Search Results - "The Spectator"

After Hitchcock influence, imitation, and intertextuality /

Table of Contents: “…Acevedo-Muñoz -- "Knowing too much" about Hitchcock : the genesis of the Italian Giallo / Philippe Met -- Death at work : Hitchcock's violence and spectator identification / Robert Sklar -- Hitchcock and the classical paradigm / John Belton -- How to steal from Hitchcock / Thomas M. …”
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Literature and Identity in the Golden Ass of Apuleius / by Graverini, Luca

Table of Contents: “…Philosophers on the road ; Eyes and ears as criteria for truth ; Lucius and his Sirens ; Readers, listeners, and spectators -- Greece, Rome, Africa. On the road with Lucius ; The reputation of Corinth ; Romanization ; Romanocentrism ; The readership of the novel ; Between Rome and the provinces.…”
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Literature and Identity in the Golden Ass of Apuleius / by Graverini, Luca

Table of Contents: “…Philosophers on the road ; Eyes and ears as criteria for truth ; Lucius and his Sirens ; Readers, listeners, and spectators -- Greece, Rome, Africa. On the road with Lucius ; The reputation of Corinth ; Romanization ; Romanocentrism ; The readership of the novel ; Between Rome and the provinces.…”
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Fables of the East selected tales, 1662-1785 /

Table of Contents: “…From The Arabian nights entertainments, 'translated' by Antoine Galland (1704-1715) -- 'The fable of the mouse, that was changed into a little girl' from The fables of Pilpay, translated by Joseph Harris (1699) -- 'The history of Commladeve' from Tales, from the Inatulla of Delhi, translated by Alexander Dow (1768) -- 'The adventures of Urad' from James Ridley, Tales of the genii (1764) -- 'The history of the Christian eunuch' from Eliza Haywood, Philidore and Placentia (1727) -- Joseph Addison, Spectator, no. 512, 12 October 1712 -- Horace Walpole, 'Mi Li, a Chinese fairy tale' from Hieroglyphic tales (1785) -- 'A voyage to Kachemire, the paradise of Indostan' from François Bernier, A continuation of the memories of Monsieur Bernier, translated by Henry Oxenberg (1672) -- From The general history of the Mogol Empire, compiled by François Catrou from the memoirs of Niccolo Manucci (1709) -- From Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M...y W...y M...e (1763) -- From Giovanni Paolo Marana, The eight volumes of letters writ by a Turkish spy, translated by William Bradshaw (1687-1694) -- From Charles Secondat de Montesquieu, Persian letters, translated by Charles Ozell (1722) -- From Oliver Goldsmith, The citizen of the world (1762).…”
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Digital monuments : the dreams and abuses of iconic architecture / by Brott, Simone

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Discourse analysis and austerity : critical studies from economics and linguistics /

Table of Contents: “…Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; 5 Discourses of crisis and representation of Greece in a period of austerity; The discursive construction of crisis in media political discourse; Greece in the international press; Methodology and data; Prominent discourses in The Spectator; Representations of Greeks and Greece in The Spectator; Prominent discourses in New Statesman; Representations of Greeks and Greece in New Statesman; Discussion; Conclusion; Notes; References…”
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Issues in Feminist Film Criticism /

Table of Contents: “…Positive images: screening women's films / Linda Artel and Susan Wengraf -- There's more to a positive image than meets the eye / Diane Waldman -- The place of woman in the cinema of Raoul Walsh / Pam Cook and Claire Johnston -- Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey -- Film and the masquerade: theorizing the female spectator / Mary Ann Doane -- Hitchcock, feminism, and the patriarchal unconscious / Tania Modleski -- Women and representation: Can we enjoy alternative pleasure? …”
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Issues in Feminist Film Criticism /

Table of Contents: “…Positive images: screening women's films / Linda Artel and Susan Wengraf -- There's more to a positive image than meets the eye / Diane Waldman -- The place of woman in the cinema of Raoul Walsh / Pam Cook and Claire Johnston -- Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey -- Film and the masquerade: theorizing the female spectator / Mary Ann Doane -- Hitchcock, feminism, and the patriarchal unconscious / Tania Modleski -- Women and representation: Can we enjoy alternative pleasure? …”
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Framing the world explorations in ecocriticism and film /

Table of Contents: “…Testimonial structures in environmental justice films / Cory Shaman -- Disposable bodies: biocolonialism in The constant gardener and Dirty pretty things / Rachel Stein -- Engaging the land/positioning the spectator: environmental justice documentaries and Robert Redford's The horse whisperer and A river runs through it / Beth Berila -- Positioning ecosystems in fiction, documentary, and animation. …”
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Opera and sovereignty transforming myths in eighteenth-century Italy / by Feldman, Martha

Table of Contents: “…The death of time ; Opera in a democratic ascension ; Pratile, June 4 ; La morte di Mitridate ; Summer season : Caesar, Brutus, and Joan of Arc ; Moralizing the spectator.…”
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Teaching civics in the library : an instructional and historical guide for school and public librarians / by Lyons, Reneé Critcher

Table of Contents: “…The importance of civics education : are we a nation of participants or spectators? -- History and current status of civics education in public schools -- Anticipated 21st century progression -- Traditional role of school and public libraries in civics education -- 21st century role of school and public libraries in civics education -- Collection development for civics education integration -- Thematic integration : introduction and activities and resources, pre-K to grade 1 -- Thematic integration : activities and resources, grades 2/4 -- Thematic integration : activities and resources, grades 5/6 -- Thematic integration : activities and resources, grades 7/8 -- Thematic integration : activities and resources, grades 9/10 -- Thematic integration : activities and resources, grades 11/12 -- Civics-related reading promotion plans -- Lesson plans in association with foreign-born American patriots : sixteen volunteer leaders in the Revolutionary War -- Ask for support : civic organizations, resource centers, civic institutes, and support networks -- Closing tips and thoughts -- Appendix A. …”
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Hazardous future : disaster, representation and the assessment of risk /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : hazardous future: images and perceptions of disaster and the assessment of risk -- Disaster (and) culture -- The productivity of catastrophes in evolution and the challenge of manmade catastrophes -- Catastrophe culture -- Tragedy, the neglected origin of catastrophe theory -- (e)spectating disaster : a cultural condition -- Catastrophes, the imaginary and citizenship : the production of the other and the singularity of experience -- The importance of social capital facing the unexpected (from natural hazards -- to social disasters) : a style of thought -- Big stories and small stories after a traumatic natural disaster from a psychotherapeutic point of view -- In search of the lost oikos : Japan after the earthquake of 11 March 2011 -- A casuistry of disaster -- The specter of Chernobyl : an ontology of risk -- Living in a landscape of risk in java/indonesia -- Performance and the deferral of the catastrophe narrative : Naoko Tanaka's -- Performance-installation die scheinwerferin -- The subjectification of disaster in video art : incidence of catastrophe by Gary Hill -- Identifying a genre : televized tragedy -- Screens of fire : surviving the end of the world -- Zombies and citizens : the ontopolitics of disaster in Francis Lawrence's I am legend -- How do we measure disaster? …”
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Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers / by Hagood, Taylor, 1975-

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The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange : Aesthetics and Heterodoxy / by Paulson, Ronald

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Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers / by Hagood, Taylor, 1975-

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The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange : Aesthetics and Heterodoxy / by Paulson, Ronald

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Autour de l' enfant du droit canonique et romain médiéval au code civil de 1804 / by Lefebvre-Teillard, Anne

Table of Contents: “…Notes sur l'ondoiement -- Nom, prénom -- Ius sanguinis : l'émergence d'un principe (éléments d'histoire de la nationalité française) -- La responsabilité de l'enfant en droit canonique classique -- De la théologie au droit : naissance médiévale du concept de filiation -- Causa natalium ad forum ecclesiasticum spectat : un pouvoir redoutable et redouté -- "Pater is est quem nuptiae demonstrant" : jalons pour une histoire de la presomption de paternité -- Sur un consilium de Paul de Castre -- Nomen, tractatus, fama variation sous un même terme -- Mulieri asserenti se ex operibus alicuius praegnantem, an credi debeat, etiamsi hoc medio affirmet iuramento? …”
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Do the Balkans begin in Vienna? : the geopolitical and imaginary borders between the Balkans and Europe / by Foteva, Ana

Table of Contents: “…The Balkans as prolific topic in Western European media -- The beginning of hostilities between Serbia and austria-Hungary -- Serbian diary : war between a nation of engineers, painters, and poets and a nation of peasants -- The last days of mankind : drama as a high court of justice -- The Austrian spectators become actors in the theater of the First World War -- Voyage by dugout : the Balkans as a dystopian utopia -- The Balkans in the axis of utopia and dystopia -- 6. …”
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Viewers in Distress : Race, Gender, Religion, and Avant-Garde Performance at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century / by Mihaylova, Stefka G.

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Viewers in Distress : Race, Gender, Religion, and Avant-Garde Performance at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century / by Mihaylova, Stefka G.

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