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This edited collection is the first book to offer a wide-ranging
examination of the interface between American independent film and
a converged television landscape that consists of terrestrial
broadcasters, cable networks and streaming providers, in which
independent film and television intersect in complex, multifaceted
and creative ways. The book covers the long history of continuities
and connections between the two sectors, as seen in the activities
of PBS, HBO or Sundance. It considers the movement of filmmakers
between indie film and TV such as Steven Soderberg, Rian Johnson,
the Duplass brothers, Joe Swanberg, Lynn Shelton and Gregg Araki;
details the confluence of aesthetic and thematic elements seen in
shows such as Girls, Breaking Bad, Master of None, or Glow; points
to a shared interest in regional sensibilities evident in shows
like One Mississippi or Fargo; and makes the case for documentaries
and web series as significant entities in this domain.
Collectively, the book builds a compelling picture of indie TV as a
significant feature of US screen entertainment in the twenty-first
century. This interdisciplinary landmark volume will be a go-to
reference for students and scholars of Television Studies, Film
Studies and Media Studies.
This edited collection is the first book to offer a wide-ranging
examination of the interface between American independent film and
a converged television landscape that consists of terrestrial
broadcasters, cable networks and streaming providers, in which
independent film and television intersect in complex, multifaceted
and creative ways. The book covers the long history of continuities
and connections between the two sectors, as seen in the activities
of PBS, HBO or Sundance. It considers the movement of filmmakers
between indie film and TV such as Steven Soderberg, Rian Johnson,
the Duplass brothers, Joe Swanberg, Lynn Shelton and Gregg Araki;
details the confluence of aesthetic and thematic elements seen in
shows such as Girls, Breaking Bad, Master of None, or Glow; points
to a shared interest in regional sensibilities evident in shows
like One Mississippi or Fargo; and makes the case for documentaries
and web series as significant entities in this domain.
Collectively, the book builds a compelling picture of indie TV as a
significant feature of US screen entertainment in the twenty-first
century. This interdisciplinary landmark volume will be a go-to
reference for students and scholars of Television Studies, Film
Studies and Media Studies.
Documentary, Performance and Risk explores how some of the most
significant recent American feature documentaries use performance
to dramatically animate major categories of risk. The fact that
these documentaries do rely on such performance is revealing both
in terms of trends in American feature documentary, and in relation
to the currency of ideas about risk in contemporary Western
societies. The book takes a detailed look at the performance of
risk and demonstrates the rewards of close critical attention to
formal composition and performance. Covering An Inconvenient Truth,
Super Size Me, Capitalism: A Love Story and Jackass: The Movie, it
explores how these high-profile films offer up compelling
narratives and images of individuals 'acting on risk'. The films
seek to both confront and control the contours of their
environments in ways that reveal much about how a particular set of
beliefs about risk and the individual have come to inform our
lives. This wide-ranging analysis of feature documentary is ideal
for scholars and postgraduate students studying documentary film,
film and media studies.
Documentary, Performance and Risk explores how some of the most
significant recent American feature documentaries use performance
to dramatically animate major categories of risk. The fact that
these documentaries do rely on such performance is revealing both
in terms of trends in American feature documentary, and in relation
to the currency of ideas about risk in contemporary Western
societies. The book takes a detailed look at the performance of
risk and demonstrates the rewards of close critical attention to
formal composition and performance. Covering An Inconvenient Truth,
Super Size Me, Capitalism: A Love Story and Jackass: The Movie, it
explores how these high-profile films offer up compelling
narratives and images of individuals 'acting on risk'. The films
seek to both confront and control the contours of their
environments in ways that reveal much about how a particular set of
beliefs about risk and the individual have come to inform our
lives. This wide-ranging analysis of feature documentary is ideal
for scholars and postgraduate students studying documentary film,
film and media studies.
The statistics are alarming and become more so every year. The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 in 68
children have been identified with an autism spectrum disorder,
making it one of the fastest growing developmental disorders in the
United States. Further, the CDC estimates that parents with a child
on the autism spectrum can have nearly a 20 percent chance of
having a second child with autism. In How to Prevent Autism, Dara
Berger shares her personal journey with autism. She describes
everything that went wrong with her son that led to an autism
diagnosis and everything she did differently to prevent her
daughter from suffering the same fate. She interviews eight
well-known ASD experts--including doctors, nutritionists, nurses,
and scientists--about the factors that have led to the growing
epidemic of autism. Based on the best practices for preventing
autism in children, each professional offers perspectives grounded
in their own research and their patients' improvements. The book
covers every detail--from the importance of mothers' cleaning out
their bodies preconception, through common genetic mutations that
may put children at risk, to the crucial role of nutrition in
prevention. All parents agree that every choice counts when it
comes to the health of their children. As Dara Berger makes clear
in this personal, informative, and authoritative book, the stakes
could not be higher when it comes to autism.
The Environmental and Genetic Causes of Autism delves deep into the
full body of past and current research to reveal how genetic
predispositions and environmental factors can combine to produce
the conditions autism and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). To make
this groundbreaking volume, Dr. James Lyons-Weiler combed through
the past fifty years of published research on autism, exploring
subjects such as genetic variation, mechanisms of neurotoxicity of
metals and pesticides, and the central and combined roles of each
in causing autism. Lyons-Weiler provides a major overview of all
aspects of the condition of autism, reviews changes in diagnoses
and treatments, and explains how genetic information can be used to
tailor effective treatments, and sometimes reversals, of the
symptoms. He also presents practical forward-looking suggestions on
how to design future studies to facilitate the discovery of
biomarkers for autism risk and how to classify the full range of
autism spectrum disorders. Autism is considered one of the most
mystifying conditions of our day, and alarmed scientists, doctors,
politicians, and parents are desperately trying to understand why
the condition is escalating. According to the CDC, rates in the
United States have risen from an estimated one in two thousand
children in 1980, to one in sixty-eight in 2012, and a new National
Health Interview Survey shows a rate of one in forty-five. By the
time you read this book, that number may have changed yet again.
While most autism researchers focus on either environmental or
genetic causes of autism, Lyons-Weiler's opus demonstrates that to
fully understand the condition and to finally put its rate on the
decrease, it is essential to pay attention to the science showing
how the two classes of factors interact.
Why are some contemporary television shows so compelling? "The
Sopranos, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Friends, "and "ER "are examples
among many of a new era of the "must-see" program. These shows and
others, like "The X-Files "and "Ally McBeal, "have a
compulsiveness, a depth of characterization and backstory that puts
most of cinema to shame.
"Quality Popular Television "looks at this new category of "cult"
television (mostly U.S.-produced) and the reasons for its
emergence. Considering shows as diverse as "Ally McBeal, Martial
Law, Buffy, Lois and Clark, Star Trek: The Next Generation, "and
"Ellen, "the book examines the particular qualities necessary for
success and how they relate to issues such as the economics of
network scheduling, the growth of the Internet, and contemporary
debates about television audiences. This important new book
provides an invaluable window on transformations in contemporary
television culture.
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Nicki Richards; James Lyon
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This collection of true life hunting and wilderness stories gives a
telling insight into a period of the American West that had a
philosophy and humor all its own. A time that has faded and will
soon be lost forever.
The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International
Law, 1600-1926, brings together foreign, comparative, and
international titles in a single resource. Its International Law
component features works of some of the great legal theorists,
including Gentili, Grotius, Selden, Zouche, Pufendorf,
Bijnkershoek, Wolff, Vattel, Martens, Mackintosh, Wheaton, among
others. The materials in this archive are drawn from three
world-class American law libraries: the Yale Law Library, the
George Washington University Law Library, and the Columbia Law
Library.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.+++++++++++++++The below data was compiled
from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of
this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping
to insure edition identification: +++++++++++++++Yale Law
LibraryLP2Y002020018410101The Making of Modern Law: Primary
Sources, Part IIRichmond: Smith and Palmer, 1841viii, 959 p.; 24
cmUnited States
Title: Three months in the southern states, April-June,
1863.Author: Fremantle, Arthur James Lyon, SirPublisher: Gale,
Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed
bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926
contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works
about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early
1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery
and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil
War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP01236800CollectionID:
CTRG94-B318PublicationDate: 18630101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Collation: vii, 316 p., 6] leaves of plates: ports
"I sense it even now. People thirst for it; the entire country is
mad with desire for it..." A dying man's cryptic letter catapults
California college student Steven Roberts on a mystery-shrouded
quest into the labyrinth of the war-torn Balkans. Singled out for
the task by an enigmatic professor, Steven overcomes his doubts and
plunges into the maelstrom to uncover long-lost clues to an ancient
Emperor's deeply buried secret, a long-forgotten evil that
slumbered for centuries only to reawaken ... and a love that defies
death itself. Meticulously researched and set against the
background of collapsing Yugoslavia, "Kiss of the Butterfly" weaves
together intricate threads from age-old Balkan folklore and modern
events, to create a tapestry of passion and betrayal, obsession and
desire, the thirst for life and the hunger for death. "Kiss of the
Butterfly" is a literary thriller rooted in actual events. In the
year of his death, 1476, the Prince of Wallachia Vlad Dracula
committed a bloody massacre under the cloak of medieval Bosnia's
forested mountains in the town of Srebrenica. History repeated
itself 500 years later in July 1995 in Europe's worst massacre
since World War Two. For most people, the two events seemed
unconnected... Until now. "A fast-paced adventure into a modern
heart of Balkan darkness... A truly original take on the
blood-sucking undead." -Publishers Weekly "No capes, no glitter: a
vampire novel for readers who value sturdy mythology and a
sophisticated understanding of history, along with warmblooded,
human connections... skillful... authentic... fascinating...
inspired... Lyon executes it perfectly... vivid... engaging..."
-Kirkus Reviews
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of
this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the
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