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Merian C. Cooper's King Kong
by Brad Strickland Joe DevitoSince its release in 1933, Merian C. Cooper's film King Kong has shocked and delighted generations of movie fans, setting the standard against which all such movies have been judged ever since. In December, 2005, Peter Jackson - whose films of the Lord of the Rings won critical acclaim and set box office records around the world - will release his version of this classic film, bringing King Kong back to the forefront of the popular imagination. Fully authorized by the estate of Merian C. Cooper, Joe DeVito and Brad Strickland's novel is a full rewrite of the original 1932 novel, bringing Cooper's original vision of King Kong back to readers and fans alike. Set in the early 1930's, it is a classic story of exploration and adventure, at the center of which is the "eighth wonder of the world" himself - Kong.
Merry Quizmas Everyone!: Christmas quizzes & games to go from the turkey to the King’s speech – have an hilarious holiday spectacular!
by Chris T MassyIt's the most hilarious time of the year...Packed full of festive pop-culture quizzes, Christmas trivia to fascinate and holly jolly games to play - as well as colouring and dot-to-dot pages to distract, and cracking cracker jokes to make you chuckle (and groan).The perfect Christmas companion for work Christmas parties, entertaining friends and family, entertaining kids (including kids), when you're too full to move, there's nothing on the TV, it's too wet for a walk and the pub isn't open yet.A book everyone will love, actually...
Merv: Making The Good Life Last
by Merv Griffin David BenderMerv Griffin will always be remembered as one of America's most beloved show business figures. With his trademark charm and business savvy, Merv built a life that defined success. From his start as a band singer, to his twenty-three years on television as host of the Emmy Award-winning Merv Griffin Show, and through his entrepreneurial years, Merv lived the American Dream. Perhaps his most enduring legacy, though, is his creation of the two most successful syndicated game shows in television history, Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune. Merv: Making the Good Life Last is the quintessential Horatio Alger story of a young man born into modest circumstances who, through hard work, unshakable self-confidence, and an unfailingly positive attitude, dreams his way to the top. Only to retire and do it again. In this brilliant, funny, and revealing memoir, full of great stories and even better advice, one of America's most beloved and popular show business figures tells the story of his "retirement" years, in which he made billions and became a bigger celebrity than ever. Merv: Making the Good Life Last is a great American success story, a tribute to a wonderful life, and great entertainment for Griffin's many generations of fans, who will never forget him or his legacy.
Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town
by Murray Pomerance R. Barton Palmer Tom Conley Mark Osteen Steven Rybin Dominic Lennard Rebecca Bell-Metereau Linda Badley Lawrence Napper Daniel Varndell Adrian Danks David Desser Neil Badmington Matthew Solomon Brenda Austin-Smith Matthew Cipa Kristen Hatch Matthew H. BernsteinMervyn LeRoy Comes to Town is the first book devoted to the career of one of the director/producers who in the early years of sound cinema was instrumental in establishing the Hollywood model of production that would endure for more than half a century. As a director and producer, LeRoy was responsible for turning out more than sixty feature films in a career that spanned five decades; as a studio executive, he contributed substantially to the success of the industry during the challenging period of the Depression and also in the period of realignment and readjustment that followed the end of World War II. This book offers chapters devoted to individual films such as Little Caesar, Waterloo Bridge, 30 Seconds over Tokyo, Gypsy, and Quo Vadis.
Mess and Contemporary Performance: Complexity, Containment, and Collapse (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)
by Harriet CurtisThis book identifies and theorises mess in contemporary performance and argues that mess offers a site from which subjects might mobilise and find agency, even as the complexity (and indeed messiness) of everyday life conditions and contains.Using a queer feminist and intersectional critical framework, this book analyses how established and emerging artists mess with and mess up capitalist tendencies towards productivity, usefulness, and efficiency. Whilst the materiality of mess provides a starting point and emerges in many of the works analysed, the implications of mess as related to vulnerability, shame, and resistance occupy a larger space in the book’s chapters. These performances are messy not only in content or style; they reveal critical readings of how perceived-as messy' subjects and practices are shaped and regulated. In attending to the public, personal, and structural uses of mess, and emphasising the critical possibilities of what might otherwise be skipped over or cleared away, this book develops and opens out shared understandings of mess as creative chaos and as a practice of political action or change.This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars incontemporary theatre, art, and performance.
Messy Connections: Creating Atmospheres of Addiction Recovery Through Performance Practice (ISSN)
by Cathy SloanThis book examines performance practices that involve people in recovery from addiction, theorising such practices as recovery-engaged.Focusing on examples of practice from a growing movement of UK-based recovery arts practitioners and performers, it highlights a unique approach to performance that infuses an understanding of lived experiences of addiction and recovery with creative practice. It offers a philosophy of being in recovery that understands lived experience, and performance practice, as a dynamic system of interrelations with the human and nonhuman elements that make up the societal settings in which recovery communities struggle to exist. It thereby frames the process of recovery, and recovery-engaged performance, as an affective ecology – a system of messy connections. Building upon ideas from posthumanist research on addiction, cultural theory on identity and new materialist interpretations of performance practice, it considers how such contemporary theory might offer additional ways of thinking and doing arts practice with people affected by addiction. The discussion highlights the distinct aesthetics, ethics and politics of this area of performance practice.This study will be of great interest to students and scholars in Applied Theatre and Critical Arts and Mental Health studies.
Meta Television: A History of US Popular Television's Self-Awareness (Routledge Advances in Popular Culture Studies)
by Erin GianniniThe idea of metatextuality is frequently framed as a recent television development and often paired with the idea that it represents genre exhaustion. US television, however, with its early “live” performances and set-bound sitcoms, always suggested an element of self-awareness that easily shaded into metatextuality even in its earliest days. Meta Television thus traces the general history of US television’s metatextuality throughout television’s history, arguing that TV’s self-awareness is nothing new—and certainly not evidence of a period of aesthetic exhaustion—but instead is woven into both its past and present practice, elucidated through case studies featuring series from the 1970s to the present day—many of which have not been critically analyzed before—and the various ways they deploy metatext to both construct and deconstruct their narratives. Further, Meta Television asserts that this re- and de-construction of narrative and production isn’t just a reward to the savvy and/or knowledgeable viewer (or consumer), but seeks to make broader points about the media we consume—and how we consume it.This book explores the ways in which the current metatextual turn, in both the usual genres in which it appears (horror and sci-fi/fantasy) and its movement into drama and sitcom, represents the next turn in television’s inherent self-awareness. It traces this element throughout television’s history, growing from the more modest reflexivity of programs’ awareness of themselves, as created objects in a particular medium, to the more significant breaking of the fictive illusion and therefore the perceived distance between the audience and the series. Erin Giannini shows how the increased currency of metatextual television in the contemporary era can be tied to a viewership well-versed in its stories and production as well as able and willing to “talk back” via social media. If television reflects culture to a certain extent, this increased reflexivity mirrors that “responsive” audience as a consequence of the lack of distance that metafiction embraces.As Robert Stam traced the use—and implications—of reflexivity in film and literature, this book does the same for television, further problematizing John Ellis’s glance theory in terms of both production and spectatorship.
Metallica Unbound
by K. J. DoughtonWritten by a noted hard rock journalist who has covered the band since its inception 10 years before the book was published, this one-of-a-kind, full-color collectors' volume provides the most in-depth information on the band available anywhere. Rare and never-before-published photos. Complete discography.
Metallica: This Monster Lives
by Greg Milner Joe Berlinger“Triumphs because of the commitment and fearlessness of Metallica . . . [and] shows that tenacious reporting can still produce great narratives.” —New York TimesMetallica is one of the most successful hard-rock bands of all time, having sold more than ninety million albums worldwide. Receiving unfettered access, acclaimed filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky followed Metallica over two and a half years as they faced personal and professional challenges that threatened to destroy the band just as they returned to the studio to record their first album in four years. While the documentary itself provides an insider’s view of Metallica, the two and a half years of production (and more than 1,600 hours of footage) garnered far more than can be expressed in a two-hour film.Berlinger’s book reveals the stories behind the film, capturing the uncertainty, and ultimate triumph of both the filming and Metallica’s bid for survival. It weaves the on-screen stories together with what happened off-screen, offering intimate details of the band’s struggle amidst personnel changes, addiction, and controversy. In part because Berlinger was one of the only witnesses to the intensive group-therapy sessions and numerous band meetings, his account is the most honest and deeply probing book about Metallica—or any rock band—ever written.“A fascinating look at the logistics of making an album and the dysfunctional family that bands can become.” —Chicago Tribune“This book should be required reading for aspiring filmmakers.” —Publishers Weekly“Berlinger takes us even deeper into the inner sanctum. . . . many events that were edited for the film, including a pivotal scene in which drummer Lars Ulrich laces into singer James Hetfield, are transcribed in full.” —USA Today
Metanoia: A Memoir of a Body, Born Again
by Anna McGahanPerhaps we have done to our bodies what we have so long done to God?We have demanded they conform to the image we find the most desirable.We have treated them as rubbish bins, weapons and punching bags.We have muted their wills until their voices have fallen silent.At 23, Anna McGahan was wrestling with the rest of the world for ownership of her femininity, sexuality and physicality. As a young actor thrust into the spotlight as a poster girl for sexual liberation – intent on exploring the next relationship, the lowest weight and the wildest high – her path pointed her to chaos, starvation and isolation.Until – unexpectedly – she met God.In this memoir, Anna shares the story of reconciling with her body, mapping its journey from another product in a marketplace, to a vessel of inherent power and worth.Metanoia is the cry of a body broken and resurrected, the song of a bird set free.
Metaphors for Musicians
by Sher Music Randy HalberstadtThis practical and enlightening book gives insight into almost every aspect of jazz musicianship---scale/chord theory, composing techniques, analyzing tunes, practice strategies, etc. For any level of player, on any instrument. Endorsed by Jessica Wiliams, Jerry Bergonzi, Bill mays, etc.
Metatheatrical Dramaturgies of Violence: Staging the Role of Theatre
by Emma WillisThis book examines a series of contemporary plays where writers put theatre itself on stage. The texts examined variously dramatize how theatre falls short in response to the demands of violence, expose its implication in structures of violence—including racism and gender-based violence—and illustrate how it might effectively resist violence through reconfiguring representation. Case studies, which include Jackie Sibblies Drury’s We Are Proud to Present and Fairview, Ella Hickson’s The Writer and Tim Crouch’s The Author, provide a range of practice-based perspectives on the question of whether theatre is capable of accounting for and expressing the complexities of structural and interpersonal violence as both lived in the body and borne out in society. The book will appeal to scholars and artists working in the areas of violence, theatre and ethics, witnessing, memory and trauma, spectatorship and contemporary dramaturgy, as well as to those interested in both the doubts and dreams we have about the role of theatre in the twenty-first century.
Methoden der Filmsoziologie: Exemplarische Analysen am Beispiel des Films CAPOTE (2005) (Film und Bewegtbild in Kultur und Gesellschaft)
by Oliver Dimbath Carsten HeinzeDie Beiträge dieses Bandes gehen aus einem Symposion zur Analyse des Spielfilms CAPOTE (2005) hervor, das Vertreterinnen und Vertreter unterschiedlicher filmsoziologischer Methoden und Zugänge zusammengebracht hat. Die Fokussierung auf einen Film gewährt einen vergleichenden Blick auf verschiedene Verfahren und die Reichweite ihrer Interpretations- und Deutungspotenziale. Unter den behandelten Ansätzen finden sich Positionen der filmgestützten Interaktionsanalyse, der Seduktionstheorie oder der biografischen Filmanalyse.
Mex-Ciné: Mexican Filmmaking, Production, and Consumption in the Twenty-first Century
by Aldama Frederick LuisMex-Ciné offers an accessibly written, multidisciplinary investigation of contemporary Mexican cinema that combines industrial, technical, and sociopolitical analysis with analyses of modes of reception through cognitive theory. Mex-Ciné aims to make visible the twenty-first century Mexican film industry, its blueprints, and the cognitive and emotive faculties involved in making and consuming its corpus. A sustained, free-flowing book-length meditation, Mex-Ciné enriches our understanding of the way contemporary Mexican directors use specific technical devices, structures, and characterizations in making films in ways that guide the perceptual, emotive, and cognitive faculties of their ideal audiences, while providing the historical contexts in which these films are made and consumed.
Mexican Waves: Cinema, Television, Transmedia
by Paul Julian SmithThis book, Mexican Waves: Cinema, Television, Transmedia, explores the dynamic landscape of contemporary Mexican audiovisual storytelling, offering an in-depth examination of the works of influential filmmakers, television creators, and transmedia artists. By analyzing the convergence of these media, the book provides a comprehensive understanding of their evolution and socio-cultural impact. Key concepts include the interplay between cinema, television, and transmedia, with chapters dedicated to the works of renowned directors like Alejandro González Iñárritu and the rise of quality television series. The book also uncovers unexpected connections between art cinema and digital platforms such as YouTube, highlighting how these media address pressing themes like feminism and queer identity. Through close textual analysis and industrial context, readers will gain insights into the innovative narratives shaping Mexican media today. This essential volume is designed for scholars and students of media studies and Latin American studies, as well as anyone interested in the transformative power of storytelling. By presenting previously unstudied primary texts now accessible via streaming, the book invites readers to engage with the vibrant and evolving world of Mexican audiovisual culture.
Mexicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands
by Rosa Linda FregosoMexicana Encounters charts the dynamic and contradictory representation of Mexicanas and Chicanas in culture. Fregoso's self-reflexive approach to cultural politics embraces the movement for social justice and offers new insights into the ways that racial and gender differences are inscribed in cultural practices.
Mexico City in Contemporary Mexican Cinema
by David William FosterJust as Mexican national life has come to center on the sprawling, dynamic, almost indefinable metropolis of Mexico City, so recent Mexican cinema has focused on the city not merely as a setting for films but almost as a protagonist in its own right, whose conditions both create meaning for and receive meaning from the human lives lived in its midst. <P><P>Through close readings of fourteen recent critically acclaimed films, this book watches Mexican cinema in this process of producing cultural meaning through its creation, enaction, and interpretation of the idea of Mexico City. David William Foster analyzes how Mexican filmmakers have used Mexico City as a vehicle for exploring such issues as crime, living space, street life, youth culture, political and police corruption, safety hazards, gender roles, and ethnic and social identities. The book is divided into three sections. "Politics of the City" examines the films Rojo amanecer, Novia que te vea, Frida, naturaleza viva, and Sexo, pudor y lágrimas. "Human Geographies" looks at El Callejón de los Milagros, Mecánica nacional, El castillo de la pureza, Todo el poder, and Lolo. "Mapping Gender" discusses Danzón, De noche vienes, Esmeralda, La tarea, Lola, and Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda.
Mexico Unmanned: The Cultural Politics of Masculinity in Mexican Cinema (SUNY series in Latin American Cinema)
by Samanta OrdóñezIconic images of machismo in Mexico's classic cinema affirm the national film industry's historical alignment with the patriarchal ideology intrinsic to the post-revolutionary state's political culture. Filmmakers gradually turned away from the cultural nationalism of mexicanidad, but has the underlying gender paradigm been similarly abandoned? Films made in the past two decades clearly reflect transformations instituted by a neoliberal regime of cultural politics, yet significant elements of macho mythology continue to be rearticulated. Mexico Unmanned examines these structural continuities in recent commercial and auteur films directed by Alfonso Cuarón, Carlos Cuarón, Carlos Reygadas, Amat Escalante, and Julio Hernández Cordón, among others. Informed by cinema's role in Mexico's modern/colonial gender system, Samanta Ordóñez draws out recurrent patterns of signification that reproduce racialized categories of masculinity and bolster a larger network of social hierarchies. In so doing, Ordóñez dialogues with current intersectional gender theory, fresh scholarship on violence in the neoliberal state, and the latest research on Mexican cinema.
Mezclados y agitados
by Antonio Jiménez«Hudson estaba bebiendo otro daiquiri helado y al levantarlo, pesado y con la copa bordeada de escarcha, miró la parte clara debajo de la cima de frapé y le recordó el mar.»Ernest Hemingway, Islas a la derivaMás libros de los que podemos imaginar comenzaron en la barra de un bar, crecieron en la sobremesa e, incluso, cuajaron en la resaca. La relación de los libros con el alcohol va más allá de la afición de sus autores por los destilados: la mejor literatura ha surgido, siempre, de la decantación reposada de una idea, de la fermentación de un estilo. ¿Qué mejor modo de comprender lo que se produce en la coctelera de un escritor que tomarse unas copas con él?De Dostoievski a Tomeo, pasando por Baudelaire, Hemingway, Pessoa o Dorothy Parker, este libro es una fiesta en la que, entre copas y letras, como está mandado, se reúnen escritoras y escritores brillantes y exóticos, simpáticos o aburridos, bebedores incorregibles y abstemios recalcitrantes para hablarnos de todo tipo de espirituosos a través de su vida y de sus obras. Todo ello acompañado de la receta de numerosos cócteles y combinados con los que extender la celebración más allá de la lectura. Mezclados y agitados es, en fin, un paseo zigzagueante y desenfadado por el lado menos frecuentado de la literatura, para disfrutarla sorbo a sorbo.
Mi Little Golden Book sobre Rita Moreno (Little Golden Book)
by Maria CorreaAyude a su pequeño a soñar en grande con una biografía Little Golden Book sobre la actriz, cantante y bailarina Rita Moreno, ganadora del EGOT. ¡Las biografías de Little Golden Book representan la introducción perfecta a los libros no-ficción para los niños en edad preescolar!Help your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biography about EGOT-winning actor, singer, and dancer, Rita Moreno. Little Golden Book biographies are the perfect introduction to nonfiction for preschoolers!Este pequeño Little Golden Book sobre Rita Moreno, estrella puertorriqueña de West Side Story y primera latina en ganar un Oscar, es una historia inspiradora para niños pequeños, así como para sus padres y abuelos que la admiran.Otras biografías Little Golden Book en español:Mi Little Golden Book sobre Frida KahloMi Little Golden Book sobre Sonia SotomayorThis Little Golden Book about Rita Moreno—Puerto Rican-born star of West Side Story and the first Latina to win an Oscar—is an inspiring read-aloud for young children, as well as their parents and grandparents who are fans.Look for these other Spanish language Little Golden Book biographies:Mi Little Golden Book sobre Frida KahloMi Little Golden Book sobre Sonia SotomayorLook for more Little Golden Book biographies: • Betty White • Carol Burnett • Lucille Ball • Harry Belafonte • Julie Andrews • Dwayne Johnson
Mi hermana: Cómo la transición de una hermana nos cambió a ambas
by Selenis Leyva Marizol LeyvaA powerful memoir by two sisters about transitioning, family, and the path to self-realization.When Orange Is the New Black and Diary of a Future President star Selenis Leyva was young, her hardworking parents brought a new foster child into their warm, loving family in the Bronx. Selenis was immediately smitten; she doted on the baby, who in turn looked up to Selenis and followed her everywhere. The little boy became part of the family. But later, the siblings realized that the child was struggling with their identity. As Marizol transitioned and fought to define herself, Selenis and the family wanted to help, but didn't always have the language to describe what Marizol was going through or the knowledge to help her thrive.In My Sister, Selenis and Marizol narrate, in alternating chapters, their shared journey, challenges, and triumphs. They write honestly about the issues of violence, abuse, and discrimination that transgender people and women of color--and especially trans women of color--experience daily. And they are open about the messiness and confusion of fully realizing oneself and being properly affirmed by others, even those who love you.Profoundly moving and instructive, My Sister offers insight into the lives of two siblings learning to be their authentic selves. Ultimately, theirs is a story of hope, one that will resonate with and affirm those in the process of transitioning, watching a loved one transition, and anyone taking control of their gender or sexual identities.
Mi ruido azul
by Marina JadeMarina Jade, la maravillosa exintegrante de Operación Triunfo, nos cuenta su vida. Me llamo Marina, mi nombre artístico es Marina Jade, y en estas páginas te voy a contar, en resumidas cuentas, mi vida. Desde mi infancia -cuando era «la gordita», «la empollona», «la de los brackets»- hasta que la música me salvó y se convirtió en mi felicidad. Aquí te explicaré lo importantes que son para mí mi familia y mis seres queridos, cómo salí del armario, lo que significa sufrir LGBTfobia y también cómo me sentí al cumplir el sueño de participar en Operación Triunfo. Bienvenida a mi libro. ¡Bienvenida a mi ruido azul!
Mi sueño americano: Todos están invitados
by Wilmer ValderramaMi sueño americano es el conmovedor libro de memorias del actor, productor y activista Wilmer Valderrama, que ahonda en su educación en Venezuela, donde fue criado por dos padres muy trabajadores, mientras su familia atravesaba un país en rápida transformación y el ascenso de Hugo Chávez.Con la economía derrumbándose a su alrededor y su medio de vida desapareciendo, la familia decide huir del país. De repente, el niño al que le encantaba montar a caballo y soñar con ser el Zorro de su serie favorita de televisión en blanco y negro, tuvo que crecer rápidamente y viajó, siendo un adolescente, desde un pequeño pueblo de Venezuela a la gran ciudad de Los Ángeles.En los años siguientes, Valderrama crearía el exitoso programa Yo Mamma, deleitaría a los niños con Handy Manny, pondría voz al personaje principal de Encanto de Disney y mucho más, hasta unirse al reparto del exitoso programa NCIS en 2016.Sin embargo, fue a través del servicio a los demás y de su primer viaje con United Service Organization (USO por sus siglas en inglés) donde Valderrama encontró su vocación ampliada, entreteniendo y animando a las tropas estadounidenses en todo el mundo. De repente, quiso hacer todo lo que pudiera, dedicando su tiempo y sus esfuerzos a retribuir al país que considera su hogar.A través de su trabajo, Valderrama espera demostrar su amor y su gratitud por el país que cambió su vida. Mi sueño americano entrelaza las historias personales de Valderrama con las de personas notables que ha conocido a lo largo de su viaje filantrópico. Sin embargo, esta no es solo la historia de Valderrama, sino también una visión de Estados Unidos de América a través de los ojos de un inmigrante, tanto en sus asombrosas maravillas inigualables como en todos sus retos. Es la historia profunda y apasionante de alguien que encontró el camino y ahora invita a cuantos sea posible a acompañarle en la aventura.An American StoryAn American Story is the stirring memoir by actor, producer, and activist Wilmer Valderrama, delving into his upbringing in Venezuela where he was raised by two hard working parents as they navigated their family through a rapidly changing country and the rise of Hugo Chavez. With the economy crashing around them and their livelihood disappearing, the family decides to flee the country. Suddenly, the young boy who had loved riding his horse and dreaming of being Zorro from his favorite black and white tv show had to grow up quickly, journeying as a teenager from a tiny little pueblo in Venezuela to the big city of Los Angeles.It was through service to others and his first USO trip, however, where Valderrama found his expanded calling, entertaining and encouraging U.S. troops around the world. Suddenly, he wanted to do as much of this as he could, dedicating his time and efforts to giving back to the country he calls home.Through his work, Valderrama hopes to demonstrate his love and gratitude for the country that changed his life. An American Story weaves Valderrama&’s personal stories with those of the remarkable people he&’s met along his philanthropic journey. This isn&’t just Valderrama&’s story, though. It&’s a view of America through an immigrant&’s eyes, in both its stunning unmatched wonders and all of its native challenges. It is the profound and gripping story of someone who found the way and is now inviting as many as possible to join him on the adventure.
Mi último suspiro
by Luis BuñuelUn libro de memorias canónico, fruto de dieciocho años de trabajo y de la amistad entre el genial cineasta y Jean-Claude Carrière. Estas memorias son el fruto de dieciocho años de trabajo y amistad entre Luis Buñuel y Jean-Claude Carrière. Juntos hicieron seis obras maestras del cine: Diario de una camarera, Belle de jour, La Vía Láctea, El discreto encanto de la burguesía, El fantasma de la libertad y Ese oscuro objeto del deseo. El libro nació espontáneamente de sus entrevistas en España y México durante los intervalos de las sesiones de trabajo; el uno evocando sus recuerdos y el otro recogiendo las palabras del amigo y anotándolas. Mi último suspiro recoge la voz y las propias palabras de Luis Buñuel, y nos da una particular visión del genial cineasta y de su mundo más personal. Esta edición conmemora el trigésimo aniversario de su primera edición francesa y española. Reseña:«Buñuel es el portador de una conciencia poética.»Andrei Tarkovski