Download or read book Naked Instinct written by Frank Sanello and published by Carol Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through exclusive interviews with her family members, friends, and colleagues, this unauthorized, often incendiary, biography reveals a Sharon Stone little known to the public. "Naked Instinct" explores the actress's colorful love life and exposes the foibles, excesses, ambitions and fears of this driven and remarkable woman. photos, many in color.
Download or read book Basic Instinct written by Stevie Simkin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Verhoeven's 1992 thriller Basic Instinct - starring Michael Douglas as a police detective and Sharon Stone as the femme fatale Catherine Tramell - was one of the first mainstream 'erotic thrillers', a film which shifted the boundaries for graphic representations of sex in Hollywood cinema. It remains a significant milestone in film censorship and controversy. In his fascinating study, the first in-depth account of the film, Stevie Simkin explores the unrest and protest that Basic Instinct sparked in the gay, lesbian and feminist communities in the US, incensed by what they saw as the script's homophobia and misogyny. Simkin considers the social and cultural context in which Basic Instinct was made, examining the film's troubled production history, the battles with censors, and its reception. He offers a number of readings of the movie, looking at its representation of bisexuality and the depiction of a 'transgressive' female protagonist. He also focuses on key sequences, including the infamous interrogation scene, and details the cuts demanded by the censors, resulting in different UK and US versions. In conclusion, Simkin considers the legacy of Basic Instinct, and its enduring effect on media representations of the violent woman. STEVIE SIMKIN is Reader in Drama and Film at the University of Winchester, UK. His publications include work on cult television, popular music, and Renaissance drama. He is the author of, amongst other works, A Preface to Marlowe (1999), Revenge Tragedy: A New Casebook (2001), Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence (2005), and, also in the Controversies series, a book on the Peckinpah film, Straw Dogs.
Download or read book Basic Instinct written by Richard Osborne and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1992 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Naked Truth About Women written by George East and published by la Puce Publications. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do women always ask their man for an opinion of how a dress looks - and then ignore what he says? Why do they painstakingly inspect and try on dozens of shoes/dresses/handbags - and then buy the first one they looked at? Why do women say that love is more important than money, then judge how much a man loves her by the price of the engagement ring he buys her?
Download or read book The Poetical Works written by William Wordsworth and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Movie Stars Do the Dumbest Things written by Margaret Moser and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnny Depp. Marilyn Monroe. Marlon Brando. Leonardo DiCaprio. Woody Allen. Shanron Stone. What do all of these actors have in common? They're outrageous, receive huge salaries, have enormous egos, and have way too much spare time. Their out-of-control lifestyles prove that, as one Hollywood observer noted, "Hollywood is a trip through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat." You'll learn which director was furious when he was misquoted as saying, "Actors are cattle." He claimed he had really said, "Actors should be treated as cattle." You'll discover that Bruce Wilis ordered the final scenes in Striking Distance to be re-shot at a cost of over $750,000 because the original shots exposed his toupee. You'll find that Melanie Griffith explained her ignorance of the Nazi holocaust by saying, "I don't know why I didn't know. Maybe I missed school that day...I'm not stupid." Whether you're a fan of Hugh Grant, Dennis Hopper, or Whoopi Goldberg, you'll learn about all of the embarrassing moments in your favorite star's life. From actors like Ben Affleck and Cameron Diaz to screen legends like Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland, Movie Stars Do the Dumbest Things is proof that actors are more childish and impulsive than you've ever imagined.
Download or read book Gertrude and Beatrice Or The Queen of Hungary written by George Stephens and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Classicism to Modernism written by Brian K. Etter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2001. The last century has witnessed the ascendancy of the avant-garde in music. From Schoenberg to Boulez to Stockhausen, the avant-garde has defined the modern conception of musical creativity. Contemporary serious music demands the "new" in terms of style, form and ways of listening and hearing. Implicit in this approach is the rejection of the "old", from the baroque to the music of the later 19th-century symphonists. Paradoxically, however, it is this "old" repertoire which contiues to dominate concert programmes. An exploration of this dichotomy lies at the heart of this book. Drawing on a wealth of European philosophical and musical texts, the author examines the origins of the avant-garde and its relation to modernity in tandem with the history of the tonal tradition.
Download or read book The Collected Works 200 Novels Plays Poems Essays Autobiography written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-09 with total page 3754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 'The Collected Works' is a monumental compilation of over 200 works including novels, plays, poems, essays, and his autobiography. Spanning various genres and styles, this collection showcases Goethe's versatility and genius as a writer. From the romanticism of 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' to the philosophical depth of 'Faust', readers are treated to a diverse literary experience that reflects the author's profound insights into human nature and society. Goethe's works continue to be studied and admired for their timeless relevance and artistic craftsmanship. The richness of his language and the complexity of his characters make this collection a must-read for anyone interested in classic literature. Goethe's influence on German literature and European Romanticism is evident throughout the pages of this comprehensive collection. His deep understanding of human emotions and the human condition shines through in every piece, leaving a lasting impact on readers of all generations. 'The Collected Works' is a literary treasure trove that will captivate and inspire literary enthusiasts for years to come.
Download or read book Maxims and Reflections written by Иоганн Вольфганг Гёте and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Infernal Library written by Daniel Kalder and published by Henry Holt. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A harrowing tour of 'dictator literature' in the twentieth-century, featuring the soul-killing prose and poetry of Hitler, Mao, and many more, which shows how books have sometimes shaped the world for the worse." -- From book jacket.
Download or read book Imperialism and Juvenile Literature written by Jeffrey Richards and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many experts recognize that juvenile literature acts as an excellent reflector of the dominant ideas of an age; the values and fantasies of adult authors are often dressed up in fictional garb for youthful consumption. This collection examines a portion of the mass-produced juvenile literature, from the mid-19th century until the 1950s, focusing on the cluster of ideas connected with Britain's role in the maintenance of order and the spread of civilization. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Jonah written by James William Bellamy and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Kierkegaard s Philosophy written by Julia Watkin and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2000-12-06 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, which follows hard on the heels of publication of the final volume of the 26-volume set of Kierkegaard's writings (Princeton, 1980-2000), allows its readers 'to find their way quickly to relevant sources of help,' elucidates Kierkegaard's 'central concepts,' and demonstrates the contemporary relevance of his ideas (he is 'important because of his emphasis on human subjectivity').
Download or read book Just Like Jesse James written by Tim McGregor and published by Tim McGregor. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Naked And The Undead written by Cynthia Freeland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horror is often dismissed as mass art or lowbrow entertainment that produces only short-term thrills. Horror films can be bloody, gory, and disturbing, so some people argue that they have bad moral effects, inciting viewers to imitate cinematic violence or desensitizing them to atrocities. In The Naked and the Undead: Evil and the Appeal of Horror, Cynthia A. Freeland seeks to counter both aesthetic disdain and moral condemnation by focusing on a select body of important and revealing films, demonstrating how the genre is capable of deep philosophical reflection about the existence and nature of evil?both human and cosmic. In exploring these films, the author argues against a purely psychoanalytic approach and opts for both feminist and philosophical understandings. She looks at what it is in these movies that serves to elicit specific reactions in viewers and why such responses as fear and disgust are ultimately pleasurable. The author is particularly interested in showing how gender figures into screen presentations of evil.The book is divided into three sections: Mad Scientists and Monstrous Mothers, which looks into the implications of male, rationalistic, scientific technology gone awry; The Vampire's Seduction, which explores the attraction of evil and the human ability (or inability) to distinguish active from passive, subject from object, and virtue from vice; and Sublime Spectacles of Disaster, which examines the human fascination with horror spectacle. This section concludes with a chapter on graphic horror films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Written for both students and film enthusiasts, the book examines a wide array of films including: The Silence of the Lambs, Repulsion, Frankenstein, The Fly, Dead Ringers, Alien, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Interview with the Vampire, Frenzy, The Shining, Eraserhead, Hellraiser, and many others.
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