Focusing on the cultural and philosophic conflation between the "e;oriental"e; and the "e;ornamental,"e; Ornamentalism offers an original and sustained theory about Asiatic femininity in western culture.
Throughout her prodigious life, activist and lawyer Pauli Murray systematically fought against all arbitrary distinctions in society, channeling her outrage at the discrimination she faced to make America a more democratic country.
Throughout her prodigious life, activist and lawyer Pauli Murray systematically fought against all arbitrary distinctions in society, channeling her outrage at the discrimination she faced to make America a more democratic country.
Set against the backdrop of the black struggle in society, Slow Fade to Black is the definitive history of African-American accomplishment in film--both before and behind the camera--from the earliest movies through World War II.
This is the second volume of Thomas Cripps''s definitive history of African-Americans in Hollywood, covering the period from World War II through the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
Commissioned by Oliver Stone in 2015 to commemorate the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali's captivating screenplay of the life and times of Vladimir Lenin puts flesh on the bones of the historical record and gets its pulse racing.
In The Future of the Image, Jacques Ranci,re develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined.
In July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgery-a process she chronicled with unflinching honesty in a serialised national newspaper column.
In his classic sequence of films, Patrick Keiller retraces the hidden story of the places where we live, the cities and landscapes of our everyday lives.
Cuentan que a finales del siglo xix en Estados Unidos, una campaña orquestada en los periódicos del empresario William Randolph Hearst, encabezados por el New York Journal, precedió a la invasión militar de Cuba en 1898.
El pasaje de la muerte de Ofelia es el eje que articula este libro, que parte de su no escenificación en la escena crucial del drama hasta su recuperación en la pintura del siglo XIX y en las cinematografías y visualidades posteriores.
Film noir, one of the most intriguing yet difficult to define terms in cinema history, is usually associated with a series of darkly seductive Hollywood thrillers from the 1940s and 50s - shadowy, black-and-white pictures about private eyes, femme fatales, outlaw lovers, criminal heists, corrupt police, and doomed or endangered outsiders.
Páginas de cine es una selección de las columnas sobre cine que Luis Alberto Álvarez escribió en distintos medios periódicos colombianos entre 1976 y 1995, y que no había vuelto a ser publicada desde 1998.
Páginas de cine es una selección de las columnas sobre cine que Luis Alberto Álvarez escribió en distintos medios periódicos colombianos entre 1976 y 1995, y que no había vuelto a ser publicada desde 1998.
A partir de la reconceptualización de los modos de representación fílmica derivada de los estudios culturales, y a la cual se denomina "giro espacial", Maximiliano Maza Pérez plantea y responde a preguntas del tipo: ¿Cómo denominar a la nueva cinematografía fronteriza?
According to Edgardo Cozarinsky, the Argentine film critic: "e;There is something recognizably Scandinavian about Brother Carl: un-easy, puzzling exchanges between its characters, with brooding, ever-present nature surrounding them.
Gran parte de la producción audiovisual de Luis Ospina se constituye como un material de referencia para la historia de la ciudad de Cali, así él no se haya propuesto escribir "la historia".
Esta obra tiene la virtud de atender un tema esencial en la enseñanza de las Relaciones Internacionales: el análisis teórico desde sus distintas expresiones, plasmado de manera didáctica al relacionar diferentes teorías con películas cinematográficas comerciales.
Páginas de cine es una selección de las columnas sobre cine que Luis Alberto Álvarez escribió en distintos medios periódicos colombianos entre 1976 y 1995, y que no había vuelto a ser publicada desde 1998.
Like Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Marguerite Duras, Susan Sontag has come to filmmaking in the course of a career as a novelist and essayist.
This humorous, snarky guide to dating and love, inspired by characters and authors from classic literature, will help you navigate the ins and outs of today's ever-more crazy dating scene with aplomb.
Hilarious and heartfelt observations on aging from one of America's favorite comedians as he turns 65, and a look back at a remarkable career in this New York Times bestseller.
The intelligent person's guide to the movies, with more than 2,800 reviewsLook up a movie in this guide, and chances are you'll find yourself reading on about the next movie and the next.
In this engaging and readable book, Peter Decherney tells the story of Hollywood, from its nineteenth-century origins to the emergence of internet media empires.
Although he never left his native Krakow except for relatively short periods, Stanislaw Wyspianski (1869-1907) achieved worldwide fame, both as a painter, and Poland's greatest dramatist of the first half of the twentieth century.
In this engaging and readable book, Peter Decherney tells the story of Hollywood, from its nineteenth-century origins to the emergence of internet media empires.
Este libro, único texto inédito —hasta ahora— de José Luis Brea, es un guion y nace a partir de la versión fílmica del libro Las tres eras de la imagen.
