Violence and Virtue: Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith Slaying Holofernes
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Artemisia Gentileschi's uniquely powerful painting Judith Slaying Holofernes is a quintessential...
Hepatitis B Virus and Liver Disease: 2017
Jia-Horng Kao and Ding-Shinn Chen
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This book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of HBV infection and liver disease. It...
The Irresponsible Magician: Essays and Fictions
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As any good magician or psychoanalyst knows, it's the deliberate chalking of a particular square...
Just For Women: Dating, Relationships and Sex with Alissa Kriteman
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Are you ready to find out what you can do to have the deep, beautifully fulfilling love you want in...
The Body in Time: Figures of Femininity in Late Nineteenth-Century France
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The Body in Time looks at two different genres in relation to the construction of femininity in late...
Uptown Oracle (24 KP) rated No Ordinary Star in Books
Jun 30, 2017
Although the book was short, it was packed full of information about this new future world. The new world was so strange yet extensive. There were so many advancements in medicine and lifestyle. You don't need to drink, eat or sleep because you can live off small tablets. Scientists create and genetically modify children. The government has removed music, art and love from humanity. There was the issue that no action was taken within the book - it will probably be within the next book that the pace is picked up.
This future brings up so many discussion points and thoughts when reading. Are all these advancements moral? Is this the right thing to do? There's separation of men and women, as men treat women as an inferior species. This book just makes you think so much about what you actually want for the future.
This book also brings up so many questions plot wise. Some questions were answered by the end, such as who is the 'fairy girl' in the first chapters? Other questions, such as why is the Clock so important will hopefully be answered in future installments? I'm excited to read the next book to see how it evolves!
Gender, Space, and the Gaze in Post-Haussmann Visual Culture: Beyond the Flaneur
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Charles Baudelaire's flaneur, as described in his 1863 essay "The Painter of Modern Life," remains...
A Sparrow in Terezin
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Bound together across time, two women will discover a powerful connection through one survivor's...
Gareth von Kallenbach (977 KP) rated Welcome to Marwen (2018) in Movies
Jul 2, 2019
The group of women dolls that seem to always save his Hogie character are all based on the women his life. There is G.I. Julie, aka Julie (Janelle Monae), his rehab partner after his accident and Roberta (Merritt Wever), the friendly neighborhood hobby story clerk. Plus there is Anna (Gwendoline Christie) nurse who brings Hogie his mail and supplies in real life and Carlala (Eiza Gonzalez) his coworker in real life. These make up the majority of his bad ass Nazi killing crew in Marwen. The newest addition is his neighbor Nicole (Leslie Mann) who he think might help him defeat the Nazi’s in Marwen for good and be a special new friend in real life. He will need both his Marwen crew and his real life friends as the sentencing for his real life attackers gets closer and his fragile mental health is pushed to a stressful breaking point.
This unique story is based on the real life of world famous photographic artist Mark Hogancamp. Mark was brutally beaten because he made a smart comment about liking to wear women’s shoes. It’s also a story of overcoming addiction and mental health issues. He turned the disaster into a passion for creating art and using fantasy to cope with tragedy.
This was a really interesting way of telling a one of a kind true story. I thought that director, Robert Zemeckis (Forest Gump, Flight) used both real life and the fantasy world of Marwen to create one story. There were times when the story really didn’t flow great between the two worlds but overall was really original filmmaking. The pace and flow were a little off with the transitions. I thought the animation was exceptionally done. The story also had a bunch of topics it tackled, from mental health and memory loss to addiction but also had a good mix of humor. Carell dual performances were really well done and the supporting cast was also good. Films that are original and try new and interesting things are always worth a view in my opinion. I could see the content not really being for everyone but I thought the overall story left me feeling good.
The Not So Subtle Art of Being a Fat Girl
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Plus-size supermodel Tess Holliday’s passionate plea for modern women, whoever they are, is to...
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