Gaudí Afternoon

Author : Barbara Wilson
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480455177

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Gaudí Afternoon by Barbara Wilson Pdf

A professional translator and amateur detective travels to Barcelona to find a missing man in this mystery hailed as a “high-spirited comic adventure” (The New York Times). American but with an Irish passport, the itinerant translator Cassandra Reilly is living in London when she receives an unexpected phone call. The voice on the other end belongs to Frankie Stevens, a San Francisco transplant with an unusual request. Her husband, Ben, has gone missing—presumably in Barcelona—and Frankie needs a translator to help her find him. Not one to pass up a well-paying gig or a free trip to Barcelona, Cassandra takes the job. But she quickly realizes that all is not as it seems. Frankie’s charm is matched only by her guile. As Cassandra chases down leads in search of Ben, she becomes increasingly tangled in a web of half-truths—and caught between former flames Ana and Carmen. Winner of the British Crime Writers’ Award for Best Mystery Based in Europe and the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Mystery, Gaudí Afternoon is the first book in the Cassandra Reilly Mystery series, which continues with Trouble in Transylvania and The Death of a Much-Travelled Woman, and concludes with The Case of the Orphaned Bassoonists.

Author : Michael Eaude
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789148787

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Antoni Gaudí by Michael Eaude Pdf

An accessible account of the contradictory life and work of the modernist Catalan architect. The celebrated art nouveau architect Antoni Gaudí was a contradictory figure: a deeply religious, politically right-wing man who nevertheless built revolutionary buildings. This book explores Gaudí’s life, work, and influences from Catalan nationalism to the industrial revolution. Michael Eaude expertly guides readers through Gaudí’s dozen great works, including the Sagrada Família that attracts millions of tourists each year. Gaudí’s life is also chronicled from his provincial upbringing in Reus to his time in Barcelona. He later suffered a nervous breakdown, became obsessively religious, and fused Gothic, Baroque, and Orientalist architecture into his unique style. This brief biography offers an accessible introduction to this perplexing and fascinating life.

Author : Bella Brodzki
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804755426

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Can These Bones Live? by Bella Brodzki Pdf

Fundamentally concerned with the means by which translation ensures the afterlife of literary and cultural texts, this book examines multiple processes of translation, temporal and spatial, through acts of intercultural exchange and intergenerational transmission.

Author : Douglas Burnham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351884112

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The Poetics of Transubstantiation by Douglas Burnham Pdf

The essays in this collection explore the concept of 'transubstantiation', its adaptations and transformations in English and European culture from the Elizabethans to the twentieth century. Favoring an interartistic and comparative perspective, a wide range of critical approaches, from the philosophical to the semiological, from cultural materialism to gender and queer studies, are brought to bear on authors ranging from Descartes, Shakespeare and Joyce, to Macpherson, Madox Ford, and Winterson, as well as on contemporary sculpture and an Italian adaptation of Conrad for the screen in an unusually comic vein. The volume, edited by Douglas Burnham of Staffordshire University and by Enrico Giaccherini of Pisa University, will be of interest to those concerned with the cultural history of Christianity and with the remarkable critical and theoretical insights generated by contemporary approaches to this traditional theme.

Author : Lucy Fischer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231544221

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Cinema by Design by Lucy Fischer Pdf

Art Nouveau thrived from the late 1890s through the First World War. The international design movement reveled in curvilinear forms and both playful and macabre visions and had a deep impact on cinematic art direction, costuming, gender representation, genre, and theme. Though historians have long dismissed Art Nouveau as a decadent cultural mode, its tremendous afterlife in cinema proves otherwise. In Cinema by Design, Lucy Fischer traces Art Nouveau's long history in films from various decades and global locales, appreciating the movement's enduring avant-garde aesthetics and dynamic ideology. Fischer begins with the portrayal of women and nature in the magical "trick films" of the Spanish director Segundo de Chomón; the elite dress and décor design choices in Cecil B. DeMille's The Affairs of Anatol (1921); and the mise-en-scène of fantasy in Raoul Walsh's The Thief of Bagdad (1924). Reading Salome (1923), Fischer shows how the cinema offered an engaging frame for adapting the risqué works of Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley. Moving to the modern era, Fischer focuses on a series of dramatic films, including Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger (1975), that make creative use of the architecture of Antoni Gaudí; and several European works of horror—The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), Deep Red (1975), and The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (2013)—in which Art Nouveau architecture and narrative supply unique resonances in scenes of terror. In later chapters, she examines films like Klimt (2006) that portray the style in relation to the art world and ends by discussing the Art Nouveau revival in 1960s cinema. Fischer's analysis brings into focus the partnership between Art Nouveau's fascination with the illogical and the unconventional and filmmakers' desire to upend viewers' perception of the world. Her work explains why an art movement embedded in modernist sensibilities can flourish in contemporary film through its visions of nature, gender, sexuality, and the exotic.

Author : Eugeni Osácar Marzal
Publisher : Diëresis
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9788494143847

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Barcelona Movie Walks by Eugeni Osácar Marzal Pdf

Enjoy a star-struck holiday in Barcelona in the footsteps of Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Robert de Niro, Scarlett Johansson and many more. Make your visit to Barcelona a film-star experience: see the locations of Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Biutiful, All About My Mother and more than 90 other films by directors such as Woody Allen, Pedro Almodóvar and Steven Soderbergh. Discover the parts of Barcelona immortalized by filmmakers and find out lots of interesting facts about the favourite places of the stars. Every chapter begins with a presentation: you will find detailed and interesting information about films of a certain genre shot in Barcelona, or about a specific director or film. You can find more info about the shoots and then re-live stories on the routes. This book also includes QR codes for mobile access to exclusive Internet maps including all the information and spots selected by the author. With the QR codes, you will have all the information you need, directly from the book to your smartphone! Barcelona is on the big screen – Lights, camera, action!

Author : Enric Bou,Jaume Subirana
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786945990

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The Barcelona Reader by Enric Bou,Jaume Subirana Pdf

The first comprehensive Reader to accompany the remarkable city of Barcelona

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1402497994

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Gaudí afternoon by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eugeni Osácar
Publisher : Diëresis
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9788494143878

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Catalonia Movie Walks by Eugeni Osácar Pdf

300 Catalonia movie locations to visit. Enjoy a star-struck holiday in Catalonia in the footsteps of Ava Gardner, Elizabeth Taylor, Orson Welles, Robert de Niro, Woody Allen, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Pattinson and many more. Make your visit to Catalonia a film-star experience: Catalonia ́s famous beaches have been attracting film makers ever since the Golden Age of Hollywood. Visit the idyllic locations used for such mythical films as Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, Suddenly Last Summer or Falstaff - Chimes at Midnight. You can also take a walk with the stars of the 21st century. Catalonia ́s spectacular cultural heritage and vast natural diversity have made it one of the best places in the world to combine holidays and cinema. Discover the locations for great movies like Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Perfume or films by Pedro Almodóvar. Your holidays in Catalonia are about to begin - lights, camera, action!

Author : Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano,Helio San Miguel
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781783201075

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World Film Locations: Barcelona by Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano,Helio San Miguel Pdf

Barcelona is one of the world’s most beautiful cities. A permanent showcase of the work of acclaimed architect Antoni Gaudí, it also has a long and rich cinematic legacy. Great directors from all over the world – among them Woody Allen, Pedro Almodóvar and Michelangelo Antonioni – have set their films there. World Film Locations: Barcelona is the first book of its kind to explore the rich cinematic history of this seductive Catalonian city. The illuminating essays collected here cover essential themes of the city’s cinematic history, including the origins of cinema in Barcelona; the role of Ciutat Vella (old quarter) as a film set; the influential Barcelona School of the 1960s; the film presence of Gaudí and his work; changing attitudes and urban renewal before and after the 1992 Olympics; and the emergence of a new generation of female filmmakers that have made Barcelona the centre of their cinematic explorations. This book will be a welcome addition to the libraries of anyone enchanted by the beauty of Barcelona, whether in person on the big screen.

Author : M. Makinen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230511781

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Feminist Popular Fiction by M. Makinen Pdf

An examination of feminist writers' appropriation of a range of popular genres: detective fiction, science fiction, romance and the fairy tale. The author argues that feminists can successfully appropriate all four genres because genres, as cultural productions, have accommodated the cultural changes brought about by second-wave feminism. The book provides a history of each of the genres, reinstating women's contributions in those histories, and a comprehensive review of the feminist critical debates on each of the genres.

Author : Brian James Baer,Geoffrey S. Koby
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027231885

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Beyond the Ivory Tower by Brian James Baer,Geoffrey S. Koby Pdf

This volume is divided into three sections. The first explores the pedagogical interventions that are focused on the performance of translation. The second part discusses approaches to translator training. The third part examines some of the pedagogical opportunities and challenges.

Author : Erin Smith
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781592139118

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Hard-Boiled by Erin Smith Pdf

An examination of the culture that produced and supported pulp-fiction.

Author : Klaus Kaindl,Karlheinz Spitzl
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270733

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Transfiction by Klaus Kaindl,Karlheinz Spitzl Pdf

This volume on Transfiction (understood as an aestheticized imagination of translatorial action) recognizes the power of fiction as a vital and pulsating academic resource, and in doing so helps expand the breadth and depth of TS. The book covers a selection of peer-reviewed papers from the 1st International Conference on Fictional Translators and Interpreters in Literature and Film (held at the University of Vienna, Austria in 2011) and links literary and cinematic works of translation fiction to state-of-the-art translation theory and practice. It presents not just a mixed bag of cutting-edge views and perspectives, but great care has been taken to turn it into a well-rounded transficcionario with a fluid dialogue among its 22 chapters. Its investigation of translatorial action in the mirror of fiction (i.e. beyond the cognitive barrier of ‘fact’) and its multiple transdisciplinary trajectories make for thought-provoking readings in TS, comparative literature, as well as foreign language and literature courses.

Author : Lisa M. Dresner
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476607733

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The Female Investigator in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture by Lisa M. Dresner Pdf

In this book the author examines how women detectives are portrayed in film, in literature and on TV. Chapters examine the portrayal of female investigators in each of these four genres: the Gothic novel, the lesbian detective novel, television and film.