Neon Lit:city of Glass
Author: Bob Callahan
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 1994-08-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780380771080
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Author: Bob Callahan
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 1994-08-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780380771080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christoph Ribbat
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2013-07-15
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 178023127X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWithout neon, Las Vegas might still be a sleepy desert town in Nevada and Times Square merely another busy intersection in New York City. Transformed by the installation of these brightly colored signs, these destinations are now world-famous, representing the vibrant heart of popular culture. But for some, neon lighting represents the worst of commercialism. Energized by the conflicting love and hatred people have for neon, Flickering Light explores its technological and intellectual history, from the discovery of the noble gas in late nineteenth-century London to its fading popularity today. Christoph Ribbat follows writers, artists, and musicians—from cultural critic Theodor Adorno, British rock band the Verve, and artist Tracey Emin to Vladimir Nabokov, Langston Hughes, and American country singers—through the neon cities in Europe, America, and Asia, demonstrating how they turned these blinking lights and letters into metaphors of the modern era. He examines how gifted craftsmen carefully sculpted neon advertisements, introducing elegance to modern metropolises during neon’s heyday between the wars followed by its subsequent popularity in Las Vegas during the 1950s and '60s. Ribbat ends with a melancholy discussion of neon’s decline, describing how these glowing signs and installations came to be seen as dated and characteristic of run-down neighborhoods. From elaborate neon lighting displays to neglected diner signs with unlit letters, Flickering Light tells the engrossing story of how a glowing tube of gas took over the world—and faded almost as quickly as it arrived.
Author: Elizabeth Ezra
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2017-11-02
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1501328832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the border zones between life and non-life as represented in cinema from the end of the nineteenth century, when France led the global film industry, to the first decades of the twenty-first century, when world film markets are dominated by Hollywood. Informed by both the Internet of Things and the Parliament of Things, The Cinema of Things examines cinematic depictions of the ways in which human beings are prosthetically engaged with life beyond the self in the global age: by hyperconsumption; by structures of racial and sexual objectification that reduce people designated as “others” to objects of fascination, sexual gratification, warfare, or labor; and by information technology that replaces human agency with encoding. Consumer culture, a key feature of globalization, posits that we must supplement ourselves with commodities without which we would otherwise be incomplete: but these prostheses, rather than enhancing us, end up creating the insufficiencies they were meant to overcome. We are engulfed by objects, to the extent that we ourselves are becoming objectified. At the same time, objects, especially technological objects, are becoming increasingly autonomous, assuming roles that were once the preserve of human agency. We are becoming the objects of globalization, and cinema imaginatively represents this transformation, but it also offers us the possibility of retaining our humanity in the process.
Author: Mills House Visual Arts Complex
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 14
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Adeal Alam
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2022-04-14
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1665598166
DOWNLOAD EBOOK‘’Year 2050, the beginning of the cyber world. I don’t remember my past or whoever I was supposed to be. Only acknowledgement I have is that CELL Operatives are pursuing to capture me.’’ ‘’It’s not who I am, what they seek, it’s what I obtain runs through my veins; the ability to stop the duration of time. The ability to fight physically through any obstacle or hardship.’’ ‘’I won't be able to survive this hunt without a cooperative. A thief Marco Gallo, the individual who rescued me. His objective is to smuggle me out of Knight city without being detained.’’ ‘’I will find my past. I will find my answers. My name is Jade Walker, this is my story, this is... Velocity.’’
Author: Sandy Jeffs
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9781876756512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlumbing the depths of human experience in her journey into madness, Sandy Jeffs shares her experience in this collection of poetry reminiscent of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. With stark dignity and intense fear, these poems cross into a realm where nightmares wrestle with dreams, death by devouring is a way station, and the underworld becomes a tourist destination. In the midst of this darkness, Jeffs's leavening sense of humor peoples her descent with the sirens of the supermarket, a high-tech, technicolor Armageddon, and a modern Cerberus with three heads: Ken, Barbie, and Ronald McDonald. Written with great insight into the experience of madness, this collection will intrigue all readers with an interest in the wayward workings of the mind.
Author: Dr. B. N. Hema Devi
Publisher: Sapna Book House (P) Ltd.
Published: 2012-05-11
Total Pages: 22
ISBN-13: 8128017519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt was eight o' clock at night on October 19 - 1879. That was the evening Tom Edison turned electricity into light with the invention of the electric bulb. Thomas Edison also invented the phonograph and an early form of motion pictures. This is the amazing story of his life - and his inventions that changed the world.
Author: Bob Callahan
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 1994-08-01
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 9780380771080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA graphic, crime noir novel on a New York detective-cum-novelist who answers a wrong number. A double- barreled investigation, one from the perspective of the detective, the other from that of the novelist. Adapted from Paul Auster's City of Glass by the creators of Maus.
Author: Alastair Reynolds
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780441015917
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrefect Tom Dreyfus investigates a murderous attack on one of the space habitats of the Glitter Band--a crime that has left nine hundred people dead--and uncovers a plot by a mysterious entity seeking total control of the region.
Author: Jeff Herman
Publisher: Prima Lifestyles
Published: 1994-10-10
Total Pages: 628
ISBN-13: 9781559585453
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