Author: Todd McGowan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: culture, series, film, lynch, david, impossible
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2007-02-02
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0231139551
ISBN-13: 9780231139557

Todd McGowan launches a provocative exploration of weirdness and fantasy in David Lynch’s groundbreaking oeuvre. He studies Lynch’s talent for blending the bizarre and the normal to emphasize the odd nature of normality itself. Hollywood is often criticized for distorting reality and providing escapist fantasies, but in Lynch’s movies, fantasy becomes a means through which the viewer is encouraged to build a revolutionary relationship with the world.Considering the filmmaker’s entire career, McGowan examines Lynch’s play with fantasy and traces the political, cult

Author: Todd McGowan
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: series, psychoanalysis, culture, suny, lacan, gaze, film, theory, real
Number of Pages: 254
Published: 2007-03-08
List price: $66.00
ISBN-10: 0791470393
ISBN-13: 9780791470398

Examines the gaze in Lacanian film theory.

Authors:Todd McGowan, Sheila Kunkle,
Publisher: Other Press
Keywords: contemporary, series, theory, film, lacan
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2004-03-01
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 1590510844
ISBN-13: 9781590510841

This unique volume collects a series of essays that link new developments in Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and recent trends in contemporary cinema. Though Lacanian theory has long had a privileged place in the analysis of film, film theory has tended to ignore some of Lacan’s most important ideas. As a result, Lacanian film theory has never properly integrated the disruptive and troubling aspects of the filmic experience that result from the encounter with the Real that this experience makes possible. Many contemporary theorists emphasize the importance of the encounter with the Rea

Authors:Nancy Jack Todd, John Todd,
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Keywords: ecological, design, principles, machines, cities, living, eco
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1994-04-18
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1556431503
ISBN-13: 9781556431500

From Eco-cities to Living Machines presents the ecologically-based working designs and prototypes of biologist John Todd and writer and environmental activist Nancy Todd. Since 1969 with the founding of New Alchemy Institute on Cape Cod, the Todds have become known world-wide for their leadership in the restoration of pure water, bioremediation of wild aquatic environments, food production, and urban design. In this new book, the Todds further develop the idea of Eco-cities, designs for integrating agriculture and flowing pure water into green urban settings and introduce Living Machines, a fa

Author: John McGowan
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: youngs, lehman, series, lillian, eugene, liberalism, interpretation, time, american
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2007-10-22
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0807831719
ISBN-13: 9780807831717

Americans live in a liberal democracy. Yet, although democracy is widely touted today, liberalism is scorned by both the right and the left. The United States stands poised between its liberal democratic tradition and the illiberal alternatives of liberalism’s critics. In an engaging and informative discussion, McGowan offers a ringing endorsement of American liberalism’s basic principles, values, and commitments. He explains that the liberalism of the founders distributed power widely in order to limit the power any one entity could exercise over others. Their aim was to provide f

Author: Abigail McGowan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: india, colonial, nation, crafting
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-06-15
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0230612679
ISBN-13: 9780230612679

“Well before Gandhi popularized hand-spun, hand-woven cloth, British and Indian activists had made crafts central to plans for India’s economic and cultural revival.  Combining tradition and employment at a time of industrial transition, crafts appealed to both government officials and nationalist activists alike—even as they bemoaned artisans as conservative and backwards.  That connection between development and cultural judgment was not incidental.  Drawing on a wide range of craft development initiatives in western India between 1851 and 1922—from art and industrial schools to

Author: Mary McGowan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: cholesterol, lower, ways
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2002-01-23
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0737305568
ISBN-13: 9780737305562

Because diet, weight, exercise, and genetics determine cholesterol levels, the treatment of a cholesterol disorder requires a multifaceted approach. 50 Ways to Lower Your Cholesterol provides you with a proven plan to lower cholesterol. Here, the author delivers sound advice, 50 workable solutions, explanations of both "good" and "bad" cholesterol, and the latest information on key treatments­--including LDL-apheresis, superstatins, and cholesterol ester transfer protein inhibitors­­--medication, and supplements.