In this original study, Handyside brings critical attention to a rare female auteur and in so doing contributes to important analyses of post-feminism, authorship in film, and the growing field of girlhood studies. These characters inhabit luminous worlds of girlish adornments, light and sparkle and yet find homes in unexpected places from hotels to swimming pools, palaces to strip clubs: resisting stereotypes and the ordinary. Fiona Handyside’s book seeks to position Coppola as a distinctive auteur within a discourse that expands upon notions of feminism which nonetheless exhibits supposedly paradoxical tropes and interests that appear antithetical to female empowerment. Chapters reveal a post-feminist aesthetic that offers sustained, intimate engagements with female characters. Fiona Handyside here considers the careful counter-balance of vulnerability with the possibilities and pleasures of being female in Coppola's films - albeit for the white and the privileged - through their recurrent themes of girlhood, fame, power, sex and celebrity. From The Virgin Suicides to The Bling Ring, her work carves out new spaces for the expression of female subjectivity that embraces rather than rejects femininity. She has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award and two Golden Globes, and in 2004 became the first ever American woman to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar. Sofia Coppola: A Cinema of Girlhood Fiona Handyside 3.91 33 ratings2 reviews She has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award and two Golden Globes, and in 2004 became the first ever American woman to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar.
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This was China still under the rule of warlords. Starting in 1909, Jung Chang starts to tell us about her grandmother Yu-fang who became the concubine of a warlord general at a tender age of fifteen in year 1924. The book cover gives you a feel for the story that is within and also an indication that it is not a work of fiction. The most interesting part is the side strip showing photographs of three women – three generations – author Jung Chang in the bottom most image, her mother in the middle and her grandmother at the top. The Chinese representation of wild swans in done in red – probably symobilising the red rule. I read the 21 st anniversary edition of the book, published by Harper Press, with a cover page done in soothing marine blue-grey shades showing the name of the book and the author in orange. Wild Swans – Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang | Book Review In this way, when a poet successfully composes a poem, that poem should have a noticeable effect on its reader, as it is relatable. The poet should be able to successfully observe and depict the thoughts and feelings that people have when they are in “a state of excitement,” meaning the stimulation people experience in a given situation. “For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings,” he writes in his “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads.” However, Wordsworth is careful to point out that depicting emotion requires prior thought and acquired skill on the part of the poet. Emotions are of utmost importance to Wordsworth when it comes to poetry. Do you ever just wonder if the reason you haven’t met your other half is because he/she lives on the other side of the world? Like that’s pretty crazy to think about. If there’s one book that made me want to travel the world more than anything, it has to be this book. People come to Italy for love and gelato, someone tells her, but sometimes they discover much more. It’s a secret that will change everything she knew about her mother, her father-and even herself. A world that inspires Lina, along with the ever-so-charming Ren, to follow in her mother’s footsteps and unearth a secret that has been kept for far too long. Suddenly Lina’s uncovering a magical world of secret romances, art, and hidden bakeries. But what kind of father isn’t around for sixteen years? All Lina wants to do is get back home.īut then she is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy. She’s only there because it was her mother’s dying wish that she get to know her father. Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn’t in the mood for Italy’s famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. “You know, people come to Italy for all sorts of reasons, but when they stay, it’s for the same two things.” Hence: “Speech Sounds” where a plague has descended, robbing humans of speech and morality. And she kept getting example after example, especially one testosterone-fueled duel on, of all places, the danged city bus. Or how about the Afterword where she states that she’d just kinda sorta been bogged down in how crappy humans are. Butler (I ask her spirit as she’s no longer on the planet)? Since Butler can’t just write a plain ol’ story withOUT making it something that causes nightmares, she waxes foul about a man nearing the time of bearing, being split asunder as maggot-like creatures eat his flesh. Cricket, yikes! This is a blood and guts horror show where humans have been given refuge on a different planet where they’re welcome, yes, but they kiiiiiinda have to do this ooooone thing: Mostly males have to serve as vessels to bear children. Let’s start with the first story: “Bloodchild” which Butler posits is her Pregnant Man story. Her thoughts are candid and really quite simple. What I liked best about Bloodchild was that each short story came with an Afterword where Butler writes her thoughts regarding what inspired each story, what each really means, how each might’ve been misinterpreted. Infinitely intriguing Infinitely disturbing… AWESOME…! 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Takaki shows how the combination of military service and war work simultaneously opened horizons and raised consciousness. Japanese-Americans get a full chapter to themselves, concluding with an analysis of Hiroshima as a manifestation of racism. It shows as well the wartime responses of a variety of ethnic and cultural communities-Mexicans, African-Americans, Chinese, Filipinos, Koreans, Jews and Italians. This is by now a conventional argument that Takaki's anecdotal narrative does more to illustrate than to develop, though the book does demonstrate more clearly than ever the degree to which America in the 1940s was a white man's country, as opposed to a melting pot. A significant number of Americans fought WWII on two fronts, according to Berkeley ethicist Takaki (A Larger Memory A Different Mirror etc.): the Axis powers were one enemy the other was racism on the home front. For instance, he tells of how he fought his way up despite being discriminated as a black head coach in the NFL. Dungy shares the struggles he faced in his life. It reflects on the Dungy’s early life and career and how he managed to make it through thick and thin. It is about the perseverance and struggles in Tony Dungy’s world. This book dates back at the time Dungy was a teenager. Generally, it is a book that depicts the real meaning of incorporating leadership and faith to work. It challenges people to reflect on their lives in order to define success. Basically, Quiet Strength talks about a memorable life lived for family and God. Following his victory as the first African American coach in Suoer Bowl 41, Dungy reflect on how he went through hard times and major challenges but he managed to lead his team to victory (Dungy 132). In the book, Dungy reflects on symbolic stories that are based on his football career and his walk with God. The book goes over story after story as it illustrates on how to tackle challenges and situations particularly in leadership. It discusses the importance of faith in relation to leadership. Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy is an interesting, inspiring, and educative book that combines both athletic and Christ-centered approach to life. The Collapsing Empire is the first book in the Interdependency trilogy, which concludes with the upcoming The Last Emperox, to be published in April 2020. It’s been a while since I’ve read John Scalzi - about a year and a half, in fact, since I finished his Old Man’s War series. When it’s discovered that The Flow is moving, possibly cutting off all human worlds from faster than light travel forever, three individuals - a scientist, a starship captain and the Empress of the Interdependency - are in a race against time to discover what, if anything, can be salvaged from an interstellar empire on the brink of collapse. Just as a river changes course, The Flow changes as well, cutting off worlds from the rest of humanity. The Flow is eternal - but it is not static. It’s a hedge against interstellar war - and a system of control for the rulers of the empire. Humanity flows away from Earth, into space, and in time forgets our home world and creates a new empire, the Interdependency, whose ethos requires that no one human outpost can survive without the others. Our universe is ruled by physics and faster than light travel is not possible - until the discovery of The Flow, an extra-dimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transport us to other worlds, around other stars. The first novel of a new space-opera sequence set in an all-new universe by the Hugo Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Redshirts and Old Man’s War. Almost 850 artists were commissioned to paint 1371 murals, most of which were installed in post offices 162 of the artists were women and three were African American. Murals were commissioned through competitions open to all artists in the United States. Murals produced through the Treasury Department's Section of Painting and Sculpture (1934–1943) were funded as a part of the cost of the construction of new post offices, with 1% of the cost set aside for artistic enhancements. The murals were intended to boost the morale of the American people suffering from the effects of the Depression by depicting uplifting subjects the people knew and loved. The principal objective of the United States post office murals was to secure artwork that met high artistic standards for public buildings, where it was accessible to all people. This is a list of United States post office murals, produced in the United States from 1934 to 1943 through commissions from the Procurement Division of the United States Department of the Treasury. post office building, wood carvings, bas relief decorations, or free-standing sculptures, see List of New Deal murals and List of New Deal sculpture. |