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Author : Nancy Bombaci
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Freaks and Desire written by Nancy Bombaci and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Bergner
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141956151
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Other Side of Desire written by Daniel Bergner and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob is a man with an overwhelming attraction to female feet. The Baroness is a clothing designer and evangelical sadist. Roy is a wedding band singer entranced by his step daughter. Ron and Laura are simply in love - only Laura lost both her legs in a car accident, and Ron is beguiled by a beauty many would be blind to. How do we deal with desire? Our own, and the desires of others? How do we comprehend desires that are extreme, or unacceptable? And how do those who have them, live with them? In A Map of Desire Daniel Bergner takes us on a journey into human passion suffered, endured, and celebrated. Desire is a sometimes anarchic, sometimes ecstatic, sometimes destructive, sometimes redeeming, and always powerful force.Immersing himself in it through the people whose lives he follows and the scientists he spends time with who are trying to understand it, slowly he exposes and illuminates layers of our humanity.
Author : John Corbett
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822373157
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Vinyl Freak written by John Corbett and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From scouring flea markets and eBay to maxing out their credit cards, record collectors will do just about anything to score a long-sought-after album. In Vinyl Freak, music writer, curator, and collector John Corbett burrows deep inside the record fiend’s mind, documenting and reflecting on his decades-long love affair with vinyl. Discussing more than 200 rare and out-of-print LPs, Vinyl Freak is composed in part of Corbett's long-running DownBeat magazine column of the same name, which was devoted to records that had not appeared on CD. In other essays where he combines memoir and criticism, Corbett considers the current vinyl boom, explains why vinyl is his preferred medium, profiles collector subcultures, and recounts his adventures assembling the Alton Abraham Sun Ra Archive, an event so all-consuming that he claims it cured his record-collecting addiction. Perfect for vinyl newbies and veteran crate diggers alike, Vinyl Freak plumbs the motivations that drive Corbett and collectors everywhere.
Author : Nancy Bombaci
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820478326
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (783 download)
Download or read book Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture written by Nancy Bombaci and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture explores the emergence of what Nancy Bombaci terms «late modernist freakish aesthetics» - a creative fusion of «high» and «low» themes and forms in relation to distorted bodies. Literary and cinematic texts about «freaks» by Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, and Carson McCullers subvert and reinvent modern progress narratives in order to challenge high modernist literary and social ideologies. These works are marked by an acceptance of the disteleology, anarchy, and degeneration that racist discourses of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries associated with racial and ethnic outsiders, particularly Jews. In a period of American culture beset with increasing pressures for social and political conformity and with the threat of fascism from Europe, these late modernist narratives about «freaks» defy oppressive norms and values as they search for an anarchic and transformational creativity.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Freak written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marissa LaRocca
Publisher : Marissa Larocca Enterprises, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780578491998
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (919 download)
Download or read book Everyone Is a Freak written by Marissa LaRocca and published by Marissa Larocca Enterprises, Incorporated. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people experience shame around sex and sexuality. Whether you identify as gay, straight, bisexual, queer, or transgender, chances are you've repressed your truth and your desires at points in your life for fear of how others might perceive you. But in reality, when it comes to sex, there is no such thing as "normal." Beneath the masks and labels we hide behind, we are all equally human. Everyone Is a Freak unleashes the voices of a forward-thinking generation of sex and gender outlaws and "ordinary" people, challenging gender ideology, stereotypes, and social expectations. The collection includes intimate confessions and opinions from more than 100 contributors of various genders, sexual orientations, and age groups, from around the U.S. and around the world. These dirty secrets will empower humans everywhere to "come out of the closet," so to speak-to build up the courage to be more vulnerably honest and less afraid. From funny and embarrassing sex scandals and zany fetishes... to heart-wrenching confessions about discrimination and oppression, Everyone Is a Freak will make you laugh, cry, and lower your guard to humanity. "Each page is a surprise--some delightful and some heartbreaking; so eloquently spoken in the voices of dozens of sex and gender outsiders, insiders, and people who take no side at all. A must-read for everyone." -KATE BORNSTEIN, AUTHOR OF GENDER OUTLAW "Honest and provocative. An intimate glimpse behind the masks and labels people wear in their daily lives." -ERIKA LUST, INDIE EROTIC FILM DIRECTOR "Everyone Is a Freak offers an intimate peek into the sexual psyche of everyday people and an intensely gratifying response to the question, 'Am I normal?' The answer exampled page after page with resounding confirmation: none of us are normal, so drop the shame and let your freak flag fly." -JIZ LEE, EDITOR OF COMING OUT LIKE A PORN STAR
Author : Robin Blyn
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816685894
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)
Download or read book The Freak-garde written by Robin Blyn and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1890s, American artists have employed the arts of the freak show to envision radically different ways of being. The result is a rich avant-garde tradition that critiques and challenges capitalism from within. The Freak-garde traces the arts of the freak show from P. T. Barnum to Matthew Barney and demonstrates how a form of mass culture entertainment became the basis for a distinctly American avant-garde tradition. Exploring a wide range of writers, filmmakers, photographers, and artists who have appropriated the arts of the freak show, Robin Blyn exposes the disturbing power of human curiosities and the desires they unleash. Through a series of incisive and often startling readings, Blyn reveals how such figures as Mark Twain, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, Lon Chaney, Nathanael West, and Diane Arbus use these desires to propose alternatives to the autonomous and repressed subject of liberal capitalism. Blyn explains how, rather than grounding revolutionary subjectivities in imaginary realms innocent of capitalism, freak-garde works manufacture new subjectivities by exploiting potentials inherent to capitalism. Defying conventional wisdom, The Freak-garde ultimately argues that postmodernism is not the death of the avant-garde but the inheritor of a vital and generative legacy. In doing so, the book establishes innovative approaches to American avant-garde practices and embodiment and lays the foundation for a more nuanced understanding of the disruptive potential of art under capitalism.
Author : Justin Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113410605X
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Grotesque written by Justin Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grotesque provides an invaluable and accessible guide to the use (and abuse) of this complex literary term. Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund explore the influence of the grotesque on cultural forms throughout history, with particular focus on its representation in literature, visual art and film. The book: presents a history of the literary grotesque from Classical writing to the present examines theoretical debates around the term in their historical and cultural contexts introduce readers to key writers and artists of the grotesque, from Homer to Rabelais, Shakespeare, Carson McCullers and David Cronenberg analyses key terms such as disharmony, deformed and distorted bodies, misfits and freaks explores the grotesque in relation to queer theory, post-colonialism and the carnivalesque. Grotesque presents readers with an original and distinctive overview of this vital genre and is an essential guide for students of literature, art history and film studies.
Author : Karin Beeler
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786423897
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Tattoos, Desire and Violence written by Karin Beeler and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2005-11-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether they graphically depict an individual's or a community's beliefs, express the defiance of authority, or brand marginalized groups, tattoos are a means of interpersonal communication that dates back thousands of years. Evidence of the tattoo's place in today's popular culture is all around--in advertisements, on the stereotypical outlaw character in films and television, in supermarket machines that dispense children's wash-away tattoos, and even in the production of a tattooed Barbie doll. This book explores the tattoo's role, primarily as an emblem of resistance and marginality, in recent literature, film, and television. The association of tattoos with victims of the Holocaust, slaves, and colonized peoples; with gangs, inmates, and other marginalized groups; and the connection of the tattoo narrative to desire and violence are discussed at length.
Author : Paul Feig
Publisher : Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Freaks and Geeks written by Paul Feig and published by Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks. This book was released on 2004 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first volume of Freaks and Geeks: The Complete Scripts collects the first nine shooting scripts (episodes 1-9), including deleted scenes and dialogue, of the Emmy Award-winning series, including the pilot episode directed by Jake Kasdan. With an introduction by creator Paul Feig, the book features individual commentary from the writers of each episode, plus a scrapbook of behind-the-scenes materials, photos, memos, and notes."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Jared Lee Hanson
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595246524
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Control Freak written by Jared Lee Hanson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-09-13 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The universe is filled with incredible power. Over the last century alone, combustion, electricity, and lift have completely altered the course of humanity. These and other forces have taken us to the moon and beyond. At the same time, they have laid waste to entire cities and abruptly ended millions of lives. One force among these has the ability to control them all. Ironically, it is the most powerful, yet the least understood. As with fire, this awesome power can only be controlled when you understand the basics of how it works. Like electricity, it can do things that you thought were impossible. And similar to lift, it can send you flying through the clouds to heights you never imagined. Once you learn the basics, you won’t need to freak out any more over control. Anything you want will be within reach without the use of force, deception, bribery or any other form of manipulation. If you’re not already living your dreams, it’s because something is short-circuiting your ability to harness this great power. Come with me and we’ll find out what it is. Let your journey of discovery begin NOW!
Author : Gary S. Cross
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350145149
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Freak Show Legacies written by Gary S. Cross and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Society has long been fascinated with the freakish, shocking and strange. In this book Gary Cross shows how freakish elements have been embedded in modern popular culture over the course of the 20th century despite the evident disenchantment with this once widespread cultural outlet. Exploring how the spectacle of freakishness conflicted with genteel culture, he shows how the condemnation of the freak show by middle-class America led to a transformation and merging of genteel and freak culture through the cute, the camp and the creepy. Though the carnival and circus freak was marginalised by the 1960s and had largely disappeared by the 1980s, forms of freakish culture survived and today appear in reality TV, horror movies, dark comedies and the popularity of tattoos. Freak Show Legacies will focus less on the individual 'freak' as 'the other' in society, and more on the audience for the freakish and the transformation of wonder, sensibility and sensitivity that this phenomenon entailed. It will use the phenomenon of 'the freak' to understand the transformation of American popular culture across the 20th century, identify elements of 'the freak' in popular culture both past and present, and ask how it has prevailed despite its apparent unpopularity.
Author : Dominic Janes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350172626
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Freak to Chic written by Dominic Janes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique intervention in the study of queer culture, Dominic Janes highlights that, under the gaze of social conservatism, 'gay' life was hiding in plain sight. Indeed, he argues that the worlds of glamour, fashion, art and countercultural style provided rich opportunities for the construction of queer spectacle in London. Inspired by the legacies of Oscar Wilde, interwar and later 20th-century men such as Cecil Beaton expressed transgressive desires in forms inspired by those labelled 'freaks' and, thereby, made major contributions to the histories of art, design, fashion, sexuality, and celebrity. Janes reinterprets the origins of gay and queer cultures by charting the interactions between marginalized freaks and chic fashionistas. He establishes a new framework for future analyses of other cities and media, and of the roles of women and diverse identities.
Author : Allison Kenney
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466977213
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)
Download or read book Freak written by Allison Kenney and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based in 2004 in New York City, Manhattan, eighteen-year-old Aaron Felix begins his first day at Martin High, his ninth high school in seven years. His family is crumbling apart, and he is bullied at every school that he attends because of his brains and his new student status. He becomes friends with a girl with Aperts syndrome, Freak, and a closeted gay, Adam. They change his life, and together they go through changes and drama, testing Aaron's instincts and emotions and clashing with the cruel head cheerleader, Justine, her boyfriend, Nick, and Aaron's workaholic and controlling father
Author : Alastair Phillips
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838716572
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Journeys of Desire written by Alastair Phillips and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to European actors in American film, this book brings together 15 chapters with A-Z entries on over 900 individuals. It includes case studies of prominent individuals and phenomena associated with the emigres, such as the stereotyping of European actresses in 'bad women' roles, and the irony of Jewish actors playing Nazis.
Author : Peter Benjaminson
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613749600
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Super Freak written by Peter Benjaminson and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rick James played with Neil Young, self-produced his first album (later picked up by Motown), crossed rock and funk to come up with one of the best-selling albums of the 1980s, became one of the biggest pop stars of the era, turned a young white woman named Teena Marie into an R&B superstar, displayed an outrageously sex- and drug-filled lifestyle, was tried and found guilty of assaulting and imprisoning a young woman, went on to record new music that was compared to the Beatles' White Album, and ended his life as a punch line for Dave Chappelle. James attempted to tell his own story—in two different books—but left out many incidents that reflected badly on his character. Now, based on court records, newspaper archives, and extensive interviews with dozens of family members, band members, friends, and lovers, here is the definitive biography of Motown's most controversial superstar.
Author : Robert J. Patterson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978803605
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)
Download or read book Destructive Desires written by Robert J. Patterson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite rhythm and blues culture’s undeniable role in molding, reflecting, and reshaping black cultural production, consciousness, and politics, it has yet to receive the serious scholarly examination it deserves. Destructive Desires corrects this omission by analyzing how post-Civil Rights era rhythm and blues culture articulates competing and conflicting political, social, familial, and economic desires within and for African American communities. As an important form of black cultural production, rhythm and blues music helps us to understand black political and cultural desires and longings in light of neo-liberalism’s increased codification in America’s racial politics and policies since the 1970s. Robert J. Patterson provides a thorough analysis of four artists—Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, Adina Howard, Whitney Houston, and Toni Braxton—to examine black cultural longings by demonstrating how our reading of specific moments in their lives, careers, and performances serve as metacommentaries for broader issues in black culture and politics.
