Trans Representations in Contemporary, Popular Cinema

Humor & Entertainment

Smith, Frances

Richardson, Niall

Movies

Routledge

In Fear of her Life: The True Story Of A violent marriage

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

Maverick House

Few films in the twenty-first century have represented coming-of-age with the beauty and brutality of Bande de Filles (or Girlhood). This book provides an in-depth examination of Céline Sciamma's film, focusing on its portrayal of female adolescence in contemporary Paris. Motivated by the absence of black female characters in French cinema, Sciamma represents the lives of figures that have passed largely unnoticed on the big screen. While observing the girls' tough circumstances, Sciamma's film emphasises the joy and camaraderie found in female friendships. This book places Girlhood in its cinematic as well as its sociocultural context. Pop music, urban violence, and female friendships are all considered here in a book that&nbsp;draws out the complexity of Sciamma's deceptively simple portrayal of coming-of-age. Thoughtful, concise, and deeply contemporary, this book is perfect for students, scholars, and general readers interested in youth cultures, European cinema, gender, and sexuality.

Bande de Filles (Cinema and Youth Cultures)

Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie: Gender, Genre and Identity

Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie is the first academic monograph to consider the aesthetic and narrative potential of this highly popular, yet often overlooked, film genre. Reconsidering tropes such as the male juvenile delinquent figure, the makeover and the teen vampire, the book uses a series of detailed case studies of key films like Rebel Without a Cause, Grease, Heathers and Twilight to explore the genre's relation to key critical concepts of intersectionality, postfeminism and the posthuman, and provides an innovative overview of the Hollywood teen movie and its construction of teen identity.

Edinburgh University Press

A lavishly illustrated biography of the "people's artist" who celebrated habitant life. 
 André Biéler was born in 1896 in Switzerland. The nephew of the important Swiss painter Ernest Biéler, André moved with his family to France, where he studied art, and then to Canada. His education was interrupted by the outbreak of World War I, which saw him return to France as a soldier. 
 In this richly illustrated book, Frances K. Smith traces the roots of the Biéler family and covers the development of the artist, from his apprenticeship to his exploration of rural habitant life along the shores and islands of Quebec. André Biéler would emerge as an artist of extraordinary creative energy, working in printmaking as well as oils. 
 After moving to Kingston, Ontario, in 1936 as resident artist and professor at Queen's University, Biéler helped establish the Agnes Etherington Gallery. In 1941 he organized the first conference of Canadian artists, an event that eventually would lead to the formation of the Canada Council. 
 Biéler's subject was people, and he was known fondly as the "people's artist." He continued to paint through his 80s. He died in 1989, leaving an important legacy. This revised and much expanded edition of Frances K. Smith's 1980 book features hundreds of color images and defines André Biéler as an artist of classic, sustained and versatile talent.

Andre Bieler: An Artist's Life and Times [DVD] [2006]

Firefly Books

Mark Smith thought he'd been called to mission work, to serve God in Nome, Alaska. He sold his car to buy a one-way plane ticket, dropped out of college, gave up his campus housing, and quit his job. When his plane landed in Nome, he discovered the state had pulled the funding for the job he'd been offered. Six thousand miles from home, with everything he owned in his pockets, he was filled with a blinding anger and overwhelming sense of betrayal. Desperate for answers, he stormed into the hills surrounding Nome. Soon he was six miles from town, atop Anvil Mountain--the highest peak in the area--and facing a strong storm blowing in from the north. He was clad in only the jeans, sneakers, and thin shirt he'd worn on the plane. His face was pelted by sleet and gusts of wind and freezing rain, his clothes frozen to his body and his tears to his face. Knowing he was in serious trouble, he crawled into the only space available to get out of the wind--a cleft below the anvil formation in Anvil Rock. Too cold even to pray, he squeezed as far up into the rock as he could and passed out. The cleft of the rock became a powerful metaphor for God's protection and the fruitful ministry he would plant in this rugged terrain with temperatures reach- ing -40°. Join Mark as he hunts with a dog team, ice fishes through the frozen Bering Sea, builds a church from the ground up, and finds ways to minister to the natives while growing spiritually in ways he never could have imagined.

Cleft of the Rock (Ordinary Man Trilogy)

Religion & Spirituality

Literature & Fiction

Gazelle Press

When you’re serving the Lord, it’s easy to think you have extra spiritual protection. You do, but the Lord often does make you live with the consequences of your actions. Life’s most important lessons come during those tough times.

Thorn in the Flesh (Ordinary Man Trilogy)

God never promises us a sweeping floodlight that will show us the whole picture, but He does promise us a lamp to our feet so we can see the next step. We have to learn to trust Him to do that, and take the next step on faith.

Lamp to My Feet (Ordinary Man Trilogy)

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Trans Representations in Contemporary, Popular Cinema

Trans Representations in Contemporary, Popular Cinema

In Fear of her Life: The True Story Of A violent marriage

Bande de Filles (Cinema and Youth Cultures)

Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie: Gender, Genre and Identity

Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie: Gender, Genre and Identity

Andre Bieler: An Artist's Life and Times [DVD] [2006]

Cleft of the Rock (Ordinary Man Trilogy)

Thorn in the Flesh (Ordinary Man Trilogy)

Lamp to My Feet (Ordinary Man Trilogy)