James King
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James King is tired of 'Step Into Christmas'. He's tired of 'All I Want for Christmas is You'. He's tired - if it's possible - of 'Fairytale of New York'. It's time for a new Christmas Classic
'It's Chriiiistmaaaas' is a festive journey through the decades via the most cherished seasonal songs of the last century - from 'Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree' to 'Do They Know it's Christmas?'. But beneath the nostalgia, are serious questions: is it...
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A biography of Canada's greatest living artist.
Michael Snow is rightly recognized as the greatest living Canadian artist, and he is also acknowledged as one of the most significant figures in Canadian art history. In a productive, lengthy career, he has, in a wide variety of genres, asked (and often answered) some of the most vexing and important issues in the history of art. During his career, the notion of what constitutes a work of art has...
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David Milne is one of Canada's finest artists, a man whose work speaks to the intricate beauty of the world as he experienced it. David Milne (1882–1953) dedicated his life to exploring nature and casting it into art in a variety of modernist formats. He was born into poverty in rural Ontario and remained poor all his life because of his relentless dedication to his art. For him, art was life. Nothing mattered to him as much as the enormous "kick"...
4) Faking
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Thomas Wainewright - Regency fop, literary hanger-on, collector of art and artifacts, forger and deported felon - is considered one of the most notorious of English murderers. He is believed to have been one of the first recorded serial killers. James King takes on this spectral character in his first novel, Faking, and examines a number of serious questions. Was Wainewright a faker? It's historical "fact" that he forged sketches, paintings, letters...
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A humorous look at the influence of celebrity style, charting the hairdos (and hair don'ts) James King has fashioned over the years.
From the classic 'Rachel from Friends' to the questionable David Beckham mohawk, most of us, probably unwisely, have tried to emulate our favorite star's hairstyles at some point. In HOLLYWOOD SHAPED MY HAIR, James King takes us on a hair-history of cinema.
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Late in her life, acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Delamere makes a request of her therapist, Doctor Newman: she asks him to oversee the publication of her last book after she dies. It is a memoir in which she reveals that she is Evelyn Dick, the notorious "torso murderer" acquitted on appeal of dismembering her husband, and convicted of killing her infant son. In 1958 she was paroled, and disappeared into the mists of history. In Blue Moon, James King...
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This book is about the perception of Japan in the sixty films set there by gaijin (foreigners) outsiders, who almost, always do not speak or read Japanese. My area of attention is directed to films depicting post World War II Japan and the Japanese, and, in many cases, films showing how foreigners in the same time-frame respond to Japan. Why have a substantial number of films been set there by strangers? As a body of work, what do they tell us about...
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The long-awaited biography of one of Canada's most intriguing and beguiling artists. Do artists really thrive in big cities, or do they just learn to imitate New York? Is it a contradiction for an artist to be fiercely local and profoundly identified with international art movements? If the brilliant colourist and regionalist pioneer Greg Curnoe stood for any one thing, it was making trouble. An intriguing rebel throughout his life, he challenged...
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A trip back to the era of troubled teens and awesome soundtracks, of Reagan, rap, and Ridgemont High, of MTV, VHS, and "Axel F", of outsiders, lost boys, and dead poets, of Bill and Ted, Brooke Shields, and the Brat Pack, of three Porky's flicks, two Coreys, and one summer when "Baby" refused to be put in a corner.
The Ultimate History of the '80s Teen Movie goes behind the scenes of a genre where cult hits mingled with studio blockbusters, where...