Author: William A. Christian Jr.
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 6155225419
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This book is an expanded, larger-format, and more highly illustrated version of a smaller book released by CEU Press in 2011. It presents and comments on an extensive set of religious and personal photographs and illustrations that depict people along with divine beings or absent loved ones. First, Christian examines the periodic appearances of Christ-like strangers in the Spanish countryside through the vision of a woman in La Mancha in 1931. Then he considers the long history of images with liquids on them not only for early modern Spain, but also in the United States, Italy and France in the 1940s and 1950s. The third and most extensive chapter addresses the iconography of illustrated depictions of divine and spirit beings in conjunction with humans and how its conventions were incorporated into commercial postcards and personal photographs, culminating in photo montages of families and their absent soldiers in World War I. The fourth theme is new to this edition. It compares the electric moments in Spanish communities when people ritually come into physical contact with saints and with animals, or transform themselves into saints or animals for ritual purposes. Over 50 of the color photographs by Spain's preeminent documentary photographer, Cristina García Rodero, are included.
The Stranger, the Tears, the Photograph, the Touch
Author: William A. Christian Jr.
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 6155225419
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This book is an expanded, larger-format, and more highly illustrated version of a smaller book released by CEU Press in 2011. It presents and comments on an extensive set of religious and personal photographs and illustrations that depict people along with divine beings or absent loved ones. First, Christian examines the periodic appearances of Christ-like strangers in the Spanish countryside through the vision of a woman in La Mancha in 1931. Then he considers the long history of images with liquids on them not only for early modern Spain, but also in the United States, Italy and France in the 1940s and 1950s. The third and most extensive chapter addresses the iconography of illustrated depictions of divine and spirit beings in conjunction with humans and how its conventions were incorporated into commercial postcards and personal photographs, culminating in photo montages of families and their absent soldiers in World War I. The fourth theme is new to this edition. It compares the electric moments in Spanish communities when people ritually come into physical contact with saints and with animals, or transform themselves into saints or animals for ritual purposes. Over 50 of the color photographs by Spain's preeminent documentary photographer, Cristina García Rodero, are included.
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 6155225419
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This book is an expanded, larger-format, and more highly illustrated version of a smaller book released by CEU Press in 2011. It presents and comments on an extensive set of religious and personal photographs and illustrations that depict people along with divine beings or absent loved ones. First, Christian examines the periodic appearances of Christ-like strangers in the Spanish countryside through the vision of a woman in La Mancha in 1931. Then he considers the long history of images with liquids on them not only for early modern Spain, but also in the United States, Italy and France in the 1940s and 1950s. The third and most extensive chapter addresses the iconography of illustrated depictions of divine and spirit beings in conjunction with humans and how its conventions were incorporated into commercial postcards and personal photographs, culminating in photo montages of families and their absent soldiers in World War I. The fourth theme is new to this edition. It compares the electric moments in Spanish communities when people ritually come into physical contact with saints and with animals, or transform themselves into saints or animals for ritual purposes. Over 50 of the color photographs by Spain's preeminent documentary photographer, Cristina García Rodero, are included.
A Companion to the Song of Songs in the History of Spirituality
Author: Timothy Robinson
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004209506
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
A survey of the history of one of the most important biblical texts in the history of Christian spirituality while exploring original pathways for research.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004209506
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
A survey of the history of one of the most important biblical texts in the history of Christian spirituality while exploring original pathways for research.
The Stranger
Author: Albert Camus
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307827666
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, Camus's masterpiece gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. Behind the intrigue, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. First published in 1946; now in translation by Matthew Ward.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307827666
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, Camus's masterpiece gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. Behind the intrigue, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. First published in 1946; now in translation by Matthew Ward.
A Stranger's Pose
Author: Emmanuel Iduma
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781911115496
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A mesmerising collection of striking travel snapshots
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781911115496
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A mesmerising collection of striking travel snapshots
Film Noir
Author: Ian Brookes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1780933134
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Film noir may seem a familiar term to many, with its use of a complex narrative structure, flashbacks and voiceover narration, and with such archetypal characterisations as the femme fatale and private eye. But this introduction is not so much an account of what film noir is, but more an interrogation of the ways in which the term came to be applied to a particular group of American films of the 1940s and 1950s. Ian Brookes asks: 'What is film noir?' With this sharply focused question active throughout the book, students will benefit from an introductory text designed to provide a sophisticated treatment of the problems inherent in the category. This will be the first critical introduction to film noir which takes into account the complexity of the term and the difficulties of straightforward definition and classification.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1780933134
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Film noir may seem a familiar term to many, with its use of a complex narrative structure, flashbacks and voiceover narration, and with such archetypal characterisations as the femme fatale and private eye. But this introduction is not so much an account of what film noir is, but more an interrogation of the ways in which the term came to be applied to a particular group of American films of the 1940s and 1950s. Ian Brookes asks: 'What is film noir?' With this sharply focused question active throughout the book, students will benefit from an introductory text designed to provide a sophisticated treatment of the problems inherent in the category. This will be the first critical introduction to film noir which takes into account the complexity of the term and the difficulties of straightforward definition and classification.
Pictures of German life in the xvth, xvith and xviith (xviiith and xixth) centuries, tr. by mrs. Malcolm
Author: Gustav Freytag
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Pictures of German Life in the xvth, xvith, and xviith (xviii and xixth) centuries ... Translated from the original by Mrs. Malcolm
Author: Gustav Freytag
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Prose Works of Mrs. Ellis: The poetry of life. Pictures of private life (first and second series) A voice from the vintage
Author: Sarah Stickney Ellis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
The Prose Workd of Mrs. Ellis: The poetry of life. Pictures of private life (first and second series) A voice from the vintage
Author: Sarah Stickney Ellis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Moving Picture World and View Photographer
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 1630
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 1630
Book Description