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Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Author: Jonathan Buchsbaum
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231543077
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 429

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In Exception Taken, Jonathan Buchsbaum examines the movements that have emerged in opposition to the homogenizing force of Hollywood in global filmmaking. While European cinema was entering a steady decline in the 1980s, France sought to strengthen support for its film industry under the new Mitterrand government. Over the following decades, the country lobbied partners in the European Economic Community to design strategies to protect the audiovisual industries and to resist cultural free-trade pressures in international trade agreements. These struggles to preserve the autonomy of national artistic prerogatives emboldened many countries to question the benefits of accelerated globalization. Led by the energetic minister of culture Jack Lang, France initiated a series of measures to support all sectors of the film industry. Lang introduced laws mandating that state and private television invest in the film industry, effectively replacing the revenue lost from a shrinking theatrical audience for French films. With the formation of the European Union in 1992, Europe passed a new treaty (Maastricht) that extended its legal purview to culture for the first time, setting up the dramatic confrontation over the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) in 1993. Pushed by France, the EU fought the United States over the idea that countries should preserve their right to regulate cultural activity as they saw fit. France and Canada then initiated a campaign to protect cultural diversity within UNESCO that led to the passage of the Convention on Cultural Diversity in 2005. As France pursued these efforts to protect cultural diversity beyond its borders, it also articulated "a certain idea of cinema" that did not simply defend a narrow vision of national cinema. France promoted both commercial cinema and art cinema, disproving announcements of the death of cinema.

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Category : Hardware
Languages : en
Pages : 1096

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Author: Peter Stott
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1838952500
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 333

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*** SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2022*** ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE 2022*** Ours is the age of global warming. Rising sea levels, extreme weather, forest fires. Dire warnings are everywhere, so why has it taken so long for the crisis to be recognised? Here, for the first time, climate scientist Peter Stott reveals the bitter fight to get international recognition for what, among scientists, has been known for decades: human activity causes climate change. Across continents and against the efforts of sceptical governments, prominent climate change deniers and shadowy lobbyists, Hot Air is the urgent story of how the science was developed, how it has been repeatedly sabotaged and why humanity hasn't a second to spare in the fight to halt climate change.

Author: Mary Calhoun
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0688040683
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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A sassy Siamese cat stows away on a hot air balloon and ends up taking a fur-raising flight across the mountains.

Author: J. Allan Dunn
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479443433
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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Adventure, one of the all-time great pulp magazines, presented novels and short stories by many of the greatest writers from the early to mid 20th Century. This issue features the novel BEYOND THE RIM, by J. Allan Dunn, a tale of the South Seas, plus: Beyond the Rim, by J. Allan Dunn The Peace Hat, by Thomas Addison Cassidy’s Consolation Kick, by Hugh S. Fullerton Old Dad, by George L. Catton Gaston Olaf [Part 2 of 3], by Henry Oyen The Devil’s Due, by Redfield Ingalls When Oscar Went Wild, by W. C. Tuttle The Education of Billy Stream, by Frederick William Wallace The 500th Shot, by David L. Mackaye The Law in Little Egypt, by Hapsburg Liebe Wild Bill in Deadwood Gulch, by Robert V. Carr Rumor Substantiated, by William R. Thompson To Crack a Safe, by Patrick & Terence Casey

Author: BJ JOHNSON
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1543426166
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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A Young Mans Living Nightmare is more than a story of domestic violence. Its also a story full of hope. Read it to find out how psychological hostages are created. But more, be inspired as BJs will to live a life of his own rises up and sets him free.

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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 728

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Category : Heating
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Category : School yearbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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