Simon Weston's life as a young Welsh guardsman was blown apart when Argentinian planes bombed the Sir Galahad during the Falklands conflict. After more than 70 operations to repair his damaged face and body, this autobiography provides insight into the events that have shaped his life.
James Scala is dragged away from his wife and children by a more powerful that of serving 'Queen and Country'. But is he acting like a blind fool, believing he is a hero and not an injured ex-SAS trooper Either way, he knows he will be true to himself in following his chosen path.
Help! Oh dear! Its Rhodri, one of the overfed rats at the St Mary Dairy in Pont-y-cary, and hes stuck up a drainpipe. Rhodris not the only one whos been packing on the pounds. Nelson, always a well-built carthorse, has also recently moved into the XXXXXXXXXXXXL league! As a result, Nelson goes into training! -- Pont Books
The Subject of Film and Race is the first comprehensive intervention into how film critics and scholars have sought to understand cinema's relationship to racial ideology. In attempting to do more than merely identify harmful stereotypes, research on 'films and race' appropriates ideas from post-structuralist theory. But on those platforms, the field takes intellectual and political positions that place its anti-racist efforts at an impasse. While presenting theoretical ideas in an accessible way, Gerald Sim's historical materialist approach uniquely triangulates well-known work by Edward Said with the Neo-Marxian writing about film by Theodor Adorno and Fredric Jameson. The Subject of Film and Race takes on topics such as identity politics, multiculturalism, multiracial discourse, and cyborg theory, to force film and media studies into rethinking their approach, specifically towards humanism and critical subjectivity. The book illustrates theoretical discussions with a diverse set of familiar films by John Ford, Michael Mann, Todd Solondz, Quentin Tarantino, Keanu Reeves, and others, to show that we must always be aware of capitalist history when thinking about race, ethnicity, and films.