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Although art may sometimes shock us, so do many recent attempts to regulate it. Increasingly contemporary art displays new values and beliefs that may disturb or even frighten viewers.

In Chicago, a painting of the late Mayor Harold Washington in women's underwear was seized by outraged politicians and the police. The National Endowment for the Arts rescinded funds it had pledged to a New York City exhibit confronting the devastation of the AIDS epidemic. The Corcoran Gallery balked at mounting a retrospective of Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs, some of which depicted homoerotic scenes or nude children. In Florida, a music store owner and 2 Live Crew were prosecuted for the alleged obscenity of a record album.

Drawing upon extensive interviews, a broad sampling of media accounts, legal documents and his own observations of important events, Steven Dubin surveys visual art, photography and film, as well as artistic upstarts such as video and performance art. He examinesboth the nature of art work which disarms its viewers and the social reaction to it--the dual meaning of arresting images. Dubin combines the eye of someone familiar with art and the rigor of a social scientist with insights about contemporary society and politics..
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From the first Nepali author writing in English to be published in the West, Arresting God in Kathmandu brilliantly explores the nature of desire and spirituality in a changing society. With the assurance and unsentimental wisdom of a long-established writer, Upadhyay records the echoes of modernization throughout love and family. Here are husbands and wives bound together by arranged marriages but sometimes driven elsewhere by an intense desire for connection and transcendence. In a city where gods are omnipresent, where privacy is elusive and family defines identity, these men and women find themselves at the mercy of their desires but at the will of their society. Psychologically rich and astonishingly acute, Arresting God in Kathmandu introduces a potent new voice in contemporary fiction..
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This fun cookbook contains over three hundred arresting recipes from the world's favorite television and movie cops and detectives, as well as from police chiefs and other top cops from all fifty states. From Columbo to Andy Sipowicz, your favorite cops are here to protect and serve dinner! Illustrated and indexed..
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Title: 'Faith Healer' is more blarney than magic; Brian Friel's play offers arresting performances and lots of talk.(THEATER/COLUMN)(Theater review)
Author: Retta Blaney
Publication:National Catholic Reporter (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 19, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 42 Issue: 29 Page: 18(1)

Article Type: Theater review

Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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While most research on television examines its impact on viewers, Arresting Images asks instead how TV influences what is in front of the camera, and how it reshapes other institutions as it broadcasts their activities. Aaron Doyle develops his argument with four studies of televised crime and policing: the popular American 'reality-TV' series Cops; the televising of surveillance footage and home video of crime and policing; footage of Vancouver's Stanley Cup riot; and the publicity-grabbing demonstrations of the environmental group Greenpeace. Each of these studies is of significant interest in its own right, but Doyle also uses them to make a broader argument rethinking television's impacts. The four studies show how televised activities tend to become more institutionally important, tightly managed, dramatic, simplified and fitted to society's dominant values. Powerful institutions, like the police, harness television for their own legitimation and surveillance purposes, often dictating which situations are televised, and usually producing 'authorized definitions' of the situations, which allow them to control the consequences. While these institutions invoke the notion that "seeing is believing" to reinforce their positions of dominance, the book argues that many observers and researchers have long overstated and misunderstood the role of TV's visual component in shaping its influences.

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An in-depth examination of the role played by advertising draugthtsmen and the huge influence of their work and visions .
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Pursued by fans, wooed by studios, and yes, sometimes even wanted by local police: here are over 200 celebrities whose finger prints fill the Walk of Shame, including Hugh Grant and Pee Wee Herman (naughty, naughty!), Paul Newman, Jodie Foster, Jane Fonda, and various and sundry Kennedys, to name just a few. Find out about Billy Joel's heinous crime (illegally fishing for striped bass), Jon Bon Jovi's trespassing charge, and Robert Mitchum's escape from a chain gang in this amusing little volume. Great for Hollywood trivia hounds!.
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