Christ, My Best Friend is a faith-centered devotional reflection on the names, character, and friendship of Jesus Christ. Through Scripture, personal testimony, prayer, and a guided reflection section, Eric Hans Schaefer invites readers to draw closer to Yeshua and discover the comfort, loyalty, and hope found in a living relationship with Him.

Join Stella the Cutest Corgi on her Grand Circle Island Aloha Adventure — and meet a cast of 30 real Hawaiian animals along the way.Adventure alongside Stella as she meets a humuhumunukunukuāpua'a — the fish with the longest name on Earth — rides a humpback whale's blowhole into the Honolulu sky, and solves the Royal Riddle of a Hawaiian monk seal at Hanauma Bay. She races a green sea turtle who has all the time in the world, chases a Jackson's chameleon through misty waterfalls, s...

Phillipians 4:8 Expounded -In a world that constantly shifts and sways, where the foundation seems uncertain, I have found refuge and truth in the timeless words of Scripture. This book, P48X, was born from a deep well within me—an earnest journey through the pages of God's Word, history, and personal revelation. As I walked through my own valleys and stood on mountaintops, it became clear that the road to transformation is paved with understanding, wisdom, and the unshaka...

Unashamed nudists, high-flying hopheads, brazen strippers, vicious vice lords, and high school girls who find themselves “in trouble” comprise the population of exploitation films. In the first full-scale history of these low-budget movies of decades past, Eric Schaefer reveals how this pioneering form of “trash film” purveyed the forbidden thrills of explicit sexual behavior, drug use, and vice that the mainstream movie industry could not show.Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!...

Bad Girls Go to Hell. Cannibal Holocaust. Eve and the Handyman. Examining film culture’s ongoing fascination with the low, bad, and sleazy faces of cinema, Sleaze Artists brings together film scholars with a shared interest in the questions posed by disreputable movies and suspect cinema. They explore the ineffable quality of “sleaze” in relation to a range of issues, including the production realities of low-budget exploitation pictures and the ever-shifting ter...

Sex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolution. In lively essays, the contributors examine a range of mass media—film and television, recorded sound, and publishing—that provide evidence of the circulation of sex in the public sphere, from the mainstream to the fringe. They discuss art films such as I am Curious (Yellow), mainstream movies including Midnight Cowboy...

Now featuring an updated introduction celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall"The landmark portrait of 20th-century New York viewed through the eyes of gay New Yorkers." — The New York ObserverA New York Times Notable Book of the Year and winner of a Lambda Literary Award, The Gay Metropolis is a landmark saga of struggle and triumph that was instantly recognized as the most authoritative and substa...

"Fascinating..provocative and funny." -- Contax GuideThere has never been a better time to show the world - both gay and nongay - the depth and breadth of the people, the history, and the communities that have been created by gay men and lesbians.Out in All Directions presents a broad picture of the myriad cultures and achievements of gay people in society at large. Every chapter uncovers history, illuminates gay and lesbian life, explodes myths, and breaks n...

Shapiro captures a generation through first-person reporting, interviews with refugees from the porn industry, conversations with psychologist, educators, and students, and a telling cultural critique.

The “monumental” (The Washington Post), field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th centuryGay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed in the closet, where all gay men were isolated, invisible, and ashamed. Based on years of research in diaries, letters, newspaper stories, and police reports, George Chauncey describes the saloons, speakeasies, and streets where queer m...

B. Ruby Rich designated a brand new genre, the New Queer Cinema (NQC), in her groundbreaking article in the Village Voice in 1992. This movement in film and video was intensely political and aesthetically innovative, made possible by the debut of the camcorder, and driven initially by outrage over the unchecked spread of AIDS. The genre has grown to include an entire generation of queer artists, filmmakers, and activists.As a critic, curator, journalist, and scholar, Rich ...

Adam Sandler movies, HBO's Entourage, and such magazines as Maxim and FHM all trade in and appeal to one character-the modern boy-man. Addicted to video games, comic books, extreme sports, and dressing down, the boy-man would rather devote an afternoon to Grand Theft Auto than plan his next career move. He would rather prolong the hedonistic pleasures of youth than embrace the self-sacrificing demands of adulthood.When did maturity become the ultimate tab...