1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458307803321

Autore

Nelson Gaylord <1916-2005.>

Titolo

Beyond Earth Day [[electronic resource] ] : fulfilling the promise / / Gaylord Nelson with Susan Campbell and Paul Wozniak; with a foreword by Robert Kennedy, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2002

ISBN

1-282-55539-1

9786612555398

0-299-18043-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CampbellSusan <1965->

WozniakPaul R

Disciplina

333.7/2

Soggetti

Earth Day

Environmentalism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-189) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Foreword by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. -- Introduction --Part 1. The Earth and Its Day -- Chapter 1. Earth Day: When the People Spoke -- Chapter 2. Report Card on the Earth -- Part 2. Imperiled Planet -- Chapter 3. Windows on the World -- Chapter 4. Vanishing Resources -- Chapter 5. An Invisible Threat -- Part 3. Environmentalism: Then and Now -- Chapter 6. Complacent Planet? -- Part 4. An Environmental Agenda for the Twenty-first Century -- Chapter 7. Achieving Sustainability -- An Appeal --Appendix 1: Letter to John F Kennedy -- Appendix 2: Introduction to "Environmental -- Agenda for Earth Day 1970" -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910143299103321

Autore

Carroll Noël <1947->

Titolo

Comedy incarnate [[electronic resource] ] : Buster Keaton, physical humour and bodily coping / / Noe  l Carroll

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Blackwell, 2006

ISBN

1-280-74893-1

9786610748938

0-470-76501-1

0-470-75493-1

1-4051-7188-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Disciplina

791.4372

792.7028092

Soggetti

Motion picture industry

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Comedy Incarnate: Buster Keaton, Physical Humor, and Bodily Coping; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Phenomenological Background; 1 Themes of The General; 2 Style in The General; 3 Keaton, Chaplin, Lloyd, and Langdon; Summary; Appendix: Narration in Keaton's The General; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Comedy Incarnate, Noël Carroll surveys the characteristics of Buster Keaton's unique visual style, to reveal the distinctive experience of watching Keaton's films. Bold and provocative thesis written by one of America's foremost film theoristsTakes a unique look at the philosophies behind Keaton's styleWeighs visual elements over narrative form in the analysis of the Keaton's workProvides a fresh vantage point for analysis of film and comedy itself