The Naked Heartland

The Naked Heartland PDF Author: Bruce (of Los Angeles.)
Publisher: Janssen Verlag
ISBN: 9783925443886
Category : Gay erotic photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
These books focus on the groundbreaking homoerotic art of pioneers of male nude photography. From Lon of New York's stylized, classically posed portraits to Dave Martin's wholesome, athletic young men, to Bruce of Los Angeles' cavorting models, these books rescue an era of American photography that has virtually been forgotten. Other volumes are devoted to the formal, carfully posed portraits of Douglas of Detroit and the fun, kicky work of Pat Milo.

Belgian Lace from Hell

Belgian Lace from Hell PDF Author: Patrick Rosenkranz
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1606999990
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
This book includes all of the cartoonist's work from Zap Comix #12 through #15; stories published in the horror anthology Taboo; the three appearances of his outrageous, race-bending character Meadows from Weirdo; illustrations for Grimm and Andersen fairy tales; as well as book jackets and album covers. Plus, dozens of privately commissioned paintings, including the Seven Deadly Sins (Just Say Yes!) and inner landscapes peopled with pirates, ogres, leprechauns, Cyclops, the Baby Jesus, and his favorites players, Captain Pissgums, Star-Eyed Stella, and the Checkered Demon. It also includes an even score of remarkably rendered paintings, both unpublished and virtually unseen, that he created between the 2006 publication of The Art of S. Clay Wilson and The Night the Lights Went Out in 2008, when Wilson’s career spiraled out of control.

The Rise of the Naked Economy

The Rise of the Naked Economy PDF Author: Ryan Coonerty
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0230342191
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
This book demonstrates how employees from any personal or professional background can achieve success in today's dynamic economy, explaining how a rise in non-traditional employment is creating potentially lucrative opportunities for growth.

Kansas City Noir

Kansas City Noir PDF Author: Steve Paul
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1617751286
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
A collection of sinister stories set in Kansas City features contributions from such noted mystery authors as Daniel Woodrell, Nancy Pickard, and J. Malcolm Garcia.

Airball

Airball PDF Author: L.D. Harkrader
Publisher: Square Fish
ISBN: 1250111242
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
Kirby Nickel loves basketball. The only problem is he can't play basketball. But when an opportunity to meet NBA star Brett McGrew comes up, Kirby knows he has to take a chance and try out for the basketball team. Getting on the team turns out to be easy—the rest of the boys are as supremely untalented as Kirby—but winning in order to be eligible to meet McGrew is a whole different problem. Different and embarrassing. The coach's radical new plan for success involves the boys playing in their underwear. But if this crazy idea works, Kirby will get to meet his hero—who he secretly also hopes is his long-lost father.

Naked at Lunch

Naked at Lunch PDF Author: Mark Haskell Smith
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802191789
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 255

Book Description
“A delightful and informative look at nudism throughout history and around the world.” —The Seattle Times People have been getting naked in public for reasons other than sex for centuries. But as Mark Haskell Smith reveals, being a nudist is more complicated than simply dropping trou. “Nonsexual social nudism,” as it’s called, rose to prominence in the late nineteenth century. Intellectuals, outcasts, and health nuts from Victorian England and colonial India to Belle Époque France and Gilded Age Manhattan disrobed and wrote manifestos about the joys of going clothing-free. From stories of ancient Greek athletes slathered in olive oil to the millions of Germans who fled the cities for a naked frolic during the Weimar Republic to American soldiers given “naturist” magazines by the Pentagon in the interest of preventing sexually transmitted diseases, this book uncovers nudism’s amusing and provocative past. Coated in multiple layers of high SPF sunblock, Haskell Smith publicly disrobes for the first time in Palm Springs; observes the culture of family nudism in a clothing-free Spanish town; and travels to the largest nudist resort in the world, a hedonist’s paradise in the south of France. He reports on San Francisco’s controversial ban on public nudity, participates in a week of naked hiking in the Austrian Alps, and caps off his adventures with a week on a Caribbean cruise known as the Big Nude Boat. Equal parts cultural history and gonzo participatory journalism, Naked at Lunch is “an absolute hoot” (Los Angeles Magazine) and “a total joy” (Meghan Daum). “Smith puts on his reporter’s hat and takes off everything else as he explores the history and sociology of nudism.” —Los Angeles Times

Advertising in Contemporary Consumer Culture

Advertising in Contemporary Consumer Culture PDF Author: Hélène de Burgh-Woodman
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319779443
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 275

Book Description
This is the first scholarly book dedicated to reading the work of contemporary filmmakers and their impact on modern marketing and advertising. Drawing from consumer culture theory, film and media studies, the author presents an expansive analysis of a range of renowned filmmakers who have successfully applied their aesthetic and narrative vision to commercial advertising. It challenges some traditional advertising tropes and sheds light on the changing nature of advertising in the contemporary media context. Utilising Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of assemblage, this book addresses themes of spatiality and time, narrative and aesthetics and consumer reception within a new frame of reference that re-contextualises classical concepts of genre, platform and aesthetic categories. These diverse elements are embedded into a larger discussion of the resonance of contemporary advertising for consumer culture and the implications of the hybridity characteristic of convergent media platforms for understanding the potential of advertising in the twenty-first century. It offers a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary perspective for researchers, academics, and practitioners working in marketing communications, advertising, and media studies.

The Night of the Hunter

The Night of the Hunter PDF Author: Jeffrey Couchman
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810125420
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 314

Book Description
Reaching simultaneously into the realms of film and literature, "The Night of the Hunter": A Biography of a Film details the transformation of Davis Grubb's 1953 novel into a motion picture. A popular and critical success, the novel spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list, and Hollywood responded to its atmospheric lyricism. In the hands of first-time director Charles Laughton, the story became equal parts thriller, allegory, and fever dream, filled with slow, inexorable suspense. Yet the film initially failed at the box office. In the first major study of the long-lost first-draft screenplay by James Agee, Jeffrey Couchman confronts a fifty-year controversy about the authorship of the film. He explores many levels of artistic convergence-between novelist and director, director and actor, and cinematic form and audience expectations. The talents that clashed or came together along the road from book to movie created a film of rich stylistic contradiction. Combining biographical and historical analysis with a critical study of both the novel and the film, Couchman makes the case that this initially overlooked cinematic gem is a prismatic work that continually reveals new aspects of itself. Book jacket.

The Rose

The Rose PDF Author: Robert J. Henry
Publisher: BookCountry
ISBN: 1463004362
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 151

Book Description
Set in modern day Southwestern Ontario, a police detective investigating a high profile double murder stumbles on a motive that dates back over 350 years and points to the Vatican...

A A Really Awesome Mess

A A Really Awesome Mess PDF Author: Trish Cook
Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab ®
ISBN: 1606843648
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215

Book Description
Two teenagers. Two very bumpy roads taken that lead to Heartland Academy. After his parents' divorce, Justin is on rocky mental ground. But when a handful of Tylenol lands him in the hospital, he has really hit rock bottom. A scandalous photo of Emmy leads to vicious rumors around school, but things get worse when she threatens the boy who started it all on Facebook. Justin and Emmy arrive at Heartland Academy, a reform school that will force them to deal with their issues. Along the way they will find a ragtag group of teens who are just as broken, stubborn, and full of sarcasm as themselves. A funny, sad, and remarkable story, A Really Awesome Mess is a journey of friendship and self-discovery.