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Top Five (Blu-ray disc)
Rosario Dawson, Cedric The Entertainer, Gabrielle Union, Hayley Marie Norman, J.B. Smoove, …
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Chris Rock writes, directs and stars in this contemporary comedy as
Andre Allen, a struggling comic and film star who is desperate to
breathe some new life into his career. Andre finds himself
disenchanted by the prospect of his reality TV star fiance
(Gabrielle Union)'s plans to broadcast their wedding on her show.
However, he is forced to spend some time with Chelsea Brown
(Rosario Dawson), a journalist reporting on his latest movie, and
the more Andre realises he is disappointed with where his career
and personal life are headed, the more he tries to change things...
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About Last Night (DVD)
Kevin Hart, Michael Ealy, Regina Hall, Joy Bryant, Christopher McDonald, …
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Steve Pink directs this romantic comedy, based on David Marmet's
play 'Sexual Perversity in Chicago', starring Kevin Hart, Michael
Ealy, Regina Hall and Joy Bryant. Bernie Jackson (Hart) and his
friend Danny Martin (Ealy) consider themselves successful
womanisers. However, when they become involved with two roommates,
Joan Derrickson (Hall) and Debbie Sullivan (Bryant), Bernie and
Danny find that life becomes a lot more complicated. The two
couples go through numerous ups and downs, with the difficulties
and successes of each relationship having a knock-on effect on the
other. Can romance and friendship survive such close proximity?
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Death at a Funeral (DVD)
Keith David, Loretta Devine, Peter Dinklage, Ron Glass, Danny Glover, …
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Neil LaBute directs this Hollywood remake of the 2007 British
ensemble comedy farce. Comedian Chris Rock stars as Aaron, who is
trying to get through his father's funeral in one piece despite the
best efforts of his melodramatic mother (Loretta Devine), his
baby-obsessed wife (Regina Hall) and his playboy brother (Martin
Lawrence). Meanwhile, his father's secret gay lover (Peter
Dinklage) turns up demanding money, and his beautiful cousin (Zoe
Saldana) spends the day dodging her infatuated ex (Luke Wilson)
while trying to look after her fiance (James Marsden) - who
accidentally imbibed a hallucinogen while searching for a
tranquiliser to calm his nerves.
Buddy-cop movie starring Ice Cube and Kevin Hart. Fast-talking
school security guard Ben Barber (Hart) wants to marry his
girlfriend Angela (Tika Sumpter). However, before he can do so, he
needs to get the blessing of her brother, street-smart cop James
Payton (Ice Cube). The only thing is, James thinks Ben is a
good-for-nothing loser with no real prospects and therefore unable
to support his sister. Ben, eager to impress, applies for entry to
the police academy, and upon his acceptance James agrees to take
him on a ride along to show him what life on the force is really
like. It isn't long before the two personalities clash but when Ben
finds out that James is working on a case to bring down Atlanta
crime lord Omar (Laurence Fishburne), he sees an opportunity to
prove he's worthy. Can Ben show his potential brother-in-law that
he has what it takes to be a successful cop and family man?
Superstar comedian and Hollywood box office star Kevin Hart turns
his immense talent to the written word by writing some words. Some
of those words include: the, a, for, above, and even even. Put them
together and you have the funniest, most heartfelt, and most
inspirational memoir on survival, success, and the importance of
believing in yourself since Old Yeller. It begins in North
Philadelphia. He was born an accident, unwanted by his parents. His
father was a drug addict who was in and out of jail. His brother
was a crack dealer and petty thief. And his mother was
overwhelmingly strict, beating him with belts, frying pans, and his
own toys. The odds, in short, were stacked against our young hero,
just like the odds that are stacked against the release of a new
book in this era of social media (where Hart has a following of
over 100 million, by the way). But Kevin Hart, like Ernest
Hemingway, JK Rowling, and Chocolate Droppa before him, was able to
defy the odds and turn it around. In his literary debut, he takes
the reader on a journey through what his life was, what it is now,
and how he's overcome each challenge to become the man he is today.
And that man happens to be the biggest comedian in the world, with
tours that sell out football stadiums and films that have
collectively grossed over $3.5 billion. He achieved this not just
through hard work, determination, and talent: It was through his
unique way of looking at the world. Because just like a book has
chapters, Hart sees life as a collection of chapters that each
person gets to write for himself or herself. "Not only do you get
to choose how you interpret each chapter, but your interpretation
writes the next chapter," he says. "So why not choose the
interpretation that serves your life the best?" Candid, wickedly
funny, and unforgettable, I Can't Make This Up is more than a
memoir. It is a training manual designed to teach you a positive,
drama-free outlook on life and code of conduct that will serve you,
serve others, and serve your biggest, boldest dreams.
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Marcus Makes It Big (Paperback)
Kevin Hart; As told to Geoff Rodkey; Illustrated by David Cooper
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An original and profound exploration of contemplation from
philosopher, theologian, and poet Kevin Hart. In Lands of
Likeness, Kevin Hart develops a new hermeneutics of contemplation
through a meditation on Christian thought and secular philosophy.
Drawing on Kant, Schopenhauer, Coleridge, and Husserl, Hart first
charts the emergence of contemplation in and beyond the Romantic
era. Next, Hart shows this hermeneutic at work in poetry by Gerard
Manley Hopkins, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and others.
Delivered in its original form as the prestigious Gifford Lectures,
Lands of Likeness is a revelatory meditation on contemplation for
the modern world.
An original and profound exploration of contemplation from
philosopher, theologian, and poet Kevin Hart. In Lands of
Likeness, Kevin Hart develops a new hermeneutics of contemplation
through a meditation on Christian thought and secular philosophy.
Drawing on Kant, Schopenhauer, Coleridge, and Husserl, Hart first
charts the emergence of contemplation in and beyond the Romantic
era. Next, Hart shows this hermeneutic at work in poetry by Gerard
Manley Hopkins, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and others.
Delivered in its original form as the prestigious Gifford Lectures,
Lands of Likeness is a revelatory meditation on contemplation for
the modern world.
This book represents the most comprehensive attempt to date to
explore and test Derrida's contribution and influence on the study
of theology, biblical studies, and the philosophy of religion. Over
the course of the last decade, the writings of Derrida and the key
concepts that emerge from his work such as the gift, apocalypse,
hospitality, and messianism have wrought far-reaching and
irresistible changes in the way that scholars approach biblical
texts, comparative religious studies, and religious violence, for
instance, as well as the way they understand basic religious themes
as myth, creation, forgiveness, one-ness, and multiplicity. In
addition to original contributions from over twenty highly-regarded
scholars including John Caputo, Daniel Boyarin, Edith Wyschogrod,
Tim Beal, and Gil Anidjar, the volume opens with a lengthy
interview with Derrida.
Kevin Hart traces the vast literary legacy and reputation of Samuel
Johnson. Through detailed analyses of the biographers, critics and
epigones who carefully crafted and preserved Johnson's life for
posterity, Hart explores the emergence of what came to be called
'The Age of Johnson'. Hart shows how late seventeenth- and early
eighteenth-century Britain experienced the emergence and
consolidation of a rich and diverse culture of property. In
dedicating himself to Johnson's death, Hart argues, James Boswell
turned his friend into a monument, a piece of public property.
Through subtle analyses of copyright, forgery and heritage in
eighteenth-century life, this study traces the emergence of
competing forms of cultural property: a Hanoverian politics of
property engages a Jacobite politics of land. Kevin Hart places
Samuel Johnson within this rich cultural context, demonstrating how
Johnson came to occupy a place at the heart of the English literary
canon.
Kevin Hart traces the vast literary legacy and reputation of Samuel
Johnson. Through detailed analyses of the biographers, critics and
epigones who carefully crafted and preserved Johnson's life for
posterity, Hart explores the emergence of what came to be called
'The Age of Johnson'. Hart shows how late seventeenth- and early
eighteenth-century Britain experienced the emergence and
consolidation of a rich and diverse culture of property. In
dedicating himself to Johnson's death, Hart argues, James Boswell
turned his friend into a monument, a piece of public property.
Through subtle analyses of copyright, forgery and heritage in
eighteenth-century life, this study traces the emergence of
competing forms of cultural property: a Hanoverian politics of
property engages a Jacobite politics of land. Kevin Hart places
Samuel Johnson within this rich cultural context, demonstrating how
Johnson came to occupy a place at the heart of the English literary
canon.
This book represents the most comprehensive attempt to date to
explore and test Derrida's contribution and influence on the study
of theology, biblical studies, and the philosophy of religion. Over
the course of the last decade, the writings of Derrida and the key
concepts that emerge from his work such as the gift, apocalypse,
hospitality, and messianism have wrought far-reaching and
irresistible changes in the way that scholars approach biblical
texts, comparative religious studies, and religious violence, for
instance, as well as the way they understand basic religious themes
as myth, creation, forgiveness, one-ness, and multiplicity. In
addition to original contributions from over twenty highly-regarded
scholars including John Caputo, Daniel Boyarin, Edith Wyschogrod,
Tim Beal, and Gil Anidjar, the volume opens with a lengthy
interview with Derrida.
Maurice Blanchot is among the most important twentieth-century
French thinkers. Figures such as Bataille, Deleuze, Derrida, and
Levinas all draw deeply on his novels and writings on literature
and philosophy. In "The Dark Gaze," Kevin Hart argues that Blanchot
has given us the most persuasive account of what we must give
up--whether it be continuity, selfhood, absolute truth, totality,
or unity--if God is, indeed, dead. Looking at Blanchot's oeuvre as
a whole, Hart shows that this erstwhile atheist paradoxically had
an abiding fascination with mystical experiences and the notion of
the sacred.
The result is not a mere introduction to Blanchot but rather a
profound reconsideration of how his work figures theologically in
some of the major currents of twentieth-century thought. Hart
reveals Blanchot to be a thinker devoted to the possibilities of a
spiritual life; an atheist who knew both the Old and New
Testaments, especially the Hebrew Bible; and a philosopher keenly
interested in the relation between art and religion, the nature of
mystical experience, the link between writing and the sacred, and
the possibilities of leading an ethical life in the absence of God.
Adopting the role of tour guide, award-winning writer Kevin Hart
leads the reader through the pitfalls, conundrums and complexities
that characterize postmodernism, while providing an overview of the
many different approaches (philosophical, cultural, literary...) to
the subject. All the major thinkers are introduced - from Derrida
to Blanchot, Irigaray to Foucault, and more besides - while the
book is unique among introductory guides in its consideration of
the role of religion in a postmodern world.
A stand up performance featuring the US actor and comedian. Recorded in front of a sold-out crowd at New York's Madison Square Gardens, the film also follows Hart as he crosses the country and continents on his 2012 'Let Me Explain' tour.
Religious poetry has often been regarded as minor poetry and
dismissed in large part because poetry is taken to require direct
experience; whereas religious poetry is taken to be based on faith,
that is, on second or third hand experience. The best methods of
thinking about "experience" are given to us by phenomenology.
Poetry and Revelation is the first study of religious poetry
through a phenomenological lens, one that works with the
distinction between manifestation (in which everything is made
manifest) and revelation (in which the mystery is re-veiled as well
as revealed). Providing a phenomenological investigation of a wide
range of "religious poems", some medieval, some modern; some
written in English, others written in European languages; some from
America, some from Britain, and some from Australia, Kevin Hart
provides a unique new way of thinking about religious poetry and
the nature of revelation itself.
Maurice Blanchot is perhaps best known as a major French
intellectual of the twentieth century: the man who countered
Sartre's views on literature, who affirmed the work of Sade and
Lautreamont, who gave eloquent voice to the generation of '68, and
whose philosophical and literary work influenced the writing of,
among others, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Michel Foucault.
He is also regarded as one of the most acute narrative writers in
France since Marcel Proust. In Clandestine Encounters, Kevin Hart
has gathered together major literary critics in Britain, France,
and the United States to engage with Blanchot's immense,
fascinating, and difficult body of creative work. Hart's
substantial introduction usefully places Blanchot as a significant
contributor to the tradition of the French philosophical novel,
beginning with Voltaire's Candide in 1759, and best known through
the works of Sartre. Clandestine Encounters considers a selection
of Blanchot's narrative writings over the course of almost sixty
years, from stories written in the mid-1930s to L'instant de ma
mort (1994). Collectively, the contributors' close readings of
Blanchot's novels, recits, and stories illuminate the close
relationship between philosophy and narrative in his work while
underscoring the variety and complexity of these narratives.
Contributors: Christophe Bident, Arthur Cools, Thomas S. Davis,
Christopher Fynsk, Rodolphe Gasche, Kevin Hart, Leslie Hill,
Michael Holland, Stephen E. Lewis, Vivian Liska, Caroline
Sheaffer-Jones, Christopher A. Strathman, Alain Toumayan
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Young Rain (Paperback)
Kevin Hart
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"With "Young Rain"Kevin Hart continues his 'transmemberment of
song' into a realm all his own. . . ." --Harold Bloom"Kevin Hart is
one of the finest poets writing in English today. I admire his
erudition and his imagination, the way history, art, myth,
literature and many things come together in his poetry. This book
will be a feast for those who want poetry to be both metaphysics
and song. An absolutely original and indispensable poet." --Charles
Simic "Kevin Hart is one of the most sophisticated poets writing
today, though the poems in "Young Rain" are disarmingly
straightforward. They have an ease and lucidity that makes them
seem almost casual, so that it is with a feeling of surprise that
you realize that you have been drawn into a conversation of the
utmost gravity concerning the private reaches of the self,
darkness, and death, as in the powerful sequences 'Night Music' and
'Dark Retreat.' There is nothing oppressive about them, though, and
the limpid rigor of the intellect they embody is leavened by the
tenderness and sensuality of the poems in another sequence, 'Amo te
Solo, ' which possesses a lustiness that would seem at home in the
Bible but has almost disappeared from contemporary poetry." --John
Koethe In a 1985 interview with fellow poet John Kinsella, Kevin
Hart reflected on the nature of poetry: "People sometimes think
that the spiritual world is distinct from, even distant from, this
world. . . . But the spiritual world is within this one: not as a
secret, but as a radiance. . . . We find it through God's grace and
our attention. Poetry is one form of attention, and poetry does not
lead us to another world: it shows us this world, this
relationship, this chair, this ivy on the outside wall." In "Young
Rain," Hart continues his exploration of the mysterious radiance
within this world.
." . . Kevin Hart is the best Australian poet of the past 25
years." --Mark Strand
Blanchot and his writings on three major poets, Mallarmé,
Hölderlin, and Char, provide a decisive new point of departure for
English language criticism of his philosophical writings on
narrative in this study by leading Blanchot scholar, Kevin Hart.
Connecting his work to later leading figures of 20th-century French
philosophy, including Emmanuel Levinas, Simone Weil, and Jacques
Derrida, Hart highlights the importance of Jewish philosophy and
political thought to his overall conception of literature. Chapters
on community and negation reveal Blanchot’s emphasis on the
relationship between narrative and politics over the more commonly
connected narrative and aesthetics. By fully discussing
Blanchot’s elusive concept of “the Outside” for the first
time, this book progresses scholarly understandings of his entire
oeuvre further. This central concept engages Franz Rosenzweig’s
work on Abrahamic faiths, enabling a reckoning on the role of
suffering and literature in the wake of the Shoah, with significant
implications for Jewish studies more generally.
The book provides a series of approaches to the ancient question of
whether and how God is a matter of aexperience, a or, alternately,
to what extent the notion of experience can be true to itself if it
does not include God. On the one hand, it seems impossible to
experience God: the deity does not offer Himself to sense
experience. On the other hand, there have been mystics who have
claimed to have encountered God. The essays in this collection seek
to explore the topic again, drawing insights from phenomenology,
theology, literature, and feminism. Throughout, this stimulating
collection maintains a strong connection with concrete rather than
abstract approaches to God.The contributors: Michael F. Andrews,
Jeffrey Bloechl, John D. Caputo, Kristine Culp, Kevin Hart, Kevin
L. Hughes, Jean-Yves Lacoste, Crystal Lucky, Renee McKenzie, Kim
Paffenroth, Michael Purcell, Michael J. Scanlon, O.S.A., James K.
A. Smith. Kevin Hart is Notre Dame Professor of English and
Concurrent Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame;
among his many books are The Trespass of the Sign: Deconstruction,
Theology, and Philosophy (Fordham), and The Dark Gaze: Maurice
Blanchot and the Sacred. His most recent collection of poems is
Flame Tree: Selected Poems. Barbara Wall is Special Assistant to
the President for Mission Effectiveness and Associate Professor of
Philosophy at Villanova University. She is co-editor of The Journal
of Catholic Social Thought and The Journal of Peace and Justice
Studies.
Outback Christmas is a significant book, first published in 1981,
and now in a new edition with new Preface, released ten years after
the death of the artist, Pro Hart. This book portrays the nativity
of Christ in bold images of the Australian Outback. Most of our
Christmas art and verse have been inherited from English and
European sources, but the Christian message is universal and other
cultures commonly portray the characters and events surrounding
Christ's birth in line with local custom. The authors write in the
1981 Preface that 'the ideas and images of the book reflect the
search of many Australians to make Christianity in Australia and
Australian Christianity ...Australian have sought to express their
faith in language consistent with the Australian experience.'
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