The Art of Amusing
Author : Frank Bellew
Publisher :
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : Frank Bellew
Publisher :
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : Frank Bellew
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 29,10 MB
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : Fiction
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'The Art of Amusing' is a collection of graceful arts, merry games, and odd tricks, intended to amuse everybody, and enable all to amuse everybody else. Full of suggestions for private theatricals, tableaux, charades, and all sorts of parlor and family amusements.
Author : Neil Postman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 29,46 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Examines the effects of television culture on how we conduct our public affairs and how "entertainment values" corrupt the way we think.
Author : Frank Bellew
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Page : 330 pages
File Size : 10,99 MB
Release : 1870
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Author : Frank Bellew
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 34,29 MB
Release : 1868-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465542507
Author : John F. Kasson
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,61 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1429952237
Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation as an amusement park and shows how America's changing social and economic conditions formed the basis of a new mass culture. Exploring it afresh in this way, John Kasson shows Coney Island no longer as the object of nostalgia but as a harbinger of modernity--and the many photographs, lithographs, engravings, and other reproductions with which he amplifies his text support this lively thesis.
Author : Neil Postman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 2005-12-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780143036531
What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever. "It's unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his ascent would not have surprised Postman.” -CNN Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century. Now, with television joined by more sophisticated electronic media—from the Internet to cell phones to DVDs—it has taken on even greater significance. Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when politics, journalism, education, and even religion become subject to the demands of entertainment. It is also a blueprint for regaining control of our media, so that they can serve our highest goals. “A brilliant, powerful, and important book. This is an indictment that Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one.” –Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
Author : Simon Portegies Zwart
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,95 MB
Release : 2018-12-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780750313216
Astrophysical Recipes: The art of AMUSE delves into the ways in which computational science and astrophysics are connected and how the bridge between observation and theory are understood. This book provides a unique outline of the basic principles of performing simulations for astrophysical phenomena, in order to better increase and understand these observations and theories.
Author : Bob Raczka
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761329367
Invites the reader to look at twenty-six paintings from different eras and styles presented in pairs. Each pair lends itself to a story the reader can discover by looking at the paintings in a new way.
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Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 11,21 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1452131953
This star-studded tribute to the kings and queens of comedy draws together such legendary names as Steve Martin, Tina Fey, Steve Carell, Eddie Murphy, Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, and many more. Granted extraordinary access, photographer Matt Hoyle has captured his subjects in portraits that are works of art in themselves—by turns zany and deadpan, laugh-out-loud and contemplative. Accompanying them are first-person reflections from each of the comedians on life and laughter that always cut straight to the heart of comedy: it's funny because it's true. Page after sidesplitting page in Comic Genius offers prose as engaging as each portrait is memorable. Here, in one handsome package, is the gift of laughter itself. Comic Genius is proud to support Save The Children.