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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 850
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: Vital statistics-Zoetrope. Index
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 850
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and index
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 942
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Catalogue of the Public Library of the City of Fall River
Author: Chambers's encyclopædia
Author: Chambers W. and R., ltdPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 934
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Mirror of the World
Author: Julian BellPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0500287546
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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“Exuberant, astute, and splendidly illustrated history of world art . . . draws fascinating parallels between artistic developments in Western and non-Western art.”—Publishers Weekly In this beautifully written story of art, Julian Bell tells a vivid and compelling history of human artistic achievements, from prehistoric stone carvings to the latest video installations. Bell, himself a painter, uses a variety of objects to reveal how art is a product of our shared experience and how, like a mirror, it can reflect the human condition. With hundreds of illustrations and a uniquely global perspective, Bell juxtaposes examples that challenge and enlighten the reader: dancing bronze figures from southern India, Romanesque sculptures, Baroque ceilings, and jewel-like Persian manuscripts are discussed side by side. With an insider’s knowledge and an unerring touch, Bell weaves these diverse strands into an invaluable introduction to the wider history of world art.
Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture
Author: William Patrick DayPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081314812X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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While vampire stories have been part of popular culture since the beginning of the nineteenth century, it has been in recent decades that they have become a central part of American culture. Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture looks at how vampire stories -- from Bram Stoker's Dracula to Blacula, from Bela Lugosi's films to Love at First Bite -- have become part of our ongoing debate about what it means to be human. William Patrick Day looks at how writers and filmmakers as diverse as Anne Rice and Andy Warhol present the vampire as an archetype of human identity, as well as how many post-modern vampire stories reflect our fear and attraction to stories of addiction and violence. He argues that contemporary stories use the character of Dracula to explore modern values, and that stories of vampire slayers, such as the popular television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, integrate current feminist ideas and the image of the Vietnam veteran into a new heroic version of the vampire story.
The Brighton School and the Birth of British Film
Author: Frank GrayPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030175057
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 311
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This study is devoted to the work of two early British filmmakers, George Albert Smith and James Williamson, and the films that they made around 1900. Internationally, they are known collectively as the ‘Brighton School’ and are positioned as being at the forefront of Britain’s contribution to the birth of film. The book focuses on the years 1896 to 1903, as it was during this short period that film emerged as a new technology, a new enterprise and a new form of entertainment. Beginning with a historiography of the Brighton School, the study goes on to examine the arrival of the first 35mm films in Britain, the first film exhibitions in Brighton and the first projection of film in Brighton. Both Smith and Williamson’s work features a progression from the production of single shot unedited films to multi-shot edited films. Their subject matter was inspired by a knowledge of contemporary pantomime, humour, literature, theatre, mesmerism, the magic lantern and current affairs and their practices were underpinned by active involvement in the new film trade. Through the exploration of how these filmmakers cultivated a new way of understanding film and its commercial potential, this book establishes them as key figures in the development of British film culture.
Chambers's Encyclopaedia
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 850
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Author: Abraham Rees