Two Aspirins And A Comedy

Author : Metta Spencer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317250028
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Aspirins and a Comedy written by Metta Spencer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An extraordinary book which makes a vital contribution to our understanding of the potential power for healing and goodness in 'television entertainment'." Arlie Hochschild, author of The Time Bind (2001) "Despite the light title, this is a serious book about the healing possibilities of television. ! Provocative and enlightening." Beth Montemurro, Penn State University Can television be a positive force in society? Can socially conscious entertainment change the world? Two Aspirins and Comedy arrives at surprising and unconventional answers to these questions. Metta Spencer delves deep into the significance and power of entertainment as a means to influence society. She finds current examples of socially constructive television and demonstrates how mass entertainment can better use its power to positively influence society. In a climate where television is often a culprit for society's woes, Spencer casts a redemptive eye on the medium. She asserts that television, like other fictional landscapes, offers invaluable lessons, emotional bonding and catharsis for a modern society whose members are increasingly isolated.

Author : Jerry Mayer
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573693540
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aspirin & Elephants written by Jerry Mayer and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedy / 3f, 3m Here is an hilarious romantic comedy bursting with witty dialogue about a couple who take their two daughters and their husbands on a cruise from Copenhagen to St. Petersburg. Before the boat docks, the course of all three marriages changes drastically and unpredictably in a laugh filled, comedy that enjoys record breaking runs in theatre after theatre. "Delightful." - Variety "Sails on a sea of comedy." - L.A. Times "Ironic and wise. Clever and perceptive. Superb." - Holl

Author : Metta Spencer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131725001X
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Aspirins and a Comedy written by Metta Spencer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An extraordinary book which makes a vital contribution to our understanding of the potential power for healing and goodness in 'television entertainment'." Arlie Hochschild, author of The Time Bind (2001) "Despite the light title, this is a serious book about the healing possibilities of television. ! Provocative and enlightening." Beth Montemurro, Penn State University Can television be a positive force in society? Can socially conscious entertainment change the world? Two Aspirins and Comedy arrives at surprising and unconventional answers to these questions. Metta Spencer delves deep into the significance and power of entertainment as a means to influence society. She finds current examples of socially constructive television and demonstrates how mass entertainment can better use its power to positively influence society. In a climate where television is often a culprit for society's woes, Spencer casts a redemptive eye on the medium. She asserts that television, like other fictional landscapes, offers invaluable lessons, emotional bonding and catharsis for a modern society whose members are increasingly isolated.

Author : David McLaughlan
Publisher : Barbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1607426188
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Take Two Aspirin. . .and Call Me in Hawaii written by David McLaughlan and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The doctor/patient relationship offers endless opportunities for laughter—and this collection of medical humor is sure to please anyone who’s still breathing! Scores of jokes and humorous stories, all relating to doctors, hospitals, medicines, diet, and exercise, are categorized into chapters accompanied by light, inspirational introductions. Maybe you’ll see someone you know—even yourself—in this hilarious collection of medical mirth. It’s available in plenty of time for the upcoming election season and its stressful health care debate!

Author : Stephen Harold Riggins
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228007755
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canadian Sociologists in the First Person written by Stephen Harold Riggins and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social scientists' autobiographies can yield insight into personal commitments to research agendas and the very project of social science itself. But despite the long history of life writing, sociologists have tended to view the practice with skepticism. Canadian Sociologists in the First Person is the first book to survey the Canadian sociological imagination through personal recollections. Exploring the lives and experiences of twenty contributors from across the country, this book connects the unique and shared features of their careers to broad social dynamics while providing a guide to their own research and administrative contributions to their universities, their profession, and their broader society and communities. The contributors teach in different types of institutions, are prominent in the discipline and in their specializations, and represent significant and diverse intellectual currents, political perspectives, and life and career experiences. Aiming to start a broad conversation about what social science and the academic profession look like in Canada from an insider's perspective, Canadian Sociologists in the First Person offers invaluable lessons for younger scholars as they envision a diverse sociological imagination for the twenty-first century.

Author : Neil Arya
Publisher : Kumarian Press
ISBN 13 : 1565492587
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peace Through Health written by Neil Arya and published by Kumarian Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We typically define and talk about wars using the language of politics, but what happens when you bring in a doctor’s perspective on conflict? Can war be diagnosed like an illness? Can health professionals participate in its mitigation and prevention? The contributors to Peace through Health: How Health Professionals Can Work for a Less Violent World engage with these ground-breaking ideas and describe tools that can further peace once war is understood as a public health problem. The idea of working for peace through the health sector has sparked many innovative programs, described here by over 30 experts familiar with the theory and practice of Peace through Health. They cover topics such as prevention and therapy, program evaluations, medical ethics, activism, medical journals, human rights, and the uses of epidemiology. Those considering careers in medicine and other health and humanitarian disciplines as well as those concerned about the growing presence of militarized violence in the world will value the book’s many insights Other Contributors: Will Boyce, Caecilie Buhmann, Anne BundeBirouste, Kenneth Bush, Helen Caldicott, Rob Chase, Khagendra Dahal, Hamit Dardagan, Ann Duggan, Lowell Ewert, Paul Farmer, Norbert Goldfield, Paula Gutlove, Katherine Kaufer Christoffel, Maria Kett, John Last, Barry S. Levy, Tarek Loubani, Evan Lyon, Graeme MacQueen, Ian Maddocks, Ambrogio Manenti, Klaus Melf, Viet Nguyen-Gillham, Wendy Orr, Andrew D. Pinto, Alex Rosen, Simon Rushton, Hana Saab, Victor W. Sidel, Sonal Singh, John Sloboda, Karen Trollope-Kumar, Marshall Wallace, Jim Yong Kim, Anthony Zwi.

Author : Charles V. Dintrone
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476612579
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Television Program Master Index written by Charles V. Dintrone and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work indexes books, dissertations and journal articles that mention television shows. Memoirs, autobiographies, biographies, and some popular works meant for fans are also indexed. The major focus is on service to researchers in the history of television. Listings are keyed to an annotated bibliography. Appendices include a list of websites; an index of groups or classes of people on television; and a list of programs by genre. Changes from the second edition include more than 300 new shows, airing on a wider variety of networks; 2000-plus references (more than double the second edition); and a large increase in scholarly articles. The book provides access to materials on almost 2300 shows, including groundbreaking ones like All in the Family (almost 200 entries); cult favorites like Buffy: The Vampire Slayer (200-plus entries); and a classic franchise, Star Trek (more than 400 entries for all the shows). The shows covered range from the late 1940s to 2010 (The Walking Dead). References range from 1956 to 2013.

Author : Suzanne Lavin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135934444
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Comedy in Solo Performance written by Suzanne Lavin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the dramatic changes in America women's comedy performance in the years 1955-1995.The study focuses on the standup of Phyllis Diller and Roseanne andon the character comedy of Lily Tomlin. As the historical arc of women's comedy unfolds, it outlines a change from the traditional vaudevillian style of standup, as represented by Diller (50s-70s), to a more satiric comedy represented by Tomlin (60s-80s) and Roseanne (80s-90s).

Author : Elaine Raco Chase
Publisher : Elaine Raco Chase
ISBN 13 : 9634282016
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calculated Risk (Romantic Comedy) written by Elaine Raco Chase and published by Elaine Raco Chase. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lady, I want you to stop seducing my son! Hell, what are you - thirty-two? thirty-four? Rob is seventeen - there's room for a whole other person!" In one of Nashville's poshest restaurants began a stream of threats against Stephanie Brandt along with a heavy hand mangling her shoulder, followed by a bill shoved into the middle of her dinner by a big man wearing work boots, denim and a T-shirt with an obscene foreign word printed on it. Until Quintin Ward stormed into her life with his threats and accusations, Stevie had not known his son Rob even existed, let alone was her mailroom clerk. When she's finally able to convince Quintin that she has no designs on his son, they embark on a campaign to squelch Rob's fantasy love-life with his boss. But their very calculated risk - backfires!

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Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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