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Ozu
Author: Donald Richie
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520032774
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
"Substantially the book that devotees of the director have been waiting for: a full-length critical work about Ozu's life, career and working methods, buttressed with reproductions of pages from his notebooks and shooting scripts, numerous quotes from co-workers and Japanese critics, a great many stills and an unusually detailed filmography."—Sight and Sound Yasujiro Ozu, the man whom his kinsmen consider the most Japanese for all film directors, had but one major subject, the Japanese family, and but one major theme, its dissolution. The Japanese family in dissolution figures in every one of his fifty-three films. In his later pictures, the whole world exists in one family, the characters are family members rather than members of a society, and the ends of the earth seem no more distant than the outside of the house.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520032774
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
"Substantially the book that devotees of the director have been waiting for: a full-length critical work about Ozu's life, career and working methods, buttressed with reproductions of pages from his notebooks and shooting scripts, numerous quotes from co-workers and Japanese critics, a great many stills and an unusually detailed filmography."—Sight and Sound Yasujiro Ozu, the man whom his kinsmen consider the most Japanese for all film directors, had but one major subject, the Japanese family, and but one major theme, its dissolution. The Japanese family in dissolution figures in every one of his fifty-three films. In his later pictures, the whole world exists in one family, the characters are family members rather than members of a society, and the ends of the earth seem no more distant than the outside of the house.
Long Live the Free Pericardium !
Author: Montserrat Gascon Segundo
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand France
ISBN: 2810622434
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
This book explains in a clear and simple way what life is and how it flows within our cells, between people and through people. It is a practical manual that will help us to "feel" life, to vibrate and breathe the life inside of our bodies and of all living beings. A key focus of this work is how emotional impact affects our pericardium, which is the membrane that envelops, maintains and protects the heart.
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand France
ISBN: 2810622434
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
This book explains in a clear and simple way what life is and how it flows within our cells, between people and through people. It is a practical manual that will help us to "feel" life, to vibrate and breathe the life inside of our bodies and of all living beings. A key focus of this work is how emotional impact affects our pericardium, which is the membrane that envelops, maintains and protects the heart.
Strange Suspense
Author: Steve Ditko
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1606997394
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Before Spider-Man and Dr. Strange, the legendary comic book artist Steve Ditko was conjuring all manners of horrors at his drawing table. In his first two years in the industry (1953 and 1954), Ditko drew tales of macabre suspense that were not yet hobbled by the imminent Comics Code Authority (adopted in October 1954). These stories featured graphic bloodshed, dismemberment and blood-curdling acid baths as the ugly end to the lives of the dark and twisted inhabitants of Steve Ditko’s imagination. Strange Suspense features spectacular full-color reprints of every story from those first two years of his career.
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1606997394
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Before Spider-Man and Dr. Strange, the legendary comic book artist Steve Ditko was conjuring all manners of horrors at his drawing table. In his first two years in the industry (1953 and 1954), Ditko drew tales of macabre suspense that were not yet hobbled by the imminent Comics Code Authority (adopted in October 1954). These stories featured graphic bloodshed, dismemberment and blood-curdling acid baths as the ugly end to the lives of the dark and twisted inhabitants of Steve Ditko’s imagination. Strange Suspense features spectacular full-color reprints of every story from those first two years of his career.
Cuentos de fantasmas para nios/ Ghost stories for children
Author: Marcia Juregui
Publisher: ABG-Selector USA
ISBN: 9781681654478
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 106
Book Description
Cuentos de fantasmas para ninos te pone en contacto con el tenebroso mundo de los fantasmas, tal como es hoy en dia: las mansiones embrujadas han cedido su lugar a los departamentos; los fantasmas gustan de usar computadoras, navegan en internet y miran programas favoritos por television; algunos hasta habitan en ciertos videojuegos poco conocidos.Seguro que desde este momento puedes sentir como se te pone la carne de gallina, no es asi? Description in english: Ghost stories for children puts you in touch with the shadowy world of ghosts, just as it is today: the haunted mansions have given way to modern apartments; ghosts like to use computers, they surf the Internet and watch favorite programs on television; some even live in little-known video games.
Publisher: ABG-Selector USA
ISBN: 9781681654478
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 106
Book Description
Cuentos de fantasmas para ninos te pone en contacto con el tenebroso mundo de los fantasmas, tal como es hoy en dia: las mansiones embrujadas han cedido su lugar a los departamentos; los fantasmas gustan de usar computadoras, navegan en internet y miran programas favoritos por television; algunos hasta habitan en ciertos videojuegos poco conocidos.Seguro que desde este momento puedes sentir como se te pone la carne de gallina, no es asi? Description in english: Ghost stories for children puts you in touch with the shadowy world of ghosts, just as it is today: the haunted mansions have given way to modern apartments; ghosts like to use computers, they surf the Internet and watch favorite programs on television; some even live in little-known video games.
Literature and "Interregnum"
Author: Patrick Dove
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438461569
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Literature and "Interregnum" examines the unraveling of the political forms of modernity through readings of end-of-millennium literary texts by César Aira, Marcelo Cohen, Sergio Chejfec, Diamela Eltit, and Roberto Bolaño. The opening of national spaces to the global capitalist system in the 1980s culminates in the suspension of key principles of modernity, most notably that of political sovereignty. While the neoliberal model subjugates modern forms of social organization and political decision making to an economic rationale, the market is unable to provide a new ordering principle that could fill the empty place formerly occupied by the national figure of the sovereign. The result is a situation that resembles what the Italian political philosopher Antonio Gramsci termed "interregnum," an in-between time in which "the old [order] is dying and the new cannot be born." The recoding of history as literary form provides occasions for reconsidering modern conceptualizations of aesthetic experience, mood, temporality, thought, politics, ethical experience, as well as of literature itself as social institution. In his analysis, Patrick Dove seeks to create dialogues between literature and theoretical perspectives, including Continental philosophy, political thought, psychoanalysis, and sociology of globalization. The author highlights the connections between mass media, technology, politics, and economics.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438461569
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Literature and "Interregnum" examines the unraveling of the political forms of modernity through readings of end-of-millennium literary texts by César Aira, Marcelo Cohen, Sergio Chejfec, Diamela Eltit, and Roberto Bolaño. The opening of national spaces to the global capitalist system in the 1980s culminates in the suspension of key principles of modernity, most notably that of political sovereignty. While the neoliberal model subjugates modern forms of social organization and political decision making to an economic rationale, the market is unable to provide a new ordering principle that could fill the empty place formerly occupied by the national figure of the sovereign. The result is a situation that resembles what the Italian political philosopher Antonio Gramsci termed "interregnum," an in-between time in which "the old [order] is dying and the new cannot be born." The recoding of history as literary form provides occasions for reconsidering modern conceptualizations of aesthetic experience, mood, temporality, thought, politics, ethical experience, as well as of literature itself as social institution. In his analysis, Patrick Dove seeks to create dialogues between literature and theoretical perspectives, including Continental philosophy, political thought, psychoanalysis, and sociology of globalization. The author highlights the connections between mass media, technology, politics, and economics.
El Fantasma Sin Recuerdos Y Otras Historias Para Niños Extraños / The Ghost Without Memories and Other Stories for Strange Children
Author: Jonathan Minila
Publisher: Planeta Publishing
ISBN: 9786070738760
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : es
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fantasía y realidad, Historias fantásticas en las que la realidad se retuerce, personajes que intentan volver a su estado anterior, pero nunca pueden volver a su forma original. Está el niño que quiere otra vida y casi la consigue, la madre gravemente enferma que casi se recupera, una rebelión de objetos que casi es sofocada y, por supuesto, el fantasma olvidadizo que casi logra descubrir quién es y de dónde viene. Este libro anima a los lectores a hablar sobre la diferencia entre lo que es plausible y lo que es verdadero. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Fantastic stories in which reality is twisted, characters whotry return to their previous state, but never can return to their original form. There is the boy who wants another life and almost gets it, the seriously ill mother who almost recovers, a rebellion of objects that is almost quelled and, of course, the forgetful ghost who almost manages to find out who he is and where he came from. This book encourages readers to talk about the difference between what is plausible and what is true.
Publisher: Planeta Publishing
ISBN: 9786070738760
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : es
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fantasía y realidad, Historias fantásticas en las que la realidad se retuerce, personajes que intentan volver a su estado anterior, pero nunca pueden volver a su forma original. Está el niño que quiere otra vida y casi la consigue, la madre gravemente enferma que casi se recupera, una rebelión de objetos que casi es sofocada y, por supuesto, el fantasma olvidadizo que casi logra descubrir quién es y de dónde viene. Este libro anima a los lectores a hablar sobre la diferencia entre lo que es plausible y lo que es verdadero. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Fantastic stories in which reality is twisted, characters whotry return to their previous state, but never can return to their original form. There is the boy who wants another life and almost gets it, the seriously ill mother who almost recovers, a rebellion of objects that is almost quelled and, of course, the forgetful ghost who almost manages to find out who he is and where he came from. This book encourages readers to talk about the difference between what is plausible and what is true.
The She-Devil in the Mirror
Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811219852
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Salvadorean society is shocked by the gruesome murder of a young upper-class woman, and no one more so than her best friend Laura. In her first-person solo narration, Laura rattles on and on about her disbelief and horror at the evils all around her—but who’s that in the mirror? Laura Rivera can’t believe what has happened. Her best friend has been killed in cold blood in the living room of her home, in front of her two young daughters! Nobody knows who pulled the trigger, but Laura will not rest easy until she finds out. Her dizzying, delirious, hilarious, and blood-curdling one-sided dialogue carries the reader on a rough and tumble ride through the social, political, economic, and sexual chaos of post-civil war San Salvador. A detective story of pulse-quickening suspense, The She-Devil in the Mirror is also a sober reminder that justice and truth are more often than not illusive. Castellanos Moya’s relentless, obsessive narrator—female, rich, paranoid, wonderfully perceptive, and, in the end, fabulously unreliable—paints with frivolous profundity a society in a state of collapse. Castellanos Moya’s Senselessness was acclaimed “an innovative and invigoratingly twisted piece of art” (Village Voice) and “a brilliantly crafted moral fable, as if Kafka had gone to Latin America for his source materials” (Russell Banks).
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811219852
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Salvadorean society is shocked by the gruesome murder of a young upper-class woman, and no one more so than her best friend Laura. In her first-person solo narration, Laura rattles on and on about her disbelief and horror at the evils all around her—but who’s that in the mirror? Laura Rivera can’t believe what has happened. Her best friend has been killed in cold blood in the living room of her home, in front of her two young daughters! Nobody knows who pulled the trigger, but Laura will not rest easy until she finds out. Her dizzying, delirious, hilarious, and blood-curdling one-sided dialogue carries the reader on a rough and tumble ride through the social, political, economic, and sexual chaos of post-civil war San Salvador. A detective story of pulse-quickening suspense, The She-Devil in the Mirror is also a sober reminder that justice and truth are more often than not illusive. Castellanos Moya’s relentless, obsessive narrator—female, rich, paranoid, wonderfully perceptive, and, in the end, fabulously unreliable—paints with frivolous profundity a society in a state of collapse. Castellanos Moya’s Senselessness was acclaimed “an innovative and invigoratingly twisted piece of art” (Village Voice) and “a brilliantly crafted moral fable, as if Kafka had gone to Latin America for his source materials” (Russell Banks).
Slavery
Author: Charlotte Plimmer
Publisher: Newton Abbot : David and Charles ; New York : Barnes & Noble
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
This book covers the slave trade from 1562-1865 involving ten white nations and hundreds of black tribal rulers; it concentrates on the roles played by the English and the Americans.
Publisher: Newton Abbot : David and Charles ; New York : Barnes & Noble
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
This book covers the slave trade from 1562-1865 involving ten white nations and hundreds of black tribal rulers; it concentrates on the roles played by the English and the Americans.
When the Past Is Always Present
Author: Ronald A. Ruden
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135271763
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
When the Past Is Always Present: Emotional Traumatization, Causes, and Cures introduces several new ideas about trauma and trauma treatment. The first of these is that another way to treat disorders arising from the mind/brain may be to use the senses. This idea, which is at the core of psychosensory therapy, forms what the author considers the "third pillar" of trauma treatment (the first and second pillars being psychotherapy and psychopharmacology). Psychosensory therapy postulates that sensory input—for example, touch—creates extrasensory activity that alters brain function and the way we respond to stimuli. The second idea presented in this book is that traumatization is encoded in the amygdala only under special circumstances. Thus, by understanding what makes an individual resistant to traumatization we can offer a way of preventing it. The third idea is that traumatization occurs because we cannot find a haven during the event. This is the cornerstone of havening, the particular form of psychosensory therapy described in the book. Using evolutionary biological principles and recently published neuroscientific studies, this book outlines in detail how havening touch de-links the emotional experience from a trauma, essentially making it just an ordinary memory. Once done, the event no longer causes distress.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135271763
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
When the Past Is Always Present: Emotional Traumatization, Causes, and Cures introduces several new ideas about trauma and trauma treatment. The first of these is that another way to treat disorders arising from the mind/brain may be to use the senses. This idea, which is at the core of psychosensory therapy, forms what the author considers the "third pillar" of trauma treatment (the first and second pillars being psychotherapy and psychopharmacology). Psychosensory therapy postulates that sensory input—for example, touch—creates extrasensory activity that alters brain function and the way we respond to stimuli. The second idea presented in this book is that traumatization is encoded in the amygdala only under special circumstances. Thus, by understanding what makes an individual resistant to traumatization we can offer a way of preventing it. The third idea is that traumatization occurs because we cannot find a haven during the event. This is the cornerstone of havening, the particular form of psychosensory therapy described in the book. Using evolutionary biological principles and recently published neuroscientific studies, this book outlines in detail how havening touch de-links the emotional experience from a trauma, essentially making it just an ordinary memory. Once done, the event no longer causes distress.