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  French Cinema - A Very Short...

  Dudley Andrew

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  It is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until WWI, when they were supplanted by Hollywood, the French cinema industry encompassed all genres, from popular entertainment to avant-garde practice.This Very Short Introduction opens up French cinema through focusing on some of its most notable works, using the lens of the New Wave decade (1958-1968) that changed cinema worldwide. Exploring the entire French cinematic oeuvre, Dudley Andrew teases out distinguishing themes, tendencies, and lineages, to bring what is most crucial about French Cinema into alignment. He discusses how style has shaped the look of female stars and film form alike, analyzing the "made up" aesthetic of many films, and the paradoxical penchant for French cinema to cruelly unmask surface beauty in quests for authenticity. Discussing how French cinema as a whole pits strong-willed characters against auteurs with high-minded ideas of film art, funded by French cinema's close rapport to literature, painting, and music, Dudley considers how the New Wave emerged from these struggles, becoming an emblem of ambition for cinema that persists today. He goes on to show how the values promulgated by the New Wave directors brought the three decades that preceded it into focus, and explores the deep resonance of those values today.

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  Being a Ballerina - The Power...

  Gavin Larsen

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  Inspiring, revealing, and deeply relatable, Being a Ballerina is a firsthand look at the realities of life as a professional ballet dancer. Through episodes from her own career, Gavin Larsen describes the forces that drive a person to study dance; the daily balance that dancers navigate between hardship and joy; and the dancer's continual quest to discover who they are as a person and as an artist.Starting with her arrival as a young beginner at a class too advanced for her, Larsen tells how the embarrassing mistake ended up helping her learn quickly and advance rapidly. In other stories of her early teachers, training, and auditions, she explains how she gradually came to understand and achieve what she and her body were capable of.Larsen then re-creates scenes from her experiences in dance companies, from unglamorous roles to exhilarating performances. Working as a ballerina was shocking and scary at first, she says, recalling unexpected injuries, leaps of faith, and her constant struggle to operate at the level she wanted—but full of enormously rewarding moments.An ideal read for aspiring dancers, Larsen's memoir will also delight experienced dance professionals and fascinate anyone who wonders what it takes to live a life dedicated to the perfection of the art form.

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  John Connolly

  Steve Black

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  Sevendust guitarist John Connolly spoke with Steve Black in the summer of 2017.

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  Look Within Lihat ke Dalam -...

  Obediya Jones-Darrell

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  “Someone told Bima that if he gets a special kind of water and bathes in it he will become invulnerable in the Bratajuda war against Sujudana.  So he climbs a mountain, fights giants and crosses the sea in his quest to find a guru.  His mystical journey is filled with magic and wonder, but will he gain the power to save his people?  ” 
  Based on Javanese cultural legends, Look Within (Lihat Ke Dalam) is an example of Indonesian Wayang Puppet Theatre.  In 1890,  32,965 Indonesians from villages in Central and East Java immigrated to Suriname.  These people make up the largest migration of Indonesians outside of Southeast Asia.  Their culture and stories contribute to the multicultural diversity of the Caribbean. 
  Look Within (Lihat Ke Dalam) is written, produced and performed by Obediya Jones-Darrell with narration read by Sara Riyanto.  Obediya first traveled to Java, Indonesia in 1998 where he performed in a Gamelan orchestra, the music accompaniment for Wayang puppet theatre.  Wayang puppet theatre was inscribed in 2008 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (UNESCO).

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  I Want You - An Erotic Journey -...

  Mr. V

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  An Erotic Journey is a series of fantasies written in the 2nd person.
  
  It's designed for women who want to explore their sexual self, awake their sensuality, and lose themselves in breathtaking pleasure and fulfillment.
  
  It's a door to discovering and living through your innermost desires and fantasies. Especially the ones that are hidden deep down, so that no one can find them.
  
  My name is Mr. V. I use my deep and masculine voice to touch you in a way you crave to be touched. I take you to the world of a great fire that is buried deep inside of you. The fire that makes you feel wild, feminine, and alive.
  
  Get my first message entitled 'I want you' and let's start OUR journey.
  
  I am your guide and all you have to do is to put on your headphones, close your eyes, and follow my voice.
  
  And make sure your hands are free because you might feel like you want to use them...An Author's Republic audio production.

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  Painter of Pedigree - Thomas...

  Lawrence Trevelyan Weaver

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  The industrial and agricultural revolutions transformed the face of Britain. Fiery blast furnaces, pit-head steam engines and fuming lime-kilns scarred a landscape cut across by canals, turnpikes and railways. Within enclosed pasture and parkland, farm and sporting animals of startling proportions and striking dimensions grazed and raced by serpentine lakes and Palladian piles.
  One of the artists who depicted these prize bulls, pedigree sheep and thoroughbred stallions in Arcadian surroundings of bucolic tranquillity was Thomas Weaver of Shrewsbury (1775-1844). Travelling from country house to house to paint pedigree animals for pedigree people, his journeys map the networks of kinship, patronage and social aspiration that linked the landed families and gentry of Georgian England.
  Based on a unique and hitherto unexamined collection of Weaver's papers and pictures, including personal and professional correspondence, diary, contemporary newspaper cuttings, verse, and portraits of his family, Painter of Pedigree brings to life the work of an animal artist in the age of agricultural improvement, revealing the art, artistry and artifice that went into portraying and promoting these new breeds.

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