The Archive Effect. Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History, Paperback - ***

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Jaimie (University of Alberta, Canada) BaronIllustration(s): 20 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages...

Horror cinema is a genre that is undergoing constant evolution, from the sub-genre of 'found footage, ' to post-cinematic new media forms such as Y...

Three generations of a family of lawyers have run a firm founded in 1893 in the small city of Becskerek (today in Serbian Zrenjanin), first part of...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Adam (University of Western Sydney) DanielIllustration(s): 25 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber ...

Reducere. " Looks] at adoption from all sides of the triangle: adoptee, birth mother, adoptive parents . . . A provocative, comprehensive inquiry." ---Kirkus...

Reducere. The Sword and the Shield is based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent times: a secret archive of top-level KGB documents ...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rhonda K. GarelickNATIONAL BESTSELLER Certain lives are at once so exceptional, and yet so in step with their historical mo...

As the future of international law has become a growing site of struggle within and between powerful states, debates over the history of internatio...

Public Relations, Society and the Generative Power of History examines how histories are used to explore how the past is constructed from the prese...

This troubling book offers a striking illustration of how history can be used and abused-how a gifted individual can create their own self-serving ...

In this innovative book, Julian Hanich explores the subjectively lived experience of watching films together, to discover a fuller understanding of...

Reducere. The production of history is premised on the selective erasure of certain pasts and the artifacts that stand witness to them. From the elision of a...

DescriptionNew York Times bestselling author Paula Brackston's return to her trademark blend of magic and romance is guaranteed to enchant. An anti...

Reducere. There are three men whose life's work helped free science from the strait-jacket of religion. Two of the three--Nicolaus Copernicus and Charles Dar...

NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST WINNER OF THE 2012 AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION'S SOPHIE BRODY AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN JEWISH LITE...

Reducere. In this prophetic, millennial work, written by Russia's greatest philosopher at the end of the last century, the great task facing humanity as prog...

What are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of histo...

DescriptionSo shattering were the aftereffects of Kishinev, the rampage that broke out in late-Tsarist Russia in April 1903, that one historian rem...

Reducere. Iconoclasm, Identity Politics and the Erasure of History surveys the origins, uses and manifestations of iconoclasm in history, art and public cult...

Bob Dylan's iconic 1962 song "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" stands at the crossroads of musical and literary traditions. Alessandro Portelli explores...

Reducere. "Paul Farmer brings his considerable intellect, empathy, and expertise to bear in this powerful and deeply researched account of the Ebola outbreak...

Contributor(s): Author: Marisa J. FuentesIn the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Ma...

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In The Archive and the Repertoire preeminent performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of performance...

Reducere. DescriptionDavid Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as fa...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Robert P. NewmanNumber of pages: 201Collection: Frontiers in Political CommunicationPublication date...

Explores the influence of the Peabody Awards Collection as an archive of the vital medium of TV, These essays turn their attention to the wealth of...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Rebecca J. W. (University of Florida, USA) JeffersonIllustration(s): 10 bw illusNumber of pages: 288...

Reducere. Not only is one of the most famous pieces of ancient Greek art-the celebrated gold and ivory statuette of the Snake Goddess-almost certainly modern...

Reducere. Fully illustrated throughout with maps, charts, tables and photographs, this authoritative history of the U.S. Army Special Forces during the Vietn...

This volume exposes at once the nature of World War I and its depth and duration in personal lives. Contributors, including historians, museum prof...

DescriptionThis collection of new essays explores the many ways in which writing relates to corporeality and how the two work together to create, r...

Reducere. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune defi...

Reducere. The history of the Jews of Spain is a remarkable story that begins in the remote past and continues today. For more than a thousand years, Sepharad...

Reducere. High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient s...

Reducere. In this witty, engaging, and challenging book, Carolyn Steedman has produced an originaland sometimes irreverentinvestigation into how modern histo...

When Britain stood alone in the early years of the Second World War, a British woman began a letter-writing campaign to prove her nation remained s...

In September 1781, the captain of the British slave ship Zong ordered 133 slaves thrown overboard, enabling the ship's owners to file an insurance ...

Reducere. The testimonies of individuals who survived the Holocaust as children pose distinct emotional and intellectual challenges for researchers: as now-a...

Publisher: Archive Media Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Jean-Roch CoignetIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 280Publication d...

Reducere. On December 7, 1941, Commander Mitsuo Fuchida plunged Japan into war with the United States when he led the attack on Pearl Harbor. His autobiograp...

The story of Seville's Archive of the Indies reveals how current views of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are based on radical historical r...

For over 30 years, Stan Winston and his team of artists and technicians have been creating characters, creatures and monsters for the silver screen...

Talk to, and about, yourself-give credence to invisible stories.Learn to connect the seemingly unconnectable dots-recognize patterns in your life t...

Reducere. When The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, -It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive...