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Download or read book Buffoon Men written by Scott Balcerzak and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans and scholars of film history, gender studies, and broadcast studies will appreciate Balcerzak's thorough exploration of the era's fascinating gender constructs.
Book Synopsis The Buffoon Men by : Scott Balcerzak
Download or read book The Buffoon Men written by Scott Balcerzak and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: This study provides an alternative understanding of Classic Hollywood's depictions of masculinity through an analysis of 1930s comedians. These figures initiated what I call the masculine comedic, an entertainment trend for much of the 20th century consisting of a popular fraternity of male comedians that aggressively excludes women. While certain female performers such as Mae West challenge this trend, they tend to be the exception that proves the rule. In contrast to other types of mainstream cinema, films of the masculine comedic provide a valid history of the cultural undercurrents driving American male identity. In each of my chapters, I explore a different current that greatly defines this alternative narrative, from the economic to the ethnic to the technological to the fraternal. The first chapter examines W.C. Fields as an ironic male icon who can be seen as a telling contrast to Mae West's iconic position as feminist icon. The second chapter considers ethnic influences upon the masculine comedic in the form of Eddie Cantor's influential progression from a Jewish stereotype onstage to a 'whitefaced' version of a 'nebbish' onscreen. I then examine technological influence through radio's effect by analyzing Jack Benny's on-air 'queer' voice and its only partly successful adaptation to cinematic stardom. The dissertation concludes with an analysis of fraternal myths as they relate to the queered relationships highlighted in three popular comedy duos: Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, and Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. All these comedians illustrate a complex range of comedic commentaries on masculine ideals and expose the fragilities of gender performance itself. As such, they reveal the often peculiar, yet revelatory, relationship between masculinity identity and comedy as it still permeates throughout much of popular culture.
Download or read book Buffoon written by Anosh Irani and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three-time Governor General’s Literary Award–shortlisted author and playwright Anosh Irani’s critically acclaimed one-man show Buffoon is a masterclass of tragicomic theatre. Born to circus folk who prefer trapezing over parenting, Felix quickly learns to turn life’s misfortunes into jokes. His longing for family and home is piqued at the tender age of seven when he falls hopelessly in love with an older woman, the beguiling Aja, who is eight. In the process, a clown is born, and we watch him grow into a middle-aged buffoon. Over time, Felix stops waiting for someone else to love him; his journey becomes one of loving himself. A story of love, loss, and the fate that binds us, Buffoon is a gut-wrenching one-man show that expertly walks the tightrope between heartbreak and hilarity.
Book Synopsis Imaginary Conversations ...: Dialogues of literary men by : Walter Savage Landor
Download or read book Imaginary Conversations ...: Dialogues of literary men written by Walter Savage Landor and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dialogues of literary men by : Walter Savage Landor
Download or read book Dialogues of literary men written by Walter Savage Landor and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of literary men by : Walter Savage Landor
Download or read book Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of literary men written by Walter Savage Landor and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Imaginary conversations. Third series : Conversations of literary men (First series) by : Walter Savage Landor
Download or read book Imaginary conversations. Third series : Conversations of literary men (First series) written by Walter Savage Landor and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Developing a Tough-Minded Climate for Results by : Joe D. Batten
Download or read book Developing a Tough-Minded Climate for Results written by Joe D. Batten and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2003-10-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A smooth transition to excellence in management cannot be achieved by an abortive hodgepodge of borrowed programs and panaceas. First-rate company success must derive from a top executive who can think . . . who can provide the rest of his team with a desire to excel and a distinct impatience with mediocrity. In this his second book, the author of 'Tough-Minded Management' presents a formula for developing an entirely new business way of life. Using candid, no-nonsense language, he pinpoints the one element that can turn a mediocre company into a great one . . . the one element that can enlighten and energize ordinary firms so that they accomplish extraordinary things--Climate! Executives will find here not fanciful theories but tough-minded principles. -Principles that have been tested and proved in the marketplace and in the executive suite. -Principles that will help managers everywhere to understand the way of their jobs. -Principles that will help managers to develop and, in fact, settle for nothing less than employees who welcome responsibility and the challenge of contributing to company profits. Here is a book for leaders and for potential leaders; a book for any executive who senses the need for Developing a 'Tough-MInded Climate for Results.'
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Download or read book Half a Man written by Mary White Ovington and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six years ago I met a young colored man, a college student recently returned from Germany where he had been engaged in graduate work. He was born, he told me, in one of the Gulf States, and I questioned him as to whether he intended going back to the South to teach. His answer was in the negative. "My father has attained success in his native state," he said, "but when I ceased to be a boy, he advised me to live in the North where my manhood would be respected. He himself cannot continually endure the position in which he is placed, and in the summer he comes North to be a man. No," correcting himself, "to be half a man. A Negro is wholly a man only in Europe. Half a man! During the six years that I have been in touch with the problem of the Negro in New York this characterization has grown in significance to me. I have endeavored to know the life of the Negro as I know the life of the white American, and I have learned that while New York at times gives full recognition to his manhood, again, its race prejudice arrests his development as certainly as severe poverty arrests the development of the tenement child. Perhaps a study of this shifting attitude on the part of the dominant race, and of the Negro's reaction under it, may not be unimportant; for the color question cannot be ignored in America, nor should the position taken by her largest city be overlooked.
Book Synopsis Doveton: Or, The Man of Many Impulses by : J. W. K.
Download or read book Doveton: Or, The Man of Many Impulses written by J. W. K. and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Artificial White Man by : Stanley Crouch
Download or read book The Artificial White Man written by Stanley Crouch and published by Civitas Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at racial politics in the arts examines the idea of authenticity and the national fixation on finding "the real thing" by investigating the motives of those that claim to be authentic and those that call those claims into question. 40,000 first printing.
Book Synopsis The Man Who Was Afraid by : Maksim Gorky
Download or read book The Man Who Was Afraid written by Maksim Gorky and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTRODUCTORY NOTE. OUT of the darkest depths of life, where vice and crime and misery abound, comes the Byron of the twentieth century, the poet of the vagabond and the proletariat, Maxim Gorky. Not like the beggar, humbly imploring for a crust in the name of the Lord, nor like the jeweller displaying his precious stones to dazzle and tempt the eye, he comes to the world,—nay, in accents of Tyrtaeus this commoner of Nizhni Novgorod spurs on his troops of freedom-loving heroes to conquer, as it were, the placid, self-satisfied literatures of to-day, and bring new life to pale, bloodless frames. Like Byron's impassioned utterances, "borne on the tones of a wild and quite artless melody," is Gorky's mad, unbridled, powerful voice, as he sings of the "madness of the brave," of the barefooted dreamers, who are proud of their idleness, who possess nothing and fear nothing, who are gay in their misery, though miserable in their joy. Gorky's voice is not the calm, cultivated, well-balanced voice of Chekhov, the Russian De Maupassant, nor even the apostolic, well-meaning, but comparatively faint voice of Tolstoy, the preacher: it is the roaring of a lion, the crash of thunder. In its elementary power is the heart rending cry of a sincere but suffering soul that saw the brutality of life in all its horrors, and now flings its experiences into the face of the world with unequalled sympathy and the courage of a giant. For Gorky, above all, has courage; he dares to say that he finds the vagabond, the outcast of society, more sublime and significant than society itself.
Book Synopsis The Handbook of Folklore by : Charlotte Sophia Burne
Download or read book The Handbook of Folklore written by Charlotte Sophia Burne and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Walter Scott - The Man Behind the Books by : Walter Scott
Download or read book Walter Scott - The Man Behind the Books written by Walter Scott and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-06-21 with total page 3402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet. He was the first modern English-language author to have a truly international career in his lifetime, with many contemporary readers in Europe, Australia, and North America. His novels and poetry are still read, and many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and of Scottish literature. Famous titles include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, The Lady of the Lake, Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor. Table of Contents: Journal THE JOURNAL OF SIR WALTER SCOTT Letters PAUL'S LETTERS TO HIS KINSFOLK LETTERS OF MALACHI MALAGROWTHER LETTERS ON DEMONOLOGY AND WITCHCRAFT Various Articles and Essays RELIQUES OF ROBERT BURNS LIFE AND WORKS OF JOHN HOME LIFE OF KEMBLE — KELLY'S REMINISCENCES SALMONIA ON PLANTING WASTE LANDS ON LANDSCAPE GARDENING TRIAL OF DUNCAN TERIG ALIAS CLERK, AND ALEXANDER BANE MACDONALD BIOGRAPHY: SIR WALTER SCOTT by George Saintsbury SIR WALTER SCOTT by Richard H. Hutton MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT by J. G. Lockhart
Book Synopsis Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Download or read book Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None written by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None is a work of philosophical fiction written by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It delves into a myriad of themes such as : will to power, nihilism, ubermench and criticism of religions.
