wyszukanych pozycji: 14
Nightmare Alley: Film Noir and the American Dream
ISBN: 9781421413884 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Desperate young lovers on the lam ( They Live by Night), a cynical con man making a fortune as a mentalist ( Nightmare Alley), a penniless pregnant girl mistaken for a wealthy heiress ( No Man of Her Own), a wounded veteran who has forgotten his own name ( Somewhere in the Night)--this gallery of film noir characters challenges the stereotypes of the wise-cracking detective and the alluring femme fatale. Despite their differences, they all have something in common: a belief in self-reinvention. Nightmare Alley is a thorough examination of how film noir... Desperate young lovers on the lam ( They Live by Night), a cynical con man making a fortune as a mentalist ( Nightmare Alley), a penn... |
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201,38 zł |
Music at the Crossroads: Lives & Legacies of Baltimore Jazz
ISBN: 9781934074510 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The first book to analyze and celebrate Baltimore's underappreciated jazz tradition, Music at the Crossroads shines new light on legends such as Eubie Blake and Cab Calloway, honors neglected figures such as Ellis Larkins, Hank Levy, and Ethel Ennis, pays tribute to the legacies of Pennsylvania Avenue and the Left Bank Jazz Society, and analyzes the current Baltimore jazz scene.
The first book to analyze and celebrate Baltimore's underappreciated jazz tradition, Music at the Crossroads shines new light on legends such as Eubie...
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172,82 zł |
The Beatles Through a Glass Onion: Reconsidering the White Album
ISBN: 9780472074082 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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378,64 zł |
Hitchcock and Adaptation: On the Page and Screen
ISBN: 9781442230873 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From early silent features like The Lodger and Easy Virtue to his final film, Family Plot, in 1976, most of Alfred Hitchcock s movies were adapted from plays, novels, and short stories. Hitchcock always took care to collaborate with those who would not just execute his vision but shape it, and many of the screenwriters he enlisted including Eliot Stannard, Charles Bennett, John Michael Hayes, and Ernest Lehman worked with the director more than once. And of course Hitchcock s wife, Alma Reville, his most constant collaborator, was with him from the 1920s until his death. In Hitchcock and...
From early silent features like The Lodger and Easy Virtue to his final film, Family Plot, in 1976, most of Alfred Hitchcock s movies were adapted fro...
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373,42 zł |
Economy of Ulysses: Making Both Ends Meet
ISBN: 9780815626619 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This work reads Ulysses from a number of different economic perspectives as it also moves toward an analysis of the role of the reader in the economics of interpreting Joyce's novel.
This work reads Ulysses from a number of different economic perspectives as it also moves toward an analysis of the role of the reader in the economic...
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136,00 zł |
Music at the Crossroads: Lives & Legacies of Baltimore Jazz
ISBN: 9781934074527 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The first book to analyze and celebrate Baltimore's underappreciated jazz tradition, Music at the Crossroads shines new light on legends such as Eubie Blake and Cab Calloway, honors neglected figures such as Ellis Larkins, Hank Levy, and Ethel Ennis, pays tribute to the legacies of Pennsylvania Avenue and the Left Bank Jazz Society, and analyzes the current Baltimore jazz scene.
The first book to analyze and celebrate Baltimore's underappreciated jazz tradition, Music at the Crossroads shines new light on legends such as Eubie...
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120,91 zł |
Autism and Representation
ISBN: 9780415956444 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Autism, a neuro-developmental disability, has received wide but often sensationalistic treatment in the popular media. A great deal of clinical and medical research has been devoted to autism, but the traditional humanities disciplines and the new field of Disability Studies have yet to explore it. This volume, the first scholarly book on autism in the humanities, brings scholars from several disciplines together with adults on the autism spectrum to investigate the diverse ways that autism has been represented in novels, poems, autobiographies, films, and clinical discourses, and to... Autism, a neuro-developmental disability, has received wide but often sensationalistic treatment in the popular media. A great deal of clinical and... |
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704,29 zł |
The Question of the Gift: Essays Across Disciplines
ISBN: 9780415282772 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Question of the Gift is the first collection of new interdisciplinary essays on the gift. Bringing together scholars from a variety of fields, including anthropology, literary criticism, economics, philosophy and classics, it provides new paradigms and poses new questions concerning the theory and practice of gift exchange. In addressing these questions, contributors not only challenge the conventions of their fields, but also combine ideas and methods from both the social sciences and humanities to forge innovative ways of confronting this universal phenomenon.
The Question of the Gift is the first collection of new interdisciplinary essays on the gift. Bringing together scholars from a variety of fi...
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704,29 zł |
Fake It: Fictions of Forgery
ISBN: 9780813946276 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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215,25 zł |
Autism and Representation
ISBN: 9780415806275 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Autism, a neuro-developmental disability, has received wide but often sensationalistic treatment in the popular media. A great deal of clinical and medical research has been devoted to autism, but the traditional humanities disciplines and the new field of Disability Studies have yet to explore it. This volume, the first scholarly book on autism in the humanities, brings scholars from several disciplines together with adults on the autism spectrum to investigate the diverse ways that autism has been represented in novels, poems, autobiographies, films, and clinical discourses, and to... Autism, a neuro-developmental disability, has received wide but often sensationalistic treatment in the popular media. A great deal of clinical and... |
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234,71 zł |
Fake It: Fictions of Forgery
ISBN: 9780813946269 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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581,66 zł |
The Question of the Gift: Essays Across Disciplines
ISBN: 9780415869140 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Question of the Gift is the first collection of new interdisciplinary essays on the gift. Bringing together scholars from a variety of fields, including anthropology, literary criticism, economics, philosophy and classics, it provides new paradigms and poses new questions concerning the theory and practice of gift exchange.
In addressing these questions, contributors not only challenge the conventions of their fields, but also combine ideas and methods from both the social sciences and humanities to forge innovative ways of confronting this universal phenomenon. The Question of the Gift is the first collection of new interdisciplinary essays on the gift. Bringing together scholars from a variety of fi...
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281,66 zł |
American Magic and Dread: The Fiction of Don Delillo
ISBN: 9780812235517 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. American Magic and Dread Don DeLillo's Dialogue with Culture Mark Osteen "Osteen's wide-ranging knowledge of media history and theory and ability to draw upon a variety of theoretical approaches with great clarity convincingly links DeLillo to the major intellectual currents of our times. This is just the sort of book to generate a livelier discussion of DeLillo's place in the postmodern canon."--David Cowart, University of South Carolina "A strongly argued analysis and close reading of Delillo's works. . . . There is much here in the methodology and discussion of postmodern themes and...
American Magic and Dread Don DeLillo's Dialogue with Culture Mark Osteen "Osteen's wide-ranging knowledge of media history and theory and ability to d...
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340,47 zł |
Don Delillo: Mao II & Underworld (Loa #374)
ISBN: 9781598537550 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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183,86 zł |