wyszukanych pozycji: 11
Victoriana - Histories, Fictions, Criticism
ISBN: 9780748611461 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Cora Kaplan reflects on our peculiar and enduring fascination with things Victorian in film, fiction, biography and literary studies.
Cora Kaplan reflects on our peculiar and enduring fascination with things Victorian in film, fiction, biography and literary studies.
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140,00 zł |
The Cinema of North Africa and the Middle East
ISBN: 9781905674114 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Cinema of North Africa and the Middle East contains twenty-four essays, each concerning an individual film from Morocco all the way to Iran. The volume explores not only the established film cultures of Turkey, Egypt, and Israel, but also the nascent cinemas of Palestine and Syria. Selected films include Cairo Station (Egypt, 1958), The Runner (Iran, 1989), Once Upon a Time, Beriut (Lebanon, 1994), Ten (Iran, 2002), and Uzak (Turkey, 2003). With a preface by Cannes Palme d'Or-winning director Abbas Kiarostami, The Cinema of North Africa and the...
The Cinema of North Africa and the Middle East contains twenty-four essays, each concerning an individual film from Morocco all the way to Iran...
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583,05 zł |
The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth
ISBN: 9781905674183 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Werner Herzog is renowned for pushing the boundaries of conventional cinema, especially those between the fictional and the factual, the fantastic and the real. The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth is the first study in twenty years devoted entirely to an analysis of Herzog's work. It explores the director's continuing search for what he has described as 'ecstatic truth, ' drawing on over thirty-five films, from the epics Aguirre: Wrath of God (1972) and Fitzcarraldo (1982) to innovative documentaries like Fata Morgana (1971), Lessons of...
Werner Herzog is renowned for pushing the boundaries of conventional cinema, especially those between the fictional and the factual, the fantastic and...
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436,80 zł |
Victoriana - Histories, Fictions, Criticism
ISBN: 9780748611478 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this book Cora Kaplan looks at the politics of 'Victoriana' from the 1970s to the present, a politics that emerges from the alternation between nostalgia and critique in fiction, film, biography and literary studies.
In this book Cora Kaplan looks at the politics of 'Victoriana' from the 1970s to the present, a politics that emerges from the alternation between nos...
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440,90 zł |
Victoriana: Histories, Fictions, Criticism
ISBN: 9780231142175 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In Victoriana, leading feminist cultural critic Cora Kaplan reflects on our modern obsession with Victorian culture. She considers evocations of the nineteenth century in literature (The French Lieutenants' Woman by John Fowles, Possession by A. S. Byatt, Nice Work by David Lodge, The Master by Colm Toibin, Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst), film (Jane Campion's The Piano), and biography (Peter Ackroyd's Dickens). Why, she asks, does Jane Eyre still evoke tears and rage from its readers, and why...
In Victoriana, leading feminist cultural critic Cora Kaplan reflects on our modern obsession with Victorian culture. She considers evocations o...
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109,20 zł |
The Contemporary Television Series
ISBN: 9780748619009 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. An engaging and provocative study of the contemporary prime-time 'quality' serial television format, this book gives a timely account of prominent programmes such as 24, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ER, The Sopranos and The West Wing and explores their influential position within the television industry. Divided into the areas of history, aesthetics and reception, the text provides an illuminating overview of an increasingly hybrid television studies discipline. Chapters consider the formal and aesthetic elements in the contemporary television serial through approaches ranging from those...
An engaging and provocative study of the contemporary prime-time 'quality' serial television format, this book gives a timely account of prominent pro...
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570,57 zł |
Women and Material Culture, 1660-1830
ISBN: 9780230007055 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book comprises twelve illustrated, interdisciplinary essays on gender and material culture across the eighteenth century. These essays point to the many ways in which gender mediated and was shaped by the consumption and production of goods and elucidate the complex relationships between material and social practice in the period.
This book comprises twelve illustrated, interdisciplinary essays on gender and material culture across the eighteenth century. These essays point to t...
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344,56 zł |
Imagining Transatlantic Slavery
ISBN: 9780230578203 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This exciting interdisciplinary volume, featuringcontributions from a group of leading international scholars, reflects on the long history of representations of transatlanticslaves and slavery, encompassing a broad chronological range, from the eighteenth century to the present day."
This exciting interdisciplinary volume, featuringcontributions from a group of leading international scholars, reflects on the long history of represe...
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191,40 zł |
Christian Philosophy A-Z
ISBN: 9780748621521 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A handy guide to the major figures and issues in Christian philosophy from Augustine to the present.This volume covers a broad historical sweep and takes into account those non-Christian philosophers that have had a great impact on the Christian tradition. However, it concentrates on the issues that perplex Christian philosophers as they seek to think through their faith in a philosophical way and their philosophical beliefs in the light of their faith. Examples of the topics discussed are the question of whether and how God knows the future, whether we actually know that God exists, and what...
A handy guide to the major figures and issues in Christian philosophy from Augustine to the present.This volume covers a broad historical sweep and ta...
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124,44 zł |
Philosophy of Mind A-Z
ISBN: 9780748620951 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A comprehensive guide to the main positions, debates, key figures and problems as well as important terms in the philosophy of mind.Philosophy of Mind A-Z contains entries on historical and contemporary key figures, explaining the importance of the longstanding debates and how the contemporary field has been shaped. It covers both traditional and current topics, and even those topics that are only beginning to emerge. It includes a wide range of philosophy of mind, from Plato and Leibniz to externalism and the frame problem, from Husserl to neural Darwinism, from mental causation to the...
A comprehensive guide to the main positions, debates, key figures and problems as well as important terms in the philosophy of mind.Philosophy of Mind...
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124,44 zł |
Northern and Insular Scots
ISBN: 9780748623174 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Scots dialects of northern Scotland, Orkney and Shetland are among the most traditional varieties of 'English', exhibiting features not current elsewhere for centuries. Until recently, they were spoken in communities whose traditional occupations have encouraged the equation of speech with local identity. They have all also been affected by contact with Gaelic, or Norse, or both. In recent years, however, the decline of traditional industries has been matched by the discovery of oil off their coasts, encouraging in-migration of speakers of many varieties of English and other languages....
The Scots dialects of northern Scotland, Orkney and Shetland are among the most traditional varieties of 'English', exhibiting features not current el...
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145,18 zł |