1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459949703321

Autore

Charles Victoria

Titolo

1000 masterpieces of decorative art / / Victoria Charles ; with the collaboration of Eugenie Vaysse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[New York, New York] : , : Parkstone International, , [2014]

©[2014]

ISBN

1-78160-217-4

1-78310-460-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (544 p.)

Disciplina

745.09

Soggetti

Furniture - History

Decorative arts - History

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.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Introduction; Antiquity; Middle Ages; Renaissance; Baroque; Modern Period; Chronology; Legend; Glossary

Sommario/riassunto

From ancient Sumerian pottery to Tiffany stained glass, decorative art has been a fundamental part of the human experience for generations. While fine art is confined to galleries and museums, decorative art is the art of the every day, combining beauty with functionality in objects ranging from the prosaic to the fantastical. In this work, Albert Jacquemart celebrates the beauty and artistic potential behind even the most quotidian object. Readers will walk away from this text with a newfound appreciation for the subtle artistry of the manufactured world.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453349703321

Titolo

Screening nature : cinema beyond the human / / edited by Anat Pick and Guinevere Narraway

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2013

ISBN

1-4619-5249-2

1-78238-227-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PickAnat <1955->

NarrawayGuinevere

Disciplina

791.43/66

Soggetti

Nature films - History and criticism

Environmental protection and motion pictures

Nature in motion pictures

Environmentalism in motion pictures

Ecology in motion pictures

Environmental 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

Title page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I   Eco-poetics Film, Form and the Natural World ; 1 Three Worlds ; 2 Ten Skies, 13 Lakes, 15 Pools - Structure, Immanence and Eco-aesthetics in The Swimmer and James Benning's Land Films; 3 Land as Protagonist - An Interview with James Benning ; Part II   Zoe-tropes Envisioning the Nonhuman ; 4 Anthropomorphism and Its Vicissitudes ; 5 Animism and the Performative Realist Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul ; 6 Was Blind But Now I See ; 7 Filming the Frozen South

Part III   Eco-politics Environment, Image, Ideology 8 Dirty Pictures ; 9 Utopia in the Mud ; 10 Animals, Avatars and the Gendering of Nature ; 11 Buried Land ; Part IV   Eco-praxis Film as Environmental Practice ; 12 Strange Seeing ; 13 The Art of Self-emptying and Ecological Integration ; 14 An Inconvenient Truth ; 15 Planet in Focus ; Notes on Contributors ; Index



Sommario/riassunto

Environmentalism and ecology are areas of rapid growth in academia and society at large. Screening Nature is the first comprehensive work that groups together the wide range of concerns in the field of cinema and the environment, and what could be termed "posthuman cinema." It comprises key readings that highlight the centrality of nature and nonhuman animals to the cinematic medium, and to the language and institution of film. The book offers a fresh and timely intervention into contemporary film theory through a focus on the nonhuman environment as principal register in many filmic texts. S

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910691918203321

Autore

Hast Robert H

Titolo

Health Care Financing Administration [[electronic resource] ] : three largest medicare overpayment settlements were improper : statement of Robert H. Hast, Acting Assistanct Comptroller General for Special Investigations

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : U.S. General Accounting Office, , [2000]

Collana

Testimony ; ; GAO/T-OSI-00-7

Soggetti

Medicare - Claims administration - Auditing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on June 24, 2003).

"For release ... March 28, 2000."

Paper version available from: General Accounting Office, 441 G St., NW, Rm. LM, Washington, D.C. 20548.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910796080303321

Autore

McDonald Paul <1963->

Titolo

Hollywood stardom / / Paul McDonald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

Chichester, West Sussex, UK : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2013

ISBN

9781118321669

1118321669

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 342 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

384/.80973

Soggetti

Motion picture industry - United States

Motion picture actors and actresses - United States

Fame - Social aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Star business. The symbolic commerce of Hollywood stardom -- Star-as-brand -- The extraordinary ordinariness of Tom Hanks -- Star system. Post-studio stardom -- Money and talent -- "The Will Smith business" -- Star performance. Spectacular acts -- Prestige stardom and the awards system -- Starring Julia Roberts -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Academy Award nominees and winners in the actress and actor in a leading role categories, 1990-2009.

Sommario/riassunto

"By integrating star studies and film industry studies, Hollywood Stardom reveals the inextricable bonds between culture and commerce in contemporary notions of film stardom.  Integrates the traditions of star studies and industry studies to establish an original and innovative mode of analysis whereby the 'star image' is replaced with the 'star brand'  Offers the first extensive analysis of stardom in the 'post-studio' era;  Combines genre, narrative, acting, and discourse analysis with aspects of marketing theory and the economic analysis of the film market;  Draws on an extensive body of research data not previously deployed in film scholarship;  A wide range of star examples are explored including George Clooney, Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise, Daniel Day-Lewis, Tom Hanks, Will Smith, and Julia Roberts  "--