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Thousands of years ago Playground of the Gods (PoG) sank and
settled onto the ocean floor, intact and dormant, like the city of
Atlantis. Only once per century are all the planets properly
aligned to raise the sleeping island from the bottom of the sea.
However the light of the blue moon must shine into a witch's circle
assembled with powerful elements of fire, earth, air and water.
Flash forward to the twenty first century on the island of
Manhattan, Jack and Gwen are anxious to leave the hustle and bustle
of the city behind and travel to a secluded vacation spot known for
its rich history and folklore. After fifteen years of marriage Jack
knew Gwen pretty well and that's why he thought it would be easy to
plan a surprise vacation to celebrate her fortieth birthday. But
soon after arriving on the secluded island Gwen began having vivid
dreams of supernatural creatures with sapphire blue eyes. These
beings possessed the ability to shift into the shape of a deer,
could breathe underwater and all six senses were wildly enhanced in
both human and animal form. The more Gwen learned about these
mysterious shapeshifters, the more she began to question her own
unknown past.
She Animates examines the work of twelve female animation directors
in the Soviet Union and Russia, who have long been overlooked by
film scholars and historians. Our approach examines these directors
within history, culture, and industrial practice in animation. In
addition to making a case for including these women and their work
in the annals of film and animation history, this volume also makes
an argument for why their work should be considered part of the
tradition of women's cinema. We offer textual analysis that focuses
on the changing attitudes towards both the woman question and
feminism by examining the films in light of the emergence and
evolution of a Soviet female subjectivity that still informs
women's cinema in Russia today.
She Animates examines the work of twelve female animation directors
in the Soviet Union and Russia, who have long been overlooked by
film scholars and historians. Our approach examines these directors
within history, culture, and industrial practice in animation. In
addition to making a case for including these women and their work
in the annals of film and animation history, this volume also makes
an argument for why their work should be considered part of the
tradition of women's cinema. We offer textual analysis that focuses
on the changing attitudes towards both the woman question and
feminism by examining the films in light of the emergence and
evolution of a Soviet female subjectivity that still informs
women's cinema in Russia today.
An exploration of the complex roles that bodies - both literally
and figuratively - play in the 21 volume Aubrey-Maturin novels
reveals much about the novels' meditation on the dichotomy of mind
and body. The book begins with a consideration of the role of genre
norms and the bodies of the novels' main characters. The focus then
shifts to considerations of the way the series offers
interconnections between the human body and history. The more
literal considerations of the human body examine O'Brian's
depictions of drug use, particularly the opium addiction that
afflicts Stephen Maturin, and human sexuality in its many guises.
The concluding section of the study focuses on Desolation Island,
the fifth novel in the series, reading it in light of the
discussions that came before but also in terms of political and
psychological tropes which draw upon the relationship of mind and
body. These various discussions also link to questions about the
relationship of reader to author, and what sustains such a long
narrative and what continues to bring a reader back again and
again.
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