1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910150257203321

Autore

Niemi Robert

Titolo

The Cinema of Robert Altman : Hollywood Maverick / / Robert Niemi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Columbia University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-231-85086-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Directors' Cuts

Classificazione

AP 44983

Disciplina

791.430233092

Soggetti

PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production

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, filmographies and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Three Dream Films: Explorations of Female Identity -- Chapter Two. Experiments in Genre Revision -- Chapter Three. Large Canvases -- Chapter Four. Falling from Grace -- Chapter Five. In the Wilderness -- Chapter Six. Return to Form -- Chapter Seven. Final Phase: More Large Canvases and Minor Works -- Coda -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In a controversial and tumultuous filmmaking career that spanned nearly fifty years, Robert Altman mocked, subverted, or otherwise refashioned Hollywood narrative and genre conventions. Altman's idiosyncratic vision and propensity for formal experimentation resulted in an uneven body of work: some rank failures and intriguing near-misses, as well as a number of great films that are among the most influential works of New American Cinema. While Altman always professed to have nothing authoritative to say about the state of contemporary society, this volume surveys all of his major films in their sociohistorical context to reposition the director as a trenchant satirist and social critic of postmodern America, depicted as a lonely wasteland of fraudulent spectacle, exploitative social relations, and unfulfilled solitaries in search of elusive community.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779745203321

Autore

Hathaway Michael J

Titolo

Environmental winds [[electronic resource] ] : making the global in southwest China / / Michael J. Hathaway

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013

ISBN

0-520-27620-5

0-520-95676-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Classificazione

SOC002010HIS003000NAT011000

Disciplina

333.7209513

Soggetti

Environmentalism - China, Southwest

Environmental protection - China, Southwest

Globalization - China, Southwest

China, Southwest Environmental conditions

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

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Environmental Winds -- 2. Fleeting Intersections and Transnational Work -- 3. The Art of Engagement -- 4. Making an Indigenous Space -- 5. On the Backs of Elephants -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Environmental Winds challenges the notion that globalized social formations emerged solely in the Global North prior to impacting the Global South. Instead, such formations have been constituted, transformed, and propelled through diverse, site-specific social interactions that complicate and defy divisions between 'global' and 'local.' The book brings the reader into the lives of Chinese scientists, officials, villagers, and expatriate conservationists who were caught up in environmental trends over the past 25 years. Hathaway reveals how global environmentalism has been enacted and altered in China, often with unanticipated effects, such as the rise of indigenous rights, or the reconfiguration of human/animal relationships, fostering what rural villagers refer to as "the revenge of wild elephants."



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910296445603321

Autore

Roig de Leuchsenring Emilio <1889-1964, >

Titolo

13 conclusiones fundamentales sobre la guerra libertadora cubana de 1895

Pubbl/distr/stampa

El Colegio de México, 1945

[Mexico], : El Colegio de Mexico, Centro de estudios sociales, [1945]

©[1945]

ISBN

607-628-442-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (42 pages)

Collana

Jornadas, ; 34

Disciplina

972.9105

Soggetti

Humanities

History

Historia

Cuba Historia Revolución, 1895-1898

Cuba

Cuba Histoire 1895-1898 (Revolution)

Cuba History Revolution, 1895-1898

Lingua di pubblicazione

Spagnolo

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

En esta obra el autor transmite trece conclusiones sobre la guerra de independencia de Cuba