Tag: Essays

Free Download Mary K. Leigh, "Marxism and the Movies: Critical Essays on Class Struggle in the Cinema"
English | ISBN: 0786471239 | 2013 | 196 pages | PDF | 8 MB
The work of Karl Marx is revered in social philosophy, political science and literary criticism, but there is an area where Marxism seems not to have penetrated. That area is the study of popular culture, especially the cinema, where Marxism provides a useful lens through which seemingly disparate films can be explored.

Free Download Ben Bolling, "It Happens at Comic-Con: Ethnographic Essays on a Pop Culture Phenomenon"
English | ISBN: 078647694X | 2014 | 216 pages | EPUB | 760 KB
This collection of 13 new essays employs ethnographic methods to investigate San Diego’s Comic-Con International, the largest annual celebration of the popular arts in North America. Working from a common grounding in fan studies, these individual explorations examine a range of cultural practices at an event drawing crowds of nearly 125,000 each summer.

Free Download Evan Torner, "Immersive Gameplay: Essays on Participatory Media and Role-Playing"
English | ISBN: 0786468343 | 2012 | 230 pages | EPUB | 478 KB
This collection of all-new essays approaches the topic of immersion as a product of social and media relations. Examining the premises and aesthetics of live-action and tabletop role-playing games, reality television, social media apps and first-person shooters, the essays take both game rules and the media discourse that games produce as serious objects of study.

Free Download A M Shah, "Essays on Suicide and Self-Immolation"
English | ISBN: 9386552906 | 2018 | 244 pages | PDF | 67 MB
This book is a collection of papers on suicide and self-immolation, reprinted from the almost forgotten Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay, published in 1886-1936. The book carries a Foreword by Professor Ashis Nandy on death and self in culture. Part I includes nineteen papers, analysing statistics of suicides committed in Bombay (now Mumbai) from 1886 to 1907, classified by religion, gender, age, month, date, cause and means of suicide, etc. The data is presented in a number of tables, often with remarks on individual cases. Launched by Edward Rehatsek, a Hungarian scholar who had made Bombay his home, the papers were continued after his death by the Parsee scholar, Bomanjee Byramjee Patell. Part II includes seven general essays: one is on suicide and old age in a comparative perspective, and another on suicide in ancient India. The question of self-immolation of Hindu widows, commonly referred to as sati, is discussed in three of the essays. Of special interest is the essay on the Sati of Ramabai, widow of Madhavrao Peshwa. Two essays deal with the issue of selfimmolation of persons in religious contexts.

Free Download James F. Iaccino, "Arrow and Superhero Television: Essays on Themes and Characters of the Series"
English | ISBN: 0786497874 | 2017 | 243 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This collection of new essays focuses on The CW network’s hit television series Arrow-based on DC Comic’s Green Arrow-and its spin-offs The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl. Comic book adaptations have been big business for film studios since Superman (1978) and in recent years have dominated at the box office-five of the 11 highest grossing films of 2016 were adapted from comics. Superheroes have battled across the small screen for considerably longer, beginning with The Adventures of Superman (1952-1958), though with mixed results. The contributors explore the reasons behind Arrow’s success, its representation of bodies, its portrayal of women, its shifting political ideologies, and audience reception and influence on storylines.

Free Download The Thief of Time: Philosophical Essays on Procrastination by Chrisoula Andreou, Mark D. White
English | April 14th, 2010 | ISBN: 019991737X | 320 pages | True EPUB | 2.39 MB
When we fail to achieve our goals, procrastination is often the culprit. But how exactly is procrastination to be understood? It has been described as imprudent, irrational, inconsistent, and even immoral, but there has been no sustained philosophical debate concerning the topic.

Free Download If We Are Brave: Essays from Black Americana by Theodore R. Johnson
English | October 1, 2024 | ISBN: 0063346451 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 1.8 MB
The popular Washington Post contributing opinion columnist challenges readers to have uncomfortable conversations about race, drawing on the first-person perspectives of the author and Americans from diverse viewpoints and walks of life.

Free Download Going to Seed: Essays on Idleness, Nature, and Sustainable Work by Kate Neville
English | May 15th, 2024 | ISBN: 1682832031 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 5.31 MB
Winner of the 2023 Sowell Emerging Writers Prize

Free Download Marja Evelyn Mogk, "Different Bodies: Essays on Disability in Film and Television"
English | ISBN: 0786465352 | 2013 | 284 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This collection of 19 new essays by 21 authors from the United States, the UK, Canada, Australia and India focuses on contemporary film and television (1989 to the present) from those countries as well as from China, Korea, Thailand and France. The essays are divided into two parts. The first includes critical readings of narrative film and television. The second includes contributions on documentaries, biopics and autobiographically-informed films.

Free Download Patricia Prandini Buckler, "Bloody Italy: Essays on Crime Writing in Italian Settings"
English | ISBN: 078645864X | 2014 | 208 pages | EPUB | 491 KB
These new essays comprise a critical analysis of present-day crime fiction and nonfiction works set in Italy (all of which are available in English). The writers discussed range from Donna Leon and Michael Dibdin to Leonardo Sciascia and Andrea Camilleri. Essays also deal with nonfiction by Roberto Saviano and Douglas Preston. An emerging theme is the corruption of Italian police and judiciary officials and the frustration of officers and politicians trying to work ethically within a flawed system. Many of the works discussed show the struggle of the honest characters to find at least a limited justice for the victims.