Erica Carter – författare

A long time ago, the sun, stars, ocean, mountains, and everything elseeven timedid not exist.

So how did everything come from nothing?

The straightforward, scientific explanations in this wonderful little book will help you answer that question, which may come from the youngsters in your life or that you may even ask yourself. Get the answers to questions such as:

Youll also learn about the first primitive forms of life on Earth, how the human race developed and evolved, what fossils and bones tell us about our past, and how climate change has affected the human race throughout time.

While you wont learn about all the magical wonders in the world, you will learn what happened From The Beginning.

Béla Balázs’s two works, Visible Man (1924) and The Spirit of Film (1930), are published here for the first time in full English translation. The essays offer the reader an insight into the work of a film theorist whose German-language publications have been hitherto unavailable to the film studies audience in the English-speaking world. Balázs’s detailed analyses of the close-up, the shot and montage are illuminating both as applicable models for film analysis, and as historical documents of his key contribution – alongside such contemporaries as Arnheim, Kracauer and Benjamin – to critical debate on film in the ‘golden age’ of the Weimar silents.