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UNINA9910811556403321 |
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Woolmer Mark |
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A short history of the Phoenicians / / Mark Woolmer |
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London, England : , : I. B. Tauris, , 2019 |
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London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2019 |
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1-350-98518-X |
1-78673-217-3 |
1-78672-217-8 |
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[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (234 pages) : illustrations, maps, photographs |
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I.B. Tauris short histories |
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Soggetti |
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Phoenicians - History |
Phoenicia Civilization |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-226) and index. |
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Introduction -- Historical overview -- Government and society -- Religion -- Art and material culture -- Overseas expansion -- Epilogue. |
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The Phoenicians present a tantalizing face to the ancient historian. Latin sources suggest they once had an extensive literature of history, law, philosophy and religion; but all now is lost. Offering new insights based on recent archaeological discoveries in their heartland of modern-day Lebanon, Mark Woolmer presents a fresh appraisal of this fascinating, yet elusive, Semitic people. Discussing material culture, language and alphabet, religion (including sacred prostitution of women and boys to the goddess Astarte), funerary custom and trade and expansion into the Punic west, he explores Phoenicia in all its paradoxical complexity. Viewed in antiquity as sage scribes and intrepid mariners who pushed back the boundaries of the known world, and as skilled engineers who built monumental harbour cities like Tyre and Sidon, the Phoenicians were also considered (especially by their rivals, the Romans) to be profiteers cruelly trading in human lives. The author shows them above all to have been masters of the sea: this was a civilization that circumnavigated Africa two thousand years before Vasco da Gama did it in 1498. |
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UNINA9910483331403321 |
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Autore |
Law Hoi Lun |
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Ambiguity and Film Criticism : Reasonable Doubt / / by Hoi Lun Law |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 |
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[1st ed. 2021.] |
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1 online resource (190 pages) : illustrations |
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Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television, , 2634-6141 |
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Motion pictures |
Close Readings in Film and TV |
Film Theory |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: Rethinking Ambiguity -- Part One: Considering Context and Convention -- 1. Difficulty of Explanation: The Enigmatic Vase Shots in Late Spring -- 2. Perplexing Style: The Programmatic Editing Strategy of Ten -- 3. Appropriateness of Clarification: Analytical Découpage and the Reductive Viewpoint -- Part Two: Reading in Detail -- 4. Depth of Suggestion: The Demonstrative Gestures in In a Lonely Place -- 5. Uncertainty of Understanding: The Unsettling Direct Look in Beyond a Reasonable Doubt -- Part Three: Coming to a Close -- 6. Questioning Closure: The Inconclusive Final Moments of Force Majeur -- Concluding Remarks: Reason and Responsibility. |
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This book defends an account of ambiguity which illuminates the aesthetic possibilities of film and the nature of film criticism. Ambiguity typically describes the condition of multiple meanings. But we can find multiple meanings in what appears unambiguous to us. So, what makes ambiguity ambiguous? This study argues that a sense of uncertainty is vital to the concept. Ambiguity is what presses us to inquire into our puzzlement over a movie, to persistently ask "why is it as it is?" Notably, this account of the concept is also an account of its criticism. It recognises that a satisfying assessment of what is ambiguous |
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involves both our reason and doubt; that is, reason and doubt can work together in our practice of reading. This book, then, considers ambiguity as a form of reasonable doubt, one that invites us to reflect on our critical efforts, rethinking the operation of film criticism. . |
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