Author: Brenda R. Weber
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478005297
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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From Sister Wives and Big Love to The Book of Mormon on Broadway, Mormons and Mormonism are pervasive throughout American popular media. In Latter-day Screens, Brenda R. Weber argues that mediated Mormonism contests and reconfigures collective notions of gender, sexuality, race, spirituality, capitalism, justice, and individualism. Focusing on Mormonism as both a meme and an analytic, Weber analyzes a wide range of contemporary media produced by those within and those outside of the mainstream and fundamentalist Mormon churches, from reality television to feature films, from blogs to YouTube videos, and from novels to memoirs by people who struggle to find agency and personhood in the shadow of the church's teachings. The broad archive of mediated Mormonism contains socially conservative values, often expressed through neoliberal strategies tied to egalitarianism, meritocracy, and self-actualization, but it also offers a passionate voice of contrast on behalf of plurality and inclusion. In this, mediated Mormonism and the conversations on social justice that it fosters create the pathway toward an inclusive, feminist-friendly, and queer-positive future for a broader culture that uses Mormonism as a gauge to calibrate its own values.

Author: Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 088755718X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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Indigenous media challenges the power of the state, erodes communication monopolies, and illuminates government threats to Indigenous cultural, social, economic, and political sovereignty. Its effectiveness in these areas, however, is hampered by government control of broadcast frequencies, licensing, and legal limitations over content and ownership. Indigenous Screen Cultures in Canada explores key questions surrounding the power and suppression of Indigenous narrative and representation in contemporary Indigenous media. Focussing primarily on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, the authors also examine Indigenous language broadcasting in radio, television, and film; Aboriginal journalism practices; audience creation within and beyond Indigenous communities; the roles of program scheduling and content acquisition policies in the decolonization process; the roles of digital video technologies and co-production agreements in Indigenous filmmaking; and the emergence of Aboriginal cyber-communities.

Author: Eric Barnes
Publisher: Unbridled Books
ISBN: 1936071592
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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CEO Robbie Case is the corporate guru who, at age thirty-five, has transformed his company Core into an overnight twenty-billion dollar techno-miracle. Its stock keeps going up in value as its legend looms larger and larger throughout the global market. One reason may be that the firm is manned and womaned by some of the sharpest young business minds in the nation. Another may be that its chief product cannot be duplicated. But the real reason is that Robbie Case is a liar. His dream company is a nightmare about to be unsheathed, and his life is about to come crumbling down. That is, unless, he can hustle fast enough to turn a common Ponzi scheme into a legitimate business and his most ruthless competitor does not eat Core alive before Case can save it.

Author: Paula Weston
Publisher: Tundra Books
ISBN: 1770498508
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Gaby thought her life couldn't get more complicated. She's almost used to the idea that she's not the teenage backpacker she thought she was. She can just about cope with being one of the Rephaim--a 139-year-old half-angel--whose memories have been stolen. She's even coming to grips with the fact that Jude, the brother she's mourned for a year, didn't die at all. But now Rafa--sexy, infuriating Rafa--is being held, and hurt, by Gatekeeper demons. And Gaby has to get the bitterly divided Rephaim to work together, or Rafa has no chance at all.

Author: Brent Richards
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 1856693767
Category : Architecture, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Much of modern architecture has been conceived using glass to create minimal structures. This book begins with an introduction that traces the history of glass in architecture and also describes the developments in glass technology. It also features specially commissioned photographs by the renowned architectural photographer, Dennis Gilbert.

Author: Michael Newton
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 0738715980
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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"Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls are two of the most fascinating books I have ever read."—Academy Award-Winning Actress and Author Shirley MacLaine A pioneer in uncovering the secrets of life, internationally recognized spiritual hypnotherapist Dr. Michael Newton takes you once again into the heart of the spirit world. His groundbreaking research was first published in the bestselling Journey of Souls, the definitive study on the afterlife. Now, in Destiny of Souls, the saga continues with 70 case histories of real people who were regressed into their lives between lives. Dr. Newton answers the requests of the thousands of readers of the first book who wanted more details about various aspects of life on the other side. Destiny of Souls is also designed for the enjoyment of first-time readers who haven't read Journey of Souls. Explore the meaning behind your own spiritual memories as you read the stories of people in deep hypnosis, and learn fascinating details about: Our purpose on Earth Soul mates and spirit guides Spiritual settings and where souls go after death Soul travel between lives Ways spirits connect with and comfort the living The soul-brain connection Why we choose certain bodies

Author: Dr. K. Jayanth Murali
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Embark on a riveting odyssey into the whirlwind of futuristic law enforcement with Jayanth Murali, the acclaimed author of "42 MONDAYS." With a career steeped in law enforcement, Murali propels readers into a mesmerizing expedition through the disruptive landscapes of emerging technologies. Gear up for an exhilarating escapade through avant-garde realms like Artificial Intelligence, Face Recognition, Blockchain, and Nanotechnology—forces that redefine policing while delving unflinchingly into its cataclysmic underbelly. Propel into uncharted dimensions of DNA fingerprinting, CRISPR technology, and the looming menace of cyber-terrorism. Hover in cyberspace, where the darknet orchestrates clandestine symphonies, from cybersex to arms trafficking. Throttle up for a seamless glide into the enigmatic Metaverse, envisioning its intricate policing needs. Shift gears into tangible law enforcement, glimpsing strategies like proactive, pandemic, evidence-based, and crowd-sourced policing. Hurtle down to face chilling whispers of murder genes, robocops, and cyborgs. Provocative, thrilling, and utterly unputdownable, "Soliloquies of Future Policing" is a must-read. It isn't just a book; it's a portal, a siren song of what's to come. Is our future a utopian sunshine or a dystopian nightmare? In this game of cops and algorithms, the only constant is change. And it's coming faster than a speeding bullet.

Author: Jennifer M. Barker
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520943902
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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The Tactile Eye expands on phenomenological analysis and film theory in its accessible and beautifully written exploration of the visceral connection between films and their viewers. Jennifer M. Barker argues that the experience of cinema can be understood as deeply tactile—a sensuous exchange between film and viewer that goes beyond the visual and aural, gets beneath the skin, and reverberates in the body. Barker combines analysis of embodiment and phenomenological film theory to provide an expansive description of cinematic tactility. She considers feminist experimental film, early cinema, animation, and horror, as well as classic, modernist, and postmodern cinema; films from ten national cinemas; and work by Chuck Jones, Buster Keaton, the Quay Brothers, Satyajit Ray, Carolee Schneemann, and Tom Tykwer, among others.

Author: Rosalind Galt
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231153465
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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Film culture often rejects visually rich images, valuing simplicity, austerity, or even ugliness as more provocative, political, and truly cinematic. Although cinema challenges traditional ideas of art, this opposition to the decorative continues a long-standing aesthetic antipathy to feminine cosmetics, Oriental effeminacy, and primitive ornament. Inheriting this patriarchal and colonial perspective along with the preference for fine over decorative art, filmmakers, critics, and theorists tend to denigrate cinema's colorful, picturesque, and richly patterned visions. Condemning this exclusion of the "pretty" from masculine film culture, Rosalind Galt reevaluates received ideas about the decorative impulse from early film criticism to classical and postclassical film theory. The pretty embodies lush visuality, dense mise-en-scène, painterly framing, and arabesque camera movements—styles increasingly central to world cinema. From European art house cinema to the films of Wong Kar-wai and Santosh Sivan, from handmade experimental films to the popular pleasures of Moulin Rouge! and Amelie, pretty is a vital element of contemporary cinema, using visual exuberance to communicate distinct sexual and political identities. Inverting the logic of anti-pretty thought, Galt firmly establishes the decorative image as a queer aesthetic, a singular representation of cinema's perverse pleasures and cross-cultural encounters. Creating her own critical tapestry from perspectives in art and film theory and philosophy, Galt reclaims prettiness as a radically transgressive style, woven with the threads of political agency.

Author: Joshua A. Bell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315388367
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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Linguistic and Material Intimacies of Cell Phones offers a detailed ethnographic and anthropological examination of the social, cultural, linguistic and material aspects of cell phones. With contributions from an international range of established and emerging scholars, this is a truly global collection with rural and urban examples from communities across the Global North and South. Linking the use of cell phones to contemporary discussions about representation, mediation and subjectivity, the book investigates how this increasingly ubiquitous technology challenges the boundaries of privacy and selfhood, raising new questions about how we communicate.