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Montgomery Clift, Queer Star: Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 678min

Strikingly beautiful and exceptionally talented, Montgomery Clift was at the peak of his fame in 1956 when a devastating car crash nearly destroyed his face. While this traumatic event robbed him of his heartthrob status and turned him into a somewhat disturbing, socially alienated character, author Elisabetta Girelli argues that Clift had always combined on-screen erotic ambiguity with real-life sexual nonconformity. In Montgomery Clift, Queer Star she maps the development of Clift's subversive image over the span of his entire career, approaching Clift as a queer signifier who defied normative cultural structures. From the sexually ambivalent "beautiful boy" of his early films, to the seemingly asexual, transgressive, and often distressed man of his last years, Girelli argues that Clift shows remarkable consistency as a star: his presence always challenges established notions of virility, sexuality, and bodily "normality." Girelli's groundbreaking analysis uses queer theory to assess Clift's disruptive legacy, engaging with key critical concepts such as the closet, performativity, queer shame, crip theory, and queer temporality. She balances theoretical frameworks with extensive close readings of his performances and a consideration of how Clift's personal life, and public perceptions of it, informed his overall image as a deviant star and man. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sara Morsey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/050350/bk_acx0_050350_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 387min

From the acclaimed author of Listen, Liberal and What’s the Matter with Kansas, a scathing collection of his incisive commentary on our cruel times - perfect for this political moment. What does a middle-class democracy look like when it comes apart? When, after 40 years of economic triumph, America’s winners persuade themselves that they owe nothing to the rest of the country? With his sharp eye for detail, Thomas Frank takes us on a wide-ranging tour through present-day America, showing us a society in the late stages of disintegration and describing the worlds of both the winners and the losers - the sprawling mansion districts as well as the lives of fast-food workers. Rendezvous with Oblivion is a collection of interlocking essays examining how inequality has manifested itself in our cities, in our jobs, in the way we travel - and of course in our politics, where in 2016, millions of anxious ordinary people rallied to the presidential campaign of a billionaire who meant them no good. These accounts of folly and exploitation are here brought together in a single audiobook unified by Frank’s distinctive voice, sardonic wit, and anti-orthodox perspective. It captures a society where every status signifier is hollow, where the allure of mobility is just another con game, and where rebellion too often yields nothing. For those who despair of the future of our country and of reason itself, Rendezvous with Oblivion is a booster shot of energy, reality, and moral outrage. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Thomas Frank. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/003550/bk_aren_003550_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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On Michael Jackson , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 227min

Michael Jackson was once universally acclaimed as a song-and-dance man of genius; Wacko Jacko is now, more often than not, dismissed for his bizarre race and gender transformations and confounding antics, even as he is commonly reviled for the child molestation charges twice brought against him. Whence the weirdness and alleged criminality? How to account for Michael Jackson's rise and fall? In On Michael Jackson, an at once passionate, incisive, and bracing work of cultural analysis, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for The New York Times Margo Jefferson brilliantly unravels the complexities of one of the most enigmatic figures of our time. Who is Michael Jackson and what does it mean to call him a "What Is It"? What do P. T. Barnum, Peter Pan, and Edgar Allan Poe have to do with our fascination with Jackson? How did his curious Victorian upbringing and his tenure as a child prodigy on the "chitlin' circuit" inform his character and multiplicity of selves? How is Michael Jackson's celebrity related to the outrageous popularity of 19th-century minstrelsy? What is the perverse appeal of child stars for grown-ups and what is the price of such stardom for these children and for us? What uncanniness provoked Michael Jackson to become "Alone of All His Race, Alone of All Her Sex," while establishing himself as an undeniably great performer with neo-Gothic, dandy proclivities and a producer of visionary music videos? What do we find so unnerving about Michael Jackson's presumed monstrosity? In short, how are we all of us implicated? In her stunning first book, Margo Jefferson gives us the incontrovertible lowdown on call-him-what-you-wish; she offers a powerful reckoning with a quintessential, richly allusive signifier of American society and popular culture. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrea Johnson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000654/bk_bkot_000654_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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DRAWN

Verschmelzen von Zeichnung und Grafik Christian Schwarzwalds künstlerisches Medium (geb. 1971 in Salzburg; lebt und arbeitet in Wien und Berlin) ist die Zeichnung. Er verwendet verschiedenste Techniken und Bildquellen und nutzt Aspekte der Reproduzierbarkeit, der Irritation durch eingebaute Fehler und der Illusion von Dreidimensionalität. Schwarzwalds Arbeit verkörpert dabei einen erweiterten Begriff von Grafik: Skizzen, Notizen, Editionen und Malereien werden im Raum zu Ensembles. Das Einzelblatt - als Zeichen - wird so zur Komponente eines komplexen Zeichensystems von Bildwelten. Mit analytischer Herangehensweise erschafft Schwarzwald eine enzyklopädische Welt der Zeichnung.Der umfangreiche Bildband DRAWN zeigt neben einem künstlerischen Teil eine Chronologie von über 100 Projekten. Die im Duplexdruckverfahren hergestellte Publikation greift durch den Zweifarbdruck ein zentrales Stilmittel Schwarzwalds in Buchform auf. Die Texte schrieben Elsy Lahner, Ann Cotten, Sebastian Egenhofer und Marcus Steinweg.Fusing Drawing and Graphic ArtThe drawing is the medium of Christian Schwarzwald's (b. Salzburg, Austria, 1971; lives and works in Vienna and Berlin) art. Employing a wide range of techniques, he draws on diverse image sources and harnesses aspects of reproducibility, the irritation provoked by built-in defects, and the illusion of three dimensions. Schwarzwald's work embodies an expanded conception of graphic art: sketches, notes, artist's editions, and paintings coalesce in ensembles in space; the individual sheet-as a signifier-is transmuted into a component of a complex semiotic system charting visual realms. Pursuing an analytical approach, Schwarzwald thus creates an encyclopedic world of drawing.The extensive and richly illustrated volume DRAWN includes an image section as well as a chronological overview of more than 100 projects. Produced using the duplex printing process, the publication's two-color printed pages reprise a central stylistic device of Schwarzwald's art in the book medium. With essays by Elsy Lahner, Ann Cotten, Sebastian Egenhofer, and Marcus Steinweg.

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Cultural Semiosis

Cultural Semiosis - Tracing the Signifier: ab 17.99 €

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Selectionnaire

Selectionnaire - Le mot selectionnaire est forme par telescopage de selections et dictionnaire pour signifier &quote;dictionnaire de selections&quote; ou &quote;dictionnaire selectif&quote;: ab 19.49 €

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