Böcker av Matthew Freeman

In Matthew Freeman's latest collection, I Think I'd Rather Roar, there is a short poem that is key to his poetic process. "The Reason for My Emptiness" says that someone broke into his room, handled his favorite artifacts, "and then they put everything back perfectly." His familiar artifacts are the ones that he uses here and throughout his sparkling poetic career. The epigraph to this assemblage comes from Jonas 1:8 whereby lot Jonas is discovered to be the cause of the tempest that is endangering their shipboard lives, and the sailors ask him to reveal himself truthfully. For the purposes of these poems Matt is the modern Jonas revealing his valuables accumulated by exposure, experience, and memory. They include famous figures (Stravinsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Harold Bloom, Martin Luther, and Bob Dylan), streets of St. Louis (Grand, Delmar, and Forsyth), and familiar haunts (under the Arch, SLU, Jesuit Hall, and Webster Groves). The recognizable people and places are sometimes used for their realities and sometimes as metaphors for states of mind. Abstractions can become personifications: "I wanted to write a letter / to Trauma, / but I was heckled by Rhetoric / and told to shut up." The muses of the poets like Fiammetta and Beatrice have their modern counterparts in Starla: "As the fireworks begin / I go looking for Starla," and Julia: "It was the time for lightning and miracles / and I'd just told a turgid lie to Julia." We learn that Dylan Thomas's "Fern Hill" was a turning point in his life. "Time held me green and dying / Though I sang in my chains like the sea." Such may be the epitaph for his next volume. Dr Eugene Crook -Professor Emeritus, Florida State University.

This book brings genre back to the forefront of the current transmedia trend. Genres are perhaps the most innately transmedial of media constructs, formed as they are from all kinds of industrial, technological and discursive phenomena. Yet, few have considered how genre works in a multiplatform context. This book does precisely that, making a uniquely transmedial contribution to the study of genre in the age of media convergence. The book interrogates how industrial, technological and participatory transformations of digital platforms and emerging technologies reshape workings of genre. The authors consider franchises such as Star Wars, streaming platforms such as Netflix, catch-up services such as ITV Hub, creative technologies such as virtual reality, and beyond. In setting the stage for the revival of genre theory in contemporary transmedia scholarship, this book pushes forward understandings of multiplatform media and the emerging form and function of genre across contemporary culture.

The basic conflict in the poems is the poet fighting what is real and what is not real in his brain. We see him going around St Louis struggling to come up with a language that would make sense of his experiences. While somewhat confused, he takes great pleasure in words and the characters he meets on his way. 

Helen meets with James in a quiet field somewhere far from the city. Years later, she meets with Marcus in a crowded restaurant in Los Angeles. These two goodbyes explore the process of losing the people we love, and how we remember the people we don't.

Matthew Freeman''s newest poetry collection presents a romantic vision wherein the environment can range from ecstatic to sinister. Steeped in urban shamanism, the poems reflect a desperate search for the American Sublime, the author''s search for the clarity of salvation, his love of language, and his hope that the poor and destitute will not be forgotten.

Dramatic Comedy / 5m, 3f Approximate running time: 1 hour and 45 minutes, no intermission. Various settings, some real, some imaginary, in Pennsylvania When Gordon's wife vanishes, the only clue to her whereabouts is a bookmark in dog-eared copy of Traveling to Montpelier. With little help to be found at work, from his son, or from the police, Gordon takes off to a rural bookstore to find some answers. His journey brings him to the town of Cornersville, in the wilds of Pennsylvania. Through

This guidebook, aimed at those interested in studying media industries, provides direction in ways best suited to collaborative dialogue between media scholars and media professionals.While the study of media industries is a focal point at many universities around the world ¿ promising, as it might, rich dialogues between academia and industry ¿ understandings of the actual methodologies for researching the media industries remain vague. What are the best methods for analysing the workings of media industries ¿ and how does one navigate those methods in light of complex deterrents like copyright and policy, not to mention the difficulty of gaining access to the media industries?Responding to these questions, Industrial Approaches to Media offers practical, theoretical, and ethical principles for the field of media industry studies, providing its first full methodological exploration. It features key scholars such as Henry Jenkins, Michele Hilmes, Paul McDonald and Alisa Perren.