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Author : Alexander Kluge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Kong's Finest Hour written by Alexander Kluge and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Langston
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 178873517X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)
Download or read book Dark Matter written by Richard Langston and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Donald J. Young
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786462310
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Final Hours in the Pacific written by Donald J. Young and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From December 7, 1941, until the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the war with Japan was a losing one. It was to be the darkest period of the almost four-year war. During those days, no times were more trying than the final hours for the men trapped on Wake Island, Bataan, Corregidor, Hong Kong and Singapore. This book, outlining the bitter end to their ordeals, covers the crucial days and final hours that led to their surrender, a capitulation that would shock the free world.
Author : Robert Ryder
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110733021
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Acoustical Unconscious written by Robert Ryder and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-02-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Lawrence Mills
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888083988
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Protecting Free Trade written by Lawrence Mills and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protecting Free Trade is the story of a paradox that both limited and stimulated Hong Kong's post-war economy. In order to preserve its access to open markets, Hong Kong was obligated by international agreements to accept restraints on its exports; and in order to sustain growth, Hong Kong had to subject its largest industry — textiles — to a massive network of restrictions. Protecting Free Trade examines how Hong Kong handled, by negotiation, attempts by developed economies to limit international trade through protective measures. The central argument is that, far from stifling Hong Kong's industry, restrictive international trade agreements became a stimulus for economic success by creating a sellers' market in which Hong Kong was the dominant supplier. The book is also a personal memoir by someone who was deeply involved in policy formulation. Lawrence Mills was deeply involved in many of the critical economic issues that Hong Kong faced in the 50 years leading up to its return to China in 1997. In Protecting Free Trade he tells the inside story of how Hong Kong held on to its vulnerable and volatile role as a global centre of trade, despite the constant pressures to limit its exports, and its sometimes fractious relationships with the UK, the USA, and Europe. He illustrates the political savvy with which negotiators distanced Hong Kong from the UK to gain the support of developing countries as a countervailing force in international trade, but not to an extent that might upset China. He explains why, for the strategic defence of its interests, Hong Kong depended on international trade arrangements and bilateral restraint agreements. Protecting Free Trade also examines the role of the Trade and Industry Departments, which Mills headed, and of their principal advisory boards. It details the bureaucratic systems, including controversial quota controls, that were necessary to give Hong Kong's businessmen stability and room for manoeuvre in fast-evolving markets. Mills also assesses the charge that the department was too close to the constituency that it served.
Author : John Carr
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1783376341
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (833 download)
Download or read book Sparta's Kings written by John Carr and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ancient Greece, Sparta was unique in having a dual kingship two kings from different clans, the Agiads and the Eurypontids, reigning simultaneously. The institution was already well-developed by the 8th century BC, when Theopompos of the Eurypontid clan emerges as the first recorded Spartan king. At least fifty-seven men held office as Spartan king between Theopompos and the Agiad Kleomenes III who died in 222 BC. For almost all this period the Spartan kingship was primarily a military office, and thus the kings embody much of the military history of Sparta. Wherever Spartas main battles took place, there the kings were. Naturally, the character of the particular king would often determine the outcome of a battle or campaign. Leonidas I at Thermopylai was one example. At the other end of the scale the young and unwar-like Pleistoanax twice declined an encounter with the Athenians when sent against that city.John Carr offers a chronological account of the kings and their accomplishments (or lack thereof), from the founding Herakleidai clan to Kleomenes III and his successor, the dictator Nabis, and the Roman conquest in the middle of the 2nd century BC. The book is not intended to be a complete history of Sparta. It will be a human interest and war story, focusing attention on the kings personal qualities as well as their (or their generals) military accomplishments and, where applicable, their politics as well.
Author : Mark Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350166138
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Domesticity Under Siege written by Mark Taylor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theories of the domestic stemming from the 19th century have focused on the home as a refuge and place of repose for the family, a nurturing environment for children and a safe place for visitors. Under this conception, domestic space is positioned as nurturing and private, a refuge and place of retreat which gave rise to theories of 'home as haven'. While, arguably, some social conditions might suggest this is the case, Domesticity Under Siege exposes a different world, one in which the boundaries of nurturing domesticity collide with both outside and inside agents. Whether these agents are external military forces, psychological trauma or familial violence, they re-position meta-narratives of domesticity, not through identity politics or specialized subgroup experience, but relative to the actions of the world around an inhabited domain. That is, when home is constituted as a private realm, a place where individuals or groups can reside in 'safety and comfort', it is argued as a place in which the individual exercises control or power. However, there are many occasions when forces act upon the home and threaten aspects of safety and comfort, often through such things as ruination, violence, mortality, and infestation. Organised around four thematic sections, 'Microbes, Animals and Insects', 'Human Agents', Wars and Disasters as Agents' and 'Hauntings, Eeriness and the Uncanny', chapters provide a range of approaches to the home which challenge notions of 'haven' and reflect major causes that have played an important role in undermining the modern home. Examples and case studies explore the domestic screen, hoarding, hauntings, violence and imprisonment in the home, wartime interior art, the Hanover Merzbau and Wolfgang Staudte's 1946 film Die Mörder sind unter uns ('The Murderers are Among Us').
Author : Rozanna Lilley
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824821647
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (216 download)
Download or read book Staging Hong Kong written by Rozanna Lilley and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully written and well-informed book presents a comprehensive study of Zuni Icosahedron, a Hong Kong avant-garde theatre and dance company, and calls into question the relationship between culture and politics during the last years of British colonial rule. Through both fieldwork and textual analysis, the author explores the double-bind tensions between Chinese and Western aesthetic forms, while examining identity and gender within representation as part of the dramatization of an increasingly uncertain present. Incorporating insights from cultural studies, feminism, anthropology, and queer theory, this imaginative unpacks current debates over Hong Kong identity through the kaleidoscope of avant-garde theatre performances.
Author : Anton Biebl
Publisher : Hatje Cantz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3775757074
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Art and Society 1972–2022–2072 written by Anton Biebl and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2023-12-20 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the advent of modernity, art has been associated with freedom, provocation and courage. In 1972, art was to unfold its potential as an emancipatory and creative force as part of the Gesamtkunstwerk of the XX. Olympic Games in Munich—according to the grand vision of its planners. The international avant-garde of the time, including Walter de Maria, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol and Dan Flavin, enthusiastically developed revolutionary concepts. Many of these remained in draft-form. After the tragic assassination of Israeli athletes, concepts such as the "Spielstraße" were canceled. This publication is the first to give an impression of the playful, participatory cultural programme of 1972. In the second part of the book, a multitude of voices from all over the world look to the future. International authors and artists use contemporary examples to convey the importance of the arts in shaping the democratic society of the future.
Author : Roy Kinnard
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810820623
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Beasts and Behemoths written by Roy Kinnard and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Martin Gilbert
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795344635
Total Pages : 1031 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Winston S. Churchill: Finest Hour, 1939–1941 written by Martin Gilbert and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2015-04-05 with total page 1031 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Author : Helen Nielsen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440541256
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Darkest Hour written by Helen Nielsen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Alexander Kluge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857428479
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (284 download)
Download or read book Kong's Finest Hour written by Alexander Kluge and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephanie Drimmer
Publisher : National Geographic Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 1426335350
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The Book of Queens written by Stephanie Drimmer and published by National Geographic Children's Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "They're queens wielding scepters and sitting on thrones, they're revolutionaries on the front lines, they're presidents and prime ministers leading their nations, or they're CEOs, scientists, sports stars, artists, and others who are changing the world. Welcome to The Book of Queens, where being a regal royal doesn't just mean wearing a crown." -- back cover.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Constitutional Forum written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Toye
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199642524
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book The Roar of the Lion written by Richard Toye and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the reactions to Churchill's wartime speeches, documenting that there was criticism and dissent as well as the perceived mass enthusiam by the people of Great Britain.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Recent Developments in Hong Kong written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
