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From the perspective of cultural conservatives, Hollywood movies
are cesspools of vice, exposing impressionable viewers to
pernicious sexually-permissive messages. Offering a groundbreaking
study of Hollywood films produced since 2000, Abstinence Cinema
comes to a very different conclusion, finding echoes of the
evangelical movement's abstinence-only rhetoric in everything from
Easy A to Taken. Casey Ryan Kelly tracks the surprising
sex-negative turn that Hollywood films have taken, associating
premarital sex with shame and degradation, while romanticizing
traditional nuclear families, courtship rituals, and gender roles.
As he demonstrates, these movies are particularly disempowering for
young women, concocting plots in which the decision to refrain from
sex until marriage is the young woman's primary source of agency
and arbiter of moral worth. Locating these regressive sexual
politics not only in expected sites, like the Twilight films, but
surprising ones, like the raunchy comedies of Judd Apatow, Kelly
makes a compelling case that Hollywood films have taken a
significant step backward in recent years. Abstinence Cinema offers
close readings of movies from a wide spectrum of genres, and it
puts these films into conversation with rhetoric that has emerged
in other arenas of American culture. Challenging assumptions that
we are living in a more liberated era, the book sounds a warning
bell about the powerful cultural forces that seek to demonize
sexuality and curtail female sexual agency.
In a surveillance culture, the ubiquity of audio-visual recording
devices has enabled the unprecedented documentation of private
indiscretions, scandalous conversations, and obscene behaviors
performed by both ordinary and high-profile people. From former
President Donald J. Trump's lewd banter on the infamous Access
Hollywood video and leaked audio of celebrity racist tirades to
outburst of violent hate speech posted daily to YouTube,
contemporary media culture is awash in obscene performances of
transgressive white masculinity. Such exposés are screened and
viewed under the assumption that revealing secret prejudices will
necessarily realize the promises of democracy and bring about a
postracial and postfeminist future. This book addresses why the
culture of public revelations has failed to hold the perpetrators
accountable. Caught on Tape illustrates how public revelations
constitute a symbolic and imaginary world for the public that is
preoccupied with the obscene enjoyment of transgressive white
masculinity: a compulsively repetitive experience of ecstatic and
excessive pleasure-in-pain that arises from encounters with that
which disturbs, traumatizes, and interrupts illusory notions of our
coherent selves and reality. Caught on Tape argues that addressing
race and gender inequality with the promise of scandalous hot mics
and obscene private videos transforms antiracism and gender justice
into disempowering forms of spectatorship that ultimately conceal
the structural nature of whiteness, white supremacy, and
patriarchy. The central argument of this book is that the
spectators are the ones really caught on tape.
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Philippians - A 12-Week Study (Paperback)
Ryan Kelly; Edited by (general) J.I. Packer; Series edited by Dane C. Ortlund, Lane T. Dennis
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The book of Philippians challenges Christians to remember their
true identity as citizens of God's kingdom, especially when faced
with difficult circumstances and painful trials.
Helping us grasp the Apostle Paul's gospel-centered exhortation
to endurance, this guide explains the biblical text with clarity
and passion--encouraging us to joyfully imitate Christ in the midst
of hardship.
Over the course of 12 weeks, these studies explore books of the
Bible and:
Ask thoughtful questions to spur discussion
Show how each passage unveils the gospel
Tie the text in with the whole story of Scripture
Illuminate the doctrines taught in each passage
Invite you to discover practical implications
Help you better understand and apply God's Word
As survivors of genocide, mnemonicide, colonization, and forced
assimilation, American Indians face a unique set of rhetorical
exigencies in US public culture. Decolonizing Native American
Rhetoric brings together critical essays on the cultural and
political rhetoric of American indigenous communities, including
essays on the politics of public memory, culture and identity
controversies, stereotypes and caricatures, mascotting, cinematic
representations, and resistance movements and environmental
justice. This volume brings together recognized scholars and
emerging voices in a series of critical projects that question the
intersections of civic identity, including how American indigenous
rhetoric is complicated by or made more dynamic when refracted
through the lens of gender, race, class, and national identity. The
authors assembled in this project employ a variety of rhetorical
methods, theories, and texts committed to the larger academic
movement toward the decolonization of Western scholarship. This
project illustrates the invaluable contributions of American Indian
voices and perspectives to the study of rhetoric and political
communication.
In a surveillance culture, the ubiquity of audio-visual recording
devices has enabled the unprecedented documentation of private
indiscretions, scandalous conversations, and obscene behaviors
performed by both ordinary and high-profile people. From former
President Donald J. Trump's lewd banter on the infamous Access
Hollywood video and leaked audio of celebrity racist tirades to
outburst of violent hate speech posted daily to YouTube,
contemporary media culture is awash in obscene performances of
transgressive white masculinity. Such exposés are screened and
viewed under the assumption that revealing secret prejudices will
necessarily realize the promises of democracy and bring about a
postracial and postfeminist future. This book addresses why the
culture of public revelations has failed to hold the perpetrators
accountable. Caught on Tape illustrates how public revelations
constitute a symbolic and imaginary world for the public that is
preoccupied with the obscene enjoyment of transgressive white
masculinity: a compulsively repetitive experience of ecstatic and
excessive pleasure-in-pain that arises from encounters with that
which disturbs, traumatizes, and interrupts illusory notions of our
coherent selves and reality. Caught on Tape argues that addressing
race and gender inequality with the promise of scandalous hot mics
and obscene private videos transforms antiracism and gender justice
into disempowering forms of spectatorship that ultimately conceal
the structural nature of whiteness, white supremacy, and
patriarchy. The central argument of this book is that the
spectators are the ones really caught on tape.
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1-2 Samuel - A 12-Week Study (Paperback)
Ryan Kelly; Edited by (general) J.I. Packer; Series edited by Dane C. Ortlund, Lane T. Dennis
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This 12-week study guide highlights God's continued care for his
people by providing for them a king, part of God's enduring
covenant with David leading to the King Jesus Christ.
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Into the Fire #3 (Hardcover)
Jody Houser; Illustrated by Ryan Kelly, LeBeau Underwood, Triona Farrell, Nate Piekos
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From the perspective of cultural conservatives, Hollywood movies
are cesspools of vice, exposing impressionable viewers to
pernicious sexually-permissive messages. Offering a groundbreaking
study of Hollywood films produced since 2000, Abstinence Cinema
comes to a very different conclusion, finding echoes of the
evangelical movement's abstinence-only rhetoric in everything from
Easy A to Taken. Casey Ryan Kelly tracks the surprising
sex-negative turn that Hollywood films have taken, associating
premarital sex with shame and degradation, while romanticizing
traditional nuclear families, courtship rituals, and gender roles.
As he demonstrates, these movies are particularly disempowering for
young women, concocting plots in which the decision to refrain from
sex until marriage is the young woman's primary source of agency
and arbiter of moral worth. Locating these regressive sexual
politics not only in expected sites, like the Twilight films, but
surprising ones, like the raunchy comedies of Judd Apatow, Kelly
makes a compelling case that Hollywood films have taken a
significant step backward in recent years. Abstinence Cinema offers
close readings of movies from a wide spectrum of genres, and it
puts these films into conversation with rhetoric that has emerged
in other arenas of American culture. Challenging assumptions that
we are living in a more liberated era, the book sounds a warning
bell about the powerful cultural forces that seek to demonize
sexuality and curtail female sexual agency.
The name Octagon is a perfect metaphor for the life shared on these
pages. A multi-sided closed figure bound by straight lines. This
book offers the opportunity to look inside the Octagon. To see for
yourself that much of the behavior that homosexuals partake in, is
the result of the biases and prejudices in our society. Hiding a
life is an awesome task, most often accomplished with duplicity and
lies, which in turn makes a part of that life invisible. In the
beginning stages Ryan realizes that his sexual preference is
unchangable, yet he struggles to fit in, to be just like everyone
else. As time goes on he realizes that he still has sexual needs,
and in satisfing those needs, he often finds himself in precarious
and sometimes dangereous situations. After years of anonymous
sexual encounters and alcohol abuse he makes the decision to change
his life. In the end he has to make the biggest decision in his
life. Gay or Straight?
Food Television and Otherness in the Age of Globalization examines
the growing popularity of food and travel television and its
implications for how we understand the relationship between food,
place, and identity. Attending to programs such as Bizarre Foods,
Bizarre Foods America, The Pioneer Woman, Diners, Drive-Ins, and
Dives, Man vs. Food, and No Reservations, Casey Ryan Kelly
critically examines the emerging rhetoric of culinary television,
attending to how American audiences are invited to understand the
cultural and economic significance of global foodways. This book
shows how food television exoticizes foreign cultures, erases
global poverty, and contributes to myths of American
exceptionalism. It takes television seriously as a site for the
reproduction of cultural and economic mythology where
representations of food and consumption become the commonsense of
cultural difference and economic success.
The Political Language of Food addresses why the language used in
the production, marketing, selling, and consumption of food is
inherently political. Food language is rarely neutral and is often
strategically vague, which tends to serve the interests of powerful
entities.Boerboom and his contributors critique the language of
food-based messages and examine how such language-including idioms,
tropes, euphemisms, invented terms, etc.-serves to both mislead and
obscure relationships between food and the resulting community,
health, labor, and environmental impacts. Employing diverse
methodologies, the contributors examine on a micro-level the
textual and rhetorical elements of food-based language itself. The
Political Language of Food is both timely and important and will
appeal to scholars of media studies, political communication, and
rhetoric.
Food Television and Otherness in the Age of Globalization examines
the growing popularity of food and travel television and its
implications for how we understand the relationship between food,
place, and identity. Attending to programs such as Bizarre Foods,
Bizarre Foods America, The Pioneer Woman, Diners, Drive-Ins, and
Dives, Man vs. Food, and No Reservations, Casey Ryan Kelly
critically examines the emerging rhetoric of culinary television,
attending to how American audiences are invited to understand the
cultural and economic significance of global foodways. This book
shows how food television exoticizes foreign cultures, erases
global poverty, and contributes to myths of American
exceptionalism. It takes television seriously as a site for the
reproduction of cultural and economic mythology where
representations of food and consumption become the commonsense of
cultural difference and economic success.
The Political Language of Food addresses why the language used in
the production, marketing, selling, and consumption of food is
inherently political. Food language is rarely neutral and is often
strategically vague, which tends to serve the interests of powerful
entities.Boerboom and his contributors critique the language of
food-based messages and examine how such language-including idioms,
tropes, euphemisms, invented terms, etc.-serves to both mislead and
obscure relationships between food and the resulting community,
health, labor, and environmental impacts. Employing diverse
methodologies, the contributors examine on a micro-level the
textual and rhetorical elements of food-based language itself. The
Political Language of Food is both timely and important and will
appeal to scholars of media studies, political communication, and
rhetoric.
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