399 research outputs found
Deviations and Conversions, Seventies Style: Mandy Merck in Conversation with Laura Guy
No full textThe subject of this conversation is the ‘queer seventies’ as told through a heterogeneous scene of independent journalism and the burgeoning field of screen theory in Britain. Mandy Merck, who was there, and Laura Guy, who was not, explore the cultural practices coming out of the Women’s and Gay Liberation Movements against a backdrop of political reform – including the Sexual Offences Act 1967, the Abortion Act of the same year, and the Equal Pay Act 1970. Turning to Merck’s work as an editor and cultural critic at Time Out, the discussion foregrounds independent print and contemporary cinema as intersecting contexts through which the theoretical insights associated with screen theory emerged. Also considered is whether the British roots of queer theory can be located in this period or, indeed, if the various deviations and conversions discussed might offer directions toward a different horizon of thought and politics
Perversions
No full textIn this series of provocative essays on culture, art, and film, former Screen editor Mandy Merck explores the paradoxes of sexual representation. Whether writing on romantic fiction or hardcore pornography, on robots or sex goddesses, Radclyffe Hall or the Marquis de Sade, she finds the perversions and deviances. Illustrated. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license
Feminism and ‘the S-Word’
No full textA roundtable discussion on socialism and feminism, chaired by Jo Littler, with Mandy Merck, Hilary Wainwright, Nira Yuval-Davis and Deborah Grayson
Deviations and Conversions, Seventies Style: <em>Mandy Merck in Conversation with Laura Guy</em>
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American splendor
No full textBook synopsis:
At a time when the expanded projection of US political, military, economic and cultural power draws intensified global concern, understanding how that country understands itself seems more important than ever.
This collection of new critical essays tackles this old problem in a new way, by examining some of the hundreds of US films that announce themselves as titularly 'American'. From early travelogues to contemporary comedies, national nomination has been an abiding characteristic of American motion pictures, heading the work of Porter, Guy-Blaché, DeMille, Capra, Sternberg, Vidor, Minnelli and Mankiewicz. More recently, George Lucas, Paul Schrader, John Landis and Edward James Olmos have made their own contributions to Hollywood’s Americana.
What does this national branding signify? Which versions of Americanism are valorized, and which marginalized or excluded? Out of which social and historical contexts do they emerge, and for and by whom are they constructed?
Edited by Mandy Merck, the collection contains detailed analyses of such films as The Vanishing American, American Madness, An American in Paris, American Graffiti, American Gigolo, American Pie and many more
MERCK STRATEGY STILL MURKY AS JURY MULLS VIOXX CLAIMS
No full textProfessor Thomas Eaton is quoted in Law360 regarding the lawsuits against Merck & Co. over the drug Vioxx. The article was published on 7/12/06, and the author was Jesse Greenspan
MERCK STRATEGY STILL MURKY AS JURY MULLS VIOXX CLAIMS
No full textProfessor Thomas Eaton is quoted in Law360 regarding the lawsuits against Merck & Co. over the drug Vioxx. The article was published on 7/12/06, and the author was Jesse Greenspan
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