Author: James Baldwin File Type: epub Based on Alex Haleys bestselling classic The Autobiography of Malcolm X, a rare, lucidly composed screenplay from one of Americas great masters of letters.Son of a Baptist minister New York City hustler honor student convicted criminal powerful minister in the Nation of Islam father and husband Malcolm X transformed himself, time and again, in order to become one of the most feared, loved, and undeniably charismatic leaders of twentieth-century America. No one better represents the tumultuous times of his generation, and there is no one better to capture him and his milieu than James Baldwin. With spare, elegant, yet forceful dialogue and fresh, precise camera directions, Baldwin breathes cinematic life into this controversial and important figure, offering a new look at a man who changed himself in order to change the country.

Author: Samantha Holland File Type: pdf Alternativity delineates those spaces, scenes, club-cultures, objects and practices in modern society that are considered to be actively designed to be counter or resistive to mainstream popular culture. The idea of the alternative in popular culture became mainstream with the rise of the counter culture in 1960s America (though there were earlier forms of alternative cultures in America and other Western countries). Alternativity is associated with marginalization, both actively pursued by individuals, and imposed on individuals and sub-cultures, and was originally represented and constructed through acts of transgression, and through shared sub-cultural capital. This edited collection maps the landscape of alternativity and marginalization, providing new theory and methods in a currently under-theorized area, setting out the issues, questions, concerns and directions of this area of study. It demonstrates the theoretical richness and empirical diversity of the interdisciplinary field it encompasses, and is deliberately feminist in its approach and its composition, with a majority of the contributors being women. Divided into three sub-sections, focused on sub-cultures, bodies and spaces, contributors explore this exciting new terrain, both through critiques of theory and new theoretical developments, and case studies of alternativity and marginalization in practice and in performance, expanding our understanding of the alternative, the liminal and the transgressive. **Review In this collection of essays, contributors in cultural studies, feminist theory, psychology, philosophy, music, cultural sociology, and American studies analyze issues and directions in studying alternative cultures. Most contributors are women, and most promote the advantages of using feminist approaches to study subcultures, scenes, and other manifestations of alternative popular cultures in America and other countries. Some subjects addressed include fashion subcultures, madness and disability, aging alternative women, regulation of tattooed female bodies, and womens bodies in heavy metal. B&w photos are included. --Annotation 2018 Ringgold Inc. Portland, OR (protoview.com) About the Author Samantha Holland is Senior Research Fellow at Leeds Beckett University, UK. Her research focuses on gender, leisure, subcultures, popular culture, ageing and homes. She is the author of Alternative Femininities, Pole Dancing, Empowerment & Embodiment and Modern Vintage Home & Leisure Lives Ghosts & Glamour. She is series editor of Emerald Studies in Popular Culture & Gender, and series co-editor (with Karl Spracklen) of Emerald Studies in Alternativity & Marginalisation. Karl Spracklen is Professor of Music, Leisure and Culture at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He is the Editor of the journal Metal Music Studies, as well as International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure. He is interested in leisure and identity, and has published over a hundred papers, books, textbooks and book chapters in that broad area. His most recent work has been focused on music, alternativity, hegemony and transgression.

Author: Chloë Starr File Type: pdf This major new study examines the history of Chinese theologies as they have navigated dynastic change, anti-imperialism, and the heights of Maoist propaganda In this groundbreaking and authoritative study, Chloe Starr explores key writings of Chinese Christian intellectuals, from philosophical dialogues of the late imperial era to sermons and micro blogs of theological educators and pastors in the twenty-first century. Through a series of close textual readings, she sheds new light on the fraught issues of Chinese Christian identity and the evolving question of how Christianity should relate to Chinese society. **Review A rare and prized contribution, this book offers penetrating analysis of the literary forms and theological contents of major Chinese texts. Chloe Starr is to be commended for her masterful work.John Yueh-Han Yieh, Virginia Theological Seminary (John Yueh-Han Yieh) This brilliant book by Chloe Starr will become a foundational study of both the historical foundations of Christianity in contemporary China and, even more significantly, the Chinese textual histories and patterns upon which those foundations rest.David Jasper, author of Literature and Theology as a Grammar of Assent (David Jasper) This timely book heralds the maturation of a distinctively Chinese theology. It is illuminated by the authors reading of the Chinese texts in their original literary forms and situated in their social and cultural contexts. Fenggang Yang, Purdue University (Fenggang Yang) This is the most inspiring book on Chinese theology that I have read. In a captivating literary style, Chloe Starr guides the reader through the history of Chinese theological texts, examining their ties to Chinese literary forms. Nicolas Standaert, University of Leuven (Nicolas Standaert) Chloe Starr expertly tracks the diverse theological spectrum of China, ranging through twentieth-century texts and beyond to illustrate how Chinese intellectuals and theologians struggled to make scripture relevant to their particular context.Fuk-tsang Ying, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Fuk-tsang Ying) About the Author Chlo*e Starr is associate professor of Asian Christianity and theology at Yale University Divinity School. She is the author of Red-Light Novels of the Late Qing and the coeditor of The Quest for Gentility in China.* She lives in New Haven, CT. This major new study examines the history of Chinese theologies as they have navigated dynastic change, anti-imperialism, and the heights of Maoist propaganda In this groundbreaking and authoritative study, Chloe Starr explores key writings of Chinese Christian intellectuals, from philosophical dialogues of the late imperial era to sermons and micro blogs of theological educators and pastors in the twenty-first century. Through a series of close textual readings, she sheds new light on the fraught issues of Chinese Christian identity and the evolving question of how Christianity should relate to Chinese society.

Author: Paul Salzman File Type: pdf This book contains the first comprehensive account of writing by women from the mid sixteenth century through to 1700. At the same time, it traces the way a representative sample of that writing was published, circulated in manuscript, read, anthologized, reprinted, and discussed from the time it was produced through to the present day. Salzmans study covers an enormous range of women from all areas of early modern society, and it covers examples of the many and varied genres produced by these women, from plays to prophecies, diaries to poems, autobiographies to philosophy. As well as introducing readers to the wealth of material produced by women in the early modern period, this book examines changing responses to what was written, tracing a history of reception and transmission that amounts to a cultural history of changing taste.ReviewSalzmans writing is clear and accessible, and he opens up paths for future study.-Sixteenth Century JournalReading Early Modern Womens Writing is a well-researched book that provides suggestive analysis of the uncertain and checkered history of Renaissance and Restoration womens writing. --Modern PhilologyAbout the AuthorPaul Salzman is a Reader in English Literature at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. He has published widely in the areas of early modern prose fiction, early modern cultural history, and early modern womens writing. His last book was a literarycultural history of a single year, iLiterary Culture in Jacobean England Reading 1621i. He has also edited four Oxford Worlds Classics volumes, the most recent of which was iEarly Modern Womens Writing An Anthology 1560-1700i.