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About the last thing you'd expect to find on a street arrayed with a dozen antique shops is something novel. Yet Worth Row, the setting for Joe Coomer's eighth book, Apologizing to Dogs, is fairly brimming with surprise and revelation. Romance, thievery, blackmail, and more all come to light on one bewildering day in Fort Worth's historic antique district. By the time the dust has settled, Coomer's quirky cadre of shop owners find their fragile equanimity forever shattered.
Slowly and surely losing patrons to the nearby mall, the Row is presided over by the prim and sentimental clothes dealer Nadine, who is the object of carpenter Carl's desire. His other passion, it turns out, is gutting his house to build the ship that he hopes will ferry Nadine and him to a new life. Meanwhile, Carl's neighbor, the recalcitrant Howard Dog-in-His-Path, conceals a bevy of confidences while loafing in his front-yard tub; the reclusive, paranoid Effie peers through her shutters and transcribes up-to-the-minute neighborhood reports in her journal; and, across the street, Tradio and Arthur are caught between the need to reveal they're lovers and the desire to keep the Row's boat from rocking. Just up the street are Mr. and Mrs. Haygood, and next to them are Mazelle--of Mazelle's Rare and Medium Rare Books--and her husband. These two couples form a love-square that gets dug up, literally, by a curious dog.
Just about every bit of tangled lineage and concealed secret gets exposed in Coomer's outlandish tale. At its best, Apologizing to Dogs reveals the tension between nostalgia and fulfillment, as well as the overwhelming force of our attachments, material or otherwise. "Why do we save old things," Arthur asks Nadine. "Why do we collect these old precious things?" In its improbable eruptions and rambling dialogue, however, the novel occasionally sacrifices verisimilitude for reheated comedy. The paradox of selling the old in order to sustain the present keeps the novel churning along. Soak up the bittersweet laughs, but, as one character says, tellingly, "Don't try to guess the end. Try not to figure it out." --Ben Guterson
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Times are tough on Worth Row -- no one seems to want antiques these days, and that's all the twelve shops on the Row have to offer. But this is not to say that it is by any means quiet on the Row, a place where bathtubs double as lawn furniture and glass eyeballs seem to grow in every yard. Just for starters, Carl the cabinet maker is secretly building a 34-foot sailboat out of (and inside) his house to prove his love for his neighbor, Nadine, and Mazelle and Mr. Haygood are carrying on a now 30-year-old affair in the hideaway 6 feet under the garden their spouses have been tending for as long. Not to mention that Aura's about to find out that the father and sister she never knew she had live on the Row AND she's about to give birth, though she doesn't even know she's pregnant. Verda doesn't answer her door because she's dying on the floor just inside. Effie thinks she's got a handle on the whole thing, keeping a minute-by-minute journal of her neighbors' actions and interactions, applying her own particular interpretation to every move they make, but Howard Dog-in-his-Path is the one who really holds the Row's secrets, though his 30-year silence hasn't come cheaply. There's also the dog Himself, whose brilliantly rendered dog's-eye view easily makes him one of the best-drawn dogs in literature. Then the storm strikes, cutting a wide path of havoc and sending Row residents running under bathtubs and into under-garden hideaways. This is just what Worth Row need to clear up the mess they were in! When the dust and smoke finally clear, the Row has been turned upside down, and is righted at last. Critically-acclaimed author Joe Coomer has been called "a marvelously creative comic writer" by The Washington Times and "blessed with a rich, Southern voice--strong, clear and full of poetry" by Susan Isaacs. Heartwarming, hilarious, and utterly human, Apologizing to Dogs is perhaps his best effort yet.
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Combining the strengths of literary fiction and fast-paced, popular novels, the critically acclaimed and wildly popular Joe Coomer tells a heartwarming, hilarious, and utterly human tale -- his best work yet. The Fort Worth antique market may be struggling, but that's not to say things are quiet for the twelve shop owners on Worth Row. Their lives have become inextricably linked -- and undeniably complicated. Aura's nine months pregnant and doesn't know it. Carl is secretly building a sailboat out of (and inside of) his historic house to prove his love for Nadine. And Mazelle and Mr. Haygood are carrying on a thirty-year affair in a cistern under the garden their spouses tend religiously. When a violent storm strikes, wreaking havoc as well as causing fire, a heart attack, and grand theft, they must finally face the task of cleaning up the mess they're in.
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A Great Read: Funny Story, Great Writing.......2007-06-06
Apologising to Dogs is a terrific read - and possibly my favourite novel by Mr Coomer. The prose is crisp, the plot original, Coomer's characters funny and well drawn. This novel would make a very funny movie.
Forget the dogs, Apologize to us.......2005-08-23
Creative. Unique. Great concept. Quirky characters. So why did this novel only get three stars? Because (while it had an ending) I didn't finish this book with feeling any resolve. There are too many things that keep you wondering. I know some authors go for the enlightening ambiguouity, but not this novel. It just felt like Coomer was finishing up but then all of a sudden he ran out of paper. Three quarters through the book I gave myself a pat on the back for thinking "Oh! Apologizing to dogs is symbolic of forgiving and forgetting the wrongdoings in your life. (for aren't we all at times mangey strays?)" Well don't give them credit, because you'll never find out what anyone thinks of anyone else in the end. And that was disappointing. Plus certain things and behaviors (i.e. the bone sucking thing) were just to wierd to grasp.
At least it's entertaining, if you can get past the first few pages of bone sucking.
No Apologies Necessary.......2003-12-04
This convoluted plot would have been less surprising if it had shown itself centuries ago in three acts as a performance before Shakespearean audiences. The book isn't masterly and the plot probably isn't as tightly woven as it might be. But the characters are believable, the setting, almost bizarre enough to have come out of Wentworth, Ohio, by a popular horror writer, minus all the occult and parapsychology.
An ingrown neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas, full of personal histories and human flaws reaches a series of climaxes (no pun intended) during a period of a few hours and in the end the reader is left with a handful of seeds for his own imagination to sprout and blossom. Readers familiar with Guy Clark might hear the lyrics of `Boats to Build' repeating themselves through some of the episodes. The coincidence of similarity might suggest Coomer is a Guy Clark aficionado, or that Guy found the story an inspiration for his song. Either way, the two make a matched set.
Coomer owes no apologies to dogs or readers for this one.
Too much of a good thing?.......2003-08-12
Joe Coomer, Apologizing to Dogs (Scribner's, 1999)
Apologizing to Dogs does, finally, take off. If you're fifty pages into it and ready to throw it into the fire, take heed; it does eventually start going somewhere. The problem is, it takes so long to get there.
Apologizing to Dogs is, ultimately, the story of Worth Row, a series of antique shops in Fort Worth, Texas, and its inhabitants (including the stray dog to whom one character apologizes). Worth Row has stood for years, with inhabitants coming and going, all along the way building up secrets, lies, blackmail, and other various oddities. But then a stray dog digs for a bone, and the radio reports a tornado warning, and it all starts to unravel like one big sweater. It's a small premise for a book, but a good one, and it's been done many times in the past. The problem with Apologizing to Dogs is that Coomer tries to pack just too much into the book without it really needing to be there; it's almost as if he thought that if he focused on a few main plotlines, the book would be too short, so he added a few more for filler. The end result is that a good portion of the book, especially during the first three quarters, feels like filler. Some sections drag on forever, while others flit by like nobody's business. Once it all comes together eighty or ninety pages form the end, everything falls into place and this becomes a fine comedic (in a deadpan way) novel. It's just getting through the first bit that's likely to alienate some readers. ** 1/2
An enjoyable romp.......2003-02-12
Do you want multifaceted characters? Do you want humor? Do you want tragic characters who somehow have an implacable hope?
Apologizing to dogs is not Shakespeare, but it is the makings of a tragic/comedy. You have divorce, resentment, blackmail. lost dreams, and forlorn hopes all in a single contemporary Southern Setting in this book. Will you be elevated to a new level? No. Will you be brought to a mad-cap place with unbelievable characters that somehow, are resonant? Yes.
Please read this book. If not only to be amused (it would make a wonderful film) but also to be taken away from the doldrums of "real" life. This is a fun novel.
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- Fun and lighthearted
- Deeper than you'd think
- A Wonderful Novel
- Stephanie does it again!
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The Art of Undressing
Stephanie Lehmann
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Ginger's mother, Coco, used to be an exotic dancer, though now she makes her living selling sex toys and teaching classes like "The Fine Art of Striptease." A straitlaced, self-respecting twenty-five-year-old, aspiring pastry chef Ginger has no desire to follow in her mother's high-heeled footsteps. She's too busy trying to convince her sadistic French cooking school instructor of her talents in the kitchen.
When Ginger gets sweet on a fellow student, she finds herself ill-equipped in the art of seduction. And when she discovers she has a reputation for being "just one of the guys," suddenly, she's looking for some motherly advice on how to catch the man she loves.
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"Ginger's mother, Coco, used to be an exotic dancer, though now she makes her living selling sex toys and teaching classes like ""The Fine Art of Striptease."" A straitlaced, self-respecting twenty-five-year-old, aspiring pastry chef Ginger has no desire to follow in her mother's high-heeled footsteps. She's too busy trying to convince her sadistic French cooking school instructor of her talents in the kitchen. When Ginger gets sweet on a fellow student, she finds herself ill-equipped in the art of seduction. And when she discovers she has a reputation for being ""just one of the guys,"" suddenly, she's looking for some motherly advice on how to catch the man she loves.."
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Fun and lighthearted.......2006-03-23
Take this book with you on your next flight. It's fun. Not too deep, no big surprises, but you develop empathy for the main character and you want everything to work out for her in the end.
Deeper than you'd think.......2006-02-20
I have to chime in with the majority and say that this was a great book. I like how she keeps the reader honestly guessing about who Ginger will end up with, and I also like the working-class aspect of this novel. Maybe I'm just a little weary of glamour-lit since I can't identify with expensive lifestyles.
The author really makes the reader identify with Ginger and her struggle about what it really means to be a woman, and she also makes you wonder if she's gonna sell out her feminist integrity by becoming a mere sex object. The ending was handled well and wasn't at all the cop-out I was secretly fearing.
The Art of Undressing had surprising depth, since the premise could easily turn flimsy and fluffy in the wrong hands. I'm looking forward to more of her work.
A Wonderful Novel.......2005-08-23
Yes, this book has a bright pink cover and it's a fun read. But Lehmann doesn't give in to the cliches of "chick lit." This novel is layered with psychological complexity, insight and humor.
It's a touching story about a young woman coming into her own -- with the twist that she has an exhibitionist mother who's made a living as a stripper, now sells sex toys, and teaches women how to be more comfortable with their sexuality. I loved Ginger, the main character, who doesn't want to compete with her mom and isn't even sure if she can. It's hilarious, but also so interesting, how the mother/daughter story is turned on its head, with a mom who wonders why her daughter doesn't want to be more of a sex object! I highly recommend this book.
Stephanie does it again!.......2005-08-16
This is the third book of Stephanie's that I've read and once again I am thrilled. She has a gift of creating such vivid and fun characters. I enjoy her books so much, they just take me away from everything, I can't put them down. Keep writing Stephanie!
Sweet and entertaining.......2005-08-13
I enjoyed this book, it was funny and quirky. I thought the plot was well written and true to form. It seemed like the author did just enough research while blushing to write a main character that would blush appropriately in the right spots. I felt that the characters were well rounded and had enough believable characterization to float them the entire book.
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From Audrey Hepburn in Givenchy, to sharp suited gangsters in Tarantino movies, clothing is a key element in the construction of cinematic identities. b /b b i Undressing Cinema /i /b , an innovative examination of the significance of clothes in film, proposes new and dynamic links between cinema, fashion and costume history, gender, queer theory and psychoanalysis. Exploring new film noir, the gangster movie and New Black Cinema, Stella Bruzzi analyzes assumptions about femininity and masculinity and examines the relationship between gender and dress in recent cinema, discussing such films as i Basic Instinct /i , i Disclosure /i , i The Last Seduction /i , i Goodfellas /i , i Reservoir Dogs /i , i La Femme Nikita /i , i Malcolm X /i , i Boyz 'N The Hood /i and i New Jack City /i . Bruzzi also considers drag in films, and proposes a radical differentiation between the unerotic cross-dressing of i Mrs Doubtfire /i and the eroticized ambiguity of the androgynous i Orlando /i . br br With nearly 50 film stills, this handsome volume is a must for all film and fashion aficionados.
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- accessible feminist film criticism
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Sexy Thrills: Undressing the Erotic Thriller
Nina Martin
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How erotic thrillers impact contemporary ideas about feminism and femininity
Unlike the bulk of soft-core pornography, direct-to-video erotic thriller films are made specifically to appeal to women. Nina K. Martin argues that this makes them a valuable resource for investigating female sexuality, subjectivity, and gender construction, and her Sexy Thrills is the first study to use them to examine the construction of female desire.
The heroines of these productions have overtly sexual adventures, often dabbling in a variety of sex work positions--including call girl, stripper, and exotic dancer--to get in touch with their sexual desires. Martin explains, however, that the films highlight a fundamental tension between endorsing an empowered, sexually experienced female heroine ("the sexy bad girl") and reinforcing more conventional, constructed standards that limit the acceptable forms of feminine sexuality. So while the sexual explicitness of the films acknowledges the increasing appeal of pornography to female heterosexual viewers, erotic thrillers remain couched in romanticized narratives and settings that speak to very traditional understandings of femininity and desire.
By analyzing the way the specifics of this hybrid genre have been shaped by pop cultural products targeting women, including soap operas, women's magazines, and talk shows, Sexy Thrills unpacks the construction of female desire to reveal how sex is marketed to heterosexual women.
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accessible feminist film criticism.......2007-07-21
Growing up, I loved Hitchcock films and film noir, an odd choice for a child who came of age with color television, Rambo and Reagan. Fast forward to post-college years later when I took a job at a video rental store to support a poorly stipend internship, where ninety percent of the store's revenue was from the sale and rental of adult films. Did Barbara Stanwyck and Tipi Hendren lead to this?
According to Nina K. Martin in Sexy Trills: Undressing the Erotic Thriller, they just might have (thanks for introducing me to the old flicks mom!). The erotic thriller is soft-core, direct to video pornography with elaborate sets and romanticized stories, generally aimed at women - as opposed to hard-core pornography, which, with its emphasis on penetration and myriad other sexual acts and little to no premise to get there, is usually aligned with male pleasure. Using a selection of film texts of the genre, Martin analyzes the effect of the erotic thriller on the construction of heterosexual female sexuality in contemporary American society. According to Martin, erotic thrillers have well-define formulaic patterns - including gothic and film noir borrowings - that define the genre. Within these various narrative texts, sexuality for the heterosexual female is safely explored with in the permitted boundaries and resolves itself around either true love (marriage) or punishment for digressions in personal and professional lives.
Taking an academic look at non-academic texts, Martin shows that the idea of "what women want" is more about what men tell women that women want. Nearly all media companies are owned by men, and almost all film directors are men, so in a mass media and consumer-driven world, contemporary culture is a homogenized template of what individuals are told to desire and need, and dictates come from Hollywood, Hitchcock, Cosmopolitan, Rachel Ray and women's pornography. And ultimately, as Martin points out, the erotic thriller reinforces women's subordinate place in society because women--even when in charge of their sexual expression--still have their sexual services purchased and made available for purchase, primarily for men. As a woman is sexually empowered in the films through fulfillment of personal desires, she is disempowered within the public sphere for her actions, thus reemphasizing the public/private split in society where power and authority are mutually exclusive to sexual expression and fulfillment (does anyone view Hillary Clinton as a sexualized woman?). Individual women's sexuality, Martin states, is inseparable from culture representations of individual women's sexuality and is not reconcilable with public life and power the way men's sexuality is. Jenna Jameson is for the bedroom only, Hillary has no sex life (wasn't that why there was Monica?), and Hitchcock's Tipi is punished for her sexual urges and desires by giant black birds.
Despite the academic prose and evocations of Freud and Foucault, Martin's critique of the erotic thriller is accessible to interested audiences looking at the text as film criticism, feminist criticism or both (for uninterested audiences there is a smattering of still frames from select films). Martin doesn't enter the feminist pornography debate because, as she states explicitly in her introduction, the book is primarily film criticism and secondarily feminist criticism. However, she is attuned to feminist concerns and feminisms. Through this numbered lens, the book becomes more interesting for its inability to judge pornography as either pro-woman or anti-woman. Instead, Martin cleanly analyzes how sex is marketed to heterosexual women by well-defined, status-quo affirmations of what is considered normalized (and non-threatening) sexuality and, therefore, doesn't detach her thesis from the effect of the Second and Third Waves. The empowerment of women, Martin tells us, is through a dictum and language that are not our own.
Sexy, thrilling, and beautifully written.......2007-05-02
Luckily, a friend loaned me her advance copy of "Sexy Thrills." From its title to its last sentence, this book is fascinating, well written, witty, and just plain fun. More than simply a genre study of erotic thrillers, "Sexy Thrills" grapples with the big issues of women's sexuality and identity, as well as with the important debates within contemporary feminism.
Erotic thrillers are a form of soft-core pornography targeting a female audience. Unlike male-oriented porn, erotic thrillers address, as Martin says, "the sexual subjectivity of women and the social construction of gender." Initially these films are difficult to categorize, as they draw from a number of genres--film noir to soap operas, romances to pornography--but they share a number of key features, most revolving around "a gendered formula for visual arousal." In addition to examining the primary examples of this genre from its most famous, "Basic Instinct," through its most prolific practitioner, Zalman King, to its many multiple-part series, such as the "Body Chemistry" films, Martin delves deeply into their structure and cinematic character to analyze the filmic qualities that make these movies so attractive to women. Along the way she unpacks "sexual consumerism, feminized niche marketing, and a post-feminist focus on sexual exploration as the means to female empowerment."
"Sexy Thrills" is of value across the disciplines. Martin is a real star of that new generation of feminist scholars questioning received traditions and counter-productive intellectual dichotomies. And she does so in a remarkably fair minded and generous fashion, which I take as the sign of a truly sophisticated scholar. What Linda Williams did for hard-core, Martin accomplishes for soft-core pornography: making it intelligible and intriguing. "Sexy Thrills" is a highly original work of interdisciplinary scholarship, and beautifully written. I recommend this book to anyone interested in contemporary American culture.
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- Well written partial bio of a sexy guy and his adventures
- Bombastic self aggrandizement
- Extraordinary.
- A well written account of an interesting life in progress.
- Witty, often absorbing with immersions in Asian religion.
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In the Flesh: Undressing for Success
Gavin Geoffrey Dillard
Manufacturer: Barricade Books
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Well written partial bio of a sexy guy and his adventures.......2005-12-15
Hi, Everyone,
Gavin Geoffrey Dillard first came to my attention when I saw Track Meat, a gay guy porn film of the late 1970s. He was billed as Gavin Geoffrey in that movie. He writes about how that film came into being in this book.
Gavin also shows the reader how that film made him famous enough to be pursued by many admirers on the streets of west Hollywood. Those pursuers included some rich and famous types. Gavin hints at who's bed he shared and occasionally drops some names that we know very well.
Gavin has been a poet and a world traveller, but he also did a few on camera appearances after Track Meat. A lot of the book is about Gavin's spiritual beliefs and those people he met who were into various ideologies. Any reader who finds Gavin to be attractive from his photos or films will find themselves getting jealous of so many lucky guys who enjoyed rendezvous with him in bath houses and gardens and film sets. Some of his most intimate partners had no idea he had starred in a porn flick.
After spending time with some of Hollywood's biggest producers, Gavin went back to being very available for low cost and sometimes free activities.
He also seems to have done well at cooking, gardening, writing and acting onstage.
This is an interesting read for the most part. I was not as interested in the religious meanderings as some might be. I did find his UFO sightings to be believable. I really liked what he said about his experience with AIDS.
I liked the book and would recommend it. I also recommend his video of Track Meat if you can find it. I will probably buy more of his books.
Gavin was a Rob Lowe lookalike before Rob Lowe, so maybe Rob is a Gavin lookalike.
If you like the book about Gavin, you will also like the books about Joe Dallesandro.
Tom Willett
Bombastic self aggrandizement.......1999-12-04
A bit part player in gay porn who says he has slept with everyone in Hollywood and trys to make his story sound grand and mystic. He is no more than a misguided glitter boy who can't find his way in life and can't grow up. He would lead you to believe that he has all of the answers and more talent than the legends. Poor writing and a story that I couldn't finish.
Extraordinary........1999-05-02
Rarely have I witnessed such openness by a writer. This book is a high-water mark for the human spirit and testimony to the fact that its radiance will shine if left unfiltered.
Whatta breath of fresh air this was for my closeted spirit yearning to be as free!
Some questions: I was perplexed by the turnaround on Tom in the last paragraph of his chapter. Tom and his truths seemed like a great touchstone for the author. What are the markings on Gavin's last picture? Are they the wax burnings from his trysts with Race?
What erotic, delicious portrayals of sexual attractions and fulfillment. This guy can write and illuminate.
One of the most liberating, good-feeling books I've read. My human experience has been broadened--only if vicarioiusly. I am emboldened to live my life more "in the flesh".
Such a life is a boon to us all and surely has moved far along on the path to fulfillment.
A well written account of an interesting life in progress........1998-11-05
Gavin Dillard is best known for his poetry, nicely drawn, evocative, and sometimes haunting. In his autobiography, of life so far, he brings many of these same qualities to his prose, together with an engaging wit. He takes his reader from his brief but successful career as a gay porn star, to a lucrative career as an escort, which led to an exciting long-term-relationship, and on to his search for self in poetry and Asian religion. The LTR finally became an obstacle to the publication of this book because the mogul believed he was too readily identifiable and brought in legal bottom-feeders to keep a major press from releasing it. But, it's here! The journies to self-hood through Asian religion will be appealing and accessible to any reader who has made that trek, or even contemplated it, but it is likely that other readers will find it more difficult to get into than the rest of the book. Still, it would be worth the effort. Dillard is still evocative and articulate as he continues his inner quest, and the wit never quite dies on it, a rare achievement.
Witty, often absorbing with immersions in Asian religion........1998-10-28
The book, often witty and absorbing, could have been called "Gav Does It All." Dillard describes his brief but successful career as a porn star, escorting, a longer term relationship, and his self-validation through a return to poetry and immersion in Asian religion. The porn star experience and escort life have been described before, but rarely with such fresh wit. His ltr turned sour and, by his tell, the other guy managed to keep his book out of print at a major house by tying it up in legal knots, presumably because he could be identified easily by others in the Hollywood set. There is no question but that Dillard writes well. His earlier poetry contained some finely turned verses and some haunting passages. In this book, he shows us once again that he is a wordsmith, in a different form. True, the excursions into Asian religion will leave readers who have not gone down that road somewhat baffled because Dillard is less successful at taking his readers through these inner experiences than he was at keeping us with him as he did it all.
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French Undressing: Naughty Postcards from 1900 to 1920
Manufacturer: Pyramid
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French undressing: Naughty postcards from 1900 to 1920
Paul Hammond
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The Subject of Art in Process introduces the Analogos paradigm and syntagm into the public domain for the first time. It is a construct designed to assist (especially sensory-based) multi-practitioners in the process of lucid and layered thinking; hopefully, it can facilitate users to better understanding the complexities of event-processes. While semiotics generally ignores the 'subject', the Analogos foregrounds it as basic to all intra-active and interactive dialogue. While structuralism generally ignores the diachronic (temporal process), the Analogos foregrounds it and integrates it into the problematic of the synchronic, the domain of timeless stasis, still images.
The text also introduces into the public domain, if ever so slightly, the use of UFI (Uze'r Frendlee Inglish), a new notation system that is capable of carrying aspects of the vocal sounds of the speaker along with the meanings already possible when writing standard English. UFI introduces only two rules that are completely new: a dot after a vowel is pronounced as a long vowel sound (a-e-i-o-u as spoken when saying the alphabet); a slur or short-short vowel (written as an apostrophe, inside a word) is pronounced like the 'oo' in the word 'good' (in Canada). All the other basic 'roolz' are 'natural' to readers and writers of English; these are included in the Appendix-written in UFI. (See the preface for more; these are from there).
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Undressing the Ad aims to empower readers to become media literate through the work of deconstructing the consumer culture that surrounds them. By introducing critical scholarship on advertising in a way that is accessible, the book attempts to show how issues of race, class, and gender are expressed in contemporary advertising. The readings in this book take a decidedly critical political perspective and explore how representation in advertising upholds certain economic and political structures and subverts others, and exposes the myth that advertisements are merely messages aimed at selling goods and services. Rather they are texts that shape contemporary culture and shape our images of ourselves.
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Undressing the Victorians.: An article from: New Criterion
Roger Kimball
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This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Foundation for Cultural Review on October 1, 2002. The length of the article is 2873 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Undressing the Victorians.
Author: Roger Kimball
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- Raise Your Hand if You Love Horses: Pat Parelli's Journey from Zero to Hero
- The art of drawing heads and hands
- Principles of gene manipulation: An introduction to genetic engineering
- Pearl Harbor Child : A Child's View of Pearl Harbor from Attack to Peace
One Vacant Chair
Sailing in a Spoonful of Water: A Landlubber's Education on a Vintage Wooden Boat
Pocketful of Names
Still Life with Chickens: Starting Over in a House by the Sea
SINGING BIRD
