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We could try writing letters, one of us said to the other after our cross-country trip was over and we weren't done talking. Talking about hurricanes, fires, floods, droughts, freezes. About shootings, bombings, border crises, #MeToo. Jewishness, whiteness, feminism. Fear, ambition, desire. Work, marriage, friendship. Grief, anger, illness, and suicide. At once anecdotal, philosophical, political, and deeply personal, the letters quickly come to sustain a different kind of present moment: a way of finding self through other, a portal into urgent and shared contemplation, a means of saying what otherwise feels unsayable. Propelled by events both public and private, these epistolary essays comprise a catalog of living with and thinking through the climatic disturbances that determine our lives. Finding kinship in other epistolary exchanges, from Paul Celan and Nelly Sachs to Etel Adnan's Of Cities and Women to Martin Land and Jonathan Boyarin's Time and Human Language Now, they inhabit the experiment of talking and listening in the unspooling, untenable now, while exploring what it means to be an "I" and a "you" in the alternate present letters invent.

Little Miss Muffet has been a student at the school for girls run by the Wallington sisters for as long as she can remember. Suddenly, the checks have stopped arriving. The stern older sister insists Miss Muffet must be sent to an institution. Little Millie Muffet hears this, packs her doll and runs away to the bus station. Then she's returned to Miss Wallington's school but runs away again. She and her doll are joined by a lost dog, so now there were three runaways, not two. Walking down the road, they retrieve a hat blown off a nice lady's head. She stops the car and offers to help them. Mrs. Grayson's lawyer quickly locates the offices of the former guardian and offers to solve the mystery, so all four of them get on the train to New York.

• Foibles of Insects and Men
• The Mother of Forensic Science
• Dilation and Contraction
• Suite for Toy Piano
• Gulliver Phantasies
• The Handwriting on the Wall
• Lead Paint and Other Poisons
• That Which Is More Proportionable to the Smallness of My Abilities.

"In The Miniaturists Barbara Browning explores her attraction to tininess and the stories of those who share it. Interweaving autobiography with research on unexpected topics and letting her voracious curiosity guide her, Browning offers a series of charming short essays that plumb what it means to ponder the minuscule. She is as entranced by early twentieth-century entomologist William Morton Wheeler, who imagined corresponding with termites, as she is by Frances Glessner Lee, the "mother of forensic science," who built intricate dollhouses to solve crimes. Whether examining Honey I Shrunk the Kids, the Schoenhut Toy Piano dynasty, portrait miniatures, diminutive handwriting, or Jonathan Swift's and Lewis Carroll's preoccupation with tiny people, Browning shows how a preoccupation with all things tiny can belie an attempt to grasp vast, and even cosmic, realities"-- Provided by publisher.

"Poets who value poetry as a vocation have traditionally looked to teaching, especially university creative writing programs for their incomes. With the proliferation of tens of thousands of MFA-trained poets looking for teaching jobs, it is vital that poets consider other avenues of employment. The award-winning poet, Sandy McIntosh, having lost an early teaching assignment, launched a life-long career in businesses that utilized his writing abilities. Instead of corrupting his poetry, he shows how working in different writing genres enhances creative work"-- Provided by publisher.

Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy visit Pandamonia, a small country where everyone welcomes them in the friendliest way. They are given free dinners and stay free in the inns and don't know why. All is revealed when they arrive at the capital city, where a citizen lets Tubbs know he looks exactly like Prince Willy Nilly, the Prince of Pandemonia. When the prince hears about Tubbs, he wants to meet his look-alike. After they get acquained, he proposes that they switch places. The prince envies Tubbs' adventures and wants to have some, too.

• 1. Alternative Comedy Now and Then: An Introduction
• 2. Alternative Comedy Timeline
• 3. The Meccano Club: The Business of Alternative Comedy
• 4. A Local Show for Local People: Alternative Cabaret at the Tower Art Centre, Winchester, UK, 1981-1984
• 5. The Story of Cabaret A Go Go
• 6. Trends with Benefits
• 7. Alternative Cabaret in Conversation
• 8. Pressing for no change? Political Correctness, the defence of the mainstream and class in UK newspaper responses to the emergence of Alternative Comedy
• 9. The Dramatic Script of Alternative Comedy
• 10. Alternative Comedy in Finland: Juhani Nevalainen, Musician Not Comedian
• 11. "Less Dick Jokes" : Women-only comedy line-ups, audience expectations and negotiating stereotypes
• 12. New Alternative Comedy: Productive Crises c.2005-Present

Alternative Comedy Now and Then: Critical Perspectives is the first academic collection focusing on the history and legacy of the alternative comedy movement in Britain that began in 1979 and continues to influence contemporary stand-up comedy. The collection examines the contexts, performances and reception of alternative comedy in order to provide a holistic approach to examining the socio-political impact and significance of alternative comedy from its historical roots through to present day performances. As alternative comedy celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2019, critically reflecting on its impact and significance is a timely endeavour. The book adopts a distinctive interdisciplinary approach, synthesizing theory, concepts and methodologies from comedy studies, theatre and performance, communication and media studies, sociology, political sciences and anthropology. This approach is taken in order to fully understand and examine the dynamics and nuances of the alternative comedy movement which would not be possible with a single-discipline approach. Oliver Double is a Reader in Drama at the University of Kent, UK. Before becoming an academic he worked as a stand-up comedian on the national comedy circuit and set up Last Laugh, Sheffields longest running comedy club. He continues to perform occasionally in his one-man shows and as compere of the Funny Rabbit Comedy Club. Sharon Lockyer is a Reader in Sociology and Communications at Brunel University London, UK. She is the founding director of the Centre for Comedy Studies Research (CCSR) the first, and only, international research centre devoted to the academic study of comedy. Her research interests include critical comedy studies, identity politics and comic media representations and the sociology of popular culture

"Unreal City: Creative Writing and Depersonalization explores the common psychological symptom of depersonalization, its influence on literature and the insights it can provide into the writing process. Depersonalization is a distressing symptom in which sufferers feel detached from their own selves and the world. Often associated with psychological disorders, it can also affect healthy people at times of stress. Beginning with a first-hand account of the experience, the book goes on to argue that many well-known literary texts, including Camus's The Stranger and Sartre's Nausea, evoke a similar psychological state. It shows how a concept of depersonalized writing can be found in the work of literary theorists from widely different traditions, including T.S. Eliot, Roland Barthes and Viktor Shklovsky. Finally, it maintains that creative writers can make use of the lessons learned from a study of depersonalization to arrive at a deeper understanding of writing. Given this knowledge, the controversial writing teacher's maxim show, don't tell, so often misapplied or misunderstood, can be repurposed as a practical instruction for taking students' writing to a new level of sophistication and wisdom"-- Provided by publisher

Before he became the father of cinematic special effects, George M̌lïs (1861-1938) was a maker of deluxe French footwear, an illusionist, and a caricaturist. Proceeding from these beginnings, M̌lïs Boots traces how the full trajectory of Georges M̌lïs' career during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, along with the larger cultural and historical contexts in which M̌lïs operated, shaped his cinematic oeuvre. Solomon examines M̌lïs' unpublished drawings and published caricatures, the role of laughter in his magic theater productions, and the constituent elements of what M̌lïs called "the new profession of the ciňaste." The book also reveals M̌lïs' connections to the Incoȟrents, a group of ephemeral artists from the 1880s, demonstrating the group's relevance for M̌lïs, early cinema, and modernity. By positioning M̌lïs in relation to the material culture of his time, Solomon demonstrates that M̌lïs' work was expressive of a distinctly modern, and modernist, sensibility that appeared in France during the 1880s in the wake of the Second Industrial Revolution

Mickey is finally home after the capture of Peg-Leg Pete and Shyster. He and Minnie spend an evening going through fan mail that has arrived in his absence. But one letter isn't fan mail. It's an invitation to come of a shady part of town after dark. Then Horace Horsecollar arrives with news that Pete and Shyster had escaped jail. Perhaps they're here to get revenge! Mickey goes to Bowsprit Alley and knocks on the door. When it opens, it reveals Widow Churchmouse, who reveals she is in terrible danger. Her husband left her with two maps which he had inherited from an old sailor. She's sure they must be valuable because five attempts had been made to steal them in the last month. She offers him the use of her ship, the Pot Luck, to follow the maps. Mickey agrees. His first task to hire a crew, but no one will sign up. Everyone knows the Pot Luck is haunted. Minnie is convinced Mickey will be in danger, so she decides to hide before the ship leaves. They have hardly gotten on the sea when a scream rings out. It's Minnie and she thinks she's seen the ghost

• Neuro-narratology
• Spatial perception, negative emotions, and narratives
• Sense perceptions and representation of consciousness in Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a beheading and Poe's 'The pit and the pendulum'
• Storytelling with Tourette's Syndrome in Jonathan Kethem's Motherless Brooklyn
• Narrative space and motion(lessness) in 'The ivory acrobat'
• Narrative experience as kinetosis for the reader : spatial perception in The body artist
• Disorientation, dislocation, and disnarration in Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves.
• Representation of dissociation and negative emotions in Haruki Murakami's "Sleep"

"This book encourages cross-disciplinary dialogues toward introducing a new framework for neuro-narratology, expanding on established theory within cognitive narratology to more fully encompass the different faculties involved in the reading process. In order to investigate narrative cognition, the book traces the ways in which cognitive patterns of embodiment - and the neural connections that comprise them - in the reading process are translated into patterns in narrative fiction. Drawing theories of episodic memories and nonvisual perception of space, Farmasi draws on theories of episodic memories and nonvisual perception of space in analyzing a range of narratives from 20th century prose. The first set of analyses shines a light on perception and emotion in narrative discourses and the construction of storyworlds, while the second foregrounds the reader's experience. The volume makes the case for the fact that narratives need to be understood as dynamic elements of the interaction between mind, body, and environment, generating new insights and inspiring further research. This book will appeal to scholars interested in narrative theory, literary studies, cognitive science, neuroscience, and philosophy"-- Provided by publisher

"This volume explores comics as examples of moral outrage in the face of a reality in which precariousness has become an inherent part of young lives. Taking a thematic approach, the chapters devote attention to the expression and representation of precarious subjectivities, as well as to the economic and professional precarity that characterizes comics creation and production. An international team of authors, young and senior, systematically examine the representation of precarious youth in graphic fiction and autobiographic comics, superheroes and precarity, market issues and spaces of activism and vulnerability. With this structure, the book offers a global perspective and comprehensive coverage of different aspects of a complex and multifaceted field of knowledge, with a special attention to minorities and liminal subjects. The comics analyzed function as examples of "ethical solicitation" that bear witness of the precarious existence younger generations endure, while at the same time creating images that voice their outrage and might move readers to act. This timely and truly interdisciplinary volume will appeal to comics scholars and researchers in the areas of media and cultural studies, modern languages, education, art and design, communication studies, sociology, medical humanities and more"-- Provided by publisher

Two young women, Aveline and Violet, meet at the University of Ingolstadt and quickly bond over their interest in anatomy, the occult, and one another. But, before their love can fully bloom, Aveline dies. Violet resorts to dark sciences to keep the forbidden romance alive and resurrects Aveline... but all is not well. Aveline suspects something unnatural about her life as Violet struggles to keep the resurrection a secret. Will toying with the forces of nature doom their forbidden relationship?

Robert Freegard posed as an undercover MI5 agent, kidnapping countless victims and extorting them. He evaded capture for years amidst a high-stakes manhunt until a woman who fell for him brought him to justice

• Born in a Magician's Trunk
• A Lucky Break
• Becoming Lewis
• Shari Had a Little Lamb
• A Show of Her Own
• Rising Stars
• Home and Office
• On the Road
• Doody's Revenge
• Building a Business
• Video Days
• The Price of Fame
• Renaissance
• Pizza to Go
• The Silence of the Lamb
• Not Your Mother's Lamb Chop

"For almost half a century, celebrated ventriloquist and entertainer Shari Lewis delighted generations of children and adults with the help of her trusted sock puppet sidekick Lamb Chop. For decades, the beloved pair were synonymous with children's television, educating and entrancing their young audience with their symbiotic personalities and their proclivity for song, dance, and the joy of silliness. But as iconic as their television personas were, relatively little inside knowledge has been revealed about Lewis herself and the life-changing moments that led her to the entertainment industry and perhaps, most importantly, to Lamb Chop. Renowned for her skills as a performer, Lewis was an equally skilled businesswoman. Operating in an era when women were largely left out of the conversation, she was one of the few women to run her own television production company. Whether it was singing, dancing, conducting, writing, drawing, or ventriloquism-a skill in which she was virtually unmatched-Lewis spent the entirety of her 65 years in pursuit of performative perfection. Constantly innovating and adapting to the needs of her audience and the market, Lewis extended the longevity of her career decade after decade. Her contributions, and that of Lamb Chop, and the rest of her puppet pals forever changed the history of children's television. Now, two decades after Lewis and Lamb Chop last graced television with their presence, Lewis' daughter Mallory and author Nat Segaloff have set the record straight about the iconic pair in Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop: The Team that Changed Children's Television. In this seminal biography, the pair pull the veritable wool from the eyes of audiences who adored the legendary entertainer to examine the joys, sorrows, triumphs, and sheer hard work that gave Lewis and Lamb Chop their enduring star power"-- Provided by publisher

"Proverbs in Africa are capsules of the wisdom of the people. Luviri Press is happy to present another collection of such proverbs this time focussing on the Tumbuka people who live in Northern Malawi and Eastern Zambia. The people of Central Africa are a mixed people with mixed cultures due to a mixed history. Citumbuka, the language as it is known today, is a result of a complex process of interactions of the different languages of ethnic groups knitted together by historical events. A study of the Tumbuka proverbs and expressions reveal this cultural interaction."

• Till the first star shook in the air
• Life begins
• Teach me, and set my feet on the way
• The river of stars is rolling
• No one has ever known her alive
• Once in a lifetime
• At once they circled her round
• Reward unlimited
• Gold digging
• Seeds of freedom
• One way passage
• The world changes
• We fight it round by round
• Ah wilderness
• Set my feet on the way

"In 1934, Variety magazine published an article about the film industry's trend away from the helpless female characters of the silent era, saying, "That's what people like now-women who are down to earth-an Aline MacMahon, who knows what it's about." New Movie Magazine included MacMahon on its list of ten best new stars of 1933, alongside Katharine Hepburn, Paul Muni, and Dick Powell, and the Los Angeles Times named her one of the three best actresses in the country. Critics and fans universally praised her performances, describing them as "natural," "honest," and "intelligent." MacMahon brought a new style of acting to Hollywood, a style she had learned as a member of New York's American Laboratory Theater, where actors studied Konstantin Stanislavsky's dramatic approach that came to be known as the Method. In Aline MacMahon, John Stangeland offers an insightful account of this influential actress and provides an in-depth look at the art and politics of golden age Hollywood. As a child, McMahon raked in adult earnings performing at local events and even had a weekly gig at Wanamaker's Manhattan department store entertaining children while their parents shopped. Hollywood director Mervyn LeRoy saw her on Broadway, convinced her to come to Los Angeles, and directed her in Five Star Final, a hit with Edward G. Robinson for which she received rave reviews. Her naturalism, in which she played characters rather than emoting for the camera, provided a striking contrast to the traditional declarative style ubiquitous in Hollywood. MacMahon appeared in countless films during the 1930s and 40s, including the early noir Heat Lightning, the western Silver Dollar, and the smash hit Golddiggers of 1933. Hollywood praised her versatility but struggled to find vehicles for her, and it became commonplace for reviewers to state that the hugely talented actress provided the only bright spot in an otherwise pedestrian film. She became typecast in comedic roles as a long-suffering, middle-aged wife or secretary with an acerbic wit. Although she shone in these performances-and managed to earn a high salary during the Depression-she longed to stretch herself creatively in more imaginative, diverse dramatic roles. Also contributing to her casting woes were her own contradictory feelings about the film industry. She loved acting in movies, saying that "the tiniest emotion can be caught on camera," but she found Hollywood to be juvenile and vulgar. She insisted that her studio contract guarantee her several months off every year so she could travel and live away from Los Angeles. Her interest in leftist politics kept her under FBI covert surveillance for many years, even though she was never a Communist Party member and had proved her patriotism supporting the war effort in World War II. In 1950, film, radio, and television producers received a booklet titled Red Channels, which listed the names of one hundred and fifty-one actors, writers, and directors denounced as communists or sympathizers, including Aline MacMahon. Blacklisted, she barely worked on stage or screen during the 1950s. MacMahon, who introduced the Method style to Hollywood audiences, has not received the credit she deserves. Fans and critics loved the smart, natural women she portrayed, but Hollywood's studio bosses wouldn't take a chance on casting this unusual woman in leading roles. This is the only biography of the groundbreaking actress who took on Hollywood on her own terms and helped pave the way for a revolution in cinema"-- Provided by publisher

• Before there was stand-up comedy
• The comedy of San Francisco's North Beach
• The quiet before the storm : Bay Area comedy in the '70s
• Bay Area comedy renaissance
• San Francisco comedy's right of passage
• Queer comedy
• Bay Area Black comedy renaissance
• The new millennium
• Sanitized comedy : the pandemic year(s)

"From visiting acts like Richard Pryor, Steve Martin and Whoopi Goldberg to local favorites who still maintain their following and legacy, the Bay Area has long been a place for comedians to develop their voice and hone their stand-up skills. Popular spots included Cobb's, the Purple Onion, Brainwash, and the holy grail of San Francisco comedy during the 1980s boom, the Holy City Zoo. For over seventy years, these iconic venues and others fostered talent like Ali Wong, Moshe Kasher and the Smothers Brothers, introducing them to local crowds and the world beyond"-- Amazon

"The book examines how century-long arguments about "The Birth of a Nation" have profoundly shaped ideas about film, race, and art"-- Provided by publisher

• Why we write : interrogating our motivations for writing about social issues
• How we are all connected : understanding the relationship between the writer, reader, and subject
• Diving in deep or casting wide : considering context versus narrative to shape our stories
• Writing from outside in or inside out : reporting, personal narrative, or a hybrid approach
• Staking a claim : writing opinion pieces (op-eds)
• Are you the right storyteller for this story? : understanding cultural sensitivity and avoiding cultural appropriation
• Ripple effects of making waves : implications (good and bad) of writing about social issues

"Craft and Conscience helps writers weave together their narrative craft, conscience, and analytical and research skills, to create prose to illuminate and underscore the individual and collective impact of crucial issues of our time"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction : the cultural biography of a film
• Listening to Casablanca : radio adaptations and sonic Hollywood
• Back in theaters : postwar repertory houses and cult cinema
• Everyday films : broadcast television, reruns, and canonizing old Hollywood
• Movie valentines : holiday cult and the romantic canon in VHS video culture
• Happy anniversaries : classic cinema on DVD/Blu-ray in the conglomerate age
• Epilogue : streaming Casablanca and afterthoughts
• Appendix one : Casablanca's first appearances on US platforms/formats
• Appendix two : Casablanca's physical format video rereleases

"Casablanca is one of the most celebrated Hollywood films of all time, its iconic romance enshrined in collective memory across generations. Drawing from archival materials, industry trade journals, and cultural commentary, Barbara Klinger explores the history of Casablanca's circulation in the United States from the early 1940s to the present by examining its exhibition on platforms that include radio, repertory houses, television, and video. By resituating the film in the dynamically changing industrial, technological, media, and cultural circumstances that defined its journey over eight decades, Klinger challenges our understanding of its meaning and reputation as both a Hollywood classic and a cult film. Through this single-film study, Immortal Films proposes a new approach to the study of film history and aesthetics and, more broadly, to cinema itself as a medium in constant interface with other media as a necessary condition of its own public existence and endurance"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction / Joe Vallese
• Part I: An excellent day for an exorcism
• A Demon-Girl's guide to life / S. Trimble
• Both ways / Carmen Maria Machado
• My hand on the glass / Bruce Owens Grimm
• The girl, the well, the ring / Zefyr Lisowski
• Imprint / Joe Vallese
• Part II: Monster mash
• Indescribable / Carrow Narby
• A working definition of monstrous / Ryan Dzelzkalns
• The wolf in the room / Prince Shakur
• Three men on a boat / Jen Corrigan
• The wolf man's daughter / Tosha R. Taylor
• Part III: Fatal attractions
• Twin/skin / Addie Tsai
• Loving Annie Hayworth / Laura Maw
• The same kind of monster / Jonathan Robbins Leon
• Centered and seen / Sumiko Saulson
• Blood, actually / Grant Sutton
• Part IV: Whatever you do, don't fall asleep
• The trail of his flames / Tucker Lieberman
• The me in the screen / Steffan Triplett
• Sight unseen / Spencer Williams
• Bad hombre / Sarah Fonseca
• Black body snatchers / Samuel Autman
• Part V: Final cuts
• Long nights in the dark / Richard Scott Larson
• On beauty and necrosis / Sachiko Ragosta
• Good guys, dolls / Will Stockton
• The healed body / Jude Ellison S. Doyle
• Notes on Sleepaway Camp / Viet Dinh
• Artist's note / Bishakh Som
• About the contributors

"Twenty-five narrative essays by contemporary LGBTQ writers reflecting on queerness in horror film, from Hitchcock to Halloween to Hereditary"-- Provided by publisher

• A short history of decadence
• The fires of Valhalla. The damned (1969)
• The way of the mystagogue. Death in Venice (1971)
• Under the sign of the Liebestod. Ludwig (1973)

"Luchino Visconti (1906-1976) was one of Europe's most prestigious filmmakers, who rose to prominence as part of the Italian neo-realist movement, alongside contemporaries Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini. Famous for his elegant lifestyle, as friend of Jean Renoir and Coco Chanel amongst others, his vibrant technicolour dramas are also known for their decadence and stunning display of aesthetic mastery and sensory pleasure. Looking beyond this colourful façade, however, Resina explores the philosophical implications of decadence with a particular focus on three films from the late phase in Visconti's production, Damned (1969), Death in Venice (1971), and Ludwig (1972). From the incestuous relationship between decadence and power to decadence as an outcome of straining toward formal perfection, Resina uncovers the unity and philosophical cohesiveness of these films that deal with different subjects and historical periods. Reading these films and their decadence in light of the time of filming and Visconti's own sense of cultural doom, Resina further demonstrates the relevance of Visconti's philosophy today and how much they still have to say to our contemporary situation"-- Provided by publisher

This book offers a detailed study of how some of the most illustrious auteurs in the history of art cinema have made use of melodrama to represent masculine subjectivity on the screen.00To date, masculinity has tended to be presented in cinema studies as a monolithic category that serves the interests of a hegemonic, normative patriarchy. This book demonstrates how the art-house film, in the form of personal cinema and its exploitation of the melodramatic mode, tells a different story, presenting a vision of masculinity that is sexually fluid, fragmented, unstable, and often incapacitated to the point of paralysis, being undermined not only from within, but also by external circumstance. Hollywood, in the form of ?male weepies,? offered preliminary insights into this failing masculinity, but it is with the flowering of Post-World War II art film and its subsequent movement into the ?indie? waves of the late 20th century and the early 21st century that cinema more profoundly realizes its potential to serve as a vehicle for the exploration of men?s interior lives, developing what might be termed the ?male melodrama,? the correlative of the woman?s film

• Literary serials at the dawn of Turkish journalism / Uygur Kocabasoglu
• Ahmed Midhat's contribution to the assimilation of Tanzimat through his novels serialized in newspapers / Orhan Kologlu
• Self-portrait of the Yeñi Osmānlilar Cemīyeti in the journal "Hurrīyet" / Christiane Czygan
• Magazine "Rübap:" mirror of second constitution. Turkish culture, literature and press life / Nâzim Hikmet Polat
• Newspaper "Kizilirmak" (Sivas) in the years 1910-1914: cultural and literary forum in Anatolian Province / Horst Unbehaun
• Plain and simple? Reflections on a 'modern' Persian literature in the magazine "Kāve" / Tim Epkenhans
• Between lights and hurricanes: Samī al-Kayyālī's review "Al-Hadīt" as a forum of modern Arabic literature and liberal Islam / Manfred Sing
• Literature and social criticism in the Iraqi press of the first half of the 20th Century: Jafar al-Khalīlī and the periodical "Al-Hātif" / Silvia Naef

• Novelist, biographer, essayist: Zaynab Fawwāz (1860-1914): pioneer of female emancipation in the Egyptian press / Susanne Bräckelmann
• Ruins of Dura-Europos in the columns of "Zevrā:" Ahmed Sākir Beg's travels along the Euphrates, published and annotated by the Ottoman Provincial Gazette of Baghdad / Michael Ursinus
• Periodicals and the diffusion of the Orientalist discourse: H.M. Stanley's 'In Darkest Africa' presented to the Persian public / Anja Pistor-Hatam
• Hedgehog as historian: linguistic archaism as a means of satire in the early work of Refik Halid Karay / Tobias Heinzelmann
• Literature and the satirical press in Early Republican Turkey: the case of the frog / Gisela Procházka-Eisl
• Use of classical Iranian literature in Azerbaijani satire: the case of "Molla Näsr od-Din" / Evan Siegel
• Ottoman press and the Turkish community in Cyprus (1891-1931) / Martin Strohmeier

• Pt. I. The fringes of prestige TV: genre and markers of distinction
• Spies like us: genre mixing, brand building , and Reagan's 1980s in The Americans / David R. Coon
• Disrupting the pattern of prestige television: Fringe / Amanda Keeler
• "But is it Star Trek?": prestige, fandom, and the return of Star Trek to television / Murray Leeder
• "Another show about teenagers getting fucked up and having sex" or a sophisticated exploration of radical and gender politics? negotiating prestige in The CW's Roswell, New Mexico
• Pt. II. How contemporary programming met prestige TV: unconventional depictions of cultural and televisual norms
• Prestige adaptation by design: the commercial appeal of Latinx tropes in Queen of the South / Javier Ramirez
• "Tell them we are gone": Imperial narratives, indigenous perspectives, and prestige in The Terror / Justin O. Rawlins
• Prestige comedy: contemporary sitcom narrative and complexity in How I Met Your Mother / Andrew J. Bottomley
• Pt. III. Top of the media hierarchy: cinematization and television's elevation
• Running The Knick Show: transfusing Steven Soderbergh's authorial persona into the prestige medical series / Seth Friedman
• The legitimization of Jane Campion's Top of the lake: the film fest, the auteur, and the miniseries / W. D. Phillips
• Specters of Serling: authorship, television history, and inherited prestige in The Twilight Zone (2019-2020) / Josie Torres Barth

"Prestige Television explores how a growing array of 21st century US programming is produced and received in ways that elevate select series above the competition in a saturated market. Contributing authors demonstrate that these shows are positioned and understood as comprising an increasingly recognizable genre characterized by familiar markers of distinction. In contrast to most accounts of elite categorizations of contemporary US television programming that center on HBO and its primary streaming rivals, these essays examine how efforts to imbue series with prestigious or elevated status now permeate the rest of the medium, including network as well as basic and undervalued premium cable channels. Case study chapters focusing on diverse series, ranging from widely recognized examples such as The Americans (2013-2018) and The Knick (2014-15) to contested examples like Queen of the South (2016-2021) and How I Met Your Mother (2005-2014), highlight how contributing authors extend conceptions of the genre beyond expected parameters"-- Provided by publisher

"Tom Gauld returns with his wittiest and most trenchant collection of literary cartoons to date. Perfectly composed drawings are punctuated with the artist's signature brand of humour, hitting high and low. After all, Gauld is just as comfortable taking jabs at Jane Eyre and Game of Thrones. Some particularly favoured targets include the pretentious procrastinating novelist, the commercial mercenary of the dispassionate editor, the willful obscurantism of the vainglorious poet. Quake in the presence of the stack of bedside books as it grows taller! Gnash your teeth at the ever-moving deadline that the writer never meets! Quail before the critic's incisive dissection of the manuscript! And most importantly, seethe with envy at the paragon of creative productivity! Revenge of the Librarians contains even more murders, drubbings, and castigations than The Department of Mind-Blowing Theories, Baking For Kafka, or any other collections of mordant scribblings by the inimitably excellent Gauld."-- Publisher marketing

"Witness the thunderous first meeting of the Last Son of Krypton, Superman and Earth's Mightiest Mortal, Shazam in the acclaimed Superman/Shazam!: First Thunder, now collected in this hardcover deluxe edition. While Superman must stop members of a cult from stealing an ancient artifact from the Metropolis Natural History Museum, in Fawcett City, Shazam must defeat rampaging giant mechanical monsters. When the same cult attempts to pays a visit to the Fawcett City Museum, Superman drops by and teams up with Shazam against an all-new threat only the combined might of Superman and Shazam can stop!"-- Provided by publisher

• Avenues of communication
• Principles of document design
• Pre-production
• The prompt book
• Rehearsals
• Technical rehearsals
• Performances
• Next steps

"The Stage Manager's Toolkit Third Edition provides a comprehensive account of the role of the stage manager for live theatre with a focus on both written and verbal communication best practices. The book outlines the duties of the stage manager and assistant stage manager throughout a production, discussing not only what to do but why. It also identifies communication objectives for each phase of production, paperwork to be created, and the necessary questions to be answered in order to ensure success. This third edition includes: an updated look at digital stage management tools including script apps, cloud storage, and social media practices; a new discussion on creating a healthy and safe rehearsal space; updated paperwork examples; new information on Equity practices for the student and early career stage managers. Written for the stage management student and early career stage manager, this book is a perfect companion to any university Stage Management course. A companion website hosts customizable paperwork templates, instructional video, links to additional information, teacher tools for each individual chapter, and a bonus chapter on teaching stage management"-- Provided by publisher

In search of inspiration for their current filmmaking projects, Chris and her partner travel to the remote island of Fr̄,̲ Sweden, where Bergman lived and worked for decades. There, the spirit of the cinema master looms as Chris confronts her complicated relationships with work, men, motherhood, and her artistic influences

"If the camera is predatory, then the culture is predatory." In this eye-opening documentary, celebrated independent filmmaker Nina Menkes explores the sexual politics of cinematic shot design. Using clips from hundreds of movies we all know and love from Metropolis to Vertigo to Phantom Thread Menkes convincingly makes the argument that shot design is gendered. It illuminates the patriarchal narrative codes that hide within supposedly "classic" set-ups and camera angles and demonstrates how women are frequently displayed as objects for the use, support, and pleasure of male subjects. The film features interviews with an all-star cast of women and non-binary industry professionals including Julie Dash, Penelope Spheeris, Charlyne Yi, Joey Soloway, Catherine Hardwicke, Eliza Hittman, Maria Giese, and Rosanna Arquette. The result is an electrifying call-to-action that will fundamentally change the way you see, and watch, movies

• Preface: Queer Metacinema: It's a Dream
• Introduction: Feeling Melancholy, Cruisy, Sleepy
• Spatial and Sexual Disorientation: Vive L'Amour and I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
• Leaving the Cinema: Metacinematic Cruising in Goodbye, Dragon Inn
• Queer Camp and Porn Musicals: The Hole and The Wayward Cloud
• Different Time Zones: What Time Is It There? and Visage
• Haunted, Rented, Queer Spaces: From Vive L'Amour to Stray Dogs
• Conclusion: Expanded Cinema, Sleepovers, and Cruising the Museum

"A critical figure in queer Sinophone cinema, Tsai Ming-liang is a major force in Taiwan cinema and global moving image art. Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy offers a fascinating, systematic method for analyzing the queerness of Tsai's films, drawing on extensive interviews with the director while also offering a complete reappraisal of Tsai's body of work"-- Provided by publisher

• Part I: Introduction
• 1. Post-RuPaul's Drag Race: Queer Visibility, Online Discourse and Political Change in a Global Digital Sphere / Niall Brennan and David Gudelunas
• Part II: Drag Visibility and Politics in Global Online Space
• 2. Post-Drag Race, Post-Trans, Post-Pandemic Contestants: Affecting Political Realness in Social Media and (in Return to) Reality Television Space / Niall Brennan
• 3. "Boys Wear Blue, Girls Wear Pink": Drag Queens, Fake News and Gender Controversies in a Conservative Brazil / Mayka Castellano, Daniel Rios and Gabriel Ferreirinho
• 4. Pabllo Vittar, the New Drag Sensation and Embodiment of Resistance in Digital Media Space / Paulo Pepe
• Part III: Drag Influencers, Advertising and Labor
• 5. All those Glamazons We Subscribe To: Mapping a Network of Key Influencers Spreading the Art of Drag on YouTube / Lara Kobilke
• 6. Drag Dollars: Making Room for Queens in Advertising / Juan Mundel, Samantha Close and Niki Sasiela
• 7. It's a Drag: The Televisual Exploitation of Labor in RuPaul's Drag Race / Max Mehran
• 8. Werq the YouTube: Changing Collective Practices in the Brazilian Drag Scene / Lucas Bragança and Douglas Ostruca
• Part IV: Drag Remix, Translation and Online Fandom
• 9. Giving Face (Shields): The Recirculation and Rearticulation of Drag Race in a Global Pandemic / David Gudelunas
• 10. Reading is Fundamental: Ru-Capturing Narrative and Drag Race Herstory Through Remixed Episodes, Fan Dialogue and Hypercamp Culture / Kyle Lyvie and Sam Robinson
• 11. Do You Speak Drag? An Analysis of RuPaul's Drag Race Jargon Translated and Subtitled by Brazilian Fans / Jaíro Safarti and Igor dos Santos
• Part V: Drag by Global Extension(s)
• 12. The Exploration of Liminal Identities through Drag in Online Space / Chelsea Daggett
• 13. Mr Gay Namibia: Publicity Maven, Social-Justice Defender and Former Altar Boy / Tammy Rae Matthews
• 14. The Shumang Lila Performers of Manipur and the Pursuit of the Perfect / Suzania Brahmacharimayum and Barry King

This volume explores drag in global online spaces as a distinct departure from the established success, and limitations, of RuPaul's Drag Race. Centred around discourses of LGBTQ+ visibility and political mobilization, the volumeaddresses how these discourses have moved beyond the increasingly limited qualities of the television series to reconfigure the parameters of drag in emerging communities and spaces. By reconceiving of drag in new settings, this volume uncovers the crucial social and political potential for community-building in an increasingly fragmented and isolated global space. Chapters by a diverse team of authors delve into the recognition of new articulations of LGBTQ+ visibility and political mobility through drag in online space; the implications of drag celebrity for issues such as labor and profit in the digital sphere; the (re)appropriation of mainstream drag in emerging online environments and communities; and the reverberations of drag in underrepresented and underresearched areas of the world. Offering new insights into the rise of drag in a global digital public sphere, thisvolume will be of interest to scholars and students of media studies, cultural studies, digital media and cultural studies, critical race studies, gender studies, sexuality studies, queer theory, film, and television studies

This is the first full-length monograph on the history of Dutch mime. 00Dutch mime is a vibrant and innovatory branch of contemporary theatre which evolved in the margins of the theatre establishment from the early 1960s, leaving far behind its origins in literal pantomime. Mime in this Dutch tradition challenges the audience's perception and experience by centring on the bodies and movement of the performers and audience in relation to scenography, time and space. Dutch mime performers and makers are inventors, inclined to start from zero, an empty space in which nothing is fixed and no laws have been established. Since the 1960s, interdisciplinarity has been at the core of its development: it is a theatre practice that defines itself through connections with visual arts, sculpture, music, installation, land-art, literature, architecture, technology and film. 00Dutch mime has generated innovation and upheaval in Dutch and international theatre over the decades. However, until now, its history has not been written. This book fills the gap. It examines and articulates specific embodied knowledge that has been characteristic of the Dutch mime tradition since the 1960s

"In the Funambulists, Marchi brings together and compares a select group of poetry collections written by contemporary Arab diasporic women poets living in the US, Canada, and Europe. Spanning many languages and countries, this study is built on the concept of tension, focusing on seven poets who use their art to balance and flexibility together with courage and transgression to walk a tightrope stretched out across cultures, religions, and nations"-- Provided by publisher

• Midnight show
• Four A.M. show

In this party record, red hot mama Belle Barth delivers one-liners, sings songs, and tells Jewish dialect stories

• The long arm of Watergate
• Little Miss Lifestyles breaks out
• Pulling up roots
• "Welcome to the fishbowl"
• But her emails . . .
• Jill Abramson and Dean Baquet
• Small victories
• Moving on
• The joys of style
• "Venomous serpent"
• "Fake news," you say?
• Objectivity wars and the "woke" newsroom
• How to clean up the mess we're in
• About those lessons
• Sweeney (and other legends), reconsidered

"Over her four decades of working in newsrooms big and small, Margaret Sullivan has become a trusted champion and critic of the American news media. In this bracing memoir, Sullivan traces her life in journalism and how trust in the mainstream press has steadily eroded. Sullivan began her career at the Buffalo News, where she rose from summer intern to editor in chief. In Newsroom Confidential she chronicles her years in the trenches battling sexism and throwing elbows in a highly competitive newsroom. In 2012, Sullivan was appointed the public editor of The New York Times, the first woman to hold that important role. She was in the unique position of acting on behalf of readers to weigh the actions and reporting of the paper's staff, parsing potential lapses in judgment, unethical practices, and thorny journalistic issues. Sullivan recounts how she navigated the paper's controversies, from Hillary Clinton's emails to Elon Musk's accusations of unfairness to the need for greater diversity in the newsroom. In 2016, having served the longest tenure of any public editor, Sullivan left for the Washington Post, where she had a front-row seat to the rise of Donald Trump in American media and politics. With her celebrated mixture of charm, sharp-eyed observation, and nuanced criticism, Sullivan takes us behind the scenes of the nation's most influential news outlets to explore how Americans lost trust in the news and what it will take to regain it"-- Provided by publisher

With a poet's eye for place, light, and the spiritual dimensions of everyday existence, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese crafts a meditation on the concept of homeland and a transcendent elegy for what is lost in the name of progress. Grieving and alone following the deaths of her husband and children, elderly Mantoa (Mary Twala Mhlongo, in a soul-shaking end-of-life performance) prepares for her death and to be buried alongside her ancestors. When plans for a new dam near her village in the landlocked kingdom of Lesotho threaten to wash away all she holds dear, Mantoa takes a last stand, mobilizing her neighbors to fight for their land and their way of life. The experience of watching Mosese's visionary, much-lauded This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection is as timeless and elemental as the land itself

Before Citizen Kane and The War of the Worlds, leading Broadway actress Rose McClendon and producer John Houseman convince a gifted but untested 20-year-old Orson Welles to direct Shakespeare's Macbeth with an all-Black cast in Harlem. Reimagined in a Haitian setting, this revolutionary 1936 production, which came to be known as "Voodoo Macbeth," would change the world forever. But the road to opening night proves to be a difficult one. Welles and McClendon--who's playing Lady Macbeth--clash over everything from scene blocking to crew hires, while Houseman contends with Congressman Martin Dies Jr., co-founder of the House Un-American Activities Committee who's hell-bent on shutting down what he deems "communist propaganda." Welles and McClendon must overcome political pressure, personal demons, and protests to realize their groundbreaking vision. Based on true events

• Introduction: Transgender studies and children's literature
• Gender nonconformity in picture books
• Trans children in picture books
• Politicizing gender in young adult graphic narratives
• Show and tell : authoring the trans subject in young adult fiction
• Animating gender : subversive gendering in children's cartoons
• Loving and hating trans youth in adolescent television
• Manning up and womanning down in young adult gender-disguise films --Embodying difference : gender and race in young adult body-swap films

"Imagine a world where luck, the most ephemeral of ideas, has a physical form. Precious stones, mined like gold, confer luck. But luck breaks both ways. While the blue gems may grant advantage to those who own them, their blessing is fickle. In the blink of an eye, good luck can turn to bad. We follow the life of a man who comes into possession of some powerful stones--but the success enjoyed by the man goes awry when he tries to pass the luck onto his sons. Depicted in alternating scenes between the two generations, The Bend of Luck follows fortune's course, like an arrow, through a family's destiny"--Page 4 of cover

• Machine generated contents note:
• pt. I Hanging by a thread: unique manuscripts and their place in the `modern' medieval canon
• 1. Contemplating books with Usama ibn Munqidh's Book of Contemplation / Paul M. Cobb
• 2. Dons and dragons: Beowulf and `popular reading' / Erica Weaver
• 3. Ibn Hazm's Tawq al-hamama (The Neck-Ring of the Dove) / Boris Liebrenz
• 4. `Thirty pieces of silver': interpreting anti-Jewish imagery in the Poema de mio Cid manuscript / Ryan D. Giles
• 5. `Let no bad song be sung of us': fame, memory and transmission in/and the Chanson de Roland / Sharon Kinoshita
• pt. II Medieval bestsellers: reading the `medieval canon'?
• 6. World literature and its discontents: reading the Life of Ahiqar / Daniel L. Selden
• 7. The Alexander Romance in the age of scribal reproduction: the aesthetics and precariousness of a popular text / Shamma Boyarin
• 8. Wisdom literature and medieval bestsellers / Karla Mallette
• 9. Lost worlds: encyclopaedism and riddles in the tale of Tawaddud/Theodor / Christine Chism

Bestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon addresses the strange fact that, in both European and Middle Eastern medieval studies, those texts that we now study and teach as the most canonical representations of their era were in fact not popular or even widely read in their day. On the other hand, those texts that were popular, as evidenced by the extant manuscript record, are taught and studied with far less frequency. The book provides cross-cultural insight into both the literary tastes of the medieval period and the literary and political forces behind the creation of the 'modern canon' of medieval literature. -- .
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• Chapter 1: Parsi compradors and the public sphere.-
• Chapter 2: Social reform, law-making and the origins of the Parsi theatre.-
• Chapter 3: Corporeal discipline.-
• Chapter 4: Science, secular mythology and the professionalization of the Parsi theatre.-
• Chapter 5: The expansion of the Parsi theatre.-
• Chapter 6: The reformers in need of reforming.-
• Chapter 7: Race-thinking and the parsi social drama.
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The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage is the first comprehensive study of the Parsi theatre, colonial South and Southeast Asia's most influential cultural phenomenon and the precursor of the Indian cinema industry. By providing extensive, unpublished information on its first actors, audiences, production methods, and plays, this book traces how the theatre-which was one of the first in the Indian subcontinent to adopt European stagecraft-transformed into a pan-Asian entertainment industry in the second half of the nineteenth century. Nicholson sheds light on the motivations that led to the development of the popular, commercial theatre movement in Asia through three areas of investigation: the vernacular public sphere, the emergence of competing visions of nationhood, and the narratological function that women served within a continually shifting socio-political order. The book will be of interest to scholars across several disciplines, including cultural history, gender studies, Victorian studies, the sociology of religion, colonialism, and theatre. Winner of the Theatre Library Association George Freedley Memorial Award Special Jury Prize. Shortlisted for the TaPRA David Bradby book prize. Finalist for the American Society for Theatre Research Barnard Hewitt Award. .
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'Essential reading.' Claire Tomalin Warned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history. From the fourteenth century through to the present day, women who write have been understood as mad, undisciplined or dangerous. Female writers have always had to find ways to overcome or challenge these beliefs. Some were cautious and discreet, some didn't give a damn, but all lived complex, eventful and often controversial lives. Eve Bites Back places the female contemporaries of Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton centre stage in the history of literature in English, uncovering stories of dangerous liaisons and daring adventures. From Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Aemilia Lanyer and Anne Bradstreet, to Aphra Behn, Mary Wortley Montagu, Jane Austen and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, these are the women who dared to write.
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What if James T. Kirk and Spock had a baby, left the Enterprise and moved to New Vulcan to live happily ever after? Fan fiction plots like this are a strong testament of fans' endless creativity. Not only do the authors invent their own storylines but they have developed a generic definition of content across fandoms according to the relationship present in the text. Classification is therefore profoundly related to gender and sexuality. Julia Elena Goldmann examines these generic structures and formulaic patterns comparatively in Star Trek and Supernatural fan fiction. She also focuses on the interplay of the concepts of gender, sexuality, relationships and depictions of family in these texts.
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Offers the first book-length study of Norwegian horror cinema.
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• Introduction: Madness and Literature and the Health Humanities Lasse Raaby Gammelgaard
• Part I: Literary History and Socio-Political Perspectives 1 Layla and Majnun in Historical and Contemporary Conceptions of Madness in Islamic Psychology Alan Weber 2 The Anti-Psychiatry Ethos in Samuel Beckett's Murphy Shoshana Benjamin 3 Apartheid's Garden: Dismantling Madness in J.M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K Sebastian C. Galbo 4 Sniffs and Dribblers: Poppy Shakespeare and the Identities of Madness Clare Allan
• Part II: Literary Theory and Experiencing Mental Illness 5 Reading Shattering Minds and Extended Selves in Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway Anna Ovaska 6 Spill the Words: Speechlessness and Creativity in the Writing of Janet Frame Mary Elene Wood 7 Pronominal Shifts and the Confusion of Self with Not-Self Alice Herve 8 Rethinking Clinical and Critical Perspectives on Psychosis in Kathy Acker's Writing Charley Baker 9 Countering the DSM in Poetry about Bipolar Disorder Lasse Raaby Gammelgaard 10 Seeing Feeling: Dissociation and Post-Traumatic Memory in the Graphic Novel Perfect Hair Penni Russon
• Part III: Literary Instrumentality and Clinical Psychopathology 11 Writing Therapy, Writing Data: Therapeutic Writing as a Methodological and Ethical Approach in Researching Digital Sexual Assault Signe Uldbjerg 12 A Question of Context: Sites for Cultural Negotiation in Narratives of Manic Depression Megan Milota 13 Conscripting Dante: History, Anachronism, and the Uses of Literary Precedents in the 'New' Diagnosis of Hoarding Disorder David Orr 14 Opening Up the Discourse of Male Eating Disorders: Personal Experience in German and English Narratives Heike Bartel
• Afterword Lasse Raaby Gammelgaard Notes Index.
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Mental illness has been a favourite topic for authors throughout the history of literature, while psychologists and psychiatrists such as Sigmund Freud and Karl Jaspers have in turn been interested in and influenced by literature. Pioneers within philosophy, psychiatry and literature share the endeavour to explore and explain the human mind and behaviour, including what a society deems as being outside perceived normality. Using a theoretical approach that is eclectic and transdisciplinary, this volume engages with literature's multifarious ways of probing minds and bodies in a state of mental ill health. The cases and the theory are in dialogue with a clinical approach, addressing issues and diagnoses such as trauma, psychosis, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, self-harm, hoarding disorder, PTSD and Digital Sexual Assault. The chapters in Part I address literary representations of madness with a historical awareness, outlining the socio-political potentials of madness literature. Part II investigates how representations of mental illness in literature can offer unique insights into the subjective experience of alternative states of mind. Part III reflects on how literary cases can be applied to help inform mental health education, how they can be used therapeutically and how they are giving credence to new diagnoses. Throughout the book, the contributors consider how the language and discourses of literature-both stylistically and theoretically-can teach us something new about what it means to be mentally unwell.
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Examines contemporary online soldier poetry and graphic novel writing in the first book-length study of its kind.
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• Children's humanitarian drawing and the Dafur genocide : memory, imagination, trauma / Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba
• Framing the unframeable : Deogratias and the horror of genocide / Kaitlyn Newman
• Trauma and atrocity in Greek-Cypriot children's literature : a forty-year overview / Maria Chatzianastasi
• Beyond the ovens : the changing nature of Holocaust children's literature / Barbara Krasner
• Gender and violence in Uri Orlev's and Kathy Kacer's Holocaust literature for children / Rosemary Horowitz
• Voices of the children : a consideration of the depictions of atrocity and innocence in poetry written by children during the Holocaust / Mary Catherine Mueller
• Communism for children : fiction mediation and representations of past wrongdoings / Simona Mitroiu
• The use of allegory to tell youth mortality under Spain's dictatorship in Ana María Matute's 1956 Los niños tontos (The foolish children) / Lora L. Looney
• Confronting atrocity through geometry : Franco's first illustrated biography / María Porras Sánchez
• Picturebooks and parrhesia : the role of multi-modal texts in examining Canada's colonial violence / Caroline Bagelman
• Hidden atrocities in the cinematic representation of Chinese girlhoods / Chengcheng You
• Nursery atrocity : the Australian children's classic The magic pudding / Jayson Althofer and Brian Musgrove
• Freedom in fiction : trickster tales and American slavery / Megan Jeffreys

"Examines the ways in which writers and artists have attempted to address children's experience of atrocity"-- Provided by publisher

"Provoking and elegant essays on European and North American modernism and postmodernism. These essays by anarcho-modernist critic Jerry Zaslove emerge from years of reading, writing, and teaching through the exemplary controversies, commitments, and crises of modernism in European literature. The collection is imagined through the image of a Colporteur, a traveling figure appearing along the streets and waysides, crossing bridges, walking with books through the arcades of cities. Literary artworks and philosophical themes explored in Untimely Passages include Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, Herbert Read's modernist "nomadism," and W.G. Sebald's "exilic memory," along with central figures of Europe's intellectual modernity, including Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Franz Kafka. Special attention is also given to the significant work of Canadian writers and artists: Joy Kogawa, Roy Miki, Robin Blaser, Alex Morrison, Althea Thauberger, and Jeff Wall. "We read books, and they read us," Zaslove writes. "The books belong to us, intervene, and accompany us, and on rereading them they may even become strange again. The world changes as it flows; we become Colporteurs of our own reading and writing. We can become like Sancho Panza who tells stories that speak to the Don's idealism." Untimely Passages is organized into "dossiers" - imaginary bridges set over the collection's literary river crossings. The book shows a life in writing by crossing rivers to the "other shores." While it is true, according to Heraclitus, that we can't "step into the same river twice," we can however cross to the other shores and watch the rivers flowing, and even cross back again and again by rereading and writing, often posing the fundamental question of literacy: "Why write?" Jerry Zaslove is a teacher and writer in comparative literature and the social history of art. He has taught at Simon Fraser University since its inception in 1965 in the Departments of English and Humanities and the School for the Contemporary Arts. He is the founding director of the Institute for the Humanities and is a Simons Fellow in Graduate Liberal Studies."-- Provided by publisher

• Contributors vii
• 1 Introduction 1 Federico Windhausen Part I Overviews 15
• 2 Poetry and "Film Poetics" 17 Sarah Keller
• 3 Cinematic Specificity, Intermediality, and the European Avant-Garde 40 Malcolm Turvey
• 4 Expanded Cinema: Then and Now 59 Jonathan Walley
• 5 Sketches of Spain: The Production and Circulation of Spanish Experimental Cinema 84 Josetxo Cerdan and Miguel Fernandez Labayen
• 6 The Underground and the Institution: Spaces and Practices of French Experimental Film (1950-1980) 111 Enrico Camporesi
• 7 Hollywood as Home Movies: Queer Diaristic Film & Video 136 Jon Davies
• 8 Nothing Clarifies an Image Like Another Image: New Approaches to Found Footage Filmmaking 160 Erica Levin
• 9 Disquieting Soundtracks: The Sonorities of Experimental Cinema 182 Juan A. Suarez
• 10 Music Visualization and Medium Expansion: Key Themes in Experimental Animation 210 Paul Taberham Part II Case Studies 231
• 11 Collage, Montage and Assemblage: The Instantaneity of Frames in Gregory J. Markopoulos' Cinema 233 Francois Bovier (translated by Miranda Stewart)
• 12 Experiment, Cybernetics, and the Formal Film in Britain 260 Lucy Reynolds
• 13 Agitation and Involvement: Narcisa Hirsch's Come Out and Michael Snow's Wavelength 284 Federico Windhausen
• 14 Rebellion of the Body: Hijikata Tatsumi, Performance Documentation and Japanese Experimental Film 307 Julian Ross
• 15 Feminist Filmmaking from the Ground Up: Three Films from the 1980s 325 Michele Pierson
• 16 Barbara Hammer, Optical Printing, and a Theory of Touch 349 John Powers Part III Exchanges 369
• 17 Approaching India: Remarks on a Diversity of Moving Image Practices 371 Lalitha Gopalan, Shai Heredia, and Shanay Jhaveri
• 18 On the Visibility of Women's Experimental Cinema: Birgit Hein and Ute Aurand in Germany 390 Sylvia Schedelbauer
• 19 "Where Are Those Lines?": Discussions about and around Experimental Ethnography with Sky Hopinka, Naeem Mohaiemen and Deborah Stratman 410 Jason Fox
• 20 Platform, Showcase, Gathering, Exchange: A Conversation about Film Festivals with Erika Balsom, George Clark, Chris Kennedy, Eduardo Thomas, and Koyo Yamashita 433 Chris Kennedy Index 453.
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An exploration of what experimental cinema was, is, and might become A Companion to Experimental Cinema is a collection of original essays organized around both theoretical and historical issues of concern to film scholars, programmers, filmmakers, and viewers. Newly-commissioned essays written by specialists in the field, along with dialogues conducted with a diverse range of practitioners, focus on core subjects to present an international array of overlapping and contrasting perspectives. This unique text not only provides detailed accounts of particular films and filmmakers, but also discusses new approaches of understanding, characterizing, and shaping experimental cinema. The Companion offers readers an accessible point of entry to the material while seeking to contribute to scholarly debates. Essays explore a wide range of topics within the realm of experimental film, including the shift from traditional biography to broader contexts, the increased attention afforded to local and transnational circuits of exchange, and the deepening of theoretical considerations regarding cultural identity and cinematic aesthetics. Key themes and concepts are inter-woven throughout the text, offering fresh perspectives on experimental cinema's dialogues with other modes and practices of film and video, its interactions with the non-cinematic arts, its responses to changing technological landscapes, and more. An essential addition to the field, the Companion: Balances introductory summaries and scholarly dialogue with existing literature Explores how the study of experimental cinema can benefit from scholarship in other disciplines Includes numerous analyses of films that are readily available to view via digital media Discusses both canonical and obscure or neglected works Examines the effects of the growing diversification of experimental film scholarship A Companion to Experimental Cinema is a valuable resource for scholars of film studies and art history, curators and programmers, critics and bloggers, filmmakers and artists, and anyone interested in exploring experimental or avant-garde cinema.
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• Tod Browning
• Roland West
• Jacques Tourneur
• William Castle
• Jack Arnold
• Robert Wise
• Roger Corman

The masters of the monstrous and macabre are profiled in this acclaimed documentary series. Seven of the biggest names in classic horror cinema are spotlighted, including: Tod Browning, Roland West, Jacques Tourneur, William Castle, Jack Arnold, Robert Wise, and Roger Corman

• Terence Fisher
• Roman Polanski
• Dario Argento
• John Carpenter
• Stuart Gordon
• Tobe Hooper

The masters of the monstrous and macabre are profiled in this acclaimed documentary series. Six of the biggest names in classic horror cinema are spotlighted, including: Terence Fisher, Roman Polanski, Dario Argento, John Carpenter, Stuart Gordon, and Tobe Hooper

• List of Figures Acknowledgments Part I: Overview Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: A Brief Survey of Meiji Kabuki Part II: The 1860s Chapter 3: From Japan through American Eyes (1859
• 1860), by Francis Hall Chapter 4: From Ten Weeks in Japan: "Japanese Drama" (1860), by Rev. George Smith Chapter 5: From Japan through American Eyes (1861
• 1862), by Francis Hall Chapter 6: From the Capital of the Tycoon: "Osaca" (1862), by Si Rutherford Alcock Chapter 7: From A Lady's Visit to Manila and Japan (1862) by Anna D'Almeida Chapter 8: "Japanese Theaters" (1864), by Humbert Aime Chapter 9: From A Diplomat in Japan (1866?), by Sir Ernest Satow Chapter 10: More from the 1860s, by Jacob Mortimer Silver, R. Mountenney Jephson, and Edward Pennell Elmhirst Part III: 1870s Chapter 11: From Japanese Episodes: "A Day in a Japanese Theatre" (1872), by Edward H. House Chapter 12: From Clara's Diary: "Kabuki-the Japanese Theater" (1876), by Clara A.N. Whitney Chapter 13: From Japan Day by Day: "The Theatre" (1877, 1878), by Edward S. Morse Chapter 14: "Theatricals" (1878), by Isabella L. Bird Chapter 15: From Clara's Diary: Part I: "Chushingura" (1878), by Clara A.N. Whitney Chapter 16: From Awakening Japan (1879), by Erwin Baelz Chapter 17: From Clara's Diary (1879): "Entertaining General Grant"
• "A Western Style Drama", by Clara A.N. Whitney Chapter 18: More from the 1870s, by William Elliot Griffis, Christopher Dresser, Arthur Collins Maclay, William Gray Dixon, Charles H. Eden, and Mrs. Julia D. Carrothers Part IV: The 1880s Chapter 19: From Japan Day by Day: "The Theatre" (1882), by Edward S. Morse Chapter 20: From Jinrikisha Days in Japan: "Japanese Theatre" (1889), by Eliza Rumaha Scidmore Chapter 21: From A Japanese Interior (1889), by Alice Mabel Bacon Chapter 22: More from the 1880s, by Thomas W. Knox, Arthur H. Crow, Andrew Carnegie, William Henry Lucy, Henry Knollys, Henry Fauld Part V: The 1890s Chapter 23: From A Diplomatist's Wife in Japan: "Danjuro, a Great Actor" (1890), by Mary Crawford Fraser Chapter 24: From The Japs at Home (1892), by Douglas Sladen Chapter 25: From Lotos-Time in Japan (1894), by Henry T. Finck Chapter 26: From Japan: A Record in Colour (1896): "Art and the Drama, " by Mortimer Menpes Chapter 27: "Japan's Stage and Greatest Actor" (1896), by Robert P. Porter Chapter 28: From Japanese Plays and Playfellows (1898): "Popular Plays"
• "Afternoon Calls, " by Osman Edwards Chapter 29: More from the 1890s, by Adolfo Farsari, M.B. Cook, G.J. Younghusband, Mae St. John Bramhall, Katherine Schuyler Baxter, William Eleroy Curtis, S.C.F. Jackson, Stafford Ransome Part VI: The 1900s Chapter 30: From Tales from Tokio: "Shibaya to Yakusha" (1900), by Clarence Ludlow Brownell Chapter 31: From Awakening Japan (1903), by Erwin Baelz Chapter 32: From Present-Day Japan: "The Drama" (1904), by Augusta M. Campbell Davidson Chapter 33: From Things Japanese: "Theatre" (1904), by Basil Hall Chamberlain Chapter 34: From Rare Days in Japan: "At the Theatre" (1906), by George Trumbull Ladd Chapter 35: From Smiling 'Round the World: "Visit to a Japanese Theatre, Tokyo" (1908), by Marshall P. Wilder Chapter 36: From Every-Day Japan: "The Japanese Stage" (1909), by Arthur Lloyd Chapter 37: From Japan and the Japanese (1910), by Walter Tyndale Chapter 38: From The Full Recognition of Japan (1911), by Robert P. Porter Chapter 39: From Japan of the Japanese, by Joseph H. Longford Chapter 40: More from the 1900s (and Beyond), by Anna C. Hartshorne, Fred Gaisberg, Douglas Sladen, Walter Del Mar, George H. Rittner, Ernest W. Clement, W. Petrie Watson, Eleanora Mary D'Anethan, Clive Holland, Anonymous, Evelyn Adam, and A.H. Exner Glossary Bibliography About the Editor.
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This book is an annotated collection of English-language documents by foreigners writing about Japan's kabuki theatre in the half-century after the country was opened to the West in 1853. Using memoirs, travelogues, diaries, letters, and reference books, it contains all significant writing about kabuki by foreigners-resident or transient-during the Meiji period (1868-1912), well before the first substantial non-Japanese book on the subject was published. Its chronologically organized chapters contain detailed introductions. Twenty-seven authors, represented by edited versions of their essays, are supplemented by detailed summaries of thirty-five others. The author provides insights into how Western visitors-missionaries, scholars, diplomats, military officers, adventurers, globetrotters, and even a precocious teenage girl-responded to a world-class theatre that, apart from a tiny number of pre-Meiji encounters, had been hidden from the world at large for over two centuries. It reveals prejudices and misunderstandings, but also demonstrates the power of great theatre to bring together people of differing cultural backgrounds despite the barriers of language, artistic convention, and the very practice of theatergoing. And, in Ichikawa Danjuro IX, it presents an actor knowledgeable foreigners considered one of the finest in the world.
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• A place to begin
• Reflections of traditional masculinities
• The colonial impact and emerging masculinities
• Independence and the reinvention of self
• Performing man: Trending images of masculinity
• By way of closing

"Over Time pairs works from both Benning and Lockhart with a collaborative, almost stream-of-consciousness text. The result is a profound conversation between two accomplished artists that highlights how slow reflection can deepen and enrich everyday experience."

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Generation Pepsi
• Part I: 'Conception'
• Chapter 1. Maternal Products and the British Kitchen Sink Chapter 2. The Mass-Reproduction of Mothering: Une Femme Mariee and Le Bonheur
• Part II: 'Gestation'
• Chapter 3. The 'Permissive' Myth: Conservatism, Change, and Contraception in Swinging London Chapter 4. Scene and Unscene: Reimagining Abortion in La Generation Pepsi
• Part III: 'Delivery'
• Chapter 5. Whose Lineage is it Anyway? Migration and Racist Futurities Chapter 6. Queer Communities and Queer Failures in British Film
• Conclusion: Reproducing the Future
• Bibliography Filmography.
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The 1960s was a decade of massive political and cultural change in Western Europe, as seismic shifts took place in in attitudes towards sexuality, gender, and motherhood in everyday life. Through case studies of British and French films, Pepsi and the Pill offers a fresh vision of a pivotal moment in European culture, exploring the many ways in which political activity and celebrated film movements mutually shaped each other in their views on gender, sexuality, and domesticity. As the specter of popular nationalism once again looms across Europe, this book offers a timely account of the legacy of crucial debates over issues including reproductive rights, migration, and reproductive nationalism at the intersection of political discourse, protest, and film.
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"When a young journalist prompts a reclusive musical superstar to finally break his silence, he pours out an astonishing saga of rivalry and regret, starring child prodigies and bitter old men, beautiful dancers and demonic managers, Nazi commandants, compassionate nuns, and lifesaving animals. Ballad for Sophie is a sweeping tale that spans the twentieth century, packed with all the drama of a rock & roll biopic and more twists than a night at the opera." -- Provided by publisher

• 1. The Horrible Return of the Heroines: Antigone and Medea in Performance in the Aftermath of 9/11
• 2. Political Explosion, Bodily Implosion: Ivo van Hove, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, and Their Alternative Shakespeares
• 3. A Caricature of Totalitarianism: Bertold Brecht and His Vulnerable Working Through of the Third Reich
• 4. Anatomy of a Genocide: Theatre About Rwanda, 1994 by Groupov, Milo Rau, and Others
• 5. The Wounded German Body: Christoph Schlingensief and the Scars of Postwar (Re)united Germany
• 6. The European Frontier: Thomas Bellinck's Museum of Failures, and Other Imaginary Europes
• 7. The Temperament of the Judge: The Dispute Between Ai Weiwei and Chinese Authorities, Reenacted
• 8. Document, Drama, and Orientalism: Laila Soliman and Her Precarious Theatre of the Revolution
• 9. Truth, Justice, and Performative Knowledge: Chokri Ben Chikha, Truth Commissions, and (Neo)colonial Injustices
• 10. Revolution, Body, Language: Post-Communist Nostalgia in the Theatre of Willem de Wolf.
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All societies are, by their very nature, dramatic. They present themselves, especially for those who want to look back in time, as a fascinating and confusing whole of theatrical events and constructions. Sometimes the theatre itself succeeds in capturing that fascination and confusion. This book describes the dramatic society in the form of case studies that link politics, history and culture. The Dramatic Society uses selected plays to examine specific moments in history. Its range of subjects are extremely diverse, including Medea as an icon of terrorism, a choreography based upon Shakespeare's As You Like It, horror movies about the German unification, a truth commission dealing with "human zoos", and the reconstruction of Ai Weiwei's troubles with the tax authorities. This collection of insightful essays deals with theatrical performances - including happenings, installations and movies - of the past fifty years, with every chapter attempting to link artistic events with politics and political theory, from Hannah Arendt to Slavoj Zizek. This is a revealing assessment of the ways in which drama and politics become intertwined, offering crucial insights for scholars and students of theatre studies, performance studies, contemporary politics and cultural studies.
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• Introduction: A long time ago...?,
• 1. 'For a safe and secure society': Totalitarianism, imperialism, and the Emperor,
• 2. 'How liberty dies': Republics, democracy, and the fall of civilisation,
• 3. 'Built on hope...': Rebellion, resistance, and the depiction of warfare,
• 4. 'Keepers of the peace, not soldiers': Jedi, the Force, and the complicated morality of intra-state operatives,
• 5. 'We don't want them here': Aliens, androids, and far outsiders, Conclusion: Always in motion the future is...
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The book lies at the intersection of history and politics, with Cold war themes sitting alongside those of the war on Terror as well as radicalisation and power. The author published a paper on the First World War and video games that garnered thousands of hits on social media. The book studies how the business elements of the Star Wars franchise have impinged upon the message behind the films.
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• List of Figures Editor's Acknowledgments Editor's Introduction Author's Foreword
• Chapter 1. Bootmaker to Queen Hortense
• Chapter 2. The Dreams of a Student
• Chapter 3. Early Adventures
• Chapter 4. An Introduction to Magic in London
• Chapter 5. A Marriage Set in Motion
• Chapter 6. Opponent of the "Brave General"
• Chapter 7. Director of the ThEAtre Robert-Houdin
• Chapter 8. From La Griffe to the Moulin Rouge
• Chapter 9. Spiritism, Catalepsy, Magnetism
• Chapter 10. A New Passion: Jehanne d'Alcy
• Chapter 11. Birth of the KinEtographe
• Chapter 12. The First Feature Film
• Chapter 13. All Kinds of Trick Effects
• Chapter 14. The Dreyfus Affair
• Chapter 15. 1900
• Chapter 16. Happy MEliEs!
• Chapter 17. The Triumphant Years, 1902-1903
• Chapter 18. The "Genre MEliEs"
• Chapter 19. Cinema Becomes an Industry
• Chapter 20. The First Signs of Collapse
• Chapter 21. The Death of EugEnie
• Chapter 22. Ruin
• Chapter 23. Candy-Seller at the Gare Montparnasse
• Chapter 24. MEliEs, Lord of the Manor
• Chapter 25. The End of a Pioneer.
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The films of Georges MEliEs (1861-1938) are landmarks in the early history of narrative filmmaking and cinematic special effects. He was a harbinger of modern aesthetics and media manipulation, and this book, written by his granddaughter, is the only one that tells his full story. Magnificent MEliEs is a thoroughly researched but highly accessible book that is a crucial source for the scholar and an entertaining read for the nonspecialist. The core of the biography provides detailed accounts of MEliEs's filmmaking years (1896-1912), from his first motion pictures shortly after the public premiere of the LumiEre CinEmatographe through such worldwide successes as his film Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon) and his eventual marginalization by the very industry he had helped to found. The biography also chronicles MEliEs's formative work as director of Paris's preeminent magic theater, the ThEAtre Robert-Houdin; his subsequent career staging operettas for the ThEAtre des VariEtEs Artistiques (1917-1923) in Montreuil on the site of one of his former film studios; and his later years selling toys and candy at the Gare Montparnasse (1926-1932) before being rediscovered by journalists and the avant-garde. These and other fascinating chapters highlight the remarkable range of MEliEs's creative work while suggesting how his singular life was nevertheless shaped by the seismic historical shifts of Second Empire and Third Republic France.
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• Introduction
• Part 1: Bidirectional WritingThe ParticlesNouns and Things: Changing Their ClimateVerb Solutions AdaptBorderlands: Am I I &They? Knowing Without OrSyntax or How I Become What I SeemSocial Groups Scale: Identities and Connections
• Part 2: Perspectives on CombiningSocial SyntaxHow Quickly Can Culture Change Habitat?Groups Build Social SyntaxSome Structures of Syntax-Parataxis & HypotaxisScalable Syntax: Poetry Model of the BiosphereThe Anthropocene: Ecosystems and Time FramesNetworks of Metaphor
• Part 3: Connections Beneath Form in Poetry and BiologySocial Syntax II: Linkages & ConnectorsIdentity's Constructive and Connective EcosystemThe Condition and Hierarchy of IdentificationEuropean EcologyImpact of Text & Environment on Another Self.
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Selfie: Poetry, Social Change & Ecological Connection presents the first general theory that links poetry in environmental thought to poetry as an environment. James Sherry accomplishes this task with a network model of connectivity that scales from the individual to social to environmental practices. Selfie demonstrates how parts of speech, metaphor, and syntax extend bidirectionally from the writer to the world and from the writer inward to identities that promote sustainable practices. Selfie shows how connections in the biosphere scale up from operating within the body, to social structures, to the networks that science has identified for all life. The book urges readers to construct plural identifications rather than essential claims of identity in support of environmental diversity.
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A modern day treasure hunt to uncover truths about the only unsolved hijacking in US history

• 1 Introduction Gisele Sapiro and Delia Ungureanu
• 2 Critical Writing: The Value and Cost of Pascale Casanova's Combative Ethos Claire Ducournau
• 3 Preface to the 2008 Edition of La Republique mondiale des lettres Pascale Casanova-- translated by David Damrosch
• 4 La Republique mondiale des lettres in the World Republic of Scholarship David Damrosch
• 5 Reading Pascale Casanova's World Republic of Letters in Eastern Europe Magdalena Raduta-- translated by Oana Fotache-Dubalaru
• 6 Heralded Heroes Mads Rosendhal Thomsen
• 7 Pascale Casanova's Exiles Laurent Jeanpierre
• 8 Samuel Beckett and the World Republic of Letters Thirthankar Chakraborty
• 9 For a Theory of Relay Translations Tiphaine Samoyault-- translated by Paul Chouchana
• 10 Linguistic Areas of Literature: Between the World and the Nations Tristan Leperlier
• 11 A Rare Pearl Passed from Hand to Hand: Cosmopolitan Orders and Pre-modern Forms of Literary Domination Michiel Leezenberg
• 12 When Literary Relations End Jing Tsu
• 13 Prizing Francophonie into Existence: The Usurpation of World Literature by the Prix des Cinq Continents Madeline Bedecarre.
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Pascale Casanova's World of Letters and Its Legacies proposes a wide-ranging appraisal of the work, influence and intellectual profile of a major figure in the humanities and social sciences, from sociology to literary theory and criticism. Both a tribute to the life and work of Pascale Casanova and a critical examination of the dissemination of her theoretical ideas around the world and in fields as diverse as world literature, comparative literature, translation studies, and the sociology of literature, the essays selected here are signed by leading scholars in these disciplines including David Damrosch, Claire Ducournau, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Tiphaine Samoyault and Jing Tsu among others.
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• 1. Historical and Cultural Background
• 2. Urban Space and Territoriality
• 3. Tropes of Violence
• 4. Representing Division through Humor
• 5. Between Present, Past and Future Conclusion Bibliography Index.
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Belfast, Beirut and Berlin are notorious for their internal boundaries and borders. As symbols for political disunion, the three cities have inspired scriptwriters and directors from diverse cultural backgrounds. Despite their different histories, they share a wide range of features central to divided cities. In each city, particular territories take on specific symbolic and psychological meanings. Following a comparative approach, this book concentrates on the cinematographic representations of Belfast, Beirut and Berlin. Filmmakers are in constant search for new ways in order to engage with urban division. Making use of a variety of genres reaching from thriller to comedy, they explore the three cities' internal and external borders, as well as the psychological boundaries existing between citizens belonging to different communities. Among the characters featuring in films set in Belfast, Berlin and Beirut we may count dangerous gunmen, prisoners' wives, soldiers and snipers, but also comic Stasi-members, punk aficionados and fake nuns. The various characters contribute to the creation of a multifaceted image of city limits in troubled times.
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• Disc 1: Pilot
• 177 minutes
• 3 stars
• Rose390

• Disc 2: October 31
• Let X=9
• Vatican III
• 2 fathers
• Exorcism part 2

• Disc 3: 7 swans a singin
• Room 320
• Justice x 2 - Book 27

Where does science end and the supernatural begin? That's the mysterious, and dangerous, line explored by skeptical psychologist Kristen Bouchard when she teams up with priest-in training David Acosta to explore the evil humanity is capable of. Together, they dive into the Catholic Church's files of occult phenomena to bring them to rational conclusions...or attempt to

• The Stage of a Nation : The Urban Theater of Madrid
• From Lavapiés to Madrid : The Populist Myth of "Lo castizo"
• The Global Stage of Madrid : The Teatro Valle-Inclán and the Rehabilitation of Lavapiés
• Resisting the Spectacle : The Practiced City of the Laboratorio 03
• The Representational Space of the City : Lavapiés in the Theater

Lavapies - diverse, multicultural, and one of Madrid's most iconic neighbourhoods - has emerged as a locus of resistance movements and of cultural flourishing. Poised at the intersection of theatre studies and cultural geography, this innovative study sketches its physical and imaginary contours. In From the Theater to the Plaza Matthew Feinberg guides readers on a journey through the development of the theatre, as both art and space, in Lavapies. Offering a detailed analysis of dramatic texts and productions, performance spaces, urban planning documents, and the cultural activities of squatters, Feinberg sheds new light on the lead-up to Spain's economic crisis and the emergence in 2011 of the 15-M anti-austerity protest movement. The result is a multidisciplinary account of how the spectacle of the contemporary city connects local, municipal, and global geographies. By linking the neighbourhood's unique role as both a site and a subject of Madrid's theatre tradition with its contemporary struggles over gentrification, From the Theater to the Plaza offers new approaches for understanding how culture and capital produce the twenty-first-century city.
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Writer-turned-comedian Dick Cavett looks back at his relationship with Groucho Marx, sharing footage from his appearances on Cavett's talk show and other rare recordings

• Table of Contents Introduction Chapter One: Framing Disability, Disabling the Frame: The Permeable Aesthetic Distance of The Cripple of Inishmaan Chapter Two: Controlling Disability: Representations of the Elephant Man Chapter Three: Eliminating Disability: American Horror Story's Subtle Preference for Cripping Up Chapter Four: Reframing Disability: Live Performance and Countering the Incorporeal Corpse Chapter Five: Reviewing Disability: Public Taste at Play with Disability Studies Bibliography About the Author.
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In this book, Jason B. Dorwart contends that the material presence of visible disability disrupts the framing devices that provide safe distancing for theatre's fictive nature. Conceptions of disability that place the disabled body into a permanently liminal space between life and death are directly at odds with theatrical performances, which are geared toward moving through liminality into a new point of stasis. Dorwart reveals how this contradiction leads to performance practices that work to marginalize and eliminate the presence of disabled bodies of both character and actor, as disabled characters have historically been written with different character arcs than nondisabled characters and with the assumption that they would be played by nondisabled actors. As more disabled actors gain exposure in film and theatre, the difference in how disabled characters are written is also increasingly affected by whether the role is intended for a disabled or nondisabled actor. These performances are enacting new means to performatively and figuratively reincorporate or eliminate the liminal disabled body. The Incorporeal Corpse demonstrates how recent plays and films try to rectify this tension between the permanence of disability and the transitory nature of performance. Scholars of theatre, disability studies, and performance studies will find this book of particular interest.
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When retiree Jerry Selbee discovers a mathematical loophole in the Massachusetts lottery, he and his wife Marge go on an exciting multi-million dollar winning spree to revive their small Michigan town. But when a selfish college student cheats the system, Jerry must find a way to make the game fair for all

Kate Hudson and Jun Jong Seo star in this mind-bending thriller from visionary director Ana Lily Amirpour. When a struggling single-mother befriends a mysterious mental institute escapee with supernatural powers, she sees a lucrative opportunity to make some fast cash. But when they draw the attention of a detective, their luck starts to run out as the cops close in on their crime-spree

A woman's carefully constructed life is upended when an unwelcome shadow from her past returns, forcing her to confront the monster she's evaded for two decades

• Introduction / Michael Fuller
• Science and religion themes in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust : sin and evolution, panpsychism, and the dangers of 'single vision' / Victoria Lorrimar
• Weird tales : the shifting role of science and religion in literature's search for truth / Alison Jack
• 'Heretical ... dangerous and potentially subversive' : the problem of science and religion in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World / Mark Harris
• Radical plurality : science and religion in the writings of Karl C̆apek / Michael Fuller
• The spirit of nature in natural philosophy and literature from the Cambridge Platonists to Coleridge / Alison Milbank
• The wound of knowledge : R.S. Thomas's cruciform poetics of science and religion / Wilson C.K. Poon
• Cosmic consciousness : Henry James, William James, and the Society for Psychical Research / Mark Eaton
• Marie Corelli's Electric Creed : science, religion, and popular fiction at the end of the Nineteenth Century / David Jasper
• Left behind? : religion as a vestige in 'The Rapture of the Nerds' and other AI singularity literature / Beth Singler
• Can religion save the planet? : looking for hope within the eco-religions of climate fiction / Jaime Wright
• Afterword / Christopher Southgate

This book explores ways in which Western literature has engaged with themes found within the field of science and religion, both historically and in the present day. It focuses on works of the imagination as important locations at which human arguments, hopes and fears may be played out. The chapters examine a variety of instances where scientific and religious ideas are engaged by novelists, poets and dramatists, casting new light upon those ideas and suggesting constructive ways in which science and religion may interact. The contributors cover a rich variety of authors, including Mary Shelley, Aldous Huxley, R. S. Thomas, Philip Pullman and Margaret Atwood. Together they form a fascinating set of reflections on some of the significant issues encountered within the discourse of science and religion, indicating ways in which the insights of creative artists can make a valuable and important contribution to that discourse.
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"Curious, lonely, mournful, haunted, and strangely funny." -Leslie Jamison, author of the NYT bestseller The Empathy Exams In her extraordinary graphic novel-which masterfully incorporates poetry and elements of memoir-Lauren Haldeman layers the warfare of soccer over the battlefields now called Bull Run Regional Park, where, growing up, her soccer team would practice and compete. The park and surrounding town of Fairfax Station Virginia set the landscape for the book, where the narrator regularly encounters spectral visions of wounded soldiers and very real artifacts of war- "wounded wraiths and faceless shapes" float in her hallway at night, and bullet shells, buttons, and human bones surface around the soccer fields in daylight. The narrator turns to poetry and history to make sense of the town and its bloodshed, of its forever attachment to injustice and its inability to restore erased identities. Team Photograph is a journey from research to illumination, and the result is a tender yet powerful reckoning of time and place, proof that the past and the present are inexorably fused together.
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After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a thirteen-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed father, meets a woman with a secret who will force her to use her wits, strengths, and biohacking abilities to fight for the possibility of having a future

• Reason one: Jewish men
• Reason two: the image
• Reason three: the religion
• Reason four: the Jewish state

"T'Challa and Hunter are brothers growing up in the idyllic royal palace of Wakanda. Theirs goes beyond the usual sibling rivalry, though--Hunter, although older, is adopted, and T'Challa is the true heir to the throne. But when tragedy strikes, the two brothers must grow up fast! See the moments that made T'Challa who he is, from his walkabout as a teen where he meets the enchanting Ororo Munroe, to when he first invites the Fantastic Four to Wakanda!"--Provided by publisher

Chicago, 1968. As the city and the nation are on the brink of political upheaval, suburban housewife Joy and her husband and daughter are living the all-American dream. But Joy's tranquil world is shattered when her life-threatening pregnancy forces her to navigate a medical establishment unwilling to help. This impossible situation leads Joy to the 'Janes,' an underground network providing the only available alternative, helmed by fierce advocates Virginia and Gwen, not only saving Joy's life but changing it forever

• Disc one: The heirs of the dragon; The rogue prince
• Disc two: Second of his name; King of the narrow sea; We light the way
• Disc three: The princess and the queen; Driftmark; The lord of the tides
• Disc four: The green council; The black queen

"Set 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones, the series finds the Targaryens ruling over the Seven Kingdoms -- and on the brink of civil war within their own house. Prior to the birth of a son, King Viserys sent shockwaves through the kingdom and declared his daughter, Rhaenyra, his heir. Once a healthy boy entered the picture, plans were afoot to make sure she would never sit on the Iron Throne. Now, with schemes hatched on both sides -- and the kingdom in the balance -- viewers will see the house that dragons built and learn how they tore it all down" --Container

It explores the friendship between two struggling single mothers: one a working-class white woman who ascends to the top of the business world, and the other her Black housekeeper, whose life is shattered by the rejection of her rebellious, white-passing daughter. It is this latter relationship attuned to America's bitter racial realities and heartbreakingly enacted by trailblazing Black performers Beavers and Washington that lends the film its transcendent emotional power. This first adaptation of Fannie Hurst's best-selling novel boldly confronts the complexities and contradictions of racial identity, economic exploitation, and the limits of the American dream

• Introduction
• Part One: A Brief History of Public Reading
• Part Two: Case Stuides, France/USA

"Today, public readings have become a vital part of any form of literary life. Orality is the keyword of contemporary writing. Yet do we know what actually happen when a poetic text is read out loud? How are signs on a page transformed into a stage performance? What does it mean to move from a text for the eye to sounds and images presented in front of a living and actively participating audience? This book does answer these questions, but not in abstract or general terms .It looks instead at how authors themselves live this experience of reading out loud and how they write about it in their fiction (for the scene of a poet taking to floor in order to read her or his work to various kinds of audiences is a scene that frequently occurs in modern fiction). Taking its departure from Balzac, whose Lost Illusions contain the Ur-version of the public poetry reading, this books revisits a wide range of masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century literature, including works by Marcel Proust (Remembrance of Things Past) and James Joyce (The Dead), and then reaches out to contemporary practices, in literature as well as in cinema and the graphic novel. This book also contains a series of close readings of contemporary artists (poets, performers, directors, comics authors) who try to invent new forms of public reading that do not reject the written and visual aspects of their texts in order to strike the right balance between classic print culture and new orality"-- Provided by publisher

• Part 1: Crisis as Tragedy and Judgment 1. Tragedy and Crisis: Staging Forced Displacement and Its Reluctant Hero Yana Meerzon 2. Beyond Suffering or Resolution: Tragedy and the Twenty-First Century Collective Experience Avra Sidiropoulou 3. Prophets Needed: Five Easy Pieces and La Reprise: Histoire(s) du theatre (I) by Milo Rau Carol Martin estimony 1.1. Avra Sidiropoulou in Conversation with Daniel Wetzel of Rimini Protokoll estimony 1.2. Cards of Identities (Poetic luxury) Hanane Hajj Ali estimony 1.3. Chorus and Crisis in the Contemporary United States Peter Campbell
• Part 2: Texts and Contexts of Crisis: Power/lessness, Precarity and Identity Politics 4. Caesar Must (Not) Die. Italian Political 'Caesars' in the New Millennium Silvia Bigliazzi 5. Leaving the world good or leaving a better world? Theatre and crisis through the lenses of Bertolt Brecht Aldo Milohnic 6. Tragic and Post-tragic Representations of Precarity in Twenty-First-Century U.S. Drama: Fractured Togetherness in Lynn Nottage's Sweat and Annie Baker's The Flick Ana Fernandez Caparros 7. Modern African Drama in Crisis? Two African Authors in Search of Identity Taiwo Afolabi, Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah and Ogah Mark Onwe
• Part 3: Stage Narratives of Failure or Visions of a Better World? Bankrupt States, Violent Cities, Global Resistance Civic Consciousness and the Poetics of Participation 8. "Theatre remains traditionalist and Eurocentric." About Milo Rau's "theatre of crisis" Freddy Decreus 9. "How Many More Thousands of Years?": Dystopia, Otherness, and the Greek Crisis in the Work of Three Contemporary Greek Dramatists Constantina Ziropoulou 10. Theatre as Assembly: 'Theatre Commons' Radical Dramaturgy Tadashi Uchino 11. Marca Espana. Making Theatre from Precarity, State Violence and Fiesta Ana Contreras Elvira estimony 3.1. Aoidoi of a Country's Living History Lupe Gehrenbech
• Part 4: Reflections on the Covid 19 Pandemic and the Crisis of the Anthropocene 12. For the theatre of the Anthropocene Frank Raddatz Testimony 4.1. Theatre in Covid imes: A Report from Greece Anestis Azas Testimony 4.2. All is related to Me Su Xiaogang Testimony 4.3. Plays (we never staged) to survive Miguel Rojo and Javier Hernando (Los Barbaros) Testimony 4.4. Troy Too [Original playscript] Karen Malpede (Theatre Three Collaborative).
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An international collection of essays by leading academics, artists, writers, and curators examining ways in which the global tragedies of our century are being negotiated in current theatre practice Includes discussion on how dramaturgy and performance today have tackled specific forms of crisis that seem inherent to the 21st century Includes essays, provocations, interviews, original works, and diaries by theatre artists.
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The boundless imagination of Terry Gilliam yields a dazzling fantasy of epic proportions. Inspired by the extravagant exploits of the fabled Baron Munchausen, this spectacle born of a famously turbulent production follows the whimsical eighteenth-century nobleman as he embarks on an outlandish quest that takes him from faraway lands to the moon to the belly of a sea monster and beyond, meanwhile waging battle against a vengeful sultan and the tyranny of logic

• Introduction 1 Impressionist cinema: the 'psychological films' 2 Avant-garde cinema: pure cinema and dada/surrealist films 3 Documentary cinema: France-Actualites and beyond Conclusion Index
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One of the few women pioneers of cinema and a committed feminist, Germaine Dulac strongly believed that the public had a role to play in shaping the history of cinema and the kinds of films that filmmakers could make. This book draws on a wealth of archival material - both films and writing - to study Dulac's 'behind the scenes' work on filmmaking and her social/political activism in the field of cinema. The biographical and historical introduction contextualises Dulac's situation at the heart of the avant-garde. Three chapters organise her films and career around the kinds of cinema that she promoted: 'psychological', 'pure' and 'documentary'. The conclusion contrasts Dulac's contributions with those of Alice Guy Blache, another early woman film pioneer, highlighting their differing paths to recognition. -- .
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• Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction - Literature and Theory: Contemporary Signposts and Critical Surveys SK SAGIR ALI PART I Myth Criticism 1 Portrait of Mythical and Archetypal Colour: A Reading of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man DEBADITYA MUKHOPADHYAY PART II Poststructuralism and Deconstruction 2 Emily Dickinson's "Nature": A Poetic Metaphoricity and the Power of a Poststructuralist Hermeneutic MOUSUMI GUHA BANERJEE 3 Narrating the "New City/ies": Urban Studies in Literature and Cityscapes in Graphic Novels SUBASHISH BHATTACHARJEE 4 "To Save the Tale From the Artist": A Deconstructive Reading of Lawrence's Sons and Lovers SANKAR PRASAD SINGHA 5 Orpheus's Gaze and the Blanchotian Literature of the Unword: Locating the Ethical Finitudes of the Il y a in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot SWAYAMDIPTA DAS PART III Psychoanalytic Criticism 6 The Whore and the Virgin: Sexual Non-Rapport in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot and Dialectics of the Obsessional Subject DEEPTESH SEN 7 Truth in Literature: Lacan's Joyce and the Question of Applied Psychoanalysis DIPANJAN MAITRA 8 Rewriting the Psychotic Other of Author-Function in Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake 93 ARKA CHATTOPADHYAY PART IV Queer Theory 9 "He Had Beauty, Though": The Queerness of Ruskin Bond's Delhi Is Not Far NILADRI R. CHATTERJEE PART V Reader-Response Criticism 10 The Problematic of Reading: The Intra-Textual Readers in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead MAMATA SENGUPTA PART VI New Historicism 11 Revisiting the Rushdiean peeling, fragmenting palimpsest called Pakistan: A New Historicist-Feminist Approach NASIMA ISLAM PART VII Marxism 12 Marxism and Literary Thought: A View ANAND PRAKASH PART VIII Postcolonialism 13 "This Is Not Knowledge
• This Is Vanity": Phrenology and the Mimicry of Western Science in Amitav Ghosh's The Circle of Reason SAKOON SINGH PART IX Cultural Study 14 Politics of Purity and Pollution: A Study of Cultural Voyeurism in Kanthapura SK SAGIR ALI 15 Abuse, Coercion, and Power in Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild" SHILADITYA SEN PART X Translation Study 16 Intermediality and Translation: Pedagogical Possibilities TUTUN MUKHERJEE Index.
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This book: * Examines popular texts from syllabi to apply literary theory * Looks at major schools in critical theory - structuralism, poststructuralism, myth criticism, queer theory, feminism, Marxist critical thought, new historicism, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, deconstruction * Includes Western and non-Western texts * Will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literary and critical theory, culture studies and postcolonialism.
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"An utterly unique collection composed by the award-winning writer, a global anthology of pieces from lesser-known classics by luminaries like Franz Kafka, Samuel R. Delany, and Gwendolyn Brooks to up-and-coming writers, that examine the politics of pathos and feeling, giving a well-timed rehab to the word "pathetic". "Literature is pathetic." So claims Eileen Myles in their bold and bracing introduction to Pathetic Literature, an exuberant collection of pieces ranging from poetry to theater to prose to something in between, all of which explore those so-called "pathetic" or sensitive feelings around which lives are built and revolutions are incited. Myles first reclaimed the word for a seminar they taught at the University of California, San Diego, rescuing it from the derision into which it had slipped and restoring its original meaning of inspiring emotion or feeling, from the ancient Greek rhetorical method pathos. Their reinvention of "pathetic" formed the bedrock for this anthology, which includes a breathtaking 105 contributors, encompassing titans of global literature like Robert Walser, Jorge Luis Borges, Rumi, and Gwendolyn Brooks, queer icons and revolutionaries like Dodie Bellamy, Samuel R. Delany, and Bob Flanagan, as well as the invigorating newness and excitement of writers on the rise, including Nicole Wallace, Precious Okoyomon, and Will Farris. Creative nonfiction by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Jack Halberstam, and Porochista Khakpour rubs shoulders with poetry by Natalie Diaz, Victoria Chang, Lucille Clifton, and Ariana Reines, all joined by prose from Chester Himes, Djuna Barnes, Chris Kraus, and Qiu Miaojin, among so many others. The result is a matchless anthology that is as much an ongoing dialogue as an essential compendium of queer, revolutionary, joyful, and always moving literature. From confrontations with suffering, embarrassment, and disquiet, to the comforts and consolations of finding one's familiar double in a poem, Pathetic Literature is a swarming taxonomy of ways to think differently and live pathetically on a polarized and fearful planet"-- Provided by publisher

It is the 4th century B.C.E in Greece. Hipparchia is about to marry the rich son of a family friend when she meets Crates. As the wedding day approaches, Hipparchia becomes increasingly captivated by the views and way of life of this strange philosopher who lives on the streets. Gradually she starts to realize that the safe, comfortable, and cushioned life of luxury that has been mapped out for her is actually one of emptiness, and spiritual imprisonment. Crates and Hipparchia came to develop a central strand of the so-called "Cynical" movement in Athenian philosophy - so-named for the dog-like tenacity or canine fury of their rejection of all conventional values. One of their fundamental principles was that we can only attain true happiness if we are independent of material possessions and social position. Hipparchia was a strong woman who had the courage to live by her own ideals, despite all the prevailing prejudices of her time. Her story continues to speak to ours.
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