Idolized

Author : Katherine Meizel
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253222710
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Idolized written by Katherine Meizel and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-16 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The television programme American Idol provides a stage where the politics of national, regional, ethnic, and religious identity are performed for millions of viewers. Meizel demonstrates that commercial music and the music industry are not simply forces to be criticised or resisted, but critical sites for redefining American culture.

Author : Wayne Cristaudo
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9781793602374
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Idolizing the Idea written by Wayne Cristaudo and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this critical history of modern philosophy, Cristaudo develops the argument put forward by Thomas Reid that modern philosophy has generally continued along the 'way of ideas' to its own detriment. Its ever-shifting dominant ideas contribute to capturing and imprisoning rat...

Author : Sachi Schmidt-Hori
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824888936
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of Idolized Boys written by Sachi Schmidt-Hori and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In medieval Japan (14th–16th centuries), it was customary for elite families to entrust their young sons to the care of renowned Buddhist priests from whom they received a premier education in Buddhist scriptures, poetry, music, and dance. When the boys reached adolescence, some underwent coming-of-age rites, others entered the priesthood, and several extended their education, becoming chigo, or Buddhist acolytes. Chigo served their masters as personal attendants and as sexual partners. During religious ceremonies—adorned in colorful robes, their faces made up and hair styled in long ponytails—they entertained local donors and pilgrims with music and dance. Stories of acolytes (chigo monogatari) from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries form the basis of the present volume, an original and detailed literary analysis of six tales coupled with a thorough examination of the sociopolitical, religious, and cultural matrices that produced these texts. Sachi Schmidt-Hori begins by delineating various dimensions of chigo (the chigo “title,” personal names, gender, sexuality, class, politics, and religiosity) to show the complexity of this cultural construct—the chigo as a triply liminal figure who is neither male nor female, child nor adult, human nor deity. A modern reception history of chigo monogatari follows, revealing, not surprisingly, that the tales have often been interpreted through cultural paradigms rooted in historical moments and worldviews far removed from the original. From the 1950s to 1980s, research on chigo was hindered by widespread homophobic prejudice. More recently, aversion to the age gap in historical master-acolyte relations has prevented scholars from analyzing the religious and political messages underlying the genre. Schmidt-Hori’s work calls for a shift in the hermeneutic strategies applied to chigo and chigo monogatari and puts forth both a nuanced historicization of social constructs such as gender, sexuality, age, and agency, and a mode of reading propelled by curiosity and introspection.

Author : David Schwartz
Publisher : Aspen Mlt, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781941511749
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Idolized Volume 1 written by David Schwartz and published by Aspen Mlt, Incorporated. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aspen Comics proudly presents their first ever super-hero series, IDOLIZED! Welcome to the mind-bending new comic book series about a TV show where super-powered teens and 20-somethings are competing for the ultimate dream-prize: a guaranteed spot in that world's top super-group, The Powered Protectors. The chance of winning offers fame, fortune, massive endorsement deals and, of course, a chance to actually save the world. Kids who dream of being worshipped as the next great, iconic hero would be falling all over themselves to get on -- and hopefully even win -- the show. Against this backdrop, IDOLIZED is the story of a girl with fledgling superpowers and a dark past, who seeks revenge, and ultimately finds redemption, over the course of competing in this televised superhero competition show. It's True Grit meets American Idol...with capes!

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1674 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Presbyterian written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : andy kurniawan
Publisher : Andy Kurniawan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book happiness is simple written by andy kurniawan and published by Andy Kurniawan. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are so many questions about happiness within ourselves. Is that true that happiness is easy ? What is happiness? Is it difficult to find happiness? Happiness has always been the goal of our life, but why happiness always be the final answer? Working to earn money in order to be happy , have a house to be happy, have a car or motorcycle to be happy, have savings to be happy, have a career to be happy, but are we really happy? So many definitions of happiness , having a lot of money, smart kids, luxury homes, beautiful cars, and having a great business. But when we have all of it, are we really happy? Or we want more and more? Life is a choice, happy or sad, happy or cry, healthy or sick, heaven or hell, if we could pick it ? whether happiness a choice? This book is used to find and feel the happiness. Happiness is so easy and simple, as well as to be happy everyday. Do you want to know how to get it? Let's get happy every day, want to accept this challenge?

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.]: The American claimant and other stories and sketches written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Writings of Mark Twain: The American claimant and other stories and sketches written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Writings of Mark Twain: see Old Catalog -. 23. The man that corrupted Hadleyburg and other essays and stories written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Claimant, and Other Stories and Sketches written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Claimant is about Americans, the way they view themselves, the way they are viewed by others through the eyes of a British nobleman. Even though a century has passed since the book was written, most of the acute observations are as true today as when it was written. A young English nobleman, Viscount Berkeley, has determined to renounce his aristocratic station, emigrate to America and make his way by ability alone. His place in England is taken by Colonel Sellers, who believes himself the descendant of the family. Each learns that his conceptions of the society he is entering are wildly incorrect, as Twain reiterates a favorite theme--disenchantment with democracy. Other selections include "The £1,000,000 Bank-Note" which charts the magical rags-to-riches ascent of a virtuous and resourceful mining broker's clerk from San Francisco who arrives in London with a single dollar in his pocket, and proceeds to ultimate and splendid financial success and fame in London society--a paean to ingenuity and a celebration of its cunning confidence-man narrator.