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The Origins of Cool in Postwar America

Author : Joel Dinerstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022659906X
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Cool in Postwar America written by Joel Dinerstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define a global attitude and style. As Joel Dinerstein reveals in this dynamic book, cool began as a stylish defiance of racism, a challenge to suppressed sexuality, a philosophy of individual rebellion, and a youthful search for social change. Through eye-opening portraits of iconic figures, Dinerstein illuminates the cultural connections and artistic innovations among Lester Young, Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Marlon Brando, and James Dean, among others. We eavesdrop on conversations among Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Miles Davis, and on a forgotten debate between Lorraine Hansberry and Norman Mailer over the "white Negro" and black cool. We come to understand how the cool worlds of Beat writers and Method actors emerged from the intersections of film noir, jazz, and existentialism. Out of this mix, Dinerstein sketches nuanced definitions of cool that unite concepts from African-American and Euro-American culture: the stylish stoicism of the ethical rebel loner; the relaxed intensity of the improvising jazz musician; the effortless, physical grace of the Method actor. To be cool is not to be hip and to be hot is definitely not to be cool. This is the first work to trace the history of cool during the Cold War by exploring the intersections of film noir, jazz, existential literature, Method acting, blues, and rock and roll. Dinerstein reveals that they came together to create something completely new—and that something is cool.

American Cool

Author : Joel Dinerstein
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783791353494
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book American Cool written by Joel Dinerstein and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean when we say someone is cool? This luminous collection of portraits and film stills sheds new light on the term, its origins, and its evolution--with some surprising and provocative results. An extensive selection of one hundred chronologically arranged portraits, with biographical information about each subject, profiles major eras and movements of the past decades, each with its own brand of coolness. Exploring cultural icons, this volume encourages readers to find new meaning and depth in the idea of American cool.

Fashion Killa

Author : Sowmya Krishnamurthy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982176342
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Fashion Killa written by Sowmya Krishnamurthy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “first comprehensive anthology of the marriage between hip-hop and luxury fashion” (The Cut) draws on exclusive interviews to tell the story of the hip-hop artists, designers, stylists, and unsung heroes who fought the power and reinvented style around the world over the last fifty years. Fashion Killa is a classic tale of a modern renaissance; of an exclusionary industry gate-crashed by innovators; of impresarios—Sean “Diddy” Combs, Dapper Dan, Virgil Abloh—hoisting hip-hop from the streets to the stratosphere; of supernovas—Lil’ Kim, Cardi B, and Kimora Lee Simmons—allying with kingmakers—Anna Wintour, Donatella Versace, Tommy Hilfiger, and Ralph Lauren; of traditionalist fashion houses—Louis Vuitton, Fendi, and Saint Laurent—transformed into temples of rap gods. Journalist Sowmya Krishnamurthy explores the connections between the DIY hip-hop scene and the exclusive upper-echelons of high fashion. She discusses the sociopolitical forces that defined fashion and tracks the influence of music and streetwear on the most exclusive (and exclusionary) luxury brands. “An essential book about US culture” (Booklist, starred review), Fashion Killa commemorates the contributions of hip-hop to music, fashion, and our society at large.

Where Does it Hurt?

Author : Max Pemberton
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1848945299
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book Where Does it Hurt? written by Max Pemberton and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Treats a grim subject with warmth and self-deprecating good humour ... equally enlightening sequel' Daily Mail The sequel to the bestselling Trust Me, I'm a (Junior) Doctor. The junior doctor is back, but working on the streets for the Phoenix Outreach Project. Unfortunately, his first year in a hospital hasn't quite prepared him for it ... He's into his second year of medicine, but this time Max is out of the wards and onto the streets, working for the Phoenix Outreach Project. Fuelled by tea and more enthusiasm than experience, he attempts to locate and treat a wide and colourful range of patients that somehow his first year on the wards didn't prepare him for . . . from Molly the 80-year-old drugs mule and God in a Tesco car park, to middle-class mums addicted to appearances and pain killers in equal measure. His friends don't approve of the turn his career is taking, his mother is worried and the public spit at him, but Max is determined to make a difference. Despite warnings that miracles are rare, and that not everyone's life can be turned around, Max is still surprised by those that can be saved. Funny, touching and uplifting, Max goes from innocence to experience via dustbin-shopping-trips without ever losing his humanity.

Sing Your Heart Out

Author : Crystal Kaswell
Publisher : Crystal Kaswell
ISBN 13 : 1942135084
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Sing Your Heart Out written by Crystal Kaswell and published by Crystal Kaswell. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good girls don't date rock stars. They certainly don't have rock star f-buddies. Still a virgin at 21, Meg Smart walks a straight and narrow path. She aces her classes, excels at her part time job, and carefully avoids trouble--no drinks, no drugs, and especially, no boyfriends. Rock star Miles Webb doesn't do "boyfriend." He skips over intimacy and love in favor of easy distraction--a beautiful woman under him, screaming his name. Meg is drawn to the pain in his gorgeous, tortured voice. But the man she hears on the radio is nothing like the player she meets at a mutual friend's house party. When she walks in on one of his trysts, she's embarrassed enough to die. His merciless teasing leaves her blushed and frustrated, but she's intrigued by his wit, his confidence, his casual offer to give her a night she'll never forget. Neither of them wants a relationship, so they strike up an arrangement: They'll be friends with benefits, nothing more, nothing less. There are only three rules: no secrets, no feelings, no falling in love. Only neither one of them can quite abide by the terms. ***Sing Your Heart Out is a full-length, standalone new adult romance.*** Sinful Serenade, a new adult romance series, follows the men of rock band Sinful Serenade and the women they love. Each book can be read as a standalone. Sing Your Heart Out - Miles Strum Your Heart Out - Drew - coming soon Rock Your Heart Out - Tom - coming soon Play Your Heart Out - Pete - coming soon Sinful Ever After - coming soon

He's with the Band

Author : Julie Stone
Publisher : Entangled: August
ISBN 13 : 164937285X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book He's with the Band written by Julie Stone and published by Entangled: August. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After twenty-three years of marriage to an utter jackass and beige décor as far as the eye can see, Campbell Cavett is now divorced. Officially. But how did she lose herself for all these years? Somehow she went from being a bold, starry-eyed young groupie who followed Golden Tiger on tour to...snapping photos of snot-nosed kids for their Pinterest moms at the local Portrait Hut. But she takes her Divorce Party one bottle of Pinot Grigio too far and wakes to discover she’s quit her boring-ass job, arranged to sell her house, and has tickets to the Golden Tiger reunion show. Which is exactly when fate and Campbell decide it’s time to pick up where she left off all those years ago. Now Campbell’s on tour as the official photographer of her favorite band and living the life she’s always dreamed. But backstage access means that she’s about to discover a whole lot. Not just about herself, but about a blast from her past who looks way hotter than he has any right to twenty-plus years later. Plus there’s that mind-blowing secret Golden Tiger’s been hiding from everyone. They say time can heal anything. But is six weeks on the road enough to truly start fresh?

More Pieces of Jim Emerton

Author : Jim Emerton
Publisher : Mereo Books, mereobook, mereobooks
ISBN 13 : 1861516630
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book More Pieces of Jim Emerton written by Jim Emerton and published by Mereo Books, mereobook, mereobooks. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÿJim Emerton is a philosopher and a poet as well as an internationallyknown pigeon racing expert. His travels around the world and his explorations of the natural world near his home have given him endless material as he muses about the wonders and foibles of nature and the folly of man. His verses and epigrams cover everything from pigeons to pop stars and from stars to spirits. ?We are all less than specks of dust, mere minnows in what is in here and what is out there.?

Going Off Script

Author : Giuliana Rancic
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0553446681
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book Going Off Script written by Giuliana Rancic and published by Crown. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, the New York Times bestseller from the entertainment journalist, television personality, reality show star, and author, Giuliana Rancic. In her hilarious memoir Going Off Script, Giuliana Rancic gives readers an honest look at her life on and off camera. From a young age she dreamed of becoming a TV anchorwoman, but her path to her dream job was far from straight, leading her instead to Hollywood news and a bounty of LA misadventures (featuring notables such as Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Russell Crowe). In spite of her glamorous Hollywood life, however, Giuliana could not escape some rockier times, including her battles with infertility and breast cancer. Here, she reveals the whole truth behind her well-publicized struggles, and the highly controversial decisions she had to make. Candid, funny, and poignant, Going Off Script is an autobiography that proves you don't always have to follow the rules to get the life you've always dreamed of.

Spaces of Vernacular Creativity

Author : Tim Edensor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134018452
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Spaces of Vernacular Creativity written by Tim Edensor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues for a rethinking of what constitutes creativity, foregrounding non-economic values and practices, and the often marginal and everyday spaces in which creativity takes shape.

Robert Mar Futurelics: Past is Present

Author : Ted Vassilev
Publisher : DTR Modern Galleries with Scala Arts Publisher, Inc.(hardcover)
ISBN 13 : 1785512137
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Robert Mar Futurelics: Past is Present written by Ted Vassilev and published by DTR Modern Galleries with Scala Arts Publisher, Inc.(hardcover) . This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first publication of contemporary pop artist Robert Mars' collage art, intertwines notions of legacy and identity in his Futurelics Popforms. Futurelics: Past is Present is the first publication of the work of contemporary artist Robert Mars that earned comparisons with Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Diebenkorn, James Rosenquist, and other Pop Art masters. Taking inspiration from the golden age of American popular culture and the iconography of the 1950s and 60s, Mars employs a rich color palette in collage art. Often tongue-in-cheek, his signature neon Futurelics Popforms pay homage to the power of iconic branding, gripping beauty, and whimsical imagery cultivated by the urgent pressures that evolved from post-WWII to the present. Mars' optimism recalls a time when instant digital celebrity was inconceivable - when people lived with the myth of uniquely untouchable icons - the Futurelics - Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Audrey Hepburn, Elvis Presley, and many others. Futurelics are what have lasting impact - what births a legacy, larger than life, larger than lifestyle. That is Futurelics. For a hardcover copy published by Scala Arts Publishers Inc. please visit: https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Mars-Futurelics-Past-Present/dp/1785511637/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

James Bond and Philosophy

Author : James B. South
Publisher : Open Court
ISBN 13 : 0812698169
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book James Bond and Philosophy written by James B. South and published by Open Court. This book was released on 2012-03-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Bond. James Bond.” Since Sean Connery first uttered that iconic phrase in Dr. No, more than one quarter of the world’s population has seen a 007 film. Witty and urbane, Bond seduces and kills with equal ease — often, it seems, with equal enthusiasm. This enthusiasm, coupled with his freedom to do what is forbidden to everyone else, evokes fascinating philosophical questions. Here, 15 witty, thought-provoking essays discuss hidden issues in Bond’s world, from his carnal pleasures to his license to kill. Among the lively topics explored are Bond’s relation to existentialism, including his graduation “beyond good and evil”; his objectification of women; the paradox of breaking the law in order to ultimately uphold it like any “stupid policeman”; the personality of 007 in terms of Plato’s moral psychology; and the Hegelian quest for recognition evinced by Bond villains. A reference guide to all the Bond movies rounds out the book’s many pleasures.

The Bystander

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 918 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Bystander written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

[Must Read Personalities] A life Story of James Dean

Author : InRead Team
Publisher : by Mocktime Publication
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book [Must Read Personalities] A life Story of James Dean written by InRead Team and published by by Mocktime Publication. This book was released on 2022-06-05 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: This Book provides a quick glimpse about the life of James Dean

The Day God Asked Me a Question

Author : Patrick Irish
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1598869434
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Day God Asked Me a Question written by Patrick Irish and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Day God Asked Me a Question" is a heart warming book that will take you into the depths of one man's struggle with sin, and his ultimate triumph through Jesus Christ. Find out his answer to the question that God asked him.

Greenlights

Author : Matthew McConaughey
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0593139151
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Greenlights written by Matthew McConaughey and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-11-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 6 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE! Now in paperback and with exclusive new content, the life-changing memoir that has inspired millions of readers through the Academy Award–winning actor’s unflinching honesty, unconventional wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction. “The No. 1 celebrity memoir of the past 10 years.”—USA Today “McConaughey’s book invites us to grapple with the lessons of his life as he did—and to see that the point was never to win, but to understand.”—Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me. Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life’s challenges—how to get relative with the inevitable—you can enjoy a state of success I call “catching greenlights.” So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops. Hopefully, it’s medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot’s license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears. It’s a love letter. To life. It’s also a guide to catching more greenlights—and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too. Good luck.

Speaking in Queer Tongues

Author : William Leap
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252071423
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Speaking in Queer Tongues written by William Leap and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language is a fundamental tool for shaping identity and community, including the expression (or repression) of sexual desire. Speaking in Queer Tongues investigates the tensions and adaptations that occur when processes of globalization bring one system of gay or lesbian language into contact with another. Western constructions of gay culture are now circulating widely beyond the boundaries of Western nations due to influences as diverse as Internet communication, global dissemination of entertainment and other media, increased travel and tourism, migration, displacement, and transnational citizenship. The authority claimed by these constructions, and by the linguistic codes embedded in them, is causing them to have a profound impact on public and private expressions of homosexuality in locations as diverse as sub-Saharan Africa, New Zealand, Indonesia and Israel. Examining a wide range of global cultures, Speaking in Queer Tongues presents essays on topics that include old versus new sexual vocabularies, the rhetoric of gay-oriented magazines and news media, verbal and nonverbalized sexual imagery in poetry and popular culture, and the linguistic consequences of the globalized gay rights movement.

Steve McQueen: The King of Cool

Author : ChatStick Team
Publisher : ChatStick Team
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steve McQueen: The King of Cool written by ChatStick Team and published by ChatStick Team. This book was released on 2024-06-14 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 🌟 Explore the Thrilling Life of Hollywood's Eternal Icon in "Steve McQueen: The King of Cool - Unveiling the Legend: The Journey of Cinema's Eternal Icon" 🌟 Step into the exhilarating world of Steve McQueen, the definitive King of Cool, with this meticulously crafted ebook. Presented by the ChatStick Team, this biography peels back the layers of McQueen's enigmatic persona to reveal the man behind the enduring legend. From his challenging early life to his rise as a film industry titan, this book captures the essence of McQueen's magnetic allure and enduring impact on film and popular culture. 🎬 Inside the Book: 🎬 From Boy to Icon: Follow McQueen’s transformation from a rebellious youth to a cinematic icon. Defining Moments: Discover the pivotal films and performances that made McQueen a legend. Behind the Scenes: Gain insights into McQueen’s method acting, on-set anecdotes, and the making of some of cinema's greatest classics. Life Off-Screen: Delve into McQueen's personal life, including his passions for racing and his philanthropic efforts. Lasting Legacy: Reflect on the cultural and cinematic impact of McQueen’s career and why his legacy as the King of Cool endures. 🏆 Whether you are a longstanding admirer or new to the saga of Steve McQueen, this book offers a comprehensive and engaging look at one of the most iconic figures in Hollywood history. 📘 Ideal For: Movie buffs and fans of classic Hollywood cinema. Biography enthusiasts interested in detailed and dynamic portraits of cultural icons. Anyone inspired by stories of resilience and transformation. 📖 Secure your copy now and immerse yourself in the life of Steve McQueen, the man who redefined cool for generations to come. 📖