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By Jennifer L. McMahon, B. Steve Csaki

The western is arguably the main iconic and influential style in American cinema. The solitude of the lone rider, the loyalty of his horse, and the unstated code of the West render the style well known but lead it to provide a view of America's historical past that's occasionally erroneous. for lots of, the western embodies the US and its values. in recent times, students had declared the western style useless, yet a gradual resurgence of western issues in literature, movie, and tv has reestablished the style as probably the most important.

In The Philosophy of the Western, editors Jennifer L. McMahon and B. Steve Csaki learn philosophical subject matters within the western style. Investigating topics of nature, ethics, identification, gender, environmentalism, and animal rights, the essays draw from a variety of westerns together with the hot renowned and significant successes Unforgiven (1992), all of the lovely Horses (2000), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), and No nation for outdated males (2007), in addition to literature and tv serials akin to Deadwood. The Philosophy of the Western finds the effect of the western at the American psyche, filling a void within the present scholarship of the style.

Author note: David Baggett (Editor), William A. Drumin (Editor)
Publish 12 months note: First released in 2007
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The bathe scene in Psycho; Cary furnish operating for his existence via a cornfield; “innocent” birds covered up on a fence ready, looking at — those seminal cinematic moments are as genuine to moviegoers as their very own lives. yet what makes them so? What deeper forces are at paintings in Hitchcock’s motion pictures that so captivate his fanatics? This choice of articles within the sequence that’s explored such pop-culture phenomena as Seinfeld and The Simpsons examines these forces with clean eyes. those essays display a desirable variety of subject matters: Sabotage’s classes concerning the morality of terrorism and counter-terrorism; Rope’s arguable Nietzschean underpinnings; Strangers on a Train’s definition of morality. the various essays examine extra overarching questions, similar to why Hitchcock is based so seriously at the Freudian subconscious. In all, the e-book positive factors 18 philosophers paying a unique homage to the mythical auteur in a fashion that’s available even to informal fans.

By Steve Sullivan

From John Philip Sousa to eco-friendly Day, from Scott Joplin to Kanye West, from Stephen Foster to Coldplay, The Encyclopedia of significant renowned tune Recordings covers the mammoth scope of its topic with almost extraordinary breadth and intensity. nearly 1,000 key music recordings from 1889 to the current are explored in complete, unveiling the tales in the back of the songs, the recordings, the performers, and the songwriters.

Beginning the adventure within the period of Victorian parlor balladry, brass bands, and ragtime with the appearance of the list undefined, readers witness the delivery of the blues and the sunrise of jazz within the 1910s and the emergence of nation track on list and the shift from acoustic to electric recording within the Nineteen Twenties. The odyssey keeps during the Swing period of the Nineteen Thirties; rhythm & blues, bluegrass, and bebop within the Forties; the rock & roll revolution of the Nineteen Fifties; smooth soul, the British invasion, and the folk-rock move of the Sixties; and at last into the trendy period during the musical streams of disco, punk, grunge, hip-hop, and modern dance-pop. Sullivan, in spite of the fact that, additionally takes serious detours by way of extending the insurance to genres overlooked in pop song histories, from ethnic and global song, the gospel recording of either black and white artists, and lesser-known conventional folks tunes that extend again hundreds and hundreds of years.

This publication is perfect for somebody who actually loves renowned song in all of its excellent sort, and somebody wishing to profit extra concerning the roots of almost the entire tune we pay attention at the present time. well known tune fanatics, in addition to students of recording historical past and know-how and scholars of the intersections among track and cultural background will all locate this booklet to be informative and fascinating.

By Fraser McAlpine

Because the lead author for BBC Anglophenia, Fraser McAlpine (a guy assembled from virtually each area of the united kingdom) spends his existence explaining Brits to foreigners.

Now he lifts the lid on our Marmite pot of countries and takes you on a trip from the Isle of Wight to Inverness, Belfast to Bangor, exploring the pleased enthusiasms (and puppy hates) of an ceaselessly multifarious Britain. STUFF BRITS LIKE celebrates why we love puns and pedantry, decorum and drawing willies on issues, Trainspotting and Downton Abbey, apologizing needlessly (sorry) and cocking a snook. We cheer either the underdog and the undesirable man, we like depression varieties like Morrissey and grumpy Eeyore...and we like being instructed off by way of scolds.

Meet legendary beasts from the Scottish Nuckelavee to the Cornish Knocker; the department of the WI referred to as the Iron Maidens, and the British Cheese Board (yes, it truly is referred to as that); discover which eccentric lord might simply consume his foodstuff in his swimming pool, why postboxes are vibrant pink (it's health and wellbeing and safeguard long past mad) and the starting place of peculiar traditions comparable to the Burning of the Clocks.

STUFF BRITS LIKE takes you thru why medical professional Who may well merely have come from Britain, why cricket is a kind of siege struggle in whites, and why we argue concerning the top 5 British movies or what makes the nice British Guitar Band...

By Richard Alleman

The vintage consultant to who-did-what-where in big apple, on- and off-screen, together with:

Classic movie and television destinations: Marilyn Monroe's notorious Seven yr Itch subway grating . . . the deli the place Meg Ryan famously faked an orgasm in while Harry Met Sally . . . the diner the place Courteney Cox (in pals) and Kirsten Dunst (in Spider-Man) waitressed . . . males in Black's long island headquarters . . . The Godfather mansion on Staten Island...the Greenwich Village condominium the place Jack Nicholson terrorized Greg Kinnear in nearly as good because it will get . . . Ghostbusters' Tribeca firehouse . . . Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow's an ideal homicide palazzo . . . the landmark West part development that housed Tom Cruise in Vanilla Sky and Mia Farrow in Rosemary's child . . . the Greenwich Village condo of pals . . . Will & Grace's higher West aspect development . . . The All within the kinfolk block in Queens . . . The Sopranos' New Jersey mansion (and the genuine Bada Bing membership) . . . Seinfeld's favourite diner . . . intercourse and the City's sexiest haunts . . . and lots of extra . . .

Stars' youth houses: Lena Horne's Bedford-Stuyvesant townhouse . . . Frank Sinatra's Hoboken row condominium . . . Barbra Streisand's Flatbush housing undertaking . . . J.Lo's Bronx block . . . Humphrey Bogart's top West facet tenement . . . the Marx Brothers' top East aspect brownstone . . .

Apartments and townhouses of the silver screen's maximum legends: Joan Crawford . . . Marlene Dietrich . . . James Dean . . . Katharine Hepburn . . . Montgomery Clift . . . Rita Hayworth . . . Rock Hudson . . . and . . .

Plus: star cemeteries . . . significant movie and television studios . . . ancient motion picture palaces and Broadway theaters . . . star-studded eating places and mythical inns . . .

For movie-loving New Yorkers, tourists and armchair movie buffs, long island: The motion picture Lover's consultant is the last word insider's advisor to the large Apple's reel sights.

Author note: Mark A. Wrathall (Editor)
Publish yr note: First released in 2006
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Is it attainable to be a dedicated Christian and a rock big name? Can political activists make strong track? Do highly winning rock bands particularly care approximately AIDS and poverty in Africa, or is it simply one other image-enhancing schtick? U2 and Philosophy ponders those and different seeming dichotomies within the occupation of the Irish supergroup. For over twenty years, U2 has been one of many greatest acts in rock tune. They’ve produced over a dozen platinum and multiplatinum documents and gained 15 Grammy Awards. Critics in all places have praised the band’s considerate, complicated lyrics and the artistry in their tune. while, Bono, the group’s lead singer, has devoted himself to political and social reasons, blurring the road among rock celebrity and revered statesman. providing clean perception into the band’s tune and activism, those thought-provoking essays permits enthusiasts to find philosophy throughout the eyes of U2, and rediscover U2 throughout the eyes of philosophers.

By Robert Arp

By Shannon Winnubst

Lifestyles, liberty, and the pursuit of cool have expert the yankee ethos on account that at the very least the Seventies. no matter if we attempt for it in politics or type, cool is enormous company in the event you can promote it throughout a variety of markets and media. but the idea that wasn't consistently a favored commodity. Cool begun as a effective aesthetic of post-World battle II black tradition, embodying a truly particular, hugely charged approach to resistance to white supremacy and the globalized exploitation of capital.
Way Too Cool follows the hollowing-out of "coolness" in sleek American tradition and its mirrored image of a bigger evasion of race, racism, and ethics now universal in neoliberal society. It revisits such watershed occasions because the Nineteen Sixties Civil Rights stream, second-wave feminism, the emergence of identification politics, Nineteen Eighties multiculturalism, Nineteen Nineties rhetorics of range and colorblindness, 11th of September, and typhoon Katrina, in addition to the contemporaneous advancements of emerging mass incarceration and legalized same-sex marriage. It pairs the perversion of cool with the gradual erasure of racial and moral concerns from our social awareness, which successfully quashes our wish to act ethically and withstand abuses of energy. The cooler we turn into, the extra detached we develop to the query of values, fairly inquiry that spurs protest and clash. This e-book sounds an alarm should you care approximately retaining our ties to an American culture of resistance.

By Eric Bronson

The crucial spouse to Stieg Larsson's bestselling trilogy and director David Fincher's 2011 movie adaptation

Stieg Larsson's bestselling Millennium Trilogy—The lady with the Dragon Tattoo, the woman Who performed with Fire, and The lady Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest—is a global phenomenon. those books show Larsson's lifelong battle opposed to injustice, his moral ideals, and his deep quandary for women's rights. The lady with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy probes the compelling philosophical matters at the back of the full trilogy. What philosophies do Lisbeth Salander and Kant have in universal? To capture a felony, can Lisbeth and Mikael be criminals themselves? Can revenge be moral? Drawing on a few of history's maximum philosophical minds, this publication offers clean insights into Larsson's ingeniously plotted story of crime and corruption.
• seems at compelling philosophical matters equivalent to a feminist studying of Lisbeth Salander, Aristotelian arguments for why we adore revenge, how Kant can clarify why such a lot of girls sleep with Mikael Blomkvist, and plenty of more
• features a bankruptcy from a colleague of Larsson's—who labored with him in anti-Nazi activities—that explores Larsson's philosophical perspectives on skepticism and costs from never-before-seen correspondence with Larsson
• bargains new insights into the novels' key characters, together with Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist, and investigates the writer, Stieg Larsson

As engrossing because the quest to unfastened Lisbeth Salander from her previous, The woman with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy is perfect analyzing for somebody attracted to unraveling the subtext and exploring the higher concerns at paintings within the story.

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By Craig Marks, Rob Tannenbaum

Keep in mind the 1st time you observed Michael Jackson dance with zombies in "Thriller"? Diamond Dave karate kick with Van Halen in "Jump"? Tawny Kitaen turning cartwheels on a Jaguar to Whitesnake's "Here i am going Again"? The Beastie Boys spray beer in "(You Gotta) struggle in your correct (To Party)"? Axl Rose step off the bus in "Welcome to the Jungle"?

Remember whilst All You sought after used to be Your MTV?

It used to be an exquisite radical idea-a channel for youths, displaying not anything yet song movies. It was once this sort of radical concept that virtually not anyone concept it would truly be successful, less develop into a strength within the worlds of tune, tv, movie, style, activities, or even politics. however it did paintings. MTV turned greater than a person had ever imagined.

I wish My MTV tells the tale of the 1st decade of MTV, the golden period whilst MTV's programming used to be all movies, forever, and children watched religiously to determine their favourite bands, know about new tune, and feature whatever to speak about at events. From its begin in 1981 with a small cache of movies by means of regularly unknown British new wave acts to the release of the reality-television craze with The actual World in 1992, MTV grew right into a tastemaker, a occupation maker, and a huge enterprise.

Featuring interviews with approximately 400 artists, administrators, VJs, and tv and tune executives, I wish My MTV is a testomony to the channel that modified pop culture eternally.