Roman Polanski is a great maverick figure of world cinema who has lived a controversial and tragic life. Yet his notoriety has eclipsed the true importance of his long career, starting with his short films in the 1950s and continuing through to the recent Oliver Twist (2005). This collection highlights the bold and dazzling diversity of his work as well as recurrent themes and obsessions. Films discussed include Knife in the Water (1962), Repulsion (1965), Rosemary's Baby (1968), Chinatown (1974), Death and the Maiden (1994), and The Pianist...
Roman Polanski is a great maverick figure of world cinema who has lived a controversial and tragic life. Yet his notoriety has eclipsed the true impor...
This volume supplements the Facets of Culture textbook for advanced-level students of Japanese language. The textbook's six thematic units focus on diversity and boundary-crossing in contemporary Japanese society; topics include popular culture, translation, cross-cultural communication, bioethics, changing work patterns, and individualized learning. The Tasks, Vocabulary, and Sentence Patterns volume provides grammatical information, vocabulary in Japanese and English, and exercises and worksheets to aid the student in grasping the materials presented in the Text...
This volume supplements the Facets of Culture textbook for advanced-level students of Japanese language. The textbook's six thematic units f...
George Siofra -- writer, detective, all-around charming and witty fellow -- is rocked to his socks when he meets Deborah Bolting-Macpherson, who is also witty and charming, and to George, overwhelmingly beautiful and attractive. And, as George learns later, a witch. With a wand, even. Some bad people want to hurt Deborah. And a sociopathic, talented wizard really does hurt her. Also, there is the matter of The Globe, which George's genius friend, Sebastian, uses to transport George hundreds of miles in a second. Then strand him, in the desert. And the nasty cat that can burst into flame...
George Siofra -- writer, detective, all-around charming and witty fellow -- is rocked to his socks when he meets Deborah Bolting-Macpherson, who is al...
Donde estaria tu alma si murieras ahora mismo? Lo mas probable es que no sea lo que crees. Esta es una historia de ficcion sobre un lider de una iglesia conservadora que viaja hacia la eternidad. La ensenanza y escritura de la biblia de los primeros cristianos y eventos verdaderos son las bases de esta historia. Pero este libro es mas sobre tus sentimientos que sobre tu camino, porque aquello que crees determinara tu viaje despues de la muerte."
Donde estaria tu alma si murieras ahora mismo? Lo mas probable es que no sea lo que crees. Esta es una historia de ficcion sobre un lider de una igles...
Ingmar Bergman's films had a very broad and rich relationship with the rest of European cinema, contrary to the myth that Bergman was a peripheral figure, culturally and aesthetically isolated from the rest of Europe. This book contends that he should be put at the very center of European film history by chronologically comparing Bergman's relationship to key European directors such as Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Andrei Tarkovsky, and also looks at Bergman's critical relationship to key movements in film history such as the French New Wave. In so...
Ingmar Bergman's films had a very broad and rich relationship with the rest of European cinema, contrary to the myth that Bergman was a peripheral...
