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Spanning the colonial campaigns of the Victorian age to the War on
Terror after 9/11, this study explores the role sport was perceived
to have played in the lives and work of military personnel, and
examines how sporting language and imagery were deployed to shape
and reconfigure civilian society's understanding of conflict. From
1850 onwards war reportage - complemented and reinforced by a glut
of campaign histories, memoirs, novels and films - helped create an
imagined community in which sporting attributes and qualities were
employed to give meaning and order to the chaos and misery of
warfare. This work explores the evolution of the Victorian notion
that playing-field and battlefield were connected and then moves on
to investigate the challenges this belief faced in the twentieth
century, as combat became, initially, industrialised in the age of
total warfare and, subsequently, professionalised in the
post-nuclear world. Such a longitudinal study allows, for the first
time, new light to be shed on the continuities and shifts in the
way the 'reality' of war was captured in the British popular
imagination. Drawing together the disparate fields of sport and
warfare, this book serves as a vital point of reference for anyone
with an interest in the cultural, social or military history of
modern Britain.
Spanning the colonial campaigns of the Victorian age to the War on
Terror after 9/11, this study explores the role sport was perceived
to have played in the lives and work of military personnel, and
examines how sporting language and imagery were deployed to shape
and reconfigure civilian society's understanding of conflict. From
1850 onwards war reportage - complemented and reinforced by a glut
of campaign histories, memoirs, novels and films - helped create an
imagined community in which sporting attributes and qualities were
employed to give meaning and order to the chaos and misery of
warfare. This work explores the evolution of the Victorian notion
that playing-field and battlefield were connected and then moves on
to investigate the challenges this belief faced in the twentieth
century, as combat became, initially, industrialised in the age of
total warfare and, subsequently, professionalised in the
post-nuclear world. Such a longitudinal study allows, for the first
time, new light to be shed on the continuities and shifts in the
way the 'reality' of war was captured in the British popular
imagination. Drawing together the disparate fields of sport and
warfare, this book serves as a vital point of reference for anyone
with an interest in the cultural, social or military history of
modern Britain.
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool
University Press website and the OAPEN library. The experience of
the South African War sharpened the desire to commemorate for a
number of reasons. An increasingly literate public, a burgeoning
populist press, an army reinforced by waves of volunteers and, to
contemporaries at least, a shockingly high death toll embedded the
war firmly in the national consciousness. In addition, with the
fallen buried far from home those left behind required other forms
of commemoration. For these reasons, the South African War was an
important moment of transition in commemorative practice and
foreshadowed the rituals of remembrance that engulfed Britain in
the aftermath of the Great War. This work provides the first
comprehensive survey of the memorialisation process in Britain in
the aftermath of the South African War. The approach goes beyond
the simple deconstruction of memorial iconography and, instead,
looks at the often tortuous and lengthy gestation of remembrance
sites, from the formation of committees to the raising of finance
and debates over form. In the process both Edwardian Britain's
sense of self and the contested memory of the conflict in South
Africa are thrown into relief. In the concluding sections of the
book the focus falls on other forms of remembrance sites, namely
the multi-volume histories produced by the War Office and The
Times, and the seminal television documentaries of Kenneth
Griffith. Once again the approach goes beyond simple textual
deconstruction to place the sources firmly in their wider context
by exploring both production and reception. By uncovering the
themes and myths that underpinned these interpretations of the war,
shifting patterns in how the war was represented and conceived are
revealed.
Collection of seven films from Canadian writer/director Atom
Egoyan. In 'Exotica' (1994), pet shop owner Thomas (Don McKellar)
arrives in town with a secret cache of rare bird eggs. Sharing a
cab from the airport he ends up in Exotica, a local strip club.
Fascinated by star stripper Christina (Mia Kirshner), he becomes
drawn into her sordid lifestyle, along with the club DJ (Elias
Koteas) and a disturbed tax auditor (Bruce Greenwood). As the
multiple narratives and chronological twists unfold, the characters
find their lives becoming inexorably intertwined as they head
towards a shocking conclusion. In 'The Adjuster' (1991), Koteas
plays Noah Render, an insurance adjuster whose attempts to help
others mask a deeper malaise in his own life. His wife Hera
(Arsinée Khanjian) is a disillusioned film censor who obsessively
copies the most explicit scenes in the films she is supposed to
review. After Noah helps a rich young woman whose house has burned
down, Hera invites a young film-maker into their home to shoot a
movie, and as their elaborate sexual fantasies are acted out on
video, they begin to explore a world where voyeurism and
exhibitionism are all-consuming. In 'Family Viewing' (1987), Van
(Aidan Tierney) finds himself in a difficult situation when he
realises that his father Stan (David Hemblen) is recording over the
family's home movies with home-made pornography. Not only is Stan's
lover Sandra (Gabrielle Rose) completely at the mercy of his dark
fantasies, but she also expresses a sexual interest in Van.
Dividing his time between the family home and a nearby nursing
residence caring for his aging grandmother Armen (Selma Keklikian),
Van meets Aline (Khanjian), who works as a phone-sex operator, and
the two concoct a plan to escape his emotionally cold father. In
'The Sweet Hereafter' (1997), powerful lawyer Mitchell Stephens
(Ian Holm) arrives in a small town in British Columbia after 14
children die in a school bus crash. Announcing that he will win
compensation for the townsfolk, Stephens investigates the
mysterious circumstances surrounding the accident, discovering
various dark secrets lurking beneath the surface. In 'Calendar'
(1993), a photographer (Egoyan) and his wife (Khanjian) travel to
Armenia to photograph churches for use in a calendar, employing a
native speaking driver (Ashot Adamyan) to escort them around the
country. On their travels a relationship develops between the
photographer's wife and the Armenian guide. Looking back on this
time from his apartment in Toronto, the newly separated
photographer contacts women through an escort agency and invites
them to dinner, all while his estranged wife tries reconcile with
him. In 'Next of Kin' (1984), Peter (Patrick Tierney) is a young
man from an Anglo-Saxon family who is constantly under pressure to
do something meaningful with his life. The family visit a therapist
in the hopes of getting to the bottom of the tension between
themselves and Peter's apparent laziness. When Peter visits the
clinic before the next session hoping to view the video recording
of their last meeting he is given the wrong tape and instead is
shown the recording of an immigrant family who had given up their
first son for adoption upon entering the country. What Peter then
suggests to his family and therapist is that he take a break in
order to find himself, but what he actually does is assume the
identity of this other family's long lost son. Finally, in
'Speaking Parts' (1989), struggling actor Lance (Michael McManus)
works in housekeeping at a local hotel while waiting for his first
speaking role. Meanwhile, his co-worker Lisa (Khanjian) is obsessed
with him and seeks out all the movies he appears in as a means of
satisfying her voyeuristic tendencies. When Lance learns a
scriptwriter, Clara (Rose), is staying at the hotel he chooses to
leave his résumé in her room in the hope that she'll give him a
part in her next film about her late brother. Before long the two
become romantically involved and Lance finds himself with his first
lead role but Clara becomes increasingly distressed when a series
of changes are made to her story by the movie's producer.
In this poetic analysis of the human response throughout the
journey of life, Peter Donaldson unveils his examination of human
behavior in various circumstances and in response to a variety of
topics, including love, faith, politics, relationships, and black
history. He offers this literary exposition of the nature of the
human heart and the intriguing emotional reactions we express
towards the obstacles, successes, and failures of life, hoping to
leave readers refreshed by a complete showering of poetic utopia.
Although largely influenced by a Christian perspective, the
philosophical ideologies presented here aim to stimulate deep
thoughts in the minds of both the believer and agnostic alike.
"Symphony of the Heart" presents an expression of lyrical artistry
that surveys a journey into the uncharted waters of faith and
unbridled emotions. In the dialect of poetic lingo, Donaldson
intends to spur discussions concerning the controversial issues of
life with language creatively written in such an untailored fashion
as to create a sentiment of tranquil literary bliss.
This book presents a critical account of the theories, hypotheses
and models that have been advanced to explain and to predict
population change in various kinds of societies. The author also
puts forward and tests a new theoretical treatment to isolate and
to explain the conditions and causes of the transition from high to
low fertility rates within and among different societies. Two
aspects of this new theory are the interacting effects of living
standards and the constraints of time, and the economic and social
factors that in turn are behind these. Among the other factors that
are considered are the effects and roles of education, the
availability of food, child care, the extent of the female labour
force, health and infant mortality, family type, and cultural and
social norms and expectations.
Genetics of Complex Disease examines how the identification of
genetic variations that increase or reduce the risk of common,
genetically complex, diseases can be used to improve our
understanding of the pathology of many common diseases; enable
better patient management and care; and help with differential
diagnosis. It starts with the questions of "what", "why" and "how,"
and continues with more specific topics such as HLA and
immunogenetics, pharmacogenetics, cancer, and diabetes. It finishes
with a discussion of ethical issues, and looks to future
developments. Genetics of Complex Disease is designed for advanced
undergraduate and graduate students in the biomedical sciences and
medicine.
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