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Oliver Stone has written and directed many memorable films while also developing a reputation for tackling controversial subjects, such as the Turkish prison system (Midnight Express), the Vietnam war (Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July), insider trading (Wall Street), presidential assassination (JFK), and a voyeuristic media (Natural Born Killers). Along the way, Stone has been nominated for more than 10 Academy Awards and three times received Oscars for his work. In The Oliver StoneEncyclopedia, James M. Welsh and Donald M. Whaley provide an overarching evaluation of Stone's work as screenwriter, producer, and director. While the entries in this volume address all of the usual aspects ...
An in-depth treatment in two volumes of the historical and cultural contexts of rape and rape culture, this set discusses both victims and perpetrators internationally during war and peace times and examines the treatment of survivors. Historically, women, men, and children have all suffered sexual violence, during wartime and peacetime as well as inside and outside their homes. This two-volume title focuses on survivors of rape in a variety of social and cultural contexts. It examines different people who are victimized in a variety of situations (including in war and prisons) and studies the particularities of "rape cultures" that are intertwined with ethnic cultures and hatreds and other ...
Gerald Hamilton is a power broker in the world of Australian commerce. He is one of the richest men in Australia; known to be ambitious, aggressive, and totally ruthless. He is also urbane, handsome, and utterly charming, a delicious and dangerous aphrodisiac to any woman. In a desperate move to obtain total control of the family company, Gerald will risk everything, even those he claims to love. Samantha Drummond has endured great personal loss after the tragic death of a husband and child in a devastating car accident. Against advice, and her own instinct, she allows herself to be courted and wed by Gerald Hamilton. But Samantha Hamilton has acted with unmotherly disgrace towards her second son, Ben. Now she is caught between a man she loves and the guilt of a mother's neglect. Ben Hamilton has only a family friend and financial legend to guide him through an uncertain future.
In this remarkable sequel to his Films of the Seventies: A Social History, William J. Palmer examines more than three hundred films as texts that represent, revise, parody, comment upon, and generate discussion about major events, issues, and social trends of the eighties. Palmer defines the dialectic between film art and social history, taking as his theoretical model the "holograph of history" that originated from the New Historicist theories of Hayden White and Dominick LaCapra. Combining the interests and methodologies of social history and film criticism, Palmer contends that film is a socially conscious interpreter and commentator upon the issues of contemporary social history. In the ...
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