Western History And Culture – Bücher, Blu-ray Discs, CDs und mehr, Seite 7

Tamim Ansary
The Invention of Yesterday

In this "terrific" (San Francisco Chronicle) book, an award-winning author tells the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual AgeTraveling across millennia and cul…

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Jonathan Weber
City on the Edge

By one of San Francisco's foremost chroniclers, the story of the city's meteoric transformation into a global capital of technology, and how the same creative and political forces that gave rise to its bo…

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Robert W Cherny
A Short History of San Francisco

When British explorer George Vancouver arrived at the San Francisco presidio in 1792, he described it as resembling a "compound for cattle"---hardly the opulent outpost he had expected of Spanis…

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Tamera J Buzick, Ronald M James, Michael A Bedeau
Bowers Mansion

Few estates born from the discovery of the Comstock Lode still survive. Among the grandest, Bowers Mansion, dates to the height of the Civil War. The property has a tragic history shrouded in legend, laid…

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Lucy Fischer
The Cinema of Converging Lives

What happens when strangers meet in film? In this book, Lucy Fischer analyzes films by a diverse and international group of directors which portray the seemingly random intersection of separate lives. Exp…

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Stephen Rebello
Hitchcockian Thrillers

During Alfred Hitchcock's five-decade reign as the screen's internationally celebrated Master of Suspense, he directed 53 motion pictures. In such Hitchcock gold standard classics as The 39 Steps, Rear Wi…

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Gregory A Waller,
Century in 16mm

When the small cameras and portable projectors that used 16mm film stock emerged in 1923, they allowed--for the first time in history--the possibility that anyone could make, show, and watch movies. A fou…

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David Thomson
A Sudden Flicker of Light

From cinema's most distinguished historian and critic comes a masterful one volume look at the whole sweep of movie history ---perfect for fans of iconic films and modern classics, from Citizen Kane to An…

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Transnational Arab Stardom

"A richly illustrated collection, structured along chronological, geographical and thematic lines, this book offers a significant new approach to Arab film studies and to star studies by expanding bo…

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Geoff King
Arthouse Crime Scenes

How is crime represented in art cinema? And how can this be understood in the context of global sociopolitical and film-industrial trends? Crime might be shown or lurk only at the edges. It might be left …

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Justine Atkinson
Collaborative Curation

This is the first exploration of the model of collaborative curation, a non-hierarchical decision-making process that requires a decentering of the individual, to reimagine curatorial practice in film fro…

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Julian Preece
Adapting Sex on Screen

Sex has always been cinema's most contested territory.Adapting Sex on Screen traces that battle through three once scandalous source texts: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs (1870), Arthur Schnitz…

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A Century in 16mm

When the small cameras and portable projectors that used 16mm film stock emerged in 1923, they allowed--for the first time in history--the possibility that anyone could make, show, and watch movies. A fou…

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Lucy Fischer
The Cinema of Converging Lives

What happens when strangers meet in film? In this book, Lucy Fischer analyzes films by a diverse and international group of directors which portray the seemingly random intersection of separate lives. Exp…

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Cathy Lomax
Making Up the Star

This book examines the integral role that makeup plays in the construction and promotion of female stardom, focusing on the transitional Hollywood period, between 1950 and 1970, a time of great change in …

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Tao Leigh Goffe
Dark Laboratory

A groundbreaking investigation of the Caribbean as both an idyll in the American imagination and a dark laboratory of Western experimentation, revealing secrets to racial and environmental progress that i…

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Fran Hoepfner
The Field Guide to Nepo Babies

From pop culture journalist and comedian Fran Hoepfner, this small, humorous gift book dives into our obsession with nepo babies--short for"nepotism babies."With spotlights on notable nepo babie…

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Kate Bryan,
How to Art

A funny, inviting, full-color book about art for people who don't know about "art"---featuring new artworks by David Shrigley.What is art, where do I find it, and once I'm in front of it, what a…

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Wayne Byrne
You Can't Kill the Boogeyman

You Can't Kill the Boogeyman: The Ongoing Halloween Saga - 13 Movies and Counting is a cultural and critical examination of the legendary Halloween film franchise, considering the style, themes, and devel…

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Sarah Street, Tim Bergfelder, Richard Farmer, Eleanor Halsall
Film Studios in Britain, France, Germany and Italy

This open access book investigates film studios in Britain, France, Germany and Italy between the 1930s and 1960s. During this time, studios faces unprecedented challenges including wartime disruptions, p…

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