Carol R Smith

Enter a world where cat ladies and cats travel between universes. Read stories taken from the lives of cats and of lives from people who may be your neighbor. All are told by a talking book, stories of legacies, of elements and winds who teach, a cat who dances with fire and is the winner, love that is found and lost and found again, a crying flower, a dedication to the law even after death. Carol R. Smith asks that you take a journey away from the norm and just escape

Ned Harrison and Kitten Lang are tied together by dreams. Both have seen each other and discover who they both are. They have seen in dreams red floating feathers and flying cardinals, the unhappy dead who have been betrayed, who are pleading for help and justice to be done. All which ties to a murder case. It will take all the skills as a detective and a witch solve the case, but death says, "Danger is at the door." And Ned Harrison will get the aid of one seen in his dream--the cardinal itself. To fight and outwit the enemy, the little bird will have his say.

Hollywood has devoted big budgets and established stars to films about controversial issues in the last ten years. Identities considered marginal have come into prominence on the big screen. The authors of this title look at the issues raised by these developments, bring together debates in identity politics with film studies, and launch an innovative theorization of the cinematic representation of identity. Movies from Forrest Gump to Philadelphia , from Malcolm X to Falling Down have been specifically concerned with multiculturalism and identity politics. This book is concerned with the meanings put into circulation by these mainstream films and audiences' reactions to them. It provides an accessible introduction to issues such as arguments over positive and negative images and the relationship between cultural representation and political power in American life.