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Though intimacy has been a wide concern in the humanities, it has received little critical attention in film studies. This collection of new essays investigates both the potential intimacy of cinema as a medium and the possibility of a cinema of intimacy where it is least expected. As a notion defined by binaries--inside and outside, surface and depth, public and private, self and other--intimacy, because it implies sharing, calls into question the boundaries between these extremes, and the border separating mainstream cinema and independent or auteur cinema. Following on Thomas Elsaesser's theories of the relationship between the intimacy of cinema and the cinema of intimacy, the essays explore intimacy in silent and classic Hollywood movies, underground, documentary and animation films; and contemporary Hollywood, British, Canadian and Australian cinema from a variety of approaches.
Examining films about writers and acts of writing, The Writer on Film brilliantly refreshes some of the well-worn 'adaptation' debates by inviting film and literature to engage with each other trenchantly and anew – through acts of explicit configuration not adaptation.
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An anthology of stories, poems, essays, biblical passages, hymns, and songs celebrates the life of Jesus Christ, in a collection that features contributions from Shakespeare, Gandhi, Dickens, Desmond Tutu, and others.
It's no sin to hurt. Thousands of Christians suffer real emotional pain--such as depression, anxiety, obsessiveness. Many other Christians, including prominent leaders, believe emotional problems are the result of sin or bad choices. These attitudes often only add to the suffering of those who hurt. In this book Dwight Carlson marshals recent scientific evidence that demonstrates many emotional problems are just as physical or biological as diabetes, cancer and heart disease. While he never discounts personal responsibility, Carlson shows from both the Bible and up-to-date medicine why it really is no sin to hurt. Understandably and compellingly, Why Do Christians Shoot Their Wounded? brings profound help for those who hurt and those who counsel. For those who suffer, here is a powerful liberation from guilt. For those who care for the suffering, here is vivid proof that those in emotional pain deserve compassion, not condemnation.
For centuries the New Testament book of Hebrews has been interpreted as though it had been written for Jewish Christians in danger of lapsing back into legalism and religious ceremony. This view is now being challenged by current scholarship. Rather than attacking the Old Testament and Judaism, the author of Hebrews praises the person and work of Jesus through a series of comparisons on which he bases exhortations and warnings to the present people of God. Hebrews urges God's people to learn from past mistakes and failures, and to take up the challenge in difficult times to live faithfully in the new relationship to God through Jesus, God's Son. In The Second Chance for God's People: Message...
Edward Garth (1768-1823) , a convict, was transported from England to Norfolk Island in the southeastern Pacific (fairly near Australia) in 1788, and married Susannah Garth or Gourth, also a transported convict. They later moved to Hobart, Van Dieen's Land (now Tasmania). Descendants and relatives lived on Norfolk Island;, on Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales and elsewhere.
Queer South Rising: Voices of a Contested Place is a collection of essays about the South by people who identify as both Southern and queer. The collection’s name hints at the provocative nature of its contents: placing Queer and South side-by-side challenges readers to think about each word differently. The idea that a queer South might rise undermines the Battle Cry of “The South’s Gonna rise Again!” embedded in the collective memory of a conservative South. This rising does not refer to a kind of Enlightenment transcendence where the region achieves some sort of distinctive prominence. It suggests instead ruptures, like furrows in a plowed field where seeds are sown. The rising Wh...
Nicholas Byram landed in Virginia in 1637. He went to Wessagusset, now Weymouth, Massachusetts, where he was made a Freeman by the Court, May, 1638. He married Susanna Shaw. They moved to Bridgewater in 1662 and were the second settlers of that area. By the time of his death in 1688, Nicholas had acquired almost 500 acres of land. Susanna's will of September 7, 1698 was probated December 18, 1699. It provided for son, Nicholas, his wife, Mary, and children Nicholas and Mehitable; daughters Abigail Whitman, Deliverance Porter, Experience Willis, and Susan Edson; grandchildren Ebenezer Whitman, Mary Leach, and Mary Willis. Descendants lived in New England, New Jersey, New York, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, California and elsewhere.
Pierre Nezat was born 1736 in Layrac, France. As a teenager, he learned the trade of his father, a carpenter, and at the age of 19 volunteered for the account of a colonist. He left Layrac and France for the West Indies on the traces of Jean Roy, Jean Hebert and Guillaume Barre...He settled in Louisiana and met Magdelaine Provost, Frenchwoman born in Fort de Chartres, Illinois. Both are the founders of a very great family. The book, about the Nezat and allied families, includes the history, portraits of descendants as well as a family tree with index from 1630 to May 2007. Allied families are, amon others: Roy, Barre, Hebert, Chachere, Begnaud, Robin, Mouton, Thibodeaux, Brocato, Devillier, Friloux, Prejean, Broussard, Arceneaux, Carlile, Anderson, Granger, Latiolais, Comeau, Chiasson, Stelly, Quebedeaux, Carriere, Zeringue, Patin, Sonnier, Martin, Lowe, Peery, Dupuy, Provost, Smith, Holland, Spainhour, Marcel, Trahan, Sullivan, Stout, Vidrine, Dejean, Brown and Wallace