Search Results - "films"

Opera and video technology and spectatorship /

Table of Contents: “…The fairy tale of bel canto : Walt Disney, Theodor Adorno, Kurt Weill play the gramophone / Gabriela Cruz -- Opera on Italian television : the first thirty years, 1954-1984 / Emanuele Senici -- Temps spatialisé : opera relays and the sense of temporality / Delphine Vincent -- Overtures on screen / Gaia Varon -- Playback problems when filming opera for the screen : two case studies / Jaume Radigal -- The opera director's voice : DVD extras and the question of authority / Áine Sheil -- A conversation with Pietro d'Agostino, video director at the Gran Teatre del Liceu -- Composing in new synaesthetic and interdisciplinary spaces : Libro de las estancias (Book of abodes) as a musical, architectural, and visual installation proposal.…”
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Global challenges peace and war /

Table of Contents: “…Peace in historical perspective: the birth of contemporary peace movements / Ann Marie Wilson -- The causes of war / Niels van Willigen and Benjamin Pohl -- Biology of war / Patsy Haccou -- Just war theory / Laurens van Apeldoorn -- Law of war / Yih-Jye Hwang and Lucie Cerna -- The economics of war / William Hynes -- The representation of war in literature, film and new media / Corina Stan -- End of war / Niels van Willigen and Jessica Kroezen -- The Yugoslav wars / Francesco Ragazzi -- Iraq war / Edmund Frettingham -- The Pacific war / Maja Vodopivec -- War and peace in Colombia / Håvar Solheim and Eric Storm -- Genocide, war and peace in Rwanda / Helen M. …”
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Contemplating art essays in aesthetics / by Levinson, Jerrold

Table of Contents: “…The irreducible historicality of the concept of art -- Artworks as artifacts -- Emotion in response to art -- Elster on artistic creativity -- Sound, gesture, space, and the expression of emotion in music -- Musical expressiveness as hearability-as-expression -- Nonexistent artforms and the case of visual music -- Music as narrative and music as drama -- Film music and narrative agency -- Evaluating music -- Musical thinking -- Musical chills -- Wollheim on pictorial representation -- What is erotic art? …”
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Contemplating art essays in aesthetics / by Levinson, Jerrold

Table of Contents: “…The irreducible historicality of the concept of art -- Artworks as artifacts -- Emotion in response to art -- Elster on artistic creativity -- Sound, gesture, space, and the expression of emotion in music -- Musical expressiveness as hearability-as-expression -- Nonexistent artforms and the case of visual music -- Music as narrative and music as drama -- Film music and narrative agency -- Evaluating music -- Musical thinking -- Musical chills -- Wollheim on pictorial representation -- What is erotic art? …”
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The golden age of Indianapolis theaters by Caldwell, Howard, 1925-

Table of Contents: “…Birth of a theater buff -- Theater one and what happened before -- A war's effect and another theater is born -- Theater count briefly jumps to three -- English's opera house and its impact -- The 1890s and its seeds of change -- Theater enhancement and the gentle intrusion of moving pictures -- English's and The Grand lead the growing theater parade -- The Shuberts come to town as the theater competition grows -- City's first movie palace enhances respectability of going to the movies -- The 1920s and the birth of new challenges -- The silent film era's finale -- Sound moves in with a vengeance -- The 1930s and its challenges -- The 1930s and its challenges II -- The rest of the 1930s survivors -- The 1940s, a decade of success and sadness -- The 1950s bring changes and new competition -- A brief look at what happened next.…”
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New directions in Anglo-Jewish history

Table of Contents: “…Dubnov -- "Some lesser known aspects": the anti-fascist campaign of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, 1936-40 / Daniel Tilles -- "The dark alien executive": Jewish producers, émigres and the British film industry in the 1930s / Edward Marshall.…”
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Room 306 the national story of the Lorraine Motel / by Kamin, Ben

Table of Contents: “…The Rebirth -- It's a Magical Place : Julian Bond -- Filming the Lorraine : Lillian Benson -- Managing the Museum at the Lorraine : Beverly Robertson -- Producing The Witness at the Lorraine : Margaret Hyde -- Room 306 and Today's Young Artists : Craig Alan Edwards and Katori Hall -- They Got It Done : Clayborne Carson -- Afterword: The Rain Are Fallin.…”
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Radiation exposure sources, impacts and reduction strategies /

Table of Contents: “…Fernández -- Ultraviolet exposure measurements on a coral reef by application of polyphenylene oxide film dosimeters / Nathan J. Downs, Peter W. Schouten, Alfio V. …”
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Jutland : World War I's greatest naval battle / by Epkenhans, Michael, Hillmann, Jörg, Nägler, Frank, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Rodger -- Operational and strategic plans in the Kaiser's navy prior to World War I / Frank Nägler -- The impact of war: matching expectation with reality in the Royal Navy in the first months of World War I at sea / James Goldrick -- The possibility of ultimate action in the Baltic: the Royal Navy at war, 1914-1916 / Andrew Lambert -- The Imperial Navy, 1914-1915 / Michael Epkenhans -- The Battle of Jutland from the German perspective / Werner Rahn -- Jutland: British viewpoints / John Brooks -- The memory of the Battle of Jutland in Britain / Eric Grove -- Remembering the Battle of Jutland in Germany / Jörg Hillmann -- The Battle of Jutland in German film / Jan Kindler -- Ninety years after Jutland: reflections / Michael Salewski.…”
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The golden age of Indianapolis theaters by Caldwell, Howard, 1925-

Table of Contents: “…Birth of a theater buff -- Theater one and what happened before -- A war's effect and another theater is born -- Theater count briefly jumps to three -- English's opera house and its impact -- The 1890s and its seeds of change -- Theater enhancement and the gentle intrusion of moving pictures -- English's and The Grand lead the growing theater parade -- The Shuberts come to town as the theater competition grows -- City's first movie palace enhances respectability of going to the movies -- The 1920s and the birth of new challenges -- The silent film era's finale -- Sound moves in with a vengeance -- The 1930s and its challenges -- The 1930s and its challenges II -- The rest of the 1930s survivors -- The 1940s, a decade of success and sadness -- The 1950s bring changes and new competition -- A brief look at what happened next.…”
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New directions in Anglo-Jewish history

Table of Contents: “…Dubnov -- "Some lesser known aspects": the anti-fascist campaign of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, 1936-40 / Daniel Tilles -- "The dark alien executive": Jewish producers, émigres and the British film industry in the 1930s / Edward Marshall.…”
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Room 306 the national story of the Lorraine Motel / by Kamin, Ben

Table of Contents: “…The Rebirth -- It's a Magical Place : Julian Bond -- Filming the Lorraine : Lillian Benson -- Managing the Museum at the Lorraine : Beverly Robertson -- Producing The Witness at the Lorraine : Margaret Hyde -- Room 306 and Today's Young Artists : Craig Alan Edwards and Katori Hall -- They Got It Done : Clayborne Carson -- Afterword: The Rain Are Fallin.…”
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Radiation exposure sources, impacts and reduction strategies /

Table of Contents: “…Fernández -- Ultraviolet exposure measurements on a coral reef by application of polyphenylene oxide film dosimeters / Nathan J. Downs, Peter W. Schouten, Alfio V. …”
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Jutland : World War I's greatest naval battle / by Epkenhans, Michael, Hillmann, Jörg, Nägler, Frank, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Rodger -- Operational and strategic plans in the Kaiser's navy prior to World War I / Frank Nägler -- The impact of war: matching expectation with reality in the Royal Navy in the first months of World War I at sea / James Goldrick -- The possibility of ultimate action in the Baltic: the Royal Navy at war, 1914-1916 / Andrew Lambert -- The Imperial Navy, 1914-1915 / Michael Epkenhans -- The Battle of Jutland from the German perspective / Werner Rahn -- Jutland: British viewpoints / John Brooks -- The memory of the Battle of Jutland in Britain / Eric Grove -- Remembering the Battle of Jutland in Germany / Jörg Hillmann -- The Battle of Jutland in German film / Jan Kindler -- Ninety years after Jutland: reflections / Michael Salewski.…”
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The Rolling Stones sociological perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Faulk -- Sympathy for the circus : the Rolling Stones, documentary film and the construction of authenticity / by Daniel M. …”
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A concise history of Nazi Germany by Bendersky, Joseph W., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…The origins and development of Nazism, 1919-1928 -- Weimar democracy in crisis -- The rise of Hitler and Nazism -- The historical roots of Nazi ideology -- Party structure, propaganda, and followers during the "early years of struggle" -- The seizure and consolidation of power, 1929-1934 -- Parliamentary paralysis and the Nazi breakthrough of 1930 -- Hitler's legal path to power -- The pseudolegal revolution -- The nazification of German society, 1934-1938 -- The total state versus the dual state and polycracy -- Political biology, culture, and society -- SS terror, anti-semitism, and resistance to nazification -- The rise and fall of the Nazi empire in Europe, 1933-1945 -- The fuhrer as statesman: ideology and foreign policy -- The fuhrer as warrior: victory and conquest -- From domination to retreat -- The Holocaust, resistance, and defeat -- The struggle for justice and historical memory -- From Nuremberg to vergangenheitsbewltigung -- The intractable Nazi legacy in film: propaganda and history.…”
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Framing Africa portrayals of a continent in contemporary mainstream cinema /

Table of Contents: “…the re-presencing of Africa in twenty-first-century film / Nigel Eltringham -- "Print the legend": myth and reality in The last King of Scotland / Mark Leopold -- Black Hawk down: recasting U.S. military history at Somali expense / Lidwien Kapteijns -- Pharma in Africa: health, corruption and contemporary Kenya in The constant gardener / Daniel Branch -- War in the city, crime in the country: Blood diamond and the representation of violence in the Sierra Leone War / Danny Hoffman -- Showing what cannot be imagined: Shooting dogs and Hotel Rwanda / Nigel Eltringham -- Torture, betrayal and forgiveness: Red dust and the search for truth in post-apartheid South Africa / Annelies Verdoolaege -- Go Amabokoboko! …”
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Screen Genealogies : From Optical Device to Environmental Medium /

Table of Contents: “…Primal screens / Francesco Casetti -- 'Schutz und Schirm' : screening in German during early modern times / Rudiger Campe -- Face and screen : toward a genealogy of the media façade / Craig Buckley -- Sensing screens : from surface to situation / Nanna Verhoeff -- 'Taking the plunge' : the new immersive screens / Ariel Rogers -- The atmospheric screen : Turner, Hazlitt, Ruskin / Antonio Somaini -- The fog medium : visualizing and engineering the atmosphere / Yuriko Furuhata -- The charge of a light barricade : optics and ballistics in the ambiguous being of screens / John Durham Peters -- Flat Bayreuth : a genealogy of opera as screened / Gundula Kreuzer -- Imaginary screens : the hyppnotic gesture and early film / Ruggero Eugeni -- Material. Human. Divine. …”
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The Rolling Stones sociological perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Faulk -- Sympathy for the circus : the Rolling Stones, documentary film and the construction of authenticity / by Daniel M. …”
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A concise history of Nazi Germany by Bendersky, Joseph W., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…The origins and development of Nazism, 1919-1928 -- Weimar democracy in crisis -- The rise of Hitler and Nazism -- The historical roots of Nazi ideology -- Party structure, propaganda, and followers during the "early years of struggle" -- The seizure and consolidation of power, 1929-1934 -- Parliamentary paralysis and the Nazi breakthrough of 1930 -- Hitler's legal path to power -- The pseudolegal revolution -- The nazification of German society, 1934-1938 -- The total state versus the dual state and polycracy -- Political biology, culture, and society -- SS terror, anti-semitism, and resistance to nazification -- The rise and fall of the Nazi empire in Europe, 1933-1945 -- The fuhrer as statesman: ideology and foreign policy -- The fuhrer as warrior: victory and conquest -- From domination to retreat -- The Holocaust, resistance, and defeat -- The struggle for justice and historical memory -- From Nuremberg to vergangenheitsbewltigung -- The intractable Nazi legacy in film: propaganda and history.…”
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