1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910684570003321

Autore

Wilson Emma

Titolo

Céline Sciamma : portraits / / Emma Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-4744-2550-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 128 pages)

Disciplina

791.43657

Soggetti

Art and motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Céline Sciamma is the most visible and important feminist, and lesbian, director in contemporary international filmmaking. Her fourth feature, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, competed for the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2019, and intervened directly in debates about the female gaze, sexuality, and specifically how to look at and make a portrait of young women. In her approach to female, non-binary and queer identities, she has focused on the need for agency, binding this imperative into her aesthetic choices and modes of filmmaking. This is the first book-length study of Sciamma's films, focusing on the relationship of her work to the visual arts, and exploring the relevance of feminist theory to her unique perspective.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003836009707536

Autore

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

Titolo

Il mago dei numeri : un libro da leggere prima di addormentarsi, dedicato a chi ha paura della matematica / Hans Magnus Enzensberger ; illustrazioni e progetto grafico di Rotraut Susanne Berner ; traduzione di Enrico Ganni

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Torino : Einaudi, 1997

Titolo uniforme

Zahlenteufel. Italiano 16443

ISBN

8806146513

Descrizione fisica

259 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm

Collana

Einaudi tascabili

Classificazione

AMS 00-XX

ZDM F04

Altri autori (Persone)

Ganni, Enrico

Berner, Rotraut Susanne

Disciplina

510

Soggetti

Matematica

Mathematics - Fiction

Numbers, Natural - Fiction

Dreams - Fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Tit. orig.: Der Zahlenteufel



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910154620503321

Titolo

Frankenstein's science : experimentation and discovery in Romantic culture, 1780-1830 / / edited by Christa Knellwolf and Jane Goodall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-93583-6

1-138-25799-0

1-315-25503-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

GoodallJane R

KingChrista Knellwolf

Disciplina

823/.7

Soggetti

Literature and science - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Science - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction / Christa Knellwolf and Jane Goodall -- 2. Educating Mary : women and scientific literature in the early nineteenth century / Patricia Fara -- 3. The professor and the orang-outang : Mary Shelley as a child reader / Judith Barbour -- 4. Geographic boundaries and inner space : Frankenstein, scientific explorations and the quest for the absolute / Christa Knellwolf -- 5. Animal experiments and antivivisection debates in the 1820s / Anita Guerrini -- 6. Monstrous progeny : the teratological tradition in science and literature / Melinda Cooper -- 7. Shadows of the invisible world : Mesmer, Swedenborg and the spiritualist sciences / Joan Kirkby -- 8. Electrical romanticism / Jane Goodall -- 9. Evolution, revolution and Frankenstein's creature / Allan K. Hunter -- 10. Science as spectacle : electrical showmanship in the English Enlightenment / Ian Jackson -- 11. Collectors of nature's curiosities : science, popular culture and the rise of natural history museums / Christine Cheater -- 12. The nightmare of evolution : H.G. Wells, Percival Lowell and the legacies of Frankenstein's science / Robert Markley.

Sommario/riassunto

Though Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has inspired a vast body of criticism, there are no book-length studies that contextualise this



widely taught novel in contemporary scientific and literary debates. The essays in this volume by leading writers in their fields provide new historical scholarship into areas of science and pseudo-science that generated fierce controversy in Mary Shelley's time: anatomy, electricity, medicine, teratology, Mesmerism, quackery and proto-evolutionary biology. The collection embraces a multifaceted view of the exciting cultural climate in Britain and Europe from 1780 to 1830. While Frankenstein is all too often read as a cautionary tale of the inherent dangers of uncontrolled scientific experimentation, the essays here take the reader back to a period when experimenters and radical thinkers viewed science as the harbinger of social innovation that would counter the virulent conservative backlash following the French Revolution. The collection will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars specialising in Romanticism, cultural history, philosophy and the history of science.