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Book Synopsis Charles Atlas the Man, the Myth and the Muscles by : David Baines
Download or read book Charles Atlas the Man, the Myth and the Muscles written by David Baines and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few people in the history of bodybuilding have inspired more people than the legendary Charles Atlas. In this biography, We have attempted to reveal a little more of the intensely private man who became a literal living trademark. Although he was a popular and instantly recognisable public figure to five generations of Americans, the private Charles Atlas remains almost completely unknown outside the few surviving family members today. Indeed, as the numbers of people who actually knew him on a personal level continues to dwindle, it is now perhaps time to put some of those fond memories and recollections of Charles Atlas on paper before the very essence of the man himself becomes lost forever. Although Atlas passed away in December 1972 at the age of 80, countless articles have appeared in magazines and on Internet websites, a testament to his enduring influence and fame in the world of bodybuilding. Most have been inaccurate and even defamatory, but none have come close to providing a glimpse into the personality beyond the public figure from those memorable comic books ads. So here it is my tribute to Charles Atlas, a poor immigrant who fought his way from obscurity to reach the very pinnacle of world fame; a self-made man in every sense who pursued the American dream and lived it to the full while inspiring millions of young and not-so-young men around the world to be the very best they could be in life.
Book Synopsis Modern Sports around the World by : David Asa Schwartz
Download or read book Modern Sports around the World written by David Asa Schwartz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Sports around the World focuses on the history, geography, sociology, economics, and technological advancements of 50 sports played from India to Ireland. Sports have become an international spectacle that influences nations' foreign policy, world economies, and regional morale. Hundreds of billions of dollars are at stake as governments and multinational corporations rush to make sure they have a place at the table. And yet, sports come from humble beginnings. We are fascinated by who can run the fastest, lift the most weight, jump the highest, swim the farthest, and act with the most precision. The history of sports is the history of the world. Modern Sports around the World examines 50 of the world's most popular sports. Each chapter features one sport and details that sport's origins, global migration, economic forces, media influences, political environment, pop-culture inspirations, scandalous moments, and key individuals. Sports history is a tapestry of sociological variables; Modern Sports around the World weaves them together to create a unique history book that explains not only where humanity has been, but where it might be going.
Book Synopsis Yours in Perfect Manhood, Charles Atlas by : Charles Gaines
Download or read book Yours in Perfect Manhood, Charles Atlas written by Charles Gaines and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1982 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Once and Future Antiquities in Science Fiction and Fantasy by : Brett M. Rogers
Download or read book Once and Future Antiquities in Science Fiction and Fantasy written by Brett M. Rogers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 15 all-new essays, this volume explores how science fiction and fantasy draw on materials from ancient Greece and Rome, 'displacing' them from their original settings-in time and space, in points of origins and genre-and encouraging readers to consider similar 'displacements' in the modern world. Modern examples from a wide range of media and genres-including Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials and the novels of Helen Oyeyemi, the Rocky Horror Picture Show and Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away, and the role-playing games Dungeons and Dragons and Warhammer 40K-are brought alongside episodes from ancient myth, important moments from history, and more. All together, these multifaceted studies add to our understanding of how science fiction and fantasy form important areas of classical reception, not only transmitting but also transmuting images of antiquity. The volume concludes with an inspiring personal reflection from the New York Times-bestselling author of speculative fiction, Catherynne M. Valente, offering her perspective on the limitless potential of the classical world to resonate with experience today.
Book Synopsis Media, Myth, and Society by : A. Berger
Download or read book Media, Myth, and Society written by A. Berger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a cultural approach to classical myths, this book examines how they affect psychoanalytic theory, historical experience, elite culture, popular culture, and everyday life. Berger explores diverse topics such as the Oedipus Myth, James Bond, Star Wars, and fairy tales.
Book Synopsis The Perfect Man: The Muscular Life and Times of Eugen Sandow, Victorian Strongman by : David Waller
Download or read book The Perfect Man: The Muscular Life and Times of Eugen Sandow, Victorian Strongman written by David Waller and published by Victorian Secrets. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dynamic Tension Bodybuilding Course by : Charles Atlas
Download or read book Dynamic Tension Bodybuilding Course written by Charles Atlas and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Atlas transformed himself into a powerful Muscular He-man with his method Dynamic Tension. This book is more than bodybuilding, this book is designed to enhance your overall health, strength and lifestyle. Charles Atlas will show you first hand, by training you, motivating you, and teaching you how to increase a magnetic personality. You will increase your muscle size, strength and gain confidence life long. Charles Atlas has inspired millions of young men around the world to be the best they could be.
Book Synopsis Of Muscles and Men by : Michael G. Cornelius
Download or read book Of Muscles and Men written by Michael G. Cornelius and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few movie genres have highlighted the male body more effectively than the “sword-and-sandal” film, where the rippling torso and the bulging muscle are displayed for all to appreciate. Carrying his phallic sword and dressed in traditional garb calculated to bring attention to his magnificent physique, the sword-and-sandal hero is capable of toppling great nations, rescuing heroines, defeating monsters, and generally saving the day. Each of these essays examines the issues of masculinity and utility addressed in the sword-and-sandal genre. The contributors offer insights on a film form which showcases its male protagonists as heroic, violent, fleshy, and, in the end, extremely useful.
Book Synopsis From All Over the World... by : Charles Atlas
Download or read book From All Over the World... written by Charles Atlas and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lighten Up Your Body, Lighten Up Your Life by : Lucia Capacchione
Download or read book Lighten Up Your Body, Lighten Up Your Life written by Lucia Capacchione and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2000-06-19 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using drawing and writing exercises, you can transform attitudes and beliefs that shape your body image, and nurture and feed the hungry child within.
Book Synopsis Classical Masculinity and the Spectacular Body on Film by : D. O'Brien
Download or read book Classical Masculinity and the Spectacular Body on Film written by D. O'Brien and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The muscle-bound male body is a perennial feature of classically-inflected action cinema. This book reassesses these films as a cinematic form, focusing on the depiction of heroic masculinity. In particular, Hercules in his many incarnations has greatly influenced popular cultural interpretations of manliness and the exaggerated male form.
Book Synopsis Fit for Consumption by : Jennifer Smith Maguire
Download or read book Fit for Consumption written by Jennifer Smith Maguire and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-09-06 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first text to offer a comprehensive socio-cultural and historical analysis of the current fitness culture. Fitness today is not simply about health clubs and exercise classes, or measures of body mass index and cardiovascular endurance. Fit for Consumption conceptualizes fitness as a field within which individuals and institutions may negotiate - if not altogether reconcile - the competing and often conflicting social demands made on the individual body that characterize our current era. Intended for researchers and senior undergraduate and postgraduate students of sport, leisure, cultural studies and the body, this book utilizes the US fitness field as a case study through which to explore the place of the body in contemporary consumer culture. Combining observations in health clubs, interviews with fitness producers and consumers, and a discourse analysis of a wide variety of fitness texts, this book provides an empirically grounded examination of one of the pressing theoretical questions of our time: how individuals learn to fit into consumer culture and the service economy and how our bodies and selves become ‘fit for consumption.'
Book Synopsis The Life and Times of Charles Atlas by : Charles Gaines
Download or read book The Life and Times of Charles Atlas written by Charles Gaines and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mr. America written by John D. Fair and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Map[s] the shifting definitions of gender and masculinity . . . provides the rare insight into the world of bodybuilding that only an insider could offer.” —Sport in American History For most of the twentieth century, the “Mr. America” image epitomized muscular manhood. From humble beginnings in 1939 at a small gym in Schenectady, New York, the Mr. America Contest became the world’s premier bodybuilding event over the next thirty years. Rooted in ancient Greek virtues of health, fitness, beauty, and athleticism, it showcased some of the finest specimens of American masculinity. Interviewing nearly one hundred major figures in the physical culture movement (including twenty-five Mr. Americas) and incorporating copious printed and manuscript sources, John D. Fair has created the definitive study of this iconic phenomenon. Revealing the ways in which the contest provided a model of functional and fit manhood, Mr. America captures the event’s path to idealism and its slow descent into obscurity. As the 1960s marked a turbulent transition in American society—from the civil rights movement to the rise of feminism and increasing acceptance of homosexuality—Mr. America changed as well. Exploring the influence of other bodily displays, such as the Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia contests and the Miss America Pageant, Fair focuses on commercialism, size obsession, and drugs that corrupted the competition’s original intent. Accessible and engaging, Mr. America is a compelling portrayal of the glory days of American muscle. “An entertaining narrative of the bodybuilding subculture in America.” —Kirkus Reviews “Deftly written and superbly researched.” —Journal of Sport History
Book Synopsis Making American Men: Charles Atlas and the Business of Bodies, 1892--1945 by : Dominique Padurano
Download or read book Making American Men: Charles Atlas and the Business of Bodies, 1892--1945 written by Dominique Padurano and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is a cultural biography of the fitness entrepreneur Charles Atlas, from his birth in Italy in 1892 as Angelo Siciliano, through the apex of his career during the Great Depression and World War 11. As a cultural biography, this work uses the life of a single person to elucidate and explain changes in Americans' ideas about gender, sexuality, race, class, ethnicity, and childhood during the first half of the twentieth century, while at the same time recounting the events in the metamorphosis of the private individual of Angelo Siciliano into the public figure of Charles Atlas. The first scholarly, monograph-length examination of the life and career of a seminal figure in American popular culture, this study shows how immigrant and ethnic bodybuilders in general and Atlas in particular helped to define the ideal man during the twentieth century as physically and aesthetically "attractive," which for Atlas meant monogamously heterosexual, middle class, and white, in addition to trim and muscular, during a period in which modern categories of race and sexuality were emerging. By drawing on insights from the fields of immigrant and working-class history as well as American studies, the history of gender and sexuality, and film history and criticism, this dissertation synthesizes a wide range of visual and written primary and secondary sources to understand why Charles Atlas has long captivated the imaginations of Americans, and to suggest how his legacy continues to impact American life in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Not So Great Comics written by Mini Komix and published by Mini-Komix. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not So Great Comics is a fanzine about the curious publishers from the Golden Age, Great Comics Publishing. For a few months from 1941-1942, they had two anthology titles, Great Comics and Choice Comics. They both featured the weirdest assortment of superheroes. This includes The Great Zarro, Kangaroo Man, Futuro, The Secret Circle, Fire-Eater, Madame Strange, and Atlas The Mighty. They also had tales of action and adventure, along with funnies, plus some of the dumbest deals ever offered. Comics historian Jer Alford compiled this fanzine from the Stupid Comics retrospective website. Not So Great Comics is a look back at one of the most absurd comics run of all time.
Book Synopsis Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man by : John F. Kasson
Download or read book Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man written by John F. Kasson and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2002-07-02 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable new work from one of our premier historians In his exciting new book, John F. Kasson examines the signs of crisis in American life a century ago, signs that new forces of modernity were affecting men's sense of who and what they really were. When the Prussian-born Eugene Sandow, an international vaudeville star and bodybuilder, toured the United States in the 1890s, Florenz Ziegfeld cannily presented him as the "Perfect Man," representing both an ancient ideal of manhood and a modern commodity extolling self-development and self-fulfillment. Then, when Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan swung down a vine into the public eye in 1912, the fantasy of a perfect white Anglo-Saxon male was taken further, escaping the confines of civilization but reasserting its values, beating his chest and bellowing his triumph to the world. With Harry Houdini, the dream of escape was literally embodied in spectacular performances in which he triumphed over every kind of threat to masculine integrity -- bondage, imprisonment, insanity, and death. Kasson's liberally illustrated and persuasively argued study analyzes the themes linking these figures and places them in their rich historical and cultural context. Concern with the white male body -- with exhibiting it and with the perils to it --reached a climax in World War I, he suggests, and continues with us today.
