Amateur Movie Making. Aesthetics of the Everyday in New England Film, 1915-1960, Paperback - ***

Covers films produced in New England between 1915-1960 and held in the collections of the repository, Northeast Historic Film.

Yuriko Saito, the leading figure in the field, explores the nature and significance of the aesthetic dimensions of people's everyday lives. She arg...

Publisher: Persephone Books LtdAuthor(s): Florence WhiteNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 1999Dimensions: 195 x 138 x 30Cover type: Paperback /...

Poetry has long been thought of as a genre devoted to grand subjects, timeless themes, and sublime beauty. Why, then, have contemporary poets turne...

This book explores how the comparative analysis of visual cultural artefacts, from objects to architecture and fiction films, can contribute to our...

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Reducere. The hugely popular Japanese artist Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) is an emblematic figure of Japan's rapidly changing cultural milieu in the early twe...

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Creative Resilience and COVID-19 examines arts, culture and everyday life as a way of navigating through and past COVID-19. Drawing together intern...

Celluloid Classicism provides a rich and detailed history of two important modern South Indian cultural forms: Tamil Cinema and Bharatanatyam dance.

Publisher: State University of New York PressIllustration(s): Total Illustrations: 63Number of pages: 320Collection: SUNY series, Praxis: Theory in...

How does an individual garden relate to the larger landscape? How does it connect to the natural and cultural environment? Does it evoke a sense of...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Yuriko SaitoIllustration(s): 15 bw illusNumber of pages: 232Collection: Bloomsbury AestheticsPublica...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Small Town Capitalism in Western India: Artisans, Merchants, and the Making of the Informal Economy, 1870–1960 - Douglas E. Haynes

Soldier and Dramatist tells the story of LCpl Harold Chapin, a US born actor, author and playwright who volunteered for the British Army in 1914. O...

Adopting a broader conception of politics which focuses on daily interactions between the state and society, this study offers a fresh interpretati...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Tanya HartNumber of pages: 336Collection: Culture, Labor, HistoryPublication date: 2015Dimensions: 1...

Reducere. What choices--creative, practical, and technical--make a movie what it is? Here a gifted writer and filmmaker takes us behind the camera and provid...

The impact of global trade on early American visual and material culturePublisher: University Press of New EnglandIllustration(s): 136 illus. (27 c...

PIRATES AND THEIR TREASURE IN NEW ENGLAND AND ON CAPE COD. Who were they and why were they here? The Golden Age on Cape Cod in New England was betw...

Reducere. "Good Things in England" is a vintage cookbook containing a range of traditional and regional recipes for British cuisine written by Florence White...

Anna Halprin, vanguard postmodern dancer turned community artist and healer, has created ground-breaking dances with communities all over the world...

A study of how literature responds to conditions of political uncertainty, this book rewrites much of what we thought we knew about civil war and R...

Publisher: VolvpressNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 229 x 155 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): S Ren Jehoiakim ...

Reducere. This richly informed study analyzes how various cinematic tools and techniques have been used to create horror on screen--the aesthetic elements, s...

DescriptionCotton Mather chronicles the Salem witch trials which took place in New England in the late 18th century. Together with the trials, this...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Richard HerriottIllustration(s): 117 Line drawings, black and white; 81 Halftones, black and white; 3 Tab...

The South African tour of 1960 was far from ordinary. The world was waking up to the evils of apartheid after the Sharpeville massacre, and there w...

Explores how literary form changes when Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape. By reading little-known but hugely influential texts, this bo...

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Reducere. DescriptionSydney G. Fisher describes the arrival and settlement of the Quaker denomination in colonial North America during the 17th and 18th cent...

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Reducere. In Making the Miscellany Megan Heffernan examines the poetic design of early modern printed books and explores how volumes of compiled poems, which...

Making A Beautiful Violin is Easier Than You Think You don't have to be a professional luthier to build a handsome hand-crafted violin. All you nee...

Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts...

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The New Avengers is often forgotten or patronisingly treated by fans of the original 1960s cult television show, The Avengers. This short study of ...

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"I've adored Sarah Chase's cookbooks for decadesThis is exactly what you want to cook at home--delicious, satisfying, earthy food your friends and ...

This is a must-read for fans of Shaun the Sheep and is the perfect tie-in for Shaun the Sheep Movie 2: Faramaggedon.

As a new trend in aesthetics appearing concurrently in the West and the East in the last ten years, the aesthetics of everyday life points to a gro...

DescriptionIn this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. In setting performance art on...