The Magic Lantern

Author : Timothy Garton Ash
Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782396840

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The Magic Lantern by Timothy Garton Ash Pdf

The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making, written by an author who was witness to some of the most remarkable moments that marked the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. Timothy Garton Ash was there in Warsaw, on 4 June, when the communist government was humiliated by Solidarity in the first semi-free elections since the Second World War. He was there in Budapest, twelve days later, when Imre Nagy - thirty-one years after his execution - was finally given his proper funeral. He was there in Berlin, as the Wall opened. And most remarkable of all, he was there in Prague, in the back rooms of the Magic Lantern theatre, with Václav Havel and the members of Civic Forum, as they made their 'Velvet Revolution'.

Author : Howard Moss
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781589882874

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The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust by Howard Moss Pdf

"[The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust] reduces the ungainly and intricately designed masterpiece to its shape, and with hardly a wasted word...The paragraphs on habit and memory are truly wonderful—wonderful as explication, as psychology, and as philosophy."—John Updike "Almost everything Moss says seems to me right, illuminating, and new. This is the book of a mature and individual mind and sensibility, with a deep experience of moral, social, psychological, and aesthetic values which is rare among critics." —George D. Painter "A moving and inspiring book. Moss clears away dark corners, clarifies motivations, and places the huge work within the reader's perspective. A book of great value to the scholar and the general reader." —Publishers Weekly "Remembrance of Things Past is more than a novel; it is a work in which a single person's life is transformed into a mythology, with its own pantheon of gods, its own religious rituals, and its own moral laws. A total vision, it does not rely on any system outside itself for support. It is as if Dante had set out to write the Paradiso and the Inferno utilizing only the facts of his own existence without any reference to Christianity...Other novelists describe or invent worlds. Remembrance of Things Past is an entire universe created and interpreted by Marcel Proust." — from Chapter 1 "Moss lays out the sweeping claims and overarching structure of Remembrance of Things Past—the significance of Swann's Way and the Guermantes Way, or why there are such long party scenes—and is equally good at bringing to light all sorts of tiny, revealing details." — from the new Foreword by Damion Searls

Author : Ingmar Bergman
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0140104690

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The Magic Lantern by Ingmar Bergman Pdf

Ingmar Bergman, creator of such films as Wild Strawberries, Scenes from a Marriage and Fanny and Alexander turns his perceptive filmmaker's eye on himself for a revealing portrait of his life and obsessions. 16 pages of photos.

Author : John Phillip Short
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801468223

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Magic Lantern Empire by John Phillip Short Pdf

Magic Lantern Empire examines German colonialism as a mass cultural and political phenomenon unfolding at the center of a nascent, conflicted German modernity. John Phillip Short draws together strands of propaganda and visual culture, science and fantasy to show how colonialism developed as a contested form of knowledge that both reproduced and blurred class difference in Germany, initiating the masses into a modern market worldview. A nuanced account of how ordinary Germans understood and articulated the idea of empire, this book draws on a diverse range of sources: police files, spy reports, pulp novels, popular science writing, daily newspapers, and both official and private archives. In Short’s historical narrative—peopled by fantasists and fabulists, by impresarios and amateur photographers, by ex-soldiers and rank-and-file socialists, by the luckless and bored along the margins of German society—colonialism emerges in metropolitan Germany through a dialectic of science and enchantment within the context of sharp class conflict. He begins with the organized colonial movement, with its expert scientific and associational structures and emphatic exclusion of the "masses." He then turns to the grassroots colonialism that thrived among the lower classes, who experienced empire through dime novels, wax museums, and panoramas. Finally, he examines the ambivalent posture of Germany’s socialists, who mounted a trenchant critique of colonialism, while in their reading rooms workers spun imperial fantasies. It was from these conflicts, Short argues, that there first emerged in the early twentieth century a modern German sense of the global.

Author : Rachel Polonsky
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1429974907

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Molotov's Magic Lantern by Rachel Polonsky Pdf

When the British journalist Rachel Polonsky moves to Moscow, she discovers an apartment on Romanov Street that was once home to the Soviet elite. One of the most infamous neighbors was the ruthless apparatchik Vyacheslav Molotov, a henchman for Stalin who was a participant in the collectivizations and the Great Purge—and also an ardent bibliophile. In what was formerly Molotov's apartment, Polonsky uncovers an extensive library and an old magic lantern—two things that lead her on an extraordinary journey throughout Russia and ultimately renew her vision of the country and its people. In Molotov's Magic Lantern, Polonsky visits the haunted cities and vivid landscapes of the books from Molotov's library: works by Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Akhmatova, and others, some of whom were sent to the Gulag by the very man who collected their books. With exceptional insight and beautiful prose, Polonsky writes about the longings and aspirations of these Russian writers and others in the course of her travels from the Arctic to Siberia and from the forests around Moscow to the vast steppes. A singular homage to Russian history and culture, Molotov's Magic Lantern evokes the spirit of the great artists and the haunted past of a country ravaged by war, famine, and totalitarianism.

Author : Rob Sheppard
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 157990971X

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Canon EOS 30d by Rob Sheppard Pdf

The superb Canon EOS 20-D single-lens-reflex camera (SLR) has professional features at a consumer-friendly cost. "PCPhoto's" digital expert, shows owners how to make the most of this great equipment, with unequaled hands-on advice.

Author : Guido Crepax
Publisher : Headline Publishing Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0755398939

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Valentina and the Magic Lantern by Guido Crepax Pdf

Created by the famous Italian graphic artist Guido Crepax, Valentina is one of the most iconic, sexy graphic novel heroines of all time. With her distinctive black bob and demure, reserved exterior, Valentina is the very essence of European sophistication. However, below the surface burns a passionate young woman eager to inhabit another world; a world where she can explore her dark attraction to that which most frightens her. In VALENTINA AND THE MAGIC LANTERN, Crepax takes us deep into the heart of her most intensely erotic, fetishistic fantasies - a journey which will heat the blood and set the pulse racing as Valentina is drawn into a labyrinth of elaborate costumes and thrilling liaisons; where physical gratification comes in every shape and size, and absolutely anything goes.

Author : Joseph S. Rubino,Joe Rubino
Publisher : Vision Works Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0967852900

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The Magic Lantern by Joseph S. Rubino,Joe Rubino Pdf

Set in the magical world of Center Earth, inhabited by dwarves, elves, goblins and wizards, The Magic Lantern is the story of a group of dwarves and their young leader who go off in search of the secrets to a life filled with harmony and endless possibilities and void of the regrets and upsets that characterize most people's existence.

Author : Ingmar Bergman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781628721478

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Images by Ingmar Bergman Pdf

Ingmar Bergman’s career spanned forty years as he produced more than fifty films, many of which are considered classics. When he began this book, Bergman had not seen most of his movies since he made them. Resorting to scripts and working notebooks, and especially to memory, he comments, brilliantly and always cogently, on his failures as well as his successes; on the themes that bind his work together; on the relationship between his life and art. More clearly than ever before, Images allows us to listen to, as Woody Allen put it, Bergman’s “voice of genius.”

Author : David Robinson
Publisher : Twayne Publishers
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Lantern projection
ISBN : UCSD:31822021518626

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The Lantern Image by David Robinson Pdf

Author : Michael Guncheon
Publisher : Lark Books (NC)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Canon digital cameras
ISBN : 1600596649

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Magic Lantern Guides - Canon EOS 7D by Michael Guncheon Pdf

Canon celebrates the 20th anniversary of its top-selling EOS single-lens-reflex camera system with a new, professional-level model. This indispensable "Magic Lantern Guide" helps photographers take full advantage of this cutting-edge models astounding features.

Author : Jason Schneider
Publisher : Lark Books (NC)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Canon digital cameras
ISBN : 1600595405

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Magic Lantern Guides: Canon Powershot G10 by Jason Schneider Pdf

- The versatility of the Canon G10 is almost unheard of in a digital compact camera--particularly for photographers moving up from basic compacts. Jason Schneider will walk them through every feature and function so they can use this remarkable camera to its fullest potential

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Lantern projection
ISBN : UCLA:L0063273825

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The Magic Lantern by Anonim Pdf

Author : Magic lantern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600048711

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The magic lantern, how to buy and how to use it, by 'a mere phantom'. Also, How to raise a ghost by Magic lantern Pdf

Author : David Robinson,Stephen Herbert,Richard Crangle
Publisher : Twayne Publishers
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Lantern projection
ISBN : UCSD:31822025337932

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Encyclopaedia of the Magic Lantern by David Robinson,Stephen Herbert,Richard Crangle Pdf