Carnival Desires

Author : Mark Lindquist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780871133601
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carnival Desires written by Mark Lindquist and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brat pack of ambitious young Hollywood actors and executives struggle to preserve their careers, and their loves, in an environment that encourages early burnout

Author : Mark Lindquist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carnival Desires written by Mark Lindquist and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mike Presdee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134554583
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime written by Mike Presdee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to make sense of the current increase in violence, cruelty, hate and humiliation, arguing that an overly organised economic world has provoked desire for extreme forms of popular and personal pleasure.

Author : Barbara Heron
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554580986
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desire for Development written by Barbara Heron and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2007-12-04 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Desire for Development: Whiteness, Gender, and the Helping Imperative, Barbara Heron draws on poststructuralist notions of subjectivity, critical race and space theory, feminism, colonial and postcolonial studies, and travel writing to trace colonial continuities in the post-development recollections of white Canadian women who have worked in Africa. Following the narrative arc of the development worker story from the decision to go overseas, through the experiences abroad, the return home, and final reflections, the book interweaves theory with the words of the participants to bring theory to life and to generate new understandings of whiteness and development work. Heron reveals how the desire for development is about the making of self in terms that are highly raced, classed, and gendered, and she exposes the moral core of this self and its seemingly paradoxical necessity to the Other. The construction of white female subjectivity is thereby revealed as contingent on notions of goodness and Othering, played out against, and constituted by, the backdrop of the NorthSouth binary, in which Canada’s national narrative situates us as the “good guys” of the world.

Author : Jane Arthurs
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441104526
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Bodies written by Jane Arthurs and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this volume consider the prevailing standards of feminine decorum, and how these are being played with and challenged by various media. This is a collection of essays which focuses on the representation of women's bodies in historical and contemporary cultures. It discusses recent books on the subject, and compares the two different approaches to the body adopted by the soft-porn magazine "For Women", and the women's monthly "Cosmopolitan". It also examines TV cult figures, such as the "comic body" exemplified by comedienne Joe Brand, and situation comedies such as "Absolutely Fabulous".

Author : Ronald D. Lankford
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 081304782X
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sleigh Rides, Jingle Bells, and Silent Nights written by Ronald D. Lankford and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Bing Crosby’s "White Christmas" debuted in 1942, no one imagined that a holiday song would top the charts year after year. One of the best-selling singles ever released, it remains on rotation at tree lighting ceremonies across the country, in crowded shopping malls on Black Friday, and at warm diners on lonely Christmas Eve nights. Over the years, other favorites have been added to America’s annual playlist, including Elvis Presley’s "Blue Christmas," the King Cole Trio’s "The Christmas Song," Gene Autry’s "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," Willie Nelson’s "Pretty Paper," and, of course, Elmo & Patsy’s "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer." Viewing American holiday values through the filter of familiar Christmas songs, Ronald Lankford examines popular culture, consumerism, and the dynamics of the traditional American family. He surveys more than seventy-five years of songs and reveals that the “modern American Christmas” has carried a complex and sometimes contradictory set of meanings. Interpreting tunes against the backdrop of the eras in which they were first released, he identifies the repeated themes of nostalgia, commerce, holiday blues, carnival, and travesty that underscore so much beloved music. This first full-length analysis of the lyrics, images, and commercial forces inextricably linked to Yuletide music hits the heart of what many Americans think Christmas is--or should be.

Author : Keith Hayward
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351570390
Total Pages : 671 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Criminology written by Keith Hayward and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural criminology has now emerged as a distinct theoretical perspective, and as a notable intellectual alternative to certain aspects of contemporary criminology. Cultural criminology attempts to theorize the interplay of cultural processes, media practices, and crime; the emotional and embodied dimensions of crime and victimization; the particular characteristics of crime within late modern/late capitalist culture; and the role of criminology itself in constructing the reality of crime. In this sense cultural criminology not only offers innovative theoretical models for making sense of crime, criminality, and crime control, but presents as well a critical theory of criminology as a field of study. This collection is designed to highlight each of these dimensions of cultural criminology - its theoretical foundations, its current theoretical trajectories, and its broader theoretical critiques-by presenting the best of cultural criminological work from the United States, Europe, Australia, and elsewhere.

Author : James F. Burke
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804729369
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desire Against the Law written by James F. Burke and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The churches and manuscripts of medieval Europe incessantly juxtapose imagery depicting sacred themes with likenesses of the crudest and basest nature. Drawing on the contrast between Bakhtin's concepts of the carnivalesque and the domain of the law, this book examines such opposites in six major works of pre-1350 Spanish literature.

Author : Dror Ze’evi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520938984
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Producing Desire written by Dror Ze’evi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-10-16 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly original book brings into focus the sexual discourses manifest in a wealth of little-studied source material—medical texts, legal documents, religious literature, dream interpretation manuals, shadow theater, and travelogues—in a nuanced, wide-ranging, and powerfully analytic exploration of Ottoman sexual thought and practices from the heyday of the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. Following on the work of Foucault, Gagnon, Laqueur, and others, the premise of the book is that people shape their ideas of what is permissible, define boundaries of right and wrong, and imagine their sexual worlds through the set of discourses available to them. Dror Ze’evi finds that while some of these discourses were restrictive and others more permissive, all treated sex in its many manifestations as a natural human pursuit. And, he further argues that all these discourses were transformed and finally silenced in the last century, leaving very little to inform Middle Eastern societies in sexual matters. With its innovative approach toward the history of sexuality in the Middle East, Producing Desire sheds new light on the history of the Ottoman Empire, on the history of sexuality and gender, and on the Islamic Middle East today.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1202 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pacific Ports written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: