Unwanted Beauty
Author: Brett Ashley Kaplan
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0252030931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKControversial questions about beauty in artistic depictions of the Holocaust
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Representing Genocide
Author: Rebecca Jinks
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-06-02
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1474256953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the diverse ways in which Holocaust representations have influenced and structured how other genocides are understood and represented in the West. Rebecca Jinks focuses in particular on the canonical 20th century cases of genocide: Armenia, Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda. Using literature, film, photography, and memorialisation, she demonstrates that we can only understand the Holocaust's status as a 'benchmark' for other genocides if we look at the deeper, structural resonances which subtly shape many representations of genocide. Representing Genocide pursues five thematic areas in turn: how genocides are recognised as such by western publics; the representation of the origins and perpetrators of genocide; how western witnesses represent genocide; representations of the aftermath of genocide; and western responses to genocide. Throughout, the book distinguishes between 'mainstream' and other, more nuanced and engaged, representations of genocide. It shows how these mainstream representations – the majority – largely replicate the representational framework of the Holocaust, including the way in which mainstream Holocaust representations resist recognising the rationality, instrumentality and normality of genocide, preferring instead to present it as an aberrant, exceptional event in human society. By contrast, the more engaged representations – often, but not always, originating from those who experienced genocide – tend to revolve around precisely genocide's ordinariness, and the structures and situations common to human society which contribute to and become involved in the violence.
Makeup for Ageless Beauty
Author: Linda Mason
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 0823024792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOutlines practical makeup techniques for women over the age of 40, sharing straightforward, myth-challenging advice on everything from using color creatively and minimizing skin flaws to achieving various looks and applying makeup for special occasions. Original.
Forever Beautiful
Author: Priya Sachdev
Publisher: Star Publications
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781905863303
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA colourful book covering all aspects of remaining beautiful for ever.
Apple Cider Vinegar for Health and Beauty
Author: Simone McGrath
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-07-21
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1632209543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKApple Cider Vinegar is an amazing substance that has many health benefits—it helps with weight loss, allergies, skin and health issues, and much more. It is recommended in many health programs and diets. It can be overwhelming to figure out all of the great uses of this magical vinegar, but this comprehensive handbook can help. With detailed information on everything to do with apple cider vinegar—the benefits, uses, recipes, and insightful facts—this guide will teach you all about using it to: -Lose lose weight -As a medicinal tool -Treat common ailments -For hair, skin, legs, and oral health -Cooking soups, salads, main meals, healthy drinks, and desserts More and more people are learning about the wealth of benefits that apple cider vinegar brings, and this handbook will explain all of them.
Disappearing Traces
Author: Dorota Glowacka
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0295804157
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Disappearing Traces, Dorota Glowacka examines the tensions between the ethical and aesthetic imperatives in literary, artistic, and philosophical works about the Holocaust, in a search for new ways to understand the traumatic past and its impact on the present. She engages with the work of leading 20th-century philosophers and theorists, including Levinas, Benjamin, Lyotard, and Derrida, to consider the role of language in the construction and transmission of traumatic memories; the relation between self-identity and the act of bearing witness; and the ethical implications of representing trauma. Glowacka's work draws on a wide range of discourses and disciplines, bringing into conversation various genres of writing and artistic production. It reveals the need to find innovative idioms and new means of engaging with the past, and to create alliances between different disciplines and modes of representing the past that transform and transcend existing paradigms of representation.
Home Beauty Clinic
Author: Parvesh Handa
Publisher: V&S Publishers
Published: 2012-04-01
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9350572532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen today become extremely conscious of their looks, appearance and presentation as these attributes impart them a definite edge in bettering their career opportunities, success in higher educational admission and in raising social status. Admittedly every woman may not have the stunning features of Aishwarya Rai or Cleopatra but she does carry a natural inclination to look attractive appealing and dignified. While those lucky to be born beautiful can enhance their appeal others can equip themselves with the vast treasure of knowledge this book succinctly provides.
Visions and Revisions
Author: Bryoni Trezise
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Published: 2014-02-28
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 8763540703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1983 US president Ronald Reagan told the Israeli Prime Minister that he, as a photographer during World War II, had documented the atrocities of the concentration camps on film. The story was later exposed as a fraud as it was revealed that Reagan had resided in Hollywood during the entire war. Does this mean that Reagan was simply an amoral liar or that he established a connection to the Holocaust that can be said to have evolved from the intersection between “real” and “reel”?
Visions and Revisions. Performance, Memory, Trauma brings the fields of performance studies and trauma studies together in conversation in order to investigate how these two fields both “envision” and “revision” one another in relation to crucial themes such as trauma, testimony, witness, and spectatorship. According to Peggy Phelan, a leading performance studies scholar, performance provides a unique model for witnessing events that are both unbearably real and beyond reason’s ability to grasp – traumatic events like the Holocaust. While Reagan’s claim is obviously both paradoxical and problematic, it opens up a space in which the potential insights that performance studies and trauma studies might bring to one another become particularly visible.
The first half of the anthology focuses on issues of spectatorship, specifically its ethics and the possibility of witnessing. The second half widens the discussion to include memory more broadly, shifting the emphasis from sight to site, and particularly to site-specific works and the embodied encounters they model, enable and enact. The contributors here fill a critical gap, raising questions about how popular and mediatized performances that memoralize trauma might be viewed through performance theory. They also look at how performance studies might shift its focus from the visual to the sensorial and material and in doing so, they offer a fresh perspective on both performance and trauma studies.
Writing from different disciplinary vantages and drawing on multiple case studies from South Africa, the former Soviet Union, Lebanon and Thailand, among others, the contributors decolonize trauma studies and make us question, how and where our own eyes and bodies are positioned as we revision the scenes before us.
Contributors: Laurie Beth Clark/Helena Grehan/Geraldine Harris/ Chris Hudson/Petra Kuppers/Adrian Lahoud/Sam Spurr/Christine Stoddard/Bryoni Trezise/Maria Tumarkin/Caroline Wake.
Editors: Bryoni Trezise is a lecturer in theatre and performance studies at the University of New South Wales, where Caroline Wake is a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia.
The Carer's Cosmetic Handbook
Author: Sharon Tay
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2009-02-15
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 1846429145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaintaining a healthy appearance and good hygiene is an important factor in a person's sense of wellbeing. As people age, this does not diminish but the body becomes more sensitive and deserves to be treated in a different way. This practical handbook is specifically designed to assist carers in looking after their clients' appearances as well as their health, providing a wealth of information on health and beauty care for older people. Throughout the book, Sharon Tay, an experienced beauty therapist, gives detailed and easy to follow instructions on appropriate cosmetic techniques such as manicures, pedicures, herbal remedies, hair removal, skin care and makeup application. These techniques avoid damaging treatments and the overuse of harmful products that often cause unwanted skin, nail and hair problems. Question and answer sections are also included, highlighting some of the common concerns and queries. Brimming with beauty and health care tips, this book is ideal for carers looking to improve quality of life for their clients and will also be of interest to anyone needing advice on sensitive beauty treatments.
Concentrationary Cinema
Author: Griselda Pollock
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 0857453521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince its completion in 1955, Alain Resnais’s Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) has been considered one of the most important films to confront the catastrophe and atrocities of the Nazi era. But was it a film about the Holocaust that failed to recognize the racist genocide? Or was the film not about the Holocaust as we know it today but a political and aesthetic response to what David Rousset, the French political prisoner from Buchenwald, identified on his return in 1945 as the ‘concentrationary universe’ which, now actualized, might release its totalitarian plague any time and anywhere? What kind of memory does the film create to warn us of the continued presence of this concentrationary universe? This international collection re-examines Resnais’s benchmark film in terms of both its political and historical context of representation of the camps and of other instances of the concentrationary in contemporary cinema. Through a range of critical readings, Concentrationary Cinema explores the cinematic aesthetics of political resistance not to the Holocaust as such but to the political novelty of absolute power represented by the concentrationary system and its assault on the human condition.
