Nick Davis

"A dual biography of brothers Herman and Joseph Mankiewicz, each a Hollywood legend"--

Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait

Competing with Idiots

The Desiring-Image yields new models of queer cinema produced since the late 1980s, based on close formal analysis of diverse films as well as innovative contributions to current film theory. The book defines "queer cinema" less as a specific genre or in terms of gay and lesbian identity, but more broadly as a kind of filmmaking that conveys sexual desire and orientation as potentially fluid within any individual's experience, and as forces that can therefore unite unlikely groups of people along new lines, socially, sexually, or politically. The films driving this analysis range from celebrated fixtures of the New Queer Cinema of the 1990s (including Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman and Todd Haynes's Velvet Goldmine) to sexually provocative films of the same era that are rarely classified as queer (David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers and Naked Lunch) to breakout films by 21st-century directors (Rodney Evans's Brother to Brother, John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus). To frame these readings and to avoid heterosexist assumptions in other forms of film analysis, The Desiring-Image revisits the work of the philosopher Gilles Deleuze, whose two major works on cinema somehow never address the radical ideas about desire he expresses in other texts. This book brings those notions together in innovative ways, making them clear and accessible to newcomers and field specialists alike, with clear, illustrated examples drawn from a wide range of movies extending beyond the central case studies. Thus, The Desiring-Image speaks to readers interested in queer and gay/lesbian studies, in film theory, in feminist and sexuality scholarship, and in theory and philosophy, putting those discourses into rich, surprising conversations with popular cinema of the last 30 years.

Gilles Deleuze and Contemporary Queer Cinema

The Desiring-Image

It "s been two months since Sarah and the Tether "s Angelic Guardian Paul defeated the Dark and she just wants everything to return to normal. Except normal is not an option for the Tether Keeper, even one as reluctant as Sarah; persuaded by CT to assist in an investigation which ultimately costs them their friendship. The Custodiet under the seemingly benign leadership of Ms.Divens step in and Sarah finds herself in over her head as a creature of the night long thought extinct comes to Baltimore... And the whisper of Vampire fills the city with fear... The long awaited sequel to The Tether, Accept One is book two of The Tether set against the real back drop of Baltimore city, this Paranormal action fantasy adventure by Nick Davis picks up where The Tether None Good left off. Sarah continues her journey as the Tether Keeper, and stumbles upon some unexpected allies as she is pulled reluctantly deeper into a world that exists just under the surface of our reality.

Accept One

Peter Meredith

Michael John Anderson

William Tydeman

Louise M. Haywood

Presents, in modern English translation, a selection of documents from the medieval theatre.

The Medieval European Stage, 500-1550

Tom Fowler

Nyckei Harris

Victoria Durm

Amanda Alamain

The proceeds from this Creative Cafe Cabal Anthology novel The Cruelest Month all go to benefit American Cancer Society. Thank you for looking and we hope you pick this novel up and enjoy the stories, and the cruelty within. The mystery story "Clerical Error" by Tom Fowler leads off the anthology. It features private investigator C.T. Ferguson, who investigates the violent murder of a young secretary at the behest of her older sister. Batting second is Nyckei Harris, with "Endless Summer," a look at a gritty, parched, and (of course) cruel post-apocalyptic future. Next, you'll read "Careful Wishing" by Victoria Durm, which takes the old maxim of "be careful what you wish for because you just might get it" and applies it to a pair of desperate children in an orphanage. Amanda Alamain's "A Month Without That Dick" is next. It's a very real look at the subtle and not-so-subtle ways people are cruel to each other in relationships. Last, but certainly not least, Nick Davis gives us "Exposition," a look at the zany and cruel ways writer's block can manifest when a deadline looms (and passes). While we examined cruelty in our stories, we decided to stop there. The proceeds from the anthology you're reading are going to the author's favorite charity. Right now, we're a group of writers who all want to make it big. We're going to keep doing these anthologies, regardless of how big any of us get, and they'll always be for the benefit of a charity (or charities). Enjoy the stories, revel in the cruelty therein, and know your purchase is benefiting a deserving charity somewhere. Thank you for buying our first anthology. We hope it doesn't scare you off from buying our future releases. The members of the Creative Café Cabal: Amanda Alamain, Nick Davis, Victoria Durm, Tom Fowler, and Nyckei Harris.

Creative Cafe Cabal Charity Anothology

The Cruelest Month

First published in 1999, this volume re-examines narrative design in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Faerie Queene, King Lear and Paradise Lost. Written in a period newly set on finding practical application for available systems of reasoning, these texts confront in their different ways reason’s absolute limitation in the face of a Real which it cannot adequately represent to itself or recruit to its own purposes. An influential model for the staging of such a confrontation was the mythic, cosmological narrative of Plato’s Timaeus. In their rewriting of Plato’s narrative the English texts deploy but also destabilize the ancient conceptual polarization of the ‘rational’ and the ‘irrational’ or ‘chaotic’, rethought in the terms offered by their period’s innovatory practices of reasoning. The study establishes the critical importance of telling a story of chaos by comparing the narrative method of its chosen texts with that adopted by Freud and Lacan as a means of reflection on the psychoanalytic encounter with an ultimately chaotic Real. This book has unusual interdisciplinary scope, and offers historically grounded, theoretically informed new readings of four major early modern English literary texts.

Reason and its Displacement in Early Modern English Narrative

Stories of Chaos

Sarah a troubled teenage girl in a Baltimore Private School after a brutal kidnap finds herself fighting for her soul and reality itself. When in one explosive moment she is handed a Tether which contains the power that could change the world for good or for evil. The only problem is good and evil become a matter of perspective and as she races for answers these lines become increasingly blurred.

None Good

The Tether

The Desiring-Image redefines queer cinema as a kind of filmmaking that conveys sexuality and desire as fundamentally fluid for all people, exceeding familiar stories and themes in many LGBT movies.

A fascinating, complex dual biography of Hollywood's most dazzling—and famous—brothers, and a dark, riveting portrait of competition, love, and enmity that ultimately undid them both. One most famous for having written Citizen Kane (with Orson Welles, as most recently portrayed in David Fincher's acclaimed Netflix film, Mank); the other, All About Eve; one, who only wrote screenplays but believed himself to be a serious playwright, slowly dying of alcoholism and disappointment; the other, a four-time Academy Award-winning director, auteur, sorcerer, and seducer of leading ladies, one of Hollywood's most literate and intelligent filmmakers. Herman Mankiewicz brought us the Marx Brothers' Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, Duck Soup, W. C. Fields's Million Dollar Legs, wrote screenplays for Dinner at Eight, Pride of the Yankees, cowrote Citizen Kane (Pauline Kael proclaimed that the script was mostly Herman's), and eighty-nine others . . . Talented, witty (Alexander Woollcott thought him "the funniest man who ever lived,"), huge-hearted, wildly immature, a figure of renown and success. Herman went to Hollywood in 1926, was almost immediately successful (his telegram to Hecht back east: "MILLIONS ARE TO BE GRABBED OUT HERE AND YOUR ONLY COMPETITION IS IDIOTS. DON'T LET THIS GET AROUND."), becoming one of the highest-paid screenwriters in Hollywood . . . Joe, eleven years younger, focused, organized, a disciplined writer, with a far more distinguished career, surpassing his worshipped older brother . . . producing The Philadelphia Story, writing and directing A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve, both of which won him Oscars for writing and directing (All About Eve received a record fourteen Oscar nominations), before seeing his career upended by the spectacular fiasco of Cleopatra . . . In this large, moving portrait, meticulously woven together by the grandson of Herman, great-nephew of Joe, we see the lives of these two men--their dreams and desires, their fears and feuds, struggling to free themselves from their dark past; and the driving forces that kept them bound to a system they loved and hated.

Brooks Hansen

Boone

Once Upon a Time… What a magical phrase that opens up a story to wonder and adventure. The Wonder Tales Volume One is a collection of all ages fantastical fables that are set in a fantasy world of Once Upon a Time, in a Land Far, Far Away known as the Ninth Kingdom. It is a world of magic, of wonder, of vain Kings, noble Heroes, beautiful Princesses, Pirates, evil Witches, scary Monsters and one very unique and smart talking Horse… The Wonder Tales Volume One, The Archer, the Horse and Other Tales collects together the first six Wonder Tales. The Archer, the Horse and the Princess The Archer, the Horse and the Golden Braid The Daughter of Frost The Archer and the Flying Pirate Ship The Girl and the Troll The Archer, the Horse and the Forgotten Quest Bonus story – I Am Wolf Read these tales to your children, or you can let them explore the wonder of reading for themselves with these magical yarns of pure imagination.

The Archer, the Horse and Other Fairy Tales

The Wonder Tales Volume One

Laid back, sun-drenched tropical paradise, or hotbed of drug-related crime and violence? Neither stereotype is true. Jamaica suffers from a PR problem, created largely by tabloid headlines written thousands of miles away. The reality is more complex and more fascinating. Despite its small size, Jamaica punches above its weight. Its footprints in sport and music are, like its people, larger than life. It is one of the few countries to have its own soundtrack— mento, ska, and reggae are popular around the world. The University of the West Indies campus at Mona is a regional source of excellence. Jamaicans have a fire that has been hard to douse. It was burning when their forefathers arrived on slave ships, barely alive after the middle passage, and it was there when they fought the British to a standstill in the Maroon Wars. In the English-speaking Caribbean they have a reputation for being brash, but the Jamaicans have a warmth that is unmatched. They are unafraid to talk to strangers, they'll laugh at nearly anything, they'll discuss and debate with passion, and they'll let you know it straight. Despite real economic and social problems, this beautiful and invigorating country regularly ranks among the top five happiest nations in the world in the annual Happy Planet Index. Culture Smart! Jamaica takes you beyond the clichés with a fresh, uniquely well-informed look at of one of the most intriguing countries in the region.

The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

Jamaica - Culture Smart!

Every day, legacy business models and traditional best practices are transforming around us, driven by technologies like AI, blockchain, 5G, and quantum computing that are radically altering our future vision. As a leader and innovator, you're facing an accelerating pace of change that makes it more difficult than ever to navigate the murky future.

A Changemaker's Guide to the Exponential Revolution

Future Ready

Nicholas Davis

Great idea for an iPhone App but no idea where to start? Boss bugging you to join the iPhone / iPad app trend? Want to create your own app without writing any code? More than just a book, the App Outsourcing Guide for iPhone & iPad is a complete course, step-by-step guide and reference tool for you to turn your (or your company's) app idea into reality with the minimum of effort and fuss. Firstly, read through five information packed (but jargon-free) chapters that will take you through every step of the iPhone / iPad app creation process, including: The Concept: How to approach your iPhone or iPad app and get it right the first time. The Supplier: How to outsource, find a great developer and still save money, plus alternative ways you can make an app yourself. The Project: Simple techniques to follow to get your app through development in less time and with less stress. The Push: Don't just launch it, push it! Over 50 marketing tips to get your iPhone or iPad app noticed. The Launch: Make the most of your App Store listing and get ahead of your competition. Then, get the project off to a great start with hand-picked resources and links that will get things moving from the: BONUS chapter: featuring links to time-saving resources plus document templates you can copy for your own iPhone or iPad app project! Finally, access additional bonus material online to help you every step of the way, including: Access to an exclusive online area of the companion website, app-outsourcing-guide.com, with resources to make your iPhone or iPad app project even easier. Why buy the App Outsourcing Guide? Remove any confusion you may have about creating an iPhone or iPad app. Hundreds of hours experience of successful mobile app projects packed into 148 pages (over 50,000 words) that's hundreds of hours of learning and experimentation you won't have to repeat! Like hiring your own app consultant, for a fraction of the price. Shows you how to go from initial iPhone or iPad app idea through development to the App Store without writing a single line of code. No technical jargon but still covering everything you need to know to become an instant iPhone / iPad App expert. Please note, the App Outsourcing Guide is an independent publication and has not been authorized, sponsored, or otherwise approved by Apple Inc. iPhone, iPad and App Store are trademarks of Apple Inc.

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