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Hit and Run (DVD)
Dax Shepard, Kristen Bell, Bradley Cooper, Tom Arnold, Kristin Chenoweth, …
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Dax Shepard writes, directs and stars in this fast-paced,
low-budget car chase action comedy. After testifying against some
bad people he was associated with in Los Angeles, former getaway
driver Charlie Bronson (Shepard) is placed under the Witness
Protection Plan to keep him safe. However, when his girlfriend,
Annie (Kristen Bell) - who is unaware of his troubled past - is
offered an interview for her dream job in LA, Charlie manfully puts
his safety to one side and agrees to drive her there.
Unfortunately, he hasn't allowed for the jealously of Annie's ex,
Gil (Michael Rosenbaum), who discovers Charlie's former identity
and passes the details to the relevant people. Soon Charlie and
Annie find themselves involved in a high speed pursuit, with
vengeful gangsters, federal agents and their loyal Witness
Protection Agent, Randy (Tom Arnold), on their tail...
This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored
Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for
Black civil rights. Well before the founding of the NAACP and other
twentieth-century pillars of the civil rights movement, tens of
thousands of Black leaders organized state and national conventions
across North America. Over seven decades, they advocated for social
justice and against slavery, protesting state-sanctioned and mob
violence while demanding voting, legal, labor, and educational
rights. While Black-led activism in this era is often overshadowed
by the attention paid to the abolition movement, this collection
centers Black activist networks, influence, and institution
building. Collectively, these essays highlight the vital role of
the Colored Conventions in the lives of thousands of early
organizers, including many of the most famous writers, ministers,
politicians, and entrepreneurs in the long history of Black
activism. Contributors: Erica L. Ball, Kabria Baumgartner, Daina
Ramey Berry, Joan L. Bryant, Jim Casey, Benjamin Fagan, P.
Gabrielle Foreman, Eric Gardner, Andre E. Johnson, Cheryl Janifer
LaRoche, Sarah Lynn Patterson, Carla L. Peterson, Jean Pfaelzer,
Selena R. Sanderfer, Derrick R. Spires, Jermaine Thibodeaux, Psyche
Williams-Forson, and Jewon Woo.
This essay collection addresses the paradox that something may at
once "be" and "not be" Shakespeare. This phenomenon can be a matter
of perception rather than authorial intention: audiences may detect
Shakespeare where the author disclaims him or have difficulty
finding him where he is named. Douglas Lanier's "Shakespearean
rhizome," which co-opts Deleuze and Guattari's concept of artistic
relations as rhizomes (a spreading, growing network that sprawls
horizontally to defy hierarchies of origin and influence) is
fundamental to this exploration. Essays discuss the fine line
between "Shakespeare" and "not Shakespeare" through a number of
critical lenses-networks and pastiches, memes and echoes, texts and
paratexts, celebrities and afterlives, accidents and intertexts-and
include a wide range of examples: canonical plays by Shakespeare,
historical figures, celebrities, television performances and
adaptations, comics, anime appropriations, science fiction novels,
blockbuster films, gangster films, Shakesploitation and teen films,
foreign language films, and non-Shakespearean classic films.
The Function of Evil Across Disciplinary Contexts explores answers
to two important questions about the age-old theme of evil: is
there any use in using the concept of evil in cultural,
psychological, or other secular evaluations of the world and its
productions? Most importantly, if there is, what might these
functions be? By looking across several disciplines and analyzing
evil as it is referenced across a broad spectrum of phenomena, this
work demonstrates the varying ways that we interact with the
ethical dilemma as academics, as citizens, and as people. The work
draws from authors in different fields-including history, literary
and film studies, philosophy, and psychology-and from around the
world to provide an analysis of evil in such topics as deeply
canonical as Beowulf and Shakespeare to subjects as culturally
resonant as Stephen King, Captain America, or the War on Terror. By
bringing together this otherwise disparate collection of
scholarship, this collection reveals that discussions of evil
across disciplines have always been questions of how cultures
represent that which they find socially abhorrent. This work thus
opens the conversation about evil outside of field-specific
limitations, simultaneously demonstrating the assumptions that
undergird the manner by which such a conversation proceeds.
The collection, edited by Annalisa Castaldo and Rhonda Knight,
features essays by scholars interested in exploring how the
material culture of sixteenth and early seventeenth English
theatrical culture influenced the creation and presentation of
drama and how understanding this culture can enrich scholars'
current interactions with these plays as well as offer insights to
actors and directors. The essays include discussions of plays by
Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Middleton as well as lesser known works
and playwrights. This collection is unique in that it includes the
body of the actor as a material object that is encountered and
manipulated by other actors on the stage. These essays demonstrate
how props, bodies and the architectural dimensions of early modern
stages have both practical and symbolic registers.
The collection, edited by Annalisa Castaldo and Rhonda Knight,
features essays by scholars interested in exploring how the
material culture of sixteenth and early seventeenth English
theatrical culture influenced the creation and presentation of
drama and how understanding this culture can enrich scholars'
current interactions with these plays as well as offer insights to
actors and directors. The essays include discussions of plays by
Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Middleton as well as lesser known works
and playwrights. This collection is unique in that it includes the
body of the actor as a material object that is encountered and
manipulated by other actors on the stage. These essays demonstrate
how props, bodies and the architectural dimensions of early modern
stages have both practical and symbolic registers.
This essay collection addresses the paradox that something may at
once "be" and "not be" Shakespeare. This phenomenon can be a matter
of perception rather than authorial intention: audiences may detect
Shakespeare where the author disclaims him or have difficulty
finding him where he is named. Douglas Lanier's "Shakespearean
rhizome," which co-opts Deleuze and Guattari's concept of artistic
relations as rhizomes (a spreading, growing network that sprawls
horizontally to defy hierarchies of origin and influence) is
fundamental to this exploration. Essays discuss the fine line
between "Shakespeare" and "not Shakespeare" through a number of
critical lenses-networks and pastiches, memes and echoes, texts and
paratexts, celebrities and afterlives, accidents and intertexts-and
include a wide range of examples: canonical plays by Shakespeare,
historical figures, celebrities, television performances and
adaptations, comics, anime appropriations, science fiction novels,
blockbuster films, gangster films, Shakesploitation and teen films,
foreign language films, and non-Shakespearean classic films.
This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored
Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for
Black civil rights. Well before the founding of the NAACP and other
twentieth-century pillars of the civil rights movement, tens of
thousands of Black leaders organized state and national conventions
across North America. Over seven decades, they advocated for social
justice and against slavery, protesting state-sanctioned and mob
violence while demanding voting, legal, labor, and educational
rights. While Black-led activism in this era is often overshadowed
by the attention paid to the abolition movement, this collection
centers Black activist networks, influence, and institution
building. Collectively, these essays highlight the vital role of
the Colored Conventions in the lives of thousands of early
organizers, including many of the most famous writers, ministers,
politicians, and entrepreneurs in the long history of Black
activism. Contributors: Erica L. Ball, Kabria Baumgartner, Daina
Ramey Berry, Joan L. Bryant, Jim Casey, Benjamin Fagan, P.
Gabrielle Foreman, Eric Gardner, Andre E. Johnson, Cheryl Janifer
LaRoche, Sarah Lynn Patterson, Carla L. Peterson, Jean Pfaelzer,
Selena R. Sanderfer, Derrick R. Spires, Jermaine Thibodeaux, Psyche
Williams-Forson, and Jewon Woo.
The Functions of Evil Across Disciplinary Contexts explores answers
to two important questions about the age-old theme of evil: is
there any use in using the concept of evil in cultural,
psychological, or other secular evaluations of the world and its
productions? Most importantly, if there is, what might these
functions be? By looking across several disciplines and analyzing
evil as it is referenced across a broad spectrum of phenomena, this
work demonstrates the varying ways that we interact with the
ethical dilemma as academics, as citizens, and as people. The work
draws from authors in different fields-including history, literary
and film studies, philosophy, and psychology-and from around the
world to provide an analysis of evil in such topics as deeply
canonical as Beowulf and Shakespeare to subjects as culturally
resonant as Stephen King, Captain America, or the War on Terror. By
bringing together this otherwise disparate collection of
scholarship, this collection reveals that discussions of evil
across disciplines have always been questions of how cultures
represent that which they find socially abhorrent. This work thus
opens the conversation about evil outside of field-specific
limitations, simultaneously demonstrating the assumptions that
undergird the manner by which such a conversation proceeds.
This interdisciplinary study explores Marian imagery and
representations in world literature and art throughout the
centuries. This book demonstrates the widespread deep veneration of
the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary in various countries and
different Christian traditions. Devotion to the Holy Virgin has
served as a bridge to different cultures, overcoming all types of
possible borders. Religious and cultural literacy is crucial for
domestic and international politics, the practice of peace,
harmony, justice and prosperity. This book also gives recognition
and pays homage to the influence of the image of Mater Dolorosa in
shaping art and literature around the world.
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