Tag: imaginings

Free Download David A. Gerstner, "Queer Imaginings: On Writing and Cinematic Friendship "
English | ISBN: 0814350216 | 2023 | 328 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
How do we identify the "queer auteur" and their queer imaginings? Is it possible to account for such a figure when the very terms "queer" and "auteur" invoke aesthetic surprises and disorientations, disconcerting ironies and paradoxes, and biographical deceits and ambiguities? In eighteen eloquent chapters, David A. Gerstner traces a history of ideas that spotlight an ever-shifting terrain associated with auteur theory and, in particular, queer-auteur theory. Engaging with the likes of Oscar Wilde, Walter Benjamin, James Baldwin, Jean Louis Baudry, Linda Nochlin, Jane Gallop, Cáel Keegan, Luce Irigaray, and other prominent critical thinkers, Gerstner contemplates how the queer auteur in film theory might open us to the work of desire.

Free Download D. Perry, C. Sederholm, "Adapting Poe: Re-Imaginings in Popular Culture"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1349298980, 1349298980 | PDF | pages: 280 | 3.2 mb
Adapting Poe is a collection of essays that explores the way Edgar Allan Poe has been adapted over the last hundred years in film, comic art, music, and literary criticism. A major theme that pervades the study concerns the more recent re-imaginings of Poe in terms of identity construction in a postmodern era.

Free Download Rimple Mehta, "Pandemic of Perspectives: Creative Re-imaginings"
English | ISBN: 1032020903 | 2022 | 312 pages | PDF | 30 MB
This volume brings together academics, activists, social work practitioners, poets, and artists from different parts of the world during the Covid-19 pandemic. It sheds light on how the pandemic has exposed the inequities in society and is shaping social institutions, affecting human relationships, and creating new norms with each passing day.