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Funny Games (Blu-ray disc)
Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, Devon Gearhart, …
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In this US remake of his 1997 film 'Funny Games', director Michael
Haneke delivers a savage critique on the way violence is portrayed
in the media. Arriving at their remote holiday cabin in the
Hamptons for a quiet vacation, George (Tim Roth), his wife Ann
(Naomi Watts), and their young son Georgie (Devon Gearheart), find
themselves subjected to a harrowing ordeal involving mental and
physical torture, when two young, psychotic killers come calling.
Alternative Masculinities in Feminist Speculative Fiction: A New
Man traces efforts within American feminist utopias to imagine
healthier conceptions of manhood. As this analysis illuminates,
feminist works envisioning the improved society and its attending
masculinities constitute an overlooked site for mining new
masculinities. During the years in which such utopias gained
popularity -the early 1970s to the mid-2010s-these novels grew more
complex, challenging essentialist conceptions of masculinity and
female experience. These texts vary in their focus but share an
interest in replacing patriarchal masculinities with an alternative
informed by second wave and intersectional feminism. This book
analyzes the centrality of alternative masculinities to these ideal
societies and the ways feminist writers present new conceptions of
manhood pivotal to discussions surrounding the ongoing crisis of
American masculinity.
In November 1997 English Heritage announced the discovery of a vast prehistoric temple in Somerset. The extraordinary wooden rings at Stanton Drew are the most recent and biggest of a series of remarkable discoveries that have transformed the way archaeologists think of the great monuments in the region including Stonehenge and Avebury. The results of these discoveries have not been published outside academic journals and no one has considered the wider implications of these finds. Here Mike Pitts who has worked as an archaeologist at Avebury, and has access to the unpublished English Heritage files, asks what sort of people designed and built these extraordinary structures - the biggest in Britain until the arrival of medieval cathedrals. Using computer reconstructions he shows what they looked like - and asks what they are for. This is the story of the discovery of a lost civilisation that spanned five centuries, a civilisation that now lies mostly beneath the fields of Southern England.
Kinship in the Fiction of N.K. Jemisin: Relations of Power and
Resistance examines the work of N.K. Jemisin through the lens of
kinship studies. In a world increasingly suffering the effects of
climate change, currently undergoing a sixth mass extinction, and
where anti-democratic, racist and misogynistic movements are
gaining ground in many societies, there is an urgent need to
re-imagine our most intimate relations and the webs of kinship that
form our societies, but also connect us to the more-than-human
world. The essays in this collection shed new light on the ways in
which Jemisin's fiction does such re-imaginative work and explores
both the contemporary moment and the potential for a future that is
other than our present.
Alternative Masculinities in Feminist Speculative Fiction: A New
Man traces efforts within contemporary American feminist utopias to
imagine healthier conceptions of manhood. As this analysis
illuminates, feminist works envisioning the improved society and
its attending masculinities make up an overlooked site for mining
new masculinities. During the years in which such utopias moved
from the margins to the mainstream, the early 1970s to the
mid-2010s, these novels grew more complex, challenging essentialist
conceptions of masculinity and female experience. As this analysis
demonstrates, these texts vary in their focus, but are united by an
interest in transforming patriarchal masculinities and replacing
them with an alternative informed by second wave and intersectional
feminism. This book analyzes the centrality of such alternative
masculinities to these ideal societies and the ways feminist
writers present in their fiction new conceptions of manhood pivotal
to discussions surrounding the ongoing crisis of American
masculinity.
This penetrating work, the first book-length study of Kate Smith to
appear in print, offers a candid look at the life and show business
career of one of the most beloved women of our time. Through her
work as an entertainer, Kate Smith touched the pulse of the
American public. The scope of her influence is chronicled in this
book, which includes a biographical study, a discography, a
filmography, a song index, lists of her stage and media
appearances, sheet music and song books, and an annotated
bibliography of works by and about Kate Smith.
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