Author: T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting File Type: pdf 2015 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Longlisted for the 2015 American Library in Paris Book Award During the Jazz Age, France became a place where an African American woman could realize personal freedom and creativity, in narrative or in performance, in clay or on canvas, in life and in love. These women were participants in the life of the American expatriate colony, which included F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and Cole Porter, and they commingled with bohemian avant-garde writers and artists like Picasso, Breton, Colette, and Matisse. Bricktops Paris introduces the reader to twenty-five of these women and the city they encountered. Following this nonfiction account, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting provides a fictionalized autobiography of Ada Bricktop Smith, which brings the players from the world of nonfiction into a Paris whose elegance masks a thriving underworld. **

Author: Matthew R. McLennan File Type: pdf Alain Badious work in philosophy, though daunting, has gained a receptive and steadily growing Anglophone readership. What is not well known is the extent to which Badious positions, vis-a-vis ontology, ethics, politics and the very meaning of philosophy, were hammered out in dispute with the late Jean-Francois Lyotard. Matthew R. McLennans Philosophy, Sophistry, Antiphilosophy is the first work to pose the question of the relation between Lyotard and Badiou, and in so doing constitutes a significant intervention in the field of contemporary European philosophy by revisiting one of its most influential and controversial forefathers.Badiou himself has underscored the importance of Lyotard for his own project might the recent resurgence of interest in Lyotard be tied in some way to Badious comments? Or deeper still might not Badious philosophical Platonism beg an encounter with philosophys other, the figure of the sophist that Lyotard played so often and so ably? Posing pertinent questions and opening new discursive channels in the literature on these two major figures this book is of interest to those studying philosophy, rhetoric, literary theory, cultural and media studies.

Author: Orianne Aymard File Type: pdf Anandamayi Ma (1896-1982) is generally regarded as the most important Hindu woman saint of the twentieth century. Venerated alternately as a guru and as an incarnation of God on earth, Ma had hundreds of thousands of devotees. Through the creation of a religious movement and a vast network ofashrams - unprecedented for a woman - Ma presented herself as an authority figure in a society where female gurus were not often recognized. Because of her widespread influence, Ma is one of the rare Hindu saints whose cult has outlived her. Today, her tomb is a place of veneration, and she isvenerated by those who knew her and by those too young to have known her. Orianne Aymard has performed extensive fieldwork among Mas current devotees. In this book, she examines what happens to a cult after the death of its leader. Does it decline, stagnate, or grow? Or is it rather transformed into something else entirely? Aymards work sheds new light not only on Hindusainthood - and particularly female Hindu sainthood - but on the nature of charismatic religious leadership and devotion.

Author: Tessa Dwyer File Type: pdf Seeing into Screens Eye Tracking and the Moving Image is the first dedicated anthology that explores vision and perception as it materializes as viewers watch screen content. While nearly all moving image research either imagines how its audience responds to the screen, or focuses upon external responses, this collection utilizes the data produced from eye tracking technology to assess seeing and knowing, gazing and perceiving. The editors divide their collection into the following four sections eye tracking performance, which addresses the ways viewers respond to screen genre, actor and star, auteur, and cinematography eye tracking aesthetics which explores the way viewers gaze upon colour, light, movement, and space eye tracking inscription, which examines the way the viewer responds to subtitles, translation, and written information found in the screen world and eye tracking augmentation which examines the role of simulation, mediation, and technological intervention in the way viewers engage with screen content. At a time when the nature of viewing the screen is extending and diversifying across different platforms and exhibitions, Seeing into Screens is a timely exploration of how viewers watch the screen. **Review An absorbing collection that is bound to become a key text in the emerging areas of eye tracking studies and psychocinematics. Seeing into Screens brings together leading scholars in the field who offer rich and nuanced readings of screen examples through eye tracking analysis. In unison, they reveal the dramatic ways in which eye tracking analysis can enrich traditional approaches to film and screen studies, including aesthetics, cognition, narrative immersion, sound and music, and embodiment. A must read! * Angela Ndalianis, Professor in Media+Screen Studies, Swinburne University, Australia * About the Author Tessa Dwyer is Lecturer, Film and Screen Studies at the School of Culture and Communication at Monash University, Caulfield Campus, Australia. Her publications include contributions in the edited collections Locating the Voice in Film, Contemporary Publics, State of Post-Cinema, and journals across the disciplines of Screen Studies, Translation Studies and Cultural Studies. Her most recent publication appeared in A Reader in International Media Piracy. Claire Perkins is Senior Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University, Australia. She is the author of American Smart Cinema (2012), and co-editor of U.S Independent Film After 1989 Possible Films (2015), B is for Bad Cinema Aesthetics, Politics and Cultural Value (2014) and Film Trilogies New Critical Approaches (2014). Sean Redmond is Associate Professor in Media and Communication at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. He is editor of the journal Celebrity Studies, author of The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano Flowering Blood (2013), and Celebrity and the Media (2013). Jodi Sita is Senior Lecturer in Anatomy and Neurosciences in the School of Allied Health at Australian Catholic University, Australia. She is a neuroscientist, health scientist, and eye-tracking expert, heading the eye-tracking laboratory at Australian Catholic University.