The Multiplex Man

Author : James P. Hogan
Publisher : Baen Books
ISBN 13 : 0671578197
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Multiplex Man written by James P. Hogan and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Jarrow, a mild and unassuming teacher, wakes up in a hotel room in a strange city with no memory. Everyone he knows treats him as a stranger. The government and secret police think he knows the whereabouts of a missing scientist named Ashling who was planning to defect to the Offworld colonies. Finding Ashling will be the key to Jarrow finding out what happened to himself.

Author : H. W. Van Loon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multiplex Man written by H. W. Van Loon and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multiplex Man; Or, The Story of Survival Through Invention written by Hendrik Willem Van Loon and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barbara Klinger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520939077
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Multiplex written by Barbara Klinger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the mid-eighties, more audiences have been watching Hollywood movies at home than at movie theaters, yet little is known about just how viewers experience film outside of the multiplex. This is the first full-length study of how contemporary entertainment technologies and media—from cable television and VHS to DVD and the Internet—shape our encounters with the movies and affect the aesthetic, cultural, and ideological definitions of cinema. Barbara Klinger explores topics such as home theater, film collecting, classic Hollywood movie reruns, repeat viewings, and Internet film parodies, providing a multifaceted view of the presentation and reception of films in U.S. households. Balancing industry history with theoretical and cultural analysis, she finds that today cinema's powerful social presence cannot be fully grasped without considering its prolific recycling in post-theatrical venues—especially the home.

Author : Timothy Shary
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292774902
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Generation Multiplex written by Timothy Shary and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When teenagers began hanging out at the mall in the early 1980s, the movies followed. Multiplex theaters offered teens a wide array of perspectives on the coming-of-age experience, as well as an escape into the alternative worlds of science fiction and horror. Youth films remained a popular and profitable genre through the 1990s, offering teens a place to reflect on their evolving identities from adolescence to adulthood while simultaneously shaping and maintaining those identities. Drawing examples from hundreds of popular and lesser-known youth-themed films, Timothy Shary here offers a comprehensive examination of the representation of teenagers in American cinema in the 1980s and 1990s. He focuses on five subgenres—school, delinquency, horror, science, and romance/sexuality—to explore how they represent teens and their concerns, how these representations change over time, and how youth movies both mirror and shape societal expectations and fears about teen identities and roles. He concludes that while some teen films continue to exploit various notions of youth sexuality and violence, most teen films of the past generation have shown an increasing diversity of adolescent experiences and have been sympathetic to the particular challenges that teens face.

Author : Timothy Shary
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814338445
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Millennial Masculinity written by Timothy Shary and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film and television scholars as well as readers interested in gender and sexuality in film will appreciate this timely collection.

Author : Alfred Bester
Publisher : ibooks
ISBN 13 : 1596879882
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Demolished Man written by Alfred Bester and published by ibooks. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #4 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written. The first Hugo Award winner for best novel in 1953. “One of the all-time classics of science fiction.”—Isaac Asimov “Bester's two superb books have stood the test of time. For nearly sixty years they’ve held their place on everybody’s list of the ten greatest sf novels” —Robert Silverberg In a world policed by telepaths, Ben Reich plans to commit a crime that hasn’t been heard of in 70 years: murder. That’s the only option left for Reich, whose company is losing a 10-year death struggle with rival D’Courtney Enterprises. Terrorized in his dreams by The Man With No Face and driven to the edge after D’Courtney refuses a merger offer, Reich murders his rival and bribes a high-ranking telepath to help him cover his tracks. But while police prefect Lincoln Powell knows Reich is guilty, his telepath's knowledge is a far cry from admissible evidence. Alfred Bester was among the first important authors of contemporary science fiction. His passionate novels of worldly adventure, high intellect, and tremendous verve, The Stars My Destination and the Hugo Award winning The Demolished Man, established Bester as a s.f. grandmaster, a reputation that was ratified by the Science Fiction Writers of America shortly before his death. Bester also was an acclaimed journalist for Holiday magazine, a reviewer for the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and even a writer for Superman.

Author : Morris Ackerman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780965774307
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multiplex Man written by Morris Ackerman and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel revolves around an engineer who has acquired the tendency to multiplex or timeshare. There are awkward moments in his life, such as multiplexing with his lady friend. Like a spider web, multiplexing has constrained his life; working long hours, taking work home & no social life. What begins as an interesting discovery on the remote Indian Ocean island of Mauritius evolves into a tale that spans two continents & propels the reader into the sophisticated world of the philatelic elite, the little-known, high stakes world of stamp collecting. When a rare stamp valued at over 1 million mysteriously disappears from Washington, DC's London Gallery, everyone attending the auction is a suspect, but none more so than the ill-fated engineer inexorably drawn into the mystery & intrigue that shrouds the theft. As the suspect, the engineer must act quickly to avoid his own incarceration while evading the unwanted attentions of obsessed collectors who believe he possesses the stamp. He must also find out if the beautiful & elusive collector he ardently pursues is the thief herself. Casual & ardent collectors (20 million) & non-collectors alike will gain first-hand knowledge of compelling aspects of collecting. AUTHOR: The movie, APOLLO 13, featured the simulator built by LINK where the author was vice president of engineering. LINK's simulators trained astronauts, nuclear power plant operators, airline pilots & military personnel. He is currently consulting with engineering firms. TO ORDER: Chevy Chase Engineering Co., 301-589-2921.

Author : Adrian Athique
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135181888
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Multiplex in India written by Adrian Athique and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the reader with a comprehensive account of the new leisure infrastructure arising at the intersection between contemporary trends in cultural practice and the spatial politics that are reshaping the cities of India. Exploring the significance, and convergence, of economic liberalisation, urban redevelopment and the media explosion in India, the book demonstrates an innovative approach towards the cultural and political economy of leisure in a complex and rapidly-changing society.

Author : Mark Kermode
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409023494
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex written by Mark Kermode and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If blockbusters make money no matter how bad they are, then why not make a good one for a change? How can 3-D be the future of cinema when it's been giving audiences a headache for over a hundred years? Why pay to watch films in cinemas that don't have a projectionist but do have a fast-food stand? And, in a world where Sex and the City 2 was a hit, what are film critics even for? Outspoken, opinionated and hilariously funny, The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex is a must for anyone who has ever sat in an undermanned, overpriced cinema and wondered: 'How the hell did things get to be this terrible?'