[PDF] Deconstructing Will Smith eBook

Author : Willie Tolliver
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 28,22 MB
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476675694

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Acclaimed actor and rap artist Will Smith has achieved a level of Hollywood fame rarely attained by a Black celebrity. Early in his career, Smith aspired to be the world's most famous movie star and being named the world's top film attraction in 2008, fulfilled his goal. While his rise to a place of worldwide prominence and cultural relevance has made him iconic, his accomplishments have not received the full and thorough acknowledgement and analysis they merit. This is the first full-length critical look at the significance of Will Smith's achievements over a more than 30-year career. Many of his films have broken cultural norms by depicting Black men in groundbreaking social settings, like the role of the world-saving hero in his most popular films. In addition to analyzing Smith's filmography, this work contextualizes other popular and common portrayals of Black men in media and society. Finally, this book examines Smith's work in his middle age, ruminating on his ability to adapt to the realities of a new Hollywood.

Author : Steve Ettlinger
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 11,14 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781594630187

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Author : Ian Gregory Strachan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 23,37 MB
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1501319825

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Sidney Poitier remains one of the most recognizable black men in the world. Widely celebrated but at times criticized for the roles he played during a career that spanned 60 years, there can be no comprehensive discussion of black men in American film, and no serious analysis of 20th century American film history that excludes him. Poitier Revisited offers a fresh interrogation of the social, cultural and political significance of the Poitier oeuvre. The contributions explore the broad spectrum of critical issues summoned up by Poitier's iconic work as actor, director and filmmaker. Despite his stature, Poitier has actually been under-examined in film criticism generally. This work reconsiders his pivotal role in film and American race relations, by arguing persuasively, that even in this supposedly 'post-racial' moment of Barack Obama, the struggles, aspirations, anxieties, and tensions Poitier's films explored are every bit as relevant today as when they were first made.

Author : Ian Parker
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 22,33 MB
Release : 1999-05-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780761957133

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`I enjoyed this book, and think that it should find a grateful and attentive readership in the practical field as well as being a central text in academic settings. It will also be well received by those, like myself, for whom the interest is more in deconstructing than psychotherapy' -Dialogues This book takes the discursive and postmodern turn in psychotherapy a significant step forward and will be of interest to all those working in mental health who are concerned with challenges to oppression and processes of emancipation. It achieves this by: reflecting on the role of psychotherapy in contemporary culture; developing critiques of language in psychotherapy that unravel its claims to personal truth

Author : Natalie Hopkinson
Publisher : Cleis Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 17,40 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1573442577

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A portrait of today's African-American male evaluates both archetypes and stereotypes, exploring black masculinity as it is represented by a range of personalities, from professionals and hip-hop figures to family men and criminals. Original.

Author : Erica Burman
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 34,64 MB
Release : 1998-01-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780803976405

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How close is feminist psychology to contemporary feminism? How can feminist psychological practice address issues of `difference' between women in meaningful ways? What price has feminist psychology had to pay for attempting to engage with mainstream psychology to revise and improve it? This book critiques feminist practice within psychology, and reflects the diversity from across the globe of feminist struggles around psychology. An international group of key feminist psychologists explore the relations between feminist politics and psychological practices in: transitional and postcolonial contexts; the distinct European traditions of critical psychology and women's studies; and psychology's colonial `centre' in the United

Author : Birgit Ryschka
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 12,65 MB
Release : 2008
Category : National characteristics, Austrian, in literature
ISBN : 9783631581117

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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Limerick, Ireland, 2007.

Author : Larry Brooks
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 23,24 MB
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1599632810

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What makes a good story or a screenplay great? The vast majority of writers begin the storytelling process with only a partial understanding where to begin. Some labor their entire lives without ever learning that successful stories are as dependent upon good engineering as they are artistry. But the truth is, unless you are master of the form, function and criteria of successful storytelling, sitting down and pounding out a first draft without planning is an ineffective way to begin. Story Engineering starts with the criteria and the architecture of storytelling, the engineering and design of a story--and uses it as the basis for narrative. The greatest potential of any story is found in the way six specific aspects of storytelling combine and empower each other on the page. When rendered artfully, they become a sum in excess of their parts. You'll learn to wrap your head around the big pictures of storytelling at a professional level through a new approach that shows how to combine these six core competencies which include: • Four elemental competencies of concept, character, theme, and story structure (plot) • Two executional competencies of scene construction and writing voice The true magic of storytelling happens when these six core competencies work together in perfect harmony. And the best part? Anyone can do it!

Author : Rudi K. F. Bresser
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 30,90 MB
Release : 2000-12-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0471496871

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The end of the nineteenth century saw the construction of the vertically integrated value chains that came to define modern business. The end of the twentieth century witnessed their deconstruction. In industries across the economy, markets are intruding on the web of proprietary arrangements that have held these chains together. As they do, the boundaries defining business, companies and industries are coming under attack - radically transforming the nature of competition. Powerful forces, such as globalization and deregulation, are undermining the logic and practice of traditional vertical integration, but the most powerful - partly because it acts as catalyst and an accelerator - is a revolution in the economics of information. This shift in information economics is giving birth to a myriad of new strategic options The consequences of deconstruction for the strategic management of the firm - as well as for the firm itself - are dramatic. Deconstruction forces a fundamental rethinking of some of the basic principles of strategy which will impact on the concepts of the portfolio, forms of organizational structure, styles of leadership, mechanisms for acquiring and managing knowledge and approaches to uncertainty and risk. This, the latest volume in the Strategic Management Series, explores the implications of the value chain deconstruction for strategy, the changes in strategic thinking and the action necessary to cope with the challenges and opportunities. Bringing together contributions from key figures in the field of strategy in both practice and academia, this book, as with other books in the series, addresses the ideas and issues at the forefront of strategic management theory and practice.

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 2018-03-22
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ISBN : 9781984064783

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This book speaks to how corruption is a de facto reality in American Society that is the cause of unfair hiring and bureaucratic educational injustices in our society. It is a quintessential book that offers keen insight into the world of education under sight by the federal and state governments, the legal system and unfair recognition and treatment of minorities. This book walks the reader down a road dealing with discrimination, triumph, disappointment and the unfair treatment of a multiple people. Smith takes you down a road of reality and not fiction. He shows you snapshots of what he has gone through and continues to deal with today in a hope the reader will identify with him and work to be an agent for removing injustice and corruption that are present in our society today.