Author: Owen Hatherley File Type: epub Why should we have to Keep Calm and Carry On? In this brilliant polemical rampage, Owen Hatherley shows how our past is being resold in order to defend the indefensible. From the marketing of a make do and mend aesthetic to the growing nostalgia for a utopian past that never existed, a cultural distraction scam prevents people grasping the truth of their condition. ul lThe Ministry of Nostalgia* explodes the creation of a false history a rewriting of the austerity of the 1940s and 1950s, which saw the development of a welfare state while the nation crawled out of the devastations of war. This period has been recast to explain and offer consolation for the violence of neoliberalism, an ideology dedicated to the privatisation of our common wealth. l ul In coruscating prosewith subjects ranging from Ken Loachs documentaries, Turner Prizeshortlisted video art, London vernacular architecture, and Jamie Olivers cookingHatherley issues a passionate challenge to the injunction to keep calm and carry on. **Review A brave, incisive, elegant and erudite writer, whose books dissect the contemporary built environment to reveal the political fantasies and social realities it embodies. Will Self A lively and gleefully argumentative book. Even when you disagree with Hatherley, he remains interesting. And there is a good chance, depressingly, that he is right about everything. Jon Day, *Guardian* Hatherley hunts down his sacred cows hungrily and with brio. It is a ride that you can enjoy even if you dont agree with the direction in which were heading Good iconoclastic fun. *New Statesman* Demonstrates the qualities of empathy and social conscience, combined with acute judgement, that confirms Owen Hatherley to be the only true heir today of the great architectural critic Ian Nairn. Gavin Stamp, *Literary Review* Combines analysis of the austerity nostalgia phenomenon with a parkour of film, art, graphic design, and especially architecture and urbanism, comparing romantic notions of wartime cohesion to the historical record. Macleans The Ministry of Nostalgia is a brisk and bracing polemic about Britains relationship with its recent history Any successful political project must address itself to whats needed right now. Keeping calm and carrying on is about the worst possible response. Richard Godwin, *Evening Standard * Reflective and intelligent. *Spectator* About the Author Owen Hatherley was born in Southampton, England in 1981. He received a PhD in 2011 from Birkbeck College, London, for a thesis on Constructivism and Americanism. He writes regularly on architecture and cultural politics for Architects Journal, Architectural Review, Icon,The Guardian, The London Review of Books and New Humanist, and is the author of several books Militant Modernism (Zero, 2009), A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (Verso, 2010), Uncommon An Essay on Pulp (Zero, 2011), A New Kind of Bleak Journeys through Urban Britain (Verso 2012), Across the Plaza (Strelka, 2012) and Landscapes of Communism (Penguin 2015). He also edited and introduced an updated edition of Ian Nairns Nairns Towns (Notting Hill Editions, 2013). He lives in Woolwich and Warsaw.

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Author: Dan Callahan File Type: epub Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) rose from the ranks of chorus girl to become one of Hollywoods most talented leading women-and Americas highest paid woman in the mid-1940s. Shuttled among foster homes as a child, she took a number of low-wage jobs while she determinedly made the connections that landed her in successful Broadway productions. Stanwyck then acted in a stream of high-quality films from the 1930s through the 1950s. Directors such as Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang, and Frank Capra treasured her particular magic. A four-time Academy Award nominee, winner of three Emmys and a Golden Globe, she was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Academy. Dan Callahan considers both Stanwycks life and her art, exploring her seminal collaborations with Capra in such great films as Ladies of Leisure, The Miracle Woman, and The Bitter Tea of General Yen her Pre-Code movies Night Nurse and Baby Face and her classic roles in Stella Dallas, Remember the Night, The Lady Eve, and Double Indemnity . After making more than eighty films in Hollywood, she revived her career by turning to television, where her role in the 1960s series The Big Valley renewed her immense popularity. Callahan examines Stanwycks career in relation to the directors she worked with and the genres she worked in, leading up to her late-career triumphs in two films directed by Douglas Sirk, All I Desire and Theres Always Tomorrow, and two outrageous westerns, The Furies and Forty Guns . The book positions Stanwyck where she belongs-at the very top of her profession-and offers a close, sympathetic reading of her performances in all their range and complexity.

Author: Harriet Turner File Type: pdf Presenting the development of the modern Spanish novel from 1600 to the present, this Companion draws on the combined legacies of Don Quijote and the traditions of the picaresque novel. Essays focus on invention and experiment and examine the role played by historical events and cultural contexts in the Spanish novels evolution. Including a chronology and guide to further reading, the survey reveals the innovative techniques characterizing the Spanish novel as well as the debates surrounding it.ReviewEssential. ChoiceOne might be concerned that such an ambitious project would yield a loosely connected series of articles or, on the other hand, studies that overlap excessively. Neither is the result in the case of this skillfully articulated volume of comparative analyses of the Spanish novels development...Without undermining the importance of the chronological development of the novel, the ribbon of shared concerns ties the studies together laterally as well as vertically. The result is a collection of essays that no academic library should be without and a truly valuable companion to scholars of modern Spanish narrative. - Kathleen Doyle, Rhodes College Book DescriptionThis Companion presents the development of the modern Spanish novel from 1600 to the present. Drawing on the combined legacies of Don Quijote and the traditions of the picaresque novel, these essays focus on the question of invention and experiment. It examines the role played by historical events and cultural contexts in the elaboration of the Spanish novel. This companionable survey, which includes a chronology and guide to further reading, conveys a vivid sense of the innovative techniques of the Spanish novel and of the debates surrounding it.