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Author : David L.
Release : 2013-11-15
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 100/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Universal Hunks by : David L.
Download or read book Universal Hunks written by David L.. This book was released on 2013-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively, wide-ranging pictorial history of muscular men around the world from the nineteenth century to the 1970s.
Author : Michiel Baas
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Genre : Health & Fitness
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Book Rating : 624/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Muscular India: Masculinity Mobility & The New Middle Class by : Michiel Baas
Download or read book Muscular India: Masculinity Mobility & The New Middle Class written by Michiel Baas. This book was released on . Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book MICHIEL BAAS BRINGS ALIVE A WORLD OF MEN SCULPTING BODIES, REDEFINING MASCULINITIES AND CONFRONTING THEIR VULNERABILITIES IN THE GYMS OF URBAN INDIA. The gyms of urban 'new India' are intriguing spaces. While they cater largely to well-off clients, these shiny, modern institutions also hold the promise of upward mobility for the personal trainers who work there. By improving their English, 'upgrading' their dressing style and developing a deeper understanding of the lives of their upmarket customers, they strategise to climb the middle-class ladder. Their lean, muscular bodies—which Bollywood has set the tone for are crucial to this. Diverging from an older masculine ideal represented by pehlwani wrestlers, these bodies not only communicate (sexual) attractiveness, but also professionalism, control and even cosmopolitanism. With the gym aspiring to be a safe space for women, trainers must also find a way to break with the toxic masculinity that dominates life outside. Yet, the more things change, the more they remain the same. Class barriers are less permeable than they appear. The use of bodily capital to breach them is more fraught with danger than one might anticipate. And the profession is riddled with pitfalls and contradictions. Michiel Baas has spent a decade studying gyms, trainers and bodybuilders, and finds in them a new way to investigate India. He walks us through the homes and workspaces of these men - yes, they are almost all men - to bodybuilding competitions and also into their most intimate worlds of ambitions, desires and struggles. An unusual study of an unusual subject, Baas unveils a fascinating world, hidden in plain sight.
Author : David Sterritt
Release : 2014-11-25
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis The Cinema of Clint Eastwood by : David Sterritt
Download or read book The Cinema of Clint Eastwood written by David Sterritt. This book was released on 2014-11-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He became a movie star playing The Man With No Name, and today his name is known around the world. Measured by longevity, productivity, and profits, Clint Eastwood is the most successful actor-director-producer in American film history. This book examines the major elements of his career, focusing primarily on his work as a director but also exploring the evolution of his acting style, his long association with screen violence, his interest in jazz, and the political views – sometimes hotly controversial – reflected in his films and public statements. Especially fascinating is the pivotal question that divides critics and moviegoers to this day: is Eastwood a capable director with a photogenic face, a modest acting talent, and a flair for marketing his image? Or is he a true cinematic auteur with a distinctive vision of America’s history, traditions, and values? From A Fistful of Dollars and Dirty Harry to Million Dollar Baby and beyond, The Cinema of Clint Eastwood takes a close-up look at one of the screen’s most influential and charismatic stars.
Author : Jessica R. Pliley
Release : 2016-07-04
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Global Anti-Vice Activism, 1890-1950 by : Jessica R. Pliley
Download or read book Global Anti-Vice Activism, 1890-1950 written by Jessica R. Pliley. This book was released on 2016-07-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese style of prostitution regulation
Author : Jeffrey Hause
Release : 2018-03-15
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 769/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Aquinas's Summa Theologiae by : Jeffrey Hause
Download or read book Aquinas's Summa Theologiae written by Jeffrey Hause. This book was released on 2018-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alone among Thomas Aquinas' works, the Summa Theologiae contains well-developed and integrated discussions of metaphysics, ethics, law, human action, and the divine nature. The essays in this volume, by scholars representing varied approaches to the study of Aquinas, offer thorough, cutting-edge expositions and analyses of these topics and show how they relate to Aquinas' larger system of thought. The volume also examines the reception of the Summa Theologiae from the thirteenth century to the present day, showing how scholars have understood and misunderstood this key text - and how, even after seven centuries of interpretation, we still have much to learn from it. Detailed and accessible, this book will be highly important for scholars and students of medieval philosophy and theology.
