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How I Live Now (DVD)
Saoirse Ronan, Tom Holland, Anna Chancellor, George Mackay, Corey Johnson, …
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British action drama starring Saoirse Ronan. Understandably cold
and aggressive after being shipped off to Britain from America to
stay with her distant relatives, Daisy (Ronan) is initially weary
of her new home in the English countryside, but as a relationship
develops between Daisy and her cousin Edmond (George MacKay), she
starts warming to her new surroundings. Left to their own devices
while her Aunt Penn (Anna Chancellor) is abroad involved in peace
negotiations, the group enjoy their idyllic surroundings and
isolation from parental influence. However, when World War Three
breaks out over Europe and Britain is taken over by military
forces, the group is split up and detained in prisoner-of-war
camps. With nothing left to lose, Daisy begins planning her escape
in the hope of reuniting with her lover, but with war taking its
toll on everyone throughout the country, she grows fearful of what
she may find...
Fully updated and expanded throughout, this second edition of Film
Theory: The Basics provides an accessible introduction to the key
theorists, concepts, and debates that have shaped the study of
moving images. The book examines film theory from its emergence in
the early twentieth century to its study in the present day, and
explores why film has drawn special attention as a medium, as a
form of representation, and as a focal point in the rise of modern
visual culture. It also emphasizes how film theory has developed as
a historically contingent discourse, one that has evolved and
changed in conjunction with different social, political, and
intellectual factors. This second edition offers a detailed account
of new theoretical directions at the forefront of film studies in
the twenty-first century, and draws additional attention to how
theory engages with today's most pressing questions about digital
technologies, the environment, and racial justice. Complete with
questions for discussion and a glossary of both key terms and key
theorists, this book in an invaluable resource for those new to
film theory and for anyone else interested in the history and
significance of critical thinking in relation to the moving image.
Dr. Greg Johnson is the editor of Counter-Currents Publishing and
its journal North American New Right (www.counter-currents.com),
which draw upon the ideas of the European New Right to promote a
new approach to White Nationalist politics in North America. New
Right vs. Old Right collects 32 essays in which Dr. Johnson sets
out his vision of White Nationalist "metapolitics" and
distinguishes it from Fascism and National Socialism (the "Old
Right"), as well as conservatism and classical liberalism (the
"Phony Right"). Dr. Johnson rejects the Old Right's party politics,
totalitarianism, imperialism, and genocide in favor of the
metapolitical project of constructing a hegemonic White Nationalist
consciousness within a pluralistic society. He argues that White
Nationalists are too dependent on the model of hierarchical
organizations and need also to work on creating resilient lateral
networks. He offers New Rightist answers to a number of disputed
questions within the White Nationalist community, including white
culpability for our decline, Hitler and National Socialism, the
Jewish question, the holocaust, the role of women, Christianity vs.
paganism, and the relationships of populism, elitism, and
democracy. He sets out some basic principles for creating a
growing, resilient, networked movement. Finally, he criticizes
distractions and dead-ends like "mainstreaming," conservatism,
"premature" populism, and political violence. Engagingly written
and constructively critical, Greg Johnson's New Right vs. Old Right
is an important contribution to the emerging North American New
Right. Praise for New Right vs. Old Right "Greg Johnson's basic
point is that we must work to create a metapolitics of explicit
white identity-that is, a movement that will develop 'the
intellectual and cultural foundations for effective White
Nationalist politics in North America, so that we can ultimately
create a white homeland or homelands on this continent.' Greg is
one of the reasons why I think this is a feasible project. . . .
Greg received his Ph.D. in philosophy, and it shows. His forte is
the well-developed argument presented in a lucid, easily understood
style. Nobody can complain about this book being filled with turgid
prose. And I can't find any major disagreements." -Kevin MacDonald,
from the Foreword "In New Right vs. Old Right, Greg Johnson lays
out his vision for a pro-white movement more focused on ideas,
education, and communication than on politics or thuggery. True to
this vision, his writing is extremely accessible. Throughout this
collection, Johnson breaks down complex philosophical concepts and
challenging ideas into tight, efficient sentences and effective
explanations. Johnson doesn't drone on trying to sound clever. Like
an enthusiastic professor, he truly wants his readers to understand
why he believes it is morally right for whites-and all peoples-to
determine their own collective destinies." -Jack Donovan, author of
The Way of Men "Dr. Greg Johnson's New Right vs. Old Right
delineates the differences between two 'Rights, ' without
repudiating the common philosophical origins of both in opposing
egalitarianism and other passe ideologies that continue to dominate
much of the world. The primary value of this collection of essays,
however, is that Dr. Johnson asks the perennial question, from our
side: "what is truth?" In doing so he lays the foundations for a
morality of the New Right. This book is therefore unique in the
English-speaking Rightist milieu that was, for much of the
post-1945 era, poorly served in comparison to its counterparts in
Europe. As such, Dr. Johnson's book will be of relevance to many
beyond the North American New Right, of which he is a founding
father." -Kerry Bolton, author of Artists of the Right
What can the analysis of violence and terror tell us about the
modern world? Why is violence often used to achieve religious,
cultural or political goals? Can we understand the search for the
extreme that increasingly shapes violence today?
From 1960s student movements to today's global jihad, this text
explores the factors and debates shaping violence and terrorism in
our contemporary society. Each chapter confronts examples of
disturbing terrorist acts and events of mass violence from recent
history and uses these to examine key questions, theories and
concepts surrounding this sensitive and controversial topic. In
particular, the book:
- identifies core tools for the analysis of public violence
- explores the processes that mutate social movements into violent
groups
- describes the cultural, embodied, experiential and imagined
dimensions of violence
- highlights different periods and varying forms of terrorist
violence
- examines the role of globalization, media, technology and the
visual in violence and terror today.
"Our Violent World" shows how the social sciences can contribute to
an understanding of violence and responses to terror, as well as
the construction of a social world less dominated by fear of the
other. It is a must-read for students and citizens.
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Black Sea (DVD)
Grigoriy Dobrygin, Jodie Whittaker, Daniel Ryan, Jude Law, Ben Mendelsohn, …
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Jude Law stars in this underwater thriller directed by Kevin
Macdonald. Law stars as Captain Robinson, a seasoned submarine
captain who, after losing his crew and his job, learns of an
unclaimed bounty of Nazi gold lying in a U-boat at the bottom of
the Black Sea. Seeing an opportunity to strike it rich and leave
the job behind him once and for all, Robinson acquires the support
of a shady businessman and assembles a crew of British and Russian
sailors before embarking on the hunt. However, with such a huge pay
off on offer, it isn't long before tensions flare on board and some
of the crew begin to think about how they can increase their share
of the gold...
Fully updated and expanded throughout, this second edition of Film
Theory: The Basics provides an accessible introduction to the key
theorists, concepts, and debates that have shaped the study of
moving images. The book examines film theory from its emergence in
the early twentieth century to its study in the present day, and
explores why film has drawn special attention as a medium, as a
form of representation, and as a focal point in the rise of modern
visual culture. It also emphasizes how film theory has developed as
a historically contingent discourse, one that has evolved and
changed in conjunction with different social, political, and
intellectual factors. This second edition offers a detailed account
of new theoretical directions at the forefront of film studies in
the twenty-first century, and draws additional attention to how
theory engages with today's most pressing questions about digital
technologies, the environment, and racial justice. Complete with
questions for discussion and a glossary of both key terms and key
theorists, this book in an invaluable resource for those new to
film theory and for anyone else interested in the history and
significance of critical thinking in relation to the moving image.
A Hungarian Jew who lived and worked in half a dozen European
countries before arriving in Britain in 1935, Pressburger's
reputation rests on the series of strikingly original films he made
in collaboration with Michael Powell under the banner of The
Archers. The Red Shoes, A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus
and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp all bear the unique credit
'Written, Produced and Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric
Pressburger'. Frequently controversial, always experimental, The
Archers suffered a long period of neglect before being rediscovered
by such prominent admirers as Martin Scorsese, Derek Jarman and
Francis Ford Coppola. Written by his grandson, and containing
extracts from private diaries and correspondence, this biography
defends the notion of film as a collaborative art and illuminates
the adventurous life and work of the film-maker who brought
continental grace, with and style to British cinema.
Netflix is the definitive media company of the 21st century. It was
among the first to parlay new Internet technologies into a
successful business model, and in the process it changed how
consumers access film and television. It is now one of the leading
providers of digitally delivered media content and is continually
expanding access across a host of platforms and mobile devices.
Despite its transformative role, however, Netflix has drawn very
little critical attention-far less than competitors such as
YouTube, Apple, Amazon, Comcast, and HBO. This collection addresses
this gap, as the essays are designed to critically explore the
breadth and diversity of Netflix's effect from a variety of
different scholarly perspectives, a necessary approach considering
the hybrid nature of Netflix, its inextricable links to new models
of media production, distribution, viewer engagement and consumer
behavior, its relationship to existing media conglomerates and
consumer electronics, its capabilities as a web-based service
provider and data network, and its reliance on a broader
technological infrastructure.
This text explores the origins, development and present situation
of African domestic animals. The book presents an interdisciplinary
overview of the origins of livestock, and provides a synthesis of
what archaeozoology and archaeology can tell us about the
prehistory of domestic animals in Africa. Information is provided
on livestock distributions over time, including significant
information on the development of specific cattle size classes or
"breeds" in prehistory. Data on DNA and physical characterization
of African livestock, as well as ethnographic and linguistic data
complete a biological and cultural view of African domestic
animals.
This book explores the relationship between new experiences of
selfhood and new patterns of social life. It does so through an
encounter with young people who confront urgent social and cultural
transformations, whose experience of selfhood is unclear, often
shaped by social forces that while powerful, appear difficult, if
not impossible to name. These young people live in a world where
institutions are weakening and identities fragmenting, where
socialization into roles is being replaced by new imperatives of
communication and self-esteem. Their world is shaped by new forms
of freedom, but also by new forms of social polarization and
conflict. More than other social groups, young people confront the
imperative of locating a sense of self and subjectivity, and this
book is an account of this struggle in a context of profound social
and cultural change. The author draws on the experience of a
diverse group of young people-graffiti artists, sufferers of
anorexia, the unemployed-all from a broad range of educational and
cultural backgrounds. This book renews hands-on fieldwork in the
Chicago School tradition; it is one where we meet real people
confronting real social situations, while its research agenda is
posited within the new French "sociology of experience." Struggles
for Subjectivity is not only about young people-it explores forms
of crisis and struggle increasingly evident in advanced societies.
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In Imaging Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary, Oscar-winning
documentary-maker Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September, Touching
the Void) and leading broadcaster/historian Mark Cousins (The Story
of Film) offer an expanded, revised edition of their 'definitive,
inspirational' (Independent) compendium on the roots and history of
the documentary film. Imagining Reality takes the reader on a tour
of the evolution of documentary film as an increasingly vibrant,
polemical, experimental and entertaining form. It gathers a
wide-ranging collection of writings by and about such
groundbreaking documentary-makers as Vertov, Flaherty, Marcel
Ophuls, Chris Marker, Kieslowski, Claude Lanzmann, and Nick
Broomfield. The story is carried up to date by attention to the
success documentaries have had among mainstream movie audiences in
recent years, including Michael Moore's Bowling For Columbine and
Fahrenheit 9/11, The Buena Vista Social Club, Spellbound, Capturing
The Friedmans, Etre Et Avoir, and The Fog Of War.
This book explores the relationship between new experiences of
selfhood and new patterns of social life. It does so through an
encounter with young people who confront urgent social and cultural
transformations, whose experience of selfhood is unclear, often
shaped by social forces that while powerful, appear difficult, if
not impossible to name. These young people live in a world where
institutions are weakening and identities fragmenting, where
socialization into roles is being replaced by new imperatives of
communication and self-esteem. Their world is shaped by new forms
of freedom, but also by new forms of social polarization and
conflict. More than other social groups, young people confront the
imperative of locating a sense of self and subjectivity, and this
book is an account of this struggle in a context of profound social
and cultural change. The author draws on the experience of a
diverse group of young people-graffiti artists, sufferers of
anorexia, the unemployed-all from a broad range of educational and
cultural backgrounds. This book renews hands-on fieldwork in the
Chicago School tradition; it is one where we meet real people
confronting real social situations, while its research agenda is
posited within the new French "sociology of experience." Struggles
for Subjectivity is not only about young people-it explores forms
of crisis and struggle increasingly evident in advanced societies.
Dr. Greg Johnson is the editor of Counter-Currents Publishing and
its journal North American New Right (www.counter-currents.com),
which draw upon the ideas of the European New Right to promote a
new approach to White Nationalist politics in North America. New
Right vs. Old Right collects 32 essays in which Dr. Johnson sets
out his vision of White Nationalist "metapolitics" and
distinguishes it from Fascism and National Socialism (the "Old
Right"), as well as conservatism and classical liberalism (the
"Phony Right"). Dr. Johnson rejects the Old Right's party politics,
totalitarianism, imperialism, and genocide in favor of the
metapolitical project of constructing a hegemonic White Nationalist
consciousness within a pluralistic society. He argues that White
Nationalists are too dependent on the model of hierarchical
organizations and need also to work on creating resilient lateral
networks. He offers New Rightist answers to a number of disputed
questions within the White Nationalist community, including white
culpability for our decline, Hitler and National Socialism, the
Jewish question, the holocaust, the role of women, Christianity vs.
paganism, and the relationships of populism, elitism, and
democracy. He sets out some basic principles for creating a
growing, resilient, networked movement. Finally, he criticizes
distractions and dead-ends like "mainstreaming," conservatism,
"premature" populism, and political violence. Engagingly written
and constructively critical, Greg Johnson's New Right vs. Old Right
is an important contribution to the emerging North American New
Right. Praise for New Right vs. Old Right "Greg Johnson's basic
point is that we must work to create a metapolitics of explicit
white identity-that is, a movement that will develop 'the
intellectual and cultural foundations for effective White
Nationalist politics in North America, so that we can ultimately
create a white homeland or homelands on this continent.' Greg is
one of the reasons why I think this is a feasible project. . . .
Greg received his Ph.D. in philosophy, and it shows. His forte is
the well-developed argument presented in a lucid, easily understood
style. Nobody can complain about this book being filled with turgid
prose. And I can't find any major disagreements." -Kevin MacDonald,
from the Foreword "In New Right vs. Old Right, Greg Johnson lays
out his vision for a pro-white movement more focused on ideas,
education, and communication than on politics or thuggery. True to
this vision, his writing is extremely accessible. Throughout this
collection, Johnson breaks down complex philosophical concepts and
challenging ideas into tight, efficient sentences and effective
explanations. Johnson doesn't drone on trying to sound clever. Like
an enthusiastic professor, he truly wants his readers to understand
why he believes it is morally right for whites-and all peoples-to
determine their own collective destinies." -Jack Donovan, author of
The Way of Men "Dr. Greg Johnson's New Right vs. Old Right
delineates the differences between two 'Rights, ' without
repudiating the common philosophical origins of both in opposing
egalitarianism and other passe ideologies that continue to dominate
much of the world. The primary value of this collection of essays,
however, is that Dr. Johnson asks the perennial question, from our
side: "what is truth?" In doing so he lays the foundations for a
morality of the New Right. This book is therefore unique in the
English-speaking Rightist milieu that was, for much of the
post-1945 era, poorly served in comparison to its counterparts in
Europe. As such, Dr. Johnson's book will be of relevance to many
beyond the North American New Right, of which he is a founding
father." -Kerry Bolton, author of Artists of the Right
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