Are Clothes Modern?
Author : Bernard Rudofsky
Publisher : Chicago Paul Theobald
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 33,43 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Clothing and dress
ISBN :
A Short History of Film, Third Edition
Author : Wheeler Winston Dixon
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 0813595169
Book Description
With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema—especially Polish, Chinese, Russian, Canadian, and Iranian filmmakers—an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new works by major American directors, and a new section on the rise of comic book movies and computer generated special effects, this is the most up to date resource for film history courses in the twenty-first century.
Samuel Beckett’s Endgame
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 27,68 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9401205043
Book Description
This collection of essays – the first volume in the Dialogue series – brings together new and experienced scholars to present innovative critical approaches to Samuel Beckett’s play Endgame. These essays broach a broad range of topics, many of which are inherently controversial and have generated significant levels of debate in the past. Critical readings of the play in relation to music, metaphysics, intertextuality, and time are counterpointed by essays that consider the nature of performance, the history of the theater and the music hall, Beckett’s attitudes to directing his play, and his responses to other directors. This collection will be of special interest to Beckett scholars, to students of literature and drama, and to drama theorists and practitioners.
My Last Sigh
Author : Luis Bunuel
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 20,38 MB
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0345803701
Book Description
ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'S 100 GREATEST FILM BOOKS OF ALL TIME • A provocative memoir from Luis Buñuel, the Academy Award winning creator of some of modern cinema's most important films, from Un Chien Andalou to The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. Luis Buñuel’s films have the power to shock, inspire, and reinvent our world. Now, in a memoir that carries all the surrealism and subversion of his cinema, Buñuel turns his artistic gaze inward. In swift and generous prose, Buñuel traces the surprising contours of his life, from the Good Friday drumbeats of his childhood to the dreams that inspired his most famous films to his turbulent friendships with Federico García Lorca and Salvador Dalí. His personal narratives also encompass the pressing political issues of his time, many of which still haunt us today—the specter of fascism, the culture wars, the nuclear bomb. Filled with film trivia, framed by Buñuel’s intellect and wit, this is essential reading for fans of cinema and for anyone who has ever wanted to see the world through a surrealist’s eyes.
Finding Afro-Mexico
Author : Theodore W. Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 49,64 MB
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1108671179
Book Description
In 2015, the Mexican state counted how many of its citizens identified as Afro-Mexican for the first time since independence. Finding Afro-Mexico reveals the transnational interdisciplinary histories that led to this celebrated reformulation of Mexican national identity. It traces the Mexican, African American, and Cuban writers, poets, anthropologists, artists, composers, historians, and archaeologists who integrated Mexican history, culture, and society into the African Diaspora after the Revolution of 1910. Theodore W. Cohen persuasively shows how these intellectuals rejected the nineteenth-century racial paradigms that heralded black disappearance when they made blackness visible first in Mexican culture and then in post-revolutionary society. Drawing from more than twenty different archives across the Americas, this cultural and intellectual history of black visibility, invisibility, and community-formation questions the racial, cultural, and political dimensions of Mexican history and Afro-diasporic thought.
Susan Sontag
Author : Leland Poague
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 18,95 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135575347
Book Description
Susan Sontag: An Annotated Bibliographycatalogues the works of one of America's most prolific and important 20th century authors. Known for her philosophical writings on American culture, topics left untouched by Sontag's writings are few and far between. This volume is an exhaustive collection that includes her novels, essays, reviews, films and interviews. Each entry is accompanied by an annotated bibliography.
Environmental Influences
Author :
Publisher : Rockefeller Univ. Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 12,91 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Environmental psychology
ISBN :
Book Description
Tourism and Dictatorship
Author : S. Pack
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 10,13 MB
Release : 2006-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0230601162
Book Description
Following WWII, the authoritarian and morally austere dictatorship of General Francisco Franco's Spain became the playground for millions of carefree tourists from Europe's prosperous democracies. This book chronicles how this helped to strengthen Franco's regime and economic and political standing.
Halliwell's Film & Video Guide 2004
Author : Leslie Halliwell
Publisher :
Page : 1028 pages
File Size : 41,86 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780007167128
Book Description
This guide to the film industry from the 1900s to the present day has now been updated with John Walker's critiques of the films that have been turning heads in 2002/3. It delivers all the cast and crew credits, fun trivia and behind-the-scenes information you need on thousands of movies (over 23,000) including hundreds of new ones. This perennial guide also includes plot synopses and critical evaluations, as well as video cassette, laser disc and DVD availability. Reader friendly icons denote films suitable for family viewing, Academy Award Winners and nominees, soundtrack availability and video format compatibility. The guide also contains lists of four-star and three-star films by title and year.
Communicating Science
Author : Toss Gascoigne
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 13,98 MB
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 1760463663
Book Description
Modern science communication has emerged in the twentieth century as a field of study, a body of practice and a profession—and it is a practice with deep historical roots. We have seen the birth of interactive science centres, the first university actions in teaching and conducting research, and a sharp growth in employment of science communicators. This collection charts the emergence of modern science communication across the world. This is the first volume to map investment around the globe in science centres, university courses and research, publications and conferences as well as tell the national stories of science communication. How did it all begin? How has development varied from one country to another? What motivated governments, institutions and people to see science communication as an answer to questions of the social place of science? Communicating Science describes the pathways followed by 39 different countries. All continents and many cultures are represented. For some countries, this is the first time that their science communication story has been told.
