1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463824503321

Autore

Gur-Klein Thalia

Titolo

Sexual Hospitality in the Hebrew Bible [[electronic resource] ] : Patronymic, Metronymic, Legitimate and Illegitimate Relations

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2014

ISBN

1-315-72935-0

1-317-54567-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Disciplina

221.8/3067

221.83067

Soggetti

Bible. Old Testament -- Social scientific criticism

Hospitality in the Bible

Sex in the Bible

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Patriarch hospitality and sexual hospitality; 2. Marital and non-marital systems; 3. Baal marriage of dominion; 4. Metronymic marriage: remaining with kin - counter-patterns of baal marriage; 5. Intersecting patterns and conflicting imperatives; 6. Widow marriage, land and kin surrogacy; Epilogue: moral imagination; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A woman's life in the ancient world was constrained by her social and economic status. As a daughter she was firmly under the aegis of her father and brothers, who would later allocate the woman to another man as his wife. The power of fathers and husbands extended to using their wives and daughters as sexual gifts to gain favour. Yet, alongside this, woman had certain socio-economic rights notably concerning inheritance and property - which they could use to protect themselves. 'Sexual Hospitality in the Hebrew Bible' examines sacred sexuality and ritual fecundity from patronymic marriage - w



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457343903321

Titolo

Inside the film factory [[electronic resource] ] : new approaches to Russian and Soviet cinema / / edited by Richard Taylor and Ian Christie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1994

ISBN

1-280-13859-9

9786610138593

0-203-99278-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Collana

Soviet cinema

Altri autori (Persone)

ChristieIan <1945->

TaylorRichard <1946->

Disciplina

791.43/0947

791.430947

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Political aspects - Soviet Union

Motion pictures - Soviet Union

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 (p. [217]-247) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Inside the Film Factory; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Notes on contributors; Notes on contributions; General editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Note on transliteration and translation; Introduction: Entering the film factory: Richard Taylor and Ian Christie; 1. Early Russian cinema: some observations: Yuri Tsivian; 2. Kuleshov's experiments and the new anthropology of the actor: Mikhail Yampolsky; 3. Intolerance and the Soviets: a historical investigation: Vance Kepley, Jr; 4. The origins of Soviet cinema: a study in industry development: Vance Kepley, Jr

5. Down to earth: Aelita relocated: Ian Christie 6. The return of the native: Yakov Protazanov and Soviet cinema: Denise J. Youngblood; 7. A face to the shtetl: Soviet Yiddish cinema, 1924-36: J.Hoberman; 8. A fickle man, or portrait of Boris Barnet as a Soviet director: Bernard Eisenschitz; 9. Interview with Alexander Medvedkin; 10. Making sense of early Soviet sound: Ian Christie; 11. Ideology as mass entertainment: Boris Shumyatsky and Soviet cinema in the 1930's: Richard Taylor; Notes; Index



Sommario/riassunto

This is the first collection to be inspired and informed by the new films and archival material that glasnost and perestroika have revealed, and the new methodological approaches that are developing in tandem. Film critics and historians from Britain, America, France and the USSR attempt the vital task of scrutinising Soviet film, and re-examining the Cold War assumptions of traditional historiography.Whereas most books on Soviet giants have glorified the directorial giants of the `golden age' of the 1920's, Inside the Film Factory also recognises the achievements of popular cinema