Download or read book Timeless Icon written by Carlo Mazzoni and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timeless Icon tells a story of the 'people's princess', the 'rose of England', a stylish icon with great charm who almost defies description. Fifteen years ago, Princess Diana died in Paris in tragic circumstances. The book tells her story through more t

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Download or read book Eternal Icons written by Ivy Blair and published by RWG Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-18 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eternal Icons: Celebrating the Lives of Timeless Celebrities by Ivy Blair delves into the captivating world of stardom and celebrity culture. This book is a tribute to the larger-than-life figures who have shaped our collective consciousness and influenced popular culture. From the golden age of Hollywood to the modern era of social media influencers, Ivy Blair explores the lives, legacies, and lasting impact of these iconic personalities. Through eleven insightful chapters, readers will journey through the evolution of celebrity, the co-creation of hero-like figures, and the disneyfication of legends. Discover how these eternal icons transcend their mortality, leaving an indelible mark on fashion, music, design, and public sensibilities. Whether you're a pop culture enthusiast or a curious observer, this book offers a profound look at the phenomenon of stardom and its enduring allure.

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Download or read book Timeless Icons written by Carlo Mazzoni and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tribute to the eternally modern charm of stars and personalities who radiate sophisticated, timeless style. Through glamorous images of celebrities—both contemporary and past—this exquisite volume celebrates the legendary style of actors, models, musicians, socialites, and more. A curation of the most emblematic figures of the last century, this tome features a who’s who list of style icons from the red carpet, Hollywood films, and magazine covers: from Jane Birkin, Brigitte Bardot, Lauren Hutton, and Audrey Hepburn to James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Mick Jagger. Also spotlighted are beloved icons of our time, including Gisele Bündchen, Blake Lively, George Clooney, and Leonardo DiCaprio. Beautiful photographs underscore each personality’s unique charm and elegance, while informative texts describe the time period and style. The result is a book that’s as enchanting as the legendary figures represented within its pages.

Download or read book Andartes written by Andreas Chrysaphēs and published by Evandia Publishing UK Limited. This book was released on 2005 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andartes: Set in the mid 1950s, Andartes (Guerrillas) is an absorbing glimpse into the fiercely fought EOKA struggle for the independence of Cyprus from British colonial rule: the drama all the more poignant given its basis in historical fact. It is vividly written, brutal, emotional, with a most touching story. This absorbing read follows Alexi's life from an early age of utter poverty where he befriends a Turkish Cypriot compatriot and both become inseparable. They grow into young lads and enjoy life at its fullest until one day their lives had changed forever. Alexis' pride and ideals lead him on a journey that results in his paying the ultimate price. The New York based international magazine "ODYSSEY: The World of Greece" in their September / October 2008 issue has given Andartes its own review. THE BOOK REVIEW: by Elena Polyzos. There are few non-academic studies written in English about the Cypriot struggle for independence from British colonial rule in the mid -1950's. As a result, the story of this fiercely fought, bitter guerrilla war has been somewhat inaccessible, with Lawrence Durrell's Bitter Lemons of Cyprus, written over fifty years ago, being the classic account of those momentous events. Andartes is a worthy addition to the literature on the subject, a dramatic novel based on historical fact. The author convincingly examines the root of the war, the formation of EOKA the Greek Cypriot guerrilla liberation organization, (hence the title, 'Andartes', or rebels) and the internecine struggle between the Greek and Turkish Cypriots. Although told from a Greek Cypriot point of view, Chrysafis does attempt to provide an objective and balanced account of the Greek, Turkish, and British involvement in the struggle and mostly succeeds. Even so, it is the British who come off worst, a case of complacent and misguided colonial rule. The scenes of torture and executions portray the brutality of their authority and reveal the author's full contempt for their actions. These scenes are particularly poignant given that they describe events which took so soon after the World War II. Andartes is also a novel of Greek-Turkish friendship and traces the relationship between a young Greek and a Turk, and how they are shaped by the violence of those years. The author concludes that violence begets violence, and in the end, nobody remains unaffected. A satisfying emotional read with vivid and believable characters and a gripping story.

Download or read book Textualterity written by Joseph Grigely and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witty exploration of the transmission of cultural texts

Download or read book Work written by Elspeth H. Brown and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the haute couture runways of Paris and New York and editorial photo shoots for glossy fashion magazines to reality television, models have been a ubiquitous staple of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American consumer culture. In Work! Elspeth H. Brown traces the history of modeling from the advent of photographic modeling in the early twentieth century to the rise of the supermodel in the 1980s. Brown outlines how the modeling industry sanitized and commercialized models' sex appeal in order to elicit and channel desire into buying goods. She shows how this new form of sexuality—whether exhibited in the Ziegfeld Follies girls' performance of Anglo-Saxon femininity or in African American models' portrayal of black glamour in the 1960s—became a central element in consumer capitalism and a practice that has always been shaped by queer sensibilities. By outlining the paradox that queerness lies at the center of capitalist heteronormativity and telling the largely unknown story of queer models and photographers, Brown offers an out of the ordinary history of twentieth-century American culture and capitalism.

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Download or read book Imagining Jewish Authenticity written by Ken Koltun-Fromm and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring how visual media presents claims to Jewish authenticity, Imagining Jewish Authenticity argues that Jews imagine themselves and their place within America by appealing to a graphic sensibility. Ken Koltun-Fromm traces how American Jewish thinkers capture Jewish authenticity, and lingering fears of inauthenticity, in and through visual discourse and opens up the subtle connections between visual expectations, cultural knowledge, racial belonging, embodied identity, and the ways images and texts work together.

Download or read book Louis MacNeice The Classical Radio Plays written by Louis MacNeice and published by Classical Presences. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents 11 radio scripts written and produced by Louis MacNeice over the span of his career at the BBC. This selection, all but one of which is published for the first time, illustrates the various ways that MacNeice re-worked ancient Greek and Roman history and literature for radio broadcast.

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