This book explores the relatively new genre of ‘Quality Telefantasy’ and how it has broadened TV taste cultures by legitimating and mainstreaming fantastical content. It also shows how the rising popularity of this genre marks a distinct and significant development in what kinds of TV are culturally dominant and critically regarded. By expanding and building on the definition of US Quality TV, this book brings together a number of popular science fiction, fantasy and horror TV series, including Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead and Westworld, as case studies which demonstrate the emergence of the Quality Telefantasy genre. It looks at the role of technology, including internet recap culture and subscription video on demand distribution, in Quality Telefantasy’s swift emergence, and analyses its success internationally by considering series created outside the US like Kingdom (South Korea, Netflix) and Dark (Germany, Netflix). The book argues that Quality Telefantasy series should be considered a part of the larger Quality TV super-genre, and that the impact they are having on the global TV landscape warrants further investigation as it continues to evolve. This is a valuable text for students and scholars studying or undertaking research in the areas of television studies, new media and pop-cultural studies.
In search of adventure, college student Adam travels to the Azore island of Terceira with a group of friends to play a basketball game against a professional Portuguese team. Adam sees the game as his one chance to impress and fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming a professional ballplayer. Between pursuing his dream, running from the bulls at the nightly "street bullfights" and intermingling with marriage-minded island girls, Adam thinks he has discovered his sought-after adventure. Little does he know the trip was a set-up. The trip was not about basketball; it was about a top U.S. secret and Adam gets thrown into the middle. With an island girl's help and more adventure than he ever bargained for, Adam must reveal the truth before he gets captured. Or killed.
This study of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur centres on its main narrative interest, armed combat. The description of knightly combat, with its complex thematic affinities, is seen as Malory's chief expressive medium. In the analysis of the discourse of fighting, some repeated descriptive preoccupations - to do with name, vision, blood, emotion and gesture - are treated as 'needs of meaning' with relevance for the whole text, and related to political, religious, genealogical, sexual and medical views of Malory's period. The critical discussion thus rests more on these elements of discourse rather than on the broader concepts such as 'chivalry' or 'love' normally applied to Malory.
Today medievalism is increasingly intelligible as a cultural lingua franca, produced in trans- and international contexts with a view to reaching popular international audiences, some of mass scope. This book offers new perspectives on international relations and how global concerns are made available through contemporary medievalist texts. It questions how research in medievalism may help us rethink the terms of internationalism and globalism within popular cultures, ideologies, and political formations. It investigates how the diverse media of medievalism (print; film and television; arts and crafts; fashion; digital media; clubs and fandom) affect its cultural meaning and circulation, and its social function, and engage questions of desire, gender and identity construction. As a whole, International Medievalism and Popular Culture differs from those studies which have concentrated on imaginative appropriations of the middle ages for domestic cultural contexts. It investigates rather how contemporary cultures engage with medievalism to map and model ideas of the international, the trans-national, the cosmopolitan and the global. This book includes examples from Europe, Britain, North America, Australia and the Arab world. It discusses the formation and the impact of popular medievalism in the globalised worlds of Braveheart, Disney and Harry Potter, but it also explores how the contemporary medieval imaginary generates international cultural perspectives, for example in considering Middle Eastern reception of Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven, the Byzantinism of Julia Kristeva, and Hedley Bull's postnationalist 'new medievalism'. International Medievalism in Popular Culture is an important contribution to medieval studies, cultural studies, and historical studies. It will be of value to undergraduate, postgraduate and academic readers, as well as to all interested in popular culture or medievalism.
Black Dandy is a literary journal dedicated to excellence in magic realism, surrealism, and the otherwise strange. Based in New Zealand, we're proud to feature top talent from around the world. Our third issue features 10 stories from today's most compelling writers. A crazed entrepreneur introduces his reluctant paramour into the Church, where she discovers a peculiar form of motherhood. A materialistic city boy comes face to face with his fears while boar hunting in rural Florida. In a world very much like our own, a caregiver steeped in the secret power of names discovers how "naming" comes full circle. A young man fresh out of a relationship discovers how difficult it is to be rid of his ex. Being a ghost isn't all that bad, and it's not what most people think. A military pilot caught up in war tensions discovers that there are higher powers at work, and sacrifices to be made for the good of mankind. An ordinary man discovers that his version of marriage and fatherhood doesn't feel like everyone else's. In a country that's not his own, a troubled man grapples with the elusive local who steals his beloved guitar. The story of some people is one of the road to great things, even if that means great harm to society. A compassionate dog and his anachronistic family prove that oddity comes in all shapes and with unexpected outcomes.
Genius...Orwellian...a tremendous novel!" The leader of the Alamo farm entered through a side door to the barn and mounted the steps of hay to the stage podium. The chickens clucked, the sheep baaed, the cows mooed, the horses whinnied, and the dogs howled in appreciation of their leader Reggie. Years after overthrowing their domineering leader, the animals of Alamo Farm revel in the fruits of their labor and all is well on Alamo Farm until two animals from a neighboring farm sneak through a hole in the fence separating the two farms. It is on this very day that things begin to change. Their diminished bodies evoke the sympathy of most Alamo residents and soon trouble brews when food is stolen and over time the wealthiest animals are taxed to help feed the poorest. Will the animals learn the visitors' language and embrace their culture? Will the visitors be invited to stay on Alamo farm? Reggie sees dollar signs when he looks at the neighbors of T. Wanda farm and thinks the two should merge. Will the changes on Alamo farm be all that Reggie envisions or will the animals of Alamo farm have to band together to fight for their way of life, their farm, their freedom
The story of the Orange Line is the story of Boston: always in flux but trailed by its long history. Since 1901, this rail lines configuration has evolved in response to changes in the city, society, and technology. Hazardous sections have been eliminated, ownership has transitioned from private to public, and the line has been rerouted to serve growing suburbs and to use land cleared for the failed Inner Belt. Both its northern terminus, which shifted from Everett to Malden, and the southern route, realigned from Washington Street to the Southwest Corridor, have seen dramatic transformations that have in turn changed riders lives. Today, the lines 10 miles of track curve through many Greater Boston communities, serving thousands along the way.
Black Dandy is a quarterly literary journal dedicated to excellence in magic realism, surrealism, and the otherwise strange. Based in New Zealand, we're proud to feature top talent from around the world. Our premiere issue features 10 stories from today's most compelling writers. Relive 9/11 through the eyes of a chronic nail-biter, a Russian weightlifter, and a bureaucrat who once made brilliant but useless devices...Uncover the secrets of a spectral European village with a disenchanted traveler...Take a walk to the 1950s, where a young man mesmerizes a small American town with his unique artistic gifts...Join a woman as she recounts a peculiar love from her past. In a slowly sinking coastal town, a sheriff grapples with a Poodle murder, twins with bizarre qualities, and the fitness of his police force...After finishing your workout at the local gym, you realize you can't leave because the building is encased in impenetrable fat...A drifter tries to warn his community that a homeless man in their midst is a disaster waiting to happen...Her dead grandfather was a serial killer, but that's not going to stand between her and an attempt to escape destiny...On the day of a soldier's execution, those who knew him meet for drinks and slowly slide into a situation they can't explain...She's obsessed with the remarkable pleasures of a long-ago lover and she'll do whatever it takes to relive them.
Black Dandy is a quarterly literary journal dedicated to excellence in magic realism, surrealism, and the otherwise strange. Based in New Zealand, we're proud to feature top talent from around the world. The much-anticipated follow-up to our debut issue features 10 stories from today's most compelling writers. A man rediscovers the life lessons his parents taught him when they created a room that conserves wasted time...A gorgeous, icy woman grapples with her identity when an imaginary friend from childhood resurfaces...Is the unconditional love of a mother all that keeps a man from self destruction?...A young boy scarred by his father's abrupt departure pursues the man, but at what cost?...They thought their new life in a small town would annul the turmoil of the old one, but that may not be so easy...He can see, hear, and do things no one else can, and his diary sessions with a therapist cut to the heart of it...An elderly couple discover an amazing tomato in their garden, turning their waning years on their head...She spots the janitor from her high-school days in a restaurant years later and is only interested in reclaiming his long lost pleasures...Steeped in the principles of self-preservation, a clever man wends his way through the weaknesses of others...After creating a most peculiar form of fashion, a shy rural man hits it big in New York City.
When Tim Carmody was appointed Chief Justice of Queensland by Premier Campbell Newman in 2014, he had been Chief Magistrate for only nine months. It proved to be the most controversial judicial appointment in Australia’s history. Carmody’s elevation plunged the Supreme Court and the legal profession into a bitter conflict with the government and with Carmody himself. How did he come to be appointed to such a significant position? What can we learn from this saga about the fragile relationships between politics and the courts? The Tim Carmody Affair places the full story of Carmody’s damaging and divisive tenure in context, and identifies key reforms that could prevent this kind of controversy in the future. ‘A spellbinding and alarming account of one of Australia’s great judicial dramas that ruptured the legal profession and the courts. The Newman Government’s appointment of Tim Carmody as Queensland’s Chief Justice is a story of patronage, betrayal, leaking, and political folly. Brilliant and revealing.’ — Richard Ackland
Over ten years after Australia’s first national laws were enacted to combat the threat of terrorism, yet more anti-terrorism laws were passed in the Australian Parliament in late 2014. The first laws were often introduced in great haste and were stunning in scope and number. The latest laws are similarly extensive and controversial. Yet again, powers and sanctions once thought to lie outside the rules of a liberal democracy except during wartime have become part of Australian law. Timely, piercing and in regard to the first set of laws, written with the benefit of hindsight, this book asks whether Australia really needed to enact anti-terrorism laws in the first place, let alone add to them? Do the new laws pose increased threats to freedom of speech and freedom of the press? Have these laws been effective in protecting the community, or do they represent a long-term threat to the health of Australian democracy? Which laws have proved their worth – and which have not? And what has been the impact of the laws in Australia’s anti-terrorism trials and on the Muslim community? Most tellingly, the book asks whether seeing these anti-terror laws as normal is a danger in itself.
The only book ever to draw the big findings of NLP into one easy-to-use model How to Make a Good Mind Great provides the perfect solution for being in the right frame of mind at the right moment for the right length of time to get the result you want. We often talk about 'being in the right frame of mind' to do something, and as soon as we think we're on the right path, suddenly find ourselves in exactly the wrong frame of mind to achieve our objective. How to Make a Good Mind Great provides the momentum and direction to remain focused and motivated right to the end. It runs on the best, most sophisticated piece of machinery we have ever known: ourselves Unlike many other systems which rely upon you or I fitting into some framework or following a procedure which seems 'alien' to us, How to Make a Good Mind Great works purely from the subjective template; how you or I work best. We all do many things very well indeed, often without realising - and takes those abilities and successes over to other parts of our lives where we would like to improve things further. Although we are each unique, complex and fascinating beings, there are structural similarities in our subjective experience which provides a great framework to utilise. This prompted the development of MindFrame Patterns(c); a model for how we all act within a standard operating procedure: most of us see, hear, feel, touch and smell the world around us. From there the innumerable complex differences spread out, but this simple starting point allows us to restructure what works best for each and every one of us. MindFrame Patterns(c) is shorthand for a tool or model that creates an opportunity to access that 'right frame of mind' in whichever situation we find ourselves. It links our personal experience of the outside world, in every conceivable context, with our internal existence. It is at once an exceptionally sophisticated and simple model encapsulating the key findings from Neuro-Linguistic Programming. NLP itself is the study of the structure of subjective experience; a series of models on what works best for successful people that can be integrated into our ways of thinking and behaving. Although NLP has developed some magnificent tools, there are hundreds of models, some of which are not easily accessible to every person wishing to use them. MindFrame Patterns(c) takes the really big themes of NLP - communication, strategies and modelling success - and brings them into one, overarching framework that can be used by anyone. For the first time the world of NLP can be readily accessible to anyone and everyone in an instant. How to Make a Good Mind Great demystifies some of the extraordinary findings of NLP and presents them in accessible, user friendly ways to achieve powerful and lasting change. What's more it works and it works exceedingly well. Why? Because, it simply uses what we already have. It does not make anything up. It is a subjective model that allows us to enter into our every success and positive experience, and use those findings to transform every aspect of our lives. If it is so simple, why hasn't this been covered before? It has, in hundreds of books, CDs, DVDs and articles. Trying to find one book, one CD that covers it all is a nightmare. There are good and bad books out there and everything in between. But it has never, ever, been compressed into a simple, effective working model that covers the big, key themes of NLP. How to Make a Good Mind Great presupposes that we all have good working minds, capable of achieving excellence; an indisputable fact given the multitude of positive experiences we have amassed. This book gives each and every one of us the capacity to move to the next level; to engrain a resourceful, highly-developed frame of mind to make that good mind great. If you only buy one book on changing your life, this is it.
A world on the brink of war, absent parents, and no friends sounds like a disaster unless all you ever wanted was to live inside your virtual reality pod.Meet Severo, a fresh-eyed graduate, as he joins the ranks of new players in the HOPE engine, but quickly finds out that everything isn't as advertised. An unnatural enemy is rising, more glitch than feature, that not even the highest level players can stop. A noob like Severo doesn't stand a chance! Right? But with his starter village in the enemy's warpath, he better figure something out! Before that, he needs to learn that NPCs are sentient, friends are needed, and food in fantasy games sucks! Oh yeah, and pick a class!As if all that wasn't enough to worry about, outside of the VR pod, real life is starting to have its own technical difficulties...
For more than a century scholars both inside and outside of China have undertaken the project of modernizing Confucianism, but few have been as successful or influential as Li Zehou (b. 1930). Since the 1950s, Li’s extensive efforts in this regard have in turn exerted a profound influence on Chinese modernization and resulted in his becoming one of China’s most prominent social critics. To transform Confucianism into a contemporary resource for positive change in China and elsewhere, Li has reinterpreted major ideas and concepts of classical Confucianism, including a rereading of the entire Analects, replete with his own philosophical speculations derived from other Chinese and Western traditions (most notably, the ideas of Kant and Marx), and developed an aesthetical theory that has proved especially far-reaching. Although the authors of this volume hail from East Asia, North America, and Europe and a wide variety of academic backgrounds and fields of study, they are unanimous in their appreciation of Li’s contributions to not only an evolving Confucian philosophy, but also world philosophy. They view Li first and foremost as a sui generis thinker with broad global interests and not one who fits neatly into any one philosophical category, Chinese or Western. This is clearly reflected in the chapters included here, which are organized into three parts: Li Zehou and the Modernization of Confucianism, Li Zehou’s Reconception of Confucian Philosophy, and Li Zehou’s Aesthetical Theory and Confucianism. Together they form a coherent narrative that reveals how Li has, for more than half a century, creatively studied, absorbed, and reconceptualized the Confucian ideational tradition to integrate it with Western philosophical elements and develop his own philosophical insights and original theories. At the same time, he has transformed and modernized Confucianism for the purpose of both coalescing with and reconstructing a new world cultural order.
This book complements a public history and public art project entitled Funeral for a Home. This project was initiated by Temple Contemporary at The Tyler School of Art and supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
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