Papering Over the Cracks

Papering Over the Cracks
Author: Colin Murray
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2010-07-01
Genre: Christian biography
ISBN: 1848764022

Do you yearn to find the real meaning to life or an inner peace that is true? Are you fed up with wearing a mask? Is life really getting you down? That is exactly where Colin Murray was just a few years ago. He invites you to travel with him through his life while he paints a vivid picture, reflecting on his childhood in Scotland, describing his happy, at times haphazard, life in the North East coastal town of Portsoy. He shares his experiences, going beyond the ‘safety’ of home, in search of personal fulfilment. You will witness him wearing an assortment of stereotypical hats: the hat of the wise-cracking bar fly, the guilt-ridden wrongdoer, the compulsive business builder, passionate protagonist, and even the wronged dupe. He admits that attempting to explain his personal quest for the truth has been extremely difficult, because so much of his journey involves those mystical inner feelings that lie beyond the horizon of words.The complicated paths and winding roads we follow are vast and varied, but we all reach a time in our lives when we want to know, at the deepest level, if our existence and our Soul are compatible. This book simply chronicles the quest for this fundamental truth.

Movies and Mass Culture

Movies and Mass Culture
Author: John Belton
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1996
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780813522289

On how American identity is shaped by motion pictures

This is England

This is England
Author: Neil Rattigan
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780838638620

Third, that the condition of total war in which Britain found itself a short time after the commencement of hostilities would mean that films, and indeed, all mass/popular culture, would respond to the urgency of the situation by taking a special interest in representations of British society. And fourth, following on from this, that British films of the Second World War would, one way or another, be agents of propaganda. From these propositions, the book examines just what these films had to say about social class in the images of Britain they were promulgating, with the corollaries of just how were they saying it, and why were they saying it. Alongside this is a concern with what propaganda purposes were being met by these films."--Jacket.

Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan-- and Beyond

Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan-- and Beyond
Author: Robin Wood
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231129664

This new edition includes all the chapters of the original work, supplemented with analysis of comedy films of the 1990s, a chapter on contemporary filmmakers, including David Fincher & Jim Jarmusch, & an essay on 'Day of the Dead'

Moving Environments

Moving Environments
Author: Alexa Weik von Mossner
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2014-10-07
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1771120045

In Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, international scholars investigate how films portray human emotional relationships with the more-than-human world and how such films act upon their viewers’ emotions. Emotion and affect are the basic mechanisms that connect us to our environment, shape our knowledge, and motivate our actions. Contributors explore how film represents and shapes human emotion in relation to different environments and what role time, place, and genre play in these affective processes. Individual essays resituate well-researched environmental films such as An Inconvenient Truth and March of the Penguins by paying close attention to their emotionalizing strategies, and bring to our attention the affective qualities of films that have so far received little attention from ecocritics, such as Stan Brakhage’s Dog Star Man. The collection opens a new discursive space at the disciplinary intersection of film studies, affect studies, and a growing body of ecocritical scholarship. It will be of interest not only to scholars and students working in the field of ecocriticism and the environmental humanities, but for everyone with an interest in our emotional responses to film.

Sue Williamson

Sue Williamson
Author: Sue Williamson
Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2003
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781919930244

A very special and highly respected South Africa artist, Sue has many links to the international art world. She has exhibited in Cuba, Iceland and Greece.

Wall Plaster

Wall Plaster
Author: United States. National Bureau of Standards
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1924
Genre: Plaster
ISBN: