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  Admired Painter Frida Kahlo The...

  Bert Alexander Petzold

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  Why does the art world so readily celebrate male genius while sidelining the women who transformed how we see pain, identity and the female experience? "The Admired Painter Frida Kahlo" shows how one Mexican artist defied convention, suffering and erasure to become a defining feminist voice of the twentieth century.
  Frida Kahlo did not simply paint self-portraits; she invented a visual language for the body, wounded and resilient, and for the self as a site of politics and truth. Childhood polio, a catastrophic bus accident at eighteen, chronic pain and repeated operations shaped her daily life, as did her turbulent marriage to the muralist Diego Rivera. Rather than letting illness and patriarchy reduce her to a legend, she made her bedroom a studio and turned lived experience into images that demand attention. The book places her most important works at the centre: "The Two Fridas", "The Broken Column", "Henry Ford Hospital", "My Birth", "Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird", "What the Water Gave Me", "The Wounded Deer", and "Self-Portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States". Read closely, these paintings do more than confess; they argue, combining tenderness with brutality, symbolism with precise observation.
  Bert Alexander Petzold offers more than pop mythology. Drawing on comprehensive research, he explains how Kahlo fused Mexican folk traditions, pre-Columbian imagery, Catholic iconography and uncompromising honesty about disability, desire, miscarriage and identity into works of exceptional intellectual and emotional power. He also shows why her intimate scale was revolutionary in a culture that prized grand public statements, and how her reputation, long overshadowed by Rivera, came to reshape the canon.
  If Kahlo's image has fascinated you but you want to understand the practice behind it, this study provides the depth and clarity her work deserves. Buy the book and see why Kahlo's vision continues to transform how we read art, selfhood and the female body.
  Perfect for GCSE and A-level revision as well as university study, the book uses Frida Kahlo's biography and masterpieces as a key to looking, so you can not only recognise her but truly understand her.

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  Counterfeit Worlds - The...

  Brian J. Robb

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  Philip K. Dick, the visionary author behind Blade Runner, is the most adapted science fiction writer in cinema history. Though he struggled to make a living during his lifetime, his work has since served as a deep seam of ideas to be mined by filmmakers such as Ridley Scott, Paul Verhoeven, Steven Speilberg, John Woo and Richard Linklater, resulting in some of the most successful and influential SF movies of all time. For the still-unequalled future world of Blade Runner to the mind-bending A Scanner Darkly, via the blockbusting action/adventure of Total Recall, Paycheck and Minority Report – not to mention the debt of gratitude films like The Matrix and The Truman Show owe to his work – the legacy of Philip K. Dick has revolutionised Hollywood.
  Illustrated with rare photos, Counterfeit Worlds is the first book to trace the history of Philip K. Dick screen adaptations, both in cinema and on television.

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  Room for Good Things to Run Wild...

  Josh Nadeau

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  Read by the author. 
  Room for Good Things to Run Wild is the antidote to widespread Christian malaise. If you feel like life is happening to you, that your faith has been reduced to trite platitudes, and that no matter how many new things you try, you still end up with a dissatisfying Christian life, this book offers relief from the mediocrity of Christian living through the sacred and satisfying journey of becoming an every day saint. 
  After spending too many days staring at the hamster cage of his uninspired life through the bottom of a glass of Scotch, Josh Nadeau knew there were only 2 ways left to go: further down or finally up. Disillusioned by his faith and disenchanted by the world around him, Josh chose up out of a desperation to discover the Jesus who had formed the saints of old.  
  Steeped in literature and doctrine, art and raw daily life and accompanied by original illustrations and living liturgy this book will bring you on the journey back to an embodied theology that understands that we know, not just with our minds, but also with our bodies. From Canada, to England, to Ireland and Spain, Josh follows the Jesus Way, teaching you how to be just as honest about the pain of your life as the pleasure of your life.  
  Rediscover the full and wild world that God has created for you in the way He has created you to experience it. Room for Good Things to Run Wild is a call into the Holy Ordinary; a new way to see that wakes the soul and satisfies the body.

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  Snakebit

  David Marshall Grant

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  Jennifer and Jonathan, a showbiz couple, leave their ailing daughter in New York City to come to Hollywood, so Jonathan can audition for a film. And when Jennifer stays with her old friend Michael, a dancer turned social worker, past sins shed new light on the present in the age of AIDS.   
   
  This play is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ “Chicago Theaters on the Air” series, produced in conjunction with Remains Theatre.  
   
  Recorded before a live audience at Chicago’s Guest Quarters Suite Hotel in February 1993. 
   
  Theatrical Direction by Campbell Scott 
  Directed for Radio by Mary McAuliffe 
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg 
   
  An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring: 
   
  Talia Balsam as Jennifer 
  John Benjamin Hickey as Michael 
  Harry Hutchinson as the Man 
  D.W. Moffett as Jonathan 
   
  Radio Producer: Robert Newhouse 
  Recording Engineer: Larry Rock 
  Production Stager Manager: Jan Watson 
  Live Sound Effects: Kim Soren Watson

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  Supes Ain't Always Heroes -...

  Lynn S. Zubernis, Matthew Snyder

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  Go deeper inside the hit TV show The Boys and its characters with psychologists, media experts, filmmakers, and more—including the original comic series' cocreator and the actors behind Soldier Boy and Stormfront. 
   
   
   
  Supes Ain't Always Heroes offers a fresh look at The Boys, delving into the show's unflinching depiction of celebrity, politics, social media, corporate greed, racism, sexism, and more: 
   
   
   
  ● The true difference between Homelander and Billy Butcher—and who the show's biggest villain really is 
   
   
   
  ● What Soldier Boy's characterization says about how we define masculinity 
   
   
   
  ● How today's media landscape has contributed to The Boys' success 
   
   
   
  ● What the evolutions of Hughie, Starlight, A-Train, Mother's Milk, and other show standouts reflect about addiction, family, identity, and self-acceptance 
   
   
   
  PLUS: Exclusive interviews with The Boys comics cocreator Darick Robertson and actors Jensen Ackles, Jim Beaver, Aya Cash, and Nathan Mitchell provide a unique glimpse behind the scenes. Comments from editor interviews with more of the show's stars give further insight into their experiences in bringing these complex characters to life.

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  Drama Games for Exploring...

  Alanna Beeken, Foundation Coram...

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  This dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book, part of the bestselling Drama Games series, offers dozens of games to help bring Shakespeare's plays to life in the classroom or rehearsal room – making them fun and accessible to actors, students, directors and teachers.
  Inspired by the work of leading cultural education charity Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation, this book offers a wide range of activities to tackle every aspect of the plays, including:
  
  - Warm-ups and General Games to establish an atmosphere of focus, connection, support and fun – all the conditions you need for a successful session
  - Story and World-building to explore the events, environments and societies of Shakespeare's plays
  - Introducing Shakespeare's Language to break down the text and allow participants to uncover the meaning through play and creative discovery
  - Activating Shakespeare's Language to liberate actors from the script through movement and voice-work
  - Character to help develop compelling, believable performances by investigating motivations and relationships, circumstances and emotions
  - Staging to help empower every member of the ensemble in moments that might be challenging to stage – such as big movement sequences, fights and battles and intimate love scenes
  Whatever your reason for exploring Shakespeare – whether you're directing a production, teaching a set text, or introducing his work to young people for the first time – this essential resource will give you the tools you need to demystify the language, take ownership of the plays, and find a connection to the words that resonates in our own time.
  'This wonderful book will be an invaluable resource for anyone approaching the teaching or directing of Shakespeare, whether novice or veteran' Paterson Joseph, from his Foreword

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