Representing Men takes its cue from the greater visibility of men's studies in the 1990s. It interests itself in the way that mass media do not so much "reflect" masculinity in society as "teach" it, by creating or reinforcing its images. The ideas of many books and articles of particularly the last two decades are synthesized to show the range of masculinities. While these publications normally deal with one specific medium apiece, the present study considers four distinct, if related, media: movies, television, advertising, and sports coverage (especially on television and in newspapers).

Representing Men: Maleness and Masculinity in the Media

Politics & Social Sciences

MacKinnon, Kenneth

Social Sciences

Hodder Education Publishers

<p>Taking its cue from the greater visibility of men's studies in the last decade, this comprehensive volume focuses on the various ways that mass media do not so much "reflect" masculinity in society as "teach" it by creating or reinforcing its own idealized images. Encompassing a wide-spectrum of research particularly from the last twenty years, this book shows the range of masculine identities. While these publications normally deal with one specific medium, the present study considers four distinct mediums of mass media: movies, television, advertising, and sports coverage.</p>

Representing Men (Arnold Publication)

Bloomsbury Academic

If Greek tragedy is sometimes regarded as a form long dead and buried, both theatre producers and film directors seem slow to accept its interment. Originally published in 1986, this book reflects the renewed interest in questions of staging the Greek plays, to give a comprehensive account and critical analysis of all the important versions of Greek tragedy made on film. From the 1927 footage of the re-enactment of Aeschylus’ Prometheus in Chains at the Delphi Festival organised by Angelos Sikelianos to Pasolini’s Notes for an African Oresteia, the study encompasses the version of Oedipus by Tyrone Guthrie, Tzavellas’s Antigone (with Irene Papas), Michael Cacoyannis’s series which included Electra, The Trojan Women, and Iphigeneia, Pasolini’s Oedipus and Medea (with Maria Callas), Miklos Jancso’s Elektreia, Dassim’s Phaedra and others.  Many interesting questions are raised by the transference of a highly stylised form such as Greek tragedy to what is often claimed to be the ‘realistic’ medium of film. What becomes clear is that the heroic myths retain with ease the power to move the audiences in very different milieux through often strikingly different means. The book may be read as an adjunct to viewing of the films, but enough synopsis is given to make its arguments accessible to those familiar only with the classical texts, or with neither version.

Greek Tragedy into Film

Reference

Routledge

Greek tragedy into film

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Croom Helm

This volume offers a comprehensive account and critical analysis of all the important versions of Greek tragedy made on film, from the 1927 footage of the reenactment of Aeschylus's Prometheus in Chains at the Delphi Festival to Pasolini's Notes for an African Oresteia. Synopses of the tragedies are provided.

UNKNO

This study of American and British political phenomena and thinking in the eighties uses popular English-language movies of the last two decades as evidence of the influence of the Right - particularly on our conceptions of the family and sexuality. Ultimately, it argues that sociopolitical attitudes toward AIDS were shaped in the eighties by sociopolitical attitudes toward the sexuality most assiduously linked to the syndrome. The study also proposes that, by the seventies, a "frame" had already been fashioned for the picture of AIDS painted in the Reagan-Thatcher years.The decade of the eighties appears, in the United States and Great Britain at least, to have an unusually credible unity and image, thanks to President Reagan's two terms of office and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's three terms. Dominant political thinking shifted dramatically to the Right under these leaders, signaling an end to postwar political consensus and ushering in economic doctrines hostile to "welfarism" and supportive of private enterprise.The eighties was also the period of the appearance of a mysterious new complex eventually called AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), which was, at least in the United States in its early years, associated popularly with, above all, homosexual males and intravenous drug users - as well as Haitian immigrants.This book attempts to show how New Right - and particularly Christian fundamentalist - thinking profoundly affected attitudes toward, as well as spending on, the syndrome and both actual and believed-potential sufferers. The intensification of traditional familialism, the attempted balkanization of sexualities, the attacks on homosexuality and on gay rights, are results of the marked influence of the Right on politics on both sides of the Atlantic. These, together with the emphasis on individual responsibility for health and material security - not to mention resurgent machismo and a restored belief in the natural and unnatural - help to explain the health disaster experienced in the United States, United Kingdom, and elsewhere.A review of English-language cinematic entertainment of the eighties reveals that the health crisis was scarcely alluded to, although such values as those of militarism, masculinity, and family loyalty were addressed - whether supportively or critically. It is the argument of this book that the HIV virus and AIDS are approached, if at all, only obliquely, particularly within the genre of the horror film, and especially through those films dealing with corporeality or with lethal challenges to the traditional nuclear family.The popular entertainment of eighties America and Britain provides eloquent testimony to the dread of AIDS and particularly of the sexuality with which the complex has from the earliest days been associated. The "AIDS imagery" recoverable from eighties movies helps to make visible the linking of negative thought and phobia that has so signally helped to produce the health crisis.

The Politics of Popular Representation: Reagan, Thatcher, AIDS, And the Movies

Humor & Entertainment

Misogyny in the Movies: The De Palma Question

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Greek Tragedy into Film (Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature)

A Book of Folk Carols is a collection of the carols sung at the annual Folk Carol Service at New Road Methodist Church, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, over more than 25 years. These are "traditional carols" in the true sense of both words - composed by the common folk of the time and passed on from one generation to another by hearing, learning and changing over the years, and based upon dance music played by the local band. The compilers of this book have researched manuscripts, tunes, and many other old items over a long period. You will find several carols that have probably never been sung for hundreds of years except at these Folk Carol Services, along with some old favourites. The carols come complete with tunes and freshly written accompaniments for you to sing and play on piano or guitar, or with your own dance band!

A Book Of Folk Carols

McDowell, Paul

Music

Writersworld Ltd

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