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Book Cineaste on Film Criticism  Programming  and Preservation in the New Millennium

Download or read book Cineaste on Film Criticism Programming and Preservation in the New Millennium written by Cynthia Lucia and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital technology and the Internet have revolutionized film criticism, programming, and preservation in deeply paradoxical ways. The Internet allows almost everyone to participate in critical discourse, but many print publications and salaried positions for professional film critics have been eliminated. Digital technologies have broadened access to filmmaking capabilities, as well as making thousands of older films available on DVD and electronically. At the same time, however, fewer older films can be viewed in their original celluloid format, and newer, digitally produced films that have no "material" prototype are threatened by ever-changing servers that render them obsolete and inaccessible. Cineaste, one of the oldest and most influential publications focusing on film, has investigated these trends through a series of symposia with the top film critics, programmers, and preservationists in the United States and beyond. This volume compiles several of these symposia: "Film Criticism in America Today" (2000), "International Film Criticism Today" (2005), "Film Criticism in the Age of the Internet" (2008), "Film Criticism: The Next Generation" (2013), "The Art of Repertory Film Exhibition and Digital Age Challenges" (2010), and "Film Preservation in the Digital Age" (2011). It also includes interviews with the late, celebrated New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael and the critic John Bloom ("Joe Bob Briggs"), as well as interviews with the programmers/curators Peter von Bagh and Mark Cousins and with the film preservationist George Feltenstein. This authoritative collection of primary-source documents will be essential reading for scholars, students, and film enthusiasts.

Book A Critical Symposium

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  • Author : Patrick White
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1978
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 142 pages

Download or read book A Critical Symposium written by Patrick White and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Plato s Symposium

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  • Author : Pierre Destrée
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2019-01-03
  • ISBN : 9781107525696
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Plato s Symposium written by Pierre Destrée and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato's Symposium is an exceptionally multi-layered dialogue. At once a historical document, a philosophical drama that enacts abstract ideas in an often light-hearted way, and a literary masterpiece, it has exerted an influence that goes well beyond the confines of philosophy. The essays in this volume, by leading scholars, offer detailed analyses of all parts of the work, focusing on the central and much-debated theme of erōs or 'human desire' - which can refer both to physical desire or desire for happiness. They reveal thematic continuities between the prologue and the various speeches as well as between the speeches themselves, and present a rich collection of contrasting yet complementary readings of Diotima's speech. The volume will be invaluable for classicists and philosophers alike, and for all who are interested in one of Plato's most fascinating and challenging dialogues.

Book Philosophy and International Law

Download or read book Philosophy and International Law written by David Lefkowitz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an accessible discussion of conceptual and moral questions on international law and advances the debate on many of these topics.

Book Criticism in Action  A Critical Symposium on Modern Poems

Download or read book Criticism in Action A Critical Symposium on Modern Poems written by Maurice Hussey (Ed) and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Prison by Any Other Name

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  • Author : Maya Schenwar
  • Publisher : The New Press
  • Release : 2021-09-07
  • ISBN : 162097701X
  • Pages : 237 pages

Download or read book Prison by Any Other Name written by Maya Schenwar and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new afterword from the authors, the critically praised indictment of widely embraced “alternatives to incarceration” Electronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment centers. House arrest. Mandated psychiatric treatment. Data driven surveillance. Extended probation. These are some of the key alternatives held up as cost effective substitutes for jails and prisons. But in a searing, “cogent critique” (Library Journal), Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law reveal that many of these so-called reforms actually weave in new strands of punishment and control, bringing new populations who would not otherwise have been subject to imprisonment under physical control by the state. Whether readers are seasoned abolitionists or are newly interested in sensible alternatives to retrograde policing and criminal justice policies and approaches, this highly praised book offers “a wealth of critical insights” that will help readers “tread carefully through the dizzying terrain of a world turned upside down” and “make sense of what should take the place of mass incarceration” (The Brooklyn Rail). With a foreword by Michelle Alexander, Prison by Any Other Name exposes how a kinder narrative of reform is effectively obscuring an agenda of social control, challenging us to question the ways we replicate the status quo when pursuing change, and offering a bolder vision for truly alternative justice practices.

Book Criticism in Action

Download or read book Criticism in Action written by Maurice Hussey and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Art of Joseph Conrad

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  • Author : Robert Wooster Stallman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1960
  • ISBN : 9780821405833
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book The Art of Joseph Conrad written by Robert Wooster Stallman and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee

Download or read book The Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee written by Rajinder Kumar Dhawan and published by Prestige Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bharati Mukherjee Is At Her Best In The Depiction Of Cultural Clash Between The East And The West. She Has Indeed Become A Clebrity For Her Distinctive Approach To Expatriatehood As A Metaphysical Experience Of Exile. The Book, The First Of Its Kind On The Novelist. Makes A Comprehensive Attempt At Evaluating Various Aspects Of Mukherjee`S Fiction And Her Contribution To The Study Of Immigrant Writing And Modern Fiction.

Book Film Criticism in the Digital Age

Download or read book Film Criticism in the Digital Age written by Mattias Frey and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, as digital media has expanded and print outlets have declined, pundits have bemoaned a “crisis of criticism” and mourned the “death of the critic.” Now that well-paying jobs in film criticism have largely evaporated, while blogs, message boards, and social media have given new meaning to the saying that “everyone’s a critic,” urgent questions have emerged about the status and purpose of film criticism in the twenty-first century. In Film Criticism in the Digital Age, ten scholars from across the globe come together to consider whether we are witnessing the extinction of serious film criticism or seeing the start of its rebirth in a new form. Drawing from a wide variety of case studies and methodological perspectives, the book’s contributors find many signs of the film critic’s declining clout, but they also locate surprising examples of how critics—whether moonlighting bloggers or salaried writers—have been able to intervene in current popular discourse about arts and culture. In addition to collecting a plethora of scholarly perspectives, Film Criticism in the Digital Age includes statements from key bloggers and print critics, like Armond White and Nick James. Neither an uncritical celebration of digital culture nor a jeremiad against it, this anthology offers a comprehensive look at the challenges and possibilities that the Internet brings to the evaluation, promotion, and explanation of artistic works.

Book The Symposium

Download or read book The Symposium written by Xenophon and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides a critical text of 'The Symposium', written by Xenophon of Athens in the fourth century BC. Each page of Greek text is faced with a contemporary English translation which richly embodies the original meaning of the author.

Book The Symposium

Download or read book The Symposium written by and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Decolonizing Theory

Download or read book Decolonizing Theory written by Aditya Nigam and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decolonizing Theory: Thinking across Traditions aims at disentangling theory from its exclusively Western provenance, drawing insights and concepts from other thought traditions, connecting to what it argues is a new global moment in the reconstitution of theory. The key argument, which is the point of departure of the book, is that any serious theorizing in the non-West should be fundamentally suspicious of any theory that only gives you one result-that four-fifths of the world does not and cannot do anything right. Everything in the non-West, from its modernity and secularism to its democracy and even capitalism, is always seen to be deficient. In other words, all it tells us is that we do not live up to the standards set by Western modernity. From this point of departure, it seeks to create a conceptual space outside (Western) modernity and capitalism, by insisting on a rethink of non-synchronous synchronicities. The book takes three key themes around which the whole story of modernity can be unraveled, namely the question of the political, capital and historical time, and secularism for a detailed discussion. It does so by bracketing, in a sense, the autobiographical story that Western modernity gives itself. In each case, it tries to show that past forms never simply disappear, without residue, to be fully supplanted by the modern, and merely applying theory produced in one context to another is, therefore, very misleading.

Book The Future of Criticism

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  • Author : William John Thomas Mitchell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book The Future of Criticism written by William John Thomas Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Longing for Total Revolution

Download or read book The Longing for Total Revolution written by Bernard Yack and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard Yack seeks to identify and account for the development of a form of discontent held in common by a large number of European philosophers and social critics, including Rousseau, Schiller, the young Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche. Yack contends that these individuals, despite their profound disagreements, shared new perspectives on human freedom and history, and that these perspectives gave their discontent its peculiar breadth and intensity. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

Book Critical Care Nephrology E Book

Download or read book Critical Care Nephrology E Book written by Claudio Ronco and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 1840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive and clinically relevant, the 3rd Edition of Critical Care Nephrology provides authoritative coverage of the latest advances in critical care procedures for patients with renal diseases or disorders. Using common guidelines and standardized approaches to critically ill patients, this multidisciplinary reference facilitates better communication among all physicians who care for critically ill patients suffering from kidney disease, electrolyte and metabolic imbalances, poisoning, severe sepsis, major organ dysfunction, and other pathological events. Offers detailed discussions of different forms of organ support, artificial organs, infections, acute illness occurring in chronic hemodialysis patients, and much more. Places a special emphasis on therapeutic interventions and treatment procedures for a hands on clinical reference tool. Presents information clearly, in a format designed for easy reference – from basic sciences to clinical syndromes to diagnostic tools. Covers special populations such as children, diabetic patients, and the elderly. An exceptional resource for nephrologists, intensivists, surgeons, or critical care physicians – anyone who treats critically ill renal patients. Shares a combined commitment to excellence lead by Drs. Claudio Ronco, Rinaldo Bellomo, John Kellum, and Zaccaria Ricci – unparalleled leaders in this field. Addresses key topics with expanded coverage of acute kidney injury, stress biomarkers, and sepsis, including the latest developments on mechanisms and management. Provides up-to-date information on extracorporeal therapies from new editor Dr. Zaccaria Ricci.

Book Joseph Conrad

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Lehmann
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1954
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 29 pages

Download or read book Joseph Conrad written by John Lehmann and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: