1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778930603321

Autore

Harvey J. R (John Robert)

Titolo

Men in black [[electronic resource] /] / John Harvey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Reaktion Books, 1995

ISBN

1-280-49362-3

9786613588852

1-78023-004-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Collana

Picturing history

Disciplina

809/.93355

Soggetti

English literature - History and criticism

Clothing and dress in literature

Black in literature

Men in literature

Man-woman relationships in literature

Symbolism of colors in literature

Clothing and dress - Psychology

Costume - Great Britain - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published in paperback 1997."--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-275) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Men in Black Cover; Imprint page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Clothes, Colour and Meaning; 1. Whose Funeral?; 2. Black in History; 3. From Black in Spain to Black in Shakespeare; 4. From Black in Art to Dickens's Black; 5. England's Dark House; 6. Men in Black with Women in White; 7. Black in our Time; References; Photographic Acknowledgements; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Mr. Pink:""Why can't we pick out our own color?""Joe:""I tried that once, it don't work. You get four guys fighting over who's gonna be Mr. Black.""-Quentin Tarantino, Reservoir DogsMen's clothes went black in the nineteenth century. Dickens, Ruskin and Baudelaire all asked why it was, in an age of supreme wealth and power, that men wanted to dress as if going to a funeral. The answer is in this history of the color black. Over the last 1000 years there have been successive expansions in the wearing of black-from the Church to the Court, from the Cou



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910133405403321

Titolo

Sexually transmitted disease surveillance / / Division of STD/HIV Prevention

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Atlanta, Ga., : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Prevention Services, Division of STD/HIV Prevention, Surveillance and Information Systems Branch

Descrizione fisica

electronic texts, volumes : HTML, digital PDF files

Disciplina

616

Soggetti

Sexually transmitted diseases - United States

Sexually transmitted diseases - Reporting - United States

Sexually transmitted diseases - Epidemiology

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Sexually transmitted diseases

Sexually transmitted diseases - Reporting

Statistics.

Periodicals.

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Some issues have color slide shows of graphs and maps.