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American Horror Film

Author : Steffen Hantke
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 160473454X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book American Horror Film written by Steffen Hantke and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creatively spent and politically irrelevant, the American horror film is a mere ghost of its former self—or so goes the old saw from fans and scholars alike. Taking on this undeserved reputation, the contributors to this collection provide a comprehensive look at a decade of cinematic production, covering a wide variety of material from the last ten years with a clear critical eye. Individual essays profile the work of up-and-coming director Alexandre Aja and reassess William Malone’s much-maligned Feardotcom in the light of the torture debate at the end of President George W. Bush’s administration. Other essays look at the economic, social, and formal aspects of the genre; the globalization of the US film industry; the alleged escalation of cinematic violence; and the massive commercial popularity of the remake. Some essays examine specific subgenres—from the teenage horror flick to the serial killer film and the spiritual horror film—as well as the continuing relevance of classic directors such as George A. Romero, David Cronenberg, John Landis, and Stuart Gordon. Essays deliberate on the marketing of nostalgia and its concomitant aesthetic and on the curiously schizophrenic perspective of fans who happen to be scholars as well. Taken together, the contributors to this collection make a compelling case that American horror cinema is as vital, creative, and thought-provoking as it ever was.

Star-Spangled Manners: In Which Miss Manners Defends American Etiquette (For a Change)

Author : Judith Martin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393342166
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Star-Spangled Manners: In Which Miss Manners Defends American Etiquette (For a Change) written by Judith Martin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003-11-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wonderfully wicked....A bracingly sensible guide to living peaceably together."—Francine Prose, Elle In this "wryly perceptive, historically informed" (BookPage) new book, America's leading expert on civility reminds her Gentle Readers that when the Founding Fathers created a revolution in the name of individual liberty and equality, they also took a stand against hierarchical European etiquette in favor of simplicity over ceremony, and personal dignity over obsequiousness to our rulers. Hailed by George Will as "The National Bureau of Standards," Judith Martin, who has "made etiquette writing an exercise in wit" (Book), recounts here how Americans fashioned this etiquette of egalitarian respect—a fascinating story that spans from the misunderstood origins of our table manners to the much overlooked legacy of African slaves to etiquette.

Classification and Information Processing at the Turn of the Millennium

Author : Reinhold Decker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642572804
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Classification and Information Processing at the Turn of the Millennium written by Reinhold Decker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains revised versions of selected papers presented dur ing the 23rd Annual Conference of the German Classification Society GfKl (Gesellschaft fiir Klassifikation). The conference took place at the Univer sity of Bielefeld (Germany) in March 1999 under the title "Classification and Information Processing at the Turn of the Millennium". Researchers and practitioners - interested in data analysis, classification, and information processing in the broad sense, including computer science, multimedia, WWW, knowledge discovery, and data mining as well as spe cial application areas such as (in alphabetical order) biology, finance, genome analysis, marketing, medicine, public health, and text analysis - had the op portunity to discuss recent developments and to establish cross-disciplinary cooperation in their fields of interest. Additionally, software and book pre sentations as well as several tutorial courses were organized. The scientific program of the conference included 18 plenary or semi plenary lectures and more than 100 presentations in special sections. The peer-reviewed papers are presented in 5 chapters as follows: • Data Analysis and Classification • Computer Science, Computational Statistics, and Data Mining • Management Science, Marketing, and Finance • Biology, Genome Analysis, and Medicine • Text Analysis and Information Retrieval As an unambiguous assignment of results to single chapters is sometimes difficult papers are grouped in a way that the editors found appropriate.

Politics and Literature at the Turn of the Millennium

Author : Michael Keren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781552387993
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book Politics and Literature at the Turn of the Millennium written by Michael Keren and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keren's methodology yields insights into political and social theories . . . Politics and Literature at the Turn of the Millenium provides a clear introduction to contemporary literature-- suitable for undergraduates--with useful commentary on escapism, evil, compassion, and justice. --Allan Hepburn, University of Toronto Quarterly

A Journey to the End of the Millennium

Author : A.B. Yehoshua
Publisher : Halban Publishers
ISBN 13 : 190555950X
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book A Journey to the End of the Millennium written by A.B. Yehoshua and published by Halban Publishers. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 999 A.D. Christians in Europe are preparing themselves for the arrival of the Messiah at the millennium and religious fervour is in the air. Sailing from the North African port of Tangier to a small, distant town called Paris are a Jewish merchant, Ben Attar, his two beloved wives and his Arab partner, Abu Lutfi. They have come for a meeting with their third partner the widower, Raphael Abulafia who has been forced to turn his back on their previous trading partnership because of his new wife's distrust of the dual marriage of Ben Attar. The latter turns this annual trading voyage into a personal quest to legitimise his second wife, restore his honour and, equally important, to show others the richness and humanity in his way of life. A confrontation ensues between people of different cultures whose ways of living and loving are so different, and yet who are of the same religion, believe in the same God and in the same morality. Thus we enter a profound human drama whose moral conflicts of fidelity and desire resonate deeply with our times. A. B. Yehoshua has imaginatively recreated a medieval world with its merchant trade in great depth and sensuous detail. His evocation of one man's love is lyrical, erotic even, and A Journey to the End of the Millennium will rank with the best of Yehoshua's work.

Holding On to Reality

Author : Albert Borgmann
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226066223
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Holding On to Reality written by Albert Borgmann and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holding On to Reality is a brilliant history of information, from its inception in the natural world to its role in the transformation of culture to the current Internet mania and is attendant assets and liabilities. Drawing on the history of ideas, the details of information technology, and the boundaries of the human condition, Borgmann illuminates the relationship between things and signs, between reality and information. "[Borgmann] has offered a stunningly clear definition of information in Holding On to Reality. . . . He leaves room for little argument, unless one wants to pose the now vogue objection: I guess it depends on what you mean by nothing."—Paul Bennett, Wired "A superb anecdotal analysis of information for a hype-addled age."—New Scientist "This insightful and poetic reflection on the changing nature of information is a wonderful antidote to much of the current hype about the 'information revolution.' Borgmann reminds us that whatever the reality of our time, we need 'a balance of signs and things' in our lives."—Margaret Wertheim, LA Weekly

Pooh and the Ancient Mysteries

Author : John Tyerman Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780416197976
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (979 download)

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Download or read book Pooh and the Ancient Mysteries written by John Tyerman Williams and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Art Au Tournant de L'an 2000

Author : Uta Grosenick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Art Au Tournant de L'an 2000 written by Uta Grosenick and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated survey (A-Z) of 137 international artists active during the 1980s and 90s.

Gig

Author : John Bowe
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0609807072
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Gig written by John Bowe and published by Crown. This book was released on 2001-08-21 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An engaging, humorous, revealing, and refreshingly human look at the bizarre, life-threatening, and delightfully humdrum exploits of everyone from sports heroes to sex workers.” -- Douglas Rushkoff, author of Coercion, Ecstasy Club, and Media Virus This wide-ranging survey of the American economy at the turn of the millennium is stunning, surprising, and always entertaining. It gives us an unflinching view of the fabric of this country from the point of view of the people who keep it all moving. The more than 120 roughly textured monologues that make up Gig beautifully capture the voices of our fast-paced and diverse economy. The selections demonstrate how much our world has changed--and stayed the same--in the three decades prior to the turn of the millennium. If you think things have speeded up, become more complicated and more technological, you're right. But people's attitudes about their jobs, their hopes and goals and disappointments, endure. Gig's soul isn't sociological--it's emotional. The wholehearted diligence that people bring to their work is deeply, inexplicably moving. People speak in these pages of the constant and complex stresses nearly all of them confront on the job, but, nearly universally, they throw themselves without reservation into coping with them. Instead of resisting work, we seem to adapt to it. Some of us love our jobs, some of us don't, but almost all of us are not quite sure what we would do without one. With all the hallmarks of another classic on this subject, Gig is a fabulous read, filled with indelible voices from coast to coast. After hearing them, you'll never again feel quite the same about how we work.

The Year 1000

Author : Robert Lacey
Publisher : Little Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780316558402
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book The Year 1000 written by Robert Lacey and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1999 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of life in England in 1000 AD reveals how various people viewed the end of the millennium and what their daily lives were like

Come to Think of it

Author : Daniel Schorr
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780670018734
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book Come to Think of it written by Daniel Schorr and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume of political observations covers such topics as the war in Iraq, health care, and the U.N. report on climate change.

British Literary Desperadoes at the Turn of the Millennium

Author : Lidia Vianu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Literary Desperadoes at the Turn of the Millennium written by Lidia Vianu and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Religion and Politics in Ireland at the Turn of the Millennium

Author : James Patrick Mackey
Publisher : Columba Press (IE)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Religion and Politics in Ireland at the Turn of the Millennium by : James Patrick Mackey

Download or read book Religion and Politics in Ireland at the Turn of the Millennium written by James Patrick Mackey and published by Columba Press (IE). This book was released on 2003 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 16 of Ireland's leading theologians and academics review the relationship between the states in Ireland and the churches in Ireland at the beginning of the 21st century. A Festschrift for Garret FitzGerald.

Urban Social Policies at the Turn of the Millennium

Author : Klaus Bodemer
Publisher : Institut Fur Iberoamerika-Kunde
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Urban Social Policies at the Turn of the Millennium by : Klaus Bodemer

Download or read book Urban Social Policies at the Turn of the Millennium written by Klaus Bodemer and published by Institut Fur Iberoamerika-Kunde. This book was released on 1999 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Do You Feel it Too?

Author : Nicoline Timmer
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042029307
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Do You Feel it Too? written by Nicoline Timmer and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do You Feel It Too? explores a new sense of self that is becoming manifest in experimental fiction written by a generation of authors who can be considered the 'heirs' of the postmodern tradition. It offers a precise, in-depth analysis of a new, post-postmodern direction in fiction writing, and highlights which aspects are most acute in the post-postmodern novel. Most notable is the emphatic expression of feelings and sentiments and a drive toward inter-subjective connection and communication. The self that is presented in these post-postmodern works of fiction can best be characterized asrelational. To analyze this new sense of self, a new interpretational method is introduced that offers a sophisticated approach to fictional selves combining the insights of post-classical narratology and what is called 'narrative psychology'.Close analyses of three contemporary experimental texts – Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace,A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000) by Dave Eggers, and House of Leaves(2000) by Mark Danielewski – provide insight into the typical problems that the self experiences in postmodern cultural contexts. Three such problems or 'symptoms' are singled out and analyzed in depth: an inability to choose because of a lack of decision-making tools; a difficulty to situate or appropriate feelings; and a structural need for a 'we' (a desire for connectivity and sociality).The critique that can be distilled from these texts, especially on the perceivedsolipsistic quality of postmodern experience worlds, runs parallel to developments in recent critical theory. These developments, in fiction and theory both, signal, in the wake of poststructural conceptions of subjectivity, a perhaps much awaited 'turn to the human' in our culture at large today.

Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium

Author : Judith Martin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 067172228X
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium written by Judith Martin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1990-11-15 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advice on social, business and personal etiquette.

The Fourth Millennium

Author : Paul Meier
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 9780785281498
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book The Fourth Millennium written by Paul Meier and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 1996 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating, action-filled sequel to their bestselling "The Third Millennium," the authors portray the wonder of life during Christ's millennial reign and the triumph of the ultimate confrontation between Satan and Jesus Christ.