10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NAFFNESS»
Discover the use of
naffness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
naffness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Culture in Bits: The Monstrous Future of Theory
Culture in Bits nevertheless describes a number of others including, as I said,
hypnosis, and also the naffness which I regard as an inherent feature of cultural
studies' relation to popular culture. (As Chapter 2 shows, naffness is what makes
...
2
Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture
'Naffness' inhabits the analysis of popular culture as the condition both of its
possibility and impossibility," p. 39.) It is difficult to find either "popular" or "
intellectual" a term wholly appetizing in terms of its powers of suggestion and
invention.
3
Digitize this Book!: The Politics of New Media, Or why We ...
Identifying and naming these non-knowledges (even as misunderstanding,
misrecognition, error, illusion, projection, hallucination, hypnosis, transference,
naffness, death, or whatever) is what makes this relation possible. It is only by ...
4
Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren
Edited by his children, Giles and Victoria, Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks is an anthology of writing from the former editor of Punch and Radio 4 national treasure Alan Coren, who died in October 2007.
But for a food correspondent to up the job to "restaurant critic" seems to be
pushing it a bit, but then pushing it seems to be what non-naffness is all about.
Typical is the final revelation — "their son Ned is currently at Eton." "Ned", like "Kit
", is a ...
Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Mark Lemon, 1983
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The Man With the Golden Touch: How The Bond Films Conquered ...
Difficult thing to shake off, though, the charge of naffness. No matter what
screenplay fireworks you set off, no matter how brilliant the acting and
needlesharp the directing, if a character is suddenly deemed to be unfashionable
, the effect is a ...
7
Reading between Designs: Visual Imagery and the Generation ...
However, whereasthe conceitof the blue lockup box is merely quirky,the pajamas
, because they possess connotations such as privacy(and“naffness”) are likelyto
provoke renewed amusement in each fresh situation. If Hitchhiker had, like ...
Piers D. Britton, Simon J. Barker, 2010
The incongruity of a Brit-party wedding event, its ill-assorted participants and
general naffness made a lasting impression. A few years later I attended a
friend's wedding, also in Antigua. My opinion, since, has not changed. So, life,
love ...
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The Rise and Fall of the Stone Roses: Breaking into Heaven
The joke was to lose oneself in sheer, unrelenting naffness. It was fun for a while
but, during the Nineties, and especially in the south shore Waterloo Road/
Pleasure Beach axis, the town's atmosphere had darkened considerably. Giant ...
She is in permanent danger of being superseded, even by her own sister: With a
younger sister, Dannii, currently in the process of throwing off Oz naffness (a lead
role in Home and Away) in favour of Euroehipness (pop songs and slinky ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NAFFNESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
naffness is used in the context of the following news items.
Film Review: You're Ugly Too ***
It's a grim setting which Fr Ted has already wrung dry for maximum naffness and despair and cinematographer Tom Comferford doesn't shrink ... «RTE.ie, Jul 15»
The rock musical: more miss than hit
Mamma Mia! does capture much of the naffness that clung limpet-like to Abba when they were still a going concern, but its tale of a wedding ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
How not to be a summer drinking cliché
This is not, as some claim, due to the fact that the wine – hitherto a byword Bridget Jones's whinge-drinking naffness - has been tweaked to ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
The less said about the Danczuks the better – but try and stop them
“Selfies are not banned,” he said, in response to the nose-wrinkling at his naffness. “I don't see anything wrong with it.” And Hussain is ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
Trivialising Wimbledon not doing BBC any favours
The BBC is not necessarily the worst offender, but naffness seems more dire on its channels because they once had David Coleman opening ... «Scotsman, Jul 15»
Carol Godsmark reviews: The Invincible, Portsea, Portsmouth
However, the lovely, sincere barman-cum-everything-to-everyone is reason enough to grin and bear the naffness. The current offerings – a ... «Portsmouth News, Jul 15»
Why are we so ashamed of easy listening?
James Last made naffness a virtue · • James Last's obituary. Yet he and his like have always been the subject of sniffy dismissal by the musical ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
James Last made naffness a virtue
Inspired naffness was his forté. Although he was an accomplished jazzer in a minor key he was never going to be an Ellington or a Basie. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
A Eurovision Vision - Listen up, UK
Once again, a churlish but delusional belief that the UK is above the naffness of the contest means that the instigators of modern music were ... «Huffington Post, May 15»
Where to find the best pintxos (mini tapas) in San Sebastian: from …
Asking for a plate and simply collecting a range of cold pintxos as if at a buffet is the height of naffness. Most people hop from bar to bar, simply ... «High50, May 15»
