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George Hurrell's Hollywood: Glamour Portraits 1925-1992
by Mark A. Vieira Sharon StoneFabulous montage of new insights, new portraits, and behind-the-scenes stories spanning Hurrell's entire career.
George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle
by Philip NormanFrom the author of the million-copy selling Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation and the bestselling John Lennon: The Life comes a revealing portrait of George Harrison, the most undervalued and mysterious Beatle. Despite being hailed as one of the best guitarists of his era, George Harrison, particularly in his early decades, battled feelings of inferiority. He was often the butt of jokes from his bandmates owing to his lower-class background and, typically, was allowed to contribute only one or two songs per Beatles album out of the dozens he wrote. Now, acclaimed Beatles biographer Philip Norman examines Harrison through the lens of his numerous self-contradictions. Compared to songwriting luminaries John Lennon and Paul McCartney he was considered a minor talent, yet he composed such masterpieces as &‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps&’ and &‘Here Comes the Sun&’, and his solo debut album &‘All Things Must Pass&’ achieved enormous success, appearing on many lists of the 100 best rock albums ever. Modern music critics place him in the pantheon of Sixties guitar gods alongside Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards and Jimmy Page. Harrison railed against the material world yet wrote the first pop song complaining about income tax. He spent years lovingly restoring his Friar Park estate as a spiritual journey, but quickly mortgaged the property to help rescue a film project that would be widely banned as sacrilegious, Monty Python&’s Life of Brian. Harrison could be fiercely jealous, but not only did he stay friends with Eric Clapton when Clapton fell in love with Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd, the two men grew even closer after Clapton walked away with her.Unprecedented in scope and filled with numerous colour photos, this rich biography captures George Harrison at his most multi-faceted: devoted friend, loyal son, master guitar-player, brilliant songwriter, cocaine addict, serial philanderer, global philanthropist, student of Indian mysticism, self-deprecating comedian and, ultimately, iconic artist and man beloved by millions.
George Gershwin: His Life and Work
by Howard PollackThis comprehensive biography of George Gershwin (1898-1937) unravels the myths surrounding one of America's most celebrated composers and establishes the enduring value of his music. Pollack's lively narrative describes Gershwin's family, childhood, and education; his early career as a pianist; his friendships and romantic life; his relation to various musical trends; his writings on music; his working methods; and his tragic death at the age of 38.
George Gershwin
by Larry StarrIn this welcome addition to the immensely popular Yale Broadway Masters series, Larry Starr focuses fresh attention on George Gershwin's Broadway contributions and examines their centrality to the composer's entire career. Starr presents Gershwin as a composer with a unified musical vision--a vision developed on Broadway and used as a source of strength in his well-known concert music. In turn, Gershwin's concert-hall experience enriched and strengthened his musicals, leading eventually to his great "Broadway opera,"Porgy and Bess. Through the prism of three major shows--Lady Be Good(1924),Of Thee I Sing(1931), andPorgy and Bess(1935)--Starr highlights Gershwin's distinctive contributions to the evolution of the Broadway musical. In addition, the author considers Gershwin's musical language, his compositions for the concert hall, and his movie scores for Hollywood in the light of his Broadway experience.
George Gallup in Hollywood (Film and Culture Series)
by Susan OhmerGeorge Gallup in Hollywood is a fascinating look at the film industry's use of opinion polling in the 1930s and '40s. George Gallup's polling techniques first achieved fame when he accurately predicted that Franklin D. Roosevelt would be reelected president in 1936. Gallup had devised an extremely effective sampling method that took households from all income brackets into account, and Hollywood studio executives quickly pounced on the value of Gallup's research. Soon he was gauging reactions to stars and scripts for RKO Pictures, David O. Selznick, and Walt Disney and taking the public's temperature on Orson Welles and Desi Arnaz, couples such as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and films like Gone with the Wind, Dumbo, and Fantasia. Through interviews and extensive research, Susan Ohmer traces Gallup's groundbreaking intellectual and methodological developments, examining his comprehensive approach to market research from his early education in the advertising industry to his later work in Hollywood. The results of his opinion polls offer a fascinating glimpse at the class and gender differences of the time as well as popular sentiment toward social and political issues.
George Gallup in Hollywood
by Susan OhmerA fascinating look at the film industry's use of opinion polling in the 1930s and '40s.
¡George empieza el cole! (Peppa Pig. Primeras lecturas)
by Varios AutoresAprendemos a leer con las aventuras de Peppa Pig, la cerdita más famosa y preguntona. Lee esta historia y descubrirás qué le pasó a Peppa el primer día que George fue al colegio con ella. Hoy es el primer día que George va a la escuela, y Peppa no quiere que vaya con ella. Pero cuando vea cómo todos sus amigos se divierten con su hermanito, quizás cambie de opinión... Los libros de la colección «Primeras lecturas» de Peppa Pig están pensados para niños que empiezan a leer. Sus textos contienen vocabulario sencillo, los interiores son muy visuales y, además, relatan las divertidas aventuras del personaje favorito de los niños. Todo ello logrará motivar y entretener a los pequeños lectores, así como estimular su imaginación.
George Best: A unique biography of a football icon perfect for self-isolation
by Michael ParkinsonOne of the most famous footballers of all time, George Best is an icon to football fans all over the world. He lived a tumultuous life, and died in 2005 after battling with alcoholism. He is someone who has crossed over into legend status, with his personal life sometimes overshadowing his footballing prowess. There have been many books written about George, but here, Michael Parkinson combines his professional and personal knowledge of George with his classic and much loved writing style to produce a new, and interesting biography of a football and cultural icon.
George Best: A unique biography of football icon, George Best
by Michael ParkinsonMichael Parkinson and George Best faced one another countless times in interviews. Their conversations were mutually respectful, even intimate, yet always brimming with searching questions and revealing answers.The great Manchester United and Northern Ireland attacker - one of the few sports personalities to merit the term 'iconic' - was almost always candid, lucid and self-effacing. Alcoholism had him in its grip from an early age, affecting the love affairs that fed the tabloid headlines, but there was far more to Best than booze and birds.In George Best: A Memoir, Michael Parkinson draws upon decades of award-winning journalistic experience to re-evaluate a remarkable footballer and a damaged friend. The book weaves together recollections of when the 'the fifth Beatle' ensured it was Manchester, not London or Liverpool, which made the Sixties swing; of Best enjoying a carefree kickabout with the Parkinsons' children in the family garden; and selected transcripts from their endlessly fascinating interviews.'Where did it all go wrong?' is the punchline to a famous Best story. George Best: A Memoir provides Michael Parkinson's considered response to the question while bringing fresh insight into the footballing genius that made Best one of the immortals and the self-destructive side of his character.
George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker (Eminent Lives)
by Robert GottliebThe foremost contemporary choreographer in the history of ballet, George Balanchine extended the art form into radical new paths that came to seem inevitable under his direction. He transformed movement and dance in classical and modern ballet, on the Broadway stage, and in the cinema.George Balanchine chronicles the life and achievements of this visionary artist from his early, almost accidental career in Russia, where his lifelong collaboration with Igor Stravinsky was forged, to his extraordinary accomplishments in America. The editor and writer Robert Gottlieb, one of the most knowledgeable dance critics in America, offers a superb and loving portrait of a genius who, though married many times to many ballerinas, remained truest to his greatest love, Terpischore, the Greek Muse of dance.
George A. Romero: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series)
by Tony WilliamsGeorge A. Romero (b. 1940) has achieved a surprising longevity as director since his first film, Night of the Living Dead (1968). After relocating to Canada, he shows no signs of slowing up: his recent film, Survival of the Dead (2009), is discussed in a new interview conducted by Tony Williams for this volume, and still other films are awaiting release. Although commonly known as a director of zombie films, a genre he himself launched, Romero's films often transcend easy labels. His films are best understood as allegorical commentaries on American life that just happen to appropriate horror as a convenient vehicle. Romero's films encompass works as different as The Crazies, Hungry Wives, Knightriders, and Bruiser. The interviews in this collection cover a period of over forty years. In whatever format they originally appeared—the printed page, the internet, or the video interview—these discussions illustrate both the evolution of Romero's chosen forms of technology and the development of his thinking about the relationship between cinema and society. They present Romero as an independent director in every sense of the word.
Georg Picht: A Pioneer in Philosophy, Politics and the Arts (Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice #19)
by Enno Rudolph Johannes PichtAimed at an international readership, this book offers a representative collection of essays by the German philosopher, Georg Picht (1913-1982), who was a specialist in Greek philosophy, practical philosophy and philosophy of religion. Picht's themes address different disciplines, such as ancient philosophy, systematic philosophy and political analysis, and often contain critical statements on significant developments from the European Enlightenment to the Cold War era. Other essays offer a distinctive interdisciplinary approach characteristic of the author. These contributions are relevant to both philosophy and science as they discuss, for instance, philosophical definitions of space and time or the relationship between history and evolution. Another part of the book includes texts on art that present Picht’s authentic definition of art and his theory of the interdependence of art and politics.• For the first time, key texts of the German philosopher and political thinker Georg Picht are presented to a global readership in English.• Like Nietzsche’s philosophy, Picht’s work is grounded in his outstanding professionalism in the different fields of classics, embracing not only textsand theories of the great thinkers from the pre-Socratic to the post-Aristotelian and Stoic philosophies but also the main currents of ancient literature.• Picht’s importance as a political author and public adviser is exceptional, and may explain why his lifelong friend Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker – another pioneer presented in this series – called him his “teacher”.
Geography of Horror: Spaces, Hauntings and the American Imagination (Palgrave Gothic)
by Marko LukićThis book provides a comprehensive reading of a space/place-based experience from the birth of the American horror genre (nineteenth century American Romanticism) to its rise and evolution in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Exploring a series of narratives, this study focuses on the role of space and place as key elements for successful articulation of horror. The analysis, therefore, employs different theoretical premises and concepts belonging to human geography, which, while being part of the larger discipline of geography, predominantly directs its attention towards the presence and activities of humans. By connecting such theoretical readings with the continuously evolving American horror genre, this book offers a unique insight into the academically unexplored trans-disciplinary spatially based reading of the genre.
Geographies of Us: Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages (Routledge Studies in Theatre, Ecology, and Performance)
by Sondra Fraleigh Shannon Rose RileyGeographies of Us: Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages is the first edited collection in the field of ecosomatics.With a combination of essays and practice pages that provide a variety of scholarly, creative, and experience-based approaches for readers, the book brings together both established and emergent scholars and artists from many diverse backgrounds and covers work rooted in a dozen countries. The essays engage an array of crucial methodologies and critical/theoretical perspectives, including practice-based research in the arts, especially in performance and dance studies, critical theory, ecocriticism, Indigenous knowledges, material feminist critique, quantum field theory, and new phenomenologies. Practice pages are shorter chapters that provide readers a chance to engage creatively with the ideas presented across the collection. This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective that brings together work in performance as research, phenomenology, and dance/movement; this is one of its significant contributions to the area of ecosomatics.The book will be of interest to anyone curious about matters of embodiment, ecology, and the environment, especially artists and students of dance, performance, and somatic movement education who want to learn about ecosomatics and environmental activists who want to learn more about integrating creativity, the arts, and movement into their work.
Geographies, Genders and Geopolitics of James Bond
by Lisa Funnell Klaus DoddsThis book discusses the representational geographies of the Bond film franchise and how they inform our reading of 007 as a hero. Offering a new and interdisciplinary lens through which the franchise can be analyzed, Funnell and Dodds explore a range of topics that have been largely, if not entirely, overlooked in Bond film scholarship. These topics include: the shifting and gendering of geopolitical relations; the differing depiction and evaluation of vertical/modern and horizontal/pre-modern spaces; the use of classical elements in defining gender, sexuality, heroic competency, and geopolitical conflict; and the ongoing importance of haptics (i. e. touch), kinesics (i. e. movement), and proxemics (i. e. the use of space) in defining the embodied and emotive world of Bond. This book is comprehensive in nature and scope as it discusses all 24 films in the official Bond canon and theorizes about the future direction of the franchise.
The Geo-Doc: Geomedia, Documentary Film, and Social Change (Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication)
by Mark TerryThis book introduces a new form of documentary film: the Geo-Doc, designed to maximize the influential power of the documentary film as an agent of social change. By combining the proven methods and approaches as evidenced through historical, theoretical, digital, and ecocritical investigations with the unique affordances of Geographic Information System technology, a dynamic new documentary form emerges, one tested in the field with the United Nations. This book begins with an overview of the history of the documentary film with attention given to how it evolved as an instrument of social change. It examines theories surrounding mobilizing the documentary film as a communication tool between filmmakers and policymakers. Ecocinema and its semiotic storytelling techniques are also explored for their unique approaches in audience engagement. The proven methods identified throughout the book are combined with the spatial and temporal affordances provided by GIS technology to create the Geo-Doc, a new tool for the activist documentarian.
Gentle's Holler
by Kerry MaddenThe sixties may have come to other parts of North Carolina, but with Mama pregnant again, Daddy struggling to find work, and nine siblings underfoot, nobody in the Holler has much time for modern-day notions. Especially not twelve-year-old Livy Two, aspiring songwriter and self-appointed guardian of little sister Gentle, whose eyes' don't work so good yet. Even after a doctor confirms her fears, Livy Two is determined to make the best of Gentle's situation and sets out to transform the family's scrappy dachshund into a genuine Seeing Eye dog. But when tragedy strikes, can Livy Two continue to stay strong for her family?
Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars: Huayno Music, Media Work, and Ethnic Imaginaries in Urban Peru
by Joshua TuckerExploring Peru's lively music industry and the studio producers, radio DJs, and program directors that drive it, Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars is a fascinating account of the deliberate development of artistic taste. Focusing on popular huayno music and the ways it has been promoted to Peru's emerging middle class, Joshua Tucker tells a complex story of identity making and the marketing forces entangled with it, providing crucial insights into the dynamics among art, class, and ethnicity that reach far beyond the Andes. Tucker focuses on the music of Ayacucho, Peru, examining how media workers and intellectuals there transformed the city's huayno music into the country's most popular style. By marketing contemporary huayno against its traditional counterpart, these agents, Tucker argues, have paradoxically reinforced ethnic hierarchies at the same time that they have challenged them. Navigating between a burgeoning Andean bourgeoisie and a music industry eager to sell them symbols of newfound sophistication, Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars is a deep account of the real people behind cultural change.
Genresignaturen: Diskurshistorische Perspektiven auf das Psycho-Universum von 1960 bis 2017 (Neue Perspektiven der Medienästhetik)
by Karina KirstenKarina Kirsten diskutiert in diesem Open-Access-Buch die diskursive und historische Verfasstheit von Genres. Mit ‚Genresignaturen‘ entwickelt sie einen neuen analytischen Zugang, um die vielfältigen inter- und transmedialen Dynamiken und soziohistorischen Veränderungen von Genres beschreibbar zu machen. Am Beispiel des Psycho-Franchise veranschaulicht die Autorin, dass die wirkungsvolle und anhaltende Prägnanz von Genresignaturen aus komplexen Semantisierungs- und Differenzierungsprozessen resultiert, die zwischen Produktionskontexten, Distributionsnetzwerken und vielfältigen Diskursivierungen verlaufen. Indem sie in den materialnahen Analysen ‚Genre‘ zusammen mit Gendervorstellungen in den Fokus rückt, zeigt sie zudem, wie im Mantel der ikonischen Genregeschichte aktuelle Fragen und kulturelle Vorstellungen von Geschlechtlichkeit, Sexualität und Weißsein verhandelt werden. Zugleich werden Genresignaturen in Bezug auf Gender und Race sogar soweit umgeschrieben, dass wechselseitig queere Lesarten möglich werden. Genresignaturen bewahren so nicht nur Film- und Genregeschichte, sondern beziehen darüber hinaus zentrale gesellschaftliche Debatten ein.
Genre und Videospiel: Einführung in eine unmögliche Taxonomie (Genrediskurse)
by Felix SchnizDiese Monographie erläutert Videospiele als mehrdimensionale und zutiefst wandelsame Konzepte als Wechselspiel dreier Dimensionen: Neben den in genretheoretischen Hybridansätzen zwischen Fiktionsgenre und Spielgenre sind es nämlich auch soziale Genrekomplexe, welche die Erfahrung des Spielers, insbesondere in Multiplayerspielen prägen. Das Videospiel zeigt sich als objet ambigué: ein Kunstobjekt, das sich endlich im Prozess der Interaktion mit dem Nutzer neu offenbart und positioniert.
Genre und Race: Mediale Interdependenzen von Ästhetik und Politik (Neue Perspektiven der Medienästhetik)
by Irina Gradinari Ivo RitzerDie Kategorie Race gewinnt aktuell wieder stärker an politischer Sichtbarkeit, bedingt vor allem durch die Black-Lives-Matter-Bewegung, Migration und Flucht, nicht zuletzt auch durch Theorieansätze wie Postcolonial Studies, Critical Race Theory, Intersektionalität oder Decolonizing der Gender Studies. Vor diesem Hintergrund gilt es zunächst medienspezifische Strategien in ihrer Vielfalt sowie historischen Entwicklung kritisch zu befragen, die zu rassistischem Denken und rassistischer Politik beigetragen haben und bis heute beitragen. Die Kategorie Genre als eine ambivalente und komplexe Wahrnehmungs- und Sinngebungsstruktur an der Schnittstelle von Produktion, Rezeption und Ästhetik bietet sich besonders an, um sich medientechnologischen Traditionen und Mitteln anzunähern, die Race politisch wirksam machen, verschiedene Ideologien bedienen, Affekte produzieren und zugleich jedoch immer auch Widerstände oder neue Sichtweisen und Artikulationsformen hervorbringen. Der Band versammelt unterschiedliche theoretische und analytische Ansätze, die anhand ausgewählter Gegenstände Einblicke in die Geschichte des Wechselbezugs von Genre und Race gewähren sowie sich mit dessen internationaler und nationalspezifischer Akzentuierung beschäftigen, wobei stets grundsätzliche Fragen nach dem Verhältnis von Visualität und Race sowie die epistemologische Kraft des Blickes im Fokus stehen.Mit Beiträgen von Lisa Andergassen, Thomas Bedorf, Julia Bee, Kyung-Ho Cha, Julia Dittmann, Irina Gradinari, Irmtraud Hnilica, Karina Kirsten, Michaela Ott, Johannes Pause, Nele Rein, Ivo Ritzer, Drehli Robnik, Peter Scheinpflug und Michaela Wünsch.
Genre Transgressions: Dialogues on Tragedy and Comedy (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)
by Ramona Mosse Anna StreetThis collection gathers a set of provocative essays that sketch innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to Genre Theory in the 21st century. Focusing on the interaction between tragedy and comedy, both renowned and emerging scholarly and creative voices from philosophy, theater, literature, and cultural studies come together to engage in dialogues that reconfigure genre as social, communal, and affective. In revisiting the challenges to aesthetic categorization over the course of the 20th century, this volume proposes a shift away from the prescriptive and hierarchical reading of genre to its crucial function in shaping thought and enabling shared experience and communication. In doing so, the various essays acknowledge the diverse contexts within which genre needs to be thought afresh: media studies, rhetoric, politics, performance, and philosophy.
Genre Transgressions: Dialogues on Tragedy and Comedy (ISSN)
by Ramona Mosse Anna StreetThis collection gathers a set of provocative essays that sketch innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to Genre Theory in the 21st century. Focusing on the interaction between tragedy and comedy, both renowned and emerging scholarly and creative voices from philosophy, theater, literature, and cultural studies come together to engage in dialogues that reconfigure genre as social, communal, and affective.In revisiting the challenges to aesthetic categorization over the course of the 20th century, this volume proposes a shift away from the prescriptive and hierarchical reading of genre to its crucial function in shaping thought and enabling shared experience and communication. In doing so, the various essays acknowledge the diverse contexts within which genre needs to be thought afresh: media studies, rhetoric, politics, performance, and philosophy.
Genre in Asian Film and Television
by Felicia Chan Angelina KarpovichGenre in Asian Film and Television takes a dynamic approach to the study of Asian screen media previously under-represented in academic writing. It combines historical overviews of developments within national contexts with detailed case studies on the use of generic conventions and genre hybridity in contemporary films and television programmes.
Genre Filmmaking: A Visual Guide to Shots and Style for Genre Films
by Danny DravenBeautifully illustrated with hundreds of 4-color images from the movies you love, this book is the last one you will need to understand the artistic and technical considerations of making a genre film. Author Danny Draven walks you through the aesthetic, narrative, and camera techniques necessary to understand the basic formula that genre adheres to, and then shows you how to create an original work within that context. Draven will show you a technique or narrative structure from a popular movie, reveals the craftsmanship required to achieve it, then tells you how and when it should or shouldn't be used. Interviews from the Hollywood directors and cinematographers using these techniques are included, as well as a companion site with video examples of the techniques and concepts within the book.