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The Poetics of Information Overload: From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing
ISBN: 9780816694419 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Information overload is a subject of vital, ubiquitous concern in our time. The Poetics of Information Overload reveals a fascinating genealogy of information saturation through the literary lens of American modernism. Although technology has typically been viewed as hostile or foreign to poetry, Paul Stephens outlines a countertradition within twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature in which avant-garde poets are centrally involved with technologies of communication, data storage, and bureaucratic control. Beginning with Gertrude Stein and Bob Brown, Stephens explores... Information overload is a subject of vital, ubiquitous concern in our time. The Poetics of Information Overload reveals a fascinating geneal... |
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102,60 |
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Breaking and Entering: The Contemporary House Cut, Spliced, and Haunted Volume 16
ISBN: 9780773545458 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As climate change, economic recession, war, and mass migration destabilize the world and create a less certain future, notions of home and shelter loom large. Breaking and Entering considers how contemporary artists and filmmakers address anxieties and vulnerabilities around housing and the house by prying open both physical and metaphorical domestic structures. Deploying tactics that range from cutting into the surface of actual buildings, to making and manipulating "real" and virtual architectural models, to filming urban decay, the artists under discussion dismantle traditional domesticity...
As climate change, economic recession, war, and mass migration destabilize the world and create a less certain future, notions of home and shelter loo...
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215,06 |
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Upstairs and Downstairs: British Costume Drama Television from the Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey
ISBN: 9781442244825 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The international success of Downton Abbey has led to a revived interest in period dramas, with older programs like The Forsyte Saga being rediscovered by a new generation of fans whose tastes also include grittier fare like Ripper Street. Though often criticized as a form of escapist, conservative nostalgia, these shows can also provide a lens to examine the class and gender politics of both the past and present. In Upstairs and Downstairs: British Costume Drama Television from The Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey, James Leggott and Julie Anne Taddeo provide a collection of essays that analyze...
The international success of Downton Abbey has led to a revived interest in period dramas, with older programs like The Forsyte Saga being rediscovere...
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391,02 |
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The Art of Mad Max: Fury Road
ISBN: 9781783298167 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Max Rockatansky returns. Haunted by his turbulent past, the wandering Road Warrior becomes swept up with a group fleeing across the Wasteland in a War Rig driven by an elite Imperator, Furiosa. Seeking escape from the tyranny of Immortan Joe, what follows is a high-octane Road War - and a chance for redemption. The Art of Mad Max: Fury Road is the official companion to the highly anticipated movie.
Max Rockatansky returns. Haunted by his turbulent past, the wandering Road Warrior becomes swept up with a group fleeing across the Wasteland in a War...
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128,57 |
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Educational Institutions in Horror Film: A History of Mad Professors, Student Bodies, and Final Exams
ISBN: 9781137469199 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An exploration of how educational institutions have been portrayed in horror film, this book examines the way that scary movies have dealt with the issue of school violence, focusing on movies set in high schools, colleges, and summer camps.
An exploration of how educational institutions have been portrayed in horror film, this book examines the way that scary movies have dealt with the is...
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201,24 |
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AK Dolven: Please Return
ISBN: 9781908970190 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Including large-scale installation shots and original sketches, this book presents the past decade of Norwegian artist AK Dolven's (born 1953) highly acclaimed work. Using a diverse range of media, Dolven creates complex responses to harsh landscapes such as the Arctic Circle.
Including large-scale installation shots and original sketches, this book presents the past decade of Norwegian artist AK Dolven's (born 1953) highly ...
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198,45 |
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Lizze Fitch / Ryan Trecartin: Site Visit
ISBN: 9783863356668 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Los Angeles-based artist Ryan Trecartin (born 1981), whom The New Yorker called -the most consequential artist to have emerged since the 1980s, - is best known for his highly stylized videos, often installed in special environments designed by his longtime collaborator, Lizzie Fitch, that draw on Internet and youth cultures, with characters and images that are familiar and utterly unfamiliar at the same time. Site Visit is published to accompany Trecartin's exhibition at Berlin's KW Institute for Contemporary Art, which includes a new multichannel film and site-specific...
Los Angeles-based artist Ryan Trecartin (born 1981), whom The New Yorker called -the most consequential artist to have emerged since the 1980s,...
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158,56 |
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Seven Films
ISBN: 9788867491001 / Angielski / Twarda / 165 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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112,42 |
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The Gold Rush
ISBN: 9781844576401 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Matthew Solomon's study of Chaplin's The Gold Rush (1925) provides an in-depth discussion of the film's production and reception history, placing it in the context of the turn-of-the-century Alaska Klondike gold rush, and analyses the film's narrative and formal features, particularly its references to music-hall performance styles and tropes.
Matthew Solomon's study of Chaplin's The Gold Rush (1925) provides an in-depth discussion of the film's production and reception history, placing it i...
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63,49 |
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Writing on the Image: Architecture, the City and the Politics of Representation
ISBN: 9781784530389 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From an examination of the politically-laden spectacle of George IV's visit to Edinburgh in 1822 (as stage-managed by the celebrated novelist Sir Walter Scott), to an analyses of Google Earth's role in the construction of a new kind of political map (one that is no longer primarily structured by boundary lines and coloured territories, but instead through a politics of image resolution), the remarkable essays in this book present innovative ways of understanding visual phenomena in historical and contemporary culture.
Writing on the Image brings together a series of Mark Dorrian's... From an examination of the politically-laden spectacle of George IV's visit to Edinburgh in 1822 (as stage-managed by the celebrated novelist Sir Walt...
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635,41 |
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Managing Elite Sport Systems: Research and Practice
ISBN: 9781138803275 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the last twenty years or so there has been a sharp increase in interest from national sports federations and governments in the development of effective elite sport systems, particularly focused on achieving success in the summer and winter Olympic Games. Many countries now have publicly funded elite sports strategies which provide specialist facilities and support staff and often provide direct financial support for athletes. These developments have stimulated academic interest in describing the elite sport systems, analysing the processes by which policy is established and... Over the last twenty years or so there has been a sharp increase in interest from national sports federations and governments in the development of... |
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782,04 |
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Cecil Hepworth and the Rise of the British Film Industry 1899-1911
ISBN: 9780859898904 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a thorough industrial, economic, and aesthetic history of the early years of the British film industry through a case study of one of the most celebrated pioneers of the period, Cecil Hepworth. As film production shifted from being a cottage industry to a complicated, large-scale national industry, Hepworth and his studio were at the heart of developments. Simon Brown presents a picture of daily life in Hepworth's studio through these changes, along with analysis of the content, production, and marketing of his films. He also charts the larger development of the British...
This book presents a thorough industrial, economic, and aesthetic history of the early years of the British film industry through a case study of one ...
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366,59 |
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World Cinema, Theology, and the Human: Humanity in Deep Focus
ISBN: 9781138921887 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Forging an open-minded but reasoned dialogue between nine acclaimed titles of world cinema, and a range of theological perspectives that touch on the theme of human experience, World Cinema, Theology, and the Human offers fresh portals of insight for the interdisciplinary area of Theology and Film. In Sison s approach, it is the cinematic representation of vivid humanity, not necessarily propositional statements about God and religion, that lays down a bridge to a conversation with theology. Thus, the book s project is to look for the divine presence, written not on tablets of... Forging an open-minded but reasoned dialogue between nine acclaimed titles of world cinema, and a range of theological perspectives that touch on t... |
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254,11 |
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Group Therapy: Mental Distress in a Digital Age: A User Guide
ISBN: 9781781381885 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Group Therapy invites readers to reconsider their perceptions of mental health, by asking how far our personal wellbeing is related to the values of the society we live in. In the 21st century, where many of our daily activities are mediated by digital devices, it focuses particularly on the impact of new technologies on our sense of self and our collective wellbeing.
Using provocations and personal testimonies, the book challenges conventional perceptions of mental illness, while offering practical advice on how to deal with contemporary problems such as internet addiction or mental... Group Therapy invites readers to reconsider their perceptions of mental health, by asking how far our personal wellbeing is related to the values of t...
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104,84 |
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Film Studies: An Introduction: Teach Yourself
ISBN: 9781473608795 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Film Studies: An Introduction" provides an overview of the key areas in film studies, including aesthetics, narrative, genre, documentary films and the secrets of film reviewing. From Hitchcock and Tarantino to Spielberg and Bigelow, you will gain a critical understanding of legendary directors and the techniques and skills that are used to achieve cinematic effects. Whether you are a film studies student or just a film buff wanting to know more, this book will give you an invaluable insight into the exciting and incredibly fast-moving world of film.
"Film Studies: An Introduction" provides an overview of the key areas in film studies, including aesthetics, narrative, genre, documentary films and t...
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65,37 |
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So Bad, It's Good II: Electric Bookaloo
ISBN: 9781507510636 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every bad movie deserves a sequel that's bigger, louder, and more ridiculous than the original. There are always more hilariously terrible films waiting to be laughed at, and So Bad, It's Good 2: Electric Bookaloo is designed to help you find new movies that you'll love for all the wrong reasons. From the cheesy action flicks of the 1980s to the latest advances in awful filmmaking, this second book in the So Bad, It's Good series features more outrageous plots, terrible special effects and laughable dialogue for you to enjoy on your next bad movie night. Alongside reviews of dozens of the...
Every bad movie deserves a sequel that's bigger, louder, and more ridiculous than the original. There are always more hilariously terrible films waiti...
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43,62 |
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Son of Trevor Lynch's White Nationalist Guide to the Movies
ISBN: 9781935965855 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since 2001, Trevor Lynch's witty, pugnacious, and profound film essays and reviews have developed a wide following among cinephiles and White Nationalists alike. Lynch deals frankly with the anti-white bias and Jewish agenda of many mainstream films, but he is even more interested in discerning positive racial messages and values, sometimes in the most unlikely places. Son of Trevor Lynch's White Nationalist Guide to the Movies is his second collection of essays and reviews, covering 51 movies and 4 television shows, spanning a 14-year period, from his very first review (Mulholland Drive) to...
Since 2001, Trevor Lynch's witty, pugnacious, and profound film essays and reviews have developed a wide following among cinephiles and White National...
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148,18 |
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Son of Trevor Lynch's White Nationalist Guide to the Movies
ISBN: 9781935965862 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since 2001, Trevor Lynch's witty, pugnacious, and profound film essays and reviews have developed a wide following among cinephiles and White Nationalists alike. Lynch deals frankly with the anti-white bias and Jewish agenda of many mainstream films, but he is even more interested in discerning positive racial messages and values, sometimes in the most unlikely places. Son of Trevor Lynch's White Nationalist Guide to the Movies is his second collection of essays and reviews, covering 51 movies and 4 television shows, spanning a 14-year period, from his very first review (Mulholland Drive) to...
Since 2001, Trevor Lynch's witty, pugnacious, and profound film essays and reviews have developed a wide following among cinephiles and White National...
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84,67 |
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Agents of Liberations: Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Art and Documentary Film
ISBN: 9789633860663 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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195,46 |
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Agents of Liberations: Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Art and Documentary Film
ISBN: 9789633860960 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book offers case studies on the representation of the Holocaust in contemporary art practices of the 2000s. It examines film projects made by key artists of the international art scene that are capable of reflecting critically upon forms of Holocaust memory and their historical, political and cultural aspects. Kkesi connects the moral implications of the memory of the Holocaust with a critical analysis of contemporary societies, focusing upon artists who are deeply engaged in doing both of the above within the context of three regions: Eastern Europe (especially Poland), Germany, and...
The book offers case studies on the representation of the Holocaust in contemporary art practices of the 2000s. It examines film projects made by key ...
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102,40 |