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Documentary maker Alex Gibney examines the WikiLeaks phenomenon and
the question of how information is accessed globally. With a goal
'to bring important news and information to the public', the
fledgling website, founded in 2006 by Australian Julian Assange,
gained worldwide notoriety in 2010 with its leaking of highly
sensitive US classified material, including the infamous
'Collateral Murder' footage of US air strikes on civilian targets
in Iraq, along with over 250,000 diplomatic cables. In addition to
detailing how the website came to be, the film explores the issues
surrounding the freedom of information and moral responsibility,
whilst comparing and contrasting the impact that the furore has had
on founder Assange, and Pfc. Bradley Manning, the US soldier
charged with supplying the leaked material.
This volume addresses dealings with the wondrous, magical, holy,
sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the
plays of Shakespeare and contemporaries, produced in an era often
associated with the irresistible rise of a thinned-out secular
rationalism. By starting from the literary text and looking
outwards to social, cultural, and historical aspects, it comes to
grips with the instabilities of 'enchanted' and 'disenchanted'
practices of thinking and knowledge-making in the early modern
period. If what marvelously stands apart from conceptions of the
world's ordinary functioning might be said to be 'enchanted', is
the enchantedness weakened, empowered, or modally altered by its
translation to theatre? We have a received historical narrative of
disenchantment as a large-scale early modern cultural process,
inexorable in character, consisting of the substitution of a
rationally understood and controllable world for one containing
substantial areas of mystery. Early modern cultural change,
however, involves transpositions, recreations, or fresh inventions
of the enchanted, and not only its replacement in diminished or
denatured form. This collection is centrally concerned with what
happens in theatre, as a medium which can give power to experiences
of wonder as well as circumscribe and curtail them, addressing
plays written for the popular stage that contribute to and reflect
significant contemporary reorientations of vision, awareness, and
cognitive practice. The volume uses the idea of
dis-enchantment/re-enchantment as a central hub to bring multiple
perspectives to bear on early modern conceptualizations and
theatricalizations of wonder, the sacred, and the supernatural from
different vantage points, marking a significant contribution to
studies of magic, witchcraft, enchantment, and natural philosophy
in Shakespeare and early modern drama.
This volume addresses dealings with the wondrous, magical, holy,
sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the
plays of Shakespeare and contemporaries, produced in an era often
associated with the irresistible rise of a thinned-out secular
rationalism. By starting from the literary text and looking
outwards to social, cultural, and historical aspects, it comes to
grips with the instabilities of 'enchanted' and 'disenchanted'
practices of thinking and knowledge-making in the early modern
period. If what marvelously stands apart from conceptions of the
world's ordinary functioning might be said to be 'enchanted', is
the enchantedness weakened, empowered, or modally altered by its
translation to theatre? We have a received historical narrative of
disenchantment as a large-scale early modern cultural process,
inexorable in character, consisting of the substitution of a
rationally understood and controllable world for one containing
substantial areas of mystery. Early modern cultural change,
however, involves transpositions, recreations, or fresh inventions
of the enchanted, and not only its replacement in diminished or
denatured form. This collection is centrally concerned with what
happens in theatre, as a medium which can give power to experiences
of wonder as well as circumscribe and curtail them, addressing
plays written for the popular stage that contribute to and reflect
significant contemporary reorientations of vision, awareness, and
cognitive practice. The volume uses the idea of
dis-enchantment/re-enchantment as a central hub to bring multiple
perspectives to bear on early modern conceptualizations and
theatricalizations of wonder, the sacred, and the supernatural from
different vantage points, marking a significant contribution to
studies of magic, witchcraft, enchantment, and natural philosophy
in Shakespeare and early modern drama.
First published in 1999, this volume re-examines narrative design
in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Faerie Queene, King Lear
and Paradise Lost. Written in a period newly set on finding
practical application for available systems of reasoning, these
texts confront in their different ways reason's absolute limitation
in the face of a Real which it cannot adequately represent to
itself or recruit to its own purposes. An influential model for the
staging of such a confrontation was the mythic, cosmological
narrative of Plato's Timaeus. In their rewriting of Plato's
narrative the English texts deploy but also destabilize the ancient
conceptual polarization of the 'rational' and the 'irrational' or
'chaotic', rethought in the terms offered by their period's
innovatory practices of reasoning. The study establishes the
critical importance of telling a story of chaos by comparing the
narrative method of its chosen texts with that adopted by Freud and
Lacan as a means of reflection on the psychoanalytic encounter with
an ultimately chaotic Real. This book has unusual interdisciplinary
scope, and offers historically grounded, theoretically informed new
readings of four major early modern English literary texts.
First published in 1999, this volume re-examines narrative design
in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Faerie Queene, King Lear
and Paradise Lost. Written in a period newly set on finding
practical application for available systems of reasoning, these
texts confront in their different ways reason's absolute limitation
in the face of a Real which it cannot adequately represent to
itself or recruit to its own purposes. An influential model for the
staging of such a confrontation was the mythic, cosmological
narrative of Plato's Timaeus. In their rewriting of Plato's
narrative the English texts deploy but also destabilize the ancient
conceptual polarization of the 'rational' and the 'irrational' or
'chaotic', rethought in the terms offered by their period's
innovatory practices of reasoning. The study establishes the
critical importance of telling a story of chaos by comparing the
narrative method of its chosen texts with that adopted by Freud and
Lacan as a means of reflection on the psychoanalytic encounter with
an ultimately chaotic Real. This book has unusual interdisciplinary
scope, and offers historically grounded, theoretically informed new
readings of four major early modern English literary texts.
Beloved as a herald of spring, cuckoos have held a place in our
hearts for centuries. But for many other birds the cuckoo is a
signal of doom, for it is nature's most notorious cheat. In this
enormously engaging book, naturalist and scientist Nick Davies
reveals how cuckoos deceive other species, uncovering an
evolutionary race between cuckoos and the hosts. Cuckoo offers a
new insight not only into the secret lives of these extraordinary
birds, but also how cheating evolves and thrives in the natural
world.
Culture Smart guides help travellers have a more meaningful and
successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local
culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life
will help you make the most of your visit, while tips on etiquette
and communication will help you navigate unfamiliar situations and
avoid faux pas.
Weary from the turbulent sixties, America entered the 1970s hoping
for calm. Instead, the war in Vietnam and its troubled aftermath
persisted, the Watergate scandal unfolded, and continuing social
unrest at home and abroad provided the backdrop for the new decade.
The scene was similar in Hollywood, as it experienced greater
upheaval than at any point since the coming of sound. As the studio
and star systems declined, actors had more power than ever, and
because many had become fiercely politicized by the temper of the
times, the movies they made were often more challenging than
before. Thus, just when it might have faded out, Hollywood was
reborn--but what was the nature of this rebirth?
"Hollywood Reborn" examines this question, with contributors
focusing on many of the era's key figures--noteworthy actors such
as Jane Fonda, Al Pacino, Faye Dunaway, and Warren Beatty, and
unexpected artists, among them Donald Sutherland, Shelley Winters,
and Divine. Each essay offers new perspectives through the lens of
an important star, illuminating in the process some of the most
fascinating and provocative films of the decade.
Jessica Berens was the Writer in Residence in Dartmoor prison for
three years. Working with lifers, paedophiles and addicts, she
describes Britain's most notorious jail during a period when
statistics on prison-based violence, suicide and self-harm
escalated to unprecedented levels, culminating, in 2015, when an
inmate was stabbed to death.
Reading a wide range of early modern authors and exploring their
cultural-historical, philosophical and scientific contexts, Early
Modern Writing and the Privatization of Experience examines the
shift in focus from reliance on shared experience to placing of
trust in individualized experience which occurs in the writing and
culture of the period. Nick Davis contends that much of the era's
literary production participates significantly in this broad
cultural movement. Covering key writers of the period including
Shakespeare, Donne, Chaucer, Spenser, Langland, Hobbes and Bunyan,
Davis begins with an overview of the medieval-early modern
privatizing cultural transition. He then goes on to offer an
analysis of King Lear, Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, The Winter's
Tale, and the first three books of The Fairie Queene, among other
texts, considering their treatment of the relation between
individual life and the life attributed to the cosmos, the idea of
symbolic narrative positing a collective human subject, and the
forming of pragmatic relations between individual and group.
Reading a wide range of early modern authors and exploring their
cultural-historical, philosophical and scientific contexts, "Early
Modern Writing and the Privatization of Experience "examines the
shift in focus from reliance on shared experience to placing of
trust in individualized experience which occurs in the writing and
culture of the period. Nick Davis contends that much of the era's
literary production participates significantly in this broad
cultural movement.Covering key writers of the period including
Shakespeare, Donne, Chaucer, Spenser, Langland, Hobbes and Bunyan,
Davis begins with an overview of the medieval-early modern
privatizing cultural transition. He then goes on to offer an
analysis of "King Lear," "Richard II," "Henry IV Part 1," "The
Winter's Tale," and the first three books of "The Fairie Queene,"
among other texts, considering their treatment of the relation
between individual life and the life attributed to the cosmos, the
idea of symbolic narrative positing a collective human subject, and
the forming of pragmatic relations between individual and group.
Even Jack will admit he isn't having a great month. After finally
getting his dream job as lead writer on the Captain Avenger comic
his inspiration runs dry. With a submission deadline looming his
editor on his back and no sleep for days he tries to hash out a
story with little success. Then things really start to turn
strange; Jack's characters start popping up in his life and he
finds himself caught up in action straight out of the pages of a
comic book.
The question is as Jack's realities collide and the line between
fiction and real life starts to blur is Jack on the verge of a
nervous breakdown? Or are these events more real than he
realizes...
Exposition is a unique mash up of comic book sequential art and
narrative prose all about the insanity of writers block. This is a
story featuring Superheroes, Evil Villains, Dim Henchmen, Noisy
Ninjas, Giant Robots and a very diabolic dance number as a Jack
begins to lose the plot as he desperately tries to find his ending.
The Magic of Once Upon of Time...
Do you believe in Fairy Tales? My Daughter does and The Daughter
of Frost is a story I wrote to read to her...
Once Upon a Time in a land far far away the Fairy of Spring and
Jack Frost had a daughter they named Aneira. Who they gave to a
childless Woodcutter and his wife so their daughter could
experience the love and affection of mortal parents. This is her
story, a classic fairy tale of winter, of love, of good, of evil
and the power of innocence...
Now you can read this Wonder Tale to your children and explore an
age of magic and high adventure in the Ninth Kingdom. The Daughter
of Frost is a traditional fairy tale written by Nick Davis with
full color illustrations by Terra Bidlespacher.
Sarah is a troubled student at a Baltimore private school. Through
a series of nightmarish events she becomes the reluctant Keeper of
a device called the Tether; that allows her to control an Angelic
being called Paul and to cast will powered enchantments called
Indices. As she races to uncover answers to the Tether's secrets,
dark forces give chase to claim the device and Sarah for
themselves... The Tether None Good tells the story of Sarah's
discovery of the Tether, and chronicles her journey through her
first full night as the Tethers Keeper; as sinister forces are
trying to track her down to claim her and the device for
themselves. She is aided in this journey by CT the Grandson of the
original Tether Keeper, together they race against the Dark as
Sarah discovers the power she can tap into and how to control the
Tethers Angelic Guardian Paul. Set against the real back drop of
Baltimore city this dark urban paranormal action adventure by Nick
Davis; follows Sarah through a helter-skelter one night journey
into a reality that is disturbingly familiar, but has unnatural
creatures stalking its shadows.
After years of working as a respected journalist, Nick Davies broke
the unwritten rule of the media by investigating the practices of
his fellow colleagues. In this eye-opening expose, Davies uncovers
an industry awash in corruption and bias. His findings include the
story of a prestigious Sunday newspaper that allowed the CIA to
plant fiction in its columns; the newsroom that routinely rejects
stories about black people; the respected paper that hired a
professional fraudster to set up a front company to entrap senior
political figures; as well as a number of newspapers that pay cash
bribes to bent detectives. His research also exposes a range of
national stories that were in fact pseudo events manufactured by
the public relations industry and global news stories that were
fiction generated by a machinery of international propaganda. The
degree to which the media industry has affected government policy
and perverted popular belief is also addressed. Gripping and
though-provoking, this is an insider's look at one of the world's
most tainted professions.
**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** Read the definitive inside story of the
News International Phone Hacking scandal, told by the man who
exposed it. At first, it seemed like a small story. The royal
correspondent of the News of the World was caught listening in on
Buckingham Palace voicemails. He was quietly sent to prison and the
case was closed. But Nick Davies felt sure there was a lot more
going on. And he was right. Davies and a network of rebel lawyers,
MPs and celebrities took on Rupert Murdoch, one of the most
powerful men in the world, and in bringing him down they uncovered
a world of crime and cover-up reaching from the newsroom to
Scotland Yard and to Downing Street. This is the story of a network
of corruption rooted deep within our society, and how it was
dragged into the light. 'A masterly summary of the hacking affair,
as well as the ingenuity and persistence that lead to great
journalism' Observer 'This has all the elements - lying,
corruption, blackmail - at the highest levels of government by the
biggest newspaper in London' George Clooney
This all began quite unexpectedly one rainy autumn evening a couple of years in a fairground near to the centre of Nottingham...`In amongst the bright lights and bumper cars,Nick Davies noticed two boys,no more than twelve years old,oddly detached from the fun of the scene.Davies discovered they were part of a network of chidren sellingthemselves on the streets of the city,running a nightly gaunlet of dangers-pimps,punters,the Vice Squad,disease,drugs. This propelled Davies into a journey of discovery through the slums and ghettoes of our cities. He found himself in crack houses and brothels,he be- friended street gangs and drug dealers Nick Davies`s journey into the hidden realm is powerful,disturbing and impressive,and is bound torouse controversy and demands for change. Davies unravels threads of Britain`s social fabric as he travels deeper and deeper into the country of poverty ,towards the dark heart of British society.
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