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Yash Chopra is one of the most charismatic and powerful directors in the Indian film industry, his name synonymous with the glamour of the romantic film and a style within Indian culture. Spanning four decades, his directed features include some of the classic films of Indian film history such as Deewaar and Kabhi Kabhie. This book discusses his work with the Hindi megastar Amitabh Bachchan in films such as Deewaar, Trishul, Kaala Patthar, and Silsila. Rachel Dwyer shows how Yash Chopra has been a tireless innovator and has changed the look of mainstream cinema.
Dwyer integrates her analysis with information about the man and his work she gleaned from interviews with Yash Chopra, his family, his colleagues, his stars, his contemporaries, and major critics. A unique study of a top contemporary Indian film director, this book also looks at influences on Chopra.
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Disappointing look at a romantic genius.......2004-04-14
Rachel Dwyer spend many months interviewing Yash Chopra and his circle, accompanying him on film shoots, and meeting his extended family and the crew that has served him so well over many years. In a way, to use White House parlance, she has become "embedded" with her subject, to disappointing results. She seems unable to utter a single negative thing about "Yashji," perhaps due to this artificial, extended closeness, and her critical pronouncements suffer from a similar vagueness of effect. I am left unpersuaded that Yash Chopra's genius lies in his ability to reinvent himself a la Picasso for succeeding generations, or is it that (again like Picasso) he just has stayed around for longer than anybody else? Dwyer is far from helpful--just the reverse. Her book seems designed to confuse and delude the reader. There are several beautiful photographs among the pages, but you could practically visit Bollywood yourself for the price of this insanely overpriced volume. Instead, rent a few of Yash Chopra's movies and you'll feel the difference between a tenuous analysis and a life-changing artistic experience.
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Exile and Pride
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THE MOUNTAIN
I: A Metaphor
The mountain as metaphor looms large in the lives of marginalized people, people whose bones get crushed in the grind of capitalism, patriarchy, white supremacy. How many of us have struggled up the mountain, measured ourselves against the mountain, failed on the mountain, lived in the shadow of the mountain, hit our heads on glass ceilings, tried to climb the class ladder, lost the fight against assimilation, struggled our way toward that phantom called normality?
We hear from the summit that the world is the best from up there. Hear that we are lazy, stupid, weak, ugly, that we live at the bottom precisely because we are those things. We decide to climb that mountain, or make a pact that our children will climb it. The climbing turns out to be unimaginably difficult. We are afraid; every time we look ahead we can find nothing remotely familiar or comfortable. We lose the trail. Our wheelchairs get stuck. We speak the wrong languages with the wrong accents, wear the wrong clothes, carry our bodies the wrong ways, ask the wrong questions, love the wrong people. And it's goddamn lonely up there on the mountain. We decide to stop climbing and build a new house right where we are. Or we decide to climb back down to the people we love where the food, the clothes, the dirt, the sidewalk, the steaming asphalt under our feet, our crutches all feel right. Or we find the path again, decide to continue climbing only to have the very people who told us how wonderful life is at the summit booby trap the trail. They burn the bridge over the impassable canyon. They redraw our topo maps so that we end up walking in circles. They send their goons-those working-class and poor people they employ as their official brutes-to push us over the edge. Maybe we get to the summit but p
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Brings the hybridity of living..........2007-09-02
This book was required reading for a class on countering oppressions. It is a beautiful story of the mixity of living with multiple marginalized ways of being in the world. In particular, it relays the story of oppression through looking at embodied ways of existence. What does it mean to live in the world and how do we heal from systems that continually go against the embodied experiences of so many of us. Zi is a powerful author with great descriptive imagery. I highly recommend this book!
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No discussion -- just the answers!!!.......2002-12-02
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ASP is the future of the web. If you're looking for a way to create attractive, intelligent web pages or, if you're just looking for a way to extend your HTML know-how, then ASP is an effective way to achieve your goals. With ASP, you can customize your web pages to be more dynamic, more efficient and more responsive to your users. It's not just a technology, though — to get the best out of ASP, you'll be using it in tandem with HTML, and with one or more of the web's simple scripting languages. The book will teach you everything you need to create useful real-world applications on the web.
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Great ASP book!.......2007-02-05
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The beginning of the book discusses what software you will need to get started which basically is either IIS (Internet Information Serve) or PWS (Personal web Server) in a Windows environment. How to install, test and configure the web server is discussed as well as setting up user permissions and virtual directories. This is a great starter to making sure the reader has all the information to get started on creating their first ASP web page.
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The book then goes into send and receiving data from web forms in showing the reader some very useful but basic examples to get you started. The book covers in the next few chapters (4 - 5), in detail the basics of VBScript language such as variables, operators, strings, arrays, control statements (if, case, loops) and functions. The next chapter (6), goes into the concept of objects, methods, properties and events which explain to the user that almost everything is an object in ASP and the importance of this fact as well. Some OOP concepts such as encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism are reviewed with some nice examples.
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Excellent book for bringing you up to speed.......2005-06-24
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One of the best introductory books ever.......2004-03-15
This text is so packed with information, it even goes beyond asp and introduces XML and COM+....so well written, so concise, publishers throughtout the country need to learn from wrox' writers on how to do technical books right! Every bit of code is explained in great detail, and while there are some errors, the website covers nearly all of them. Case in point: I won't be selling my copy back!
An Essential For Beginners.......2004-02-25
All programming books are both overwritten and underwritten.
When you begin reading and learning the content is simply too much. As you progress you find yourself seeking other resources for "filler" information.
I didn't realize until I grew frustrated with the book how effective it was. I had gone from a complete beginner to someone who could put together access driven web applications and I didn't even realize how far I had come.
I now have over 30 programming and database books that is use as resource guides for particular problems etc. Each book helps me get past a certain problem/hurdle. Like a lawyers library I couldn't proceed without it.
That is simply the nature of programming these days. We beginners often underestimate the amount of knowledge expert programmers have. The trick is to take what we can from each resource. In order to progress we must keep adding to the resource collection.
This book is the staple of my collection. I refer to it almost daily and as my knowledge base expands I find myself making better use of it.
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