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At precisely the cultural moment you were hoping for, a dream team of smart, sexy, brunette, West Coast poets of Italian descent has passionately co-authored an intelligent collection of poetry that both celebrates and capsizes the romantic comedy.<BR><BR>From the origin of the genre (It Happened One Night) to its contemporary expressions (Love Actually), the poems in Rom Com trace the attempt to deconstruct as well as engage in dialogue with romantic comedy films and the pop culture, celebrities, and tropes that have come to be associated with them. These irreverent, playful, weird, and comedic poems come in a variety of forms, fully engaging in pop culture, without a judgmental tone. They see your frumpy expectations and raise you issues of sexuality, consent, sexism, homophobia, race, and class. They explore the highs and lows of romantic relationships and the expectations and realities of love, tackling real emotional worlds through the lens of film.<BR><BR>Two cool people wrote it. Dina Del Bucchia, the fashionable and voluptuous, is a woman on the go, brazenly hosting literary events and tweeting about otters and award shows. Daniel Zomparelli, the handsome and dashing, is a young, gay man-about-Vancouver who somehow also quietly edits (in chief) a semi-annual poetry journal. (Ship them all you want, fools.)<BR><BR>How to tell if you are compatible with this book: Are you equally versed in literature and pop culture? Are you a film-savvy fan of contemporary poetry? Are you an academic with interest in literature and cultural studies? Are you in general a cool, sad person? This book might just be the sassy best friend you've wanted.

Das Buch versammelt nach einem kurzen biografischen Abriss des Lebens von Albert Wilkening (1909-1990) zahlreiche erstmals publizierte Texte aus dem Nachlass des Filmmuseums Potsdam. Albert Wilkening war bei der DEFA, der staatlichen Filmproduktion der DDR, von 1946 bis 1976 in leitenden Funktionen, zeitweilig als Studiodirektor, tätig. Von 1976 bis 1990 war er erster Vorsitzender des Internationalen Film- und Fernsehrates der DDR und erster Chronist der DEFA. Die Texte zeichnen Albert Wilkenings Werdegang in den 1920er- und 1930er-Jahren bis zur Anstellung bei der DEFA nach und gestatten gleichzeitig einen Einblick in die Produktionsmechanismen der DEFA. Darüber hinaus werden zahlreiche unbekanntere Filme und Personen des ostdeutschen Films vorgestellt. Vier Zeitzeugengespräche mit Gert Golde, Roland Gräf, Hans Hattop und Rainer Simon runden das Porträt einer zentralen Persönlichkeit des DDR-Films ab.

Imagine a society that exists solely in cinema - this book explores exactly that. Using a half-century of films from the archival collection of the National Film Board, NFB Kids: Portrayals of Children by the National Film Board of Canada, 1939-1989 overcomes a long-standing impasse about what films may be credibly said to document. Here they document not ""reality,"" but social images preserved over time - the ""NFB Society"" - an evolving, cinematic representation of Canadian families, schools and communities. During the postwar era, this society-in-cinema underwent a profound change in its child rearing and schooling philosophies, embracing ""modern"" notions based upon principles espoused by the American mental hygiene movement. Soon after the introduction of these psychological principles into NFB homes in 1946 and schools in 1956, there was a subtle transformation in adult-child relations, which progressively, over time, narrowed the gulf of power between generations and diminished the socializing roles of the NFB parents and teachers. NFB Kids is a pioneering study within a new field of academic research - ""cinema ethnography."" It adds to the growing body of knowledge about the function, and the considerable impact of, psychiatry and psychology in the post-war social reconstruction of Canadian society and social history. It will be of interest to academics over a broad spectrum of disciplines and to anyone thinking about the advancing arbitrary power of the cinematic state.