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Trauma and Disability in Mad Max

Author : Mick Broderick
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030194396
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Trauma and Disability in Mad Max written by Mick Broderick and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the inter-relationship of disability and trauma in the Mad Max films (1979-2015). George Miller’s long-running series is replete with narratives and imagery of trauma, both physical and emotional, along with major and minor characters who are prominently disabled. The Mad Max movies foreground representations of the body – in devastating injury and its lasting effects – and in the broader social and historical contexts of trauma, disability, gender and myth. Over the franchise’s four-decade span significant social and cultural change has occurred globally. Many of the images of disability and trauma central to Max’s post-apocalyptic wasteland can be seen to represent these societal shifts, incorporating both decline and rejuvenation. These shifts include concerns with social, economic and political disintegration under late capitalism, projections of survival after nuclear war, and the impact of anthropogenic climate change. Drawing on screen production processes, textual analysis and reception studies this book interrogates the role of these representations of disability, trauma, gender and myth to offer an in-depth cultural analysis of the social critiques evident within the fantasies of Mad Max.

Gender and Action Films 1980-2000

Author : Steven Gerrard
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 180117508X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Action Films 1980-2000 written by Steven Gerrard and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-24 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and Action Films 1980-2000 offers insights into the intertwined concepts of gender and action, and how their portrayal developed in the Action Movie genre during the final two decades of the twentieth century. A necessity for academics, students and lovers of film and media and those interested in gender studies.

The Eternal Future of the 1950s

Author : Dennis R. Cutchins
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476649278
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Eternal Future of the 1950s written by Dennis R. Cutchins and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction cinema, once relegated to the undervalued "B" movie slot, has become one of the dominant film genres of the 21st century, with Hollywood alone producing more than 400 science fiction films annually. Many of these owe a great deal of their success to the films of one defining decade: the 1950s. Essays in this book explore how classic '50s science fiction films have been recycled, repurposed, and reused in the decades since their release. Tropes from Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), for instance, have found surprising new life in Netflix's wildly popular Stranger Things. Interstellar (2014) and Arrival (2016) have clear, though indirect roots in the iconic 1950s science fictions films Rocketship X-M (1950) and The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), and The Shape of Water (2017) openly recalls and reworks the major premises of The Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954). Essays also cover 1950's sci-fi influences on video game franchises like Fallout, Bioshock and Wolfenstein.

Activating Cultural and Social Change

Author : Baden Offord
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000512819
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Activating Cultural and Social Change written by Baden Offord and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-23 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thought-provoking book, a diverse range of educators, activists, academics, and community advocates provide theoretical and practical ways of activating our knowledge and understanding of how to build a human rights culture. Addressing approaches and applications to human rights within current socio-cultural, political, socio-legal, environmental, educational, and global contexts, these chapters explore tensions, contradictions, and complexities within human rights education. The book establishes cultural and educational practices as intrinsically linked to human rights consciousness and social justice, showing how signature pedagogies used by human rights practitioners can be intellectual, creative, or a combination of both. Across three sections, the book discusses ways of bringing about holistic, relevant, and compelling approaches for challenging and understanding structures of power, which have become a global system, while also suggesting a move from abstract human rights principles, declarations, and instruments to meaningful changes that do not dehumanise and distance us from intrinsic and extrinsic oppressions, denial of identity and community, and other forms of human rights abuse. Offering new critical cultural studies approaches on how a human rights consciousness arises and is practised, this book will be of great interest to scholars and students of cultural studies, education studies, critical sociology, human rights education, and human rights studies.

Global Perspectives on Disability Activism and Advocacy

Author : Karen Soldatic
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351237470
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Global Perspectives on Disability Activism and Advocacy written by Karen Soldatic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the diverse ways in which disability activism and advocacy are experienced and practised by people with disabilities and their allies. Contributors to the book explore the very different strategies and campaigns they have used to have their demands for respect, dignity and rights heard and acted upon by their communities, by national governments and the international community. The book, with its contemporary global focus, makes a significant contribution to the field of disability and social justice studies, particularly at a time of major social, political and cultural upheaval. Global Perspectives on Disability Activism and Advocacy offers a significant intervention within the field of disability at a time of major social upheaval where actors, advocates and activists are seeking to hold onto existing claims for rights, equality and disability justice.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick

Author : I.Q. Hunter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501343653
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick written by I.Q. Hunter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanley Kubrick is one of the most revered directors in cinema history. His 13 films, including classics such as Paths of Glory, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, and The Shining, attracted controversy, acclaim, a devoted cult following, and enormous critical interest. With this comprehensive guide to the key contexts - industrial and cultural, as well as aesthetic and critical - the themes of Kubrick's films sum up the current vibrant state of Kubrick studies. Bringing together an international team of leading scholars and emergent voices, this Companion provides comprehensive coverage of Stanley Kubrick's contribution to cinema. After a substantial introduction outlining Kubrick's life and career and the film's production and reception contexts, the volume consists of 39 contributions on key themes that both summarise previous work and offer new, often archive-based, state-of-the-art research. In addition, it is specifically tailored to the needs of students wanting an authoritative, accessible overview of academic work on Kubrick.

The Kubrick Legacy

Author : Mick Broderick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429594909
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book The Kubrick Legacy written by Mick Broderick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The six chapters assembled in The Kubrick Legacy showcase important trends in the evolution of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick’s artistic legacy. In the 20 years since his death an enormous range of information and scholarship has surfaced, in part from the Kubrick estate’s public preservation, archiving, exhibition and promulgation of the auteur’s staggering collection of research materials and film artefacts. These essays from international scholars chart incarnations of the official Kubrick exhibition of extensive artifacts touring the globe for the past decade; the filmmaker’s lasting impact on established authors with whom he collaborated; the profound influence of Kubrick’s use of existing music in film scores; the exponential rise of conspiracy theories and (mis)interpretation of his work since his death; the repeated imitation of and homage to his oeuvre across decades of international television advertising; and the (re)discovery of Kubrick on screen in both documentary form and dramatic characterization. The Kubrick Legacy provides a tantalizing, critical snapshot of the enduring impact and influence of one of the twentieth century’s most enigmatic and consummate screen artists.

Gender and Action Films 2000 and Beyond

Author : Steven Gerrard
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1801175187
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Action Films 2000 and Beyond written by Steven Gerrard and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-24 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and Action Films 2000 and Beyond: Transformations looks at Action Cinema from the old to the new, offering an exciting interrogation of the portrayal of gender in the new millennia. A necessity for academics, students and lovers of film and media and those interested in gender studies.

Gender and Action Films

Author : Steven Gerrard
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1801175144
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Action Films written by Steven Gerrard and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-24 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on a less acknowledged period in Action Cinema history, Gender and Action Films prioritises female led action movies and champion a more meaningful interaction and representation between the Action genre and contemporary issues of race, sexuality, and gender.

Ecocritical Geopolitics

Author : Elena dell'Agnese
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000394948
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Ecocritical Geopolitics written by Elena dell'Agnese and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of popular culture in shaping our discourse about the multifaceted system of material things, subjects and causal agents that we call "environment"? Ecocritical Geopolitics offers a new theoretical perspective and approach to the analysis of environmental discourse in popular culture. It combines ecocriticial and critical geopolitical approaches to explore three main themes: dystopian visions, the relationship between the human, post-human, and "nature" and speciesism and carnism. The importance of popular culture in the construction of geopolitical discourse is widely recognized. From ecocriticism, we also appreciate that literature, cinema, or theatre can offer a mirror of what the individual author wants to communicate about the relationship between the human being and what can be defined as non-human. This book provides an analysis of environmental discourses with the theoretical tools of critical geopolitics and the analytical methodology of ecocriticism. It develops and disseminates a new scientific approach, defined as "ecocritical geopolitics", to offer an idea of the power of popular culture in the realization of environmental discourse. Referencing sources as diverse as The Road, The Shape of Water, Lady and the Tramp, and TV cooking shows, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of geography, environmental studies, film studies, and environmental humanities.

Toxic Immanence

Author : Livia Monnet
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228013267
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Toxic Immanence written by Livia Monnet and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a decade after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, what we are witnessing is not a Second Nuclear Age – there is no post-atomic – but an uncanny, quiet return of the nuclear threat that so vividly animated the Cold War era. The renewed threat of nuclear proliferation, public complacency regarding weapons stockpiles, and the lack of a single functioning long-term repository after seventy years and thousands of tonnes of nuclear waste reveals the industry’s capacity for self-reinvention abetted by an ever-present capacity to forget. More than “fabulously textual,” as Jacques Derrida described it, the protean, unbound, and unending materiality of the nuclear is here to stay: resistance is crucial. Toxic Immanence introduces contemporary interdisciplinary perspectives that resist and decolonize the nuclear. Contributors highlight the prevalence and irrationality of slow violence and colonial governance as elements of the contemporary nuclear age. They propose a reappraisal of Cold War-era anti-nuclear art as well as pop culture representations of nuclear disaster, while decolonizing pedagogies advance the role of education in communicating and understanding the lethality of nuclear complexes. Collectively, the essays develop a robust critical discourse across fields of nuclear knowledge and integrate the work of the nuclear humanities with environmental justice and Indigenous rights activism. This reach across ways of knowing extends artistically: the poetry and photography included in this volume offer visions of past and present nuclear legacies. Conceived as a critical reflection on the potential of nuclear humanities, Toxic Immanence offers intellectual strategies for resisting and abolishing the global nuclear regime.

Im Fuhrpark der Literatur

Author : Gwendolin Engels
Publisher : Wallstein Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3835349627
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Im Fuhrpark der Literatur written by Gwendolin Engels and published by Wallstein Verlag. This book was released on 2022-06-29 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manta, Marken, Mobile – eine kluge Kulturgeschichte des Autos. Die heutige selbstverständliche Automobilität wird durch die Klimakrise und die sich abzeichnende Verkehrswende ebenso infrage gestellt wie durch die Digitalisierung. Ausgehend von diesem kulturgeschichtlichen Wendepunkt suchen die Autorinnen und Autoren kulturelle Imaginationen des Autos zwischen nostalgischer Glorifizierung und auratisiertem Zukunftsversprechen. Im Zentrum stehen verschiedene Formen von Automobilität und ihre Grenzen, die in literarischen und filmischen Inszenierungen von Unfällen besonders drastisch sichtbar werden. Am Beispiel verschiedener Fahrzeugtypen lassen sich die Wege des Autos in die Moderne und aus ihr heraus verfolgen. Im Vergleich zwischen Deutschland und den USA werden kulturelle und nationale Unterschiede im Umgang mit dem Auto erkennbar. Anhand literarischer und filmischer Beispiele wird dargestellt, wie der Innenraum des Autos zu einem Ort der sozialen Bedeutungsstiftung und der medialen und technischen Reflexion werden kann. Aus dem Inhalt: Stephan Kraft: Franz Werfels Jacobowsky und der Oberst Franziska Thun-Hohenstein: Mit Komfort über die russische Wegelosigkeit Moritz Baßler: Frau am Steuer in den 1950er Jahren Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht: Autos in der deutschen und amerikanischen Kultur Rüdiger Campe: Der Held und sein Auto in The Big Sleep Jürgen Fohrmann: Ein Essay zu Fargo, zweite Staffel Barbara Vinken/Anselm Haverkamp: Un Homme et une femme

Apocalypse and Heroism in Popular Culture

Author : Katherine E. Sugg
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476645663
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Apocalypse and Heroism in Popular Culture written by Katherine E. Sugg and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of world-ending catastrophe have featured prominently in film and television. Zombie apocalypses, climate disasters, alien invasions, global pandemics and dystopian world orders fill our screens--typically with a singular figure or tenacious group tasked with saving or salvaging the world. Why are stories of End Times crisis so popular with audiences? And why is the hero so often a white man who overcomes personal struggles and major obstacles to lead humanity toward a restored future? This book examines the familiar trope of the hero and the recasting of contemporary anxieties in films like The Walking Dead, Snowpiercer and Mad Max: Fury Road. Some have familiar roots in Western cultural traditions yet many question popular assumptions about heroes and heroism to tell new and fascinating stories about race, gender and society and the power of individuals to change the world.

Rewriting Resistance to Social Justice Pedagogies

Author : Wilton S. Wright
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666913499
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Rewriting Resistance to Social Justice Pedagogies written by Wilton S. Wright and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-09-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resistance to feminist, queer, and antiracist pedagogies can take many forms in the composition class: silence during class discussion; tepid, bland writing that fails to engage with course content; refusal to engage with feminist and queer ideas; open and direct challenges to professors’ authority. Rewriting Resistance to Social Justice Pedagogies argues that composition studies has not adequately addressed the complex and deeply local contexts and causes of resistance. Therefore, the author argues that resistance research must first understand the origins and purpose for a student’s resistance, interrogating the language used to name and describe students who resist. Composition instructors must then give students the tools to uncover and investigate their reasons for resistance themselves, challenging students to continually interrogate their resistances. This book utilizes feminist composition pedagogies, masculinity studies, and queer pedagogies to engage student resistance in the writing classroom.

Our Fears Made Manifest

Author : Ashley Jae Carranza
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476679312
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Our Fears Made Manifest written by Ashley Jae Carranza and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-02-10 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beginning of the 21st century was a time of unprecedented events in American society: Y2K, 9/11 and the wars that followed, partisan changes in government and the rapid advancements of the Internet and mass consumerism. In the two decades since, popular culture--particularly film--has manifested the underlying anxieties of the American psyche. This collection of new essays examines dozens of movies released 1998-2020 and how they drew upon and spoke to mass cultural fears. Contributors analyze examples across a range of genres--horror, teen rom-coms, military flicks, slow-burns, and animated children's films--covering topics including gender and sexuality, environmental politics, technophobia, xenophobia, and class and racial inequality.

Contemporary Australian cinema

Author : Jonathan Rayner
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526125730
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Australian cinema written by Jonathan Rayner and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an introduction to the products and context of the new Australian film industry which arose toward the end of the 1960s. Traces the development of Australian film, in terms of prominent directors and stars, consistent themes, styles and evolving genres. The evolution of the film genres peculiar to Australia, and the adaptation of conventional Hollywood forms (such as the musical and the road movie) are examined in detail through textual readings of landmark films. Films and trends discussed include: the period film and Picnic at Hanging Rock; the Gothic film and the Mad Max trilogy; camp and kitsch comedy and the Adventures of Pricilla, Queen of the Desert. The key issue of the revival (the definition, representation and propagation of a national image) is woven through analysis of the new Australian cinema.

Making Mental Health

Author : Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040103200
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Making Mental Health written by Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-07 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Mental Health: A Critical History historicises mental health by examining the concept from the ‘madness’ of the late nineteenth century to the changing ideas about its contemporary concerns and status. It argues that a critical approach to the history of psychiatry and mental health shows them to constitute a dual clinical-political project that gathered pace over the course of the twentieth century and continues to resonate in the present. Drawing on scholarship across several areas of historical inquiry as well as historical and contemporary clinical literature, the book uses a thematic approach to highlight decisive moments that demonstrate the stakes of this engagement in Anglo-American contexts. By tracing the (unfinished) history of institutions, the search for cures for psychiatric distress, the growing interest of the nation-state in mental health, the history of attempts to globalise psychiatry, the controversies over the politics of diagnostic categories that erupted in the 1960s and 1970s, and the history of theorising about the relationship between the psyche and the market, the book offers a comprehensive account of the evolution of mental health into a commonplace concern. Addressing key questions in the fields of history, medical humanities, and the social sciences, as well as in the psychiatry disciplines themselves, the book is an essential contribution to an ongoing conversation about mental distress and its meanings.