Rather than focusing on the abstract and individualizing character of cinema, Mediated Associations elucidates the collective character of cinematic objects. O'Connor argues that social theory must come to terms with the new mobilities and speed of cinema, and the various ways in which the affect - as a virtual moment of collective experience - is inserted into the flow of movement and structures cinematic events. In considering the primacy of the affect to cinematic forms of power, he examines the way in which cinema controls our associations, reconstituting our manners and habits of...
Rather than focusing on the abstract and individualizing character of cinema, Mediated Associations elucidates the collective character of cinematic o...
Drawing from a range of philosophical, sociological, cultural, media, and cinema theorists, this book develops a conception of the power of cinematic apparatuses. It expands our understanding of how cinema effectively resonates with its viewers and draws our attention to the constitution and control of aesthetic-cinematic communities.
Drawing from a range of philosophical, sociological, cultural, media, and cinema theorists, this book develops a conception of the power of cinematic ...
A new and expansive official history of the USPG commissioned to mark the tercentenary in 2001. The first half tells a compelling global story from the mission to the Americas in the 18th century, through the North China Mission in the late 19th century to today's Social Development Programme in Bangladesh. There is a particular focus on the post-1945 period of decolonization, development and dialogue with other religions. The second half is a collection of essays that give a wide range of themes and perspective from a history of missionary wives by Deborah Kirkwood to a discussion of the...
A new and expansive official history of the USPG commissioned to mark the tercentenary in 2001. The first half tells a compelling global story from...
A single theme runs through the three essays on St. Thomas gather in this book. It is the theme of mystery or, more exactly, the response of the searching human intellect to the fact of mystery. Both the fact and the response are suggested in a short biography of St. Thomas that forms the first essay and are then sketched out in detail by a presentation of the "negative element" in his philosophy. The third essay shows that contemporary Existentialism is in basic agreement with the philosophia perennis on this fundamental element of philosophical thinking.
A single theme runs through the three essays on St. Thomas gather in this book. It is the theme of mystery or, more exactly, the response of the searc...
American foreign policy cannot be understood apart from the US security assistance programme. Beginning with Truman, every president has considered security assistance programmes important means of furthering US national interests. This book is a treatment of the programmes from 1947 to 1996.
American foreign policy cannot be understood apart from the US security assistance programme. Beginning with Truman, every president has considered se...
