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Slow Movies: Countering the Cinema of Action
Ira JaffeAsuman Suner considers Yusuf, who is indeed vacuous, the chief example in Distant of the type of individual characterised by Deleuze as “absent from the world as much as from himself”. Yet Mahmut may warrant this description even more, ...
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Full view... taking meetings, seeing what the vibe is, what are the bigger deals in the works ." And no trip to MIDEM would be complete without a meal at the Columb D'Or, she adds. Ira Jaffe, president of Famous Music Publishing, is a 15-year veteran of ...
Celluloid Nationalism and Other Melodramas: From ...
Susan DeverWorking with U.S. independent cinema directed by men, for example, film critic Ira Jaffe has theorized a new cycle of “slow” films whose purposeful minimalism resonates with the transcendent simplicity of the cinema by Ozu, Bresson, and ...
Hollywood Hybrids: Mixing Genres in Contemporary Films
Ira JaffeOne moment comedy may rule, then tragedy, horror, sci-fi, kung fu, film noir, the Western or a combination of these. This work celebrates these hybrid films for their ability to both understand and subvert genres.
Slow Movies: Countering the Cinema of Action
Ira JaffeDana Renga (from Corriere della Sera, 15 October 1975), in Michelangelo Antonioni, The Architecture of Vision: Writings and Interviews on Cinema, eds Carlo di Carlo, Giorgio Tinazzi and Marga Cottino-Jones (Chicago: University of Chicago ...
Towards the Ecology of Human Communication
PreviewIn Stance: Sociolinguistic Perspectives edited by Alexandra Jaffe, 53-71. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Jaffe, A. 2009. “Introduction: the Sociolinguistics of Stance”. In Stance: Sociolinguistic Perspectives edited by Alexandra Jaffe, 3-28.
The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags: Hope ...
Tim TzouliadisThe victim was Harry Jaffe, the tenor who had once stood next to Thomas Sgovio singing solos in the AngloAmerican Chorus in Moscow. For the others, Jaffe's suicide strengthened their awareness that they had been abandoned to their fate, ...
Why Bernie Sanders Matters
Harry JaffeWith reporting from inside the campaign and Sanders' inner circle, as well as meticulous research, reporter Harry Jaffe offers an engaging portrait of this outsider candidate.
The King's Best Highway: The Lost History of the Boston Post ...
Eric JaffeThe Lost History of the Boston Post Road, the Route That Made America Eric Jaffe ... “The name of it may be the Boston Post Road but in Eric Jaffe's hands it becomes more like the Rosetta Stone—away of decoding American history from ...
Dream City: Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington,
Harry S. JaffeJaffe and Sherwood have chillingly chronicled the descent of the District of Columbia—congressional hearings, gangland murders, the establishment of home rule and the inside story of Marion Barry’s enigmatic dynasty and disgrace.
The IRA on Film and Television: A History
Mark ConnellyThis work analyzes celluloid depictions of the IRA from the 1916 Easter Rising to the peace process of the 1990s.
A Curious Madness: An American Combat Psychiatrist, a ...
Eric JaffeHe never thought of leaving her or finding another companion. As a young father Harry Jaffe had short dark hair combed neatly back from the crown. He wore spectacles slightly down on his nose, in front of an intense pair of hooded blue eyes.
The Years with Laura Diaz
Carlos Fuentes“What did you tell them, Harry Jaffe?77 “Harry Jaffe, rest in peace.” They all went back to Cuernavaca. Laura Diaz—in consternation, agitated, perplexed—went to get her belongings from the little house in Tepoztlan. She also gathered up her ...
Spelling and Society: The Culture and Politics of ...
Mark SebbaAs Alexandra Jaffe puts it (Jaffe 2000: 506), As a linguistic boundary-marking device, orthography both differentiates a code from other codes, and displays the internal coherence and unity (sameness) of that code. In this respect, orthography ...
What Is the Impact of Tourism?
Roman EspejoEcotourism Can Harm the Environment Eric Jaffe Eric Jaffe is a science writer. Although it is designed to be an ecologically responsible model of travel, studies show that ecotourism may actually harm the wildlife and natural environments it ...
The Boys From Brazil: Introduction by Chelsea Cain
Ira LevinIn this classic thriller, Ira Levin imagines Dr Josef Mengele's nightmarish plot to restore the Third Reich.
Annual Editions: Psychology 08/09 (2009 Update)
Karen DuffyWhat Was I Thinking?, Eric Jaffe, APS Observer, May 2004 Nobel Laureate and psychologist Daniel Kahneman's remarks at the National Institute of Health are reviewed by Eric Jaffe. Kahneman purposely flawed his talk to demonstrate that ...
Demography: Analysis and Synthesis : a Treatise in ...
PreviewEKERT-JAFFE Olivia, JOSHI Heather, LYNCH Kevin, MOUGIN Remi, and RENDALL Michael, 2002. ... Politica, politiche e demografia, in: Antonio Golini, Alain Monnier, Olivia Ekert-Jaffe, Rudolf Andorka, Jacqueline Hecht, Elisabet Nasman, ...
The Pattern of a Gentleman: A Critical Biography of Arthur ...
Jacqueline A. JaffeA Critical Biography of Arthur Conan Doyle Jacqueline A. Jaffe. THE PATTERN OF A GENTLEMAN: A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Jacqueline Jaffe Submitted to the faculty of the Graduate School in partial fulfillment ...
The IRA
Tim Pat CooganA comprehensive history of the Irish Republican Army. Examines the IRA's origins, its foreign links, bombing campaigns, hunger strikes and sectarian violence, and its role in attempts to bring peace to Northern Ireland.
Son Of Rosemary
Ira LevinIra Levin returns to the horror of his 1967 groundbreaking novel Rosemary’s Baby with this sequel set at the dawn of the new millennium.
Rawhide Ranger, Ira Aten: Enforcing Law on the Texas Frontier
Bob AlexanderIra Aten was the epitome of a frontier lawman.
Atheism for Christians: Are There Lessons for the Religious ...
Benjamin T. JonesEric Bradner and Alexandra Jaffe, “Ben Carson Apologizes for Comments on Gay People,” CNN, 5 March 2015. 31. See Dynes and Donaldson, Homosexuality and Government, Politics and Prisons. 32. Eric Bradner and Alexandra Jaffe, “ Ben ...
Engineering Nature: Water, Development, and the Global ...
Jessica B. TeischJacqueline Jaffe, “John Hays Hammond,” in Carruthers, Jameson Raid, 211–26. J. H. Hammond, Autobiography, 1:334, 343; N. H. Hammond, Woman's Part, 11; Macnab, Gold, 58. Jaffe, “John Hays Hammond,” 214. Hall, “The South African ...
The New Kings of Nonfiction
Ira GlassAn anthology of the best new masters of nonfiction storytelling, personally chosen and introduced by Ira Glass, the producer and host of the award-winning public radio program This American Life.
Quiet Hero: The Ira Hayes Story
S. D. NelsonA biography of Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the six soldiers to raise the United States flag on Iwo Jima during World War II, an event immortalized by Joe Rosenthal’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph.
This Perfect Day: Introduction by Jonathan Trigell
Ira LevinA cross between Brave New World and Doctor Who.’ Look Magazine Considered one of the greatest dystopian thrillers ever written, Ira Levin’s terrifying glimpse into the future continues to fascinate readers forty years after its initial ...
Son of Rosemary
Ira LevinThe sequel to the New York Times bestseller Rosemary’s Baby—a thrilling cautionary tale of the troubling forces that war within each of us The modern master of suspense Ira Levin returns to the horror of his 1967 groundbreaking novel ...
Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter
Patricia Albers... Yvonne Hagen, Anne Hailey, John Hailey, James Harithas, Robert Harms, Robert Hasterlik, Elga Heinzen, Evans Herman,John Holabird, Sara Holt, Jacqueline Hyde, Ernst Jaffe, Shirley Jaffe, Hollis Jeffcoat, Paul Jenkins, Consuelo Joerns, ...
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