Twentieth Century Fox
Twentieth Century Fox

Author: Frederick Wasser

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-08-18

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1317415272

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This is the first scholarly history of Fox from its origins in 1904 to the present. It builds upon research and histories of individual periods to describe how one company responded to a century-long evolution of the audience, nationally and globally. In the beginning, William Fox grabbed a once-in-a-millennium opportunity to build a business based on a genuinely new art form. This study explores the enduring legacy of F.W. Murnau, Will Rogers, Shirley Temple, John Ford, Spyros Skouras, George Lucas, James Cameron, and many others, offering discussion of those behind and in front of the camera, delving deeply into the history and evolution of the studio. Key films covered include The Iron Horse, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, Forever Amber, All About Eve, Cleopatra, The Sound of Music, Planet of the Apes, Star Wars, Titanic, and Fight Club, providing an extensive look at the successes and flops that shaped not only Twentieth Century Fox, but the entire Hollywood landscape. Through a chronological study, the book charts the studio’s impact right up to the present day, providing a framework to allow us to look to the future of moviemaking and film consumption. Lively and fresh in its approach, this book is a comprehensive study of the studio for scholars, students, and enthusiasts of Hollywood cinema, film history, and media industries.

Fonds régional d'art contemporain, Limousin
Fonds régional d'art contemporain, Limousin

Author: Fonds régional d'art contemporain Limousin

Publisher: FRAC Limousin

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13:

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Pour Yannick Miloux, Directeur du fonds, ce troisième volume des œuvres du FRAC sur sa dernière période d’achat constitue “une véritable carte de visite et d’identité... Il permet de faire connaître ses œuvres auprès d’autres structures d’art contemporain nationales et internationales qui peuvent nous les emprunter et de faire partager au public les choix qui sont les nôtres et la recherche des artistes d’aujourd’hui.” Avec 540 images couleur, le catalogue représente 134 artistes et 597 œuvres issues des collections du FRAC Limousin. Très complet, cet ouvrage présente 70 notices et une partie “album” avec une présentation de chaque auteur.

How Nature Works
How Nature Works

Author: Sarah Besky

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2019-10-15

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0826360866

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We now live on a planet that is troubled—even overworked—in ways that compel us to reckon with inherited common sense about the relationship between human labor and nonhuman nature. In Paraguay, fast-growing soy plants are displacing both prior crops and people. In Malaysia, dispossessed farmers are training captive orangutans to earn their own meals. In India, a prized dairy cow suddenly refuses to give more milk. Built from these sorts of scenes and sites, where the ultimate subjects and agents of work are ambiguous, How Nature Works develops an anthropology of labor that is sharply attuned to the irreversible effects of climate change, extinction, and deforestation. The authors of this volume push ethnographic inquiry beyond the anthropocentric documentation of human work on nature in order to develop a language for thinking about how all labor is a collective ecological act.

The Visual World of French Theory
The Visual World of French Theory

Author: Sarah Wilson

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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This work focuses on the series of encounters between the most prominent French philosophers of the 1960s and 1970s and the artists of their times, most particularly the protagonists of the Narrative Figuration movement.

Parody
Parody

Author: Robert Chambers

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781433108693

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Parody: The Art That Plays with Art explodes the near-universal belief that parody is a copycat genre or that it consists of a collection of trivial and derivative forms. Parody is revealed as an über-technique, a principal source of innovation and invention in the arts. The technique is defined in terms of three major variations that bang, bind, and blend artistic conventions into contrasting pairings, the results of which are upheavals of existing conventions and the formation of unexpected and sometimes startling and revolutionary new configurations. Parodic art fashions a galaxy of contrasts, and from these stem an illusionistic sense of multiplicity and an array of divergent meanings and interpretive paths. This book, an extreme departure from existing analyses of parody, is nonetheless highly accessible and will be of major interest not only to scholars but to general readers and to professional writers as well. Parody: The Art That Plays with Art is particularly suited for readers interested in modernism, postmodernism, meta-art, criticism, satire, and irony.

André Salmon on French Modern Art
André Salmon on French Modern Art

Author: André Salmon

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-11-14

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9780521856584

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This book is the first English-language translation of Andre Salmon's first two books.

Photographs
Photographs

Author: Annie Leibovitz

Publisher: Pantheon Books

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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This book brings together a collection of seventy photographs--including portraits of musicians, actors, writers, and other celebrated personalities of American popular culture--taken by the chief photographer for "Rolling Stone" magazine over the past fifteen years.

Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context [4 volumes]
Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context [4 volumes]

Author: Linda De Roche

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2021-06-04

Total Pages: 1563

ISBN-13: 1440853592

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This four-volume reference work surveys American literature from the early 20th century to the present day, featuring a diverse range of American works and authors and an expansive selection of primary source materials. Bringing useful and engaging material into the classroom, this four-volume set covers more than a century of American literary history—from 1900 to the present. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context profiles authors and their works and provides overviews of literary movements and genres through which readers will understand the historical, cultural, and political contexts that have shaped American writing. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context provides wide coverage of authors, works, genres, and movements that are emblematic of the diversity of modern America. Not only are major literary movements represented, such as the Beats, but this work also highlights the emergence and development of modern Native American literature, African American literature, and other representative groups that showcase the diversity of American letters. A rich selection of primary documents and background material provides indispensable information for student research.