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  Jay Jurden: Jay Jurden Y'all

  Jay Jurden

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  In his first comedy special, actor and comedian Jay Jurden hilariously explores the intersection among sexuality, race, and growing up in the South. In Y’all, Jay jokes about joining a Fantasy Football League (not the kind of fantasy he hoped for), calls out Kanye West, and talks about coming out in Mississippi. Tackling sensitive subjects without hesitation, Jay draws on his experiences as a black, southern queer in this smart comedy debut.

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  Dangerous Assignment: London...

  Adrian Gendot, Robert Ryf

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  Steve Mitchell heads to London to prevent a meeting that will compromise American diplomatic codes. The assignment leads to an airplane heading towards Athens and four suspects.

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  Cinematic Flashes - Cinephilia...

  Rashna Wadia Richards

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  Cinematic Flashes challenges popular notions of a uniform Hollywood style by disclosing uncanny networks of incongruities, coincidences, and contingencies at the margins of the cinematic frame.  In an agile demonstration of "cinephiliac" historiography, Rashna Wadia Richards extracts intriguing film fragments from their seemingly ordinary narratives in order to explore what these unexpected moments reveal about the studio era. Inspired by Walter Benjamin's preference for studying cultural fragments rather than composing grand narratives, this unorthodox history of the films of the studio system reveals how classical Hollywood emerges as a disjointed network of accidents, excesses, and coincidences.

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  El Greco

  Ernesto Ballesteros Arranz

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  Interactive eBook. Towards the last third of the 16th century, an exceptional painter came to Spain: Domenico Theotocopulos, known to us as El Greco. Before and after him, other painters arrived, such as Cincinato, Cambiaso, Zuccaro, Tibaldi, etc., most of them finding patronage at the court of Philip II -but they were all lesser artists -as would also be the case in the 17th century. In comparison to them, El Greco is an unrivalled and unpredictable personage. In spite of his Cretan ascent ("El Greco" means "The Greek"), he has often been claimed to be either Venetian or Spanish, because it was within these two traditions where he received training and carried out his work.

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  The Best Magic Games

  Annalisa Strada, Gianluigi Spini

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  Within this complete book the reader will find the best techniques addressed both to beginners that want to start learning and to experts that wish to improve their skills. Extraordinary divinations, predictions and incomprehensible immersions into the minds are some of the performances shown in the mentalist sessions. The purpose of this manual is to get the reader to learn how to perform every trick presented in this book with agility, confidence and skill.

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  Dwight Yoakam - A Thousand Miles...

  Don Mccleese

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  “[A] compulsively readable biography . . . Essential for fans of Yoakam and lovers of good music writing.” ―Library Journal    From his formative years playing pure hardcore honky-tonk for mid-’80s Los Angeles punk rockers through his subsequent surge to the top of the country charts, Dwight Yoakam has enjoyed a singular career. An electrifying live performer, superb writer, and virtuosic vocalist, he’s successfully bridged two musical worlds that usually have little use for each other: commercial country and its alternative/Americana/roots-rocking counterpart. Defying the label “too country for rock, too rock for country,” Yoakam has triumphed while many of his peers have had to settle for cult acceptance. Four decades into his career, he’s sold more than twenty-five million records and continues to tour regularly. Now award-winning music journalist Don McLeese offers the first musical biography of this acclaimed artist. Tracing the seemingly disparate influences in Yoakam’s music, McLeese shows how he’s combined rock and roll, rockabilly, country, blues, and gospel into a seamless whole. In particular, McLeese explores the essential issue of “authenticity” and how it applies to Yoakam, as well as to country music and popular culture in general.   Drawing on wide-ranging interviews with Yoakam and his management, while also benefiting from the perspectives of others closely associated with his success (including producer-guitarist Pete Anderson, partner throughout Yoakam’s most popular and creative decades), Dwight Yoakam pays tribute to the musician who has established himself as a visionary beyond time, an artist who could title an album Tomorrow’s Sounds Today and deliver it.

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