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No Joke is a detailed examination of Todd Phillips’s Joker, one of the biggest global box-office hits of 2019. While his success was no doubt partly because of the association of its title character with the Batman superhero franchise, Joker is anything but a flashy superhero romp. It does explore the pathologies of its central character and suggest ways in which his life experiences might have driven him to become a supervillain, the arch-enemy of Batman. At the same time, the film leaves open the possibility that its “Joker” is not, in fact, the same as the one conventionally associated with Batman. In fact, the film leaves open many interpretive possibilities, in keeping with the co...
Biopics—films that chronicle the lives of famous and notorious figures from our national history—have long been one of Hollywood's most popular and important genres, offering viewers various understandings of American national identity. Invented Lives, Imagined Communities provides the first full-length examination of US biopics, focusing on key releases in American cinema while treating recent developments in three fields: cinema studies, particularly the history of Hollywood; national identity studies dealing with the American experience; and scholarship devoted to modernity and postmodernity. Films discussed include Houdini, Patton, The Great White Hope, Bound for Glory, Ed Wood, Basquiat, Pollock, Sylvia, Kinsey, Fur, Milk, J. Edgar, and Lincoln, and the book pays special attention to the crucial generic plot along which biopics traverse and showcase American lives, even as they modify the various notions of the national character.
Welches Schicksal erlitt der einst so berüchtigte Index der verbotenen Bücher? Was erwartet heute Verfasser theologischer Schriften, deren Aussagen im Widerspruch zur amtlichen Lehre der katholischen Kirche stehen? Welche Rolle spielte bei solchen Veränderungen das Zweite Vatikanische Konzil? Ausgehend von den verkündigungsrechtlichen Grundlagen wird in der vorliegenden Studie die Frage nach der Legitimität der römischen Lehrbeanstandungsverfahren gestellt, die der päpstlichen Kurie als Mittel dienen, um unangenehme Autoren zum Stillschweigen zu bringen. Neben einer Darstellung der einschlägigen Rechtsgrundlagen erwartet den interessierten Leser eine neuartige Analyse bisher vor der Kurie in Rom abgeschlossener Verfahren.
Take a bunch of nice kids, dump in gobs of fiery Italian seasoning, mix in copious measures of robust Augustinian teaching, and stir gently for four years. That's the winning recipe that transformed April Fool's Day 1985 into a feast for underdogs and everymen everywhere. March Madness maddened to the max that year with the crowning of perhaps the NCAA Tournament's most unlikely champion, the Villanova Wildcats. The most unlikely and perhaps the most liked team to ever win the championship, the Villanova kids won the nation over with courtesy and class more than jump shots and slam dunks. The NCAA final was supposed to be a slam dunk for Georgetown, the defending national champions. But 'Nov...
Die Bundeswehr wirbt seit Ihrer Aufstellung in Werbefilmen um Nachwuchs. Dabei haben sich die Rahmenbedingungen seit der Aufstellung der Streitkräfte radikal verändert: Aus einer Wehrpflicht- und Verteidigungsarmee wurde eine Berufs- und Einsatzarmee. Die vorliegende Studie zeigt mit Hilfe von kommunikationsethischen Analysen auf, wie sich Nachwuchswerbung und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit der Bundeswehr in den audiovisuellen Medien (von ihren Anfängen in den 1950er Jahren bis heute) verändert haben und entwickelt daraus ethische Leitlinien für ihre Werbung und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit.