Wilder Mann

Wilder Mann
Author: Charles Fréger
Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Clothing and dress
ISBN: 9781907893230

The transformation of man to beast is a central aspect of traditional pagan rituals that are centuries old and which celebrate the seasonal cycle, fertility, life and death.

Farther and Wilder

Farther and Wilder
Author: Blake Bailey
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2013-12-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307475522

Charles Jackson’s novel The Lost Weekend—the story of five disastrous days in the life of an alcoholic—was published in 1944 to triumphant success. Although he tried to escape its legacy, Jackson is often remembered only as the author of this thinly veiled autobiography. In Farther & Wilder, the award-winning biographer of Richard Yates and John Cheever goes deeper, exploring Jackson’s life—from growing up in the scandal-plagued village of Newark, New York, to a career in Hollywood and friendships with everyone from Judy Garland and Billy Wilder to Thomas Mann and Mary McCarthy. This is the fascinating biography of a writer whose life and work encapsulated what it meant to be an addict and a closeted homosexual in mid-century America, and who was far ahead of his time in bringing these forbidden subjects into the popular discourse.

Hollywood Independents

Hollywood Independents
Author: Denise Mann
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre:
ISBN: 145291334X

'Hollywood Independents' explores the crucial period between 1948 and 1962 when independent film producers first became key components of the modern corporate entertainment industry. Mann examines their impact, the decline of the studios, the rise of television, and the rise of potent talent agencies such as MCA.

Yokainoshima

Yokainoshima
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Costume
ISBN: 9780500544594

Explores the masks, costumes and characters that reappear with each returning season in Japan

Red Thistle

Red Thistle
Author: Davide Monteleone
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Caucasus, Northern (Russia)
ISBN: 9781907893162

A powerful and fascinating exploration of the important but relatively unknown region of the Northern Caucasus and its people. It lies between the Black and Caspian Seas and is within European Russia. Wars have been fought here for centuries - the most recent in Chechnya. Monteleone examines the stubborn, rebellious culture of this region, which although part of Russia, differs in the ethnicity, religion and social customs of its inhabitants. 'If you shoot in the Caucasus, the echo will be heard for centuries,' says an old proverb from the region.

Reports

Reports
Author: United States. Board of Tax Appeals
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1518
Release: 1928
Genre: Taxation
ISBN:

Valour and Vanity

Valour and Vanity
Author: Mary Robinette Kowal
Publisher: Tor Books
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2014-04-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 146680839X

Acclaimed fantasist Mary Robinette Kowal has enchanted many fans with her beloved novels featuring a Regency setting in which magic—known here as glamour—is real. In Valour and Vanity, master glamourists Jane and Vincent find themselves in the sort of a magical adventure that might result if Jane Austen wrote Ocean's Eleven. After Melody's wedding, the Ellsworths and Vincents accompany the young couple on their tour of the continent. Jane and Vincent plan to separate from the party and travel to Murano to study with glassblowers there, but their ship is set upon by Barbary corsairs while en route. It is their good fortune that they are not enslaved, but they lose everything to the pirates and arrive in Murano destitute. Jane and Vincent are helped by a kind local they meet en route, but Vincent is determined to become self-reliant and get their money back, and hatches a plan to do so. But when so many things are not what they seem, even the best laid plans conceal a few pitfalls. The ensuing adventure is a combination of the best parts of magical fantasy and heist novels, set against a glorious Regency backdrop. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

My Brother's War

My Brother's War
Author: Jessica Hines
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-10-25
Genre: Photography, Artistic
ISBN: 9781911306672

My Brother's War tells the story of a soldier, Gary Hines, and his younger sister's search to understand the circumstances surrounding his life with Post Traumatic Stress - and his untimely death by his own hand ten years after returning home from war.

Cimarrón

Cimarrón
Author: Charles Freger
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-05-21
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 0500022461

This series of extraordinary photographic portraits by Charles Fréger brings to life the vivid costumes used in festivals by the descendants of African slaves in America. All across the Americas, from the sixteenth century onwards, enslaved Africans escaped their captors and struck out on their own. These runaways established their own communities or joined with indigenous peoples to forge new identities. Cimarrón, borrowing a Spanish-American term for these fugitive former slaves, is a new series of photographic portraits of their descendants by acclaimed photographer Charles Fréger, whose work is defining a new genre of documentary photography. From Brazil, Colombia, the Caribbean islands, Central America, and as far as the southern United States, elaborate masquerades are staged that celebrate and keep alive the history and memory of African slaves and their creole or mixed-race descendants. Unique photographs of people in dynamic costumes from remote regions of the world will enthrall followers of social history, ethnic folklore, and unusual fashion experimentation. Vividly colored silks and cottons combine with woven fibers, leaves, feathers, and body paint; props include emblems of slavery and slave masters— ropes, sticks, guns, and machetes. These photographs, supplemented with texts by specialists in social anthropology to provide ethnographic and historical context, record real people whose collective sense of memory, folk history, and imagination dramatically challenge our expectations.