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Author : Seán Crosson,Rod Stoneman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015079312347
This book analyzes a film that drew much attention when it was released in 1952.
Author : Jan Cronin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030283490
This book explores “Making of” sites as a genre of cultural artefact. Moving beyond “making-of” documentaries, the book analyses novels, drama, film, museum exhibitions and popular studies that re-present the making of culturally loaded film adaptations. It argues that the “Making of” genre operates on an adaptive spectrum, orienting towards and enacting the adaptation of films and their making. The book examines the behaviours that characterise “Making of” sites across visual media; it explores the cultural work done by these sites, why recognition of “Making of” sites as adaptations matters, and why our conception of adaptation matters. Part one focuses on the adaptive domain presented by the “Making of” John Ford’s The Quiet Man. Part two attends to “Making of” Gone with the Wind sites, and concludes with “Making of” The Lord of the Rings texts as the acme of the cultural risks and investments charted in earlier chapters.
Author : Steven Allen,Kirsten Møllegaard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351013819
Narratives of place link people and geographic location with a cultural imaginary through literature and visual narration. Contemporary literature and film often frame narratives with specific geographic locations, which saturate the narrative with cultural meanings in relation to natural and man-made landscapes. This interdisciplinary collection seeks to interrogate such connections to probe how place is narrativized in literature and film. Utilizing close readings of specific filmic and literary texts, all chapters serve to tease out cultural and historical meanings in respect of human engagement with landscapes. Always mindful of national, cultural and topographical specificity, the book is structured around five core themes: Contested Histories of Place; Environmental Landscapes; Cityscapes; The Social Construction of Place; and Landscapes of Belonging.
Author : John Hill
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781118477519
A stimulating overview of the intellectual arguments and critical debates involved in the study of British and Irish cinemas British and Irish film studies have expanded in scope and depth in recent years, prompting a growing number of critical debates on how these cinemas are analysed, contextualized, and understood. A Companion to British and Irish Cinema addresses arguments surrounding film historiography, methods of textual analysis, critical judgments, and the social and economic contexts that are central to the study of these cinemas. Twenty-nine essays from many of the most prominent writers in the field examine how British and Irish cinema have been discussed, the concepts and methods used to interpret and understand British and Irish films, and the defining issues and debates at the heart of British and Irish cinema studies. Offering a broad scope of commentary, the Companion explores historical, cultural and aesthetic questions that encompass over a century of British and Irish film studies—from the early years of the silent era to the present-day. Divided into five sections, the Companion discusses the social and cultural forces shaping British and Irish cinema during different periods, the contexts in which films are produced, distributed and exhibited, the genres and styles that have been adopted by British and Irish films, issues of representation and identity, and debates on concepts of national cinema at a time when ideas of what constitutes both ‘British’ and ‘Irish’ cinema are under question. A Companion to British and Irish Cinema is a valuable and timely resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of film, media, and cultural studies, and for those seeking contemporary commentary on the cinemas of Britain and Ireland.
Author : Aaron McCarver,Gilbert Morris
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781441262332
In Beyond the Quiet Hills, Hawk and Elizabeth Spencer struggle to survive and raise their family on the Tennessee frontier. Hawk also brings his son Jacob to live with them at the Watauga Settlement, but Jacob resents the strong bond between Hawk and his stepbrother Andrew. Things are complicated between the stepbrothers when they are both drawn to the same girl. As a part of a villain's vengeful plot against Hawk and his family, men disguised as Cherokees attack the settlement, injuring some settlers and taking Hawk's daughter captive. The settlers want to attack the Cherokees, but Hawk discovers the plot and must race to keep a war from raging across the frontier.
Author : Roddy Flynn,Tony Tracy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781538119587
This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Irish Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on key Irish actors, directors, producers and other personnel from over a century of Irish film history.
Author : Christine Vandamme,André Dodeman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527576629
This volume explores space, place and hybridity in today’s multicultural societies with a strong emphasis on the role of art and spatial representations, in order to map out the complexity of modern nations and celebrate the creative powers of their highly dynamic communities and cultures. It considers how the very idea of the nation has evolved since the emergence and development of the idea of the nation-state at the end of the eighteenth century, and how art can reinvigorate representations of nation-states worldwide without relegating their minorities to the margin. Instead of merely focusing on the role of place and land in national representations, the book adopts a wider and more critical approach to space in the arts by investigating the notions of both hybridity and Bhabha’s “Third Space” in the fields of aesthetics, film studies and literature, with a particular emphasis on postcolonial literature.
Author : Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810892880
The Western tradition, with its well-worn tropes, readily identifiable characters, iconic landscapes, and evocative soundtracks, is not limited to the United States. Western, or Western-inspired films have played a part in the output of numerous national film traditions, including Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Latin America. In International Westerns: Re-Locating the Frontier, Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper have assembled a collection of essays that explore the significance and meanings of these films, their roots in other media, and their reception in the national industries which gave them form. Among the questions that the volume seeks to answer are: What do Westerns not made in the U.S. reveal? In what ways do they challenge or support the idea of national literatures and cinemas? How do these films negotiate nation, narrative, and genre? Divided into five sections, the twenty essays in this volume look at films from a wide range of national cinemas, such as France (The Adventures of Lucky Luke), Germany (Der Schuh des Maitu), Brazil (O Cangaceiro), Eastern Europe (Lemonade Joe), and of course, Asia (Sukiyaki Western Django). Featuring contributions from a diverse group of international scholars—often writing about Westerns adapted to their own national traditions—these essays address such matters as competing national film traditions, various forms of satire and comedy based on the Western tradition, the range of cultural adaptations of the traditional Western hero, the ties between the nation-state and the outlaw, and Westerns in a variety of unanticipated guises. Representing a broader look at global Westerns than any other single volume to date—and featuring more than 70 illustrations—International Westerns will be of interest to scholars of film, popular culture, and cultural history.
Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
I have asked permission to dedicate this book to you not only in memory of the hagpy evenings I have spent with you in Saigon over the last five years, but also because I have quite shamelessly borrowed the location of your flat to house one of iny characters, and your name, Phuong, for the convenience of readers because it is simple, beautiful and easy to pronounce, which is not true of all your couiftry- women’s names. You will both realise I have borrowed little else, certainly not the characters of anyone in Viet Nam. Pyle, Granger, Fowler, Vigot, Joe— these have had no originals in the life of Saigon or Hanoi, and General The is dead : shot in the back, so thfcy say. Even the historical events have been rearranged. For example, the big bomb near the Continental preceded and did not follow the bicycle bombs. I have no scruples about such small changes. This is a story and not a piece of history, and I hope that as a story about a few imaginary characters it will pass for both of you one hot Saigon evening.
Author : David M. Emmons
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806184531
Convention has it that Irish immigrants in the nineteenth century confined themselves mainly to industrial cities of the East and Midwest. The truth is that Irish Catholics went everywhere in America and often had as much of a presence in the West as in the East. In Beyond the American Pale, David M. Emmons examines this multifaceted experience of westering Irish and, in doing so, offers a fresh and discerning account of America's westward expansion. "Irish in the West" is not a historical contradiction, but it is — and was — a historical problem. Irish Catholics were not supposed to be in the West—that was where Protestant Americans went to reinvent themselves. For many of the same reasons that the spread of southern slavery was thought to profane the West, a Catholic presence there was thought to contradict it — to contradict America's Protestant individualism and freedom. The Catholic Irish were condemned as the clannish, backward remnants of an old cultural world that Americans self-consciously sought to leave behind. The sons and daughters of Erin were not assimilated, and because they were not assimilable, they should be kept beyond the American pale. As Emmons amply demonstrates, however, western reality was far more complicated. Irish Catholicism may have outraged Protestant-inspired American republicanism, but Irish Catholics were a necessary component of America's equally Protestant-inspired foray into industrial capitalism. They were also necessary to the successive conquests of the "frontier," wherever it might be found. It was the Irish who helped build the railroads, dig the hard rocks, man the army posts, and do the other arduous, dangerous, and unattractive toiling required by an industrializing society. With vigor and panache, Emmons describes how the West was not so much won as continually contested and reshaped. He probes the self-fulfilling mythology of the American West, along with the far different mythology of the Irish pioneers. The product of three decades of research and thought, Beyond the American Pale is a masterful yet accessible recasting of American history, the culminating work of a singular thinker willing to take a wholly new perspective on the past.
Author : Ellen Pickering
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 926 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590786959
Author : John Diamond
Publisher : Enhancement Books
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781890995669
The Meridians and Beyond is the second volume of writings selected from the milestone series of Diamond Reports newsletters that Dr. Diamond created over many years for health professionals and students of his work. The series as a whole presented his groundbreaking research in holistic health, psychiatry, acupuncture, philosophy, spirituality, the Arts, all bound together by the core concept of Life Energy, the Healing Power within. The focus of this second volume is Dr. Diamond’s pioneering research into the relationship between the acupuncture meridians and the emotions. The papers cover important topics including relationships and marriage, parenting, the Will to be Well, learning difficulties, and much more. Illustrated by many remarkable cases histories, Dr. Diamond builds on his earlier work (such as his influential best-sellers Your Body Doesn’t Lie and Life Energy), revealing key psychological syndromes and showing their relationship to particular meridians. The Diamond Reports teem with insights and original findings that will benefit not only those already familiar with Dr. Diamond’s work, but also those new to it. His vision of total health, which he now calls The Diamond Path of Life, and which fuses the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of medicine into a coherent whole, manifests in practically every page of the reports, which were far ahead of their time when they were produced, and remain so even today.
Author : Ellen Pickering
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024060976
Author : Paul Loukides,Linda K. Fuller
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0879725893
One of five volumes devoted to exploring some of the peripheral aspects of American films. Essays describe the depiction of such geographical and conceptual places as Arizona and the Arabic world, such public and ritual spaces as churches and western saloons, and such private arenas and commonplace spaces as the men's room and poolsides. Not illustrated. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Junius Henri Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10253796
