Author: Andrew Dewaard File Type: pdf The industrys only director-cinematographer-screenwriter-producer-actor-editor, Steven Soderbergh is contemporary Hollywoods most innovative and prolific filmmaker. A Palme dor and Academy Award-winner, Soderbergh has directed nearly thirty films, including political provocations, digital experiments, esoteric documentaries, global blockbusters, and a series of atypical genre films. This volume considers its slippery subject from several perspectives, analyzing Soderbergh as an expressive auteur of art cinema and genre fare, as a politically-motivated guerrilla filmmaker, and as a Hollywood insider. Combining a detectives approach to investigating the truth with a criminals alternative value system, Soderberghs films tackle social justice in a corporate world, embodying dozens of cinematic trends and forms advanced in the past twenty-five years. His career demonstrates the richness of contemporary American cinema, and this study gives his complex oeuvre the in-depth analysis it deserves.**

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Author: Stanley I. Kutler File Type: pdf The second edition of Watergate A Brief History with Documents presents a collection of relevant historic documents from Nixons acceptance speech at the 1968 Republican National Convention to his 1974 pardon. ul l Includes transcripts of recently-released Watergate tapes that reveal Nixons thoughts and reactions to events as they unfolded, and that deal with the identity of the anonymous source known as Deep Throat. l l Uses the crisis to explain how American politics and law work and provides an indication of the way the country may handle future crises l l Provides brief summaries of what happened to various Watergate participants l l Covers the entire span of time from Nixons 1968 acceptance speech at the RNC until his pardon in 1974 l ul **

Author: Graham Murphy File Type: pdf Within the expansive mediascape of the 1980s and 1990s, cyberpunks aesthetics took firm root, relying heavily on visual motifs for its near-future splendor saturated in media technologies, both real and fictitious. As todays realities look increasingly like the futures forecast in science fiction, cyberpunk speaks to our contemporary moment and as a cultural formation dominates our 21st century techno-digital landscapes. The 15 essays gathered in this volume engage the social and cultural changes that define and address the visual language and aesthetic repertoire of cyberpunk from cybernetic organisms to light, energy, and data flows, from video screens to cityscapes, from the vibrant energy of todays video games to the visual hues of comic book panels, and more. Cyberpunk and Visual Culture provides critical analysis, close readings, and aesthetic interpretations of exactly those visual elements that define cyberpunk today, moving beyond the limitations of merely printed text to also focus on the meaningfulness of images, forms, and compositions that are the heart and lifeblood of cyberpunk graphic novels, films, television shows, and video games. **Review Since its inception, cyberpunk has been haunted by the notion that it represents only a very brief moment of the science fictional imagination, a moment which quickly passed. Murphy and Schmeinks smart collection proves the opposite is true cyberpunk never ended, and in fact its vast transmedia landscape of images, icons, visual artifacts, and technological apparatuses has completely taken over our world. -Gerry Canavan, Marquette University The report of cyberpunks death was an exaggeration, clearly, as the essays in this vibrant collection demonstrate. The ambiguities, complexities and excitements of this intermedial genre are explored here in riveting detail the legacy of Gibsons lines of light are demonstrated to be, indeed, unthinkably complex. -Stacy Gillis, Newcastle University In addition to offering the fullest documentation to date of the range of visual media infiltrated by and responsive to the cyberpunk aesthetic, this collection offers bold new arguments about the relation between print and visual narratives and the convergent, cross-media character of contemporary science fiction in general. -Thomas Foster, University of Washington About the Author Graham J. Murphy is Professor with the School of English and Liberal Studies (Faculty of Business) at Seneca College (Toronto). He co-edited Beyond Cyberpunk New Critical Perspectives with Sherryl Vint (2010), co-authored Ursula K. Le Guin A Critical Companion with Susan M. Bernardo (2006), and authored several articles that have appeared in numerous anthologies and peer-review journals. He is an Associate Editor for Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts and sits on the editorial advisory boards of both Science Fiction Studies and Extrapolation. Lars Schmeink is Professor of Media Studies at the Institut fur Kultur- und Medienmanagement, Hochschule fur Musik und Theater (Hamburg) and is currently the president of the Gesellschaft fur Fantastikforschung (Association for Research in the Fantastic). He is the German section editor for media in the Open Library of the Humanities, the author of Biopunk Dystopias Genetic Engineering, Society, and Science Fiction (2016), and has published in Science Fiction Studies, Science Fiction Film and Television and Journal for the Fantastic in the Arts.