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Valentine's Day Lacks Focus
Valentine’s Day lacks focus Too many stars, not enough substance Photo copyright cleared Julia Fiztpatrick (Jennifer Garner) receives flowers from Reed Bennett (Ashton Kutcher)in the new film Valentine’s Day. James Butler Anne Hathaway (great in Get Smart and Contributor receiving an Oscar nomination for Rachel Most movies in Hollywood these days Getting Married) and even lesser ones like often have a major star attached to them Jennifer Garner are completely mailing it like George Clooney, Christian Bale, or in, it gets hard to really care about any of Jennifer Aniston, but it really is rare for the characters’ problems. a movie to have as many huge names as The screenplay itself is one of the Valentine’s Day. movie’s redeeming factors. Despite some Clearly catering to the mainstream cringe-worthy lines, it manages to have date movie audience, Valentine’s Day is points that were actually pretty funny. huge on star power, but very low on actual With a few too many story lines, substance. however, it stretches itself too thin, trying The biggest surprise about this movie to move the audience with characters was how they managed to get so many that were not given enough time or effort major stars into a motion picture and not throughout the film. get at least one memorable performance It also suffers from Crash syndrome, out of any of them. i.e., it bashes you over the head with The high profile cast includes Ashton its interconnected story lines and over- Kutcher, Jessica Alba, Julia Roberts, arching theme about the power of love. -
Brian Baker “Here on the Outside”: Mobility and Bio-Politics in Michael
MOBILITY AND BIO-POLITICS IN CODE 46 115 Brian Baker “Here on the Outside”: Mobility and Bio-politics in Michael Winterbottom’s Code 46 This article takes as its focus the representation of mobility and bio-politics in contemporary sf cinema. Globalized networks of mobility in late capitalism have been haunted by the figure of the globally mobile terrorist and by the possibility of global pandemics such as the SARS epidemic of 2002-03 or the H1N1 swine flu panic of 2009 which resulted in the UK government stockpiling anti-viral drugs in case of the spread of a “killer virus.” In an increasingly mobilized world, anxieties about movement of people, transmission of data and disease, and terrorism produce systems for policing and regulating mobility. These anxieties are articulated in contemporary spy thrillers, zombie films, and outbreak or transmission narratives.1 In what follows, Michael Winterbottom’s Code 46 (2003) serves as a diagnostic text for the analysis of figurations of globalized mobility and bio-politics, and this article uses the work of Giorgio Agamben, Michel Foucault, and Hannah Arendt to investigate Code 46’s mapping of exclusion and inclusion, of the refugee and the citizen, within regulatory systems for the control of mobility in a near-future, post-catastrophic world of globalized capital. Code 46 begins with shots of the desert, of roads, and of dispersed settlements taken from a low-flying airplane. These vertical shots (desert analogues of the vertical shots of Manhattan or other North American cities that are a staple of contemporary crime film and television) render landscape as geometry, not as lived space from a human perspective (using perspective) but from an impersonal, “God’s eye” point of view. -
Dangerously Free: Outlaws and Nation-Making in Literature of the Indian Territory
DANGEROUSLY FREE: OUTLAWS AND NATION-MAKING IN LITERATURE OF THE INDIAN TERRITORY by Jenna Hunnef A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of English University of Toronto © Copyright by Jenna Hunnef 2016 Dangerously Free: Outlaws and Nation-Making in Literature of the Indian Territory Jenna Hunnef Doctor of Philosophy Department of English University of Toronto 2016 Abstract In this dissertation, I examine how literary representations of outlaws and outlawry have contributed to the shaping of national identity in the United States. I analyze a series of texts set in the former Indian Territory (now part of the state of Oklahoma) for traces of what I call “outlaw rhetorics,” that is, the political expression in literature of marginalized realities and competing visions of nationhood. Outlaw rhetorics elicit new ways to think the nation differently—to imagine the nation otherwise; as such, I demonstrate that outlaw narratives are as capable of challenging the nation’s claims to territorial or imaginative title as they are of asserting them. Borrowing from Abenaki scholar Lisa Brooks’s definition of “nation” as “the multifaceted, lived experience of families who gather in particular places,” this dissertation draws an analogous relationship between outlaws and domestic spaces wherein they are both considered simultaneously exempt from and constitutive of civic life. In the same way that the outlaw’s alternately celebrated and marginal status endows him or her with the power to support and eschew the stories a nation tells about itself, so the liminality and centrality of domestic life have proven effective as a means of consolidating and dissenting from the status quo of the nation-state. -
Exploring Narrator-Reader Relationships with Jim Thompson's
Exploring Narrator-Reader Relationships with Jim Thompson’s Victims of Circumstance: Lou Ford, Dolly Dillon, William “Kid” Collins, and Charles Bigger By Nicolena Marie Crescenzo A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of English Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL December 2018 Copyright 2018 by Nicolena Marie Crescenzo ii Acknowledgements The author wishes to express sincere gratitude to her committee members for all of their support, and special thanks to my advisor for his patience and encouragement during the typing of this manuscript. The author is grateful to her family for always supporting her efforts to be successful. Last but not least, the author wishes to thank her mentors during her undergraduate studies for their recommendations academically and professionally that have helped her reach this point. iv Abstract Author: Nicolena Marie Crescenzo Title: Exploring Narrator-Reader Relationships with Jim Thompson’s Victims of Circumstance: Lou Ford, Dolly Dillon, William “Kid” Collins, and Charles Bigger Institution: Florida Atlantic University Thesis Advisor: Dr. Robert Don Adams Degree: Master of English Year: 2018 By examining Jim Thompson’s novels, published between 1952-1955–The Killer Inside Me, A Hell of a Woman, After Dark, My Sweet, and Savage Night–this essay interrogates the relationship created between the narrator and the reader, how the narrator–and Thompson in turn–highlights certain societal flaws, emphasizing how ethical consequence is born out of the attempt to attain freedom from one’s cultural circumstance–both in terms of economic restraint and mental health status. -
The Face of an Angel Synopsis
THE FACE OF AN ANGEL SYNOPSIS The brutal murder of a Bri1sh student in Tuscany leads to the trial and convic1on of her American flatmate and Italian boyfriend in controversial circumstances. The media feeding frenzy around the case aracts once successful, but now struggling filmmaker Thomas, to be commissioned to write a film - 'The Face of an Angel', based on a book by Simone Ford an American journalist who covered the case. From Rome they head to Siena to research the film. Thomas has recently separated from his wife in a bi=er divorce and leI his 9-year-old daughter in Los Angeles. This unravelling of his own life, and the dark mediaeval atmosphere surrounding the case, begins to drag him down into his own personal hell. Like Dante journeying through the Inferno in the Divine Comedy, with Simone as his guide to the tragedy of the murder, Thomas starts a relaonship with a student Melanie. This is a beau1ful, unrequited love, where she acts as a guide to his own heart. He comes to realise the most important thing in his life is not solving an unsolvable crime, or wri1ng the film, but returning to the daughter he has leI behind. | THE FACE OF AN ANGEL | 1 SHEET | 15.10.2013 | 1!5 THE FACE OF AN ANGEL CAST DANIEL BRÜHL KATE BECKINSALE In 2003 Daniel Brühl took the leading role in the box office smash Good English actress Kate Beckinsale is revealing herself to be one of films’ Bye Lenin!, which became one of Germany’s biggest box office hits of all most versale and charismac actresses. -
Feature Films Serving As Exclusive Product Placement Supervising Executive/Agency
FEATURE FILMS SERVING AS EXCLUSIVE PRODUCT PLACEMENT SUPERVISING EXECUTIVE/AGENCY ❑ Ad Astra---Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland---New Regency---20th Century Fox ❑ Captive State---John Goodman, Vera Farmiga---Amblin Partners, Universal Studios ❑ The Circle---Tom Hanks, Emma Watson ❑ The Neon Demon---Keanu Reeves, Elle Fanning ❑ The Wake---Bruce Willis, Sir Ben Kingsley ❑ John Wick---Keanu Reeves ❑ Black & White---Kevin Costner, Octavia Spencer ❑ Danny Collins---Al Pacino, Jennifer Garner, Annette Bening ❑ Oldboy---Josh Brolin, Samuel L. Jackson, Elizabeth Olsen--- Spike Lee Director ❑ Don Jon’s Addiction---Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, Joseph Gordon Levitt ❑ Carrie---Chloe Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore---M-G-M---Sony Screen Gems ❑ Parental Guidance---Billy Crystal, Bette Midler, Marisa Tomei---Fox ❑ Mavericks---Gerard Butler---Walden Media---Fox ❑ Won’t Back Down---Walden Media---Fox ❑ Looper---Bruce Willis---Emily Blunt---Joseph Gordon---Levitt---Sony ❑ Spy Kids 4---Jessica Alba---Robert Rodriguez Director ❑ 30 Minutes or Less---Ben Stiller Producer---Jesse Eisenberg---Sony Pictures ❑ Scream 4---Wes Craven---Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Neve Campbell--- Weinstein Co ❑ The Hungry Rabbit Jumps---Nicolas Cage, January Jones, Guy Pearce ❑ The Details---Tobey Maguire, Laura Linney, Elizabeth Banks, Dennis Haysbert ❑ Law Abiding Citizen---Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler ❑ Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins---Christian Bale---Directed By McG--- Warner Bros./Sony ❑ Seven Pounds---Will Smith, Rosario Dawson---Sony Release ❑ Soul -
The Rhetoric of Cool: Computers, Cultural Studies, and Composition
THE RHETORIC OF COOL: COMPUTERS, CULTURAL STUDIES, AND COMPOSITION By JEFFREY RICE A DISSERTATION PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 2002 TABLE OF CONTENTS Eage ABSTRACT iv 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1963 12 Baudrillard 19 Cultural Studies 33 Technology 44 McLuhan’s Cool Media as Computer Text 50 Cyberculture 53 Writing 57 2 LITERATURE 61 Birmingham and Baraka 67 The Role of Literature 69 The Beats 71 Burroughs 80 Practicing a Burroughs Cultural Jamming 91 Eating Texts 96 Kerouac and Nostalgia 100 History VS Nostalgia 104 Noir 109 Noir Means Black 115 The Signifyin(g) Detective 124 3 FILM AND MUSIC 129 The Apparatus 135 The Absence of Narrative 139 Hollywood VS The Underground 143 Flaming Creatures 147 The Deviant Grammar 151 Hollywood VS The Underground 143 Scorpio Rising 154 Music: Blue Note Records 163 Hip Hop - Samplin’ and Skratchin’ 170 The Breaks 174 ii 1 Be the Machine 178 Musical Production 181 The Return of Nostalgia 187 4 COMPOSITION 195 Composition Studies 200 Creating a Composition Theory 208 Research 217 Writing With(out) a Purpose 221 The Intellectual Institution 229 Challenging the Institution 233 Technology and the Institution 238 Cool: Computing as Writing 243 Cool Syntax 248 The Writer as Hypertext 25 Conclusion: Living in Cooltown 255 5 REFERENCES 258 6 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH ...280 iii Abstract of Dissertation Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy THE RHETORIC OF COOL: COMPUTERS, CULTURAL STUDIES, AND COMPOSITION By Jeffrey Rice December 2002 Chairman: Gregory Ulmer Major Department: English This dissertation addresses English studies’ concerns regarding the integration of technology into the teaching of writing. -
2017 Producers Book Finalists
PRODUCERS BOOK & PRINT SOURCE LIST Pre-Festival Edition THE 2017 PRODUCERS BOOK A LETTER FROM THE SCREENPLAY & FILM COMPETITION DIRECTORS Hello! Each year, we prepare our annual Producers Book which contains loglines and contact information for the year’s top scripts in our various Script Competitions. Please feel free to reach out to any of the writers listed here to request a copy of their scripts. Also included is our Print Source List containing information for all films selected for the 2017 Festival. This year’s Semifinalists and Finalists were chosen from a field of 9,487 scripts entered in our Screenplay, Digital Series, Playwriting, and Fiction Podcast Competitions. Each year we are amazed by the professional quality and talent that we receive and this year wasn’t any different. The Competition is open to feature-length scripts in the genres of drama, comedy, sci-fi, and horror; teleplay pilots and specs, short scripts, stage plays, fiction podcast scripts, and digital series scripts. Year after year, our strive in programming the Austin Film Festival film slate is to discover and champion the writers and those who can translate amazing stories to the screen. We received over 5,000 film submissions this year and had the task of whittling it down to 182 films that embody our mission and passion for storytelling. It was a harrowing task, but it led to our strongest year of film yet. We’re so proud of this year’s diverse group of filmmakers and unique voices and can’t wait for these works to be seen, shared, and loved. -
The World to Come
THE WORLD TO COME Directed by Mona Fastvold *World Premiere - 2020 Venice International Film Festival - Competition* PRESS CONTACTS US Press: Emilie Spiegel, [email protected] Intl Press: Claudia Tomassini, [email protected] SYNOPSIS In this frontier romance framed by the four seasons and set against the backdrop of rugged terrain, Abigail (Katherine Waterston), a farmer’s wife, and her new neighbor Tallie (Vanessa Kirby) find themselves powerfully, irrevocably drawn to each other. As grieving Abigail tends to the needs of her taciturn husband Dyer (Casey Affleck) and Tallie bristles at the jealous control of her husband Finney (Christopher Abbot), both women are illuminated and liberated by their intense bond, filling a void in their lives they never knew existed. Director Mona Fastvold (The Sleepwalker, co-writer of CHILDHOOD OF A LEADER and VOX LUX) examines the interior lives of two women resisting constraints, giving voice to their experiences. Scripted by Jim Shepard and Ron Hansen (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford), THE WORLD TO COME explores how isolation is overcome by the power of imagination and human connection. Q&A with Director Mona Fastvold First of all, tell me how the material came your way. It’s an interesting pairing of a novelist adapting a short story — was this a script that came to you fully formed? The script came to me from one of our producers, Whitaker Lader, who had seen my previous film. She and Casey had been developing the script with the screenwriters, Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard, for some time. I was immediately struck by it. -
Just Kate: His Only Wife Pdf, Epub, Ebook
JUST KATE: HIS ONLY WIFE PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Linda Lael Miller,Cathy McDavid | 480 pages | 29 Jan 2013 | Harlequin | 9780373180684 | English | Don Mills, Ont., United States Just Kate: His Only Wife PDF Book The Four Feathers. In , Hudson starred in the supernatural thriller The Skeleton Key , as a young hospice nurse who acquires a job at a New Orleans plantation home, and becomes entangled in a supernatural mystery involving the house. In August, Mr. April 27, But when, in the early throes of our relationship, he mooted the idea I might one day be a 'stay-at-home mum', I bristled. Either one of these two rationales behind these attacks against him, to me, are extremely distasteful. May 5, February 10, Prometheus Global Media. Jennifer Kate Hudson born September 12, , also known by her nickname J. But not only that, there seemed to be a pattern to his behaviour: William's antics came just days after revelations in this newspaper that he had shared a drunken embrace with a pretty blonde at Boujis, his favourite nightclub, on a boys' night out. It isn't real clear from the title of the book, but there are two stories in this book. Khan shocked Zurich by decamping to UBS. Archived from the original on April 6, During the seven years we've been married, Ben has done most of the cooking, cleaning and ironing without ever being asked. Rotten Tomatoes. September 18, His restructuring plan involved thousand of layoffs and paring back sales and trading, making many employees nervous for their jobs. -
Adding Value Report Vol.1
ADDING VALUE a report by Northern Ireland Screen NORTHERN BOOSTING CELEBRATING ENHANCING CONTENTS THE THE THE IRELAND OUR OUR OUR CHILDREN'S ECONOMIC CULTURAL EDUCATIONAL SCREEN ECONOMY CULTURE EDUCATION VALUE VALUE VALUE 08 Large-scale Production 44 Writers 84 Creative Learning Centres 18 Independent Film 46 Short Film 90 Moving Image Arts (MIA) 22 Animation 48 ILBF / CCG 92 After School FilmClub 26 Factual / Entertainment 56 USBF 30 Television Drama 64 Film Culture 34 Gaming and Mobile 74 Heritage and Archive 38 Skills Development 78 Awards 04 05 INTROduCTION As the government-backed lead Of course certain activity intersects In a similar vein, the work of the agency in Northern Ireland for the film, more than one area and the inter- Education Department, with regard to television and digital content industry, connectivity of the agency’s work will its intervention through FilmClub, has Northern Ireland Screen is committed become apparent. For example, the value in both education and culture; as to maximising the economic, cultural development and production funding for children learn through film in a pure and educational value of the screen indigenous projects made in Northern educational sense as well as gain a wider industries for the benefit of Northern Ireland by Northern Ireland film-makers appreciation of film culture and of the Ireland. This goal is pursued through our and shown at a Northern Ireland festival, culture of Northern Ireland through mission to accelerate the development will have value in all areas. An obvious watching content-relevant films. of a dynamic and sustainable screen case in point is the feature film Good industry and culture in Northern Ireland. -
2010 16Th Annual SAG AWARDS
CATEGORIA CINEMA Melhor ator JEFF BRIDGES / Bad Blake - "CRAZY HEART" (Fox Searchlight Pictures) GEORGE CLOONEY / Ryan Bingham - "UP IN THE AIR" (Paramount Pictures) COLIN FIRTH / George Falconer - "A SINGLE MAN" (The Weinstein Company) MORGAN FREEMAN / Nelson Mandela - "INVICTUS" (Warner Bros. Pictures) JEREMY RENNER / Staff Sgt. William James - "THE HURT LOCKER" (Summit Entertainment) Melhor atriz SANDRA BULLOCK / Leigh Anne Tuohy - "THE BLIND SIDE" (Warner Bros. Pictures) HELEN MIRREN / Sofya - "THE LAST STATION" (Sony Pictures Classics) CAREY MULLIGAN / Jenny - "AN EDUCATION" (Sony Pictures Classics) GABOUREY SIDIBE / Precious - "PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL ‘PUSH’ BY SAPPHIRE" (Lionsgate) MERYL STREEP / Julia Child - "JULIE & JULIA" (Columbia Pictures) Melhor ator coadjuvante MATT DAMON / Francois Pienaar - "INVICTUS" (Warner Bros. Pictures) WOODY HARRELSON / Captain Tony Stone - "THE MESSENGER" (Oscilloscope Laboratories) CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER / Tolstoy - "THE LAST STATION" (Sony Pictures Classics) STANLEY TUCCI / George Harvey – “UM OLHAR NO PARAÍSO” ("THE LOVELY BONES") (Paramount Pictures) CHRISTOPH WALTZ / Col. Hans Landa – “BASTARDOS INGLÓRIOS” ("INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS") (The Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures) Melhor atriz coadjuvante PENÉLOPE CRUZ / Carla - "NINE" (The Weinstein Company) VERA FARMIGA / Alex Goran - "UP IN THE AIR" (Paramount Pictures) ANNA KENDRICK / Natalie Keener - "UP IN THE AIR" (Paramount Pictures) DIANE KRUGER / Bridget Von Hammersmark – “BASTARDOS INGLÓRIOS” ("INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS") (The Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures) MO’NIQUE / Mary - "PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL ‘PUSH’ BY SAPPHIRE" (Lionsgate) Melhor elenco AN EDUCATION (Sony Pictures Classics) DOMINIC COOPER / Danny ALFRED MOLINA / Jack CAREY MULLIGAN / Jenny ROSAMUND PIKE / Helen PETER SARSGAARD / David EMMA THOMPSON / Headmistress OLIVIA WILLIAMS / Miss Stubbs THE HURT LOCKER (Summit Entertainment) CHRISTIAN CAMARGO / Col. John Cambridge BRIAN GERAGHTY / Specialist Owen Eldridge EVANGELINE LILLY / Connie James ANTHONY MACKIE / Sgt.