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UNINA9910450936903321 |
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Chanan Michael |
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Titolo |
The dream that kicks [[electronic resource] ] : the prehistory and early years of cinema in Britain / / Michael Chanan |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1996 |
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[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Motion pictures - Great Britain - History |
Cinematography - History |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Author's note (first edition); Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgements; The site of film; The sight of film; The conditions of invention; Theories of perception; Photographic development; Patent business; Celluloid muse; The production of consumption; Music hall and popular culture; Culture and politics in the middle classes; Market competition and industrial growth; The foundations of the film idiom; Epilogue: The dream that kicks; Bibliography; Index |
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The Dream the Kicks is a classic account of the prehistory and early years of cinema in Britain. In this new paperback edition, which has been thoroughly revised to take into account recent scholarship of early cinema, Michael Chanan provides a fasciniating account of the rich and hitherto hidden history of the origins of film. Chanan demonstrates that the theory of `the persistence of vision', which led to the invention of moving pictures, has been superceded by modern scientific findings. In its place, he puts forward a theory of invention as a type of bricolage, and sh |
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UNINA9910461864103321 |
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Autore |
Baker Stewart A |
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Skating on stilts [[electronic resource] ] : why we aren't stopping tomorrow's terrorism / / Stewart A. Baker |
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Stanford, Calif., : Hoover Institution Press, c2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (385 p.) |
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Hoover Institution Press publication ; ; no. 591 |
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Terrorism - United States - Prevention |
Bioterrorism - United States - Prevention |
Cyberterrorism - United States - Prevention |
International relations and terrorism - United States |
Electronic books. |
United States Foreign relations |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Part One: The Road to 9/11; Introduction: The Gift; 1. Skating on Stilts; 2. Atta's Soldier; 3. To the Wall; 4. Never Again; Part Two: Flight and Facts; 5. Europe Picks a Privacy Fight; 6. To the Brink; 7. Al Qaeda's Frequent Traveler Program; 8. Privacy Victims in the Air; Part Three: Tomorrow's Terrorism; 9. Moore's Outlaws; 10. Big Brother's Revenge; 11. Invested in Insecurity; 12. Smallpox in the Garage; Part Four: The Privacy Problem; 13. What's Wrong with Privacy?; 14. Privacy for the Real World |
EndnotesAbout the Author; Index |
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Stewart A. Baker, a former Homeland Security official, examines the technologies we love?jet travel, computer networks, and biotech?and finds that they are likely to empower new forms of terrorism unless we change our current course a few degrees and overcome resistance to change from business, foreign governments, and privacy advocates. He draws on his Homeland Security experience to show how that was done in the case of jet travel and border security but concludes that heading off disasters in computer networks and biotech will require a |
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hardheaded recognition that privacy must sometimes yie |
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