From Alice To Buena Vista

Author : Roger Bromley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780313073694

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From Alice to Buena Vista by Roger Bromley Pdf

This analysis of the films of Wim Wenders from the early 1970's through the 1990's attempts to place his work in the cultural and political context of the time. Feminist analysis, cultural theory, and psychoanalysis combine to explore the major themes in the films with an emphasis on gender and narrative and on Wenders' concern with the representation of otherness. Wenders' earlier films reflect concerns with identity and with issues of masculinity and detachment. His later films reveal a preoccupation with seeing, images, and love, which culminated in the international success of The Buena Vista Social Club. As this study suggests, Wenders' later works manifest a shift in direction away from indifference and toward reconciliation, ethical practice, and relationships. This study will appeal to film scholars, to those with a special interest in German cinema and culture and to admirers of Wenders' films. Thematically arranged, chapters begin with the early films and trace the masculinity, identity, and lost narrative motifs throughout Wenders' oeuvre.

Author : Geoffrey Baker
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822349594

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Buena Vista in the Club by Geoffrey Baker Pdf

Geoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its partial eclipse by reggaet&ón.

Author : Zoe Jaques,Eugene Giddens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317105527

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Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Zoe Jaques,Eugene Giddens Pdf

Emerging in several different versions during the author's lifetime, Lewis Carroll's Alice novels have a publishing history almost as magical and mysterious as the stories themselves. Zoe Jaques and Eugene Giddens offer a detailed and nuanced account of the initial publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and investigate how their subsequent transformations through print, illustration, film, song, music videos, and even stamp-cases and biscuit tins affected the reception of these childhood favourites. The authors consider issues related to the orality of the original tale and its impact on subsequent transmission, the differences between the manuscripts and printed editions, and the politics of writing and publishing for children in the 1860s. In addition, they take account of Carroll's own responses to the books' popularity, including his writing of major adaptations and a significant body of meta-textual commentary, and his reactions to the staging of Alice in Wonderland. Attentive to the child reader, how changing notions of childhood identity and needs affected shifting narratives of the story, and the representation of the child's body by various illustrators, the authors also make a significant contribution to childhood studies.

Author : René V. Arcilla
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350110441

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Wim Wenders's Road Movie Philosophy by René V. Arcilla Pdf

What is education? Most of the time, we have little patience for this question because we take the answer to be obvious: we identify education with school learning. This book focuses on education outside of the school context as a basis for criticizing and improving school learning. Following the examples of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Dewey, Arcilla seeks to harmonize schooling with a more pervasive education we are all naturally undergoing. He develops a philosophical theory of education that stresses the experience of being led out-a theory latent in the Latin term, “educere”-by examining the road movies of Wim Wenders. This book contributes both to our understanding of another crucial kind of education our schooling could better serve, and to our appreciation of what unifies and distinguishes Wenders's achievements in cinema.

Author : K. McKim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230354050

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Love in the Time of Cinema by K. McKim Pdf

Kristi McKim offers close-analyses of films in which attachment and detachment, intimacy and distance, ephemera and endurance become more visible and meaningful. Films discussed include Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire , Agnès Varda's Jacquot de Nantes , Doris Dörrie's Cherry Blossoms and Olivier Assayas' Summer Hours.

Author : Carol Sklenicka
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451621334

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Alice Adams by Carol Sklenicka Pdf

The first full-scale biography of prolific writer Alice Adams, whose celebrated stories and bestselling novels traced women’s lives and illuminated “an era characterized both by drastic cultural changes and by the persistence of old expectations, conventions, and biases” (The New Yorker). “Nobody writes better about falling in love than Alice Adams,” a New York Times critic said of the prolific writer. Born in 1926, Alice Adams grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, during the Great Depression and came of age during World War II. After college at Radcliffe and a year in Paris, she moved to San Francisco. Always a rebel in good-girl’s clothing, Adams used her education, sexual and emotional curiosity, and uncompromising artistic ambition to break the strictures that bound women in midcentury America. Divorced with a child to raise, she worked at secretarial jobs for two decades before she could earn a living as a writer. One of only four winners of the O. Henry Special Award for Continuing Achievement, Adams wove her life into her fiction and used her writing to understand the changing tides of the 20th century. Her work portrays vibrant characters both young and old who live on the edge of their emotions, absorbed by love affairs yet always determined to be independent and to fulfill their personal destinies. Carol Sklenicka interweaves Adams’s deeply felt, elegantly fierce life with a cascade of events—the civil rights and women’s rights movements, the sixties counterculture, and sexual freedom. Her biography’s revealing analyses of Adams’s stories and novels from Careless Love to Superior Women to The Last Lovely City, and her extensive interviews with Adams’s family and friends, among them Mary Gaitskill, Diane Johnson, Anne Lamott, and Alison Lurie, give us the definitive story of a writer often dubbed “America’s Colette.” Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer captures not just a beloved woman’s life in full, but a crucial span of American history.

Author : Disney Digital Books
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781368094634

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World of Reading:: Alice's Wonderland Bakery: Meet Alice by Disney Digital Books Pdf

Meet Alice, the great-granddaughter of the original Alice in Wonderland, and her diverse community of Wonderland friends in this 32-page Level Pre-1 World of Reading book. With a sprinkle of creativity, a dash of curiosity, and a can-do attitude, Alice is ready to confront any kitchen challenge, from catering a mad tea party to baking an unbirthday cake for the Queen of Hearts. Her friends Dad Hatter and his son Hattie, Fergie the White Rabbit, Alice's pet cat Dinah, and the not-evil-Queen of Hearts and her daughter Princess Rosa, who are of Latino heritage, make her world fun and filled with friendship. This book is part of Disney's World of Reading series, which provides emerging readers with books that inspire and excite them, featuring characters they love. Each level is designed to help readers navigate the wonderful world of reading at just the right pace. If you like this book, you may also want to consider adding these Disney books to your collection: Alice's Wonderland Bakery: Unforgettable Unbirthday World of Reading: Meet Mira World of Reading: Queen of Hearts World of Reading: Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures Campy Camper Day

Author : Disney Books
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781368094627

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Alice's Wonderland Bakery: Unforgettable Unbirthday by Disney Books Pdf

Welcome back to Wonderland! When Alice, the 8-year-old great-granddaughter of Alice from the original animated film, inherits her great-grandmother's enchanted cookbook, she arrives in Wonderland to run a magical bakery. Alice tries to bake a special birthday cake for Princess Rosa, the Queen of Hearts's daughter. But when Princess Rosa's birthday celebration doesn't go as planned, Alice invites her new friend to her bakery to celebrate her unbirthday! With a sprinkle of creativity, a dash of curiosity, and a can-do attitude, Alice is ready to confront any kitchen challenge, from catering a mad tea party to baking an unbirthday cake for Princess Rosa. Complete your Disney Junior collection with these fan favorites: Minnie: One Unicorny Day Mira, Royal Detective: Undercover Princess T.O.T.S.: You've Gotta Be Kitten Me (with Stickers!) Happy Birthday Puppy Dog Pals! Minnie's Happy Helpers: Minnie's Surprise

Author : Disney Book Group
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781368096478

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World of Reading: Alice's Wonderland Bakery: Wonderful Wonderland Adventures, Level Pre-1 by Disney Book Group Pdf

Pre-Level 1 readers will enjoy this collection of five whimsical tales about Alice, her friends, and the wonderful world of Alice's Wonderland Bakery. Based on episodes of the Disney Junior animated series, these adorable stories cater to readers in training and are sure to entertain. If you like this book, you may also want to consider adding these Disney books to your collection: Alice's Wonderland Bakery: Unforgettable Unbirthday World of Reading: Alice's Wonderland Bakery: Meet Alice Alice's Wonderland Bakery: Where There's a Whisk, There's a Way World of Reading: Meet Mira World of Reading: Queen of Hearts World of Reading: Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures Campy Camper Day

Author : Cheryl J. Foote
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0826337554

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Women of the New Mexico Frontier, 1846-1912 by Cheryl J. Foote Pdf

Biographies of and a collection of writings by women who, for various reasons, found themselves living in New Mexico Territory, from the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War I.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : S. E. Grose
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Amherst County Virginia Heritage by Anonim Pdf

Author : Timothy S. Susanin
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781604739619

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Walt Before Mickey by Timothy S. Susanin Pdf

The untold story of ten critical, formative years in the great producer's life

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2262 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Merchant marine
ISBN : UCSD:31822009619313

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Merchant Vessels of the United States by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alexis Krasilovsky
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317363583

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Great Adaptations: Screenwriting and Global Storytelling by Alexis Krasilovsky Pdf

Great Adaptations: Screenwriting and Global Storytelling is the Second Place Winner in the 2019 International Writers Awards! A vast majority of Academy Award-winning Best Pictures, television movies of the week, and mini-series are adaptations, watched by millions of people globally. Great Adaptations: Screenwriting and Global Storytelling examines the technical methods of adapting novels, short stories, plays, life stories, magazine articles, blogs, comic books, graphic novels and videogames from one medium to another, focusing on the screenplay. Written in a clear and succinct style, perfect for intermediate and advanced screenwriting students, Great Adaptations explores topics essential to fully appreciating the creative, historical and sociological aspects of the adaptation process. It also provides up-to-date, practical advice on the legalities of acquiring rights and optioning and selling adaptations, and is inclusive of a diverse variety of perspectives that will inspire and challenge students and screenwriters alike. Please follow the link below to a short excerpt from an interview with Carole Dean about Great Adaptations: https://fromtheheartproductions.com/getting-creative-when-creating-great-adaptations/

Author : Lesley Poling-Kempes
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780816524945

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Ladies of the Canyons by Lesley Poling-Kempes Pdf

Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of a group of remarkable women whose lives were transformed by the people and landscape of the American Southwest in the first decades of the twentieth century.