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Total Pages : 1294 pages
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Download or read book Film Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 1294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472123440
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China written by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume features new work on cinema in early twentieth-century Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China. Looking beyond relatively well-studied cities like Shanghai, these essays foreground cinema’s relationship with imperialism and colonialism and emphasize the rapid development of cinema as a sociocultural institution. These essays examine where films were screened; how cinema-going as a social activity adapted from and integrated with existing social norms and practices; the extent to which Cantonese opera and other regional performance traditions were models for the development of cinematic conventions; the role foreign films played in the development of cinema as an industry in the Republican era; and much more.
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Total Pages : 1296 pages
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Download or read book The Film Daily Year Book of Motion Pictures written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yongchun Fu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042995378X
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Early Transnational Chinese Cinema Industry written by Yongchun Fu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive original research, including in studio archives, industrial surveys, official records, trade journals, and English and Chinese newspapers, this book explores the role of the American film industry in the development of cinema in China. It examines the Chinese industry’s response to the American industry and the consequences of this response. It also considers the attitudes of Chinese film practitioners towards Hollywood and the contribution of those figures who acted as intermediaries between the two industries. Overall, the book casts much new light on the early development of the film industry in China and demonstrates the huge influence Hollywood had on it.
Author : Martin J. S. Rudwick
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226731056
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Scenes from Deep Time written by Martin J. S. Rudwick and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-12-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the earth look in prehistoric times? Scientists and artists collaborated during the half-century prior to the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species to produce the first images of dinosaurs and the world they inhabited. Their interpretations, informed by recent fossil discoveries, were the first efforts to represent the prehistoric world based on sources other than the Bible. Martin J. S. Rudwick presents more than a hundred rare illustrations from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to explore the implications of reconstructing a past no one has ever seen.
Author : Sanjay Krishnan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231511744
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Reading the Global written by Sanjay Krishnan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global is an instituted perspective, not just an empirical process. Adopted initially by the British in order to make sense of their polyglot territorial empire, the global perspective served to make heterogeneous spaces and nonwhite subjects "legible," and in effect produced the regions it sought merely to describe. The global was the dominant perspective from which the world was produced for representation and control. It also set the terms within which subjectivity and history came to be imagined by colonizers and modern anticolonial nationalists. In this book, Sanjay Krishnan demonstrates how ideas of the global took root in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century descriptions of Southeast Asia. Krishnan turns to the works of Adam Smith, Thomas De Quincey, Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir, and Joseph Conrad, four authors who discuss the Malay Archipelago during the rise and consolidation of the British Empire. These works offer some of the most explicit and sophisticated discussions of the world as a single, interconnected entity, inducting their readers into comprehensive and objective descriptions of the world. The perspective organizing these authors' conception of the global-the frame or code through which the world came into view-is indebted to the material and discursive possibilities set in motion by European conquest. The global, therefore, is not just a peculiar mode of thematization; it is aligned to a conception of historical development unique to European colonial capitalism. Krishnan troubles this dominant perspective. Drawing on the poststructuralist and postcolonial approaches of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and challenging the recent historiography of empire and economic histories of globalization, he elaborates a bold new approach to the humanities in the age of globalization.
Author : John Coleman Darnell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471743585
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (717 download)
Download or read book Tutankhamun's Armies written by John Coleman Darnell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-08-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The force that forged an empire. The furious thunder of thousands of hooves, the clatter and sheen of bronze armor sparkling in the desert sun, the crunch of wooden wheels racing across a rock-strewn battlefield-and leading this terrifying chariot charge, the gallant Pharaoh, the ribbons of his blue war crown streaming behind him as he launches yet another arrow into the panicking mass of his soon-to-be-routed enemies. While scenes like the one depicted above did occur in ancient Egypt, they represent only one small aspect of the vast, complex, and sophisticated military machine that secured, defended, and expanded the borders of the empire during the late Eighteenth Dynasty. In Tutankhamun's Armies, you'll discover the harsh reality behind the imperial splendor of the New Kingdom and gain a new appreciation for the formidable Egyptian army-from pharaoh to foot soldier. You'll follow "the heretic king" Akhenaten, his son Tutankhamun, and their three Amana-Period successors as they employ double-edge diplomacy and military might to defeat competing powers, quell internal insurrections, and keep reluctant subject states in line. This vivid and absorbing chronicle will forever change the way you think about the glories and riches of ancient Egypt.
Author : Thomas Moore
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Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Works written by Thomas Moore and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : André J. Veldmeijer
Publisher : Sidestone Press
ISBN 13 : 9088902097
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (889 download)
Download or read book Chasing Chariots written by André J. Veldmeijer and published by Sidestone Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present work is the result of the First International Chariot Conference, jointly organised by the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) and the American University in Cairo (AUC) (30 November to 2 December 2012). The intention of the conference was to make a broad assessment of the current state of knowledge about chariots in Egypt and the Near East, and to provide a forum for discussion. A wide variety of papers are included, ranging from overviews to more detailed studies focusing on a specific topic. These include philology, iconography, archaeology, engineering, history, and conservation. The book is of interest to scholars as well as anyone with an interest in ancient technology, transportation, or warfare.
Author : Charlotte Booth
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445608855
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Horemheb written by Charlotte Booth and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insight into Tutankhamun’s commander in chief and rightful heir.
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Total Pages : 560 pages
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Download or read book Missionary Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Jewett Mather
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Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Art Studies written by Frank Jewett Mather and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan L. Cohen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004369856
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Canaanites, Chronologies, and Connections written by Susan L. Cohen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle Bronze Age (MB IIA) in Canaan set the stage for many of the cultural, political, and economic institutions in the ancient Near East. Theoretical models for the analysis of complex societies examine textual, pictorial, and archaeological evidence.
Author : British Academy Global Professor Robert Morrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198834543
Total Pages : 993 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose written by British Academy Global Professor Robert Morrison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-13 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose is a full-length essay collection devoted entirely to British Romantic nonfiction prose. Organized into eight parts, each containing between five and nine chapters arranged alphabetically, the Handbook weaves together familiar and unfamiliar texts, events, and authors, and invites readers to draw comparisons, reimagine connections and disconnections, and confront frequently stark contradictions, within British Romantic nonfiction prose, but also in its relationship to British Romanticism more generally, and to the literary practices and cultural contexts of other periods and countries. The Handbook builds on previous scholarship in the field, considers emerging trends and evolving methodologies, and suggests future areas of study. Throughout the emphasis is on lucid expression rather than gnomic declaration, and on chapters that offer, not a dutiful survey, but evaluative assessments that keep an eye on the bigger picture yet also dwell meaningfully on specific paradoxes and the most telling examples. Taken as a whole the volume demonstrates the energy, originality, and diversity at the crux of British Romantic nonfiction prose. It vigorously challenges the traditional construction of the British Romantic movement as focused too exclusively on the accomplishments of its poets, and it reveals the many ways in which scholars of the period are steadily broadening out and opening up delineations of British Romanticism in order to encompass and thoroughly evaluate the achievements of its nonfiction prose writers.
Author : Paul Wood
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119591414
Total Pages : 1168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Art in Theory written by Paul Wood and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking new anthology in the Art in Theory series, offering an examination of the changing relationships between the West and the wider world in the field of art and material culture Art in Theory: The West in the World is a ground-breaking anthology that comprehensively examines the relationship of Western art to the art and material culture of the wider world. Editors Paul Wood and Leon Wainwright have included over 350 texts, some of which appear in English for the first time. The anthologized texts are presented in eight chronological parts, which are then subdivided into key themes appropriate to each historical era. The majority of the texts are representations of changing ideas about the cultures of the world by European artists and intellectuals, but increasingly, as the modern period develops, and especially as colonialism is challenged, a variety of dissenting voices begin to claim their space, and a counter narrative to western hegemony develops. Over half the book is devoted to 20th and 21st century materials, though the book’s unique selling point is the way it relates the modern globalization of art to much longer cultural histories. As well as the anthologized material, Art in Theory: The West in the World contains: A general introduction discussing the scope of the collection Introductory essays to each of the eight parts, outlining the main themes in their historical contexts Individual introductions to each text, explaining how they relate to the wider theoretical and political currents of their time Intended for a wide audience, the book is essential reading for students on courses in art and art history. It will also be useful to specialists in the field of art history and readers with a general interest in the culture and politics of the modern world.
Author : Grevel Lindop
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000749681
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Part I Vol 2 written by Grevel Lindop and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is considered one of the most important English prose writers of the early-19th century. This is the first part of a 21-volume set presenting De Quincey's work, also including previously unpublished material.
Author : Simon Peter Hull
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527512339
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book The Familiar Essay, Romantic Affect and Metropolitan Culture written by Simon Peter Hull and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through close readings of diverse examples by Lamb, De Quincey, Hazlitt, Irving and Poe, this book argues that the familiar essay in the Romantic period embodies a quintessentially metropolitan mode of affect. The generic traits of the essay—astuteness of observation, an ambulatory or paratactic movement of thought, and an urbane tone of wry or ironic humour—all predispose it to the expression of a detached, non-pathological state of mind. This is a mind conditioned by the quickened pace, assorted humanity, and plenitude of spectacle which characterise urban and urbanised life. In making a valuable, genre-based contribution to scholarship on the importance to Romantic studies of the city and metropolitan culture, the traditional concept of Romantic affect is reassessed. The book proposes a more complex and varied model than the simple binary one of a “feeling” reaction to Enlightenment “reason.” Partly enacted within its own formal parameters and partly through its disruptive and genre-transcending progeny, the essayistic figure, the familiar essay articulates a blithe and, at times, shocking and provocative discourse of “un-affect,” or a strategically and often satirical callousness. Therefore, the overall concept of affect in this period needs to be understood not as a unified entity opposed to Enlightenment reason, but a dialogue between concurrent, opposing modes, played out against a dichotomized geo-cultural landscape of the country and the city. Essayistic un-affect emerges, in the end, as an apolitical phenomenon, a primary vehicle for the essayist’s inherent scepticism, sometimes enabling outright ridicule and, at other times, a tentative questioning or probing of both orthodox thought and emerging ideas: from the rarefied liberalist sensibility of the Lake poets, to the hubristic vanity of the colonial adventurer, and from the allure of hedonistic, Old World decadence to the proscriptive strictures of moralistic art.
