Author: Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520930483
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Though Luis Buñuel, one of the most important filmmakers of the twentieth century, spent his most productive years as a director in Mexico, film histories and criticism invariably pay little attention to his work during this period. The only book-length English-language study of Buñuel's Mexican films, this book is the first to explore a significant but neglected area of this filmmaker's distinguished career and thus to fill a gap in our appreciation and understanding of both Buñuel's achievement and the history of Mexican film. Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz considers Buñuel's Mexican films—made between 1947 and 1965—within the context of a national and nationalist film industry, comparing the filmmaker's employment of styles, genres, character types, themes, and techniques to those most characteristic of Mexican cinema. In this study Buñuel's films emerge as a link between the Classical Mexican cinema of the 1930s through the 1950s and the "new" Cinema of the 1960s, flourishing in a time of crisis for the national film industry and introducing some of the stylistic and conceptual changes that would revitalize Mexican cinema.
Bunuel and Mexico
Author: Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520930483
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Though Luis Buñuel, one of the most important filmmakers of the twentieth century, spent his most productive years as a director in Mexico, film histories and criticism invariably pay little attention to his work during this period. The only book-length English-language study of Buñuel's Mexican films, this book is the first to explore a significant but neglected area of this filmmaker's distinguished career and thus to fill a gap in our appreciation and understanding of both Buñuel's achievement and the history of Mexican film. Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz considers Buñuel's Mexican films—made between 1947 and 1965—within the context of a national and nationalist film industry, comparing the filmmaker's employment of styles, genres, character types, themes, and techniques to those most characteristic of Mexican cinema. In this study Buñuel's films emerge as a link between the Classical Mexican cinema of the 1930s through the 1950s and the "new" Cinema of the 1960s, flourishing in a time of crisis for the national film industry and introducing some of the stylistic and conceptual changes that would revitalize Mexican cinema.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520930483
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Though Luis Buñuel, one of the most important filmmakers of the twentieth century, spent his most productive years as a director in Mexico, film histories and criticism invariably pay little attention to his work during this period. The only book-length English-language study of Buñuel's Mexican films, this book is the first to explore a significant but neglected area of this filmmaker's distinguished career and thus to fill a gap in our appreciation and understanding of both Buñuel's achievement and the history of Mexican film. Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz considers Buñuel's Mexican films—made between 1947 and 1965—within the context of a national and nationalist film industry, comparing the filmmaker's employment of styles, genres, character types, themes, and techniques to those most characteristic of Mexican cinema. In this study Buñuel's films emerge as a link between the Classical Mexican cinema of the 1930s through the 1950s and the "new" Cinema of the 1960s, flourishing in a time of crisis for the national film industry and introducing some of the stylistic and conceptual changes that would revitalize Mexican cinema.
Daughter of Deceit
Author: Victoria Holt
Publisher: London : HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780002238649
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Romance set in Paris and the theatrical world of Victorian London.
Publisher: London : HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780002238649
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Romance set in Paris and the theatrical world of Victorian London.
A Subject-index to the Poems of Edmund Spenser
Author: Charles Huntington Whitman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Forms of Practice in Civil Actions
Author: James E. Doughty
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pleading
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pleading
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Weapons Upon Her Body
Author: Sandra Ladick Collins
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443845868
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The biblical stories of Lot’s daughters, Tamar, Ruth and Bathsheba, share much in common – singular women who are left to rely upon their own wits to achieve some measure of victory over the men around them. Scholarly interpretation of these women often reduces them to mere stock characters who inform civic notions about Israel, the perennial underdog who, like these women, achieves against great odds. Or, they reflect the trickery and moral ambiguity inherent in their line as ancestresses of the House of David. However, when read for their gender information (and not for what they can tell readers about Israel), one finds women who employ strategies of deception and trickery, motivated by individual self-interest, in order to successfully maneuver within the system to their benefit. Such initiative can be seen as valorous: they save themselves through their own pluck and ingenuity. Thus, a close consideration of these stories finds that heroic biblical women carry their essential weapons upon and within themselves in their drive, their resolve and their cleverness. Using methods from biblical study as well as folklore, this study identifies biblical women motivated by self-interest coupled with deception and an incidence of the “bedtrick,” an instance of sexual trickery that challenges the text’s power and gender dynamics. This identification puts Lot’s daughters, Tamar, Ruth and Bathsheba, in league with female heroes from folk tale and legend. By contrasting and comparing common motifs and actions with traits established by other non-biblical female heroic narratives, strong heroic themes are located in all four narratives. This offers a dynamic argument for identifying the female biblical heroic. This work concludes that this new identification of heroic women in the Bible profoundly affects further interpretation of the Bible.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443845868
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The biblical stories of Lot’s daughters, Tamar, Ruth and Bathsheba, share much in common – singular women who are left to rely upon their own wits to achieve some measure of victory over the men around them. Scholarly interpretation of these women often reduces them to mere stock characters who inform civic notions about Israel, the perennial underdog who, like these women, achieves against great odds. Or, they reflect the trickery and moral ambiguity inherent in their line as ancestresses of the House of David. However, when read for their gender information (and not for what they can tell readers about Israel), one finds women who employ strategies of deception and trickery, motivated by individual self-interest, in order to successfully maneuver within the system to their benefit. Such initiative can be seen as valorous: they save themselves through their own pluck and ingenuity. Thus, a close consideration of these stories finds that heroic biblical women carry their essential weapons upon and within themselves in their drive, their resolve and their cleverness. Using methods from biblical study as well as folklore, this study identifies biblical women motivated by self-interest coupled with deception and an incidence of the “bedtrick,” an instance of sexual trickery that challenges the text’s power and gender dynamics. This identification puts Lot’s daughters, Tamar, Ruth and Bathsheba, in league with female heroes from folk tale and legend. By contrasting and comparing common motifs and actions with traits established by other non-biblical female heroic narratives, strong heroic themes are located in all four narratives. This offers a dynamic argument for identifying the female biblical heroic. This work concludes that this new identification of heroic women in the Bible profoundly affects further interpretation of the Bible.
The Publishers Weekly
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Objects of Desire
Author: Luis Buñuel
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
From 1975 to 1977, Bunuel agreed to undertake a film-by-film examination of his life and work through a series of interviews conducted with two old friends. This is revised and edited by the author himself just before his death.
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
From 1975 to 1977, Bunuel agreed to undertake a film-by-film examination of his life and work through a series of interviews conducted with two old friends. This is revised and edited by the author himself just before his death.
The Family
Author: Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Intimate Lies and the Law
Author: Jill Elaine Hasday
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190905948
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This is the first book that systematically examines deception in sexual, marital, and familial relationships and uncovers the hidden body of law that shields intimate deceivers from legal consequences. It argues that entering an intimate relationship-or being duped into one-should not mean losing the law's protection from deceit.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190905948
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This is the first book that systematically examines deception in sexual, marital, and familial relationships and uncovers the hidden body of law that shields intimate deceivers from legal consequences. It argues that entering an intimate relationship-or being duped into one-should not mean losing the law's protection from deceit.
The Cumulative Book Index
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2410
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2410
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.