Gold Digger #146

Gold Digger #146
Title Gold Digger #146 PDF eBook
Author Fred Perry
Publisher Antarctic Press
Pages 51
Release 2014-05-28
Genre Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN 1681006995

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In the aftermath of the battle the Wild Magi lost to the forces of Jade, they meet in Dreadwing's base to discuss strategy. Were-cats Gar and Sheila take this opportunity to attempt a rescue of balance counselor Xercie from the vile clutches of Dreadwing's partner, Serpentus. Lucky for them, there's an obnoxious distraction among the mages!

Showstoppers

Showstoppers
Title Showstoppers PDF eBook
Author Martin Rubin
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 336
Release 1993
Genre Musical films
ISBN 0231080549

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The name Busby Berkeley, creator of the dances for films such as 42nd Street, Babes in Arms, and Million Dollar Mermaid, is synonymous with the spectacular musical production number. Films, television commercials, and MTV videos continue to use "Berkeleyesque" techniques long after Berkeley himself and the genre that nourished him have faded from the scene. The first major analysis of Berkeley's career on stage and screen, Showstoppers emphasizes his relationship to a colorful, somewhat disreputable tradition of American popular entertainment: that of P. T. Barnum, minstrel shows, vaudeville, Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show, burlesque, and the Ziegfeld Follies. Rubin shows how Berkeley absorbed this declining theatrical tradition during his years as a Broadway dance director and then transferred it to the new genre of the early movie musical. With lively prose and engaging photographs, Showstoppers explores new ways of looking at Busby Berkeley, at the musical genre, and at individual films. Appropriate for both specialists and general readers, Showstoppers is an exuberant study of a figure whose career, Rubin notes, "provides an extraordinarily rich point of convergence for a wide range of cultural and artistic contexts".

The Magazine of History

The Magazine of History
Title The Magazine of History PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 492
Release 1928
Genre
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Strange Bedfellows

Strange Bedfellows
Title Strange Bedfellows PDF eBook
Author Alison Lefkovitz
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages 280
Release 2018-03-21
Genre History
ISBN 0812295056

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In the inaugural issue of Ms. Magazine, the feminist activist Judy Syfers proclaimed that she "would like a wife," offering a wry critique of the state of marriage in modern America. After all, she observed, a wife could provide Syfers with free childcare and housecleaning services as well as wages from a job. Outside the pages of Ms., divorced men's rights activist Charles Metz opened his own manifesto on marriage reform with a triumphant recognition that "noise is swelling from hundreds of thousands of divorced male victims." In the 1960s and 70s, a broad array of Americans identified marriage as a problem, and according to Alison Lefkovitz, the subsequent changes to marriage law at the state and federal levels constituted a social and legal revolution. The law had long imposed breadwinner and homemaker roles on husbands and wives respectively. In the 1960s, state legislatures heeded the calls of divorced men and feminist activists, but their reforms, such as no-fault divorce, generally benefitted husbands more than wives. Meanwhile, radical feminists, welfare rights activists, gay liberationists, and immigrant spouses fought for a much broader agenda, such as the extension of gender-neutral financial obligations to all families or the separation of benefits from family relationships entirely. But a host of conservatives stymied this broader revolution. Therefore, even the modest victories that feminists won eluded less prosperous Americans—marriage rights were available to those who could afford them. Examining the effects of law and politics on the intimate space of the home, Strange Bedfellows recounts how the marriage revolution at once instituted formal legal equality while also creating new forms of political and economic inequality that historians—like most Americans—have yet to fully understand.

The Cinema Book

The Cinema Book
Title The Cinema Book PDF eBook
Author Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 626
Release 2019-07-25
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1838718699

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The Cinema Book is widely recognised as the ultimate guide to cinema. Authoritative and comprehensive, the third edition has been extensively revised, updated and expanded in response to developments in cinema and cinema studies. Lavishly illustrated in colour, this edition features a wealth of exciting new sections and in-depth case studies. Sections address Hollywood and other World cinema histories, key genres in both fiction and non-fiction film, issues such as stars, technology and authorship, and major theoretical approaches to understanding film.

Romance on a Global Stage

Romance on a Global Stage
Title Romance on a Global Stage PDF eBook
Author Nicole Constable
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 295
Release 2003-09-18
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0520937228

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By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade, and the business of matching up mostly Western men with women from Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America had become an example of globalization writ large. This provocative work opens a window onto the complex motivations and experiences of the people behind the stereotypes and misconceptions that have exploded along with the practice of transnational courtship and marriage. Combining extensive Internet ethnography and face-to-face fieldwork, Romance on a Global Stage looks at the intimate realities of Filipinas, Chinese women, and U.S. men corresponding in hopes of finding a suitable marriage partner. Through the experiences of those engaged in pen pal relationships—their stories of love, romance, migration, and long-distance dating—this book conveys the richness and dignity of women's and men's choices without reducing these correspondents to calculating opportunists or naive romantics. Attentive to the structural, cultural, and personal factors that prompt women and men to seek marriage partners abroad, Romance on a Global Stage questions the dichotomies so frequently drawn between structure and agency, and between global and local levels of analysis.

Media Representations of Footballers' Wives

Media Representations of Footballers' Wives
Title Media Representations of Footballers' Wives PDF eBook
Author J. Bullen
Publisher Springer
Pages 310
Release 2014-08-06
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1137335696

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Representing a detailed analysis of footballers' wives and their role in contemporary British culture, this books explores how the generic and stereotypical 'Wag' has been created by newspaper and magazine coverage, auto/biographies and influential television programmes.