Model Study of Plans for Channel Improvement at Dogtooth Bend, Mississippi River
Author: Waterways Experiment Station (U.S.)
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Published: 1938
Total Pages: 196
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Author: New York State Museum and Science Service
Publisher:
Published: 1848
Total Pages: 798
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos
Author: Eddie Falvey
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2022-06-16
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1501375474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the critical and commercial fanfare his films generate, it is largely understood that Yorgos Lanthimos is one of the more interesting filmmakers to have emerged out of the new century. A markedly transnational filmmaker, between Dogtooth and The Favourite Lanthimos has managed to traverse the gap between the art-house and mainstream while not once sacrificing his unique style and worldview. His films, while often difficult, showcase his talents as a filmmaker, collaborator, and commentator on the human condition. Accompanied by a trademark acerbic wit, Lanthimos's films take aim at humanity's more contemptible and absurd designs as he explores a thematic preoccupation with, among other things, power, trauma, isolation, sex, and violence. This edited collection covers everything from an early career that was marked by experimentation with a range of different media to international festival hits including Dogtooth, The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and the Academy Award-winning "historical" epic The Favourite, Lanthimos's most successful feature to date. All his work demonstrates a fascinating contravention of aesthetic, thematic, and generic boundaries that forms the basis of some of the analyses to be found here. Featuring a roster of talented scholars, both new and established, The Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos: Films, Form, Philosophy provides a timely compendium of critical approaches to one of the most distinct voices in contemporary film.
The Queer Greek Weird Wave
Author: Marios Psaras
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-11-04
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 3319403109
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCinema might not be able to help heal a broken nation but it can definitely help revisit a nation’s past, reframe its present and re-imagine its future. This is the first book-length study on what has become an internationally acclaimed strand in contemporary Greek cinema. Psaras examines how this particular trend can be thought of as an integral aesthetic response to the infamous Greek crisis, illuminating its fundamental ideological aspects by means of a queer critique of national politics. Drawing on a wide range of methodological approaches from queer theory, film theory, ethical philosophy and psychoanalysis, this volume sheds light on the way the Greek Weird Wave challenges, deconstructs and re-imagines traditional notions of Greekness, the Greek nation and the Greek patriarchal family. This is achieved through close textual analysis of the subversive thematics and idiosyncratic forms of six films made by some of the best-known and most celebrated contemporary Greek directors including Dogtooth (2009) and Alps (2011) by Yorgos Lanthimos, Strella (2009) by Panos H. Koutras, and Attenberg (2010) by Athina-Rachel Tsangaris.
Borders, Bindings & Edges
Author: Sally Collins
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9781571202338
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Real Tourism
Author: Claudio Minca
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0415582245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the past decade tourism studies has broken out of its traditional institutional affiliation with business and management programs to take its legitimate place as an interdisciplinary social science field of cutting edge scholarship. There is a need for the field to come to terms theoretically with the contemporary and future realities of tourism as a truly global phenomenon. This significant volume seeks to set the theoretical agenda, engaging directly with what tourism does in practice and in place and demonstrate the need for a theoretical intervention that moves tourism scholarship beyond the province of Anglophone thinking. The volume achieves this by explicitly bridging 'western' and 'non-western' scholarship on tourism; reframing theoretical discussions around 'real practices' instead of abstract typologies; and radically delinking tourism theory from the grand narratives of modernity and assumptions about authenticity, identity, tradition, and development.
People of the Lightning
Author: Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2010-12-28
Total Pages: 612
ISBN-13: 9780765367556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeople of the Lightning takes us into ancient Florida, to a village of fisher folk who must face their deepest fear: Pondwander, the White Lightning Boy, the first of his kind to be born in tens of tens of summers. His white hair, pink eyes, and pale skin make him fearsome enough, but prophecy foretells that a Lightning Boy is destined to make Sister Moon bury her face in the clouds and weep falling stars—and unleash the winds of destruction. Fearing their ultimate demise, the folk manage to trade him off in marriage to Musselwhite, a woman warrior who knows nothing of the prophecy. But when Pondwander is kidnapped, she must face an ages-old enemy who has always been determined to destroy her. But what is truly in store now that this Lightning Boy is hearing voices in the wind, telling him of his role in the coming horror?
The Cinema of Discomfort
Author: Geoff King
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2021-10-07
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1501359282
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow do we understand types of cinema that offer experiences of discomfort, awkwardness or disquieting uncertainty? This book examines a number of examples of such work at the heart of contemporary art and indie film. While the commercial mainstream tends to offer comforting viewing experiences or moments of discomfort that exist largely to be overcome The Cinema of Discomfort analyses films in which discomfort is offered in a sustained manner. Cinema of this kind confronts us with material such as distinctly uncomfortable sexual encounters. It invites us into uncertain relationships with awkward and sometimes unlikable characters. It presents us with challenging behaviour or what are presented as uncomfortable realities. It often refuses information on which to base judgments. More discomfortingly, cinema of this kind tends to provoke uncertainty at the level of what emotional responses we are encouraged to have towards difficult, sometimes controversial, characters or events. The Cinema of Discomfort examines a number of case-studies, including Palindromes by Todd Solondz (US) and Dogtooth from Yorgos Lanthimos (Greece), along with other examples from Austria, Sweden, the UK, the US and Germany. Offering close textual analysis of the manner in which discomfort is generated, it also asks how we should understand the appeal of such work to certain viewers and how the existence of films of this kind can be explained, as products of both their socio-cultural context and the more particular institutional realms of art and indie film.
Quilter's Academy Vol. 5—Masters Year
Author: Harriet Hargrave
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Published: 2015-12-01
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 1617452335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCreate your own medallion masterpieces. “Quilters of all skill levels have much to gain from this thoughtfully presented, engaging, and educational book.” —Library Journal With a bachelor’s degree under your belt, advance your quilting studies to the next level. This fifth volume of the bestselling Quilter’s Academy series will help you embrace the beauty of medallion quilts. Invent your own stunning quilts, sparked by historic and award-winning medallions. Study the in-depth lessons at your own pace, applying advanced techniques and precision drafting and math—the culmination of everything you’ve learned thus far.
The Ultimate Quilt Finishing Guide
Author: Harriet Hargrave
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Published: 2021-04-25
Total Pages: 131
ISBN-13: 1644031019
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaster Quilt Borders, Backing, and Bindings! Finish your quilt strong with a polished and professional touch! From borders to binding (with batting in between) this is the perfect reference tool with step-by-step instructions on how to complete each finishing touch. Go from ordinary to extraordinary with over 100 different border options to give your quilt pizzaz and explore numerous ways on how to bind a quilt. Plus, you’ll never ruin a quilt again with the wrong choice of batting as tips and tricks will give you the insight and confidence you need to always make the right decision. Take all the guesswork out of finishing quilts with this essential guide! Make more than 100 different borders with step-by-step instructions on how to piece and add them to your quilt top Learn numerous ways to bind your quilt from straight and bias binding to prairie points and beyond This guide is the perfect lifelong reference tool that can be referred to again and again
