Known as the celebrated director of critical and commercial successes such as Psycho (1960) and The Birds (1963), Alfred Hitchcock is famous for his distinctive visual style and signature motifs.
This invaluable resource by one of the world's leading experts in French cinema presents a coherent overview of French cinema in the 20th century and its place and function in French society.
Film noir reflects the fatalistic themes and visual style of hard-boiled novelists and many emigre filmmakers in 1940s and 1950s America, emphasizing crime, alienation, and moral ambiguity.
An einem einsamen englischen Kustenort, wo das Marschland auf den Ozean trifft, wo Vogel die bessere Gesellschaft sind, lebt Fran eine ereignislose Routine.
Below the Waist: Pads, Hoops, Crinolines and Bustles provides a wide range of historical patterns and instructions to construct a range of underpinnings, simple pads, a farthingale, 18th century hoops, 19th century crinolines and bustles.
La Facultad de Estudios Ambientales y Rurales de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana es el resultado del esfuerzo y el trabajo constantes y perseverantes de un grupo de profesores de la universidad, comprometido con la comprension y la ensenanza de la economia solidaria, el desarrollo rural y el medio ambiente.
Exploring Film through Bad Cinema offers an overview of the practice of film analysis through a specific focus on the concept of "e;bad"e; cinema within a series of broad cultural and historical contexts.
Black Mirror: Allegories for the Atomised addresses the ways that media and communications technologies shape our relationships with society, with others, and ultimately, with ourselves.
So wie ein Placebo lediglich eine "Scheinarznei" ist, die an sich nur aus wirkungslosen Substanzen besteht, ist auch die Erziehung ein Scheinheilmittel, das verabreicht wird, obgleich Ihre Wirkung nicht nachweisbar ist.
Essays examining the effects of media innovations in cinema at the turn of the twentieth century affected performances on screen, as well as beside it.
Translating Silent Cinema examines closely the translation, adaptation, and reception of three silent films in English, German, and Yiddish to argue that the study of film translation should extend beyond textual translation to a wide selection of primary materials and the consideration of social, economic, cultural, and historical contexts.
When Gianni Bozzacchi accepted an assignment as a photographer on the set of The Comedians (1967), he didn't know that his life was about to change forever.
Jung and Star Wars is a comprehensive deep dive, analyzing the Star Wars phenomenon from the perspective of analytical psychology as a living mythology in our time.
Exploring Film through Bad Cinema offers an overview of the practice of film analysis through a specific focus on the concept of "e;bad"e; cinema within a series of broad cultural and historical contexts.
Music and Leadership: The Nature and Role of Aesthetics in Orchestrating Successful Organizations explores how music can offer fresh insight into the practice of leadership.
This book offers a detailed, comprehensive, and theoretically grounded study of experimental xiqu performances that have taken place in recent decades across Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and online platforms.
Jung and Star Wars is a comprehensive deep dive, analyzing the Star Wars phenomenon from the perspective of analytical psychology as a living mythology in our time.
Liz Kim traces the theories and artistic practices that articulated American experimental video through its key works and events, art critical discourse, as well as the politics of its funding and distribution during the 1970s into the 1980s, focusing on New York.
Music and Leadership: The Nature and Role of Aesthetics in Orchestrating Successful Organizations explores how music can offer fresh insight into the practice of leadership.
Liz Kim traces the theories and artistic practices that articulated American experimental video through its key works and events, art critical discourse, as well as the politics of its funding and distribution during the 1970s into the 1980s, focusing on New York.
Black Mirror: Allegories for the Atomised addresses the ways that media and communications technologies shape our relationships with society, with others, and ultimately, with ourselves.
