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Male bisexuality in current cinema : images of growth, rebellion and survival
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ISBN: 9780786461608 Year: 2011 Publisher: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co.,

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In recent decades, male bisexuality has become a recurring topic in international cinema, as filmmakers and their works challenge our ideas about sexual freedom and identity. In all of these films, more than a dozen of which are covered here, bisexuality is treated both as an actual practice and a complex metaphor for a number of things, including the need to adapt to changing environments, the questioning of rigidly traditional male roles and identities, the breakdown and regeneration of the structures of families, the limitations of monogamy, and the stubborn affirmation of romantic love.


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Marks of toil
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ISBN: 147661704X 9781476617046 9780786495887 078649588X Year: 2014 Publisher: Jefferson, North Carolina

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Are people nothing more than their physical capital--what their bodies can produce and provide? This philosophical treatise examines the idea of mutational bodies as it has appeared in fiction and cinema since the industrial era, theorizing that capitalism and other modern collective systems require transformations both literal and figurative for the individual to survive. Infringements on individualism include both the concept of eternity, which asks that we resign ourselves to life and death as endless waiting, and the Hegelian dialectic itself, which has been reversed by neoconservative thi


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Japanese film and the floating mind : cinematic contemplations of being
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ISBN: 9781476664989 9781476624969 Year: 2016 Publisher: Jefferson McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers

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"This book provides a cultural, historical and philosophical study of Japanese film, from the silent era to the present, focusing on its expansive consciousness. It examines masterpieces by Yasujir; Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Nagisa Oshima and other directors, discussing their influence on the Japanese culture of esoteric Zen Buddhism and relating them to recent neuroscientific theories of brain trauma"--


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Invitation to a voyage = L'invitation au voyage
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ISBN: 9781564786258 Year: 2011 Publisher: London Champaign Dublin Dalkey Archive Press Dalkey Archive Press Dalkey Archive Press

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