The Road To Romance And Ruin

Author : Jon Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317928792
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Road to Romance and Ruin written by Jon Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the teen film as the rare medium able to represent the otherwise chaotic and conflicting experience of youth. The author focuses on six major issues: alienation, deviance and delinquency, sex and gender, the politics of consumption, the apolitics of youth(ful) rebellion, and regression into nostalgia. Despite the many differences within the genre, this book sees all teen films as focused on a single social concern: the breakdown of traditional forms of authority – school, church, family. Working with the theories of such diverse scholars as Kenneth Keniston, Bruno Bettelheim, Erik Erikson, Theodor Adorno, Simon Frith, and Dick Hebdige, the author draws an innovative and flexible model of a cultural history of youth. Originally published in 1992.

Author : Jon Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415904278
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Road to Romance & Ruin written by Jon Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the relationship between teen films and youth culture.

Author : Ann Sherif
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231518345
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan’s Cold War written by Ann Sherif and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics and cultural historians take Japan's postwar insularity for granted, rarely acknowledging the role of Cold War concerns in the shaping of Japanese society and culture. Nuclear anxiety, polarized ideologies, gendered tropes of nationhood, and new myths of progress, among other developments, profoundly transformed Japanese literature, criticism, and art during this era and fueled the country's desire to recast itself as a democratic nation and culture. By rereading the pivotal events, iconic figures, and crucial texts of Japan's literary and artistic life through the lens of the Cold War, Ann Sherif places this supposedly insular nation at the center of a global battle. Each of her chapters focuses on a major moment, spectacle, or critical debate highlighting Japan's entanglement with cultural Cold War politics. Film director Kurosawa Akira, atomic bomb writer Hara Tamiki, singer and movie star Ishihara Yujiro, and even Godzilla and the Japanese translation of Lady Chatterley's Lover all reveal the trends and controversies that helped Japan carve out a postwar literary canon, a definition of obscenity, an idea of the artist's function in society, and modern modes of expression and knowledge. Sherif's comparative approach not only recontextualizes seemingly anomalous texts and ideas, but binds culture firmly to the domestic and international events that defined the decades following World War II. By integrating the art and criticism of Japan into larger social fabrics, Japan's Cold War offers a truly unique perspective on the critical and creative acts of a country remaking itself in the aftermath of war.

Author : Bronwyn Stuart
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 1488742685
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Road To Ruin written by Bronwyn Stuart and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the most desperate of times calls for the most scandalous of measures. James Trelissick, Marquis of Lasterton, has but one plan: to get his sister and mother back from the notorious pirate who stole them from their ship bound for the Americas, without creating the scandal of the season. After months of fruitless searching, his family name and his sister's reputation hang dangerously by a single thread. So, taking matters into his own hands, he kidnaps the one woman who must hold some of the answers: the daughter of the pirate captain. Daniella Germaine's only wish is to be reinstated to the decks of her father's pirate ship. She will do whatever it takes to regain his attention after he decides she needs to be a real lady and ships her off to London to find a husband. With disgrace her last option, she tries everything she can think of to scandalise: riding at breakneck speed through the park to win a gentleman's wager and swimming naked in the moonlight. It's during another of these deeds of daring that her plans fall to pieces and her future lands in the hands of a man with not a lot left to lose... Somewhere along the road to ruin, when lives are at stake and hearts are torn, Daniella and James must each decide between what they want, and what they actually need, to really live... A feisty, sexy historical novel of daring, lust, and finding love in the most unlikely places.

Author : Robin Stoate
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838714456
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Back to the Future written by Robin Stoate and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling study places 'Back to the Future' in the context of Reaganite America, discusses Robert Zemeckis's film-making technique and its relationship to the 'New New Hollywood', explores the film's attitudes to teen culture of the 1950s and 1980s and its representation of science, atomic power and time travel.

Author : Alessandra Seggi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031086864
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Youth and Suicide in American Cinema written by Alessandra Seggi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the depiction of suicide in American youth films from 1900 to 2019. Anchored in Sociology, this multidisciplinary study investigates the causes and consequences of suicide and uncovers the socio-cultural context for the development of youth, film, and suicide. While such cinematic portrayals seem to privilege external explanations of suicide versus internal or psychological ones, overall they are neither rich nor sensitive. Most are simplistic, limited or at the very least unbalanced. At times, they are flatly controversial. In light of this overall problematic depiction of suicide, this book offers a proactive approach to empower young audiences—a media literacy strategy to embrace while watching these films.

Author : Emma French
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN 13 : 9781902806518
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selling Shakespeare to Hollywood written by Emma French and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filmed Shakespeare criticism has largely centred on aesthetic critiques of filmic devices, or on comparisons between the film and the source text. Employing a new angle, this book explores the reasons why contemporary filmed Shakespeare prompts cultural anxiety about high-culture adaptation.

Author : Warwick Deeping
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Among the Ruins written by Warwick Deeping and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Among the Ruins is the tale of Yeoland, young lady determined to have her revenge against Lord Flavian of Gambrevault and Avalon, the man whose raiders destroyed her home and killed her father. On her path Yeoland meets a man who presents himself as Fulviac of the Forest, a leader of the group of outlaw who claims that he also has a feud with lords of Gambrevault. Stubborn and stiff, Fulviac ignites a war that slips beyond his control as his men quickly slip out of his reach marching onwards leaving a smoking trail of desolation behind them, destroying much more than just their enemies. In the midst of the war Yeoland finds herself being confused, feeling pity for the man she thought she hated the most.

Author : Deborah Cartmell
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Retrovisions written by Deborah Cartmell and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2001 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book studies how films and texts re-imagine the past, and what it reveals about our contemporary culture.

Author : Jack Canfield
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1453276858
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Romantic Soul written by Jack Canfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has their own idea of romance-a candlelight dinner, a stroll on the beach or a sprinkling of rose petals on a bed. Now, Chicken Soup for the Romantic Soul brings brand new inspiration to expressions of romance.