He Was Some Kind Of A Man

Author : Roderick McGillis
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554587492
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book He Was Some Kind of a Man written by Roderick McGillis and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2011-04-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western explores the construction and representation of masculinity in low-budget western movies made from the 1930s to the early 1950s. These films contained some of the mid-twentieth-century’s most familiar names, especially for youngsters: cowboys such as Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, and Red Ryder. The first serious study of a body of films that was central to the youth of two generations, He Was Some Kind of a Man combines the author’s childhood fascination with this genre with an interdisciplinary scholarly exploration of the films influence on modern views of masculinity. McGillis argues that the masculinity offered by these films is less one-dimensional than it is plural, perhaps contrary to expectations. Their deeply conservative values are edged with transgressive desire, and they construct a male figure who does not fit into binary categories, such as insider/outsider or masculine/feminine. Particularly relevant is the author’s discussion of George W. Bush as a cowboy and how his aspirations to cowboy ideals continue to shape American policy. This engagingly written book will appeal to the general reader interested in film, westerns, and contemporary culture as well as to scholars in film studies, gender studies, children’s literature, and auto/biography.

Author : Mark Derr
Publisher : Florida Sand Dollar Books
ISBN 13 : 9780813016290
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Some Kind of Paradise written by Mark Derr and published by Florida Sand Dollar Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 500 years, visitors to Florida have discovered magic. In Some Kind of Paradise, an eloquent social and environmental history of the state, Mark Derr describes how this exotic land is fast becoming a victim of its own allure. Written with both tenderness and alarm, Derr's book presents competing views of Florida: a paradise to be protected and nurtured or a frontier to be exploited and conquered.

Author : Susan Mallery
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0373010362
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ladies' Man and Some Kind of Wonderful written by Susan Mallery and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two stories about finding love in the most unexpected places.

Author : Whit Masterson
Publisher : Prologue Books
ISBN 13 : 1440560919
Total Pages : 208 pages
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Download or read book Badge of Evil written by Whit Masterson and published by Prologue Books. This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revisit of the 1950s classic that inspired Orson Welles's film Touch of Evil Assistant District Attorney Mitch Holt suspects the wrong people have been arrested in the murder of Rudy Linneker. But if it wasn't Linneker's daughter and her fiance, who was it? And why do two of the city's most decorated and beloved cops look like they're not shooting straight? If they've planted evidence in this case, what else are they guilty of in the past?

Author : Eileen Myles
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300244649
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For Now written by Eileen Myles and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Myles] has a good time journeying through Hell, and like a hip Virgil, . . . is happy to show us the way.”—NPR In this raucous meditation, Eileen Myles offers an intimate glimpse into creativity’s immediacy. With erudition and wit, Myles recounts their early years as an awakening writer; existential struggles with landlords; storied moments with neighbors, friends, and lovers; and the textures and identities of cities and the country that reveal the nature of writing as presence in time. For Myles, time’s “optic quality” is what enables writing in the first place—as attention, as devotion, as excess. It is this chronologized vision that enables the writer to love the world as it presently is, lending love a linguistic permanence amid social and political systems that threaten to eradicate it. Irreverent, generous, and always insightful, For Now is a candid record of the creative process from one of our most beloved artists.

Author : John T. Molloy
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446554138
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Men Marry Some Women and Not Others written by John T. Molloy and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking book--based on years of the same thorough research that made the "Dress For Success" books national bestsellers--about how women can statistically improve their chances of getting married.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1334 pages
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Author : James Anthony Froude
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 820 pages
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Author : Julie Hecht
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439156247
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Was This Man a Genius? written by Julie Hecht and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andy Kaufman defied explanation. Between 1978 and 1979, acclaimed novelist and New Yorker short story writer Julie Hecht attempted to arrange an interview with him, hoping to discover how he came to do what he did. The one-hour interview turned into innumerable surreal meetings and phone conversations with her subject; but she couldn't always tell when his act was on. Whether driving recklessly on icy roads or drawing the author unawares into his schemes and Dada-esque pranks on unsuspecting waiters and college students, Andy Kaufman never seemed to separate himself from his stage personality -- or personalities. Was This Man a Genius? is the culmination of a series of bizarre, frequently hilarious meetings. In describing them, Hecht, herself a master of wit and observation, illuminates the enigma of Andy Kaufman's work and life.