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Diciembre otra vez
by Santiago CruzUn testimonio honesto y emotivo de la vida intensa y azarosa de Santiago Cruz, uno de los artistas más destacados del panorama musical. Detrás de las canciones, de los conciertos, del estrellato y de inolvidables anécdotas hay una verdad menos glamurosa: la historia de un hombre que se ha enfrentado a los abismos que surgen con las adicciones, a frustraciones y pruebas difíciles, a situaciones que han llegado, incluso, a poner en riesgo su vida y la de su familia. Estas son las experiencias de alguien como usted, como yo; de una persona que comprende que cada episodio de la vida cobra mucho sentido cuando se mira en retrospectiva; estas son las memorias de un hombre que, a sus escasos 45 años, comparte su historia para inspirar a otros y de alguna manera hacerles saber que no están solos.
Dick Van Dyke: A Little Golden Book Biography (Little Golden Book Biographies)
by Christy WebsterDream big with a Little Golden Book biography about the beloved TV and movie star, Dick Van Dyke who has been entertaining audiences for more than 70 years. It's the perfect introduction to nonfiction for young readers—as well as fans of all ages!This Little Golden Book about Dick Van Dyke—the multi-talented star of movies including Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and the classic TV comedy The Dick Van Dyke Show—is an inspiring read-aloud for young kids as well as fans of any age!Look for more Little Golden Book biographies: • Julie Andrews • Carol Burnett • Mel Brooks • Keanu Reeves • Lucille Ball
The Dick Van Dyke Show: Anatomy of a Classic
by Ginny Weissman Coyne Steven SandersIn the history of television, there are very few shows that can truly be called "classics." The Dick Van Dyke Show is one of those few--and for the first time, authors Weissman and Sanders have succeed in capturing the unique flavor of this very appealing, warm comedy that went straight to the heart of the American public. An affectionate and nostalgic portrait of a show more than twenty years old that is still in reruns, The Dick Van Dyke Show tells the inside story of the situational comedy whose phenomenal success was a surprise even to its creators.Tracing its evolution from the pilot, Head of the Family starring Carl Reiner, through the ordeal of finding the right actor to play the clumsy but talented TV writer Rob Petrie, gathering the supporting cast that included Rose Marie and Morey Amsterdam, whose presence added a sharp-edged humor to the series, to the discovery of the largely unknown Mary Tyler Moore to play the Capri pants-clad Laura Petrie, The Dick Van Dyke Show plots the day-to-day course of getting and keeping the show on the air. Written with the complete cooperation of every member of the cast, this book takes us through the weekly process of consistently fine writing, rehearsing, improvising, and polishing the show in which the entire company participated. From start to finish, the cast was a tight group whose personal warmth, vitality, and camaraderie created a unique chemistry that shone through every episode.Containing over 100 photos, synopses of all 158 episodes and the complete script of one of them, lists of all the awards garnered by the show and its cast during its five-year run, and an update on where everyone is today, The Dick Van Dyke Show is a loving and carefully researched tribute to one of the most beloved comedy series of all time.
A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology: The Secret Art of the Performer
by Eugenio Barba Nicola SavareseFirst Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Did You Like That? Fred Dibnah, In His Own Words
by Don HaworthWhen Fred Dibnah debuted on television in 1979, British audiences immediately embraced a new cultural icon: a steeplejack from Bolton who fell in love with England's decaying industrial landscape and an exhaustive storyteller whose charm and wit was matched only by his down-to-earth manner. The Producer of that first film, Don Haworth, would go on to make nineteen films about this unlikely celebrity and true British eccentric.Did You Like That? collects the best stories from these films: colourful tales told by Fred himself, recounting key moments in his life, his experiences as a steeplejack, his fascination with machinery, his work as an engineer, craftsman, artist, inventor and steam enthusiast, and his forthright views on life in general.Told with true Northern grit, Did You Like That? is the story of a man who never shied away from a hair-raising challenge, and the closest thing to Fred's autobiography we're likely to get. In paperback for the first time, this is Fred's story, in his own words.
The Diddle That Dummed
by Kes GrayA laugh-out-loud musical story full of hilarious word play and silliness from the author of Oi Frog!, brilliantly illustrated by Fred Blunt.Flinty Bo Diddle is writing a tune for his fiddle. All his diddles have lined up nicely - except for one who keeps going DUM, right in the middle! No matter what he tries he just can't get this diddle to diddle like it's supposed to! A story about standing out from the crowd that will have you in fits of giggles!Kes Gray is the author of the top ten bestselling series Oi Frog and Friends, which has sold 1.4 million copies to date.
Diddly Squat: The No 1 Sunday Times Bestseller
by Jeremy ClarksonPull on your wellies, grab your flat cap and join Jeremy Clarkson in this hilarious and fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the infamous Diddly Squat FarmTHE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Brilliant . . . laugh-out-loud' Daily Telegraph'Outrageously funny . . . will have you in stitches' Time Out_________Welcome to Clarkson's farm.It's always had a nice ring to it. Jeremy just never thought that one day his actual job would be 'a farmer'.And, sadly, it doesn't mean he's any good at it.From buying the wrong tractor (Lamborghini, since you ask . . .) to formation combine harvesting, getting tied-up in knots of red tape to chasing viciously athletic cows, our hero soon learns that enthusiasm alone might not be enough.Jeremy may never succeed in becoming master of his land, but, as he's discovering, the fun lies in the trying . . ._________'Very funny . . . I cracked up laughing on the tube' Evening StandardPraise for Clarkson's Farm:'The best thing Clarkson's done . . . it pains me to say this' GUARDIAN'Shockingly hopeful' INDEPENDENT'Even the most committed Clarkson haters will find him likeable here' TELEGRAPH'Quite lovely' THE TIMES
Diddly Squat: The No 1 Sunday Times Bestseller 2022
by Jeremy ClarksonTHE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERHead back down to Clarkson Farm with the latest bestseller from our favourite welly-wearing wannabe farmer, Jeremy Clarkson___________Enthusiastic trainee farmer Jeremy Clarkson made just £144 in his first year at Diddly Squat Farm. This year he's determined to do better. Not because he now knows what he's doing. But because he's fed up of getting stick from Kaleb.Yet farming continues to be a challenge.For instance . . .· Loading a grain trailer was more demanding than flying an Apache gunship?· Cows were more dangerous than motor-racing?· It's easier to get planning permission to build a nuclear plant than to turn a barn into a restaurant?Jeremy's always got a plan. Loads of them. Often cunning.Not always greeted with wild enthusiasm by Kaleb and Cheerful Charlie, however . . .___________PRAISE FOR DIDDLY SQUAT'Clarkson has done more for farmers in one series than Countryfile achieved in 30 years' James Rebanks, author of A Shepherd's Life'Clarkson has showcased the passion, humour and personalities of the people who work throughout the year to grow the nation's food . . . and brought an understanding of many of the issues faced by farmers to the British public' National Farmers Union'A deserving Farming Champion of the Year' Farmers Weekly 'I don't know anything about farming. It's like David Attenborough doing jet-skiing, or Nicholas Witchell saying, "I'm going to be a cage fighter'" Jeremy Clarkson
Diddly Squat: From Sunday Times bestselling author and Grand Tour presenter (Diddly Squat)
by Jeremy ClarksonIt's been another memorable year on Diddly Squat Farm - will the chickens finally come home to roost?Welcome back to Clarkson’s Farm . . .Where the spring barley crop has failed. Just like the oil seed rape. And the oats turned the colour of a hearing aid. The mushrooms went mouldy. While the sheep, pigs and cows cost more than they earned. At least, the farm shop’s doing a roaring trade in candles – even if they smell like Jeremy’s knacker hammock.So never mind the rain, the skirmishes with the local planning department and the gargantuan hole in Jeremy’s wallet. Because it’s hard to feel too gloomy about life when there’s a JCB telehandler, a crop-spraying hovercraft and a digger waiting in the barn.For any man with several metric tons of powerful machinery at his fingertips must be doing something right . . .Number 1 Sunday Times bestseller, October 2024
Diddly Squat: Pigs Might Fly
by Jeremy ClarksonGet tucked in to a third bestselling helping of Clarkson's Farm from our favourite wellie-wearing wannabe farmer, Jeremy ClarksonWelcome back to Clarkson's Farm. Since taking the wheel three years ago Jeremy's had his work cut out. And it's now clear from hard-won experience that, when it comes to farming, there's only one golden rule:Whatever you hope will happen, won't.Enthusiastic schemes to diversify have met with stubborn opposition from the red trouser brigade, defeat at the hands of Council Planning department, and predictable derision from Kaleb - although, to be fair, even Lisa had doubts about Jeremy's brilliant plan to build a business empire founded on rewilding and nettle soup. And only Cheerful Charlie is still smiling about the stifling amount of red tape that's incoming . . . But he charges by the hour.Then there are the animals: the sheep are gone; the cows have been joined by a rented bull called Break-Heart Maestro;. the pigs are making piglets; and the goats have turned out to be psychopaths.But despite the naysayers and (sometimes self-inflicted) setbacks, Jeremy remains irrepressibly optimistic about life at Diddly Squat. Because It's hard not to be when you get to harvest blackberries with a vacuum cleaner.And, after all, it shouldn't just be Break-heart Maestro who gets to enjoy a happy ending . . .Diddly Squat, Number 1 Sunday Times bestseller, October 2022
Didion and Babitz
by Lili AnolikNATIONAL BESTSELLER * Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Vogue, the Washington Post, Telegraph, and more! Joan Didion is revealed at last in this outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work "that reads like a propulsive novel" (Oprah Daily) on the mutual attractions—and mutual antagonisms—of Didion and her fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz.Could you write what you write if you weren&’t so tiny, Joan? —Eve Babitz, in a letter to Joan Didion, 1972 Joan Didion, revealed at last… Eve Babitz died on December 17, 2021. Found in the wrack, ruin, and filth of her apartment, a stack of boxes packed by her mother decades before. The boxes were pristine, the seals of duct tape unbroken. Inside, a lost world. This world turned for a certain number of years in the late sixties and early seventies, and centered on a two-story rental in a down-at-heel section of Hollywood. 7406 Franklin Avenue, a combination salon-hotbed-living end where writers and artists mixed with movie stars, rock &’n&’ rollers, and drug trash. 7406 Franklin Avenue was the making of one great American writer: Joan Didion, a mystery behind her dark glasses and cool expression; an enigma inside her storied marriage to John Gregory Dunne, their union as tortured as it was enduring. 7406 Franklin Avenue was the breaking and then the remaking—and thus the true making—of another great American writer: Eve Babitz, goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky, nude of Marcel Duchamp, consort of Jim Morrison (among many, many others), a woman who burned so hot she finally almost burned herself alive. Didion and Babitz formed a complicated alliance, a friendship that went bad, amity turning to enmity. Didion, in spite of her confessional style, is so little known or understood. She&’s remained opaque, elusive. Until now. With deftness and skill, journalist Lili Anolik uses Babitz, Babitz&’s brilliance of observation, Babitz&’s incisive intelligence, and, most of all, Babitz&’s diary-like letters—letters found in those sealed boxes, letters so intimate you don&’t read them so much as breathe them—as the key to unlocking Didion.
Die digitale Transformation in der Filmindustrie: Ein praxistheoretischer Leitfaden für „Macher“ (essentials)
by Anett SassIn einer sich ständig wandelnden Welt beleuchtet der Leitfaden die ökonomischen, kulturellen und organisatorischen Aspekte der digitalen Transformation in der Filmindustrie. Es wird untersucht, wie Streaming-Plattformen Geschäftsmodelle beeinflussen und welche Vorteile Produzenten daraus ziehen können. Mit Beiträgen von Alexander Thul und René Jamm, entwickelt im Dialog mit Branchenexperten, bietet das Buch Strategien und Kenntnisse, um in der digitalen Medienlandschaft erfolgreich zu navigieren und von der digitalen Transformation zu profitieren.
Die Doppelmoral des medialen ethnischen Humors: Satire, Minstrel- und Ethno-Comedy im internationalen Vergleich
by Patricia Carolina Saucedo AñezDas vorliegende Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Darstellung indigener und ethnischer Minderheiten anhand medialen ethnischen Humors und ihrer Rezeption in Lateinamerika und Europa (Argentinien, Bolivien und Deutschland). Um die Darstellungsebene zu untersuchen, wurden drei unterschiedliche Fernsehsendungen (Peter Capusotto y sus Videos – Un Programa de Rock (Argentinien), Neo tu Espacio/Los Mismos (Bolivien) und Die Bülent Ceylan Show (Deutschland) aus einem qualitativen Ansatz heraus analysiert. Die Rezeption dieser Sendungen wurde mithilfe der Durchführung von Gruppendiskussionen und Zweierinterviews mit Mitgliedern der Mehrheitsgesellschaft und der betroffenen Minderheiten (mit einem niedrigen und hohen formalen Bildungsniveau) der jeweiligen Länder erforscht. Die Ergebnisse der drei Fallstudien zeigten, dass der Einsatz medialen ethnischen Humors (Satire, Minstrel- und Ethno-Comedy) dazu beiträgt, ethnische Stereotype und volksverhetzende Aussagen zu verharmlosen und zu naturalisieren – und zwar unabhängig von den Absichten der Komiker.
Die Entgrenzung von Kindheit in der Mediengesellschaft: Kinder zwischen Talentförderung, Leistungsdruck und wirtschaftlichen Interessen
by Astrid Ebner-ZarlAstrid Ebner-Zarl unterzieht in ihrer Arbeit die These der „Entgrenzung von Kindheit“ einer eingehenden Untersuchung. Mit speziellem Fokus auf das Aufwachsen von Kindern in einer Mediengesellschaft entwickelt sie einen Beitrag zu der bislang fehlenden theoretischen Verankerung der Entgrenzungsdiagnose, und schafft dadurch ein Überblickswerk der neuen Kindheitssoziologie: Auf knapp 600 Seiten führt Astrid Ebner-Zarl die verstreuten Einzelergebnisse aus der Literatur zur Ausgestaltung von Kindheit in Geschichte und Gegenwart zusammen, verbindet sie mit theoretischen Konzepten der interdisziplinären Kindheitsforschung und vertieft sie mit einer eigenen empirischen Erhebung, der Analyse von Kindheitsbildern in den Castings Shows The Voice Kids und Kiddy Contest. Um dies zu ermöglichen, entwickelt Ebner-Zarl Auswertungstechniken für audiovisuelles Material weiter und entwirft ein auf diesen Materialtypus abgestimmtes Codiersystem. Mediatisierung, Kommerzialisierung, Sexualisierung sowie Leistungsorientierung erweisen sich theoretisch wie empirisch als prägende Elemente von Gegenwartskindheit, aber auch von Gegenwartsgesellschaft im Allgemeinen. Diese Trends sowie nicht zuletzt der soziale Konstruktionscharakter von Kindheit führen zur Erkenntnis, dass Entgrenzung von Kindheit nicht ohne die Zeitgenossenschaft von Kindern und Erwachsenen gedacht werden kann.
Die Inszenierung von Rassismus in der Kulturindustrie: Eine ideologiekritische Filmanalyse (BestMasters)
by Helen GreinerRassismus zeigt sich auf unterschiedlichste Art und Weise: verbal, in physischer Gewalt, ungleicher Repräsentation, sozialer Segregation oder institutionellem Ausschluss. Diese vielfältigen Erscheinungsformen zeigen, dass es verkürzt wäre, Rassismus auf individuelle Vorurteile zu reduzieren. Aus diesem Grund befasst sich diese Arbeit mit Rassismus in seiner Komplexität zwischen Individuum und Gesellschaft. Der Forschungsgegenstand ist dabei die Kulturindustrie, welche exemplarisch anhand des 2011 erschienenen Hollywood-Films The Help untersucht wird. Die Analyse ist gleitet von der Frage, wie Rassismus im Film dargestellt, von den Rezipient:innen angeeignet und dadurch reproduziert wird. Darüber hinaus werden die internen Widersprüche dieser Darstellung sowie die Mechanismen, die zur Verdeckung dieser Widersprüche führen, herausgearbeitet. Theoretisch stützt sich die Arbeit auf die Einsichten der Kritischen Theorie. Es werden sozialpsychologische sowie ideologiekritische Überlegungen aufeinander bezogen. Dies ermöglicht es, die kulturindustrielle Darstellung von Rassismus in seiner Vielschichtigkeit zu untersuchen und die Wechselwirkung zwischen materiellen Verhältnissen, Ideologie, Kulturindustrie und Subjekt zu betrachten.
Die Regeln des Spiels: Programm und Spielplan-Gestaltung im Theater
by Thomas SchmidtDas Buch führt in die Grundlagen und Abläufe der Erstellung eines Theaterspielplans ein und beleuchtet dessen Bedeutung für die Programmierung und das Management von Theatern. Es füllt damit eine wichtige Lücke in der Theater- und Theatermanagement-Literatur. Schmidt untersucht die Spielplan-Gestaltung öffentlicher Theater auf der Grundlage von ausführlichen Spielplan-Analysen, zahlreichen Umfragen unter Dramaturgen und einer mehrjährigen Feldstudie. Aus den Ergebnissen entwickelt der Autor ein Modell der Spielplan-Gestaltung als zentrales künstlerisches und ökonomisches Managementinstrument des Theaters.Der Inhalt· Der Traum vom idealen Spielplan· Das deutsche öffentliche Theatersystem und das Stadttheater· Das Feld als kulturtheoretischer Rahmen des Theaters · Spielplan-Gestaltung in der Theaterpraxis – Eine empirische Untersuchung· Die Phasen der Spielplan-Gestaltung· Die Regeln des Spiels Die Zielgruppen · Studierende, Lehrende und Wissenschaftler in den Gebieten Kulturmanagement, Kultur- und Theaterwissenschaften, Dramaturgie, Regie, Schauspiel, Oper und Tanz· Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter der Künstlerischen Leitungen und des Managements am Theater· Theaterinteressierte Menschen Der AutorThomas Schmidt ist Professor für Theatermanagement und Direktor des Studiengangs Theater und Orchestermanagement in Frankfurt am Main. Er war Gastprofessor an der Harvard-University, Gastdozent an verschiedenen anderen Universitäten und Geschäftsführender Direktor des Nationaltheaters Weimar.
Los diez pasos hacia Nanette: Memorias incómodas
by Hannah GadsbyHannah Gadsby desvela los momentos que definieron su vida y la llevaron a subir al escenario con toda la verdad por delante. «No hay nada más fuerte que una mujer rota que logra recomponerse».Hannah Gadsby, Nanette Nanette no fue solo un espectáculo de stand-up insuperable, fue también un arrollador éxito viral que cautivó al público por su sinceridad desgarrada y por su habilidad para generar a un mismo tiempo tensión y risa. El éxito mundial de Gadsby podría hacernos creer que la fama le llegó de la noche a la mañana, pero el camino que la llevó a lo más alto de la escena internacional fue en realidad bastante tortuoso. En Los diez pasos hacia Nanette, Gadbsy nos brinda su retrato más íntimo: su adolescencia como persona queer en Tasmania (donde la homosexualidad fue ilegal hasta 1997), los trabajos itinerantes en Australia tras la universidad, sus duros encontronazos con la homofobia y la violencia sexual, su constante evolución como cómica, los diagnósticos tardíos de autismo y TDAH... y finalmente el hallazgo de lo que había de ser la esencia de Nanette, es decir, la renuncia a mofarse de sí misma en sus chistes, el rechazo de la misoginia y el compromiso moral con decir la verdad a toda costa. Tan dura como divertida, Los diez pasos hacia Nanette es una «autobiografía incómoda» que, siguiendo la costumbre de su autora de jugar con las expectativas y las reglas de la comedia, nos acerca a una de las voces más explosivas e influyentes de nuestro tiempo. La crítica ha dicho:«Hannah es una fuerza prometeica, un talento revolucionario. Con este libro gracioso, conmovedor y a veces trágico lo que ha hecho es señalarnos dónde se originaron sus hogueras».Emma Thompson «Hannah Gadsby es la perfecta representación de la verdad que se esconde detrás de toda broma».La Vanguardia «Una clara muestra de todo lo bueno que puede pasar cuando una voz diferente se hace oír».Victoria Segal, The Times «Gadsby se muestra aquí como una escritora clara, inteligente y sustanciosa, capaz de hablarnos de sus años de formativos y de la evolución de su carrera y a la vez tocar temas relativos a la cultura popular, la política, la salud mental o el autismo».Steph Harmon, The Guardian «Un libro aparentemente de memorias que, sin embargo, escapa a toda convención y con el que Gadbsy logra, desde el núcleo irradiador que es su espectáculo más famoso, reconstruir con detalle su trayectoria vital».Thomas Floyd, The Washington Post «Sus fans comprobarán con sumo placer que Gadbsy, sobre el papel, es tan buena como sobre el escenario.»Trish Bendix, Time La crítica ha dicho sobre Nanette:«Nanette es un fenómeno internacional, el monólogo más comentado, reseñado y compartido en años, exquisitamente sincronizado con la era MeToo».The New York Times «Tan divertido como profundamente furioso».The New Yorker «Nanette es sencillamente extraordinaria. Me ha conmovido y me ha hecho reflexionar sobre el humor, el yo, el autodesprecio y los usos de la ira. Muchas gracias. Es simplemente brillante».Roxane Gay «Una hora y tres minutos. Ese es el tiempo que tarda Gadsby en destrozarte con sus palabras, ojos vidriosos y realidad sin filtros».El País «Jamás he llorado tan desconsoladamente en un espectáculo de comedia stand up».Monica Lewinsky
Difference and Orientation: An Alexander Kluge Reader (signale|TRANSFER: German Thought in Translation)
by Alexander KlugeAlexander Kluge is one of contemporary Germany's leading intellectuals and artists. A key architect of the New German Cinema and a pioneer of auteur television programming, he has also cowritten three acclaimed volumes of critical theory, published countless essays and numerous works of fiction, and continues to make films even as he expands his video production to the internet. Despite Kluge's five decades of work in philosophy, literature, television, and media politics, his reputation outside of the German-speaking world still largely rests on his films of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. With the aim of introducing Kluge's heterogeneous mind to an Anglophone readership, Difference and Orientation assembles thirty of his essays, speeches, glossaries, and interviews, revolving around the capacity for differentiation and the need for orientation toward ways out of catastrophic modernity. This landmark volume brings together some of Kluge's most fundamental statements on literature, film, pre- and post-cinematic media, and social theory, nearly all for the first time in English translation. Together, these works highlight Kluge's career-spanning commitment to unorthodox, essayistic thinking.
Different Engines: Media Technologies From Latin America (Routledge Research in Design, Technology and Society)
by Andrés BurbanoDifferent Engines investigates the emergence of technologies in Latin America to create images, sounds, video games, and physical interactions. The book contributes to the construction of a historiographical and theoretical framework for understanding the work of creators who have been geographically and historically marginalized through the study of five exemplary and yet relatively unknown artifacts built by engineers, scientists, artists, and innovators. It offers a broad and detailed view of the complex and sometimes unlikely conditions under which technological innovation is possible and of the problematic logics under which these innovations may come to be devalued as historically irrelevant. Through its focus on media technologies, the book presents the interactions between technological and artistic creativity, working towards a wider understanding of the shifts in both fields that have shaped current perceptions, practices, and design principles while bringing into view the personal, social, and geopolitical singularities embodied by particular devices. It will be an engaging and insightful read for scholars, researchers, and students across a wide range of disciplines, such as media studies, art and design, architecture, cultural history, and the digital humanities.
Different Every Time: The Authorized Biography of Robert Wyatt
by Marcus O'DairRobert Wyatt started out as the drummer and singer for Soft Machine, who shared a residency at Middle Earth with Pink Floyd and toured America with the Jimi Hendrix Experience. He brought a jazz mindset to the 1960's rock scene, having honed his drumming skills in a shed at the end of Robert Graves' garden in Mallorica, Spain.Wyatt's life took an abrupt turn in 1973, when he fell from a fourth-floor window at a party and was paralyzed from the waist down. He reinvented himself as a singer and composer with the extraordinary album Rock Bottom, which he followed with an idiosyncratic string of records that uniquely combine the personal and political.Along the way, Robert has worked with the likes of Brian Eno, Bjork, Jerry Dammers, Charlie Haden, David Gilmour, Paul Weller and Hot Chip. Marcus O'Dair has talked to all of them--indeed anyone who has shaped, or been shaped by Wyatt over five decades. Different Every Time is the first biography of Robert Wyatt, and it was written with his full participation. It includes illustrations by Alfreda Benge and photographs from Robert's personal archive.
The Different Faces of Politics in the Visual and Performative Arts
by Mario Thomas Vassallo André P. DeBattistaThis book highlights the linkages between politics and governance and the arts. The essays in the volume show how visual and performative arts have challenged those in power — or conversely patronised by them — been used for propaganda, stir up national fervour and found themselves at the receiving end of political censure. They focus on the tension and symbiosis between the politician and the artist foregrounding how they have always tried to influence, challenge, and, in some cases, undermine one another. This volume will serve as an indispensable source for researchers and academics in political science, the humanities and performing arts.
A Different Road Taken: Profiles In Critical Communication
by John A LentDallas Smythe, George Gerbner, Herbert Schiller, James Halloran, Kaarle Nordenstreng- these five seminal figures form the backbone of current scholarship in critical communication. From policy research to television demographics and from economic globalization to cultural imperialism, their insights and discoveries have given both scholars and the
A Different Stage: The remarkable and intimate life story of Gary Barlow told through music
by Gary BarlowTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERJoin national treasure Gary Barlow as he opens the curtains on his remarkable life in this stunning autobiography, from his fascinating early life to his star-studded music career'Warm, wise . . . A never-before-seen insight into one of Britain's greatest songwriters' Woman's Own'I just wanted to share my personal journey through the last five decades - the highs and lows, the ups and downs. So in A Different Stage, this is me opening the curtains and sharing moments nobody has heard or seen before . . .'__________In this warm, intimate and humorous book, rich with nostalgia and unexpected intimate detail, Gary Barlow unpacks the people, music, places, things and cultural phenomena that have made him the man that he is.From the working men's club where it all began through to the sold out stadium tours, this is the story of Gary's life told through music.Filled with a mixture of brand new photography from Gary's current one-man show and incredibly personal unseen photos and notebooks, A Different Stage is a beautiful book about the man we've spent our lives listening to.__________'Refreshingly honest . . . Think you know everything there is to know about the Take That megastar? Think again' Woman & Home
Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture
by Sharon Coleclough Bethan Michael-Fox Renske VisserThis book responds to a growing interest in death, dying and the dead within and beyond the field of death studies. The collection defines an understanding of ‘difficult death’ and examines the differences between death, dying and the dead, as well as exploring the ethical challenges of researching death in mediated form. The collection is attendant to the ways in which difficult deaths are imbricated in power structures both before and after they become mediatised in culture. As such, the work navigates the many political and social complexities and inequalities – what might be deemed the difficulties – of death, dying and the dead. The book seeks to expand understandings of the difficulty of death in media and culture through a wide range of chapters from different contexts focused on literature, film, television, and in online environments, as well as several chapters examining news reportage of difficult deaths.
The Difficulty of Difference: Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference and Film Theory (Routledge Library Editions: Cinema)
by D. N. RodowickThis book argues that serious misreadings of Freud and Lacan on sexual difference have characterized prevailing models of psychoanalytic film criticism. In critiquing theories of identification and female spectatorship, the author maintains that early film theorists and feminist critics are equally guilty of imposing a binary conception of sexual difference on Freud’s thought. By embracing such a rigid definition of male/female difference, they fail to understand the fundamentally complex and fluid process of sexual identification as it is articulated in Freud’s writing, constructed in film texts, and negotiated by spectators. The book turns to Freud’s work on fantasy to develop an alternative model for interpreting sexuality in the visual and narrative arts, one that emphasizes a ‘politics of critical reading’ over accepted theories of ideological identification. Originally published in 1991, its strategic focus on psychoanalysis itself as an object of historical and critical inquiry, and not simply as a reading method is the unique quality of this book.