Outrageous Misfits

Author : Brian Bradley
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459746996
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outrageous Misfits written by Brian Bradley and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2020-10-24 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lights! Camera! Outrageous! Superstar female impersonator Craig Russell and the birth of drag on the international stage. Craig Russell was an internationally admired entertainer and actor, known for his outrageous impersonations of some of Hollywood's greatest female celebrities: Mae West, Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Carol Channing, and Judy Garland, to name a few. Lori Russell Eadie, a shy theatre lover, was Craig's No. 1 fan and, eventually, his wife. Together they were fun, fabulous, and eschewed convention. But behind the curtains, Craig and Lori's lives were troubled by their mental health, drug addiction, sexual assault, and abuse. Through nearly one hundred interviews and extensive research, Outrageous Misfits reveals the life and legacy of one of the world's most popular female impersonators and his biggest fan.

Author : Marie Le Conte
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1529349656
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Honourable Misfits written by Marie Le Conte and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politicians are weird - we can all agree on that. But do you know how much weirder they used to be? If not, Honourable Misfits is the book for you. Spanning from the past seven hundred years, this is a celebration of the oddest and most eccentric MPs the House of Commons has ever seen. From mad inventors and fearless adventurers to machiavellian villains and mavericks with more money than sense, it offers sixty-five pen portraits of the unique, the mysterious and the downright deranged. There is the one who built a complex network of tunnels and underground rooms underneath his estate; the one who liked to go hunting naked; the one who set himself on fire to cure his hiccups, and the one who invented a very small gun with which to kill flies. Still, they weren't all useless; there was also the MP who invented weather forecasts, and the one who documented more animal species than nearly everyone else. They weren't all good either; between the fascist turned Buddhist monk and the spy who faked his death, there are more than enough villains to go around. They also weren't all lucky; included in Honourable Misfits are tributes to MPs with tragic deaths, from falling on a turnip to getting in a car accident the day after getting elected. This is a book to celebrate human nature in all its odd, compelling complexity.

Author : Danielle J. Lindemann, PhD
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374720967
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book True Story written by Danielle J. Lindemann, PhD and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 by Esquire A sociological study of reality TV that explores its rise as a culture-dominating medium—and what the genre reveals about our attitudes toward race, gender, class, and sexuality What do we see when we watch reality television? In True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us, the sociologist and TV-lover Danielle J. Lindemann takes a long, hard look in the “funhouse mirror” of this genre. From the first episodes of The Real World to countless rose ceremonies to the White House, reality TV has not just remade our entertainment and cultural landscape (which it undeniably has). Reality TV, Lindemann argues, uniquely reflects our everyday experiences and social topography back to us. Applying scholarly research—including studies of inequality, culture, and deviance—to specific shows, Lindemann layers sharp insights with social theory, humor, pop cultural references, and anecdotes from her own life to show us who we really are. By taking reality TV seriously, True Story argues, we can better understand key institutions (like families, schools, and prisons) and broad social constructs (such as gender, race, class, and sexuality). From The Bachelor to Real Housewives to COPS and more (so much more!), reality programming unveils the major circuits of power that organize our lives—and the extent to which our own realities are, in fact, socially constructed. Whether we’re watching conniving Survivor contestants or three-year-old beauty queens, these “guilty pleasures” underscore how conservative our society remains, and how steadfastly we cling to our notions about who or what counts as legitimate or “real.” At once an entertaining chronicle of reality TV obsession and a pioneering work of sociology, True Story holds up a mirror to our society: the reflection may not always be pretty—but we can’t look away.

Author : David Bleiler
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312316909
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book TLA Video & DVD Guide 2005 written by David Bleiler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2005 edition of the annual critical guide that focuses on independent and international films as well as the best in the mainstream contains reviews for more than 10,000 films, more than 300 photos, a comprehensive selection of cinema from more than 50 countries, and much more.

Author : Charles House
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411641086
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Outrageous Life of Henry Faulkner written by Charles House and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-08-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of painter and poet Henry Faulkner, from his childhood in rural Kentucky to a flamboyant bohemian existence in New York, Los Agneles, Key West, and Sicily. The author sheds light on the tragic tensions experienced by the artist in contemporary America.

Author : Stephen Kline
Publisher : London : Verso
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of the Garden written by Stephen Kline and published by London : Verso. This book was released on 1993 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary youngsters, he shows, are catapulted into a fantastic and chaotic time-space continuum of action toys thanks to the merchandisers' interest in animated television.

Author : Steven Blush
Publisher : Feral House
ISBN 13 : 1932595988
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Hardcore (Second Edition) written by Steven Blush and published by Feral House. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American Hardcore sets the record straight about the last great American subculture"—Paper magazine Steven Blush's "definitive treatment of Hardcore Punk" (Los Angeles Times) changed the way we look at Punk Rock. The Sony Picture Classics–distributed documentary American Hardcore premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. This revised and expanded second edition contains hundreds of new bands, thirty new interviews, flyers, a new chapter ("Destroy Babylon"), and a new art gallery with over 125 rare photos and images.

Author : David Bleiler
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466859407
Total Pages : 4343 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book TLA Film and Video Guide 2000-2001 written by David Bleiler and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 4343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The TLA Film & Video Guide is the absolutely indispensable guide for the true lover of cinema. By focusing on independent and international films, and avoiding much of the made-for-TV/made-for-cable/made-for-video dreck, this guide offers more comprehensive coverage of the films the reader may actually want to see. It also features: * Over 9,500 films reviewed * Five comprehensive indexes -- by star, director, theme, genre, and country of origin * Over 450 photos * A listing of all the major film awards * A comprehensive selection of International Cinema from over 50 countries From one of the finest names in video retailing and a growing rental chain comes the latest edition of the film & video guide - now expanded to include titles available on DVD - that's perfect for everyone whose taste ranges from Pulp Fiction to Pink Flamingos, from Life is Beautiful to Valley of the Dolls.

Author : Mike McPadden
Publisher : Backbeat Books
ISBN 13 : 1476813574
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If You Like Metallica... written by Mike McPadden and published by Backbeat Books. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (If You Like). In hard rock history, there is the time before Metallica and there is everything that has come since: metal, punk, industrial, grunge, alternative all of it absorbed, transformed, and reinvented by the band that, for decades, has ruled as both the Beatles and the Stones of heavy music. From garage rock to the avant-garde, indie pop to hardcore punk and, of course, all shades of metal, If You Like Metallica... illuminates the sounds and styles that influenced and have been influenced by this band, in addition to nonmusical elements such movies, books, and cultural iconoclasts. Just as Metallica expanded heavy metal to new meanings and new possibilities, If You Like Metallica... expands being a fan of the band to an education and a treasure hunt that, put as bluntly as a devil-fingered salute to the face, rocks.

Author : R. Miles
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230582273
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romantic Misfits written by R. Miles and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-10-31 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the false starts and disturbances of Romantic writing in Britain - 'misfits' and misfittings - as both a constitutive challenge to canonical romanticism and a distinctive literary field worth examining on its own account. Misfits include the Shakespeare forger W.H. Ireland, the novel itself, and the culture of Dissent.