1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457620703321

Titolo

Action and adventure cinema / / edited by Yvonne Tasker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-56494-5

0-203-68588-1

1-280-10275-6

0-203-64515-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (431 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TaskerYvonne <1964->

Disciplina

791.43/655

Soggetti

Action and adventure films - History and criticism

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

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION : ACTION AND ADVENTURE CINEMA; History, criticism and style; 'TRAUMA THRILLS': NOTES ON EARLY ACTION CINEMA; THE 'CULTURE WAR' OF SENSATIONAL MELODRAMA, 1910-14; 'CHILD OF COMM ERCE! BASTARD OF ART!':EARLY FILM MELODRAMA; ACTION-ADVENTURE AS HOLLYWOOD GENRE; DWIGHT MACDONALD AND THE HISTORICAL EPIC; Theorising action aesthetics; 'GET READY FOR RUSH HOUR': THE CHRONOTOPE IN ACTION; THE COLLAPSE OF REALITY AND ILLUSION IN THE MATRIX; GUNS AND GAS: INVESTIGATING THE 1970S CAR CHASE FILM

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN'S 'SPECIAL AFFECT'Gender, stars, bodies; READY FOR ACTION: G.I.JANE, DEMI MOORE'S BODY AND THE FEMALE COMBAT MOVIE; MS MACHA: THE NEW LATINA ACTION HERO; BEAUTY IN MOTION: GENDER, SPECTACLE AND ACTION BABE CINEMA; BREAKDOWN: WHITE MASCULINITY, CLASS, AND US ACTION-ADVENTU RE FILMS; MAXIMUS MELODRAMATICUS: MASCULINITY, MASOCHISM AND WHITE MALE PARANOIA IN CONTEMPORARY HOLLYWOOD CINEMA; THE FAMILY IN ACTION; Nation, ethnicity and stardom; THE HONG KONG/HOLLYWOOD CONNECTION: STARDOM AND SPECTACLE IN TRANSNATIONAL ACTION C I NEMA; EUROPEANS IN ACTION!



GREEK WAR FILM AS MELODRAMA: WOMEN, FEMALE STARS, AND THE NATION AS VICTIMSPAGHETTI WESTERN, GENRE CRITICISM AND NATIONAL CINEMA: RE-DEFINING THE FRAME OF REFERENCE; Action, authorship and industry; GENRE AND VIOLENCE IN THE WORK OF KUROSAWA AND PECKINPAH; THE DIRTY DOZEN: THE CONTRADICTORY NATURE OF SCREEN VIOLENCE; 'IT'S AIMED AT KIDS--THE KID IN EVERYBODY': GEORGE LUCAS, STAR WARS AND CHILDREN'S ENTERTAINMENT; MAN'S FAVOURITE SPORT?: THE ACTION FILM S OF KATHRYN BIGELOW; 'THEY CALL ME ""ACTION WOMAN""': THE MARKETING OF MIMI LEDER AS A NEW CONCEPT IN THE HIGH CONCEPT 'ACTION' FILM; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This exciting collection addresses action and adventure from the silent to the contemporary period exploring diverse questions of aesthetics, industry and ideology. Action has established itself as one of the leading commercial genres of the New Hollywood cinema, generating extensive debate in the process.Contributors consider how action might best be defined, how it has developed historically, and how it works formally. The critical reception and standing of action and adventure cinema is considered in relation to questions of national culture, violence and the 'art' of cinema.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454928603321

Autore

Berkowitz Roger <1968->

Titolo

The gift of science [[electronic resource] ] : Leibniz and the modern legal tradition / / Roger Stuart Berkowitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-674-02079-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Disciplina

344/.095

Soggetti

Science and law - History

Jurisprudence - History

Law - Philosophy

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Terminology -- Introduction: Legal Codification, Positive Law, and the Question of Science -- I. From Insight to Science: Leibniz's Scientific Foundation of Justice -- CHAPTER 1. Beyond Geometry: Leibniz and the Science of Law -- CHAPTER 2. The Force of Law: Will -- CHAPTER 3. Leibniz's Systema Iuris -- II .The Allgemeines Landrecht: From Recht to Gesetz -- CHAPTER 4. From the Gesetzbuch to the Landrecht: The ALR and the Triumph of Legality -- CHAPTER 5. The Rule of Law: The Crown Prince Lectures and the Grounding of Legality in Order and Security -- III. From Science to Technique: Friedrich Carl von Savigny, the BGB, and the Self-Overcoming of Legal Science -- CHAPTER 6. From Reason to History: Savigny's System and the Rise of Social Legal Science -- CHAPTER 7. The Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB) of 1900: Positive Legal Science and the End of Justice -- Conclusion -- Note on Sources -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Moving from the scientific revolution to the nineteenth-century rise of legal codes, Berkowitz tells the story of how lawyers and philosophers invented legal science to preserve law's claim to moral authority. The "gift" of science, however, proved bittersweet. Instead of strengthening the bond between law and justice, the subordination of law to science



transformed law from an ethical order into a tool for social and economic ends.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910145228203321

Titolo

The bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : The Royal College of Psychiatrists, [1978]-©1988

ISSN

2514-9954

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (12 volumes)

Disciplina

616.89005

Soggetti

Psychology, Pathological

Psychiatry

Psychiatrie

Periodical

Fulltext

Internet Resources.

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico