Download or read book Generation Multiplex written by Timothy Shary and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generation Multiplex (2002) was the first comprehensive study of the representation of teenagers in American cinema since David Considine’s Cinema of Adolescence in 1985. This updated and expanded edition reaffirms the idea that films about youth constitute a legitimate genre worthy of study on its own terms. Identifying four distinct subgenres—school, delinquency, horror, and romance—Timothy Shary explores hundreds of representative films while offering in-depth discussion of movies that constitute key moments in the genre, including Fast Times at Ridgemont High, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Breakfast Club, Say Anything . . . , Boyz N the Hood, Scream, American Pie, Napoleon Dynamite, Superbad, The Twilight Saga, and The Hunger Games. Analyzing developments in teen films since 2002, Shary covers such topics as the increasing availability of movies on demand, which has given teens greater access to both popular and lesser-seen films; the recent dominance of supernatural and fantasy films as a category within the genre; and how the ongoing commodification of teen images in media affects real-life issues such as school bullying, athletic development, sexual identity, and teenage pregnancy.

Download or read book Kick Ass The New Girl Vol 1 written by Mark Millar and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KICK-ASS IS BACK ready to wipe out the city's criminal lowlives, destroy its gangs, and save its communities from decay. But there's a new face beneath the old mask, a new figure wearing that famous green and yellow spandex. Who is this new vigilante superhero? Who can fill Dave Lizewski's shoes? WHO IS THE NEW KICK-ASS? Find out in the first collection of KICK-ASS: THE NEW GIRL. MARK MILLAR and JOHN ROMITA, JR. reunite for the next chapter of the greatest superhero comic of all time. Collects KICK-ASS: THE NEW GIRL #1-6

Download or read book Kick Ass 8 written by Mark Millar and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kick-Ass is building her own army in New Mexico. But now her men are being captured and tortured for information, and Hector Santos will stop at nothing until Kick-Ass is unmasked. Can Patience keep her identityÑand her familyÑsafe?

Download or read book The Psychology of Screenwriting written by Jason Lee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Psychology of Screenwriting is more than an interesting book on the theory and practice of screenwriting. It is also a philosophical analysis of predetermination and freewill in the context of writing and human life in our mediated world of technology. Drawing on humanism, existentialism, Buddhism, postmodernism and transhumanism, and diverse thinkers from Meister Eckhart to Friedrich Nietzsche, Theodor Adorno, Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard and Gilles Deleuze, The Psychology of Screenwriting will be of use to screenwriters, film students, philosophers and all those interested in contemporary theory. This book combines in-depth critical and cultural analysis with an elaboration on practice in an innovative fashion. It explores how people, such as those in the Dogme 95 movement, have tried to overcome traditional screenwriting, looking in detail at the psychology of writing and the practicalities of how to write well for the screen. This is the first book to include high-theory with screenwriting practice whilst incorporating the Enneagram for character development. Numerous filmmakers and writers, including David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch, David Cronenberg, Pedro Almodóvar, Darren Aronofsky, Sally Potter and Charlie Kaufman are explored. The Psychology of Screenwriting is invaluable for those who want to delve deeper into writing for the screen.

Download or read book Nicolas Cage written by compiled from Wikipedia pages and published by DrGoogelberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicolas Cage - His Life and MoviesCompiled from Wikipedia entries and published by Dr Googelberg.Read interesting details about the life and the movies of this popular actor.

Download or read book Johnny Bad Ass written by The Big Lefthook and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a love story of a young Irish fighter's climb out of a blue collar neighborhood of Brooklyn into the double-dealing, high stakes world of Las Vegas during the 1960's. The road is full of potholes and death defying, hair-pin curves. At every fork, Johnny ("The Kid") takes the wrong turn that sends him into another whirlwind of suspenseful action. A conservative may label Johnny a stone-cold killer but the average reader will fall in love with him because of his deep sense of loyalty and code of honor. Johnny has an "old soul," an attitude from the Wild West but lives in the 1960's-a true recipe for trouble!

Download or read book Big Daddy s Rules written by Steve Schirripa and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author shares his misadventures in parenting two daughters, a journey that pitted his over-the-top personality against such challenges as boyfriends, birth control, and inappropriate teachers.

Download or read book Baby Daddy from Hell written by Kelly Dunn and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The norm for me was but the latest juicy update for them—family, friends, coworkers, whoever would listen. My life felt like a reality show, and I an open book. The ongoing turmoil was so bizarre people were disturbed one individual was capable of such magnitude. From alcohol to drugs to domestic violence (all in excess), police involvement was nothing short of expected. Lies upon lies, his narcissism gave me skyrocketing anxiety.As an ethical, godly person myself, I struggled to comprehend the predicament I was in. Surely this was not my best life. Along with his abuse, I racked my own brain asking, “What am I supposed to learn from all of this?” Maybe if I knew, I could move past this phase. But certain lessons can only be fully understood the hard way.If I could go back in time and alter the past, I would not change a thing. As tormenting as it was, I lost battles (for sure), but I won the war. I am in a far better place than I ever imagined. I have grown leaps and bounds in many facets of life. Everything truly happens for a reason.One day it hit me: turn a negative (-) into a positive (+), hence Baby Daddy from Hellwas born. In this book based on a true story, I will take you on a journey of laughter, tears, and righteous anger while I share with you how to do the following:● Establish boundaries● Prepare for court● Handle harassment● Put children first● Divertarguments● Make hard choices● Redirect emotions● Stay the courseIt is liberating to know if I can survive that and come out on top, nothing is impossible. The word itself says “I’m possible.” Don’t make the same mistake I did; don’t be naive. Take initiative and educate yourself. Knowledge is power. Better to be safe than sorry. You never know what the future holds.

Download or read book Daddy s Girl written by Kimmi Illuminati and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daddy's Girl....Dangerously in love has already received massive buzz. Kimmi invites readers to her website at 5starrliterally.com to enjoy a sneak peek. On that website the reviews are in and they are all great. Kimmi Illuminati is taking the urban fiction literary world by storm and she is someone to watch. Great urban novels are expected from this young author and CEO. "OMG! I got a chance to read a few chapters of "Daddy's Girl...Dangerously In Love". It is GREAT! With my heavy work load with school and work, I usually don't read unless it's for school. It was well worth it! Can I pre-order the book?!" - Chantel Anderson (Bridgeport, CT) "I could NOT stop reading the sneak peek chapters! Can't wait to buy the book. I hope Kimmi has a book signing in Connecticut. I would love to meet her in person and get her autograph!" - Shawn Gelin (Norwalk, CT) WOW! Two Thumbs Up! Daddy's Girl...Dangerously In Love is definitely gonna be a best seller! The 1st few chapters caught my attention from the start. Can't wait to read the rest! - Vanity Davis (Goldsboro, NC) "Wow! Kimmi's bio has me in aww! Her star tattoos are CRAZY...I love 'em! Can't wait to get the book!" - Janella Joyner (Stamford, CT) "Daddy's Girl...should be made into a movie! Boy, that Kimmi can write! Please let me know when I can buy the book" - Travis Walker (Columbia, SC) "It's a winner! Love the sneak peak chapters she shared! Please stop in Tampa on your Book Tour!" - Kenneth Jones (Tampa, FL)

Download or read book Call Me Daddy written by Kelly Stone Gamble and published by Red Adept Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cass Adams comes from a long line of crazy, and she fears passing that on to her unborn child. Also, she’s run over Roland and Clay’s surprise half brother Britt, landing him in the hospital. With her inner demons coming out to haunt her, she doesn’t know if she should keep the baby. Clay Adams has his own decisions to make. His half brother shows up to tell him their father, Freddy, is still alive but needs a liver transplant. When Freddy blew out of town thirty-five years ago, secrets were buried. But it’s time for them to be dug up, because only then can Clay hope to lay the past to rest. Call Me Daddy is a story of family, the secrets they keep, and to what lengths someone would go to protect them. This sequel to They Call Me Crazy can be read as a standalone novel.

Download or read book e Pedia Captain America Civil War written by Contributors, Wikipedia and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-02-11 with total page 6089 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Captain America: Civil War is a 2016 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger and 2014's Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and the thirteenth film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, with a screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, and features an ensemble cast, including Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Rudd, Emily VanCamp, Tom Holland, Frank Grillo, William Hurt, and Daniel Brühl. In Captain America: Civil War, disagreement over international oversight of the Avengers fractures them into opposing factions—one led by Steve Rogers and the other by Tony Stark. This book has been derived from Wikipedia: it contains the entire text of the title Wikipedia article + the entire text of all the 634 related (linked) Wikipedia articles to the title article. This book does not contain illustrations.

Download or read book Sugar Daddy written by Neal Lander and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sugar Daddy is a tale of young Monay. She knows it all, she has everything under control until she decides to get her a “Sugar Daddy”. How could she have known what she was getting herself into? Message to all the young ladies who think a sugar daddy is the answer to all your financial woes.....be careful what you wish for. You might just get more than what you expect.

Download or read book Postfeminism and Paternity in Contemporary US Film written by Hannah Hamad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book interrogates representations of fatherhood across the spectrum of popular U.S. film of the early twenty-first century. It situates them in relation to postfeminist discourse, identifying and discussing dominant paradigms and tropes that emerge from the tendency of popular cinema to configure ideal masculinity in paternal terms. It analyses postfeminist fatherhood across a range of genres including historical epics, war films, westerns, bromantic comedies, male melodramas, action films, family comedies, and others. It also explores recurring themes and intersections such as the rejuvenation of aging masculinities through fatherhood, the paternalized recuperation of immature adult masculinities, the relationship between fatherhood in film and 9/11 culture, post-racial discourse in representations of fatherhood, and historically located formations of fatherhood. It is the first book length study to explore the relationship between fatherhood and postfeminism in popular cinema.

Download or read book One Week Gig written by Rufus Curry and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction / Romance / Adult Caught in the crossfire between justification and knowing, Chapman Sweet, Jr. works to untangle the present mess he finds his life in. Surrounded by a smorgasbord of feminine opportunities and advisors, the leader of the Chapman Sweet Band stands in the middle of the crossroads to Heaven and Hell. Three beautiful women tarry in the hall of his desire, waiting for his decision. Desperate measures rise as the sole option, in the quest for a One Week Gig. Music, friends, food, laughs laced with tears, combined to pave the way to what could be. * Can a husband and wife have their dreams and be happy in marriage at the same time? * She is supposed to make me happy! * He is supposed to make me happy! * If she won't, I know somebody else will. * God said...?

Download or read book My Dark Places written by James Ellroy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-09-23 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother. In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy L.A. suburb. Her killer was never found, and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night. James Ellroy was ten when his mother died, and he spent the next thirty-six years running from her ghost and attempting to exorcize it through crime fiction. In 1994, Ellroy quit running. He went back to L.A., to find out the truth about his mother--and himself. In My Dark Places, our most uncompromising crime writer tells what happened when he teamed up with a brilliant homicide cop to investigate a murder that everyone else had forgotten--and reclaim the mother he had despised, desired, but never dared to love. What ensues is a epic of loss, fixation, and redemption, a memoir that is also a history of the American way of violence.

Download or read book Boy Interrupted written by Patrick King and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-07-27 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine you are five years old. You haven't started kindergarten, and your only knowledge of the outside world are those trips to the park where your nanny, Bella, lets you swing as high as you want and teeter-totter and jungle gym to your little heart's content. Or when your sweet mother shows up by surprise and spirits you away to the ice cream shop for your favorite cone—very berry strawberry cherry, thank you very much—or, better still, when she takes you to the movies for one of those fantastical adventures on that gigantic screen. Man, that Darth Vader is one scary dude! At home you are ensconced in the space they call your bedroom, but to you, it is the universe. You designed it, and in it you are the master of all. There, you line up your army of soldiers and battle the Pteranodon, while every stuffed critter under your watch spies it all from the edge of your bed. Your imagination is king, and all is well with the world, until one night... The assault had been brutal, pure physical torture. It had shocked you to the core, left you breathless and stunned. Witless. Took you weeks to recover. But that was only your body. Where does a five-year-old take such a thing? To whom do you speak? How do you even wrap your head around such cruelty? Such pain. Such betrayal. Daddy...

Download or read book Evidence of Insanity written by Carol Piner and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...Carol Piner remembers her Carteret County, NC childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life, it is suffused with Piner's endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Piner's debut is unflinching but always captivating. In wry and sometimes hilarious prose, she stares down disaster with righteous rage and prevails over her extraordinary life..." Kelli Creelman, Rocking Chair Bookstore "...a remarkable achievement...formidable, honest and direct, funny and gut-wrenching...a book a first time author should be proud of..." Rod Cockshutt, Professor Emeritus, N C State "...it is the very, very, very best book I have ever read in my life..." Susan Dail "Was up at 5:30 reading Evidence of Insanity by Carol Piner. I'm halfway through & I'm crying and laughing even harder... I love to read and if any of you out there do, then you won't be wasting your money...Oh, I forgot to add, it was 11:30 last night when I laid her book on the night stand, turned off the light and fell asleep, still chuckling..." Nina Moser "...Fasten your seat belts! Her book sales are about to go through the stratosphere!...If more people had her spirit and sense of humor, we'd have a lot less crazy people out there..." Christy Robinson "...Cool, you go, girl! I'm gonna look up one day and you are going to be on Oprah!" Frances Davis Cushwa