Author : Fred Perry
Publisher : Antarctic Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 18,63 MB
Release :
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN :
Peegi creates AI model personifications of "Reality" and "Physics," two gals who at first encourage Gina, who is surprised at their appearance but delighted at their support. But when Gina starts to "feel herself," they turn into sniggering, trolling hecklers who don't cut her an inch of slack! Gina quickly decides she's better off deleting these two "helpful" A.I. personas, but she can't find their exact location in her core computer's memory!
Author : Brian Donovan
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 20,1 MB
Release : 2020-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1469660296
The stereotype of the "gold digger" has had a fascinating trajectory in twentieth-century America, from tales of greedy flapper-era chorus girls to tabloid coverage of Anna Nicole Smith and her octogenarian tycoon husband. The term entered American vernacular in the 1910s as women began to assert greater power over courtship, marriage, and finances, threatening men's control of legal and economic structures. Over the course of the century, the gold digger stereotype reappeared as women pressed for further control over love, sex, and money while laws failed to keep pace with such realignments. The gold digger can be seen in silent films, vaudeville jokes, hip hop lyrics, and reality television. Whether feared, admired, or desired, the figure of the gold digger appears almost everywhere gender, sexuality, class, and race collide. This fascinating interdisciplinary work reveals the assumptions and disputes around women's sexual agency in American life, shedding new light on the cultural and legal forces underpinning romantic, sexual, and marital relationships.
Author : Fred Perry
Publisher : Antarctic Press
Page : pages
File Size : 24,44 MB
Release :
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN :
Brianna takes Zan to visit her folks, Theo and Julia, who are attending a great ceremonial banquet in Jade-Realm. Naturally, she's nervous about breaking the "expecting a baby" news to Mom, who's not convinced Zan's father material. Since the banquet's in Barbarian territory and Julia's a clan elder, she demands Zan face the ancient "Groom Trial" ritual for Brianna's hand!
Author : Mike Helm
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,42 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0805021442
Discusses the effects of pedigree on the performance of thoroughbred race horses and the methods used in breeding them, focusing on Kentucky's Claiborne Farm, America's premier thoroughbred breeding stable.
Author : Rick Altman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 26,45 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253205148
"... a model of genre criticism and probably the best overall analysis of the film musical to date." Journal of Popular Films and Television "The American Film Musical is a truly admirable book which is well worth making a song and dance about. It will immediately assume biblical authority for all who are seriously interested in the dream-factory's most lavish fantasies, and it may even come to stand as a landmark in our understanding of Hollywood as a whole.... Altman's book is thorough, well informed and warmly good-humored. It has brought the study of musical films out of the dark ages." Times Literary Supplement "... an important addition to both literature and film collections.... a landmark study." Library Journal "Altman's important study of the American film musical combines genre theory with film criticism and history.... Recommended... " Choice The American Film Musical is at once the most advanced statement on genre theory and the most complete treatment of the American musical. Altman's unique interweaving of theory, history, and criticism represents an original and challenging contribution to film studies. Illustrated with over 200 frame enlargements and production stills.
Author : Mike Valla
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 36,57 MB
Release : 2016-09-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0811765326
The classic bucktails--Mickey Finn, Black Nose Dace--are some of the very first flies that anglers learn to tie, and they are the most well-traveled of all streamer types, from Maine to Washington, trout to salmon. With over 500 patterns, this is the only book to date written on bucktails as well as other hairwing streamers.
Author : Tom Pollard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 32,37 MB
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317252209
Sex and Violence examines the history and social dynamics of film censorship in the United States. It examines censorship controversies throughout film history, from the beginning of cinema in the 1890s to the present. The book focuses both on formal censorship systems, including state and local censorship boards and industry self-regulation efforts, to unofficial censorship rendered by pressure groups and powerful social movements. It probes beneath the official rhetoric and explanations, revealing sensitive, festering controversies. The book critically examines dozens of Hollywood's most controversial (and interesting) movies, focusing on recurring issues and censorship themes. The book reveals the social and political processes of vetting films and their effect on film form and content. In addition, it examines the use of sexuality and violence in movies and the effects of movie censorship on those issues. Finally, it analyzes and makes recommendations for dramatic changes in motion picture ratings.
Author : William Emmett Studwell
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 28,41 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780789009142
Benny Goodman, Cab Calloway, Count Basie, The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, and Glenn Miller were musical masters of their eras, enchanting and romancing audiences with their timeless classics. Relive these wonderful songs and memories through The Big Band Reader: Songs Favored by Swing Era Orchestras and Other Popular Ensembles, a unique and exciting collection of over 140 songs from over 70 bands that are categorized by themes, preferred numbers, and top songs! Paying tribute to better known swing bands, sweet bands (ensembles favoring softer, more sentimental numbers), and some unheralded bands (good ensembles that did not receive much attention or did not have a well-known leader), this book contains up to four essays relating to specific groups and their popular hits, giving readers historical and informative facts about the songs and the people who performed them.
Author : David A. Comstock
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Susan A. Glenn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,87 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0674037669
When the French actress Sarah Bernhardt made her first American tour in 1880, the term feminism had not yet entered our national vocabulary. But over the course of the next half-century, a rising generation of daring actresses and comics brought a new kind of woman to center stage. Exploring and exploiting modern fantasies and fears about female roles and gender identity, these performers eschewed theatrical convention and traditional notions of womanly modesty. They created powerful images of themselves as ambitious, independent, and sexually expressive New Women. Female Spectacle reveals the theater to have been a powerful new source of cultural authority and visibility for women. Ironically, theater also provided an arena in which producers and audiences projected the uncertainties and hostilities that accompanied changing gender relations. From Bernhardt's modern methods of self-promotion to Emma Goldman's political theatrics, from the female mimics and Salome dancers to the upwardly striving chorus girl, Glenn shows us how and why theater mattered to women and argues for its pivotal role in the emergence of modern feminism.
