Flickerings

Author : Richard Abel
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520286788

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Menus for Movieland by Richard Abel Pdf

At the turn of the past century, the main function of a newspaper was to offer “menus” by which readers could make sense of modern life and imagine how to order their daily lives. Among those menus in the mid-1910s were several that mediated the interests of movie manufacturers, distributors, exhibitors, and the rapidly expanding audience of fans. This writing about the movies arguably played a crucial role in the emergence of American popular film culture, negotiating among national, regional, and local interests to shape fans’ ephemeral experience of moviegoing, their repeated encounters with the fantasy worlds of “movieland,” and their attractions to certain stories and stars. Moreover, many of these weekend pages, daily columns, and film reviews were written and consumed by women, including one teenage girl who compiled a rare surviving set of scrapbooks. Based on extensive original research, Menus for Movieland substantially revises what moviegoing meant in the transition to what we now think of as Hollywood.

Author : Michael Glover Smith,Adam Selzer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231850797

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Flickering Empire by Michael Glover Smith,Adam Selzer Pdf

Flickering Empire tells the fascinating yet little-known story of how Chicago served as the unlikely capital of American film production in the years before the rise of Hollywood (1907–1913). As entertaining as it is informative, Flickering Empire straddles the worlds of academic and popular nonfiction in its vivid illustration of the rise and fall of the major Chicago movie studios in the mid-silent era (principally Essanay and Selig Polyscope). Colorful, larger-than-life historical figures, including Thomas Edison, Charlie Chaplin, Oscar Micheaux, and Orson Welles, are major players in the narrative—in addition to important though forgotten industry titans, such as "Colonel" William Selig, George Spoor, and Gilbert "Broncho Billy" Anderson.

Author : Joanne Bernardi,Paolo Cherchi Usai,Tami Williams,Joshua Yumibe
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253053022

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Provenance and Early Cinema by Joanne Bernardi,Paolo Cherchi Usai,Tami Williams,Joshua Yumibe Pdf

Remnants of early films often have a story to tell. As material artifacts, these film fragments are central to cinema history, perhaps more than ever in our digital age of easy copying and sharing. If a digital copy is previewed before preservation or is shared with a researcher outside the purview of a film archive, knowledge about how the artifact was collected, circulated, and repurposed threatens to become obscured. When the question of origin is overlooked, the story can be lost. Concerned contributors in Provenance and Early Cinema challenge scholars digging through film archives to ask, "How did these moving images get here for me to see them?" This volume, which features the conference proceedings from Domitor, the International Society for the Study of Early Cinema, 2018, questions preservation, attribution, and patterns of reuse in order to explore singular artifacts with long and circuitous lives.

Author : Mu Soeng
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780861715749

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The Heart of the Universe by Mu Soeng Pdf

Though "The Heart Sutra" is an ancient Buddhist scripture, scholars are now discovering how it offers insight into the nature of an ultimate reality perceived through intuitive wisdom. Fascinatingly, quantum physicists are increasingly discovering interesting parallels between science and the basic insights of "The Heart Sutra." In this important offering, Mu Soeng shows how the intellectual and the intuitive can begin to meet. In offering a commentary on this important piece of the world's great religious literature, "The Heart of the Universe" establishes a broad context to encounter "The Heart Sutra" on many levels -- historical, spiritual, and empirical -- each serving to interdependently illuminate the other.

Author : H W Pierson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Homeopathy
ISBN : UOM:39015013768992

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The Hahnemannian Advocate by H W Pierson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : PSU:000015189028

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Publications of the Astronomical Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Astrophysics
ISBN : UVA:X001407794

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10th European Regional Astronomy Meeting of the IAU, Praha, Czechoslovakia, August 24-29, 1987: Interplanetary matter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Astronomický ústav (Československá akademie věd)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : UOM:39015027846776

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Publikace by Astronomický ústav (Československá akademie věd) Pdf

Author : C. C. W. Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198236700

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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume XIV, 1996 by C. C. W. Taylor Pdf

The latest installment of this annual publication includes original articles, often of substantial length, and review articles on major books. Contributors include Panagiotis Dimas, Thomas Wheeton Bestor, Iakovos Vasiliou, Susanne Bobzien, William O. Stephens, Job Van Eck, Christopher Rowe, Michael V. Wedin, Gail Fine, and Anne Sheppard.

Author : Marcel Minnaert
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781461227229

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Light and Color in the Outdoors by Marcel Minnaert Pdf

All of science springs from the observation of nature. In this classic book, the late Professor Minnaert accompanies the reader on a tour of nature's light and color and reveals the myriad phenomena that may be observed outdoors with no more than a pair of eyes and an enquiring mind. From the intriguing shape of the dapples beneath a tree on a sunny day, via rainbows, mirages, and haloes, the colors of liquid, ice, and the sky, to the appearance of the sun, moon, planets, and stars - Minnaert describes and explains them all in a clear language accessible to laymen. This new English edition is supplemented by 80 plates, over half of them in color, taken by the acclaimed photographer Pekka Parviainen, illustrating many of the phenomena - ordinary and exotic - discussed in the book.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Birds
ISBN : UOM:39015012335983

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Forest and Stream by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eileen C. Schwab,Howard C. Nusbaum
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781483259611

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Pattern Recognition by Humans and Machines by Eileen C. Schwab,Howard C. Nusbaum Pdf

Pattern Recognition by Humans and Machines, Volume 2: Visual Perception provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of research on perception. This book focuses on several fundamental problems of pattern recognition in speech perception and visual form perception. Organized into seven chapters, this volume begins with an overview of some of the basic theoretical questions in speech perception. This text then explores the spatiotemporal orchestration of visuosensory attentional and oculomotor processes involved in active visual exploration. Other chapters consider several basic questions concerning visual form perception, including the perception of patterns and features. This book discusses as well the role of eye movements in pattern processing and models of segmentation and pattern recognition. The final chapter describes the distinctions made in perceptual processing between model-driven and data-driven processing. This book is a valuable resource for psychologists in general and specialists in the field of perception. Computer and cognitive scientists will also find this book useful.

Author : J.Compton Burnett
Publisher : B. Jain Publishers
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8180560503

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Fistula and Its Radical Cure by J.Compton Burnett Pdf

During the past fifteen years a considerable number of cases of diseases of the anal & intercrural regions have been under my professional care notably cases of haemorrhoids and cocele.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : English periodicals
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030035736851

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Nineteenth Century, a Monthly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Nineteenth century
ISBN : CORNELL:31924066518279

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Nineteenth Century and After by Anonim Pdf