Author: Jennifer Baker
Publisher: Simon Pulse
ISBN: 9780671568689
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
When Tai abruptly moves back to Brooklyn, Cher and Dionne follow her to New York and attempt to bring her back, while coping with a city that has a decidedly different fashion sense from their native California.
Cher Negotiates New York
Author: Jennifer Baker
Publisher: Simon Pulse
ISBN: 9780671568689
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
When Tai abruptly moves back to Brooklyn, Cher and Dionne follow her to New York and attempt to bring her back, while coping with a city that has a decidedly different fashion sense from their native California.
Publisher: Simon Pulse
ISBN: 9780671568689
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
When Tai abruptly moves back to Brooklyn, Cher and Dionne follow her to New York and attempt to bring her back, while coping with a city that has a decidedly different fashion sense from their native California.
Clueless
Author: Lesley Speed
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317189280
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Clueless: American Youth in the 1990s is a timely contribution to the increasingly prominent academic field of youth film studies. The book draws on the social context to the film’s release, a range of film industry perspectives including marketing, audience reception and franchising, as well as postmodern theory and feminist film theory to assert the cultural and historical significance of Amy Heckerling’s film and reaffirm its reputation as one of the defining teen films of the 1990s. Lesley Speed examines how the film channels aspects of Anita Loos’ 1925 novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the 1960s television series Gidget and Jane Austen’s Emma, to present a heightened, optimistic view of contemporary American teenage life. Although seemingly apolitical, Speed makes the case for Clueless as a feminist exploration of relationships between gender, comedy and consumer culture, centring on a contemporary version of the ‘dumb blonde’ type. The film is also proved to embrace diversity in its depiction of African American characters and contributing to an increase in gay teenagers on screen. Lesley Speed concludes her analysis by tracking the rise of the Clueless franchise and cult following. Both helped to cement the film in popular consciousness, inviting fans to inhabit its fantasy world through spinoff narratives on television and in print, public viewing rituals, revivalism and vintage fashion.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317189280
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Clueless: American Youth in the 1990s is a timely contribution to the increasingly prominent academic field of youth film studies. The book draws on the social context to the film’s release, a range of film industry perspectives including marketing, audience reception and franchising, as well as postmodern theory and feminist film theory to assert the cultural and historical significance of Amy Heckerling’s film and reaffirm its reputation as one of the defining teen films of the 1990s. Lesley Speed examines how the film channels aspects of Anita Loos’ 1925 novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the 1960s television series Gidget and Jane Austen’s Emma, to present a heightened, optimistic view of contemporary American teenage life. Although seemingly apolitical, Speed makes the case for Clueless as a feminist exploration of relationships between gender, comedy and consumer culture, centring on a contemporary version of the ‘dumb blonde’ type. The film is also proved to embrace diversity in its depiction of African American characters and contributing to an increase in gay teenagers on screen. Lesley Speed concludes her analysis by tracking the rise of the Clueless franchise and cult following. Both helped to cement the film in popular consciousness, inviting fans to inhabit its fantasy world through spinoff narratives on television and in print, public viewing rituals, revivalism and vintage fashion.
An American Betty in Paris
Author: Randi Reisfeld
Publisher: Simon Pulse
ISBN: 9780671568696
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
When Cher flies to Paris to surprise her boyfriend Josh, as well as visit her cousins, she spots him with another girl on his arm.
Publisher: Simon Pulse
ISBN: 9780671568696
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
When Cher flies to Paris to surprise her boyfriend Josh, as well as visit her cousins, she spots him with another girl on his arm.
Loneliness as a Way of Life
Author: Thomas Dumm
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067403113X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
“What does it mean to be lonely?” Thomas Dumm asks. His inquiry, documented in this book, takes us beyond social circumstances and into the deeper forces that shape our very existence as modern individuals. The modern individual, Dumm suggests, is fundamentally a lonely self. Through reflections on philosophy, political theory, literature, and tragic drama, he proceeds to illuminate a hidden dimension of the human condition. His book shows how loneliness shapes the contemporary division between public and private, our inability to live with each other honestly and in comity, the estranged forms that our intimate relationships assume, and the weakness of our common bonds. A reading of the relationship between Cordelia and her father in Shakespeare’s King Lear points to the most basic dynamic of modern loneliness—how it is a response to the problem of the “missing mother.” Dumm goes on to explore the most important dimensions of lonely experience—Being, Having, Loving, and Grieving. As the book unfolds, he juxtaposes new interpretations of iconic cultural texts—Moby-Dick, Death of a Salesman, the film Paris, Texas, Emerson’s “Experience,” to name a few—with his own experiences of loneliness, as a son, as a father, and as a grieving husband and widower. Written with deceptive simplicity, Loneliness as a Way of Life is something rare—an intellectual study that is passionately personal. It challenges us, not to overcome our loneliness, but to learn how to re-inhabit it in a better way. To fail to do so, this book reveals, will only intensify the power that it holds over us.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067403113X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
“What does it mean to be lonely?” Thomas Dumm asks. His inquiry, documented in this book, takes us beyond social circumstances and into the deeper forces that shape our very existence as modern individuals. The modern individual, Dumm suggests, is fundamentally a lonely self. Through reflections on philosophy, political theory, literature, and tragic drama, he proceeds to illuminate a hidden dimension of the human condition. His book shows how loneliness shapes the contemporary division between public and private, our inability to live with each other honestly and in comity, the estranged forms that our intimate relationships assume, and the weakness of our common bonds. A reading of the relationship between Cordelia and her father in Shakespeare’s King Lear points to the most basic dynamic of modern loneliness—how it is a response to the problem of the “missing mother.” Dumm goes on to explore the most important dimensions of lonely experience—Being, Having, Loving, and Grieving. As the book unfolds, he juxtaposes new interpretations of iconic cultural texts—Moby-Dick, Death of a Salesman, the film Paris, Texas, Emerson’s “Experience,” to name a few—with his own experiences of loneliness, as a son, as a father, and as a grieving husband and widower. Written with deceptive simplicity, Loneliness as a Way of Life is something rare—an intellectual study that is passionately personal. It challenges us, not to overcome our loneliness, but to learn how to re-inhabit it in a better way. To fail to do so, this book reveals, will only intensify the power that it holds over us.
Darling Days
Author: iO Tillett Wright
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062368222
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Born into the beautiful bedlam of downtown New York in the eighties, iO Tillett Wright came of age at the intersection of punk, poverty, heroin, and art. This was a world of self-invented characters, glamorous superstars, and strung-out sufferers, ground zero of drag and performance art. Still, no personality was more vibrant and formidable than iO’s mother’s. Rhonna, a showgirl and young widow, was a mercurial, erratic glamazon. She was iO’s fiercest defender and only authority in a world with few boundaries and even fewer indicators of normal life. At the center of Darling Days is the remarkable relationship between a fiery kid and a domineering ma—a bond defined by freedom and control, excess and sacrifice; by heartbreaking deprivation, agonizing rupture, and, ultimately, forgiveness. Darling Days is also a provocative examination of culture and identity, of the instincts that shape us and the norms that deform us, and of the courage and resilience it takes to listen closely to your deepest self. When a group of boys refuse to let six-year-old, female-born iO play ball, iO instantly adopts a new persona, becoming a boy named Ricky—a choice iO’s parents support and celebrate. It is the start of a profound exploration of gender and identity through the tenderest years, and the beginning of a life invented and reinvented at every step. Alternating between the harrowing and the hilarious, Darling Days is the candid, tough, and stirring memoir of a young person in search of an authentic self as family and home life devolve into chaos.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062368222
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Born into the beautiful bedlam of downtown New York in the eighties, iO Tillett Wright came of age at the intersection of punk, poverty, heroin, and art. This was a world of self-invented characters, glamorous superstars, and strung-out sufferers, ground zero of drag and performance art. Still, no personality was more vibrant and formidable than iO’s mother’s. Rhonna, a showgirl and young widow, was a mercurial, erratic glamazon. She was iO’s fiercest defender and only authority in a world with few boundaries and even fewer indicators of normal life. At the center of Darling Days is the remarkable relationship between a fiery kid and a domineering ma—a bond defined by freedom and control, excess and sacrifice; by heartbreaking deprivation, agonizing rupture, and, ultimately, forgiveness. Darling Days is also a provocative examination of culture and identity, of the instincts that shape us and the norms that deform us, and of the courage and resilience it takes to listen closely to your deepest self. When a group of boys refuse to let six-year-old, female-born iO play ball, iO instantly adopts a new persona, becoming a boy named Ricky—a choice iO’s parents support and celebrate. It is the start of a profound exploration of gender and identity through the tenderest years, and the beginning of a life invented and reinvented at every step. Alternating between the harrowing and the hilarious, Darling Days is the candid, tough, and stirring memoir of a young person in search of an authentic self as family and home life devolve into chaos.
Europe's Foreign and Security Policy
Author: Michael E. Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521538619
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The emergence of a common security and foreign policy has been one of the most contentious issues accompanying the integration of the European Union. In this book, Michael Smith examines the specific ways foreign policy cooperation has been institutionalized in the EU, the way institutional development affects cooperative outcomes in foreign policy, and how those outcomes lead to new institutional reforms. Smith explains the evolution and performance of the institutional procedures of the EU using a unique analytical framework, supported by extensive empirical evidence drawn from interviews, case studies, official documents and secondary sources. His perceptive and well-informed analysis covers the entire history of EU foreign policy cooperation, from its origins in the late 1960s up to the start of the 2003 constitutional convention. Demonstrating the importance and extent of EU foreign/security policy, the book will be of interest to scholars, researchers and policy-makers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521538619
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The emergence of a common security and foreign policy has been one of the most contentious issues accompanying the integration of the European Union. In this book, Michael Smith examines the specific ways foreign policy cooperation has been institutionalized in the EU, the way institutional development affects cooperative outcomes in foreign policy, and how those outcomes lead to new institutional reforms. Smith explains the evolution and performance of the institutional procedures of the EU using a unique analytical framework, supported by extensive empirical evidence drawn from interviews, case studies, official documents and secondary sources. His perceptive and well-informed analysis covers the entire history of EU foreign policy cooperation, from its origins in the late 1960s up to the start of the 2003 constitutional convention. Demonstrating the importance and extent of EU foreign/security policy, the book will be of interest to scholars, researchers and policy-makers.
A Totally Cher Affair
Author: H. B. Gilmour
Publisher: Simon Pulse
ISBN: 9780671019051
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Can Cher do a makeover and throw a monster bash in under three days? Tscha! Cher and Dionne are chairing the charity event of the decade - until Murray and Sean do the uncharitable thing and get in the way. They bet that Cher and De can't turn Ms Leslie, the generic new teacher, into a full-on Betty - and hook her up with a do-able date. The penalty for failure is heinous - a night of watching faux fighters attack one another. You know, live wrestling. Not even! The girls set up the foundation . . . and eyeshadow and lipstick for the makeover. To win, Cher and De have to take both Ms Leslie and the charity affair from pitiful to perfection in three days. Impossible? Hel-lo, Cher has a brutal plan . . .
Publisher: Simon Pulse
ISBN: 9780671019051
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Can Cher do a makeover and throw a monster bash in under three days? Tscha! Cher and Dionne are chairing the charity event of the decade - until Murray and Sean do the uncharitable thing and get in the way. They bet that Cher and De can't turn Ms Leslie, the generic new teacher, into a full-on Betty - and hook her up with a do-able date. The penalty for failure is heinous - a night of watching faux fighters attack one another. You know, live wrestling. Not even! The girls set up the foundation . . . and eyeshadow and lipstick for the makeover. To win, Cher and De have to take both Ms Leslie and the charity affair from pitiful to perfection in three days. Impossible? Hel-lo, Cher has a brutal plan . . .
Floating in a Most Peculiar Way
Author: Louis Onuorah Chude-Sokei
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 1328841588
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
A gutting, gorgeous memoir of a pan-African childhood that tracks the author's migrations from the short-lived African nation known as Biafra, to Jamaica, to Los Angeles' harshest streets
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 1328841588
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
A gutting, gorgeous memoir of a pan-African childhood that tracks the author's migrations from the short-lived African nation known as Biafra, to Jamaica, to Los Angeles' harshest streets
Showdown at the Mall
Author: Diana G. Gallagher
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 067101434X
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
YA. Sabrina faces a challenge from her cousin Tanya, a full witch with mischief on her mind. TV tie-in. 11+ yrs.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 067101434X
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
YA. Sabrina faces a challenge from her cousin Tanya, a full witch with mischief on her mind. TV tie-in. 11+ yrs.
Cher Goes Enviro-mental
Author: Randi Reisfeld
Publisher: Simon Pulse
ISBN: 9780671003241
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Determined to win an invitation to the opening of the Fashion Cafe, Cher enters a Save the Earth contest.
Publisher: Simon Pulse
ISBN: 9780671003241
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Determined to win an invitation to the opening of the Fashion Cafe, Cher enters a Save the Earth contest.