1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789449003321

Autore

Bazin André <1918-1958.>

Titolo

What is cinema? . Volume 2 / / by André Bazin ; foreword by François Truffaut ; new foreword by Dudley Andrew ; essays selected and translated by Hugh Gray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2005]

©2005

ISBN

0-520-93126-2

1-306-07360-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AndrewDudley <1945->

GrayHugh <1900-1981.>

TruffautFrançois

Disciplina

791.43

Soggetti

Motion pictures

Performing arts

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

Front matter -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- AN AESTHETIC OF REALITY: NEOREALISM -- LA TERRA TREMA -- BICYCLE THIEF -- DE SICA: METTEUR EN SCENE -- UMBERTO D: A GREAT WORK -- CABIRIA: THE VOYAGE TO THE END OF NEOREALISM -- IN DEFENSE OF ROSSELLINI -- THE MYTH OF MONSIEUR VERDOUX -- LIMELIGHT, OR THE DEATH OF MOLIERE -- THE GRANDEUR OF LIMELIGHT -- THE WESTERN: OR THE AMERICAN FILM PAR EXCELLENCE -- THE EVOLUTION OF THE WESTERN -- ENTOMOLOGY OF THE PIN-UP GIRL -- THE OUTLAW -- MARGINAL NOTES ON EROTICISM IN THE CINEMA -- SOURCES AND TRANSLATOR'S NOTES -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

André Bazin's What Is Cinema? (volumes I and II) have been classics of film studies for as long as they've been available and are considered the gold standard in the field of film criticism. Although Bazin made no films, his name has been one of the most important in French cinema since World War II. He was co-founder of the influential Cahiers du Cinéma, which under his leadership became one of the world's most distinguished publications. Championing the films of Jean Renoir (who



contributed a short foreword to Volume I), Orson Welles, and Roberto Rossellini, he became the protégé of François Truffaut, who honors him touchingly in his foreword to Volume II. This new edition includes graceful forewords to each volume by Bazin scholar and biographer Dudley Andrew, who reconsiders Bazin and his place in contemporary film study. The essays themselves are erudite but always accessible, intellectual, and stimulating. As Renoir puts it, the essays of Bazin "will survive even if the cinema does not."

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910814875103321

Autore

Weart Spencer R. <1942->

Titolo

The discovery of global warming / / Spencer R. Weart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : Harvard University Press, , 2008

ISBN

0-674-26829-6

0-674-41755-0

Edizione

[Revised and expanded edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

New histories of science, technology, and medicine

Classificazione

RB 10438

Disciplina

551.6

Soggetti

Global warming - History

Climatic changes - History

Climatology - International cooperation

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

How could climate change? -- Discovering a possibility -- A delicate system -- A visible threat --  Public warnings -- The erratic beast -- Breaking into politics -- Speaking science to power -- The work completed .o.o. and begun.

Sommario/riassunto

In 2001 an international panel of climate scientists announced that the world was warming at a rate without precedent during at least the last two millennia. The story of how scientists reached that conclusion was the story Weart told in The Discovery of Global Warming. The award-winning book is now revised and expanded to reflect the latest science. The award-winning book is now revised and expanded. In 2001 an international panel of distinguished climate scientists announced that



the world was warming at a rate without precedent during at least the last two millennia, and that warming was caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases from human activity. The story of how scientists reached that conclusion-by way of unexpected twists and turns-was the story Spencer Weart told in The Discovery of Global Warming. Now he brings his award-winning account up to date, revised throughout to reflect the latest science and with a new conclusion that shows how the scientific consensus caught fire among the general world public, and how a new understanding of the human meaning of climate change spurred individuals and governments to action. "Charting the evolution and confirmation of the theory [of global warming], Weart dissects the interwoven threads of research and reveals the political and societal subtexts that colored scientists' views and the public reception their work ­received." -Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times Book Review