Fire and Ice: The Dragon Chronicles

The Fire dragon terrifies the Kingdom of Carpia once again and it's up to you to save the inhabitants and regain the crown of Carpia in Fire & Ice The Dragon Chronicles. Start your journey to wake up the Ice dragon and defeat the Quilok army. The Fire & Ice The Dragon Chronicles game follows the epic line of the movie with the same name and combines a beautiful gameplay with incredible images and music.

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Monopoly: Build-a-lot Edition

Just when you thought that the fun of Build-a-lot could not be topped, out comes Mr. MONOPOLY and offers you the opportunity to play home improvement with the MONOPOLY properties you’ve come to love throughout the years. From the simple streets of Baltic Ave., to the suburban neighborhoods of Illinois Ave., to the bustling streets of Boardwalk, discover all of the classic locations and work your magic to maximize curb appeal. Even the old railroads can use your touch!For the first time ever on MONOPOLY properties, use an abundant supply of resources to construct new homes, create beautiful parks, and establish the utilities plus much more. With a new coat of paint, some extra landscaping and special home upgrades, the neighborhoods will light right up. Those plots of rundown houses and empty lots you see will soon be but a memory. And remember, the more pride of ownership you instill, the higher your monthly income will be!It doesn’t get any better than this when it comes to a real estate game. Try the free download version or play the full unlimited version of MONOPOLY(TM) Build-a-lot(TM) edition to build, buy, flip and sell MONOPOLY properties the Build-a-lot way today!

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On Stardom/Celebrity and Film Acting/Performance

Image of Barbara Stanwyck, 1907-1990

Film Studies For Free is star-studies-struck today, but it has opted to combine those glitzy fascinations with its deep interest in film acting and performance studies. The result is a broad search-topic which has brought forth yet another rich vein of online and openly accessible film and media studies, as the multiple links below -- to wonderful new work as well as to some classic research -- should testify.

Elizabeth Abele, '"The Glory of Cary Grant and Other Girlish Delights', Images Journal, Issue 5, November 9

Richard Armstrong, 'Modernity and the Maniac: The Fall of Janet Leigh', Images Journal, 2004: Page One: Introduction | Page Two: Janet Leigh in Touch of Evil | Page Three: Janet Leigh in Psycho Page Four: The Shower Scene | Page Five: Janet Leigh as Icon

Guy Austin, '"In Fear and Pain": Stardom and the Body in Two French Ghost Films', Scope, Issue 7, February 2007

Serafina K. Bathrick, 'The new star - A beauty and a buddy [Review of Patricia Erens, The Films of Shirley MacLaine (NY: A.S. Barnes, 1978)], Jump Cut, no. 21, Nov. 1979

Sylvie Blum-Reid, 'Review of Lisa Downing & Sue Harris, eds. From Perversion to Purity: The Stardom of Catherine Deneuve. Manchester, New York: Manchester University Press, 2007', H-France Review Vol. 9 (April 2009), No. 47

Lisa Bode: ‘Grave Robbing’ or ‘Career Comeback’? On the Digital Resurrection of Dead Screen Stars in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007

Laure Bouquerel, 'Bob Dylan, the Ordinary Star [in Don't Look Back]', Oral Tradition, 22/1 (2007): 151-161

'Cinema and the Female Star - A Symposium Part 1', Senses of Cinema, 2002: Arletty by Bernard Hemingway; Stéphane Audran by Ray Young; Halle Berry by Charlie Kanganis; Louise Brooks by Tina Marie Camilleri; Geneviève Bujold by Girish Shambu; Bess Flowers by Joe McElhaney; Setsuko Hara by Dan Harper

'Cinema and the Female Star - A Symposium Part 2', Senses of Cinema, 2002: Kate Hudson by Peter Tonguette; Anna Karina by Christa Fuller; Ling, Po by Feng-ying Ming; Melina Mercouri by Charlie Kanganis; Samantha Morton by Maximilian Le Cain; Cathy O'Donnell by Brian Frye; Bulle Ogier by Jit Phokaew

'Cinema and the Female Star - A Symposium Part 3', Senses of Cinema, 2002: Elizabeth Taylor by Liz Burke; Lili Taylor by Anna Daly; Fay Tincher by Andrew Grossman; Mari Töröcsik by Dina Iordanova; Natalie Wood by Angela Costi; Xiao, Fangfang by Feng-ying Ming; Tsetsiliya Zervudaki by Jorge Didaco

Jamil Dakhlia, 'From the Olympians to the Ordinary Heroes: Stars in the French Popular Press' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007

Robert E Davis, 'Anita Page: Stardom in Transition', in Film and Television Stardom, ed by K-P R Hart (Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008) long excerpt

Jeannette Delamoir, 'Eyes Wide Shut: Tom, Nicole, Stardom and Visual Memory', Transformations, No. 3 (May 2002)

Rayna Denison, 'Disembodied Stars and the Cultural Meanings of Princess Mononoke's Soundscape', Scope, Portals Special Issue

Patricia Erens, 'Critical dialogue - In defense of stars [response to Bathrick]', Jump Cut, no. 21, Nov. 1979

Rebecca Feasey, 'Stardom and Distinction: Sharon Stone and the Problem of Legitimacy', Scope, May 2004

John Flaus, '''Thanks for your heart, Bart" [film acting theory]', Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture vol. 5 no 2 (1990)

Brian Gallagher, 'Stars: Some Historical Reflections on the Paradoxes of Stardom in the American Film Industry, 1910-1960', Images Journal, Issue 3

Christine Geraghty, 'Paris, Hollywood and Kay Kendall', in Rachel Moseley (ed), Fashioning Film Stars: Dress, Culture, Identity, (Chap 10) pp. 121-133.

Tim Groves, 'The Un/forgiven Director', Screening the Past, March 2001

Tom Gunning, 'Chaplin and the body of modernity', Paper, The bfi Charles Chaplin Conference July 2005

Outi Hakola, 'On-screen and Off-screen Monstrosity of Béla Lugosi and Boris Karloff' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007

Michael Hammond, 'Charlie [Chaplin] as a Searchlight', Introduction, The bfi Charles Chaplin Conference July 2005

Kylo-Patrick R. Hart, 'Introduction', Film and Television Stardom, ed by K-P R Hart (Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008)

Joan Hawkins, 'All the World's a Stage', Film-Philosophy, vol. 2 no. 1, January 1998

Susan Hayward, 'Stardom: Beyond Desire?' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007

Stephen Heath, 'Film Performance', CineTracts, Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer 1977

Su Holmes, ‘Starring... Dyer?’: Re-visiting Star Studies and Contemporary Celebrity Culture', Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture © 2005 (University of Westminster, London), Vol. 2(2): 6-21

Ian Huffer, ''I wanted to be Rocky, but I also wanted to be his wife!': Heterosexuality and the (Re)construction of Gender in Female Film Audiences' Consumption of Sylvester Stallone', Particip@tions Volume 4, Issue 2 (November 2007)

Ian Huffer, "'New Man", Old Worlds: Re-articulating Masculinity in the Star Persona of Orlando Bloom', Scope, Issue 9, 2007

Ono Hiroyuki, 'From Chaplin to Kabuki', Paper, The bfi Charles Chaplin Conference July 2005

Jerry R Ivins, 'The Training of Stage Actors in Film/Video Acting Techniques: An Interdisciplinary Approach', PhD thesis, Texas Tech University, August 1993

Hanna Järvinen, 'Fans, Fawns and Fauns: Ballet Stardom, Dancing Genius and the Queer Afterlife of Vaslav Nijinsky' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007

Tamar Jeffers, "Should I surrender?": performing and interrogating female virginity in Hollywood films 1957-64', PhD thesis, University of Warwick

Gary Johnson and Grant Tracey, 'Hollywood Stars of the '30s, featuring James Cagney, Joan Crawford, and Barbara Stanwyck', Images Journal, Issue 1

Sun Jung, 'Bae Yong-Joon, Hybrid Masculinity & the Counter-coeval Desire of Japanese Female Fans', Particip@tions Volume 3, Issue 2 Special Edition (November 2006)

Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi, 'Introduction: Stars, History, and the Media' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007

Kimi Kärki, 'Cutting the Moss with Laser Beams: The Uses of History in The Rolling Stones Bridges To Babylon Stadium Tour' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007

Andrew Klevan, 'A Reply to Adrian Martin['s review of Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation (London: Wallflower Press, 2006)]', Fipresci, Issue 4, 2008

Barbara Klinger, 'Say It Again, Sam: Movie Quotation, Performance and Masculinity',Particip@tions Volume 5, Issue 2 (November 2008)

Sven-Erik Klinkmann, 'Retro Icons and Anachronistic Artists' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007

Margia Kramer and Renee Shafrensky, 'Character assassination — Jean Seberg and information control', Jump Cut, no. 28, April 1983

Anneli Lehtisalo, '“Oh, My Sweet Hero!” The Filmstar Leif Wager as Emperor Alexander I in Tanssi yli hautojen (1950)' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007

Wing-Fai Leung, 'Discursive Stardom in Hong Kong and the Missing Referents' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007

Victoria Lowe, 'Performing Hitchcock': Robert Donat, Film Acting and The 39 Steps (1935)', Scope, Issue 14, June 2009

Rami Mähkä, 'Comedians as Stars: The Monty Python Troupe' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007

Charles Maland, 'Movies, Director/Performers, and Cultural History: Conceptualizing Chaplin and American Culture', Paper, The bfi Charles Chaplin Conference July 2005

Linda Marchant, 'Concentrated Vision: Celebrity Images from the 1930s and 1940s' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007

Adrian Martin, 'Secret Agents [ A review of Andrew Klevan, Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation (London: Wallflower Press, 2006)', Fipresci, Issue 4, 2007

Steve Master, 'A Review of Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation by Andrew Klevan [London: Wallflower, 2005]', Scope, Special Portals Issue

Anna Möttölä, 'Style Star – Admiring Audrey Hepburn in the 1950’s' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007

Thi Thanh Nga, 'The long march from Wong to Woo: Asians in Hollywood' (Race in Contemporary American Cinema: Part 5), Cineaste v21, n4 (Fall, 1995)

JaeYoon Park, 'Asia’s beloved sassy girl: Jun Ji-Hyun’s star image and her transnational stardom', Jump Cut, No. 51, spring 2009

Anne Helen Petersen,‘"We’re Making Our Own Paparazzi": Twitter and the Construction of Star Authenticity', Flow TV, May 28, 2009

Anne Petersen, 'Celebrity juice, not from concentrate: Perez Hilton, gossip blogs, and the new star production', Jump Cut, No. 49, spring 2007

Anne Helen Petersen, weblog: Celebrity Gossip, Academic Style - proto-scholastic musings on star studies 2.0

VI Pudovkin, Film Technique And Film Acting, Grove Press Inc, 1958

Zohar Altman Ravid, 'The star as a Creation and the Star as a creator: The Case of Barbra Streisand' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007

Martin Roth, 'Women in Hollywood musicals: Pulling the plug on Lina Lamont', Jump Cut, no. 35, April 1990

Ulrich Ruedel, 'Send in the Clones: Chaplin Imitators from Stage to Screen, from Circus to Cartoon', Paper, The bfi Charles Chaplin Conference July 2005

Daniel Sánchez Salas, 'The Two Spanish Lives Of "Charlot"’, Paper, The bfi Charles Chaplin Conference July 2005

Laura Saarenmaa, 'Female Stars and the Tricky Question of Drinking' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007

Amy Sargeant, 'Review of Alan Lovell and Peter Krämer (eds),Screen Acting, and Pamela Robertson Wojcik (ed.), Movie Acting: The Film Reader.(pp 170-176)', Film Studies, Vol. 8, Summer 2006 (scroll down)

Jaakko Seppälä, 'Love, Hate, and Suicidal Tendencies: The Construction of Rudolph Valentino's Stardom in Finland 1923-1927' in History of Stardom Reconsidered, edited by Kari Kallioniemi, Kimi Kärki, Janne Mäkelä and Hannu Salmi. Turku: International Institute for Popular Culture, 2007

Steven Shaviro, 'A Brief History of Celebrity (with special reference to Asia Argento)', The Pinocchio Theory, May 7, 2009

Joerg Sternagel, 'From Inside Us: Experiencing the Film Actor in Michael Haneke's Caché', Film International #39, vol. 7, no. 3

Ginette Vincendeau, 'The New Wave at 50: The star reborn', Sight & Sound, May 2009

Greg Wahl, 'Go ahead, Punk; Go ahead, Clint [Eastwood]!', Images Journal, Issue 4: July 97

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Sad News

In memoriam: Alexis Tioseco (Criticine) and Nika Bohinc (ECRAN)

"The first impulse of any good film critic, and [with] this I think you would agree, must be of love. To be moved enough to want to share their affection for a particular work or to relate their experience so that others may be curious. This is why criticism, teaching, and curating or programming, in an ideal sense, must all go hand in hand."

"The Letter I would Love To Read To You In Person"
by Alexis Tioseco [to Nika Bohinc], July 15, 2008, pt 1, pt 2, pt 3

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Horatios Travels

Places to see! People to meet! Horatio simply can't seem to settle down with a whole world of possibility at his doorstep. The solution? He'll start his own ice cream stand to fund his wanderlust.A_B Follow Horatio on his globe-trotting adventure as he takes tasty treats to some of the wackiest customers on earth. Keep a level head and a steady eye on those orders, and you'll meet persnickety pirates, crusty penguins, ravenous cubs, and and the rest of their ice cream loving friends. Tour paradise and become the fastest scoop in the animal kingdom.

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Torys Shop n Rush

When Tory's uncle retires and leaves her his store, she wonders if she has what it takes to succeed in the retail game. Give Tory a hand by stocking shelves, cashing out customers, cleaning up after messy teenagers and helping old ladies remember what they want to buy. You'll also need to keep an eye on the thief or he'll steal your goods! Between shifts, you can spend the money you earned on additional staff and upgrades for your store. Keep your customers happy in Tory's Shop 'n' Rush and you'll live to play another day!

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More E-theses online: Doris Day, film spectacle, telefantasy, cinema & society, Korean film & TV

Image from Lover Come Back (Delbert Mann, 1961),
starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson

Film Studies For Free had already reported that Douglas Morrey's excellent PhD thesis on the work of Jean-Luc Godard had now been posted online. Below are direct links to some equally wonderful pieces of graduate research on film and television from that very same, very rich Warwick University Research Archive:

• Allen, Steven William, (2003) A pleasure in pain: contemporary mainstream cinema's fascination with the aestheticized spectacle of the controlled body. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
• Brown, Tom, (2007) From intimate pleasures to spectacular vistas: musicality and historicity in French and American 'classical' cinema of the 1930s. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
• Jeffers, Tamar Elizabeth Louise (2005) "Should I surrender?": performing and interrogating female virginity in Hollywood films 1957-64. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
• Johnson , Catherine (2002) Histories of telefantasy: the representation of the fantastic and the aesthetics of television. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
• Kim, Ju Young (2007) Rethinking media flow under globalisation: rising Korean wave and Korean TV and film policy since 1980s. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
• Lehin, Barbara (2003) Cinema and society: Thatcher's Britain and Mitterand's France. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
  

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