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Coined in the early 1990s to describe a burgeoning film movement, "New Queer Cinema" has turned the attention of film theorists, students, and audiences, to the proliferation of intelligent, stylish, and daring work by lesbian and gay filmmakers within independent cinema and to the proliferation of "queer" images and themes within the mainstream. Why did this transition take place? Was it political gains, cultural momentum, or market forces that energized the evolution and transformation of this cinematic genre?
The volume is divided into four sections: defining "new queer cinema," assessing its filmmakers, examining geographic and national differences, and theorizing spectatorship. Chapters address the pivotal directors (Todd Haynes and Gregg Araki) and salient films (Paris is Burning, Boys Don't Cry), as well as nonmainstream and non-Anglo-American work (experimental filmmaking and third world cinema). With a critical eye to its uneasy relationship to the mainstream, New Queer Cinema explores the aesthetic, sociocultural, political, and, necessarily, commercial investments of the movement. Although there are certainly other books on gay and lesbian issues in film, this is the first full-length study of recent developments in queer cinema, combining indispensable discussions of central issues with exciting new work by key writers.
Features
-Provides a definitive introduction to New Queer Cinema
-Clear structure with each section addressing a key topic in the study of New Queer Cinema
-Themes covered include genre, gender and race, politics, media, and the relationship between New Queer Cinema and the mainstream.
Book Description
Queer Cinema, the Film Reader examines the relationship between cinematic representations of sexuality and their social, historical, and industrial contexts. Divided into an introductory overview and four topic areas, the reader explores how recent critical thinking has approached queer sexualities in relation to the cinema.
The four sections discuss
* Authorship - examining the role of sexuality in the work of queer filmmakers such as George Cukor, Dorothy Arzner, Barbara Hammer, and the directors of New Queer Cinema
* Forms - exploring how genres such as the horror film, the musical, film noir, and the animated film construct queer cinematic spaces
*Camp - looking at how this reception strategy and mode of textual production, initially practiced by pre-Stonewall queers, retains its critical charge even in contemporary mainstream popular culture
*Reception - considering three specific historical case studies of how queer fans have interacted with media texts from Judy Garland to Star Trek.
The reader concludes with an essay that queerly rethinks classical gaze theory.
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Queer Screen: The Screen Reader (The Screen Readers)
Stacey/Street
Manufacturer: Routledge
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Queer Screen contains articles published in Screen between 1990 and 2004, spanning the period during which queer studies and the `New Queer Cinema' flourished. It will include ground-breaking articles by Teresa de Lauretis, Chris Straayer, and Andy Medhurst, and will address issues of bodies and technologies, as well as reprinting the debate, spanning several issues of the journal, about the `queer' movie `Boys Don't Cry.'
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This digital document is an article from Film Criticism, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2006. The length of the article is 1386 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: New Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader.(Book review)
Author: Kyle Stevens
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Film Criticism (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 31
Issue: 1-2
Page: 173(4)
Article Type: Book review
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In Ways of Listening, musicologist Eric Clarke explores musical meaning, music's critical function in human lives, and the relationship between listening and musical material. Clarke outlines an "ecological approach" to understanding the perception of music, arguing that the way we hear and understand music is not simply a function of our brain structure or of the musical "codes" given to us by culture, but must be considered within the physical and social contexts of listening.
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This well-constructed introductory book is a companion volume to Waugh's Classical Music: A New Way of Listening, sharing with it a format of many handsome pictures, a time line, basic plots and notes on popular arias and a more than 70-minute compact disc of some of the music discussed in the book.
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This is a beautifully wrought introduction to classical music, aimed squarely at the neophyte and replete with time lines and lots of handsome photographs. It is accompanied by a 70+ minute compact disc with musical snippets to illustrate the text. It is a companion volume to Waugh's Opera: A New Way of Listening.
Customer Reviews:
Simple and To the Point.......2000-05-08
Waugh has put together a beautiful book that describes what classical music is all about, with fine visual art to accompany the characteristics of the pieces/composers. Waugh is not a snob about classical music (and aptly describes the music snobs one may encounter). The only drawback is that the music excerpts are mostly quiet, pastoral pieces; wish he had put in more variety of classical works with thunder and lightening.
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Music, ways of listening
Elliott Schwartz
Manufacturer: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
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ASIN: 0030446767 |
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This digital document is an article from Opera Canada, published by Opera Canada Publications on December 22, 2001. The length of the article is 1669 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Listening for the Verdi style: Looking back over the legacy on record, asks how the art of singing Verdi has changed along the way.(interpretations of Giuseppe Verdi's works throughout 20th century)
Author: Richard Turp
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Opera Canada (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2001
Publisher: Opera Canada Publications
Volume: 42
Issue: 4
Page: 16(2)
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This digital document is an article from Colorlines Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on July 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1445 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Listening up: music production has blossomed as a way for young people to tune out of corporate radio and into their own creativity.
Author: Momo Chang
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Colorlines Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 9
Issue: 2
Page: 47(2)
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- Frank rules...........
- The Way You Wear Your Hat:Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin'
- The Man!
- If You Don't Want to Hear Any More About Sinatra...
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The Way You Wear Your Hat
Bill Zehme
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Within is a masterful assembly of the most personal details and gorgeous minutiae of Frank Sinatra's way of living--matters of the heart and heartbreak, friendship and leadership, drinking and cavorting, brawling and wooing, tuxedos and snap-brims--all crafted from rare interviews with Sinatra himself as well as many other intimates, including Tony Bennett, Don Rickles, Angie Dickinson, Tony Curtis, and Robert Wagner, in addition to daughters Nancy and Tina Sinatra. Illustrated with scores of photos, The Way You Wear Your Hat captures the timeless romance and classic style of the fifties and the loose sixties and is a stunning exploration of the Sinatra mystique.
Customer Reviews:
Frank rules..................2007-01-10
I bought this book for my boyfriend. He loves Frank Sinatra. I gave it to him at Christmas along with a fedora (like Frank wears on the cover of the book). He read the whole book on Christmas. He said it was great!
"Cock your hat- angles are attitudes"~Frank Sinatra
The Way You Wear Your Hat:Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin'.......2006-11-10
The pictures are black and white, I would have preferred colored photos.
The Man!.......2006-09-15
If I could trade places with anyone in history in would be Frank Sinatra.
This book shows you the man and his unmatched charm,wit,and his overwelliming appeal,not just to beautiful woman but to everyone he met.
I opened it and read it it one sitting.
If you are a Sinatra fan,you gotta read this,and then read it again.
However,it does help if you have some background of Sinatra to appreciate it fully.
Loved it!!!
If You Don't Want to Hear Any More About Sinatra..........2005-08-18
...don't read the dang book!
Sinatra's place in our cultural history is so much admired, to the point of worship, that one group tolerates no criticism of him at all. And there are those just as happy to see anything which demolishes his legend, taking him down to the petty, nasty, egomaniacal person he was.
This book fits much more into the first category, for sure. Lots of pictures. A whole chapter titled "Broads."
So, what's not to like? Sinatra was not as nasty a father as, say, Bing Crosby, but he is quoted in the book as saying this:
"You've got to hug your kids. Kids ought to be hugged and kissed and all that good stuff. You have to stay close to them closer than ever. You must give them affection and love, or they break away."
Some swinger, eh?
Stop Complaining.......2005-06-05
There are obviously a lot of people out there who love hating Frank Sinatra.Kitty Kelly writes a filthy book thousands of Sinatra-haters swoon over,and Bill Zehme writes a fabulous book for the FANS that everyone complains about.Maybe Zehme's stories aren't all true.At least HE puts in the "alledgedly."
In any case-it's a beautiful book.It's an appreciation of an undeniably tremendous life and way of life,and on those grounds,it succeeds all the way.Yes,it does tend to gloss over the Mob relations and those legends of cruelty that have persisted so long.His Way glossed over the innumerable charitable acts and legends of kindness that have persisted so long.What do YOU want to believe?
Even if you're one of those idiot Sinatra haters,you gotta admit this is one entertaining book.Many of the anecdotes are hilarious(Rat Pack) and the sadder ones(Ava,ect.)are seemingly truthful and well-written.I do admit,I've heard most of these stories from a different source,and often in a different and darker light than taken here,but they're still the same facts,and VERY entertaingly recounted.
If you start this book prejudiced by that sad,monstrous image many of those dish-the-dirt biographies have painted of Sinatra,sure,you're gonna complain just like the rest-you want the TRUTH.What,may I ask,IS the truth?Like I said before,too many people love to hate their idols.Biographers have tried to tear down Marilyn Monroe,Elizabeth Taylor,the Kennedys,Rock Hudson,James Dean,Ava Gardner,Cary Grant,Joan Crawford,Judy Garland,Betty Davis, and are probably working on inventing a juicy scandal for Jimmy Stewart,but Frank Sinatra has been these rats' favorite target since he socked Lee Mortimer in 1947.There were not two Sinatras.You can either believe the scandal sheets and gossippy headlines that made the authors a ton of money and made Frank Sinatra the Monster that sells papers,or,you can belive this.A human,funny,admiring portrait of a VERY human man.The Frank Sinatra here is not the vicious loser described so cruelly by Kitty Kelly,but he's not an angel either.He's a person, who's supreme talent and famous controversy made a Legend.A generous,thoughtful,intelligent individual,who undoubtedly made more than his share of mistakes,but more than made up for them.Bill Zehme's miraculous book may not tell the WHOLE story,but it comes closer than anything I've ever read.I guess no one ever knew or will know exactly WHO Sinatra was.I suppose the only chance of that died when Sinatra did.But the world has its pick of possible Sinatras.And this is the best one of them all.A truly magnificent book.
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... in a handbasket. The year is 2064, and all is not well. A struggling megacorp makes a drastic decision to stave off impending doom. A psychopathic artifical intelligence thought to be dead rises again, attempting to take over the entire Matrix. And behind the scenes, apocalyptic terrorists prepare to strike at key points around the world, completing their first steps towards a vision of Armageddon. Across the globe, shadowrunners find themselves caught up in these events?how will their actions impact the Sixth World? System Failure details the events leading up to and following these dramatic, world-shaking events. In addition to in-depth treatments of the three main plotlines and adventure frameworks for involving the runners in each, it also details numerous aftershocks and spin-off events, with scenario suggestions for how runners can play a role in the years to come. For use with Shadowrun. System Failure is set in 2064, and exposes the events that lead to the technology changes that paved the way for Shadowrun, Fourth Edition.
Customer Reviews:
Poor, poor writing. .......2006-10-31
Just like most Shadowrun source books the premise it explores is very interesting and makes for not only great gaming ideas, but great science fiction. However the way this book was written and put together is a mess. This is sad considering how pivotal the events are that are portrayed. Still it is what it is.
System Failure encompasses various events that culminate into the rewriting of how things are done on the Matrix (fictional Internet on steriods for you non-SRunners out there). Novatech, a major player in the corporate world, goes public with their company and a massive surge of buy/sell happen. Deus, the powerful AI from the Renraku Shutdown sourcebook intends to recreate itself. A viscious computer worm infects the Matrix, trying to create another Crash. The cultish minions of Winternight (from the Threats sourcebook) finally enact their carefully prepared plan to bring Ragnarok on Earth. These things all happen apparently at once. Am I spoiling it for you? Not really. System Failure can't stop blabbing about it either.
The main problem with this sourcebook is it repeats itself. Over and over again. It's like I'm reading the same data at least three times. All of the events I described you get reported to you as if you work for the Government, in triplicate or more. This makes reading the book tedious. Instead of making one section for each event each section talks about all the events, most of the time repeating past information. Some sections try to play off as a post from Shadowland, but they don't do a very good job with the banter.
There are no adventures in this sourcebook per se, but they do give some detailed suggestions for runs. This part of the book is actually pretty good. It's almost like getting just the adventure synopsis from one of the old Shadowrun adventures and you fill in the blanks as a game master. Not bad for a sourcebook.
So should you get this or not? I can't tell you enough how messed up the writing is on this book. You can probably cut a good 1/3 off of the content and not miss a step. However, like I previously said, it's a good plot premise. I say get the book, but don't go out of your way to do it. Find it at a bargain price, and you're golden.
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Response Television: Combat Advertising of the 1980's
John Witek
Manufacturer: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
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