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He obtained degrees from University of Victoria (Bachelor, Master of Arts) and the University of British Columbia (Doctor of Philosophy).
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David L. Chapman: American Hunks : The Muscular Male Body in Popular Culture, 1860-1970 (Paperback); 2009 Edition
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Understanding Beryl Bainbridge (Understanding Contemporary British Literature)
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In this text, the author provides a biographical sketch of Bainbridge and includes a discussion of her motivations and techniques as well as a detailed survey of her fiction that places her works in the traditions of British black comedy, social novels, and historical fiction.
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American Hunks: The Muscular Male Body in Popular Culture, 1860-1970
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The "American hunk" is a cultural icon: the image of the chiseled, well-built male body has been promoted and exploited for commercial use for over 125 years, whether in movies, magazines, advertisements, or on consumer products, not only in America but throughout the world. American Hunks is a fascinating collection of images (many in full color) depicting the muscular American male as documented in popular culture from 1860 to 1970. The book, divided into specific historic eras, includes such personalities as bodybuilder Charles Atlas; pioneer weightlifter Eugene Sandow; movie stars like Steve "Hercules" Reeves and Johnny "Tarzan" Weismuller; and publications such as the 1920s-era magazine Physical Culture and the 1950s-era comic book Mr. Muscles. It also touches on the use of masculine, homoerotic imagery to sell political and military might (including American recruitment posters and Nazi propaganda from the 1936 Olympics), and how companies have used buff, near-naked men to sell products from laundry detergent to sacks of flour since the 1920s. The introduction by David L. Chapman offers insightful information on individual images, while the essay by Brett Josef Grubisic places the work in its proper historical context. David L. Chapman has written many books on male photography and bodybuilding, including Comin' at Ya!: The Homoerotic 3-D Photographs of Denny Denfield. Brett Josef Grubisic is author of the novel The Age of Cities and editor of Contra/Diction: New Queer Fiction.
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Brett Grubisic
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He has edited one anthology of gay male pulp fiction, and co-edited an anthology of upcoming Canadian writers. The former collection highlights stories that represent lives outside the urban middle-class mainstream. The latter, featuring such acclaimed writers as Annabel Lyon, Steven Heighton, Camilla Gibb, Michael Turner, and Larissa Lai, aims to redress an absence the editors claim to have noticed in Canadian literature: sexually frank fiction.
Grubisic"s debut novel, The Age of Cities, was published in 2006, and was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Prize.
Secretariat predominantly in the late 1950s, the novel-within-a-novel traces the uncertain evolution of a librarian as he struggles between two disparate choices, one urban and the other rural. This Location of Unknown Possibilities, Grubisic"s follow-up novel, appeared in 2014.
Satirizing university campus and film production politics, it recounts the comic but transformative experience of two anti-heroic protagonists, Marta Spëk, an English professor, and Jakob Nugent, a film production manager, as they travel from Vancouver to British Columbia"s Okanagan Valley in order to work on a television biopic about Lady Hester Stanhope. Understanding Beryl Bainbridge, Grubisic"s comprehensive study of the British author"s fiction, was published in 2008.
lieutenant examines Bainbridge as a blackly comic novelist as well as a writer of historiographic metafiction.
Appearing in 2009, American Hunks: The Muscular Male Body in Popular Culture, 1860-1970, a pictorial social history co-authored with David L. Chapman, charts changes in the depictions of and attitudes toward the nude and semi-nude male body in North America. National Plots: Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada, co-edited with Andrea Cabajsky, was published in 2010. The authors of the collection"s fourteen essays explore the diverse ways that a wide range of historical fiction (published between 1850 and 2005) contributes to the formation of national identity.
He writes about books and writers for the National Post, the Vancouver Sun, The Globe and Mail and Xtra!.
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Understanding Beryl Bainbridge (Understanding Contemporary British Literature)
(In this text, the author provides a biographical sketch o...)
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American Hunks: The Muscular Male Body in Popular Culture, 1860-1970
( The "American hunk" is a cultural icon: the image of th...)
- David L. Chapman: American Hunks : The Muscular Male Body in Popular Culture, 1860-1970 (Paperback); 2009 Edition
- (Understanding Beryl Bainbridge) Author: Brett Josef Grubisic published on (October, 2008)
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Understanding Beryl Bainbridge (Understanding Contemporary British Literature)
