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Shattered Glass (DVD)
Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard, Chlo Sevigny, Rosario Dawson, Melanie Lynskey, …
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R49
Discovery Miles 490
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Billy Ray wrote and directed this edgy drama based on the true
story of Stephen Glass (Hayden Christensen), a brilliant young
journalist fresh out of college who, under the wing of editor
Michael Kelly (Hank Azaria), rose quickly to become the toast of
the world of magazine journalism in the late 1990s when he wrote a
series of dazzling articles for the prestigious publication The New
Republic. But when, after a rare slip, one of his stories is
revealed to be fabricated, it isn't long before his entire career
unravels - as more than half of the 41 stories he filed for the
magazine turn out to be partially or wholly made up. The supporting
cast includes Peter Sarsgaard, Chlo Sevigny and Rosario Dawson.
Double bill of sci-fi action films based on the first two novels of
Suzanne Collins' trilogy. In 'The Hunger Games' (2012) Jennifer
Lawrence stars as 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, a citizen of the
totalitarian post-apocalyptic country of Panem, formerly the United
States. Every year, the all-powerful ruling agency known as the
Capitol selects one boy and one girl from each of Panem's 12
impoverished rival districts to fight to the death on live national
television in a contest known as 'The Hunger Games', in which the
winner is given food to feed their entire district for a year. When
her younger sister Primrose (Willow Shields) is selected as a
contestant, Katniss steps up to take her place. Under the tutelage
of inebriated former champion Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson),
Katniss goes into training for the fight of her life. In 'The
Hunger Games: Catching Fire' (2013), fresh from her triumph in the
74th Annual Hunger Games, Katniss, along with fellow winner Peeta
Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), returns home to District 12 for some
much-needed rest. But soon after, while on a 'Victory Tour' of the
other districts, she becomes aware of growing dissent to the
Capitol's rule, and realises that rebellion is in the air. As Panem
prepares itself for the third 'Quarter Quell' (75th Hunger Games),
autocratic ruler President Coriolanus Snow (Donald Sutherland),
still smarting from the Capitol's humiliation in the last games,
stacks the deck to ensure that the upcoming tournament will wipe
out any resistance from the districts once and for all.
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The Hunger Games (Blu-ray disc)
Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Hemsworth, Stanley Tucci, …
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R62
R41
Discovery Miles 410
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Gary Ross directs this sci-fi action film based on the best-selling
novel by Suzanne Collins. Jennifer Lawrence stars as 16-year-old
Katniss Everdeen, a citizen of the totalitarian post-apocalyptic
country of Panem, formerly the United States. Every year, the
all-powerful ruling agency known as the Capitol selects one boy and
one girl from each of Panem's 12 impoverished rival districts to
fight to the death on live national television in a contest known
as 'The Hunger Games', in which the winner is given food to feed
their entire district for a year. When her younger sister Primrose
(Willow Shields) is selected as a contestant, Katniss steps up to
take her place in the match. Under the tutelage of inebriated
former champion Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson), Katniss goes
into training for the fight of her life.
In the stark expanse of Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous
doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write a novel,
informed by a series of poignant encounters: a heart-to-heart with
fellow doctoral student River over the mounting pressure placed on
marginalized scholars; a meeting with Michael, a closeted man from
his hometown whose vulnerability and loneliness punctuate the
realities of queer life on the fringe. Woven throughout these
conversations are memories of Jack, a cousin caught in the cycle of
police violence, drugs, and survival. Jack's life parallels the
narrator's own; the possibilities of escape and imprisonment are
left to chance with colonialism stacking the odds. A Minor Chorus
introduces a dazzling new literary voice whose vision and
fearlessness shine much-needed light on the realities of Indigenous
survival.
The new edition of a prize-winning memoir-in-poems, a meditation on
life as a queer Indigenous man—available for the first time in
the United States “i am one of those hopeless romantics who wants
every blowjob to be transformative.” Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut
poetry collection, This Wound Is a World, is “a prayer
against breaking,” writes trans Anishinaabe and Métis poet Gwen
Benaway. “By way of an expansive poetic grace, Belcourt merges a
soft beauty with the hardness of colonization to shape a love song
that dances Indigenous bodies back into being. This book is what
we’ve been waiting for.” Part manifesto, part memoir, This
Wound Is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky / to
world inside.” Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to
understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder their sadness and pain
without giving up on the future. His poems upset genre and play
with form, scavenging for a decolonial kind of heaven where
“everyone is at least a little gay.” Presented here with
several additional poems, this prize-winning collection pursues
fresh directions for queer and decolonial theory as it opens
uncharted paths for Indigenous poetry in North America. It is
theory that sings, poetry that marshals experience in the service
of a larger critique of the coloniality of the present and the
tyranny of sexual and racial norms.
Literature on the ethics and politics of food and that on
human–animal relationships have infrequently converged.
Representing an initial step toward bridging this divide, Messy
Eating features interviews with thirteen prominent and emerging
scholars about the connections between their academic work and
their approach to consuming animals as food. The collection
explores how authors working across a range of
perspectives—postcolonial, Indigenous, black, queer, trans,
feminist, disability, poststructuralist, posthumanist, and
multispecies—weave their theoretical and political orientations
with daily, intimate, and visceral practices of food consumption,
preparation, and ingestion. Each chapter introduces a scholar for
whom the tangled, contradictory character of human–animal
relations raises difficult questions about what they eat.
Representing a departure from canonical animal rights literature,
most authors featured in the collection do not make their food
politics or identities explicit in their published work. While some
interviewees practice vegetarianism or veganism, and almost all
decry the role of industrialized animal agriculture in the
environmental crisis, the contributors tend to reject a priori
ethical codes and politics grounded in purity, surety, or
simplicity. Remarkably free of proscriptions, but attentive to the
Eurocentric tendencies of posthumanist animal studies, Messy Eating
reveals how dietary habits are unpredictable and dynamic, shaped
but not determined by life histories, educational trajectories,
disciplinary homes, activist experiences, and intimate
relationships. These accessible and engaging conversations offer
rare and often surprising insights into pressing social issues
through a focus on the mundane—and messy— interactions that
constitute the professional, the political, and the personal.
Contributors: Neel Ahuja, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Matthew Calarco,
Lauren Corman, Naisargi Dave, Maneesha Deckha, María Elena
García, Sharon Holland, Kelly Struthers Montford, H. Peter
Steeves, Kim TallBear, Sunaura Taylor, Harlan Weaver, Kari Weil,
Cary Wolfe
In his follow-up to This Wound is a World, Billy-Ray Belcourt's
Griffin Poetry Prize-winning collection, NDN Coping Mechanisms:
Notes from the Field is a provocative, powerful, and genre-bending
new work that uses the modes of accusation and interrogation. He
aims an anthropological eye at the realities of everyday life to
show how they house the violence that continues to reverberate from
the long twentieth century. In a genre-bending constellation of
poetry, photography, redaction, and poetics, Belcourt ultimately
argues that if signifiers of Indigenous suffering are everywhere,
so too is evidence of Indigenous peoples' rogue possibility, their
utopian drive. In NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field, the
poet takes on the political demands of queerness, mainstream
portrayals of Indigenous life, love and its discontents, and the
limits and uses of poetry as a vehicle for Indigenous liberation.
In the process, Belcourt once again demonstrates his extraordinary
craft, guile, and audacity, and the sheer dexterity of his
imagination.
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Jake Miller (Paperback)
Billy Ray Williams
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R435
R362
Discovery Miles 3 620
Save R73 (17%)
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An Arizona wife and mother is murdered while on holiday in Mexico.
Bailey Crane is an auxiliary cop with the Phoenix PD and is
obliquely involved in the case until he visits close friends in
Pueblo del Mar. The local police chief seeks Bailey's help in this
most unusual caper about a philandering husband and a transvestite
lover. There is of course the ever-loving musings of our southern
Sherlock, an encounter with a mysterious mystic seer of 'Time and
Place, ' and just about all the emotions in the human heart and
soul. Bailey gets banged around and challenged at the highest level
of his endurance. When family and friends are caught in the ugly
web of corruption, drugs, and sex, our hero's Cherokee blood hits
the boiling point. The brutally devastating climax comes in a
'Whale Shack' on the scrub brush and sand near the Sea of Cortez.
This tale was inspired by an actual murder some years ago, and it's
one you won't want to miss
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Discovery Miles 3 300
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