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This book argues theoretically for, and exemplify through critical
and historical analysis, the interrelatedness of discourses on
scale, distance, identification and doubling in the cinema. It
contains analyses of a wide variety of films, including Citizen
Kane, The Double Life of Veronique, The Great Gatsby, Gilda,
Vertigo and Wings of Desire.
Coates presents the face in film as a place where transformations
begin, reflecting both the experience of modernity and such
influential myths as that of Medusa. This is exemplified by a wide
range of European and American films, including Ingmar Bergman's
'Persona'.
In the year 2040, the United States no longer exists. Instead, it's
a province of the former Soviet Union, which has been restored to
its past glory. And each newborn child is assigned a Designation
Number instead of a name. Now, forty years later, a man known only
as 77241 escapes into the past in an effort to discover where the
world went wrong. When 77241 comes upon footage of Norma Jeane
Baker, known throughout the world as Marilyn Monroe, he becomes
haunted by her face, so much so that he seeks out her gravesite and
begins speaking to her hologram. As oxygen bombs fall upon the
former United States in a final act of destruction, 77241 escapes
in a time bubble traveling back to June 1960. Once there, he seeks
out Norma Jeane at a movie set. Through her, he attempts to save
John F. Kennedy from his all-too-early demise hoping to alter
enough of the past to change the world's future destruction. Join
77241 and Norma Jeane as they interact with a cast of historical
characters, including Kennedy, Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln, as
they seek to change the course of history in Norma Jeane's Wishes
in Time.
This book argues theoretically for, and exemplify through critical
and historical analysis, the interrelatedness of discourses on
scale, distance, identification and doubling in the cinema. It
contains analyses of a wide variety of films, including Citizen
Kane, The Double Life of VĂ©ronique, The Great Gatsby, Gilda,
Vertigo and Wings of Desire.
Coates presents the face in film as a place where transformations
begin, reflecting both the experience of modernity and such
influential myths as that of Medusa. This is exemplified by a wide
range of European and American films, including Ingmar Bergman's
Persona .
In the year 2040, the United States no longer exists. Instead, it's
a province of the former Soviet Union, which has been restored to
its past glory. And each newborn child is assigned a Designation
Number instead of a name. Now, forty years later, a man known only
as 77241 escapes into the past in an effort to discover where the
world went wrong. When 77241 comes upon footage of Norma Jeane
Baker, known throughout the world as Marilyn Monroe, he becomes
haunted by her face, so much so that he seeks out her gravesite and
begins speaking to her hologram. As oxygen bombs fall upon the
former United States in a final act of destruction, 77241 escapes
in a time bubble traveling back to June 1960. Once there, he seeks
out Norma Jeane at a movie set. Through her, he attempts to save
John F. Kennedy from his all-too-early demise hoping to alter
enough of the past to change the world's future destruction. Join
77241 and Norma Jeane as they interact with a cast of historical
characters, including Kennedy, Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln, as
they seek to change the course of history in Norma Jeane's Wishes
in Time.
It is 1982 and Jennie Samantha Williamson, Marilyn Monroe's
nineteen-year-old future daughter, has inherited her mother's
addiction to Nembutals. When she discovers the Time Bubble's Golden
Key in a table beside her mother's bed, she makes plans to travel
back in time to 1971 in an attempt to stop a chain of events that
culminated in an undersea disaster. But first, Jennie must travel
to September 15, 1954 in New York City, where Marilyn Monroe is
filming The Seven Year Itch. After she persuades her mother that
she is her future daughter and that time travel is possible, she
still must convince Marilyn to travel ahead in time seventeen years
to dive once again into Santa Monica Bay, hopefully changing fate
in the process. Meanwhile as Marilyn and her future husband travel
to 2068 to explore an underground city and search for a time
machine's sketches, Jennie knows the secret to stopping the 1971
underwater disaster lies in the palm of her future mother's
hand-but only if she can safely transport Marilyn back to 1971 from
2068 before the Sentinels of The System hunt down and kill all
three for their defiance.
a Naturea is a deceptively simple and ahistorical term, suggesting
intrinsic, unchanging reality. Yet nature has a history too, both
in terms of human attitudes and human impacts. Coates outlines the
major understandings of a naturea in the western world since
classical times, from nature as higher authority to its more recent
meaning of threatened physical space and life forms. Unlike many
others, this book places the history of attitudes to nature within
the story of human--induced changes in the material environment.
And few others take a supranational perspective, or cross the
divides between historical eras. A distinctive unifying theme is
Coatesa s interest in how a greena writers over the last thirty
years have interpreted our past dealings with nature, specifically
their efforts to diagnose the roots of contemporary ecological
problems and their search for ancestors. He concludes with a
discussion of the future of nature in the context of developments
such as the a newa ecology, global warming, advances in genetic
engineering and research on animal behaviour. Assuming no previous
knowledge, Nature provides the reader with an accessible synthesis
and introduction to some of environmental historya s central
features and debates, confirming its status as one of the most
enthralling current pursuits within historical studies. This will
be essential reading for second--year undergraduates and above in
cultural history and environmental history, as well as to the
general reader interested in environmental issues.
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