Author: Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 144522769X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 144522769X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence
Author: Helge DedekPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108899137
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
H. Patrick Glenn (1940–2014), Professor of Law and former Director of the Institute of Comparative Law at McGill University, was a key figure in the global discourse on comparative law. This collection is intended to honor Professor Glenn's intellectual legacy by engaging critically with his ideas, especially focusing on his visions of a 'cosmopolitan state' and of law conceptualized as 'tradition'. The book explores the intellectual history of comparative law as a discipline, its attempts to push the objects of its study beyond the positive law of the nation-state, and both its potential and the challenges it must confront in the face of the complex phenomena of globalization and the internationalization of law. An international group of leading scholars in comparative law, legal philosophy, legal sociology, and legal history takes stock of the field of comparative law and where it is headed.
Staying Afloat during a Plague
Author: Jane Ellen GlasserPublisher: Cyberwit.net
ISBN: 8194900379
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
“Staying Afloat during a Plague” by Jane Ellen Glasser opens with poems that recreate varied reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic, many told through the persona of those impacted. A lifelong theme, the natural world is celebrated as teacher, healer, and muse while also addressing its abuse. At seventy-six Glasser still muses about the fallacies of romantic love, yet her heart stays young and yearns for connection. The book closes with existential meditations on life’s final chapter.
When Pain Strikes
Author: Bill BurnsPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816629497
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
How we in North America respond to pain--what we think about it, what we say, and what we do--is the subject of this collection of writings and images. The book's five sections contain a myriad of complex responses to the occurrence of pain. Each section comprises original artwork, scholarly analyses, literary texts, and more. 15 b&w photos. 33 figures.
Epidemic Films to Die For
Author: Tom ZanielloPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Epidemic cinema remains an enduring genre of contemporary film, ranging from medical dramas to post-apocalyptic thrillers. Using a vast filmography, Zaniello not only details the incredible variety of epidemics and their role in popular culture, but also demonstrates how epidemics, as a rule, have been confronted without proper preparation or deployment of resources in different forms of media. Therefore, Epidemic Films to Die For is the first and the only book that extensively analyzes the history and deployment of films and TV series towards a chronicle of epidemic films. In addition to providing an overview of how widespread disease and illness have been historically depicted via film and media, this book skillfully contextualizes the contemporary ongoing moment in which filmmakers and producers grapple with the cultural imaginary surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.
Huis-clos avec un virus
Author: Patrick Peretti-WatelPublisher: Presses Univ. Septentrion
ISBN: 2757435760
Category : Social Science
Languages : fr
Pages : 270
Book Description
Comment les Français ont-ils vécu le premier confinement ? Quelle place le virus a-t-il pris dans leur quotidien ? Quel a été l'impact sur leur santé mentale ? Comment ont-ils perçu la gestion de la crise, du confinement au futur vaccin ? Ont-ils perdu confiance ? Du 16 mars au 11 mai 2020, pour ralentir l’épidémie de Covid-19, les Français sont...
The Year's Work at the Zombie Research Center
Author: Stephen WattPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253013925
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
“Playful and (un)deadly serious . . . chew[s] through a near-exhaustive array of films, television, literature, culture, music and even cocktails.”—Times Literary Supplement They have stalked the horizons of our culture, wreaked havoc on moribund concepts of dead and not dead, threatened our sense of identity, and endangered our personal safety. Now zombies have emerged from the lurking shadows of society’s fringes to wander the sacred halls of the academy, feasting on tender minds and hurling rot across our intellectual landscape. It is time to unite in common cause, to shore up defenses, firm up critical and analytical resources, and fortify crumbling lines of inquiry. Responding to this call, Brain Workers from the Zombie Research Center poke and prod the rotting corpus of zombie culture trying to make sense of cult classics and the unstoppable growth of new and even more disturbing work. They exhume “zombie theory” and decaying historical documents from America, Europe, and the Caribbean in order to unearth the zombie world and arm readers with the brain tools necessary for everyday survival. Readers will see that zombie culture today “lives” in shapes as mutable as a zombie horde—and is often just as violent. “An intelligent and highly engaging collection that will appeal to legions of zombie fans, to students in the humanities, and to scholars working in fields that have already been affected by or are now preparing for the zombie apocalypse. It blends entertaining, illuminating, and accessible readings of zombies and zombie culture with unique interventions made from authoritative positions of expertise.”—Julian Murphet, author of Faulkner’s Media Romance
The Chambers Dictionary
Author: Allied ChambersPublisher: Allied Publishers
ISBN: 9788186062258
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2054
Book Description
Rhetoric and Bricolage in European Politics and Beyond
Author: Niilo KauppiPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030986322
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
This book seeks to develop Rhetoric as a field of knowledge in an important new direction, European Union politics. The authors analyse what could be called a “European style of politics”: textual strategies and rhetorical styles evolving within and around the EU’s supranational and national institutions. By fusing rhetorical and sociological approaches, political thought and culture, the book contributes to the analysis of the ‘political’ as a way of thinking and judging the political aspect of any phenomena.
Music in Cinema
Author: Michel ChionPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231552858
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Michel Chion is renowned for his explorations of the significance of frequently overlooked elements of cinema, particularly the role of sound. In this inventive and inviting book, Chion considers how cinema has deployed music. He shows how music and film not only complement but also transform each other. The first section of the book examines film music in historical perspective, and the second section addresses the theoretical implications of the crossover between art forms. Chion discusses a vast variety of films across eras, genres, and continents, embracing all the different genres of music that filmmakers have used to tell their stories. Beginning with live accompaniment of silent films in early movie houses, the book analyzes Al Jolson’s performance in The Jazz Singer, the zither in The Third Man, Godard’s patchwork sound editing, the synthesizer welcoming the flying saucer in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and the Kinshasa orchestra in Felicité, among many more. Chion considers both original scores and incorporation of preexisting works, including the use and reuse of particular composers across cinematic traditions, the introduction of popular music such as jazz and rock, and directors’ attraction to atonal and dissonant music as well as musique concrète, of which he is a composer. Wide-ranging and original, Music in Cinema offers a welcoming overview for students and general readers as well as refreshingly new and valuable perspectives for film scholars.
