Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Reference

The study of the Arthurian legend in the 1600s has revealed almost no romance; the stories are more about the truth of Arthur's existence and his exploits, with influence due to political bearing of the royalty versus parliament at the time. This fascinating study elucidates the differences between the stories of the seventeenth century and those more well-known now and looks at the development of the literature in line with the political climate and its links with Arthurian prophecy and lineage. Originally published 1932 and again in 1967.

This text outlines what sociologists need to know of the nature of communication and of mass culture, while also looking in some empirical detail at the workings of the Hollywood community and the psychology of the star system. It explores trends such as attempts to adapt semiology and psycholinguistics to our understanding of film 'language', using them to develop a paradigm for film analysis. The book goes on to offer a guide to comprehension of the relation between cinema and society through detailed analysis of the relation between the German silent cinema and its social context and...

This book examines the development of cinematic form and culture in Russia, from its late nineteenth-century beginnings as a fairground attraction to the early post-Revolutionary years.

The author traces the changing perceptions of cinema and its social transition from a modernist invention to a national art form. He explores reactions to the earliest films from actors, novelists, poets, writers and journalists. His richly detailed study of the physical elements of cinematic performance includes the architecture and illumination of the cinema foyer, the speed of projection and film...

During the interwar period cinema and literature seemed to be at odds with each other, part of the continuing struggle between mass and elite culture which so worried writers such as Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot and the Leavises. And this cultural divide appeared to be sharp evidence of a deeper struggle for control of the nation's consciousness, not only between dominant and oppositional elements within Britain, but between British and American vales as well.

On the one hand, films like Sing As We Go, Proud Valley, and The Stars Look Down consolidated the...

Given Herzog's own pronouncement that 'film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates, ' it is not surprising that his work has aroused ambivalent and contradictory responses. Visually and philosophically ambitious and at the same time provocatively eccentric, Herzog's films have been greeted equally by extreme adulation and extreme condemnation.

Even as Herzog's rebellious images have gained him a reputation as a master of the German New Wave, he has been attacked for indulging in a romantic naivete and wilful self-absorption. To his hardest critics, Herzog's films appear as...

This collection of papers examines the evolving relationship between the motion picture industry and television from the 1940s onwards. The institutional and technological histories of the film and TV industries are looked at, concluding that Hollywood and television had a symbiotic relationship from the start. Aspects covered include the movement of audiences, the rise of the independent producer, the introduction of colour and the emergence of network structure, cable TV and video recorders. Originally published in 1990.

In the Renaissance period the body emerges as the repository of social and cultural forces and a privileged metaphor for political practices and legal codification. Due to its ambivalent expressive force, it represents the seat and the means for the performance of normative identity and at the same time of alterity. The essays of the collection address the manifold articulations of this topic, demonstrating how the inscription of the body within the discursive spheres of gender identity, sexuality, law, and politics align its materiality with discourses whose effects are themselves...

David Jones - author of In Parenthesis, the great epic poem of World War I - is increasingly recognised as a major voice in the first generation of British Modernist writers. Acclaimed by the likes of T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats and W.H. Auden, his writing was deeply informed by his Christian faith and Welsh blood.

This book makes available for the first time a number of previously unpublished writings by Jones that cast new light not only on Jones's own writing but on the political, religious and cultural engagements of British Modernism. Annotated throughout, with substantial...

William Makepeace Thackeray spent part of virtually every year of his writing life in Paris and he wrote continually on France and French culture. This volume contains a selection of Thackeray s travel writing, the majority of which centres around his time spent in France, with the addition of some writing on his travels to Germany and America." "With an explanatory introduction by Richard Pearson, this books reveals some of Thackeray s lesser-known work which would later inform his later novels.

This book will be of interest to those studying Thackeray and nineteenth-century travel...

This volume contains extracts of William Makepeace Thackeray s early fiction and journalism in the 1830s and 1840s. In his early career, Thackeray worked as an editor, sub-editor, writer, reviewer, foreign journalist, illustrator, versifier, and hack reporter, and by 1837 had managed to maintain an unbroken and multi-faceted literary output through magazines, journals and newspapers for fourteen years. With an introduction by Richard Pearson, this books reveals some of Thackeray s early and lesser-known work.

This book will be of interest to those studying Thackeray and...

Originally published in 1996, the articles in this book are revised, expanded papers from a session at the 17^th International Congress of the Arthurian Society held in 1993. The chapters cover Arthurian studies' directions at the time, showcasing analysis of varied aspects of visual representation and relation to literary themes. Close attention to the historical context is a key feature of this work, investigating the linkage between texts and images in the Middle Ages and beyond.

Minnereden bilden die umfangreichste Textgruppe der weltlichen deutschen Literatur des spaten Mittelalters. Die zumeist paargereimten Verstexte sind uberaus wertvolle Quellen fur die Erforschung des vormodernen Diskurses uber die verschiedenen Dimensionen zwischengeschlechtlicher Liebe.

Bisherige Minnereden-Anthologien beschranken sich auf die unkommentierte Wiedergabe historischer Sammlungskontexte. Erstmals steht mit der vorliegenden Edition nun ein reprasentatives Bild des Gattungszusammenhangs zur Verfugung. Die Auswahl der 57 Texte - zusammen ca. 10.600 Verse - orientiert sich...

This feminist anthology from Italy offers an enriching perspective on cinema studies. Focusing on women s engagement with political theory and film-making, the book never loses sight of the female experience of cinema. It examines how women have chosen to represent themselves and how they have been represented, and how they deal with the cinematic apparatus, as subjects of production, objects of representation, and spectators. A variety of approaches are offered, ranging from psychoanalysis and semiology to history. With an exhaustive filmography, this anthology of chapters by eminent...

Written specifically with the student in mind and focusing on a number of well-known texts, including Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Nicholas Nickleby, Nice Work and The Color Purple, the contributions in this book demonstrate how we can look critically at literary adaptations and learn to distinguish between mythical images and the reality of the process that constructed them. They argue that adaptations should not be seen as secondary or marginal, because through them we can enter into an exciting debate with the literary text itself. Originally published in 1993.