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19 produkter
Future of the Classical
Av Salvatore Settis, Allan Cameron
Inbunden, 2006
767 kr
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Every era has invented a different idea of the ‘classical’ to create its own identity. Thus the ‘classical’ does not concern only the past: it is also concerned with the present and a vision of the future. In this elegant new book, Salvatore Settis traces the ways in which we have related to our …
Future of the Classical
Av Salvatore Settis, Allan Cameron
Häftad, 2006
292 kr
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Every era has invented a different idea of the ‘classical’ to create its own identity. Thus the ‘classical’ does not concern only the past: it is also concerned with the present and a vision of the future. In this elegant new book, Salvatore Settis traces the ways in which we have related to our …
Presbyopia
Häftad, 2009
172 kr
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"My sight if fades and fading faded forms reveals; ageing looks beyond its age to shrivelled centuries beyond decades." The presbyopic poet cannot focus on "the self as subject", but only on what is distant. This collection of poetry attempts to detach the writer from the obsessions that have …
Visceral Screens
Mediation and Matter in Horror Cinema
Häftad, 2023
548 kr
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Investigates how horror films have rendered the human body as a media artifact, dramatically dis-figuring it with optical effects and visual fragmentationDemonstrates how a range of different horror subgenres depict bodily mediation, from the vampire's association with optical effects to the use of …
Indefinite Visions
Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty
Av Martine Beugnet, Allan Cameron m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1393 kr
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Moving image culture seems to privilege the instantly identifiable: the recognizable face, the well-timed stunt, the perfectly synchronized line of dialogue. Yet perfect, in-focus visibility does not come ‘naturally’ to the moving image, and if there is one visual effect the eye of the camera can …
Indefinite Visions
Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty
Av Martine Beugnet, Allan Cameron m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
376 kr
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With a range of approaches, from aesthetics to phenomenology to production studies, the authors in this volume investigate techniques, themes and concepts that emerge from this wilful excavation of the moving image s material base.
Visceral Screens
Mediation and Matter in Horror Cinema
Inbunden, 2021
1483 kr
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Horror cinema grants bodies and images a precarious hold on sense and order: from the zombie’s gory disintegration to the shaky visuals of ‘found footage’ horror, and from the vampire’s absent reflection to the spectacle of shattering glass in the Italian giallo. Addressing classic horror movies …
Can the Gods Cry?
E-bok, 2011
132 kr
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With one exception, these short stories were written for this collection, and they tentatively look at different themes such as compassion, passivity and their opposites, which are not, of course, original themes, as none exist. The stories are told in different keys, and some characters appear in …
On the Heroism of Mortals
E-bok, 2012
123 kr
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This is a collection of eleven short stories whose common theme is the heroism of our flawed lives. It explores the arduousness of people’s lives and covers such diverse subjects as human solidarity, generational change, single parenthood, domestic violence, the tragic complexity of revolution, …
In Praise of the Garrulous
Häftad, 2013
183 kr
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This first and only work of non-fiction by the author of two novels, two collections of short stories and a collection of poetry, has an accessible and conversational tone, which perhaps disguises its enormous ambition. It not only deals with the origins of language to argue its centrality to …
In Praise of the Garrulous
E-bok, 2013
142 kr
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“This is a book about language and above all about the value and essentiality of language in our lives. It might therefore be called a book on the “ecology” of language, because human language is in danger of being permanently damaged by the way modern technology has developed over the last …
Cinico
Travels with a Good Professor at the Time of the Scottish Referendum
Häftad, 2020
136 kr
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The narrator is an urbane, cynical and egocentric Italian journalist with little interest in the truth, though not as shabby as his companion, a professor of politics. The journalist meets people across the spectrum of ideas, and the book concerns not just political events, but how people …
Cinico
Travels with a Good Professor at the Time of the Scottish Referendum
E-bok, 2017
106 kr
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With a Scottish professor of politics as his guide, a London-based Italian journalist traverses Scotland seeking a “big story” on the independence referendum. What he gets instead are small stories from myriad points of view: a Ukrainian nationalist, a Russian religious guru, an eccentric Estonian, …
Woman's War against Progress
Häftad, 2023
172 kr
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In 1916 a young woman, Rahvaema, leaves the forest community where she grew up, and sets off for a century-long adventure whose struggles and sufferings she could never have imagined. She becomes a campaigner for her Surelik language and culture, and in doing this she expands her horizons and is …
Things Can Only Get Worse
A collection of poetry for the era of neoliberal misery and the fog of perpetual war
Häftad, 2026
200 kr
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Whilst indignation saturates Allan Cameron’s third collection, Things Can Only Get Worse, whose title is a reminder of Tony Blair’s unkept promises before his first mandate which led us into another NATO war of aggression aimed at terrorising peoples and purloining the property of other nations, …
The Berlusconi Bonus
The First Draft of Adolphus Hibbert's Confession
Häftad, 2010
172 kr
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Allan Cameron's intriguing novel is set in a near future where the predictions of the US theorist Francis Fukuyama have been taken to their logical conclusions. Fukuyama declared that, with the collapse of the USSR and the hegemony of neoliberal capitalism, history has come to an end. In Cameron's …
Can the Gods Cry?
Häftad, 2011
189 kr
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With one exception, these short stories were written for this collection, and they tentatively look at different themes such as compassion, passivity and their opposites, which are not, of course, original themes, as none exist. The stories are told in different keys, and some characters appear in …
On the Heroism of Mortals
Häftad, 2012
155 kr
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This is a collection of eleven short stories whose common theme is the heroism of our flawed lives. It explores the arduousness of people's lives and covers such diverse subjects as human solidarity, generational change, single parenthood, domestic violence, the tragic complexity of revolution, …
Barrel of Dried Leaves
Häftad, 2016
171 kr
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"A barrel not of laughs but of contortions, confusions and the occasional dry chortle - and of metre adorned with irregular, sometimes internal rhymes, assonances, alliterations, awkwardnesses and other such trickery unfashionable to the current academic ear, and not a murmur of the poet's inner …
