Tag: Unhappy

January 7, 2025

I was a Communist for the F.B.I. The Unhappy Life and Times of Matt Cvetic

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Free Download I was a Communist for the F.B.I.: The Unhappy Life and Times of Matt Cvetic By Daniel J. Leab
2000 | 198 Pages | ISBN: 0271020539 | PDF | 1 MB
The man who loosely provided the inspiration for the B-grade cult movie I Was a Communist for the FBI had a life that was marred by alcoholism, damaged expectations, and greed. Leab juxtaposes Cvetic’s real life with his reel life. He chronicles his fall from grace, yet admits that Cvetic’s life offers fascinating and useful insights into the creation, merchandising, and distribution of a reckless professional witness. Leab also writes about Cvetic’s life prior to his involvement with the FBI, his glory days, and shows that there is much to be learned from the story of an "anti-Communist icon."

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January 4, 2024

Unhappy Beginnings

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Free Download Isabel González-Díaz, "Unhappy Beginnings "
English | ISBN: 1032526599 | 2023 | 206 pages | EPUB, PDF | 948 KB + 3 MB
This book offers the analysis of a selection of North American texts that dismantle and resist normative frames through the resignification of concepts such as unhappiness, precarity, failure, and vulnerability. The chapters bring to the fore how those potentially negative elements can be refigured as ambivalent sites of resistance and social bonding. Following Sara Ahmed’s rereading of happiness, other authors such as Judith Butler, Wendy Brown, Jack Halberstam, Lauren Berlant, or Henry Giroux are mobilized to interrogate films, memoirs, and novels that deal with precarity, alienation, and inequality. The monograph contributes to enlarging the archives of unhappiness by changing the focus from prescribed norms and happy endings to unruly practices and unhappy beginnings. As the different contributors show, unhappiness, precarity, vulnerability, or failure can be harnessed to illuminate ways of navigating the world and framing society that do not necessarily conform to the script of happiness―whatever that means.

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