Most Dramatic Ever
Title | Most Dramatic Ever PDF eBook |
Author | Suzannah Showler |
Publisher | ECW Press |
Total Pages | 140 |
Release | 2018-01-23 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1773051679 |
The right reasons to fall in love with The Bachelor When it debuted in 2002, The Bachelor raised the stakes of first-wave reality television, offering the ultimate prize: true love. Since then, thrice yearly, dozens of camera-ready young-and-eligibles have vied for affection (and roses) in front of a devoted audience of millions. In this funny, insightful examination of the world’s favorite romance-factory, Suzannah Showler explores the contradictions that are key to the franchise’s genius, longevity, and power and parses what this means for both modern love and modern America. She argues the show is both gameshow and marriage plot — an improbable combination of competitive effort and kismet — and that it’s both relic and prophet, a time-traveler from first-gen reality TV that proved to be a harbinger of Tinder. In the modern media-savvy climate, the show cleverly highlights and resists its own artifice, allowing Bachelor Nation to see through the fakery to feel the romance. Taking on issues of sex, race, contestants-as-villains, the controversial spin-offs, and more, Most Dramatic Ever is both love letter to and deconstruction of the show that brought us real love in the reality TV era.
Most Dramatic Ever
Title | Most Dramatic Ever PDF eBook |
Author | Suzannah Showler |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 223 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Bachelor (Television program) |
ISBN | 9781773051697 |
In the ninth book in the critically acclaimed Pop Classics series, Suzannah Showler explores The Bachelor, arguing that the reality TV franchise -- simultaneously contrived and convincing -- transcends guilty-pleasure viewing.
The Lovely Bones
Title | The Lovely Bones PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Sebold |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 180 |
Release | 2018-09-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1786826704 |
Susie Salmon is just like any other young American girl. She wants to be beautiful, adores her charm bracelet and has a crush on a boy from school. There's one big difference though – Susie is dead. Add: Now she can only observe while her family manage their grief in their different ways. Susie is desperate to help them and there might be a way of reaching them... Alice Sebold's novel The Lovely Bones is a unique coming-of-age tale that captured the hearts of readers throughout the world. Award-winning playwright Bryony Lavery has adapted it for this unforgettable play about life after loss.
Bachelor Nation
Title | Bachelor Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Kaufman |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 322 |
Release | 2019-02-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1101985917 |
*A New York Times Bestseller* The first definitive, unauthorized, behind-the-scenes cultural history of the Bachelor franchise, America’s favorite guilty pleasure. For sixteen years and thirty-six seasons, the Bachelor franchise has been a mainstay in American TV viewers’ lives. Since it premiered in 2002, the show’s popularity and relevance have only grown—more than eight million viewers tuned in to see the conclusion of the most recent season of The Bachelor. Los Angeles Times journalist Amy Kaufman is a proud member of Bachelor Nation and has a long history with the franchise—ABC even banned her from attending show events after her coverage of the program got a little too real for its liking. She has interviewed dozens of producers, contestants, and celebrity fans to give readers never-before-told details of the show’s inner workings: what it’s like to be trapped in the mansion “bubble”; dark, juicy tales of producer manipulation; and revelations about the alcohol-fueled debauchery that occurs long before the Fantasy Suite. Kaufman also explores what our fascination means, culturally: what the show says about the way we view so-called ideal suitors; our subconscious yearning for fairy-tale romance; and how this enduring television show has shaped society’s feelings about love, marriage, and feminism by appealing to a marriage plot that’s as old as the best of Jane Austen.
Drama: A Graphic Novel
Title | Drama: A Graphic Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Raina Telgemeier |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 2014-07-29 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0545779960 |
From Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile and Sisters! Callie loves theater. And while she would totally try out for her middle school's production of Moon over Mississippi, she can't really sing. Instead she's the set designer for the drama department's stage crew, and this year she's determined to create a set worthy of Broadway on a middle-school budget. But how can she, when she doesn't know much about carpentry, ticket sales are down, and the crew members are having trouble working together? Not to mention the onstage AND offstage drama that occurs once the actors are chosen. And when two cute brothers enter the picture, things get even crazier!
The River Congo
Title | The River Congo PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Forbath |
Publisher | Boston : Houghton Mifflin |
Total Pages | 404 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Congo River Valley |
ISBN | 9780395567258 |
A chronicle of the primitive splendor, historical atrocities, explorations, and modern-day struggles associated with the African river
A History of English Dramatic Literature
Title | A History of English Dramatic Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Adolphus William Ward |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | 653 |
Release | 2023-10-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 338282339X |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.