Author : Alexander Kluge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0857428470
Kong's Finest Hour
Alexander Kluge
Kong S Finest Hour
Kong S Finest Hour Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Kong S Finest Hour book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Dark Matter
Richard Langston
Author : Richard Langston
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781788735193
Dark Matter by Richard Langston Pdf
Unravelling the thought of Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt Collaborators for more than four decades, lawyer, author, filmmaker, and multimedia artist Alexander Kluge and social philosopher Oskar Negt are an exceptional duo in the history of Critical Theory precisely because their respective disciplines think so differently. Dark Matter argues that what makes their contributions to the Frankfurt School so remarkable is how they think together in spite of these differences. Kluge and Negt's "gravitational thinking" balances not only the abstractions of theory with the concreteness of the aesthetic, but also their allegiances to Frankfurt School mentors with their fascination for other German, French, and Anglo-American thinkers distinctly outside the Frankfurt tradition. At the core of all their adventures in gravitational thinking is a profound sense that the catastrophic conditions of modern life are not humankind's unalterable fate. In opposition to modernity's disastrous state of affairs, Kluge and Negt regard the huge mass of dark matter throughout the universe as the lodestar for thinking together with others, for dark matter is that absolute guarantee that happier alternatives to our calamitous world are possible. As illustrated throughout Langston's study, dark matter's promise--its critical orientation out of catastrophic modernity--finds its expression, above all, in Kluge's multimedia aesthetic.
Winston S. Churchill: Finest Hour, 1939–1941
Martin Gilbert
Author : Martin Gilbert
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 1031 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780795344633
Winston S. Churchill: Finest Hour, 1939–1941 by Martin Gilbert Pdf
The sixth volume in the official biography: “A milestone, a monument, a magisterial achievement” (Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War). Starting with the outbreak of war in September 1939 and ending with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, this volume in the epic biography of Winston S. Churchill draws on remarkably diverse material: from the War Cabinet and other government records to Churchill’s own archive and diaries and letters of his private secretariat to the recollections of those who worked most closely with him. On the day Hitler invaded Poland, Churchill, aged sixty-four, had been out of office for ten years. Two days later, he became First Lord of the Admiralty, in charge of British naval policy and at the center of war direction. In May 1940 he became prime minister, leading his nation during a time of grave danger and setbacks. His first year and a half as prime minister included the Dunkirk evacuation, the fall of France, the Battle of Britain, the Blitz, the Battle of the Atlantic, the struggle in the Western Desert, and Hitler’s invasion of Russia. By the end of 1940, Britain under Churchill’s leadership had survived the onslaught and was making plans to continue the war against an enemy of unlimited ambition and ferocious will. One of Churchill’s inner circle said: “We who worked with Churchill every day of the war still saw at most a quarter of his daily tasks and worries.” Martin Gilbert has pieced together the whole, setting in context much hitherto scattered and secret evidence, in order to give an intimate and fascinating account of the architect of Britain’s “finest hour.” “The most scholarly study of Churchill in war and peace ever written.” —Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times
The Acoustical Unconscious
Robert Ryder
Author : Robert Ryder
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110733020
The Acoustical Unconscious by Robert Ryder Pdf
Is there an acoustical equivalent to Walter Benjamin’s idea of the optical unconscious? In the 1930s, Benjamin was interested in how visual media expand our optical perception: the invention of the camera allowed us to see images and details that we could not consciously perceive before. This study argues that Benjamin was also concerned with how acoustical media allow us to “hear otherwise,” that is, to listen to sound structures previously lost to the naked ear. Crucially, they help sensitize us to the discursive sonority of words, which Benjamin was already alluding to in his autobiographical work. In five chapters that range in scope from Tieck’s Blonde Eckbert, which Benjamin once called his locus classicus of his theory of forgetting, to Alexander Kluge’s films and short texts, where he develops what he calls “sound perspectives,” this monograph discusses how the acoustical unconscious enriches our understanding of different media, from the written word to radio and film. As the first book-length study of Benjamin’s linguistic, cultural-historical, and media-theoretical reflections on sound, this book will be particularly relevant to students and scholars of both German studies and sound studies.
Beasts and Behemoths
Roy Kinnard
Author : Roy Kinnard
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0810820625
Beasts and Behemoths by Roy Kinnard Pdf
Films about prehistoric animals range in quality from classics like The Lost World (1925), KingKong (1933), and One Million B.C. (1940), to duds like Reptilicus (1962). This book offers critiques and background information on the best and worst in this sub-genre, full cast and production credits for each, and a checklist of lesser films.
Darkest Hour
Helen Nielsen
Author : Helen Nielsen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440541254
Darkest Hour by Helen Nielsen Pdf
A super-cool lady - a passionate murder. Simon Drake hadn’t counted on violence when he asked the super-cool Hannah Lee to manage the Marina Beach mansion. With beautiful Hannah residing as den mother and poker companion, Simon soon found himself host to the most colorful characters on the California coast. And, shortly, he discovered that his lovely home was a haven from everything but passionate murder.
Winston S. Churchill: Finest hour, 1939-1941
Randolph Spencer Churchill,Martin Gilbert
Author : Randolph Spencer Churchill,Martin Gilbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1362 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015008452099
Winston S. Churchill: Finest hour, 1939-1941 by Randolph Spencer Churchill,Martin Gilbert Pdf
Vols. 3-8 by Martin Gilbert. v. 1. Youth, 1874-1900.--v. 2. Young statesman, 1901-1914. Companion. pt. 1. 1901-1907. pt. 2. 1907-1911. pt. 3. 1911-1914.--v. 3. 1914-1916, the challenge of war. Companion. pt. 1. July 1914-April 1915. pt. 2. May 1915-December 1916. --Companion v. 5 pt. 1-2--v. 6. Finest hour, 1939-1941.--v. 7 Road to victory, 1941-1945 -- v. 8. 'Never despair', 1945-1965.
Merchant Vessels of the United States
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2016 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Ship registers
ISBN : WISC:89107209850
Merchant Vessels of the United States by Anonim Pdf
Feeding Frenzy
Will Self
Author : Will Self
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015053476217
Feeding Frenzy by Will Self Pdf
This collection of Will Self's journalism and selected writings takes the reader through the turbulent years 1995-2000, covering everything from his restaurant reviews to Tate Modern and the contemporary British art scene, and cultural phenomena as diverse as voyeuristic television and the Queen Mother.
Finest Hour
Martin Gilbert
Author : Martin Gilbert
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 1356 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : NWU:35556019504216
Finest Hour by Martin Gilbert Pdf
Alternative Europe
Ernest Mathijs,Xavier Mendik
Author : Ernest Mathijs,Xavier Mendik
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1903364930
Alternative Europe by Ernest Mathijs,Xavier Mendik Pdf
Whether defined by comic excesses, cult horrors, or surreal vampire experimentations, trash and exploitation cinema represents the alternative face of European film. Although extremely popular with post-war audiences, these historically significant traditions of 'Eurotrash' have often been ridiculed or ignored by an established film criticism eager to define 'legitimate' European cinema as either avant-garde or socially realist. Alternative Europe: Eurotrash and Exploitation Cinema Since 1945 investigates these previously under-explored national traditions of film culture, with essays and festival reports uncovering the social and cultural trends and tensions within a wide range of European exploitation movies. The volume considers such engaging and challenging topics as Russian, Belgian and Italian horror cinema, Gothic musclemen movies, Nazi 'sexploitation' cycles, German erotic cinema and 1970s European 'rogue cop' thrillers. Alternative Europe also includes interviews with trash directors and icons such as Brian Yuzna, J'rg Buttgereit and Giovanni Lombardo Radice.
New Media and Public Diplomacy
Parama Sinha Palit
Author : Parama Sinha Palit
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000872477
New Media and Public Diplomacy by Parama Sinha Palit Pdf
This book examines the role of new media and digital technologies in public diplomacy and political communication. Exploring political communication in India as well as in the US and China, it highlights the fundamental changes that new technology has brought about in public diplomacy. While facilitating direct engagement with constituents and tapping into territories and audiences which were harder to reach before, the new media’s power to influence perceptions has revolutionised public diplomacy and engagement like never before. While managing national brands utilizing digital tools has emerged imperative for contemporary nation states, they are equally engaged in online disinformation and influence campaigns. This book analyzes these activities and also emphasizes the critical role of social media in defining and shaping political attitudes while empowering the ordinary public and the leadership alike. The author, through examples from India, the US, and China, also examines the challenges of using digital tools in diplomacy and its effects on democracies across the world. Lucid and engaging, this book will be an essential read for students and scholars of communication studies, political studies, diplomacy and foreign policy, defence and strategic analysis, media and culture studies, and international relations.
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Confucius,E. Bruce Brooks,A. Taeko Brooks
Author : Confucius,E. Bruce Brooks,A. Taeko Brooks
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Children
ISBN : 0231104316
??? by Confucius,E. Bruce Brooks,A. Taeko Brooks Pdf
Bruce and Taeko Brooks have returned this wide-ranging text to its full historical and intellectual setting, organizing the sayings in their original chronological sequence, and permitting the Analects to be read for maximum understanding, not as a closed system of thought but as a richly revealing record of the interaction of life and thought as it evolved over almost the entire Warring States period.
From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima
Saki Dockrill
Author : Saki Dockrill
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349231294
From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima by Saki Dockrill Pdf
'The most significant issue that Dockrill addresses is that of how Japan views the war in retrospect, a question which not only tells us a lot about how events were seen in Japan in 1941 but is also, a matter still of importance in contemporary East Asian politics.' Antony Best, London School of Economics This multi-authored work, edited by Saki Dockrill, is an original, unique, and controversial interpretation of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific. Dr Dockrill, the author of Britain's Policy for West German Rearmament, has skilfully converted the proceedings of an international conference held in London into a stimulating and readable account of the Pacific War. This is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the subject.
Thailand And The Fall Of Singapore
Nigel J Brailey
Author : Nigel J Brailey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000314465
Thailand And The Fall Of Singapore by Nigel J Brailey Pdf
Focusing on the period between 1932 and 1968, this comprehensive study bridges the gap between recent political studies and available historiography, which generally conclude with the 1932 revolution. Dr. Brailey discusses the 1942 Japanese capture of Singapore that dragged a reluctant Thailand into World War II—a war Thai leaders believed was irrelevant to their national interests. He argues that this country, which had launched one of the East's earliest nationalist revolutions, had its political development reversed for a quarter century by the arrival of Japanese troops. Ironically, the Japanese presence in the region enabled most of Thailand's neighbors to promote their own development through decolonization. Dr. Brailey demonstrates that Thailand, once freed from post-war trauma, achieved a level of political freedom unsurpassed in Asia without seriously compromising its stability.
