Author: Dwayne Gill Publisher: Written by Blood ISBN: 9781797578798 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 146
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Sometimes Angry just isn't enough... Daniel, the colossal antihero from the story Daniel's Darkness and Conviction, the first novel of the series Written By Blood, has returned, and he's bigger, badder, and younger, than ever. See how he becomes the monster and meet the unlikely person able to tame him in Detortion. After much anticipation, meet William, the third protagonist of the series Written By Blood. In the prequel William's Defiance you'll see how the Army Ranger fights through impossible odds to save innocent families. Detortion Detort---untwist; to twist the other way. Hardened by a violent childhood and driven by a consuming rage, Daniel has been on the streets for most of his life. When a local businessman/mob boss offers him a job and a place to stay it seems too good to be true. Though work is okay, Daniel is soon bothered by the other employees there: life-long criminals who enjoy tormenting Layla, the boss's daughter. Daniel's never had a friend before, but Layla sees past his faults and seems to be able to help him control his darkness. Daniel is discovering a new, better, side of himself, but as tension in the house escalates, how long will Daniel be able to suppress the beast? William's Defiance An army ranger. Loyal, skilled, and patriotic. It was supposed to be a simple mission: extract two American diplomats from a civil-war torn country abroad. But when William sees the atrocities committed against innocent civilians, he quickly finds himself torn between duty and defiance. He can either make the politically correct choice, or he can commit a few atrocities of his own.
Author: Dwayne Gill Publisher: ISBN: 9781690814788 Category : Languages : en Pages : 146
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Sometimes Angry just isn't enough... Daniel, the colossal antihero from the story Daniel's Darkness and Conviction, the first novel of the series Written By Blood, has returned, and he's bigger, badder, and younger, than ever. See how he becomes the monster and meet the unlikely person able to tame him in Detortion. After much anticipation, meet William, the third protagonist of the series Written By Blood. In the prequel William's Defiance you'll see how the Army Ranger fights through impossible odds to save innocent families. Detortion Detort---untwist; to twist the other way. Hardened by a violent childhood and driven by a consuming rage, Daniel has been on the streets for most of his life. When a local businessman/mob boss offers him a job and a place to stay it seems too good to be true. Though work is okay, Daniel is soon bothered by the other employees there: life-long criminals who enjoy tormenting Layla, the boss's daughter. Daniel's never had a friend before, but Layla sees past his faults and seems to be able to help him control his darkness. Daniel is discovering a new, better, side of himself, but as tension in the house escalates, how long will Daniel be able to suppress the beast? William's Defiance An army ranger. Loyal, skilled, and patriotic. It was supposed to be a simple mission: extract two American diplomats from a civil-war torn country abroad. But when William sees the atrocities committed against innocent civilians, he quickly finds himself torn between duty and defiance. He can either make the politically correct choice, or he can commit a few atrocities of his own.
Author: Dwayne Gill Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 035970185X Category : Languages : en Pages : 364
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The boys are back, bigger, badder, and bloodier than ever. Friction, the second novel of the Written By Blood series, like the first, promises to be action-packed from front to back. If you like conflicted antiheroes and fast-paced thrillers, you won't want to miss out on this one! Just scroll back up to get your copy today!
Author: Steven Shaviro Publisher: John Hunt Publishing ISBN: 1846944317 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 200
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Post-Cinematic Affect is about what it feels like to live in the affluent West in the early 21st century. Specifically, it explores the structure of feeling that is emerging today in tandem with new digital technologies, together with economic globalization and the financialization of more and more human activities. The 20th century was the age of film and television; these dominant media shaped and reflected our cultural sensibilities. In the 21st century, new digital media help to shape and reflect new forms of sensibility. Movies (moving image and sound works) continue to be made, but they have adopted new formal strategies, they are viewed under massively changed conditions, and they address their spectators in different ways than was the case in the 20th century. The book traces these changes, focusing on four recent moving-image works: Nick Hooker's music video for Grace Jones' song Corporate Cannibal; Olivier Assayas' movie Boarding Gate, starring Asia Argento; Richard Kelly's movie Southland Tales, featuring Justin Timberlake, Dwayne Johnson, and other pop culture celebrities; and Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor's Gamer.
Author: Elizabeth DeLoughrey Publisher: University of Hawaii Press ISBN: 0824834720 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 354
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Elizabeth DeLoughrey invokes the cyclical model of the continual movement and rhythm of the ocean (‘tidalectics’) to destabilize the national, ethnic, and even regional frameworks that have been the mainstays of literary study. The result is a privileging of alter/native epistemologies whereby island cultures are positioned where they should have been all along—at the forefront of the world historical process of transoceanic migration and landfall. The research, determination, and intellectual dexterity that infuse this nuanced and meticulous reading of Pacific and Caribbean literature invigorate and deepen our interest in and appreciation of island literature. —Vilsoni Hereniko, University of Hawai‘i "Elizabeth DeLoughrey brings contemporary hybridity, diaspora, and globalization theory to bear on ideas of indigeneity to show the complexities of ‘native’ identities and rights and their grounded opposition as ‘indigenous regionalism’ to free-floating globalized cosmopolitanism. Her models are instructive for all postcolonial readers in an age of transnational migrations." —Paul Sharrad, University of Wollongong, Australia Routes and Roots is the first comparative study of Caribbean and Pacific Island literatures and the first work to bring indigenous and diaspora literary studies together in a sustained dialogue. Taking the "tidalectic" between land and sea as a dynamic starting point, Elizabeth DeLoughrey foregrounds geography and history in her exploration of how island writers inscribe the complex relation between routes and roots. The first section looks at the sea as history in literatures of the Atlantic middle passage and Pacific Island voyaging, theorizing the transoceanic imaginary. The second section turns to the land to examine indigenous epistemologies in nation-building literatures. Both sections are particularly attentive to the ways in which the metaphors of routes and roots are gendered, exploring how masculine travelers are naturalized through their voyages across feminized lands and seas. This methodology of charting transoceanic migration and landfall helps elucidate how theories and people travel, positioning island cultures in the world historical process. In fact, DeLoughrey demonstrates how these tropical island cultures helped constitute the very metropoles that deemed them peripheral to modernity. Fresh in its ideas, original in its approach, Routes and Roots engages broadly with history, anthropology, and feminist, postcolonial, Caribbean, and Pacific literary and cultural studies. It productively traverses diaspora and indigenous studies in a way that will facilitate broader discussion between these often segregated disciplines.
Author: Monroe Price Publisher: University of Michigan Press ISBN: 0472024507 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 426
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"A major contribution to the study of global events in times of global media. Owning the Olympics tests the possibilities and limits of the concept of 'media events' by analyzing the mega-event of the information age: the Beijing Olympics. . . . A good read from cover to cover." —Guobin Yang, Associate Professor, Asian/Middle Eastern Cultures & Sociology, Barnard College, Columbia University From the moment they were announced, the Beijing Games were a major media event and the focus of intense scrutiny and speculation. In contrast to earlier such events, however, the Beijing Games are also unfolding in a newly volatile global media environment that is no longer monopolized by broadcast media. The dramatic expansion of media outlets and the growth of mobile communications technology have changed the nature of media events, making it significantly more difficult to regulate them or control their meaning. This volatility is reflected in the multiple, well-publicized controversies characterizing the run-up to Beijing 2008. According to many Western commentators, the People's Republic of China seized the Olympics as an opportunity to reinvent itself as the "New China"---a global leader in economics, technology, and environmental issues, with an improving human-rights record. But China's maneuverings have also been hotly contested by diverse global voices, including prominent human-rights advocates, all seeking to displace the official story of the Games. Bringing together a distinguished group of scholars from Chinese studies, human rights, media studies, law, and other fields, Owning the Olympics reveals how multiple entities---including the Chinese Communist Party itself---seek to influence and control the narratives through which the Beijing Games will be understood. digitalculturebooks is an imprint of the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library dedicated to publishing innovative and accessible work exploring new media and their impact on society, culture, and scholarly communication. Visit the website at www.digitalculture.org.
Author: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262533065 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 365
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A work that bridges media archaeology and visual culture studies argues that the Internet has emerged as a mass medium by linking control with freedom and democracy. How has the Internet, a medium that thrives on control, been accepted as a medium of freedom? Why is freedom increasingly indistinguishable from paranoid control? In Control and Freedom, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun explores the current political and technological coupling of freedom with control by tracing the emergence of the Internet as a mass medium. The parallel (and paranoid) myths of the Internet as total freedom/total control, she says, stem from our reduction of political problems into technological ones. Drawing on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault and analyzing such phenomena as Webcams and face-recognition technology, Chun argues that the relationship between control and freedom in networked contact is experienced and negotiated through sexuality and race. She traces the desire for cyberspace to cyberpunk fiction and maps the transformation of public/private into open/closed. Analyzing "pornocracy," she contends that it was through cyberporn and the government's attempts to regulate it that the Internet became a marketplace of ideas and commodities. Chun describes the way Internet promoters conflated technological empowerment with racial empowerment and, through close examinations of William Gibson's Neuromancer and Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell, she analyzes the management of interactivity in narratives of cyberspace. The Internet's potential for democracy stems not from illusory promises of individual empowerment, Chun argues, but rather from the ways in which it exposes us to others (and to other machines) in ways we cannot control. Using fiber optic networks—light coursing through glass tubes—as metaphor and reality, Control and Freedom engages the rich philosophical tradition of light as a figure for knowledge, clarification, surveillance, and discipline, in order to argue that fiber-optic networks physically instantiate, and thus shatter, enlightenment.
Author: G. Herren Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137109084 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 222
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This is the first book devoted Beckett's innovative work for the big- and small-screens. Herren examines each of Beckett's film and television plays in depth, emphasizing the central role that memory plays in these haunting works.
Author: Paul Malmont Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 074328786X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 7
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Set in the colorful world of the 1930s and peopled with writers H.P. Lovecraft, L. Ron Hubbard, Lester Dent, and Walter Gibson, this swashbuckling literary thriller propels the characters into a genuine pulp adventure in which they try to thwart a madman intent on creating a new global empire.
Author: Dwayne Gill Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781986565707 Category : Languages : en Pages : 66
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Taryn is a happy, outdoor-loving thirteen-year-old with a gentle, loving father. But her tranquil life is turned upside down when her father dies, leaving her alone with her drug-dependent mother, who squanders the little that they have and moves them to a rough neighborhood outside of Chicago. To make matters worse, Taryn's mom hooks up with her drug dealer, who moves right in and begins abusing Taryn. Things can't get much worse for her. Or can they? When Taryn meets Daniel, her new neighbor that moved in across the street, his enormous body is bandaged from head to toe and he's recovering from an ambush that nearly killed him. Taryn should probably stay away, but she's drawn to the qualities of him that remind her of her father. But the better she gets to know Daniel, the more she sees that he's not only very different from her loving father, he's also carrying a terrifying darkness inside of him. With Taryn's home situation quickly deteriorating, can she somehow trust Daniel's darkness to save her or will it consume her as well?
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