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Michael Scott - a Biography
A biography of the 19th century sea novelist, Michael Scott, who lived at one of the most stirring periods of British and American history. the American War of Independence of 1776 just preceded his birth in 1789, the year of the French Revolution and he lived through the American War of 1812, the Napoleonic Wars in Europe and the suppression of piracy and the slave trade in the Caribbean. This short biography is an attempt to attach something of his personality and character to his name
Straight White Men Can’t Dance
Straight White Men Can't Dance: American Masculinity in Film and Popular Culture investigates a trope proliferating throughout popular American media over the last half-century: that straight white men can't dance. Addie Tsai traces this reiterative moving image of vaudevillian buffoonery in film, television, and video from the mid-1980s to present-day. During the height of homophobic hysteria in response to the AIDS epidemic, dance began to be used as a marker to scrutinize white men's position within homosexuality and masculinity. Therefore, white men could misperform good dancing to more securely sit within hegemonic masculinity. Tsai establishes how ethnic mimicry within American popular...
The Troublemaker
Fiercely driven, passionately idealistic and secretly tormented, the British priest Michael Scott was a key figure in the struggles against apartheid, colonialism and, later, nuclear weapons. His activities during his ministry in South Africa in the late 1940s and early 1950s led to his being imprisoned and banned by the apartheid regime, whose attempts to annexe South West Africa (now Namibia) he was instrumental in frustrating. His fervent - some would say quixotic- campaigning fervour also led to his deportation from India and to three prison sentences in Britain.Even is his lifetime Scott was a mysterious and paradoxical figure: an ordained priest who worked, briefly, as an agent of the ...
