Eisenstein's reputation has long been secure as creator of the Soviet cinema's earliest and most enduring classics, and as a pioneer theorist and teacher. Yet the English-speaking world has not kept pace with a rising tide of Eisenstein scholarship further enriched by new publications emerging from the former Soviet Union to reveal a far more eclectic and erotic figure than tradition would suggest. Eisenstein Rediscovered is the first book to make full use of post-glasnost freedom from taboos and pieties to consider Eisenstein in the round, giving due weight to his work outside film...
Eisenstein's reputation has long been secure as creator of the Soviet cinema's earliest and most enduring classics, and as a pioneer theorist and teac...
Illustrated with over fifty photos, Civilizing Rituals merges contemporary debates with lively discussion and explores central issues involved in the making and displaying of art as industry and how it is presented to the community.
Carol Duncan looks at how nations, institutions and private individuals present art, and how art museums are shaped by cultural, social and political determinants.
Civilizing Rituals is ideal reading for students of art history and museum studies, and professionals in the field will also find much of interest...
Illustrated with over fifty photos, Civilizing Rituals merges contemporary debates with lively discussion and explores central issues invo...
The contributors to this volume consider how the Greeks and Romans perceived their natural world, and how their perceptions affected society. The effects of human settlement and cultivation on the landscape are considered, as well as the representation of landscape in Attic drama. Various aspects of farming, such as the use of terraces and the significance of olive growing, are examined. The uncultivated landscape was also important - hunting was a key social ritual for Greek and Hellenistic elites, and wild places were not wastelands but played an essential economic role. The Romans'...
The contributors to this volume consider how the Greeks and Romans perceived their natural world, and how their perceptions affected society. The effe...
In common with most of the industrialized countries, France has undertaken an ambitious programme of education reform in the period 1980-1995. This work uses extracts from contemporary writing to examine exactly how and why that process has happened, focusing on all stages of the education system. Sections cover the main characteristics of school reform in France, its aims and objectives, a discussion of the desirability of, and politics surrounding, the reform process, and explorations of classroom practice, the changing role of parents, standards in schools, and the curriculum.
In common with most of the industrialized countries, France has undertaken an ambitious programme of education reform in the period 1980-1995. This wo...
In the ancient world, war played a crucial part in shaping and changing social and political structures. The impact of war on the ancient societies of the Mediterranean world is the subject of this book and its companion, War and Society in the Roman World. The authors have drawn together a collection which extends beyond the traditional emphasis on political causes, tactics and strategy, and military organization. Instead, warfare is viewed as a species of social action, affecting and affected by social conditions and ideology, and having social, economic, and cultural consequences. This...
In the ancient world, war played a crucial part in shaping and changing social and political structures. The impact of war on the ancient societies of...
In the ancient world, war played a crucial part in shaping and changing social and political structures. The impact of war on ancient society is the subject of this book and the companion volume, War and Society in the Greek World. Earlier studies of ancient warfare have concentrated on political causes, tactics, strategy and military organization. In these volumes warfare is viewed rather as a species of social action, affecting (and affected by) social conditions and ideologies, and having social, economic and cultural consequences.
In the ancient world, war played a crucial part in shaping and changing social and political structures. The impact of war on ancient society is the s...
When Men Were Men questions the deep-set assumption that men's history speaks and has always spoken for all of us, by exploring the history of classical antiquity as an explicitly masculine story. With a preface by Sarah Pomeroy, this study employs different methodologies and focuses on a broad range of source materials, periods and places.
When Men Were Men questions the deep-set assumption that men's history speaks and has always spoken for all of us, by exploring the history o...
This text explores artistic and intellectual expression in the Classical world as the self-representation of man. It starts from the premise that the history of Classical antiquity as the ancients tell it is a history of men. However, the focus of this volume is the creation, re-creation and iteration of that male self as presented in language, poetry, drama, philosophical and scientific thought and art: man constructing himself as subject in classical antiquity and beyond. This illustrated volume provides an insight into the representations of men in Classical culture.
This text explores artistic and intellectual expression in the Classical world as the self-representation of man. It starts from the premise that the ...
This volume presents a challenge to the long-held view that the predominantly agricultural economies of ancient Greece and Rome were underdeveloped. This is achieved through investigating the economic significance of non-agricultural production - the extractive industries, the exploitation of natural resources, manufacturing and the building trade.
This volume presents a challenge to the long-held view that the predominantly agricultural economies of ancient Greece and Rome were underdeveloped. T...