Author: Alan Moore
Publisher: BAO Publishing
ISBN: 8832736985
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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A vent’anni dal suo debutto, l’idea di Alan Moore di unire tutte le narrative dell’immaginario esistente in un universo coerente, e di far disegnare quel mondo a Kevin O’Neill giunge a conclusione in questo volume che tocca ogni aspetto tematico e temporale mai affrontato nei tre volumi precedenti e negli spin-off Nemo e Black Dossier.
Author: Alan Moore
Publisher: Vertigo
ISBN: 1401236316
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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A powerful story about loss of freedom and individuality, V FOR VENDETTA takes place in atotalitarian England following a devastating war that changed the face of the planet. In a world without political freedom, personal freedom and precious little faith in anything, comes a mysterious man in a white porcelain mask who fightspolitical oppressors through terrorism and seemingly absurd acts in this gripping tale of the blurred lines between ideological good and evil.
Author: Alberto Giacometti
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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This book shows the work of Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon which was inspired by Isabel Rawsthorne. Isabel herself was an artist who moved to Paris in the mid-1930s and both the artists had a unique and special relationship with Isabel at different times in their lives.
Author: Alan Moore
Publisher: Vertigo
ISBN: 1401251714
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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This final collection of master comics writer Alan Moore's award-winning run on SWAMP THING begins across the galaxy, where the Swamp Thing's consciousness has been hurled. In his attempts to finds his way back to Earth, Swamp Thing stops over on Thanagar, home of Hawkman; Rann, home of Adam Strange; and also encounters the Green Lantern of a world of sentient plants.
Author: Richard Abel
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0861969154
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Essays on “how motion pictures in the first two decades of the 20th century constructed ‘communities of nationality’ . . . recommended.” —Choice While many studies have been written on national cinemas, Early Cinema and the “National” is the first anthology to focus on the concept of national film culture from a wide methodological spectrum of interests, including not only visual and narrative forms, but also international geopolitics, exhibition and marketing practices, and pressing linkages to national imageries. The essays in this richly illustrated landmark anthology are devoted to reconsidering the nation as a framing category for writing cinema history. Many of the 34 contributors show that concepts of a national identity played a role in establishing the parameters of cinema’s early development, from technological change to discourses of stardom, from emerging genres to intertitling practices. Yet, as others attest, national meanings could often become knotty in other contexts, when concepts of nationhood were contested in relation to colonial/imperial histories and regional configurations. Early Cinema and the “National” takes stock of a formative moment in cinema history, tracing the beginnings of the process whereby nations learned to imagine themselves through moving images.
Author: Gazmend Kapllani
Publisher: Portobello Books
ISBN: 1846275725
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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'It is not a recognized mental illness like agoraphobia or depression ... It's largely a matter of luck whether one suffers from border syndrome: it depends where you were born. I was born in Albania.' After spending his childhood and school years in Albania, imagining that the miniskirts and quiz shows of Italian state TV were the reality of life in the West, and fantasizing accordingly about living on the other side of the border, the death of Hoxha at last enables Gazmend Kapllani to make his escape. However, on arriving in the Promised Land, he finds neither lots of willing leggy lovelies nor a warm welcome from his long-lost Greek cousins. Instead, he gets banged up in a detention centre in a small border town. As Gazi and his fellow immigrants try to find jobs, they begin to plan their future lives in Greece, imagining riches and successes which always remain just beyond their grasp. The sheer absurdity of both their plans and their new lives is overwhelming. Both detached and involved, ironic and emotional, Kapllani interweaves the story of his experience with meditations upon 'border syndrome' - a mental state, as much as a geographical experience - to create a brilliantly observed, amusing and perceptive debut.
Author: Alan Moore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781401200527
Category : Graphic novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: William Gillette
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Author: Kevin Brownlow
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520030688
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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Well illustrated book on history of silent movies
Author: Bryony Dixon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1844575691
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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100 Silent Films provides an authoritative and accessible history of silent cinema through one hundred of its most interesting and significant films. As Bryony Dixon contends, silent cinema is not a genre; it is the first 35 years of film history, a complex negotiation between art and commerce and a union of creativity and technology. At its most grand – on the big screen with a full orchestral accompaniment – it is magnificent, permitting a depth of emotional engagement rarely found in other fields of cinema. Silent film was hugely popular in its day, and its success enabled the development of large-scale film production in the United States and Europe. It was the start of our fascination with the moving image as a disseminator of information and as mass entertainment with its consequent celebrity culture. The digital revolution in the last few years and the restoration and reissue of archival treasures have contributed to a huge resurgence of interest in silent cinema. Bryony Dixon's illuminating guide introduces a wide range of films of the silent period (1895–1930), including classics such as The Birth of a Nation (1915), The General (1926), Metropolis (1927), Sunrise (1927) and Pandora's Box (1928), alongside more unexpected choices, and represents major genres and directors of the period – Griffith, Keaton, Chaplin, Murnau, Sjöström, Dovzhenko and Eisenstein – together with an introductory overview and useful filmographic and bibliographic information.
