The Fruit Machine

The Fruit Machine
Title The Fruit Machine PDF eBook
Author Thomas Waugh
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 332
Release 2000-04-04
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 9780822324683

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The Fruit Machine

The Fruit Machine
Title The Fruit Machine PDF eBook
Author Thomas Waugh
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 327
Release 2000-04-04
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0822380943

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For more than twenty years, film critic, teacher, activist, and fan Thomas Waugh has been writing about queer movies. As a member of the Jump Cut collective and contributor to the Toronto-based gay newspaper the Body Politic, he emerged in the late 1970s as a pioneer in gay film theory and criticism, and over the next two decades solidified his reputation as one of the most important and influential gay film critics. The Fruit Machine—a collection of Waugh’s reviews and articles originally published in gay community tabloids, academic journals, and anthologies—charts the emergence and maturation of Waugh’s critical sensibilities while lending an important historical perspective to the growth of film theory and criticism as well as queer moviemaking. In this wide-ranging anthology Waugh touches on some of the great films of the gay canon, from Taxi zum Klo to Kiss of the Spider Woman. He also discusses obscure guilty pleasures like Born a Man . . . Let Me Die a Woman, unexpectedly rich movies like Porky’s and Caligula, filmmakers such as Fassbinder and Eisenstein, and film personalities from Montgomery Clift to Patty Duke. Emerging from the gay liberation movement of the 1970s, Waugh traverses crises from censorship to AIDS, tackling mainstream potboilers along with art movies, documentaries, and avant-garde erotic videos. In these personal perspectives on the evolving cinematic landscape, his words oscillate from anger and passion to wry wit and irony. With fifty-nine rare film stills and personal photographs and an introduction by celebrated gay filmmaker John Greyson, this volume demonstrates that the movie camera has been the fruit machine par excellence.

Adolescent Gambling

Adolescent Gambling
Title Adolescent Gambling PDF eBook
Author Mark Griffiths
Publisher Psychology Press
Pages 324
Release 1995
Genre Games & Activities
ISBN 9780415058346

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Mark Griffiths has carried out extensive research into why some adolescents get hooked on gambling, how they gamble and what can be done about it. In this book he provides an overview of adolescent gambling worldwide.

Pennies from Heaven

Pennies from Heaven
Title Pennies from Heaven PDF eBook
Author Kris Sinclair
Publisher Lulu.com
Pages 68
Release 2009-04-07
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1409207293

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While clutching the handgun inside the pocket of his grey overcoat, it began to dawn upon Harry there would be no response to the knocks he had made on the front door of the flat. He began to wonder how he would face Frederick without the money. Harry turned from the door and made his way to the top of the stairs. From where he stood, the second floor was beyond his view. He glanced down at his shoes that now glistened in the dim light of the corridor before taking the first step down the stairs.

The Canadian War on Queers

The Canadian War on Queers
Title The Canadian War on Queers PDF eBook
Author Gary Kinsman
Publisher UBC Press
Pages 583
Release 2010-03-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0774859024

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From the 1950s to the late 1990s, agents of the state spied on, interrogated, and harassed gays and lesbians in Canada, employing social ideologies and other practices to construct their targets as threats to society. Based on official security documents and interviews with gays, lesbians, civil servants, and high-ranking officials, this path-breaking book discloses acts of state repression and forms of resistance that raise questions about just whose national security was being protected. Passionate and personalized, this account of how the state used the ideology of national security to wage war on its own people offers ways of understanding, and resisting, contemporary conflicts such as the "war on terror."

Marching to the Freedom Dream

Marching to the Freedom Dream
Title Marching to the Freedom Dream PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Trolley Press
Pages 0
Release 2014
Genre African American civil rights workers
ISBN 9781907112478

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Marching To The Freedom Dream presents American photojournalist Dan Budniks significant body of work documenting three seminal marches of the civil rights movement. It is published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and precedes the 50th anniversaries of the Selma-Montgomery March and the Voting Rights Act in 2015. An introduction to the book is written by prolific civil rights activist, Harry Belafonte.

This is Improbable

This is Improbable
Title This is Improbable PDF eBook
Author Marc Abrahams
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 320
Release 2012-09-01
Genre Science
ISBN 1780741146

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Laugh out loud and then think seriously about these outlandish scientific studies Marc Abrahams, the mind behind the internationally renowned Ig Nobel Prizes, is on a mission: to gather the bizarre, the questionable, the brilliant, the downright funny, the profound – everything improbable – from the annals of science research. What’s the best way to slice a ham sandwich, mathematically? What makes Bobs look especially Bob-like? Is the right or left ear better at discerning lies? Could mice be outfitted with parachutes to kill tree snakes?