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Book Photo Fakery

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dino A. Brugioni
  • Publisher : Potomac Books
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Photo Fakery written by Dino A. Brugioni and published by Potomac Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history and techniques of photographic deception and manipulation

Book Jake the Fake Keeps His Cool

Download or read book Jake the Fake Keeps His Cool written by Craig Robinson and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Big Nate comes the third book in this laugh-out-loud series about a class clown faking his way through middle school from comedian and film star Craig Robinson, #1 New York Times bestselling author Adam Mansbach, and NAACP History Maker recipient and cartoonist Keith Knight. Life couldn't be better for Jake. He's a student at Music and Arts Academy and a budding comedian, and he finally put an end to his fake-ster ways . . . or so he thought. There's a new girl at school, and Jake would do anything to impress her, even pretending to be a master chef. And a world-renowned barber? But at home, Jake is less impressed with his mom's news: she's pregnant. Now Jake has to fake being happy about becoming the Middle Child. The King of Cool is about to drop his chill. Luckily, he has good friends and laughs on his side, along with more than two hundred illustrations--all about him!

Book The Salad Rhapsodies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Drew B David
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2016-08-28
  • ISBN : 1365360474
  • Pages : 92 pages

Download or read book The Salad Rhapsodies written by Drew B David and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A semi-long visual/pattern/concrete poem by Drew B David, crafted expressly for millennial tastes. Is Dada dead, or has it been mysteriously resurrected, in a new, nefarious iteration? You decide. This is the first of a three-volume set.

Book Genuine Fakes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lydia Pyne
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2019-08-08
  • ISBN : 1472961811
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Genuine Fakes written by Lydia Pyne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does an authentic Andy Warhol painting need to be painted by Andy Warhol? Why do audiences feel outraged when they find out that scenes from their beloved blockbuster documentaries are staged? Can people move past assuming that a diamond grown in a lab is a fake? What happens when a forged painting or manuscript becomes more valuable than its original? This is a book about genuine fakes – the curious and complex objects that provoke these very sorts of questions. Genuine fakes fall into the space between things that are real and things that are not; whether or not we think that those things are authentic is a matter of perspective. Unsurprisingly, the world is full of genuine fakes – full of things that defy simple categorisation. From stories of audacious forgeries to feats of technological innovation, historian Lydia Pyne explores how the authenticity of eight genuine fakes depends on their unique combinations of history, science and culture. The stories of art forgeries, fake fossils, nature documentaries, synthetic flavours, museum exhibits, Maya codices and Palaeolithic replicas show that genuine fakes are both complicated and change over time. Drawing from historical archives, interviews, museum exhibits and science fiction as well as her own research, Pyne brings each genuine fake to life through unexpected and often outrageous stories. Genuine Fakes will make readers think about all the unreal things they encounter in their daily lives, and why they invoke the reactions – surprise, wonder, understanding or annoyance – that they do.

Book The Fakery

    Book Details:
  • Author : D. J. Foodie
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-10-15
  • ISBN : 9780986344411
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book The Fakery written by D. J. Foodie and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun and whimsical primer on grain-free (gluten-free) and sugar-free quick breads. Low-carb, primal and ketogenic friendly cookbook.

Book Authenticity and How We Fake It

Download or read book Authenticity and How We Fake It written by Aaron Duplantier and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-07-21 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consumers today are invested in reality-based media, such as reality television and social media, which in theory draw content from somewhere off-screen in our lived experience. This is seen as more "authentic" than the predominantly fictional media of the latter half of the 20th century. Yet much of reality TV and social media is known by both consumers and creators of content to be scripted or contrived. Addressing this problem deepens consumer engagement, as authenticity becomes a preoccupation driving the extension of a new media ethic of truth and savvy. This dynamic is key to understanding consumers' changing attitudes about the media they value. Reality TV, Facebook and YouTube have created a paradigm shift in the media landscape. Analyzing these three established platforms--all of which have a stake in the conversation about authenticity--this book sheds light on the complicated behaviors and choices of media consumers.

Book Chair of Tears

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gerald Robert Vizenor
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2012-03-01
  • ISBN : 0803238401
  • Pages : 151 pages

Download or read book Chair of Tears written by Gerald Robert Vizenor and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The novel begins with generous stories about Captain Eighty, his young wife, the poker-playing genius named Quiver, and their children and grandchildren who live on a rustic houseboat. Captain Shammer, an extraordinary grandson reared on the houseboat and with no formal education, is appointed the chairman of a troubled Department of Native American Indian Studies at a prominent university. Shammer is a natural enterpriser and ironic showman in the tradition of trickster stories. He arrives at the firstfaculty meeting dressed in the uniform of Gen. George Armstrong Custer. Native students celebrate his conversion of the department into an academic poker parlor and casino, and a panic radio station. The most sensational enterprise is the training of service mongrels to detect the absence of irony."--P. [4] of cover.

Book Debunk It  Fake News Edition

Download or read book Debunk It Fake News Edition written by John Grant and published by Zest Books ™. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in an era of misinformation, much of it spread by authority figures, including politicians, religious leaders, broadcasters, and, of course, apps and websites. In this second edition, author John Grant uses ripped-from-the-headlines examples to clearly explain how to identify bad evidence and poor arguments. He also points out the rhetorical tricks people use when attempting to pull the wool over our eyes, and offers advice about how to take these unscrupulous pundits down. Updated to include a chapter on fake news, Debunk It serves as a guide to critical thinking for young readers looking to find some clarity in a confusing world.

Book The Psychology of Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Mather
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2020-10-07
  • ISBN : 1000208117
  • Pages : 143 pages

Download or read book The Psychology of Art written by George Mather and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we enjoy art? What inspires us to create artistic works? How can brain science help us understand our taste in art? The Psychology of Art provides an eclectic introduction to the myriad ways in which psychology can help us understand and appreciate creative activities. Exploring how we perceive everything from colour to motion, the book examines art-making as a form of human behaviour that stretches back throughout history as a constant source of inspiration, conflict and conversation. It also considers how factors such as fakery, reproduction technology and sexism influence our judgements about art. By asking what psychological science has to do with artistic appreciation, The Psychology of Art introduces the reader to new ways of thinking about how we create and consume art.

Book Contemporary Trauma Narratives

Download or read book Contemporary Trauma Narratives written by Jean-Michel Ganteau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive compilation of essays on the relationship between formal experimentation and ethics in a number of generically hybrid or "liminal" narratives dealing with individual and collective traumas, running the spectrum from the testimonial novel and the fictional autobiography to the fake memoir, written by a variety of famous, more neglected contemporary British, Irish, US, Canadian, and German writers. Building on the psychological insights and theorizing of the fathers of trauma studies (Janet, Freud, Ferenczi) and of contemporary trauma critics and theorists, the articles examine the narrative strategies, structural experimentations and hybridizations of forms, paying special attention to the way in which the texts fight the unrepresentability of trauma by performing rather than representing it. The ethicality or unethicality involved in this endeavor is assessed from the combined perspectives of the non-foundational, non-cognitive, discursive ethics of alterity inspired by Emmanuel Levinas, and the ethics of vulnerability. This approach makes Contemporary Trauma Narratives an excellent resource for scholars of contemporary literature, trauma studies and literary theory.

Book Staging the Real

Download or read book Staging the Real written by R. W. Kilborn and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-29 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staging the Real traces the evolution of the various categories of "reality" programs which have come to dominate our screens over the last decade. The book focuses on issues such as the changes in the broadcasting environment which have given rise to such programs, the relationship they have to other popular TV genres and the huge appeal that shows such as Big Brother have for contemporary audiences. The book also seeks to measure the cultural significance of these new formats. Do they reflect a more general cultural malaise or should we measure their popularity more in terms of the changing expectations which modern audiences bring to TV entertainment?

Book Imagining Reality

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kevin Macdonald
  • Publisher : Faber & Faber
  • Release : 2011-06-16
  • ISBN : 0571261450
  • Pages : 409 pages

Download or read book Imagining Reality written by Kevin Macdonald and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Imaging Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary, Oscar-winning documentary-maker Kevin Macdonald ( One Day in September, Touching the Void) and leading broadcaster/historian Mark Cousins ( The Story of Film) offer an expanded, revised edition of their 'definitive, inspirational' ( Independent) compendium on the roots and history of the documentary film. Imagining Reality takes the reader on a tour of the evolution of documentary film as an increasingly vibrant, polemical, experimental and entertaining form. It gathers a wide-ranging collection of writings by and about such groundbreaking documentary-makers as Vertov, Flaherty, Marcel Ophuls, Chris Marker, Kieslowski, Claude Lanzmann, and Nick Broomfield. The story is carried up to date by attention to the success documentaries have had among mainstream movie audiences in recent years, including Michael Moore's Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11, The Buena Vista Social Club, Spellbound, Capturing The Friedmans, Être Et Avoir, and The Fog Of War.

Book The sentence printed at the top of p 14 is Duplicated in the middle of p 168 and bottom of p 544 within the Context of a 234 348 word text  see p 6 through 609 excluding the Three pages mentioned above   On p 544 the sentence Bleeds onto p 545

Download or read book The sentence printed at the top of p 14 is Duplicated in the middle of p 168 and bottom of p 544 within the Context of a 234 348 word text see p 6 through 609 excluding the Three pages mentioned above On p 544 the sentence Bleeds onto p 545 written by Todd Van Buskirk and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-08-02 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indiscerniblity of Identicals is the principle that if two objects are absolutely identical then they must be indistinguishable from one another with respect to all of their properties. But does that include the context of the identical objects? The notion of identical gives rise to many philosophical problems, including: 1. What does it mean for an object to be the same as itself? 2. If x and y are identical (are the same thing), must they always be identical? Are they necessarily identical? 3. What does it mean for an object to be the same, if it changes over time? (Is applet the same as applet+1?) 4. If an object's parts are entirely replaced over time, in what way is it the same?

Book Spiritualia and Pastoralia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frederick J. McGinness
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 0802099483
  • Pages : 1197 pages

Download or read book Spiritualia and Pastoralia written by Frederick J. McGinness and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 1197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Imposter as Social Theory

Download or read book The Imposter as Social Theory written by Steve Woolgar and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2022-08 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by expert scholars, this volume explores the 'imposter' through empirical cases, including click farms, bikers, business leaders and fraudulent scientists, providing insights into the social relations and cultural forms from which they emerge.

Book Can a Robot be Human

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Cave
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2007-09-13
  • ISBN : 1780740085
  • Pages : 239 pages

Download or read book Can a Robot be Human written by Peter Cave and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-09-13 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosophers’ Does Anything Eat Wasps? In this book of puzzles and paradoxes, Peter Cave introduces some of life's most important questions with tales and tall stories, reasons and arguments, common sense and bizarre conclusions. From how to get to heaven, to speedy tortoises, paradoxes and puzzles give rise to some of the most exciting problems in philosophy - from logic to ethics and from art to politics. Illustrated with quirky cartoons throughout, "Can a Robot be human" takes the reader on a taster tour of the most interesting and delightful parts of philosophy. This title is for everyone who puzzles about the world.

Book Picture Pedagogy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Duncum
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2020-05-14
  • ISBN : 1350144622
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Picture Pedagogy written by Paul Duncum and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary societies are saturated with pictures. They are globally a part of everyday life, and they are seductive, offering values and beliefs in such highly pleasurable forms that it is often difficult to resist their power to persuade. Yet interpreting pictures is largely neglected in schools. Picture Pedagogy addresses this head on, showing that pictures can be used as a powerful form of classroom pedagogy. Duncum explores key concepts and curriculum examples to empower you to support students to develop a critical consciousness about pictures, whether teaching art, media, language or social studies. Drawing on the interpretive concepts of representation, rhetoric, ideology, aesthetic pleasure, intertextuality and the gaze, Duncum shows how you can develop your students' skills so that their power as viewers can match the power of pictures to seduce. Examples from the history of fine art and contemporary popular mass media, including Big Data and fake news, are drawn together and shown to be appealing to the same aesthetic pleasures. Often these pleasures are benign, but also problematic, helping to promote morally questionable ideas about a range of topics including gender, race and sexual orientation, and this is explored fully.