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When Art and Celebrity Collide

Author : Kristi Gerding Scholten
Publisher : VDM Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783836418706
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book When Art and Celebrity Collide written by Kristi Gerding Scholten and published by VDM Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words uttered at a concert by singer Natalie Maines, resulted in the Dixie Chicks' being banned from radio stations, having masses of ex-fans demolish their CD's, and even threats to their lives. What was said to cause such a heated reaction? "Just so you know, we're ashamed that President Bush is from Texas." Due to this expression, the Chicks-stars of country music- were called traitors to their Country and their country music roots. The author uses this case to uncover the role that popular culture icons play in our selfempowerment. That is, how do messages delivered through popular culture constrain or enable our perceived ability to resist dominant ideals? Dr. Kristi L. Scholten uses a narrative approach to examine: a) citizen-generated commentary, b) popular news reports, c) the Chicks' own responses, and d) fan's expectations for their celebrated artists. This allowed her to get a sense for how the dominant, public narrative puts the pieces of the story together in order to create a vision of the world and how people should behave in it. The result is: a) the championing of an aggressive, very male patriot, b) the connection between a rough, redneck character and Middle-American values, and c) a 'shut up and sing' attitude which diminishes the agency of celebrityartists. This book is directed towards Rhetorical, Narrative, Popular Culture and Art Scholars as well as Political and Media Analysts.

Celebrity Influence

Author : Mark Harvey
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700624988
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Celebrity Influence written by Mark Harvey and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why should we listen to celebrities like Bono or Angelina Jolie when they endorse a politician or take a position on an issue? Do we listen to them? Despite their lack of public policy experience, celebrities are certainly everywhere in the media, appealing on behalf of the oppressed, advocating policy change—even, in one spectacular case, leading the birther movement all the way to the White House. In this book Mark Harvey takes a close look into the phenomenon of celebrity advocacy in an attempt to determine the nature of celebrity influence, and the source and extent of its power. Focusing on two specific kinds of power—the ability to "spotlight" issues in the media and to persuade audiences—Harvey searches out the sources of celebrity influence and compares them directly to the sources of politicians' influence. In a number of case studies—such as Jolie and Ben Affleck drawing media attention to the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo; Bob Marley uniting warring factions in Jamaica; John Lennon networking with the new left to oppose Richard Nixon's re-election; Elvis Presley working with Nixon to counter anti-war activism—he details the role of celebrities working with advocacy groups and lobbying politicians to affect public opinion and influence policy. A series of psychological experiments demonstrate that celebrities can persuade people to accept their policy positions, even on national security issues. Harvey's analysis of news sources reveals that when celebrities speak about issues of public importance, they get disproportionately more coverage than politicians. Further, his reading of surveys tells us that people find politicians no more or less credible than celebrities—except politicians from the opposing party, who are judged less credible. At a time when the distinctions between politicians and celebrities are increasingly blurred, the insights into celebrity influence presented in this volume are as relevant as they are compelling.

New Performance/New Writing

Author : John Freeman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350315893
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book New Performance/New Writing written by John Freeman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary theatre is going through a period of unparalleled excitement and challenge. Terms like 'postmodern' and 'postdramatic' have their own contested and defended histories, while notions of truth in verbatim theatre are open to serious critical challenge. Theatre writing can result in no words being spoken and nothing appearing on the page, and productions are stretching the boundaries of space, place and context like never before. This revised and significantly expanded edition of New Performance/New Writing explores immersive and solo theatre, autoethnography, applied drama, performance writing, plot, story, narrative and devising. It presents an invaluable response to questions that arise from new theatre, prompting active reading that enhances classroom and workshop learning, and improves productivity in rehearsal. Each chapter explores a key aspect of theatre study, while an extensive timeline of theatre events gives a broad overview of its evolution. Case studies on practitioners as diverse as Kneehigh, Punchdrunk, Mark Ravenhill and Forced Entertainment are scattered throughout the book, along with detailed suggestions for workshops, which encourage readers to test some of the book's ideas in practice.

Representations of Peace and Conflict

Author : S. Gibson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137292253
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Representations of Peace and Conflict written by S. Gibson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume brings together a series of contributions exploring the socio-cultural and psychological representation of peace and conflict. It ventures into areas of the humanities and social sciences not typically foregrounded in Peace Studies, such psychology, sociology, media studies, cultural studies, history, and geography.

Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity in the Long Nineteenth Century

Author : Maura Ives
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351871781
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity in the Long Nineteenth Century written by Maura Ives and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1788, the Catalogue of Five Hundred Celebrated Authors of Great Britain, Now Living forecast a form of authorship that rested on biographical revelation and media saturation as well as literary achievement. This collection traces the unique experiences of women writers within a celebrity culture that was intimately connected to the expansion of print technology and of visual and material culture in the nineteenth century. The contributors examine a wide range of artifacts, including prefaces, portraits, frontispieces, birthday books, calendars and gossip columns, to consider the nature of women's celebrity and the forces that created it. How did authors like Jane Austen, the Countess of Blessington, Louisa May Alcott, Alice Meynell, and Marie Corelli negotiate the increasing demands for public revelation of the private self? How did gender shape the posthumous participation of women writers such as Jane Austen, Ellen Wood, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Christina Rossetti in celebrity culture? These and other important questions related to the treatment of women in celebrity genres and media, and the strategies women writers used to control their public images, are taken up in this suggestive exploration of how nineteenth and early twentieth century women writers achieved popular, critical, and commercial success.

Collision

Author : Pete Gershon
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623496330
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Collision written by Pete Gershon and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2019 Ron Tyler Award for Best Illustrated Book, sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) In this expansive and vigorous survey of the Houston art scene of the 1970s and 1980s, author Pete Gershon describes the city’s emergence as a locus for the arts, fueled by a boom in oil prices and by the arrival of several catalyzing figures, including museum director James Harithas and sculptor James Surls. Harithas was a fierce champion for Texan artists during his tenure as the director of the Contemporary Arts Museum–Houston (CAM). He put Texas artists on the map, but his renegade style proved too confrontational for the museum’s benefactors, and after four years, he wore out his welcome. After Harithas’s departure from the CAM, the chainsaw-wielding Surls established the Lawndale Annex as a largely unsupervised outpost of the University of Houston art department. Inside this dirty, cavernous warehouse, a new generation of Houston artists discovered their identities and began to flourish. Both the CAM and the Lawndale Annex set the scene for the emergence of small, downtown, artist-run spaces, including Studio One, the Center for Art and Performance, Midtown Arts Center, and DiverseWorks. Finally, in 1985, the Museum of Fine Arts presented Fresh Paint: The Houston School, a nationally publicized survey of work by Houston painters. The exhibition capped an era of intensive artistic development and suggested that the city was about to be recognized, along with New York and Los Angeles, as a major center for art-making activity. Drawing upon primary archival materials, contemporary newspaper and magazine accounts, and over sixty interviews with significant figures, Gershon presents a narrative that preserves and interweaves the stories and insights of those who transformed the Houston art scene into the vibrant community that it is today.

The Collision Vol. 1

Author : Daniel Blackaby
Publisher : Blackaby Ministries International
ISBN 13 : 1735087238
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Collision Vol. 1 written by Daniel Blackaby and published by Blackaby Ministries International. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countless cultural conversations are happening all around you. Are you aware of them? More importantly, are you actively engaged and contributing to them? Now, more than ever, Christians need to listen to these conversations and let their voices be heard. When we do, a collision between Christ and culture is inevitable. The only question is...are you ready for the collision? With 15 articles and 5 pop-culture reviews, The Collision Vol. 1 demonstrates how Christians can navigate today's increasingly digital and media-driven culture, engage with the crucial conversations happening all around us, and collide head-on with the world for Christ.

Televised Presidential Debates in a Changing Media Environment

Author : Edward A. Hinck
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Televised Presidential Debates in a Changing Media Environment written by Edward A. Hinck and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set examines recent presidential and vice presidential debates, addresses how citizens make sense of these events in new media, and considers whether the evolution of these forms of consumption is healthy for future presidential campaigns—and for democracy. The presidential debates of 2016 underscored how television highlights candidates' and campaigns' messages, which provide fodder for citizens' widespread use of new media to "talk back" to campaigns and other citizens. Social media will continue to affect the way that campaign events like presidential debates are consumed by audiences and how they shape campaign outcomes. This two-volume study is one of the first to examine the relationship between debates as televised events and events consumed by citizens through social media. It also assesses the town hall debate format from 1992 to 2016, uses the lens of civil dialogue to consider how citizens watch the debates, and considers the growing impact of new media commentary on candidate images that emerge in presidential and vice presidential debates. Televised Presidential Debates in a Changing Media Environment features contributions from leading political communication scholars that illuminate how presidential debates are transforming from events that are privately contemplated by citizens, to events that are increasingly viewed and discussed by citizens through social media. The first volume focuses on traditional studies of debates as televised campaign events, and the second volume examines the changing audiences for debates as they become consumed and discussed by viewers outside the traditional channels of newspapers, cable news channels, and campaign messaging. Readers will contemplate questions of new forms, problems, and possibilities of political engagement that are resulting from citizens producing and consuming political messages in new media.

Dixie Chicks

Author : Brett Mitchells
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1435851250
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Dixie Chicks written by Brett Mitchells and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2008-07-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When lead singer Nathalie Maines criticized President George W. the music group became country radio pariahs overnight. Enduring lost airtime, plummeting album sales, record burning rallies, and death threats, the Dixie Chicks Soldiered on, without apology or regrets. Gradually and with great determination, they built a new fan base and climbed back up to the top, triumphing at the 2006 Grammy Awards and starring in a documentary about their struggles. This is their story, with all of its exhilarating, poignant, and inspiring ups, downs, and ultimate vindication.

Music in American Life [4 volumes]

Author : Jacqueline Edmondson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313393486
Total Pages : 1470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Music in American Life [4 volumes] written by Jacqueline Edmondson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 1470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of the relationship between American culture and music as defined by musicians, scholars, and critics from around the world. Music has been the cornerstone of popular culture in the United States since the beginning of our nation's history. From early immigrants sharing the sounds of their native lands to contemporary artists performing benefit concerts for social causes, our country's musical expressions reflect where we, as a people, have been, as well as our hope for the future. This four-volume encyclopedia examines music's influence on contemporary American life, tracing historical connections over time. Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories That Shaped Our Culture demonstrates the symbiotic relationship between this art form and our society. Entries include singers, composers, lyricists, songs, musical genres, places, instruments, technologies, music in films, music in political realms, and music shows on television.

Cinema's Melodramatic Celebrity

Author : Mandy Merck
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1911239775
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Cinema's Melodramatic Celebrity written by Mandy Merck and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the study of both celebrity and the cinema, Mandy Merck argues that modern fame and film melodrama are part of the same worldview, one that cannot resolve the relation of personal worth to social esteem. Tracing the history of this conundrum back to the philosophy of the seventeenth century and the theatre of the eighteenth, she demonstrates its convergence in stage melodrama and its intensification in the Hollywood star system. Are today's celebrities worth our attention? In that demand for judgement and the hope for its visual guidance, the melodramatic imagination survives – permeating not only fiction film, but documentary, the artist's film, and our self-exhibition on social media. Examining a range of classical and contemporary films from Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (1931) to Laura Poitras's Citizenfour (2014) , the many remakes of A Star Is Born, the compulsory exhibitionism of political celebrity and the unmasking of whistle-blowers, Merck illustrates the ways in which the cinema constantly restages the moral evaluation of prominent individuals, whether they are actors, artists, politicians or activists.

The Metaphor of Celebrity

Author : Joel Deshaye
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 144266617X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Metaphor of Celebrity written by Joel Deshaye and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Metaphor of Celebrity is an exploration of the significance of literary celebrity in Canadian poetry. It focuses on the lives and writing of four widely recognized authors who wrote about stardom – Leonard Cohen, Michael Ondaatje, Irving Layton, and Gwendolyn MacEwen – and the specific moments in Canadian history that affected the ways in which they were received by the broader public. Joel Deshaye elucidates the relationship between literary celebrity and metaphor in the identity crises of celebrities, who must try to balance their public and private selves in the face of considerable publicity. He also examines the ways in which celebrity in Canadian poetry developed in a unique way in light of the significant cultural events of the decades between 1950 and 1980, including the Massey Commission, the flourishing of Canadian publishing, and the considerable interest in poetry in the 1960s and 1970s, which was followed by a rapid fall from public grace, as poetry was overwhelmed by greater popular interest in Canadian novels.

Collisions

Author : Michael Kimmage
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197751792
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (977 download)

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Download or read book Collisions written by Michael Kimmage and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin launched a massive invasion of Ukraine, setting in motion changes that have been felt around the globe. Collision is the story of this war's origins. It begins in 2008, when Barack Obama came to power in the United States and Dmitry Medvedev came to power in Russia, a period of optimism and new beginnings. It then traces a steady parting of the ways between the United States and Russia, from the return of a newly aggressive Putin to the Kremlin in 2012 to the outbreak of a revolution in Ukraine--and the subsequent Russian annexation of Crimea and invasion of Eastern Ukraine"--

Art and Money

Author : Peter Stupples
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443884014
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Art and Money written by Peter Stupples and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art and money have much in common. Both are spheres of social activity that carry symbolic values. A coin is simply a piece of metal, stamped with signs to give it symbolic meaning, to give it a value, a value that changes with the vicissitudes of its economic life, or, when no longer legal tender, with its life as a collectable. A painting is a piece of canvas, stretched on a frame to make it taut, which is then covered with pigment, brushed with an image, a sign that gives it value, a value that changes with the vicissitudes of its aesthetic and symbolic life, with its commodity value. Art and money come together whenever the values of both are exchanged within a market—in trade between artist and client/patron, between dealer and customer, between competitors for social authority. These relationships of art and money are examined by a number of writers from a variety of perspectives—from different periods in history, within different cultures, and engaging with different media of art—from Renaissance Italy to Pop Art and the recent flourishing of the art of Australian Aborigines, from critiques of the market and contemporary art to the funding of art education, from an examination of the values that are being bought and sold to ways for artists to avoid an over-engagement with the money economy, and finally the relationship between art, national identity and coinage.

Moving Targets 2

Author : Louisa Buck
Publisher : Tate
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Moving Targets 2 written by Louisa Buck and published by Tate. This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on her bestselling "Moving Targets" (1997), Louisa Buck presents "Moving Targets 2" - a fully updated and greatly expanded survey of the key players, places and presences that are shaping British art at the beginning of the 21st century.

Collision Course

Author : Barry Ferguson
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
ISBN 13 : 163047942X
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Collision Course written by Barry Ferguson and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover The Secret To Transforming Your Life Is your life spiraling out of control? Have you tried everything to heal the pain you feel deep inside, but still feel lost and lonely? Barry Ferguson takes you on a fantastic journey of discovery through his own transformation by weaving his personal story with a proven step-by-step roadmap that will heal even the most hardened of hearts. After nearly dying in two separate car accidents during a six-week period, Barry set off on a quest to completely change his life and find his true calling. What he found has been distilled into an easy to digest, faith-based guide to living a heart-centered life built upon God’s unconditional love. Despite his many failures in life, Barry has learned from his mistakes and helps others do the same. He believes that everyone deserves to be loved...including you. Digging deep into his own disappointments, Barry gives an authentic account of resurrection from the depths of his own broken life to inspire others in becoming the people God wants them to be. Collision Course is an incredible resource for any follower of Jesus who has felt a crisis of faith at one time or another, as well as for those who are new to the Christian journey. Barry shows how the journey of life is more important than the destination, and everything you need to succeed in life comes from God. If you died today, could you honestly say you gave more love than you took? What would you do to change the equation?

Collision Course

Author : Frank Lowe
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 1977204260
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book Collision Course written by Frank Lowe and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2018-12-30 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two guys in their mid-twenties, each unhappy with their careers in Washington D.C., make decisions that would offer them a brighter future. Both decisions backfired; sending each of these guys into conflict with a powerful man who heads a secret organization that trafficks terrorists into his homegrown terrorist cell. Finding themselves each fighting to stay alive as this man, intent on silencing them, sets them on a collision course which leads them, if they survived, to meet in Rome and destroy each other. But when Scott Dennis and Bentley Thornton met in a trattoria in Rome, new to Rome and to each other, everything changed. They became bonded in a powerfully intimate relationship where they decided that, together, they could escape this menace. They devised a plan to set a trap for their killer, using themselves as bait. This risky trial and error journey, accompanied by a dangerous assortment of bizarre characters, sent them into a future together neither would have expected.