The Silvering Screen

Author : Sally Chivers
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442661984
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silvering Screen written by Sally Chivers and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-05-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular films have always included elderly characters, but until recently, old age only played a supporting role onscreen. Now, as the Baby Boomer population hits retirement, there has been an explosion of films, including Away From Her, The Straight Story, The Barbarian Invasions, and About Schmidt, where aging is a central theme. The first-ever sustained discussion of old age in cinema, The Silvering Screen brings together theories from disability studies, critical gerontology, and cultural studies, to examine how the film industry has linked old age with physical and mental disability. Sally Chivers further examines Hollywood's mixed messages - the applauding of actors who portray the debilitating side of aging, while promoting a culture of youth - as well as the gendering of old age on film. The Silvering Screen makes a timely attempt to counter the fear of aging implicit in these readings by proposing alternate ways to value getting older.

Author : Maureen Howard
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440626685
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silver Screen written by Maureen Howard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-07-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maureen Howard deepens her inquiry into the meeting place of history and family in this stunning and accessible novel. Isabel Murphy renounced silent-film stardom to raise a family in Rhode Island. Now she is dead at 90 and her children are trying to break free of the lives she has dealt them. Joe, a Jesuit priest, has failed at love and the healing of souls. Stodgy Rita has found late happiness with a gangster who has turned state’s evidence. And Gemma, Isabel’s honorary child, has grown up to experience a strange celebrity as a photographer. A darkly comic story of guilt, love, and forgiveness, The Silver Screen is luminous in its intelligence and empathy.

Author : Valerie Raoul
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889205094
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unfitting Stories written by Valerie Raoul and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2007-03-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unfitting Stories: Narrative Approaches to Disease, Disability, and Trauma illustrates how stories about ill health and suffering have been produced and received from a variety of perspectives. Bringing together the work of Canadian researchers, health professionals, and people with lived experiences of disease, disability, or trauma, it addresses central issues about authority in medical and personal narratives and the value of cross- or interdisciplinary research in understanding such experiences. The book considers the aesthetic dimensions of health-related stories with literary readings that look at how personal accounts of disease, disability, and trauma are crafted by writers and filmmakers into published works. Topics range from psychiatric hospitalization and aestheticizing cancer, to father-daughter incest in film. The collection also deals with the therapeutic or transformative effect of stories with essays about men, sport, and spinal cord injury; narrative teaching at L’Arche (a faith-based network of communities inclusive of people with developmental disabilities); and the construction of a “schizophrenic” identity. A final section examines the polemical functions of narrative, directing attention to the professional and political contexts within which stories are constructed and exchanged. Topics include ableist limits on self-narration; drug addiction and the disease model; and narratives of trauma and Aboriginal post-secondary students. Unfitting Stories is essential reading for researchers using narrative methods or materials, for teachers, students, and professionals working in the field of health services, and for concerned consumers of the health care system. It deals with practical problems relevant to policy-makers as well as theoretical issues of interest to specialists in bioethics, gender analysis, and narrative theory. Read the chapter “Social Trauma and Serial Autobiography: Healing and Beyond” by Bina Freiwald on the Concordia University Library Spectrum Research Repository website.

Author : Thomas Spencer Baynes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Total Pages : 996 pages
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Total Pages : 936 pages
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Total Pages : 910 pages
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Total Pages : 872 pages
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Total Pages : 838 pages
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Total Pages : 616 pages
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Download or read book English Mechanic and World of Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: