Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject Film Science, grade: A (1,3), University of Glasgow (Department of Film- and TV-Studies), language: English, abstract: "e;The epithets used to describe the films of Werner Herzog invariably emphasise the critics' feeling that they have been impressed by something that goes beyond rational analysis"e;1This statement by John Sandford seems to sum up the fascinating consequence of the mysterious enigma of Werner Herzog s films: an irrational aesthetic method, an irrational performance and an irrational effect.
AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA VOGUE, TELEGRAPH AND THE NERVE BOOK OF THE SUMMER 2026From the actor known for Skins and Games of Thrones, a deeply intimate, shockingly honest memoir about acting, fame, mental illness and the struggle to leave a cult-like organisation whose belief in magic shattered Hannah s reality.
The unputdownable new murder mystery in the Sunday Times bestselling detective series, from the award-winning author of Magpie Murders and Close to Death.
Graciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil brings updated criticism in English on the work of the prominent Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos (1892-1953), a key figure in understanding the making of modern Brazil.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 WAINWRIGHT PRIZEAS SEEN ON ITV NEWS' COVERAGE OF THE KING CHARLES III COASTAL PATHAS FEATURED IN THE SUNDAY TIMES AND TELEGRAPHAS FEATURED ON TIMES RADIO BREAKFAST AND LBC'An exquisite record of a monumental endeavour and an intimate portrait of an extraordinary coast' NICHOLAS CRANE'Astonishing .
This interdisciplinary book breaks new ground by systematically examining ways in which two of the most important works of late medieval English literature - Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Love and William Langland's Piers Plowman - arose from engagement with the biblical Apocalypse and exegetical writings.
A richly illustrated look at three visionary artists who charted new directions for photography in midcentury AmericaMinor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan carved out a new role for photographers and their art in the decades after World War Two.
This book is a collection of fourteen essays on the Dialogues on Painting, published by the Florentine-born Spanish painter and art theorist Vicente Carducho (1568-1638) in 1633.
Blending folklore studies, media theory, horror criticism and cultural geography, this collection charts an unprecedented map of urban legend storytelling, from haunted cemeteries to pixelated backrooms.
Sir Percy Thomas was the most important twentieth-century architect in Wales, renowned for interwar civic buildings such as Swansea Guildhall and the Temple of Peace in Cardiff.
Beyond the Lesbian Vampire is a groundbreaking dive into the pervasive archetype of the violent lesbian, examining this historically problematic figure within cultural and cinematic imagination - from witch to vampire to murderer - and identifying her resurgence in seven critically acclaimed queer horror films of the late 2010s.
Even as many in the modern world draw away from organised religion, the great hymns of our time persist: we turn to them at weddings and funerals, at rugby matches and in pubs.
The television writing of Russell T Davies defies easy categorisation, ranging from children's programmes, across Shakespeare, historical drama and comedy, to the landmark series that have made him a household name: Queer As Folk, Doctor Who and It's a Sin.
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2009 in the subject Film Science, grade: A, Savannah College of Art and Design - The University for Creative Careers (School of Film and Digital Media, Savannah College of Art and Design), course: Film and Digital Media Production, language: English, abstract: Dean Cundey in as American cinematographer, most notably known for both, his early career in low-budget genre movies like Halloween, and his rise to one of Hollywood's most sought after cinematographers for big effects movies in the late 1980s and 1990s, like Back To The Future or Jurassic Park.
This book explores the development of a new theoretical perspective, the socio-cultural model for communicating health via community radio (CR) as an alternative critical perspective to mainstream approaches to health communication.
This book explores the development of a new theoretical perspective, the socio-cultural model for communicating health via community radio (CR) as an alternative critical perspective to mainstream approaches to health communication.
This anthology comprises essays that study the form, aesthetics and representations of LGBTQ+ identities in an emerging sub-genre of film and television termed 'New Queer Horror'.
This is a ground-breaking exploration that runs generally against the critical grain in identifying a burgeoning production of films of fear and horror before the admission of the horror film genre per se.
Luis de Morales, known as El Divino because of his intensely religious subject matter, is the most significant and recognisable Spanish painter of the mid-sixteenth century, the high point of the Spanish and Portuguese counter-reformations.