wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity
ISBN: 9780231156615 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Amusement parks were the playgrounds of the working class in the early twentieth century, combining numerous, mechanically-based spectacles into one unique, modern cultural phenomenon. Lauren Rabinovitz describes the urban modernity engendered by these parks and their media, encouraging ordinary individuals to sense, interpret, and embody a burgeoning national identity. As industrialization, urbanization, and immigration upended society, amusement parks tempered the shocks of racial, ethnic, and cultural conflict while shrinking the distinctions between gender and class. Following the rise of...
Amusement parks were the playgrounds of the working class in the early twentieth century, combining numerous, mechanically-based spectacles into one u...
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153,17 zł |
Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity
ISBN: 9780231156608 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Amusement parks were the playgrounds of the working class in the early twentieth century, combining numerous, mechanically-based spectacles into one unique, modern cultural phenomenon. Lauren Rabinovitz describes the urban modernity engendered by these parks and their media, encouraging ordinary individuals to sense, interpret, and embody a burgeoning national identity. As industrialization, urbanization, and immigration upended society, amusement parks tempered the shocks of racial, ethnic, and cultural conflict while shrinking the distinctions between gender and class. Following the rise of...
Amusement parks were the playgrounds of the working class in the early twentieth century, combining numerous, mechanically-based spectacles into one u...
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481,40 zł |
For the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies, and Culture in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago
ISBN: 9780813525341 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "One of the most readable books on early cinema I have ever encountered. . . . Rabinovitz ably brings together a wealth of information about the exciting era of social change that marked the beginning of U.S. cinema." --Gaylyn Studlar, atuhor of This Mad Masquerade: Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age The period from the 1880s until the 1920s saw the making of a consumer society, the inception of the technological, economic, and social landscape in which we currently live. Cinema played a key role in the changing urban landscape. For working-class women, it became a refuge from the...
"One of the most readable books on early cinema I have ever encountered. . . . Rabinovitz ably brings together a wealth of information about the excit...
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169,59 zł |
Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture
ISBN: 9780822332411 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Digital culture is often characterized as radically breaking with past technologies, practices, and ideologies rather than as reflecting or incorporating them. "Memory Bytes" seeks to counter such ahistoricism, arguing for the need to understand digital culture--and its social, political, and ethical ramifications--in historical and philosophical context. Looking at a broad range of technologies, including photography, print and digital media, heat engines, stereographs, and medical imaging, the contributors present a number of different perspectives from which to reflect on the nature of...
Digital culture is often characterized as radically breaking with past technologies, practices, and ideologies rather than as reflecting or incorporat...
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124,68 zł |
Points of Resistance
ISBN: 9780252071249 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In detailing the relationship of three women filmmakers' lives and films to the changing institutions of the post-World War II era, Lauren Rabinovitz has created the first feminist social history of the North American avant-garde cinema. At a time when there were few women directors in commercial films, the postwar avant-garde movement offered an opportunity. Rabinovitz argues that avant-garde cinema, open to women because of its marginal status in the art world, included women as filmmakers, organizers, and critics. Focusing on Maya Deren, Shirley Clarke, and Joyce Wieland, Rabinovitz...
In detailing the relationship of three women filmmakers' lives and films to the changing institutions of the post-World War II era, Lauren Rabinovitz ...
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88,29 zł |
Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture
ISBN: 9780822332282 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Essays on digital culture--what it is, its historical context, and its uses in the media, the film industry, and the sciences.
Essays on digital culture--what it is, its historical context, and its uses in the media, the film industry, and the sciences.
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462,54 zł |