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in France, England, Germany and Austria. By analysing an important set of architectural discourses and literary representations of domestic architecture, the book illustrates the constant tension between an increasing sexual permissiveness and more conservative approaches to domesticity and sexuality. It shows the ways in which literature imagined the impact of new architectural designs on sexual culture that suggested the creation of more fluid forms of organisation of space and sexual mores.
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Embodying Pasolini documents the extraordinary performance curated by Olivier Saillard and poetically brought to life by Tilda Swinton. Serving as part fashion object and part catalogue, this publication is the sole record of Swinton's critically acclaimed sold-out performance-that was by its very nature an ephemeral artwork-but also serves as a survey of the impressive costumes designed by Danilo Donati for Pier Paolo Pasolini's films. From movies including The Gospel According to Matthew, The Hawks and the Sparrows, Oedipus Rex, Porcile, The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales, and Arabian Nights to Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom, their costumes-garments, coats, and hats-retrace Pasolini's entire cinematography, which continues to fascinate audiences almost half a century after the director's passing. The camera of German photographer Ruediger Glatz takes readers both on stage and behind the scenes of the performance, and directs their gaze to details and close-ups, intensifying the beauty and mystery of the moment. Written by Swinton and Saillard, the texts offer an exclusive perspective into the creation and realization of the performance. A passionate ode to cinematic costume design and fashion, Embodying Pasolini elevates couture to a veritable art form.
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• Running
• My world
• Central Falls
• 128
• Minefield
• My calling-- The sisterhood
• Secret, silent, shame
• The muse
• The starting block
• Being seen
• Taking flight
• The blooming
• Coming into me
• The wake-up
• Harnessing bliss
• There she is

This is Viola Davis' story, in her own words, and spans her incredible, inspiring life, from her coming-of-age in Rhode Island to her present day. Hers is a story of overcoming, a true hero's journey
"In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose and my strength, but also to finding my voice in a world that didn't always see me. As I wrote Finding Me, my eyes were open to the truth of how our stories are often not given close examination. They are bogarted, reinvented to fit into a crazy, competitive, judgmental world. So I wrote this for anyone who is searching for a way to understand and overcome a complicated past, let go of shame, and find acceptance. For anyone who needs reminding that a life worth living can only be born from radical honesty and the courage to shed facades and be...you. Finding Me is a deep reflection on my past and a promise for my future. My hope is that my story will inspire you to light up your own life with creative expression and rediscover who you were before the world put a label on you"-- Front flap

• List of illustrations
• Acknowledgements Series Editors' Foreword Introduction Part I: Women speaking from the margins Interview with Vivienne Dick 1. Lizzie Borden and Vivienne Dick: Fighting for Female Filmmaking - Celine Murillo 2. Daughters behind the camera - Nicole Cloarec 3. Molly Haskell's take on feminist film theory: the place of feminist film criticism outside academia -Anne Hurault-Paupe Part II: Women in semi-independent cinema 4. Racial bodies in Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days (1995) - Helene Charlery 5. 'She's a Whole Lotta Woman': Pam Grier's Star Image in Jackie Brown (1997) - David Roche 6. Women on the Border: A Cosmopolitan Approach to the Representation of Contemporary Femininity in It's a Free World... (2007) - Celestino Deleyto 7. Marie Antoinette (2006), Fashion Queens and Hollywood Stars - Sara Pesce Part III: Women protagonists in mainstream television and blockbusters 8. Voice-overs: renewing gender representations in American TV series - Anais Le Fevre-Berthelot 9. Moving into the Mainstream: Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Female TV Action Heroes - Anne Sweet 10. In the Mouth of Fearfulness: Women, Power and the Vagina Dentata in Contemporary American Cinema - Charles-Antoine Courcoux 11. Can Women be Superheroes? Reflections on American Cinema and Beyond - Yvonne Tasker (University of Leeds, UK) List of References Index.
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This book explores the various issues raised by women's fraught integration into the mainstream in film and television, whether it be off screen as filmmakers and film critics or on screen in film and TV series. Marianne Kac-Vergne and Julie Assouly consider the varied representations of women in films such as Jackie Brown (1997), Marie Antoinette (2006), It's a Free World... (2007) and Wonder Woman (2017). They particularly look into the overlooked gendered aspects of voice-overs and the adverse tropes used to represent maternity in television series as well as the complex motif of the vagina dentata in contemporary film and television. The chapters analyze independent, art-house, Hollywood and TV productions often in transnational contexts, shedding light on how definitions of femininity are culturally specific yet cross national, class and racial lines. The contributors include renowned scholars such as Yvonne Tasker, Celestino Deleyto, David Roche and Nicole Cloarec, as well as emerging yet well-published film scholars.
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Popular natural history periodicals in the nineteenth century had an incredible democratizing power. By welcoming contributions from correspondents regardless of their background, they posed a significant threat to those who considered themselves to be gatekeepers of elite science, and who in turn used their own periodicals to shape more exclusive communities. Making Entomologists reassesses the landscape of science participation in the nineteenth century, offering a more nuanced analysis of the supposed amateur-professional divide that resonates with the rise of citizen science today. Matthew Wale reveals how an increase in popular natural history periodicals during the nineteenth century was instrumental in shaping not only the life sciences and the field of entomology but also scientific communities that otherwise could not have existed. These publications enabled many actors - from wealthy gentlemen of science to working-class naturalists - to participate more fully within an extended network of fellow practitioners and, crucially, imagine themselves as part of a wider community. Women were also active participants in these groups, although in far smaller numbers than men. Although periodicals of the nineteenth century have received considerable scholarly attention, this study focuses specifically on the journals and magazines devoted to natural history. face=Calibri>.
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In academic and public discourse, 'mapping' has become a ubiquitous term for epistemic practices ranging from surveys of scholarly fields to processes of data collection, ordering and visualization. Mapping captures patterns of distribution, segregation and hierarchy across socio-cultural spaces and geographical territories. Often lost in such accounts, however, is the experiential dimension of mapping as an aesthetic practice with determinate social, cultural and political effects. This volume draws on approaches from film philosophy, media archaeology, decolonial scholarship and independent film practice to explore mapping as a mediated experience in which film becomes entangled in larger processes of historical subject-formation, as well as in dissident reconfigurations of cultural memory. Proposing an approach to mapping through decolonial aesthetics and poetic thinking, the three essays in this volume help define a film studies perspective on mapping as a practice that structures political and aesthetic regimes, organizes and communicates shared realities, but also enables dissenting reconfigurations of concretely experienced worlds.
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