Bøger af Russell Campbell

Julia Roberts played a prostitute, famously, in Pretty Woman. So did Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver, Jane Fonda in Klute, Anna Karina in Vivre sa vie, Greta Garbo in Anna Christie, and Charlize Theron, who won an Academy Award for Monster. This engaging and generously illustrated study explores the depiction of female prostitute characters and prostitution in world cinema, from the silent era to the present-day industry. From the woman with control over her own destiny to the woman who cannot get away from her pimp, Russell Campbell shows the diverse representations of prostitutes in film. Marked Women classifies fifteen recurrent character types and three common narratives, many of them with their roots in male fantasy. The "Happy Hooker," for example, is the liberated woman whose only goal is to give as much pleasure as she receives, while the "Avenger," a nightmare of the male imagination, represents the threat of women taking retribution for all the oppression they have suffered at the hands of men. The "Love Story," a common narrative, represents the prostitute as both heroine and anti-heroine, while "Condemned to Death" allows men to manifest, in imagination only, their hostility toward women by killing off the troubled prostitute in an act of cathartic violence. The figure of the woman whose body is available at a price has fascinated and intrigued filmmakers and filmgoers since the very beginning of cinema, but the manner of representation has also been highly conflicted and fiercely contested. Campbell explores the cinematic prostitute as a figure shaped by both reactionary thought and feminist challenges to the norm, demonstrating how the film industry itself is split by fascinating contradictions.

Tired with your job? Driven crazy by your boss? Tempted to lie and cheat? Discontent with his role as a public relations executive at a blue chip Edinburgh-based bank, avarice and boredom lure Ally Forbes into the world of corporate deception. A proposition from a confident new friend paves the way to an intriguing sting. The plan-to manipulate customers into paying millions for the bank's charity foundation while simultaneously skimming a slice of the action-seems too good to be true, and when encouraged by his girlfriend and pressured by his boss, he becomes entwined in the scheme. But who's fooling whom? As things begin to spiral out of control and the police enter the fray, Ally is forced into new levels of deception to conceal the real truth behind events...

You probably work for an asset management firm. So you are aware of the opportunities that exist for managing money for outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO) firms. These types of firms are growing quickly, and you want a piece of their action. Then you find out that OCIOs are quite different from other kinds of clients. Asset management salespeople may struggle to understand the variety of OCIO flavors that exist, and how to win money management mandates from them. This book highlights strategies and tactics to succeed with selling to OCIOs.Not all OCIOs have formal short lists that they use to choose asset managers. But they all have in mind a way to rank all of the managers and strategies that they consider. This book describes 25 dimensions that affect whether or not an asset management firm is at the forefront of an OCIO's list-formal or otherwise.

The remarkable story of Ivor Montagu, and of left-wing politics and Soviet undercover activity in Britain between the wars

From the picket lines of industrial conflict and the occupied ground of Maori land-rights campaigns to the stormy skirmishes of women's liberation and disputed histories of the New Zealand Wars, this discussion describes how documentary filmmakers have helped forge a sense of national identity among native New Zealanders.