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Author : Christopher Hart
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0955124433
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (551 download)
Download or read book Heroines and Heroes: Symbolism, Embodiment, Narratives & Identity written by Christopher Hart and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. Joannou
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137265299
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Women’s Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity written by M. Joannou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original mapping of women's writing in the 1940s and 1950s, this book looks at Englishness and national identity in women's writing and includes writing from Scotland, Wales, Ireland the Indian subcontinent and Africa. The authors discussed include Virginia Woolf, Daphne Du Maurier, Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark.
Author : Aida Audeh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199584621
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Dante in the Long Nineteenth Century written by Aida Audeh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays provides an account of Dante's reception in a range of media-visual art, literature, theatre, cinema, and music-from the late eighteenth century through to the early twentieth and explores various appropriations and interpretations of his works and persona during the era of modernization in Europe, the USA, and beyond.
Author : Lisa Funnell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231850921
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (318 download)
Download or read book For His Eyes Only written by Lisa Funnell and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The release of Skyfall in 2012 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the James Bond film franchise. It earned over one billion dollars in the worldwide box office and won two Academy Awards. Amid popular and critical acclaim, some have questioned the representation of women in the film. From an aging M to the limited role of the Bond Girl and the characterization of Miss Moneypenny as a defunct field agent, Skyfall develops the legacy of Bond at the expense of women. Since Casino Royale (2006) and its sequels Quantum of Solace (2008) and Skyfall constitute a reboot of the franchise, it is time to question whether there is a place for women in the new world of James Bond and what role they will play in the future of series. This volume answers these questions by examining the role that women have historically played in the franchise, which greatly contributed to the international success of the films. This academic study constitutes the first book-length anthology on femininity and feminism in the Bond series. It covers all twenty-three Eon productions as well as the spoof Casino Royale (1967), considering a range of factors that have shaped the depiction of women in the franchise, including female characterization in Ian Fleming's novels; the vision of producer Albert R. Broccoli and other creative personnel; the influence of feminism; and broader trends in British and American film and television. The volume provides a timely look at women in the Bond franchise and offers new scholarly perspectives on the subject.
Author : Lisa Funnell
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438487614
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Screening #MeToo written by Lisa Funnell and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Screening #MeToo offers an important and timely discussion of the pervasive nature of rape culture in Hollywood. Essays in the collection examine films released from the 1960s onward, a broad period that coincides with the end of the Motion Picture Production Code in Hollywood, which resulted in more frequent and increasingly graphic images of sex and violence being included in mainstream movies. Focusing on narratives in which surveillance and sexual violence feature prominently, contributors from North America and Europe examine a variety of film genres, including spy films, teen comedies, kitchen sink dramas, coming-of-age stories, rape/revenge films, and horror films. Reflecting the increasing social and academic awareness of sexual violence in Hollywood film and its transmission and cultivation of rape culture in the United States and abroad, they are concerned not only with the content of the films under scrutiny but also with the clear relationship between the stories, how they are being told, and the culture that produced them. Screening #MeToo challenges readers to look at mainstream Hollywood films differently, in light of attitudes about art and power, sexuality and consent, and the pleasures and frustrations of criticizing "entertainment" films from these perspectives.
Author : Monica Germanà
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350124710
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Bond Girls written by Monica Germanà and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Ursula Andress's white-bikini debut in Dr No, 'Bond Girls' have been simultaneously celebrated as fashion icons and dismissed as 'eye-candy'. But the visual glamour of the women of James Bond reveals more than the sexual objectification of female beauty. Through the original joint perspectives of body and fashion, this exciting study throws a new, subversive light on Bond Girls. Like Coco Chanel, fashion's 'eternal' mademoiselle, these 'Girls' are synonymous with an unconventional and dynamic femininity that does not play by the rules and refuses to sit still; far from being the passive objects of the male gaze, Bond Girls' active bodies instead disrupt the stable frame of Bond's voyeurism. Starting off with an original re-assessment of the cultural roots of Bond's postwar masculinity, the book argues that Bond Girls emerge from masculine anxieties about the rise of female emancipation after the Second World War and persistent in the present day. Displaying parallels with the politics of race and colonialism, such tensions appear through sartorial practices as diverse as exoticism, power dressing and fetish wear, which reveal complex and often contradictory ideas about the patriarchal and imperial ideologies associated with Bond. Attention to costume, film and gender theory makes Bond Girls: Body, Gender and Fashion essential reading for students and scholars of fashion, media and cultural studies, and for anyone with an interest in Bond.
Author : Allyson Jule
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443875171
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Shifting Visions written by Allyson Jule and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of studies explores recent research in the area of gender and language use experienced around the world. Featuring an interdisciplinary and global approach, the contributors demonstrate how focus on gender and language creates the lived experience. The studies in this book use gender and language to analyze a broad range of topics including religion, politics, education and sexuality. Contributions include the use of language of a new female bishop in Canada, hetronormativity in language use in Croatia, women's magazines in Japan, and the electoral code in Cameroon. Using critical/feminist discourse analysis, the chapters represent scholarship from Britain, Europe, North America, Asia and Africa. Readers in applied linguistics, sociology, women’s studies and education who are interested in language and its power in creating the lived experience will find this book full of intriguing and illuminating connections.
Author : Steven Gerrard
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838671668
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)
Download or read book From Blofeld to Moneypenny written by Steven Gerrard and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception, 007 has captured the hearts of a worldwide audience, and the franchise is now available over multiple media platforms, including movie, comic strips, games, graphic novels and fashion statements. This edited collection examines the role that gender has played across the platforms that the James Bond franchise now occupies.
Author : Christopher Hart
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1905984138
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Essays in Honour of Talcott Parsons written by Christopher Hart and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lucy Robinson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526167263
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Now that's what I call a history of the 1980s written by Lucy Robinson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now that’s what I call a history of the 1980s tells the story of eighties Britain through its popular culture. Charting era-defining moments from Lady Diana’s legs and the miners’ strike to Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage and Adam and the Ants, Lucy Robinson weaves together an alternative history to the one we think we know. This is not a history of big geopolitical disasters, or a nostalgic romp through discos, shoulder pads and yuppie culture. Instead, the book explores a mashing together of different genres and fan bases in order to make sense of our recent past and give new insights into the decade that defined both globalisation and excess. Packed with archival and cultural research but written with verve and spark, the book offers as much to general readers as to scholars of this period, presenting a distinctive and definitive contemporary history of 1980s Britain, from pop to politics, to cold war cultures, censorship and sexuality.
Author : Barbara Baert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110606151
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book About Sieves and Sieving written by Barbara Baert and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sieve exhibits a wide-ranging symbolism that extends across art history, philosophy, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and gender studies. Barbara Baert looks at the sieve from an interdisciplinary perspective and from four different innovative methodological angles: as motif and symbol, as technique and as paradigm. The sieve as motif goes back to Roman stories the Vestal Virgins. In later times, their impermeable sieve, which - according to legend - they used to fetch water from the River Tiber, was iconographically transferred to Elisabeth I as a sign of her integrity. Furthermore, the long durée life of sieves as symbolic-technical utilitarian object is investigated: in examples from the Jewish folklore, the Berber culture, and ancient Egypt.
Author : Ann Rea
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350271381
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Sexuality and Gender in Fictions of Espionage written by Ann Rea and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of how espionage narratives give access to cultural conceptions of gender and sexuality before and following the Second World War, this book moves away from masculinist assumptions of the genre to offer an integrative survey of the sexualities on display from important characters across spy fiction. Topics covered include how authors mocked the traditional spy genre; James Bond as a symbol of pervasive British Superiority still anxious about masculinity; how older female spies act as queer figures that disturb the masculine mythology of the secret agent; and how the clandestine lives of agents described ways to encode queer communities under threat from fascism. Covering texts such as the Bond novels, John Le Carré's oeuvre (and their notable adaptations) and works by Helen MacInnes, Christopher Isherwood and Mick Herron, Sexuality and Gender in Fictions of Espionage takes stock of spy fiction written by women, female protagonists written by men, and probes the representations of masculinity generated by male authors. Offering a counterpoint to a genre traditionally viewed as male-centric, Sexuality and Gender in Fictions of Espionage proposes a revision of masculinity, femininity, queer identities and gendered concepts such as domesticity, and relates them to notions of nationality and the defence work conducted at crucial moments in history.
Author : Chris Hart
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1905984219
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (59 download)
Download or read book World War I Media, Entertainments & Popular Culture written by Chris Hart and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertainments and popular cultures played a major part in the lives of those experiencing the First World War. This collection of studies spans the role of newspapers, films, posters and music and much more, looking at the different ways, different media entertainments were produced and consumed during the war.
Author : Philippa Gates
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813589436
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Criminalization/Assimilation written by Philippa Gates and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminalization/Assimilation traces how Classical Hollywood films constructed America’s image of Chinese Americans from their criminalization as unwanted immigrants to their eventual acceptance when assimilated citizens, exploiting both America’s yellow peril fears about Chinese immigration and its fascination with Chinatowns. Philippa Gates examines Hollywood’s responses to social issues in Chinatown communities, primarily immigration, racism, drug trafficking, and prostitution, as well as the impact of industry factors including the Production Code and star system on the treatment of those subjects. Looking at over 200 films, Gates reveals the variety of racial representations within American film in the first half of the twentieth century and brings to light not only lost and forgotten films but also the contributions of Asian American actors whose presence onscreen offered important alternatives to Hollywood’s yellowface fabrications of Chinese identity and a resistance to Hollywood’s Orientalist narratives.
Author : Claire Hines
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231556969
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book James Bond Will Return written by Claire Hines and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over six decades, James Bond has been a fixture of global culture, universally recognizable by the films’ combination of action set pieces, sex, political intrigue, and outrageous gadgetry. But as the British Empire entered the final stages of collapse, as the Cold War wound down and the “War on Terror” began, and as the visions of masculinity and femininity the series presented began to strike many viewers as outdated, the Bond formula has adapted to the changing times. Spanning the franchise’s entire history, from Sean Connery’s iconic swagger to Daniel Craig’s rougher, more visceral interpretation of the superspy, James Bond Will Return offers both academic readers and fans a comprehensive view of the series’s transformations against the backdrop of real-world geopolitical intrigue and sweeping social changes. Leading scholars consider each of the twenty-five films in the series, showing how and why Bond has changed and what elements of the formula have stood the test of time. Each chapter examines a single film from a distinct position, giving readers a full picture of the variety and breadth of the longest-running series in cinema history. Close formal readings; production histories; tracings of the political, social, and historical influences; analyses of the series’ use of then-new filmmaking technologies; reflections on the star personas that have been built around the character—these and many more approaches combine to produce a wide-ranging view of the James Bond film franchise. Essential reading for Bond scholars and aficionados alike, James Bond Will Return brings out the many surprising complexities of an iconic character.
Author : Lisa Funnell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137570245
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Geographies, Genders and Geopolitics of James Bond written by Lisa Funnell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the representational geographies of the Bond film franchise and how they inform our reading of 007 as a hero. Offering a new and interdisciplinary lens through which the franchise can be analyzed, Funnell and Dodds explore a range of topics that have been largely, if not entirely, overlooked in Bond film scholarship. These topics include: the shifting and gendering of geopolitical relations; the differing depiction and evaluation of vertical/modern and horizontal/pre-modern spaces; the use of classical elements in defining gender, sexuality, heroic competency, and geopolitical conflict; and the ongoing importance of haptics (i.e. touch), kinesics (i.e. movement), and proxemics (i.e. the use of space) in defining the embodied and emotive world of Bond. This book is comprehensive in nature and scope as it discusses all 24 films in the official Bond canon and theorizes about the future direction of the franchise.
Author : CarrieLynn D. Reinhard
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498539580
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between written by CarrieLynn D. Reinhard and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current characters in children’s entertainment media illustrate a growing trend of representations that challenge or subvert traditional notions of gender and sexuality. From films to picture books to animated television series, children’s entertainment media around the world has consistently depicted stereotypically traditional gender roles and heterosexual relationships as the normal way that people act and engage with one another. Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between: Challenging Gender and Sexuality Stereotypes in Children's Entertainment Media examines how this media ecology now includes a presence for nonheteronormative genders and sexualities. It considers representations of such identities in various media products (e.g., comic books, television shows, animated films, films, children’s literature) meant for children (e.g., toddlers to teenagers). The contributors seek to identify and understand characterizations that go beyond these traditional understandings of gender and sexuality. By doing so, they explore these nontraditional representations and consider what they say about the current state of children’s entertainment media, popular culture, and global acceptance of these gender identities and sexualities.
