2016, ISBN: 9781496802545

Betty Bobo Pearson (b. 1922), a seventh-generation, plantation-born Mississippian, defied her cultural heritage--and caused great personal pain for her parents and herself--when she becam… Mehr…

Betty Bobo Pearson (b. 1922), a seventh-generation, plantation-born Mississippian, defied her cultural heritage--and caused great personal pain for her parents and herself--when she became an activist in the civil rights movement. Never fearing to breakthe mold in her search for the 'best,' she, in her ninety-third year, remains a strong, effective leader with a fun-loving, generous spirit. When Betty was eighteen months old, a train smashed into the car her mother was driving, killing Betty's beloved grandfather and severely injuring her grandmother. Thrown onto the engine's cow catcher, Betty lived and did not remember the accident. She did, however, grow up to fulfill her grandmother's prediction: 'Betty, God reached down and plucked you from in front of that train because he has something very special he wants you to do with your life.' In 1943, twenty-one-year-old Betty, soon to graduate from the University of Mississippi, received a full tuition scholarship to Columbia Graduate School in New YorkCity. Ecstatic, she rushed home to tell her parents. 'ABSOLUTELY NOT. There is no way I'll allow my daughter to live in Yankee Land,' her father replied. After fierce argument and much door slamming, Betty could not defy her father. But she had to show him she was her own person. Her nation was at war--so Betty joined the Marines. After the war, Betty married Bill Pearson and became mistress of Rainbow Plantation in the Delta. In 1955, she attended the Emmett Till trial (accompanied by her close friend and budding civil rights activist Florence Mars) and was shocked by the virulent degree of racism she witnessed there. Seeing her world in a new way, she became a courageous and dedicated supporter of the civil rights movement. Her activities severely fractured her close relationship with her parents. Yet, as a warm friend and bold, persuasive leader, Betty made an indelible mark in her church, in the Delta communities, in the lives of the people she employed, and i ...|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/282d59d1/delta-rainbow-sally-palmer-thomason-9781496806642.jpg|9781496806642|Delta Rainbow : Hardback : University Press of Mississippi : 9781496806642 : 09 Jun 2016 : Betty Bobo Pearson (b. 1922), a seventh-generation, plantation-born Mississippian, defied her cultural heritage - and caused great personal pain for her parents ...|new|1|1|70|28.95|0|GBP|Sally Palmer Thomason|University Press of Mississippi|09 Jun 2016|Biography: historical, political & military 9781496802743|The Complete Folktales of A.N. Afanas'ev, Volume II|114.99|https://wordery.com/the-complete-folktales-of-an-afanasev-volume-ii-jack-v-haney-9781496802743|Up to now, there has been no complete English-language version of the Russian folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev. This translation is based on L. G. Barag and N. V. Novikov's edition, widely regarded as the authoritative Russian-language edition. The present edition includes commentaries to each tale as well as its international classification number. This second volume of 140 tales continues the work started in Volume I, also published by University Press of Mississippi. A third planned volume will complete the first English-language set.The folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev represent the largest single collection of folktales in any European language and perhaps in the world. Widely regarded as the Russian Grimm, Afanas'ev collected folktales from throughout the Russian Empire in what are now regarded as the three East Slavic languages, Byelorusian, Russian, and Ukrainian. The result of his own collecting, the collecting of friends and correspondents, and in a few cases his publishing of works from earlier and forgotten collections is truly phenomenal. In his lifetime, Afanas'ev published more than 575 tales in his most popular and best known work, Narodnye russkie skazki. In addition to this basic collection, he prepared a volume of Russian legends, many on religious themes; a collection of mildly obscene tales, Russkie zavetnye skazki; and voluminous writings on Slavic folk life and mythology. His works were subject to the strict censorship of ecclesiastical and state authorities that lasted until the demise of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. Overwhelmingly, his particular emendations were stylistic, while those of the censors mostly concerned content. The censored tales are generally not included in this volume.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/cbb367ea/the-complete-folktales-of-an-afanasev-volume-ii-jack-v-haney-9781496802743.jpg|9781496802743|The Complete Folktales of A.N. Afanas'ev, Volume II : Hardback : University Press of Mississippi : 9781496802743 : 01 Sep 2015 : Up to now, there has been no complete English-language version of the Russian folktales of A.N. Afanas'ev. This translatio ...|new|1|1|999|120|0|GBP|Jack V. Haney|University Press of Mississippi|01 Sep 2015|Folklore, myths & legends 9781496802545|Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s|33.99|https://wordery.com/making-and-remaking-horror-in-the-1970s-and-2000s-david-roche-9781496802545|In Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s author David Roche takes up the assumption shared by many fans and scholars that original horror movies are more disturbing," and thus better than the remakes. He assesses the qualities of movies, old and recast, according to criteria that include subtext, originality, and cohesion. With a methodology that combines a formalist and cultural studies approach, Roche sifts aspects of the American horror movie that have been widely addressed (class, the patriarchal family, gender, and the opposition between terror and horror) and those that have been somewhat neglected (race, the Gothic, style, and verisimilitude). Containing seventy-eight black and white illustrations, the book is grounded in a close comparative analysis of the politics and aesthetics of four of the most significant independent American horror movies of the 1970s--The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes, Dawn of the Dead, and Halloween--and their twenty-first-century remakes. To what extent can the politics of these films be described as "disturbing" insomuch as they promote subversive subtexts that undermine essentialist perspectives? Do the politics of the film lie on the surface or are they wedded to the film's aesthetics? Early in the book, Roche explores historical contexts, aspects of identity (race, ethnicity, and class), and the structuring role played by the motif of the American nuclear family. He then asks to what extent these films disrupt genre expectations and attempt to provoke emotions of dread, terror, and horror through their representations of the monstrous and the formal strategies employed? In this inquiry, he examines definitions of the genre and its metafictional nature. Roche ends with a meditation on the extent to which the technical limitations of the horror films of the 1970s actually contribute to this "disturbing" quality. Moving far beyond the genre itself, Making and Remaking Horror studies the redux as a ... Books<

2015, ISBN: 1496802543

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[EAN: 9781496802545], Neubuch, [PU: University Press Of Mississippi], nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - AN EXPANSIVE TREATMENT OF THE MEANINGS AND QUALITIES OF ORIGINAL AND REMADE AMERICAN HORROR MOVIES In Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s author David Roche takes up the assumption shared by many fans and scholars that original horror movies are more 'disturbing,' and thus better than the remakes. He assesses the qualities of movies, old and recast, according to criteria that include subtext, originality, and cohesion. With a methodology that combines a formalist and cultural studies approach, Roche sifts aspects of the American horror movie that have been widely addressed (class, the patriarchal family, gender, and the opposition between terror and horror) and those that have been somewhat neglected (race, the Gothic, style, and verisimilitude). Containing seventy-eight black and white illustrations, the book is grounded in a close comparative analysis of the politics and aesthetics of four of the most significant independent American horror movies of the 1970s--The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes, Dawn of the Dead, and Halloween--and their twenty-first-century remakes. To what extent can the politics of these films be described as 'disturbing' insomuch as they promote subversive subtexts that undermine essentialist perspectives Do the politics of the film lie on the surface or are they wedded to the film's aesthetics Early in the book, Roche explores historical contexts, aspects of identity (race, ethnicity, and class), and the structuring role played by the motif of the American nuclear family. He then asks to what extent these films disrupt genre expectations and attempt to provoke emotions of dread, terror, and horror through their representations of the monstrous and the formal strategies employed In this inquiry, he examines definitions of the genre and its metafictional nature. Roche ends with a meditation on the extent to which the technical limitations of the horror films of the 1970s actually contribute to this 'disturbing' quality. Moving far beyond the genre itself, Making and Remaking Horror studies the redux as a form of adaptation and enables a more complete discussion of the evolution of horror in contemporary American cinema. DAVID ROCHE, Toulouse, France, is professor at the Université Le Mirail. He is the editor of Conversations with Russell Banks (published by University Press of Mississippi), coeditor of Approaches to Film and Reception Theories, and author of L'Imagination malsaine: Russell Banks, Raymond Carver, David Cronenberg, Bret Easton Ellis, David Lynch. 344 pp. Englisch, Photographs<

2015, ISBN: 1496802543

[EAN: 9781496802545], Nieuw boek, [SC: 14.12], [PU: University Press Of Mississippi], nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - AN EXPANSIVE TREATMENT OF THE MEANING… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781496802545], Nieuw boek, [SC: 14.12], [PU: University Press Of Mississippi], nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - AN EXPANSIVE TREATMENT OF THE MEANINGS AND QUALITIES OF ORIGINAL AND REMADE AMERICAN HORROR MOVIESIn Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s author David Roche takes up the assumption shared by many fans and scholars that original horror movies are more 'disturbing,' and thus better than the remakes. He assesses the qualities of movies, old and recast, according to criteria that include subtext, originality, and cohesion. With a methodology that combines a formalist and cultural studies approach, Roche sifts aspects of the American horror movie that have been widely addressed (class, the patriarchal family, gender, and the opposition between terror and horror) and those that have been somewhat neglected (race, the Gothic, style, and verisimilitude). Containing seventy-eight black and white illustrations, the book is grounded in a close comparative analysis of the politics and aesthetics of four of the most significant independent American horror movies of the 1970s--The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes, Dawn of the Dead, and Halloween--and their twenty-first-century remakes.To what extent can the politics of these films be described as 'disturbing' insomuch as they promote subversive subtexts that undermine essentialist perspectives Do the politics of the film lie on the surface or are they wedded to the film's aesthetics Early in the book, Roche explores historical contexts, aspects of identity (race, ethnicity, and class), and the structuring role played by the motif of the American nuclear family. He then asks to what extent these films disrupt genre expectations and attempt to provoke emotions of dread, terror, and horror through their representations of the monstrous and the formal strategies employed In this inquiry, he examines definitions of the genre and its metafictional nature. Roche ends with a meditation on the extent to which the technical limitations of the horror films of the 1970s actually contribute to this 'disturbing' quality. Moving far beyond the genre itself, Making and Remaking Horror studies the redux as a form of adaptation and enables a more complete discussion of the evolution of horror in contemporary American cinema.DAVID ROCHE, Toulouse, France, is professor at the Université Le Mirail. He is the editor of Conversations with Russell Banks (published by University Press of Mississippi), coeditor of Approaches to Film and Reception Theories, and author of L'Imagination malsaine: Russell Banks, Raymond Carver, David Cronenberg, Bret Easton Ellis, David Lynch., Photographs<

2015, ISBN: 1496802543

[EAN: 9781496802545], Neubuch, [PU: University Press Of Mississippi], nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - AN EXPANSIVE TREATMENT OF THE MEANINGS AND QUALITIES … Mehr…

[EAN: 9781496802545], Neubuch, [PU: University Press Of Mississippi], nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - AN EXPANSIVE TREATMENT OF THE MEANINGS AND QUALITIES OF ORIGINAL AND REMADE AMERICAN HORROR MOVIESIn Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s author David Roche takes up the assumption shared by many fans and scholars that original horror movies are more 'disturbing,' and thus better than the remakes. He assesses the qualities of movies, old and recast, according to criteria that include subtext, originality, and cohesion. With a methodology that combines a formalist and cultural studies approach, Roche sifts aspects of the American horror movie that have been widely addressed (class, the patriarchal family, gender, and the opposition between terror and horror) and those that have been somewhat neglected (race, the Gothic, style, and verisimilitude). Containing seventy-eight black and white illustrations, the book is grounded in a close comparative analysis of the politics and aesthetics of four of the most significant independent American horror movies of the 1970s--The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes, Dawn of the Dead, and Halloween--and their twenty-first-century remakes.To what extent can the politics of these films be described as 'disturbing' insomuch as they promote subversive subtexts that undermine essentialist perspectives Do the politics of the film lie on the surface or are they wedded to the film's aesthetics Early in the book, Roche explores historical contexts, aspects of identity (race, ethnicity, and class), and the structuring role played by the motif of the American nuclear family. He then asks to what extent these films disrupt genre expectations and attempt to provoke emotions of dread, terror, and horror through their representations of the monstrous and the formal strategies employed In this inquiry, he examines definitions of the genre and its metafictional nature. Roche ends with a meditation on the extent to which the technical limitations of the horror films of the 1970s actually contribute to this 'disturbing' quality. Moving far beyond the genre itself, Making and Remaking Horror studies the redux as a form of adaptation and enables a more complete discussion of the evolution of horror in contemporary American cinema.DAVID ROCHE, Toulouse, France, is professor at the Université Le Mirail. He is the editor of Conversations with Russell Banks (published by University Press of Mississippi), coeditor of Approaches to Film and Reception Theories, and author of L'Imagination malsaine: Russell Banks, Raymond Carver, David Cronenberg, Bret Easton Ellis, David Lynch., Photographs<

2000, ISBN: 9781496802545

AN EXPANSIVE TREATMENT OF THE MEANINGS AND QUALITIES OF ORIGINAL AND REMADE AMERICAN HORROR MOVIES In Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s author David Roche takes up the ass… Mehr…

AN EXPANSIVE TREATMENT OF THE MEANINGS AND QUALITIES OF ORIGINAL AND REMADE AMERICAN HORROR MOVIES In Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s author David Roche takes up the assumption shared by many fans and scholars that original horror movies are more disturbing, and thus better than the remakes. He assesses the qualities of movies, old and recast, according to criteria that include subtext, originality, and cohesion. With a methodology that combines a formalist and cultural studies approach, Roche sifts aspects of the American horror movie that have been widely addressed (class, the patriarchal family, gender, and the opposition between terror and horror) and those that have been somewhat neglected (race, the Gothic, style, and verisimilitude). Containing seventy-eight black and white illustrations, the book is grounded in a close comparative analysis of the politics and aesthetics of four of the most significant independent American horror movies of the 1970s--The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes, Dawn of the Dead, and Halloween--and their twenty-first-century remakes. To what extent can the politics of these films be described as disturbing insomuch as they promote subversive subtexts that undermine essentialist perspectives? Do the politics of the film lie on the surface or are they wedded to the film's aesthetics? Early in the book, Roche explores historical contexts, aspects of identity (race, ethnicity, and class), and the structuring role played by the motif of the American nuclear family. He then asks to what extent these films disrupt genre expectations and attempt to provoke emotions of dread, terror, and horror through their representations of the monstrous and the formal strategies employed? In this inquiry, he examines definitions of the genre and its metafictional nature. Roche ends with a meditation on the extent to which the technical limitations of the horror films of the 1970s actually contribute to this disturbing quality. Moving far beyond the genre itself, Making and Remaking Horror studies the redux as a form of adaptation and enables a more complete discussion of the evolution of horror in contemporary American cinema. DAVID ROCHE, Toulouse, France, is professor at the Université Le Mirail. He is the editor of Conversations with Russell Banks (published by University Press of Mississippi), coeditor of Approaches to Film and Reception Theories, and author of L'Imagination malsaine: Russell Banks, Raymond Carver, David Cronenberg, Bret Easton Ellis, David Lynch. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Movies & TV>Film Studies>Film Studies, University Press of Mississippi Core >1<