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Fast Girls (Blu-ray disc)
Bradley James, Rupert Graves, Noel Clarke, Lenora Crichlow, Philip Davis, …
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Regan Hall's directorial feature debut is a fast-paced sports drama
set in London. Sparks fly when Shania (Lenora Crichlow), a sprinter
from the city's back streets, comes head to head with Lisa (Lily
James), an equally ambitious young runner from a wealthy middle
class background. Their fierce rivalry soon reaches breaking point
as both girls strive to make it to the top. Bradley James, Rupert
Graves and Noel Clarke co-star.
Between Habit and Thought in New TV Serial Drama: Serial
Connections is a consideration of some of the key examples of
serial television drama available via transnational streaming
platforms in recent times. Through the individual works examined,
the book exemplifies the ways in which aesthetics, technology, and
capitalism weave a complex social fabric around the production of
the respective television series, thus presenting this type of
serial drama as a finely engineered cultural production. Taking
Bernard Stiegler’s notion of an "image warfare" as its starting
point, the author critically investigates the strategies deployed
by the shows’ producers to navigate this dynamic, shaped by the
"new spirit of capitalism". With creativity intrinsic to the
process, on the one hand, and a highly efficient drive for
capturing and fixing attention driven by algorithm and economic
logic, on the other, the author maps the processes at work in the
production of high-value serial drama and considers how, despite
this tension, they manage to present meaningful insights into the
experience of being in this world: A world shaped by trauma, a
desire for justice, and a search for systems of belief that can
offer a way through the vicissitudes of contemporary life. Framed
by a detailed analysis of the multiple processes that shape these
works is a sustained analysis of the serials Mr Robot, Billions,
The Leftovers, Rectify, and Westworld, and the dynamics of despair
and hope that ripple through them. As such, it will appeal to
readers of film and television studies, cultural theory, and those
interested in furthering a critical aesthetics for our time.
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The Tournament (Blu-ray disc)
Robert Carlyle, Kelly Hu, Ian Somerhalder, Liam Cunningham, Ving Rhames, …
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British fantasy action thriller starring Robert Carlyle and Ving
Rhames. Every seven years, a deadly tournament is held in which 30
of the world's most lethal assassins gather in a secret location
and battle it out for a cash prize of ten million dollars.
Returning champion Joshau Harlow (Rhames) has a very personal
reason for attending this year's tournament: he has been informed
that one of his fellow contestants was responsible for the death of
his wife, and he wants revenge at any cost.
Between Habit and Thought in New TV Serial Drama: Serial
Connections is a consideration of some of the key examples of
serial television drama available via transnational streaming
platforms in recent times. Through the individual works examined,
the book exemplifies the ways in which aesthetics, technology, and
capitalism weave a complex social fabric around the production of
the respective television series, thus presenting this type of
serial drama as a finely engineered cultural production. Taking
Bernard Stiegler's notion of an "image warfare" as its starting
point, the author critically investigates the strategies deployed
by the shows' producers to navigate this dynamic, shaped by the
"new spirit of capitalism". With creativity intrinsic to the
process, on the one hand, and a highly efficient drive for
capturing and fixing attention driven by algorithm and economic
logic, on the other, the author maps the processes at work in the
production of high-value serial drama and considers how, despite
this tension, they manage to present meaningful insights into the
experience of being in this world: A world shaped by trauma, a
desire for justice, and a search for systems of belief that can
offer a way through the vicissitudes of contemporary life. Framed
by a detailed analysis of the multiple processes that shape these
works is a sustained analysis of the serials Mr Robot, Billions,
The Leftovers, Rectify, and Westworld, and the dynamics of despair
and hope that ripple through them. As such, it will appeal to
readers of film and television studies, cultural theory, and those
interested in furthering a critical aesthetics for our time.
The Oceanic Languages form a closed subgroup within one of the
world 's largest language families, Austronesian. There are between
1000 and 1500 Austronesian languages (estimates vary), with so much
structural diversity that they are best handled in two volumes, one
on the Oceanic and one on the non-Oceanic Austronesian languages.
This division is clear and the grammar sketches in this volume
provide a cross-section through the structural diversity of the
Oceanic languages which is not available elsewhere. Much of the
material is drawn from data collected by the authors and has not
been previously published.
The volume contains five background chapters: The Oceanic
Languages, Sociolinguistic Background, Typological Overview,
Proto-Oceanic and Internal Subgrouping. In addition, the volume
presents forty-three grammar sketches, selected from the five
hundred Oceanic languages spread across a region embracing eastern
Indonesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia.
In Overcoming Masculine Depression, psychologists John Lynch and
Christopher Kilmartin present a model that provides new ways of
understanding men's behaviors. This unique book does not portray
men as victims, but seeks to increase awareness that a great deal
of depression in men is misunderstood and quite often misdiagnosed.
Many men "act out" their symptoms through anger, workaholism, and
relationship conflict. Underlying these behaviors are chronic
feelings of being hopeless, helpless, and worthless. Men can learn
to recognize symptoms of masculine depression and take steps to
reclaim their lives and relationships, and the authors offer many
strategies for doing so. Numerous case examples are provided to
illustrate the various dynamics of male depression. New to this
edition are chapters on self-regulation and impulse control and the
application of evidence-based treatment for depression to the
symptoms of male depression. This is an essential resource for all
helping professionals who work with male clients, as well as for
men experiencing symptoms of depression and the people in their
lives.
In Overcoming Masculine Depression, psychologists John Lynch and
Christopher Kilmartin present a model that provides new ways of
understanding men's behaviors. This unique book does not portray
men as victims, but seeks to increase awareness that a great deal
of depression in men is misunderstood and quite often misdiagnosed.
Many men "act out" their symptoms through anger, workaholism, and
relationship conflict. Underlying these behaviors are chronic
feelings of being hopeless, helpless, and worthless. Men can learn
to recognize symptoms of masculine depression and take steps to
reclaim their lives and relationships, and the authors offer many
strategies for doing so. Numerous case examples are provided to
illustrate the various dynamics of male depression. New to this
edition are chapters on self-regulation and impulse control and the
application of evidence-based treatment for depression to the
symptoms of male depression. This is an essential resource for all
helping professionals who work with male clients, as well as for
men experiencing symptoms of depression and the people in their
lives.
Set in his native Northern Ireland, John Lynch's debut novel is a
lyrically told and exquisitely tender story of innocence and loss.
'He remembers when he was very young standing by water...How he had
got there or where the pond was he couldn't remember, but he can
vaguely recall a larger hand on his and being led through the high
rooms of a large building, to a large garden, where bees wove dozy
patterns in the air. At the bottom of this garden lay the large
pond, and he remembers a face bending to meet his and whispering
that he would be back in a little while. So he stood where he had
been left, his small feet pointing at the stonework of the pond's
rim. He remembers a wind brewing in the tops of the trees and
tearing at the water of the pond for a moment, before subsiding,
his face blurring into focus like a TV channel being tuned.' When
James Lavery's father is blown to bits by a bomb he intended to
maim and kill others with, the boy keeps him alive in his
imagination as a superhero, escaping the daily grind of school, his
mother's drinking and his own acute loneliness by inventing
extraordinary adventures for them both. But, gradually, through the
agonies of adolescence James begins to understand the real cost of
his father's weak and deluded heroism. It is only when he falls in
love himself, during a summer away from his tortured home life,
that James finally begins to understand the true complexities of
love, life and death...
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The Tournament (DVD)
Robert Carlyle, Kelly Hu, Ian Somerhalder, Liam Cunningham, Ving Rhames, …
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British fantasy action thriller starring Robert Carlyle and Ving
Rhames. Every seven years, a deadly tournament is held in which 30
of the world's most lethal assassins gather in a secret location
and battle it out for a cash prize of ten million dollars.
Returning champion Joshau Harlow (Rhames) has a very personal
reason for attending this year's tournament: he has been informed
that one of his fellow contestants was responsible for the death of
his wife, and he wants revenge at any cost.
Hauntingly told and emotionally charged, this is an immense story
of consuming addiction and the betrayal of trust. Gabriel O'Rourke
seemingly has everything: a loving wife, an adoring young son, a
worthwhile job. He is rooted in a community, is part of a family,
has a home. Yet, gradually, his world slowly pulls apart, until
Gabriel finds himself homeless and destitute, living out of rubbish
skips on the street. In a psychotic haze he is admitted into a
secure unit, his body addled by alcohol, his mind broken. Here, by
confronting the blighting reality of his own alcoholism, Gabriel is
forced finally to unearth the muddled spectre of the past: the
black betrayals by those around him, his traumatic relationship
with his father, and the true darkness of some obsessions. Learning
to navigate a landscape pockmarked with trauma to undergo a journey
of painstaking absolution and halting reconstruction, Gabriel
understands that only by untangling the mistakes of the past can he
hope to reclaim his future.
All six episodes from the second series of the BBC crime drama
starring Gillian Anderson as a Metropolitan Police detective
drafted to Belfast to help on a puzzling murder case. Though her
superiors aren't convinced, Stella Gibson (Anderson) continues her
investigations into an alleged serial killer who has so far been
successful at covering his tracks and evading capture. Meanwhile,
the killer, Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan), remains true to his cause
and seeks out his next victim.
John Lynch provides a brilliant survey of the men and the movements
during these critical years. He views the revolutionary outbreak as
the culmination of a long process of alienation from Spain during
which Spanish Americans became aware of their own identity,
conscious of their own culture, and jealous of their own resources.
He traces the forces of independence as they gathered momentum and
spread across the subcontinent in two great waves converging on
Peru. He also explains why the heroic liberators, among them San
Martin, Bolivar, and O'Higgins, were unable to prevent the
revolutions from ultimately turning into counterrevolutions that
frustrated their efforts to create new societies. In the second
edition, Lynch adds a section on Central America and incorporates
the latest work being done on the origins and aftermaths of these
revolutions."
After Bloody Sunday investigates the ways in which the events in
Derry on January 30, 1972, have found representation in
photography, film, theatre, poetry, television documentary, art
installations, murals, music, commemorative events, legal
discourse, eyewitness testimony, and pressure-group campaigns.
Thirty-six years after the killing and wounding of twenty-six civil
rights protestors in Derry, the new independent tribunal chaired by
Lord Mark Saville of Newdigate is close to publishing its findings.
The Report of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry promises to be the most
comprehensive act of truth-recovery yet attempted in relation to
the many atrocities that scarred the North of Ireland during the
three decades of political conflict. Mark Saville has the
formidable, and perhaps impossible, task of establishing the
definitive truth of Bloody Sunday. His attempt comes in the wake of
many other earlier versions of the events of 30th January 1972 that
have also claimed to present the truth of what happened that
day.After Bloody Sunday examines the portrayals of the events of
January 30th, 1972, and its devastating repercussions in
photography, film, theatre, poetry, television documentary, art
installations, murals, commemorative events, and legal discourse.
The authors consider their veracity, their mechanisms of
authenticity, and their assumptions that a particular medium be it
film, or language, or visual art can somehow articulate the truth
of Bloody Sunday.In the course of six thematically-organized
chapters, the authors analyze productions ranging from high-profile
popular forms of entertainment such as Paul Greengrass s feature
film Bloody Sunday and Jimmy McGovern s made-for-television film,
Sunday through to lesser-known treatments in poetry (Thomas
Kinsella s Butcher s Dozen), drama (Frank McGuinness s
Carthaginians and Brian Friel s The Freedom of the City), and
visual art (The Bogside Artists and Willie Doherty). They place
special emphasis on the commemoration events held each year in
Derry in which the families of the victims have over many years
remembered their dead and injured, while at the same time building
a highly-effective campaign that resulted, finally, in a new
Inquiry.Drawing on their expertise in the fields of literature,
cultural theory, media studies and visual art, the authors have
produced a thoroughly interdisciplinary approach towards the many
representations that claim, with varying degrees of confidence, to
tell the story of what really happened on the streets of the
Bogside on the afternoon of January 30, 1972. "
As the Holocaust is memorialized worldwide through education
programs and commemoration days, the common perception is that
after survivors arrived and settled in their new homes they
continued on a successful journey from rags to riches. While this
story is comforting, a closer look at the experience of Holocaust
survivors in North America shows it to be untrue. The arrival of
tens of thousands of Jewish refugees was palpable in the streets of
Montreal and their impact on the existing Jewish community is
well-recognized. But what do we really know about how survivors'
experienced their new community? Drawing on more than 60 interviews
with survivors, hundreds of case files from Jewish Immigrant Aid
Services, and other archival documents, The Montreal Shtetl
presents a portrait of the daily struggles of Holocaust survivors
who settled in Montreal, where they encountered difficulties with
work, language, culture, health care, and a Jewish community that
was not always welcoming to survivors. By reflecting on how
institutional supports, gender, and community relationships shaped
the survivors''settlement experiences, Abramson and Lynch show the
relevance of these stories to current state policies on refugee
immigration.
In the seventeenth century Bristol was the second city of England.
It was the main west coast port, an internationally important
entrepot and rich trading centre. Industry flourished, too, with
manufacturing and processing industries like soap making and
gunpowder production responsible for Bristol's considerable wealth.
In consequence, control of the town became one of the chief
objectives of both armies during the civil war which raged in
England in the 1640s. Beginning the war under Parliamentarian
control, the city changed hands twice, with each transfer having a
major effect of the war effort of both sides. This new study argues
that when the Royalists captured Bristol in July 1643 they gained
not only the city, but also the materials and facilities that
literally allowed them to remain in the war. Under Royalist rule
Bristol became a vital centre for military and government
activities, as well as a centre for importing arms from Europe and
becoming almost the alternative Royalist capital. The loss of
Bristol in 1645 was therefore a huge blow to the Royalist cause.
This book is surely one of the most important written on the civil
wars in recent times. Its radical reinterpretation of the pivotal
role of England's second city will ensure it a place on bookshelves
of anyone interested in the most turbulent years of the seventeenth
century.
Simon Bolivar was a revolutionary who freed six countries, an
intellectual who argued the principles of national liberation, and
a general who fought a cruel colonial war. His life, passions,
battles, and great victories became embedded in Spanish American
culture almost as soon as they happened. This is the first major
English-language biography of "The Liberator" in half a century.
John Lynch draws on extensive research on the man and his era to
tell Bolivar's story, to understand his life in the context of his
own society and times, and to explore his remarkable and enduring
legacy.
The book illuminates the inner world of Bolivar, the dynamics of
his leadership, his power to command, and his modes of ruling the
diverse peoples of Spanish America. The key to his greatness, Lynch
concludes, was supreme will power and an ability to inspire people
to follow him beyond their immediate interests, in some cases
through years of unremitting struggle. Encompassing Bolivar's
entire life and his many accomplishments, this is the definitive
account of a towering figure in the history of the Western
hemisphere.
Belfast has a long and proud shipbuilding heritage, this industry
holding a strong place in Belfast's identity and popular culture.
There were three main shipbuilders, Harland & Wolff, Workman
Clark and the little-known McIllwain & Co., all of whom had
fascinating and often turbulent histories. Despite this, little is
known about the vessels they produced, beyond the world-famous
story of Titanic. In this impeccably researched book, Dr John Lynch
endeavours to change this, revealing the fascinating stories of the
many ships to be built and launched from Belfast over 140 years,
from the late 1850s to the twenty-first century. Including an
alphabetical ship index, building lists, details on vessel name
changes and many illustrations of the ships, this book also details
the yards themselves and key characters in shaping their journeys
from hey-day to decline.
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