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...); and Women and the Silent Screen: Cultural and Historical Practices , with Amelie Hastie (forthcoming). Her current book project, “Lois Weber in Early Hollywood,” is supported by a Film Scholars Grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Lois Weber around the time Shoes (US, 1916...

...Lynne Joyrich; Misha Kavka; Brenda R. Weber This introduction to the special issue “Project Reality TV” interrogates, while also playing with, some of TV's forms and conventions, particularly those of the “preshow special” and the interview format. Borrowing from this format, it explores key issues...

...Jennifer Lynn Jones; Brenda R. Weber This article examines the fame‐hungry reality celebrity mother as a template for a new form of the female grotesque emerging within the postmillennial mediascape. Using a model of transmediation, the article argues that understanding this figure requires...

... and criticized the institution of marriage and the “cheapening” of sexual relations under commodity capitalism. Glyn's works entered the spirited debates on sexual comportment that took place during the 1910s and 1920s alongside the works of progressive activists such as Lois Weber and Marie Stopes. While...

... Iyer Stardom Ke Peeche Kya Hai?/What Is behind the Stardom? Madhuri Dixit, the Production Number, and the Construction of the Female Star Text in 1990s Hindi Cinema. No. 90: pp. 129 – 59 Jennifer Lynn Jones and Brenda R. Weber Reality Moms, Real Monsters: Transmediated...

... in both of their aesthetic productions.6 The story of Marie Antoi- nette is implicitly a story about the power and expression of dress, as historian Caroline Weber’s recent book Queen of Fashion: What Let Them Wear Manolos  • 3 Marie Antoinette Wore...

... of engagement and affec- tive pleasures are on offer and to take seriously the place of plastic surgery in intimate, domestic space. In Makeover TV, Brenda R. Weber gives a slightly more measured account of plastic surgery television and affect. Weber describes a process of “affective...

...Figure 2. Louise (Amy Adams), Ian (Jeremy Renner), Captain Weber (Forest Whitaker), and the crew await the arrival of the heptapods. Arrival (dir. Denis Villeneuve, US, 2016). ...

...Figure 9. Water Light/Water Needle (1966). St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, New York. Photograph by John Weber ...

... treatment, then missed opportunity, the “race against time,” and the impossi- bility of returning to the time before it was “too late.”9 (The image was too far gone, the strip too shrunken, the contents of the can turned to brown dust. . . .) And so the story of the cache of Lois Weber flms...

... to drinking songs, marches and dances. Leslie Fish’s “Wobblies From Space” is a labor organizing song set in the Star Trek universe, while Chris Weber’s “A Miner’s Christmas” is a carol for space What emerges is not a cold and distant future re- moved from...

... (2001): 439 – 67. 12. My use of the term life chances is drawn from Max Weber’s pithy definition of class: “We may speak of a ‘class’ when a number of people have in common a specific causal component of their life chances.” See Max Weber, “Class, Status, Party,” in From...

... and an expert-­educated “after” subject. In her comprehensive study on the subgenre, Brenda R. Weber describes three “common themes” that characterize make- over television: a narrative of progress through personal trans- formation, the use of shame to interpellate an imperfect subject...

... Making Electricity  • 7 to Jacky’s emasculation. Jacky responds in compensatory fashion by punching him — ­the boxer’s reflex — ­but Tony contemptuously defies him, thus confirming his earlier judgment. As Cynthia Weber rightly points out, then, if there is a crisis of masculinity...

... and Sensuality (San Francisco: City Lights, 1988), 164 – 96. 3. Jacques Derrida, “Passages — From Traumatism to Promise,” in Points . . .: Interviews, 1974 – 1994, trans. Peggy Kamuf, ed. Elisabeth Weber (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995), 372 – 95. 4. Michel Foucault...

.... In particular, Shelley Stamp’s work on the so- called white slave lms of and and on Where Are My Children? (dir. Lois Weber, US, has revealed a great deal about the intricacies of board decision making, including its habit of bringing in outside consultants on lms that presented poten- tially...

... as a program teaser, and proclaiming, in its own way, Next season, on the Real Housewives . . . Notes I am grateful to the Project Reality TV coeditors Brenda R. Weber, Misha Kavka, and especially my shepherding editor, Lynne Joyrich for their generous and careful readings and suggestions. Thanks also...

... Americans have taken for granted, a culture which has admirably served individuals who aspire to think very well of thernselves.P What Max Weber believed was the "The Uniqueness of Western Civilization"-the rationalization of society in a capitalist economy...