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The Long Way to Get to Me

By: Marc Lindon

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Kevin loves sex... or rather an idealised version of it. The reality has often proven less successful, and always more traumatic. Fortunately his imagination – at least when the day job of settling bets in the local bookmakers permits – keeps him one step removed from the real thing, and that suits him just fine.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1838597883

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9781838597887

Fake Empires

By: Marc Lindon

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Fake Empires

By: Marc Lindon

Friends since infant school, Carl and Pete stay in touch through weekly poker nights and occasional bouts of vigilantism, but it's the deaths of their respective fathers that they most have have in common, although they have each reacted in a very different way.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1800469632

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9781800469631

The Politics of Aesthetics

Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism

By: Marc Redfield

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The Politics of Aesthetics

Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism

By: Marc Redfield

This book suggests that modern cultural and critical institutions have persistently associated questions of aesthetics and politics with literature, theory, technics, and Romanticism. Its first section examines aesthetic nationalism and the figure of the body, focusing on writings by Benedict Anderson, J. G. Fichte, and Matthew Arnold, and arguing that uneasy acts of aestheticization (of media technology) and abjection (of the maternal body) undergird the production of the national body as “imagined community.” Subsequent chapters on Paul de Man, Friedrich Schlegel, and Percy Shelley explore the career of the gendered body in the aesthetic tradition and the relationship among aesthetics, technics, politics, and figurative language. The author accounts for the hysteria that has characterized media representations of theory, explains why and how Romanticism has remained a locus of extravagant political hopes and anxieties, and, in a sequence of close readings, uncovers the “anaesthetic” condition of possibility of the politics of aesthetics.

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272

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Stanford University Press

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0804747504

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9780804747509

Location Filming in Los Angeles

By: Karie Bible,Marc Wanamaker,Harry Medved

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Location Filming in Los Angeles

By: Karie Bible,Marc Wanamaker,Harry Medved

Los Angeles has reigned for more than a century as the world capital of the film industry, a unique and ever-changing city that has been molded and recast thousands of times through the artistic visions and cinematic dreams of Hollywood's elite. As early as 1907, filmmakers migrated west to avoid lengthy eastern winters. In Los Angeles, they discovered an ideal world of abundant and diverse locales blessed with a mild and sunny climate ideal for filming. Location Filming in Los Angeles provides a historic view of the diversity of locations that provided the backdrop for Hollywood's greatest films, from the silent era to the modern age.

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130

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738581321

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9780738581323

Into the Twilight Zone

The Rod Serling Programme Guide

By: Jean-Marc Lofficier,Randy Lofficier

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Into the Twilight Zone

The Rod Serling Programme Guide

By: Jean-Marc Lofficier,Randy Lofficier

Into The Twilight Zone: The Rod Serling Programme Guide includes complete episode guides with cast, credits and story summaries of the original Twilight Zone series, as well as its many film and television revivals, and Rod Serling's Night Gallery. The book features an overview and filmography of Serling's life and career, and interviews with many of his colleagues, including Buck Houghton, Richard Matheson, Frank Marshall, Joe Dante, Phil DeGuere, Wes Craven, Alan Brennert, Paul Chitlik and Jeremy Bertrand Finch. It also includes indices of actors and creative personnel. "The best TV programme guide I have seen." --Ty Power, Dreamwatch "The perfect complement to The Twilight Zone Companion." --David McDonnell, Starlog

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314

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iUniverse

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0595276121

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9780595276127

I Think I Can See Where You're Going Wrong

And Other Wise and Witty Comments from Guardian Readers

By: Marc Burrows

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I Think I Can See Where You're Going Wrong

And Other Wise and Witty Comments from Guardian Readers

By: Marc Burrows

The Guardian publishes over forty thousand reader comments a day below the line. This is a miscellany of the best and most baffling thoughts from their witty, well-meaning readers. In the book, Guardian readers ponder the big questions ('Am I the only one who thinks that ham and cheese is a ghastly mix?') reflect with nostalgia on better days ('Airline employees were so much more agreeable back when they were all drunk') and share hard-won wisdom ('Dishwashers make lousy salmon poachers'). This book is best enjoyed with a soy latte in hand and yoga mat under the arm. Please store in an eco-friendly tote bag.

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Guardian Faber Publishing

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1783350687

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9781783350681

The Doctor Who Programme Guide

Fourth Edition

By: Jean-Marc,Randy Lofficer

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The Doctor Who Programme Guide

Fourth Edition

By: Jean-Marc,Randy Lofficer

The Doctor Who Programme Guide is the complete guide to every Doctor Who story shown on television. The stories are listed in order of broadcasting, starting with the first episode broadcast in 1963. Each entry includes the storyline, the cast list, and the names of the producer, script editor, writer and director, and the details of novelizations, video and audio cassette releases. This indispensable guide first appeared over twenty years ago, and immediately established itself as the single, most important reference work about Doctor Who. "THE bible to an entire generation of [Doctor Who] fans on both sides of the Atlantic." -Andrew Pixley, Celestial Toyroom "A real treat for Doctor Who buffs." -David McDonnell, Starlog "It sits invaluably upon every fan's bookshelf and is a constant source of reference." -Gary Russell, Doctor Who Monthly "A remarkable work of...dedicated scholarship." -Barry Letts, Producer, Doctor Who

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iUniverse

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1462098967

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9781462098965

The Burnt Book

Reading the Talmud

By: Marc-Alain Ouaknin

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The Burnt Book

Reading the Talmud

By: Marc-Alain Ouaknin

A profound look at what it means for new generations to read and interpret ancient religious texts In this book, rabbi and philosopher Marc-Alain Ouaknin offers a postmodern reading of the Talmud. Combining traditional learning and contemporary thought, Ouaknin dovetails discussions of spirituality and religious practice with such concepts as deconstruction, intertextuality, undecidability, multiple voicing, and eroticism in the Talmud. On a broader level, he establishes a dialogue between Hebrew tradition and the social sciences, which draws, for example, on the works of Lévinas, Blanchot, and Jabès as well as Derrida. The Burnt Book represents the innovative thinking that has come to be associated with a school of French Jewish studies, headed by Lévinas and dedicated to new readings of traditional texts. The Talmud, transcribed in 500 C.E., is shown to be a text that refrains from dogma and instead encourages the exploration of its meanings. A vast compilation of Jewish oral law, the Talmud also contains rabbinical commentaries that touch on everything from astronomy to household life. Examining its literary methods and internal logic, Ouaknin explains how this text allows readers to transcend its authority in that it invites them to interpret, discuss, and recreate their religious tradition. An in-depth treatment of selected texts from the oral law and commentary goes on to provide a model for secular study of the Talmud in light of contemporary philosophical issues. Throughout, the author emphasizes the self-effacing quality of a text whose worth can be measured by the insights that live on in the minds of its interpreters long after they have closed the book. He points out that the burning of the Talmud in anti-Judaic campaigns throughout history has, in fact, been an unwitting act of complicity with Talmudic philosophy and the practice of self-effacement. Ouaknin concludes his discussion with the story of the Hasidic master Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav, who himself burned his life achievement—a work known by his students as "the Burnt Book." This story leaves us with the question, should all books be destroyed in order to give birth to thought and renew meaning?

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Princeton University Press

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0691268371

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9780691268378

THE LONG WAY TO GET TO ME

By: Marc Lindon

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THE LONG WAY TO GET TO ME

By: Marc Lindon

Kevin loves sex… or rather an idealised version of it. The reality has often proven less successful, and always more traumatic. Fortunately his imagination – at least when the day job of settling bets in the local bookmakers permits – keeps him one step removed from the real thing, and that suits him just fine. But when Laura enters the frame, it looks as if fantasy and reality might collide. Meanwhile Monday night will always be poker night and, as the chips fly and mental warfare is waged, acts of social nuisance and vandalism are recounted and become a source of indignation and rage. And if the police won’t do anything… David always wanted to be a policeman, but circumstances dictated otherwise. Nepotism secured him the consolation prize of a station-basement bolthole and a loosely defined role as a glorified hand holder. The price he pays is constant resentment and ridicule from the regular officers. But he is convinced that a gang of vigilantes is operating locally, complete with calling card. And just maybe this is a case the he can solve and prove them all wrong. An emotionally charged and relentlessly funny coming-of-age story – in more ways than one.

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1838591966

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9781838591960

Book's by Marc Lindon

The Long Way to Get to Me

The Long Way to Get to Me

Fake Empires

Fake Empires

The Politics of Aesthetics

The Politics of Aesthetics

Location Filming in Los Angeles

Location Filming in Los Angeles

Into the Twilight Zone

Into the Twilight Zone

I Think I Can See Where You're Going Wrong

I Think I Can See Where You're Going Wrong

The Doctor Who Programme Guide

The Doctor Who Programme Guide

The Burnt Book

The Burnt Book

THE LONG WAY TO GET TO ME

THE LONG WAY TO GET TO ME

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