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Book The Floating World

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  • Author : C. Morgan Babst
  • Publisher : Algonquin Books
  • Release : 2017-10-17
  • ISBN : 1616207639
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book The Floating World written by C. Morgan Babst and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Set in New Orleans, this important and powerful novel follows the Boisdoré family . . . in the months after Katrina. A profound, moving and authentically detailed picture of the storm’s emotional impact on those who lived through it.” —People In this dazzling debut about family, home, and grief, C. Morgan Babst takes readers into the heart of Hurricane Katrina and the life of a great city. As the storm is fast approaching the Louisiana coast, Cora Boisdoré refuses to leave the city. Her parents, Joe Boisdoré, an artist descended from freed slaves who became the city’s preeminent furniture makers, and his white “Uptown” wife, Dr. Tess Eshleman, are forced to evacuate without her, setting off a chain of events that leaves their marriage in shambles and Cora catatonic—the victim or perpetrator of some violence mysterious even to herself. This mystery is at the center of Babst’s haunting and profound novel. Cora’s sister, Del, returns to New Orleans from the successful life she built in New York City to find her hometown in ruins and her family deeply alienated from one another. As Del attempts to figure out what happened to her sister, she must also reckon with the racial history of the city and the trauma of a disaster that was not, in fact, some random act of God but an avoidable tragedy visited on New Orleans’s most vulnerable citizens. Separately and together, each member of the Boisdoré clan must find the strength to remake home in a city forever changed. The Floating World is the Katrina story that needed to be told—one with a piercing, unforgettable loveliness and a vivid, intimate understanding of this particular place and its tangled past.

Book New Hollywood Violence

Download or read book New Hollywood Violence written by Steven Jay Schneider and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the depiction of violence and related issues in Hollywood productions, this book focuses on the motivations and cultural politics of violence on the big screen, as well as its effects on viewers and society as a whole.

Book The Aesthetics of Murder

Download or read book The Aesthetics of Murder written by Joel Black and published by . This book was released on 1991-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What connects the Romantic essays of Thomas De Quincey and the violent cinema of Brian De Palma? Or the "beautiful" suicides of Hedda Gabler and Yukio Mishima? Or the shootings of John Lennon and Ronald Reagan? In The Aesthetics of Murder, Joel Black explores the sometimes gruesome interplay between life and art, between actual violence and images of violence in a variety of literary texts, paintings, and films. Rather than exclude murder from critical consideration by dismissing it as a crime, Black urges us to ponder the killer's artistic role -- and our own experience as audience, witness, or voyeur. Black examines murder as a recurring, obsessive theme in the Romantic tradition, approaching the subject from an aesthetic rather than a moral, psychological, or philosophical perspective. And he brings into his discussion contemporary instances of sensational murders and assassinations, treating these as mimetic or cathartic activities in their own right. Combining historical documentation with theoretical insights, Black shows that the possibilities of representing violence -- and of experiencing it -- as art were recognized early in the nineteenth century as logical extensions of Romantic theories of the sublime. Since then, both traditional art forms and the modern mass media have contributed to the growing aestheticization of daily experience -- including murder, suicide, and terrorism." -- Book cover.

Book Killing for Culture

Download or read book Killing for Culture written by David Kerekes and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book La psicoterapia come un romanzo giallo

Download or read book La psicoterapia come un romanzo giallo written by Matteo Rampin and published by Ponte alle Grazie. This book was released on 2012-11-29T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La morte alle cinque, L’artista maledetto, La sterminatrice di psichiatri: questi sono alcuni titoli dei casi descritti – o forse sarebbe meglio dire «narrati» – in questo libro, grazie al quale apprendiamo delle sorprendenti similitudini tra la professione dello psicoterapeuta e quella dell’investigatore. La dinamica nascosta di alcuni problemi psicologici può essere smascherata seguendo gli schemi d'indagine resi famosi dalla letteratura poliziesca: analisi della scena del crimine, ricerca degli indizi, individuazione della logica «anomala» del delitto, analisi psicologica delle motivazioni, gli interrogatori con tecniche comunicative particolari... fino a scoprire il «colpevole». Il terapeuta, proprio come l’investigatore, conduce un’inchiesta e trae le conclusioni. Dieci casi reali, dieci appassionanti indagini risolte con le astuzie, gli stratagemmi, le mosse a sorpresa dei più celebri detective della letteratura: Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Phil Marlowe, il tenente Colombo. Sei di questi casi sono stati pubblicati nel libro "I delitti del monastero".

Book Art as Far as the Eye Can See

Download or read book Art as Far as the Eye Can See written by Paul Virilio and published by Berg Publishers. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title puts art back where it matters: at the center of politics