Movies On A Mission

Author : Glenn Reynolds
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476650210

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Movies on a Mission by Glenn Reynolds Pdf

This investigation into the little-known genre of mission-oriented films uncovers how Protestant missionaries overseas sought to bring back motion picture footage from remote parts of the world. In the broader religious community, mission films aimed to educate congregants back home about efforts to evangelize communities around the world. This book, however, demonstrates the larger impact of mission films on American visual culture. The evolution and development of the genre is highlighted from an early emphasis on "foreign views" in the 1910s, to interwar films providing a more detailed look at how mission stations functioned in far-flung lands, to Cold War productions which at times functioned as veritable propaganda tools parroting anti-communist discourse emanating from the CIA.

Author : David James
Publisher : Boxtree, Limited
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 0752213482

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Saving Private Ryan by David James Pdf

Author : Irene Silverblatt
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0822334178

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Modern Inquisitions by Irene Silverblatt Pdf

DIVExplores the profound cultural transformations triggered by Spain's efforts to colonize the Andean region, and demonstrates the continuing influence of the Inquisition to the present day./div

Author : Dalai Lama,Desmond Tutu
Publisher : Random House
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Happiness
ISBN : 9781786330444

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The Book of Joy by Dalai Lama,Desmond Tutu Pdf

'I want to wish all of you joy-because there is no better gift. Two spiritual masters, the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, share their wisdom in this uplifting book. I promise you, it's the best $26 you can spend.' Oprah Winfrey Nobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have survived more than fifty years of exile and the soul-crushing violence of oppression. Despite their hardships - or, as they would say, because of them - they are two of the most joyful people on the planet. In April 2015, Archbishop Tutu travelled to the Dalai Lama's home in Dharamsala, India, to celebrate His Holiness's eightieth birthday and to create this book as a gift for others. They looked back on their long lives to answer a single burning question: how do we find joy in the face of life's inevitable suffering? They traded intimate stories, teased each other continually, and shared their spiritual practices. By the end of a week filled with laughter and punctuated with tears, these two global heroes had stared into the abyss and despair of our times and revealed how to live a life brimming with joy. This book offers us a rare opportunity to experience their astonishing and unprecedented week together, from the first embrace to the final goodbye.

Author : Foster Hirsch
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780307958938

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Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties by Foster Hirsch Pdf

A fascinating look at Hollywood’s most turbulent decade and the demise of the studio system—set against the boom of the post–World War II years, the Cold War, and the atomic age—and the movies that reflected the seismic shifts Hollywood in the 1950s was a period when the film industry both set conventions and broke norms and traditions—from Cinerama, CinemaScope, and VistaVision to the epic film and lavish musical. It was a decade that saw the rise of the anti-hero; the smoldering, the hidden, and the unspoken; teenagers gone wild in the streets; the sacred and the profane; the revolution of the Method; the socially conscious; the implosion of the studios; the end of the production code; and the invasion of the ultimate body snatcher: the “small screen” television. Here is Eisenhower’s America—seemingly complacent, conformity-ridden revealed in Vincente Minnelli’s Father of the Bride, Walt Disney’s Cinderella, and Brigadoon, among others. And here is its darkening, resonant landscape, beset by conflict, discontent, and anxiety (The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Asphalt Jungle, A Place in the Sun, Touch of Evil, It Came From Outer Space) . . . an America on the verge of cultural, political and sexual revolt, busting up and breaking out (East of Eden, From Here to Eternity, On the Waterfront, Sweet Smell of Success, The Wild One, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Jailhouse Rock). An important, riveting look at our nation at its peak as a world power and at the political, cultural, sexual upheavals it endured, reflected and explored in the quintessential American art form.

Author : Kay Almere Read
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998-07-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0253113911

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Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos by Kay Almere Read Pdf

This introduction to the imaginative world of the Mexica (or Aztec) explores sacrifice in the richly textured life of 16th-century Mexico. Kay Almere Read describes a universe in which every object was timed by a given lifespan and in which sacrifice was the mechanism by which time functioned. This book makes a convincing case for what sacrifice meant religiously and for how it came to be that human sacrifice of staggering proportions could be accepted, matter-of-factly, by the Mexica people.

Author : Bill Nichols
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Film criticism
ISBN : 0520054091

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Movies and Methods by Bill Nichols Pdf

VOLUME 2: "Movies and Methods," Volume II, captures the developments that have given history and genre studies imaginative new models and indicates how feminist, structuralist, and psychoanalytic approaches to film have achieved fresh, valuable insights. In his thoughtful introduction, Nichols provides a context for the paradoxes that confront film studies today. He shows how shared methods and approaches continue to stimulate much of the best writing about film, points to common problems most critics and theorists have tried to resolve, and describes the internal contraditions that have restricted the usefulness of post-structuralism. Mini-introductions place each essay in a larger context and suggest its linkages with other essays in the volume. A great variety of approaches and methods characterize film writing today, and the final part conveys their diversity--from statistical style analysis to phenomenology and from gay criticisms to neoformalism. This concluding part also shows how the rigorous use of a broad range of approaches has helped remove post-structuralist criticism from its position of dominance through most of the seventies and early eighties. -- Publisher description.

Author : Gustavo Rossi,Oscar Pastor,Daniel Schwabe,Luis Olsina
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781846289231

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Web Engineering: Modelling and Implementing Web Applications by Gustavo Rossi,Oscar Pastor,Daniel Schwabe,Luis Olsina Pdf

“Web Engineering: Modelling and Implementing Web Applications” presents the state of the art approaches for obtaining a correct and complete Web software product from conceptual schemas, represented via well-known design notations. Describing mature and consolidated approaches to developing complex applications, this edited volume is divided into three parts and covers the challenges web application developers face; design issues for web applications; and how to measure and evaluate web applications in a consistent way. With contributions from leading researchers in the field this book will appeal to researchers and students as well as to software engineers, software architects and business analysts.

Author : Alvin H. Marill
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022955095

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The Films of Tommy Lee Jones by Alvin H. Marill Pdf

Hailing from the Texas oil country, Tommy Lee Jones, who was both an intellectual and a football star at Harvard, has earned a reputation as a thinking man's actor. "The Films of Tommy Lee Jones" covers all of Jones' starring vehicles, including stage, screen and TV. Photos, many in color.

Author : Nik Ripken,Gregg Lewis
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781433673085

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The Insanity of God by Nik Ripken,Gregg Lewis Pdf

An amazing story of a missionary couple's journey into the toughest places on earth is combined with stories about remarkable people of faith they encountered to challenge and inspire those curious about the sufficiency of God.

Author : Erin Franziska Högerle
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110696653

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Asian American Film Festivals by Erin Franziska Högerle Pdf

Responding to a lack of studies on the film festival’s role in the production of cultural memory, this book explores different parameters through which film festivals shape our reception and memories of films. By focusing on two Asian American film festivals, this book analyzes the frames of memory that festivals create for their films, constructed through and circulated by the various festival media. It further establishes that festival locations—both cities and screening venues—play a significant role in shaping our experience of films. Finally, it shows that festivals produce performances which help guide audiences towards certain readings and direct the film’s role as a memory object. Bringing together film festival studies and memory studies, 'Asian American Film Festivals' offers a mixed-methods approach with which to explore the film festival phenomenon, thus shedding light on the complex dynamics of frames, locations, and performances shaping the festival’s memory practices. It also draws attention to the understudied genre of Asian American film festivals, showing how these festivals actively engage in constructing and performing a minority group’s collective identity and memory.

Author : David Chidester
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317649878

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Religions of South Africa (Routledge Revivals) by David Chidester Pdf

First published in 1992, this title explores the religious diversity of South Africa, organizing it into a single coherent narrative and providing the first comparative study and introduction to the topic. David Chidester emphasizes the fact that the complex distinctive character of South African religious life has taken shape with a particular economic, social and political context, and pays special attention to the creativity of people who have suffered under conquest, colonialism and apartheid. With an overview of African traditional religion, Christian missions, and African innovations during the nineteenth century, this reissue will be of great value to students of religious studies, South African history, anthropology, sociology, and political studies.

Author : Donald F. Stevens
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780585348261

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Based on a True Story by Donald F. Stevens Pdf

Combining history with discussions of dramatic cinema, Based on a True Story: Latin American History at the Movies examines how film has portrayed Latin America from the late fifteenth century to the present. The book opens with an introduction on the visual presentation of the past in the movies, while the rest of the book consists of essays that explore the best feature films on Latin America from the professional historian's perspective.

Author : Thomas Nelson Publishers
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0785243909

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The Safe Sites Internet Yellow Pages 2000-2001 by Thomas Nelson Publishers Pdf

Information on a variety of websites for the entire family. Featuring the Top 500 sites from the "Best of the Christian Web"!

Author : Boris T. Pash
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Atomic bomb
ISBN : UOM:39015014235868

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The Alsos Mission by Boris T. Pash Pdf

The time was 1944, a critical period in World War II. The Allies were just beginning to get a foothold on the Axis stronghold. But Hitler was stubbornly holding back the pressure and bragging about his secret arsenal of super-weapons. Intelligence reports were coming in of huge concrete installations and underground constructions, and Allied scientists were feverishly searching for the anser to the one crucial question that plagued their governments: Did the Nazis have the secret of the Atomic bomb? To find the answer Col. Borish T. Pash was directed to head a dangerous intelligence operation at times through the front lines of both the Allies and the Axis. Its code was the Alsos Mission.