Download or read book And the Mirror Cracked written by A. Smelik and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-05-27 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And The Mirror Cracked explores the politics and pleasures of contemporary feminist cinema. Tracing the highly productive ways in which feminist directors create alternative film forms, Anneke Smelik highlights cinematic issues which are central to feminist films: authorship, point of view, metaphor, montage and the excessive image. In a continuous mirror game between theory and cinema, this study explains how these cinematic techniques are used to represent female subjectivity positively and affirmatively. Among the films considered are A Question of Silence , Bagdad Cafe , Sweetie and The Virgin Machine .
Download or read book A Crack in the Mirror written by Jay Ruby and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Conrad's Marlow, whose tale of journeying into the "heart of darkness" gives us as much insight into one man's personality as it does into the mysteries of the dark world he explored, so the anthropologist's record of another culture contains more than objective, scientific data about his investigation. Embedded within it are clues to the "personality" of anthropology itself: the attitudes, approaches, even prejudices that at any given stage in history are inextricable from the ideology of the anthropologist. Therefore, the mirror he holds up to show us another culture can never be a perfect one. His own professional attitude toward his subject, as well as his choice of medium, are factors that create "cracks" in the mirror of anthropology through which we believe we view the life of other cultures. Hence, the concept of "reflexivity" and the striving to recognize how it warps in the portrayal of anthropological truth lie at the core of the twelve finely wrought essays collected in this volume. Wide ranging in geography as well as viewpoint, they highlight various methods and media (film, ethnography, text) through which an anthropologist chooses to portray a culture, and the various forms, such as art, theater, and ritual, through which a culture portrays itself. Recognizing the link between these two processes provides the key to cultural and methodological self awareness. Reflexivity is defined and clarified in the introduction and in three of the essays, and the remaining nine essays evince the principle through fieldwork and startling case studies. Essays by Jay Ruby and Eric Michaels shed new light on the enormous potential of film and video, showing how a form generally thought to be "nonscientific" can in fact give fresh insight into the scientific premises underlying the discipline's methodology. Essays by Barbara Babcock and Carol Ann Parssinen focus on the novel and ethnography, examining existing works. Anthropologists, as well as students of film, art, and theater, will find that this intriguing work begins to redefine traditional distinctions between science and the arts and brings to light fresh resources that are utilized in the search for anthropological truth. Contributors: Richard Schechner, Victor Turner, Barbara Myerhoff, Jay Ruby, Eric Michaels, Dennis Tedlock, George Marcus, Paul Rabinow, Barbara Babcock, Carol Ann Parssinen, and Dan Rose.
Download or read book The Cracked Mirror written by Gopal Guru and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western constructs giving precedence to ideas over experience have, for long, dominated theorization in Indian social sciences. Problematizing their tenuous relationship, this book presents a passionate plea to create new frameworks for describing contemporary Indian social experiences. Using a dialogic form and placing the reality of untouchability and Dalit life at the centre of analyses, Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai examine the ontological and epistemological nature of experience, thereby exhibiting the politics of experience. By illustrating ways of using alternative frameworks for theorizing, The Cracked Mirror argues for a more careful understanding of the ethics of representation.
Download or read book The Mirror Crack d written by Lynn Forest-Hill and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHAPTERS: 1.- From Beowulf to the Balrogs: The Roots of Fantastic Horror in The Lord of the Rings. 2.- Fear and Horror: Monsters in Tolkien and Beowulf. 3.- Of Spiders and (the Medieval Aesthetics of) Light: Hope and Action in the Horrors of Shelob's Lair. 4.- Shelob's and her Kin: The Evolution of Tolkien's Spiders. 5.- The Shadow beyond the Firelight: Pre-Christian Archetypes and Imagery Meet Christian Theology in Tolkien's Treatment of Evil and Horror . 6.- The Cry in the Wind and the Shadow on the Moon: Liminality and the Construct of Horror in The Lord of the Rings. 7.- Barrows, Wights, and Ordinary People: The Unquiet Dead in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings . 8.- Horror and Anguish: The Slaying of Glaurung and Medieval Dragon Lore. 9.- Shadow and Flame: Myth, Monsters and Mother Nature in Middle-earth. 10.- Evil Reputations: Images of Wolves in Tolkien's Fiction.
Download or read book The Myth of Mirror Neurons The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition written by Gregory Hickok and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-08-18 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential reconsideration of one of the most far-reaching theories in modern neuroscience and psychology. In 1992, a group of neuroscientists from Parma, Italy, reported a new class of brain cells discovered in the motor cortex of the macaque monkey. These cells, later dubbed mirror neurons, responded equally well during the monkey’s own motor actions, such as grabbing an object, and while the monkey watched someone else perform similar motor actions. Researchers speculated that the neurons allowed the monkey to understand others by simulating their actions in its own brain. Mirror neurons soon jumped species and took human neuroscience and psychology by storm. In the late 1990s theorists showed how the cells provided an elegantly simple new way to explain the evolution of language, the development of human empathy, and the neural foundation of autism. In the years that followed, a stream of scientific studies implicated mirror neurons in everything from schizophrenia and drug abuse to sexual orientation and contagious yawning. In The Myth of Mirror Neurons, neuroscientist Gregory Hickok reexamines the mirror neuron story and finds that it is built on a tenuous foundation—a pair of codependent assumptions about mirror neuron activity and human understanding. Drawing on a broad range of observations from work on animal behavior, modern neuroimaging, neurological disorders, and more, Hickok argues that the foundational assumptions fall flat in light of the facts. He then explores alternative explanations of mirror neuron function while illuminating crucial questions about human cognition and brain function: Why do humans imitate so prodigiously? How different are the left and right hemispheres of the brain? Why do we have two visual systems? Do we need to be able to talk to understand speech? What’s going wrong in autism? Can humans read minds? The Myth of Mirror Neurons not only delivers an instructive tale about the course of scientific progress—from discovery to theory to revision—but also provides deep insights into the organization and function of the human brain and the nature of communication and cognition.
Download or read book A Crack in the Rear View Mirror written by Richard Bender and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mirror Crack d from Side to Side written by Agatha Christie and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Realizing that she is too old to travel, Miss Jane Marple decides she is through with crime detection, but a murder that happens almost on her doorstep changes her mind.
Download or read book Feminist Science Studies written by Maralee Mayberry and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book They Do It with Mirrors written by Agatha Christie and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stonygates had been built originally as a kind of Temple to Victorian Plutocracy - Philanthropy had made of it a home for Juvenile Deliquents. Over the entrance were inscribed the words "Recover Hope All Ye Who Enter Here". But Miss Jane Marple came to Stonygates in fulfilment of a promise to an old school friend to find out what was wrong at this most unusual college, now being run by the friend's third husband and housing, besides two hundred juvenile deliquents, the stepchildren of her previous marriages. As soon as she arrived Jane Marple knew thet her friend was right: something was wrong at Stonygates. What she saw around her was illusion, not reality. In the words of the conjuror "They do it with mirrors" But who? And why?
Download or read book The Cracked Mirror written by Brian Keaney and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his efforts to rally against the repressive regime of Doctor Sigmundus, whose rule is reliant upon drug-induced mind-control, revelations concerning Dante's heritage unfold.
Download or read book Mirror Cracked written by Raashida Khan and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Excess Male written by Maggie Shen King and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Washington Posts' "The 5 best science fiction and fantasy novels of 2017"! James Tiptree, Jr Literary Award Honor List A B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog "Best SFF of 2017" pick! A Kirkus "Best of the Best!" of 2017 Honorable Mention From debut author Maggie Shen King, An Excess Male is the chilling dystopian tale of politics, inequality, marriage, love, and rebellion, set in a near-future China, that further explores the themes of the classics The Handmaid's Tale and When She Woke. Under the One Child Policy, everyone plotted to have a son. Now 40 million of them can't find wives.none noneChina’s One Child Policy and its cultural preference for male heirs have created a society overrun by 40 million unmarriageable men. By the year 2030, more than twenty-five percent of men in their late thirties will not have a family of their own. An Excess Male is one such leftover man’s quest for love and family under a State that seeks to glorify its past mistakes and impose order through authoritarian measures, reinvigorated Communist ideals, and social engineering. Wei-guo holds fast to the belief that as long as he continues to improve himself, his small business, and in turn, his country, his chance at love will come. He finally saves up the dowry required to enter matchmaking talks at the lowest rung as a third husband—the maximum allowed by law. Only a single family—one harboring an illegal spouse—shows interest, yet with May-ling and her two husbands, Wei-guo feels seen, heard, and connected to like never before. But everyone and everything—walls, streetlights, garbage cans—are listening, and men, excess or not, are dispensable to the State. Wei-guo must reach a new understanding of patriotism and test the limits of his love and his resolve in order to save himself and this family he has come to hold dear. In Maggie Shen King’s startling and beautiful debut, An Excess Male looks to explore the intersection of marriage, family, gender, and state in an all-too-plausible future.
Download or read book Eleven Pipers Piping written by C.C. Benison and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The annual Burns dinner at Thornford Regis is an occasion for bagpipes, haggis and scotch. It ends up an occasion for tragedy when Will Moir, one of the pipers, is found alone, in a tower, dead of an apparent heart attack. Father Tom Christmas, the vicar of the town, is privy to all of the secrets of its inhabitants, and is one of the first to find out that Will Moir was poisoned. The town's suspicions go in many directions, and Christmas soon learns secrets that have been kept for generations--illicit trysts, even murders--the ramifications of which may have fallen onto poor Will Moir. Brimming with wit, laced with genuine surprise and featuring one of the most memorable (and unlikely) detectives in the cozy genre today, Eleven Pipers Piping mines the rich history of a small town to solve its most stunning crime.
Download or read book Melting Faces in a Cracked Mirror written by Emery Small and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melting Faces in a Cracked Mirror. There is only so much that we can get away with in life. This temporary life we lead, has not a single favorite. This book of layered rhythmic poems, ballads & prose, is one for the underdog. It is a collection based on real and imaginary characters, who are faced with racial concerns and other world issues and hardships that we experienced in 2020. Through people, things, & even places, that we may not identify with, these poems allow us to look at our worldly reflections while we struggle to revamp our images during this temporary stay in this fractured orgonite crystal ball.
Download or read book The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories Deluxe Library Edition written by Agatha Christie and published by . This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1925, 'The Witness for the Prosecution' is a short story and play by Agatha Christie, an English writer best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, specifically those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. When affluent spinster, Emily French is found murdered, skepticism falls on Leonard Vole, the man to whom she impatiently bequeathed her riches before she died. Leonard assures the investigators that his wife, Romaine Heiliger, can provide them with an alibi. However, when questioned, Romaine notifies the police that Vole returned home late that night covered in blood. During the trial, Ms. French's housekeeper, Janet, gives damning proof against Vole, and, as Romaine's cross-examination begins, her motives come under scrutiny from the courtroom. The packed courtroom waited as Romaine mounted the stand to deliver the testimony that has made this the masterpiece of suspense and shock. The ultimate question is whether justice will prevail or not.
Download or read book The Cracked Mirror written by Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cracked Mirror is narrated in large part by Paul Cantor, a Los Angeles hustler, who once he begins to lose many of his friends, their murdered and mutilated bodies mounts up. Paul finds a way to blackmail a corrupt police officer to hand him information about the case and lets him begin his own manhunt. Little does he know that this journey will force him to confront his past in a manner that he has never imagined or dared to before. Paul's anonymous letters to a local newspaper begin a series of mysterious phone calls with equal parts threats and lures. The death of his lover, and the threat of being the Falcon's next victim. After police apprehend the wrong suspect, Paul sets out to find the Falcon himself; Paul follows the trail to Block Cove Santa Barbara. A trail that leads him on a bone-chilling journey with a disturbing past. Eventually Paul comes face to face both with the sadistic violence of the Falcon and a past that he is linked to by blood and that changes his whole perspective on the manner that he has lived his life, at once empowering him and forcing the birth of a new self. Readers looking for a mastermind of action and mystery won't be let down by Joseph Freeman's crime thriller, The Cracked Mirror. With twists and turns lurking among every chapter, readers are left asking "Who is the Falcon?" right down to the moment the Falcon's identity is finally revealed.
Download or read book BROKEN MIRROR written by JAMES. HOLLIS and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
