[PDF] Dark Laughter eBook

Author : Juan F. Egea
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 39,9 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0299295435

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In Dark Laughter, Juan F. Egea provides a remarkable in-depth analysis of the dark comedy film genre in Spain, as well as a provocative critical engagement with the idea of national cinema, the visual dimension of cultural specificity, and the ethics of dark humor. Egea begins his analysis with General Franco's dictatorship in the 1960s—a regime that opened the country to new economic forces while maintaining its repressive nature—exploring key works by Luis García Berlanga, Marco Ferreri, Fernando Fernán-Gómez, and Luis Buñuel. Dark Laughter then moves to the first films of Pedro Almodóvar in the early 1980s during the Spanish political transition to democracy before examining Alex de la Iglesia and the new dark comedies of the 1990s. Analyzing this younger generation of filmmakers, Egea traces dark comedy to Spain's displays of ultramodernity such as the Universal Exposition in Seville and the Barcelona Olympic Games. At its core, Dark Laughter is a substantial inquiry into the epistemology of comedy, the intricacies of visual modernity, and the relationship between cinema and a wider framework of representational practices.

Author : Sherwood Anderson
Publisher : Edizioni Grenelle
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 23,25 MB
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8899370133

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Scritto nel 1925, il romanzo Dark Laughter è una piccola Odissea moderna. Le pianure del Middle West, i grandi fiumi, le città dure, fanno da sfondo alle vicende del protagonista, John Stockton, un uomo in fuga dalle convenzioni e dalle finzioni sociali e alla ricerca di un nuovo sé. In un mondo sospeso tra reale e possibile, tra presente e infanzia, tra biografia e storia, si agita una costellazione di personaggi irrisolti, di figure simboliche. La tensione espressiva del linguaggio, il bisogno di una maggiore aderenza alla vita, l’urgenza di amare, di risolvere il mito dell’infanzia e di dare, infine, un senso al proprio esistere, sono alcuni dei temi che percorrono un romanzo fatto di grande intensità, scritto con un linguaggio moderno, asciutto ed essenziale.

Author : Sherwood Anderson
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,80 MB
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1513288490

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Dark Laughter (1925) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Inspired by his own decision to abandon his family and career in order to establish himself as a professional writer, Anderson explores the guilts, routines, desires, and disappointments driving the lives of many Americans in the early-twentieth century. Although he is known today for his story collection Winesburg, Ohio, a pioneering work of Modernist fiction admired for its plainspoken language and psychological detail, Anderson’s Dark Laughter was his only bestseller. Inspired by the stream of consciousness style of James Joyce’s Ulysses, Anderson produced a novel that remains controversial for its depictions of race, class, and sexuality. >“Bruce Dudley stood near a window that was covered with flecks of paint and through which could be faintly seen, first a pile of empty boxes, then a more or less littered factory yard running down to a steep bluff, and beyond the brown waters of the Ohio River.” Bruce, a factory worker in Old Harbor, Indiana, is your average working man. He lives a simple life, keeps a low profile, spends his money at the bar with his friends, and tries not to get fired. As far as anyone knows, there is nothing special about him whatsoever; he is a drifter who found his way to Old Harbor by chance and settled down to make himself some money. But Bruce was born in Old Harbor; raised on its streets and educated in its schools, he lived most of his life by another name: John Stockton, Indiana native turned Chicago reporter. Married with kids, he was happy as far as anyone could tell. Up until the day he left, he was still John Stockton, but the change that came over him late in life was too great to resist. He needed a new name, a new life. He wanted to start over in the place where he began. When an opportunity comes to work as a gardener for the factory owner’s wife, Bruce soon finds it impossible to resist her brazen advances. Dark Laughter is a tale of guilt, identity, and shame from master storyteller Sherwood Anderson. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sherwood Anderson’s Dark Laughter is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.

Author : Eve Halloway
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 35,40 MB
Release : 2012-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1475941412

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Psychic sex abuse is enabled by remote viewing and visualization. Called remote influencing, it is practiced by military operatives. Also, an object can be embued with psychic energy, called human psychotronic energy, and be used as a weapon. When it is used for a sexual attack, it is very painful. The attack leaves the victim shattered, but it leaves no scars, so there is no legal recourse. In addition to psychic abuse this book contains information previously in the Sci-Fi category. Well, not so much now, folks. There's information about all kinds of other psychic phenomena, psychic warfare, EM pulse weapons, the real story on those lights over Pheonix, why the ETs are here, the so-called alien abductions, the military and ETs, talking trees, bees that listen, the consciousness of machines, and much more. This book, like my previous book, Dark Laughter: Portrait of a Psychic Sex Relationship, is about my experiences with psychic sex and psychic abuse. But it contains far more information on the paranormal and-gulp-its link with quantum physics than did the first book. I freely indulged my fascination for secrets and brought them to you in this book.

Author : James Kahn
Publisher : Premiere
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,94 MB
Release : 2013
Category :
ISBN : 9781619336681

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Book 2 finds Joshua and his friends alive, but not well, three years after the calamitous rescue in Book 1. Beauty's wife, Rose, disappears again, this time drawn compulsively to others of her kind — those with connecting ports implanted in their brains by the Queen's minions. But now Joshua goes missing as well, ensnared by the Queen herself, to father a semi-human child with the telekinetic potential of destroying the entire planet. It's up to beautiful android Jasmine, powerful centaur Beauty, and Joshua's own disturbing, ghostly doppelganger to save the lives of those they love, even as they pull the crumbling world from the brink of destruction.

Author : David Pringle
Publisher : Games Workshop(uk)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,44 MB
Release : 2002-06-25
Category : Fantasy fiction, English
ISBN : 9780743443098

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This anthology of stories set within the Warhammer world--the realm of necromancers, sorcerers, wizards, warriors, and fearsome daemons--includes tales by noted science fiction and fantasy authors Brian Stableford (writing as Brian Craig), William King, and others. (July)

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 16,95 MB
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486113906

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Poet Langston Hughes' only novel, a coming-of-age tale that unfolds amid an African American family in rural Kansas, explores the dilemmas of life in a racially divided society.

Author : Barbara Plester
Publisher : Springer
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 15,3 MB
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 3319246690

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This book discusses boundaries for organizational humour as well as the jokers and jesters that enliven modern workplaces. It has long been accepted that humour and tragedy can occupy the same space and that is eloquently demonstrated in this book. Using ethnographic research techniques, a selection of stories, ruminations, cartoons, and narratives of events is combined with theoretical conceptions of humour and fun to create a comprehensive analysis of the good, the bad, and the downright ugly in organizational humour.