1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996198285703316

Titolo

Sedimentology review/1 / / edited by V. Paul Wright

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] : , : Blackwell Scientific Publications, , 1993

©1993

ISBN

1-282-17196-8

9786612171963

1-4443-0453-4

1-4443-0454-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (154 p.)

Collana

International Association Of Sedimentologists Series ; ; v.1

Disciplina

551.3

551.3005

552.5072

Soggetti

Sedimentology

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 at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sedimentology Review/1; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; 1 Balmy shores and icy wastes: the paradox of carbonates associated with glacial deposits in Neoproterozoic times; 2 Cretaceous climates; 3 The recognition and stratigraphic implications of orbital-forcing of climate and sedimentary cycles; 4 Carbonate diagenesis and sequence stratigraphy; 5 Rudist formations of the Cretaceous: a palaeoecological, sedimentological and stratigraphical review; 6 Oxygen-related mudrock biofacies; 7 Hummocky cross-stratification; 8 An introduction to estuarine lithosomes and their controls; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Sedimentology Review is a new series of books edited by the Postgraduate Research Institute of Sedimentology (PRIS) and published by Blackwell Scientific Publications. The series provides the practicing sedimentologist with a means of rapidly accessing new developments in sedimentology. Existing textbooks date rapidly and new journals continuously become available, making it difficult to remain current in all aspects of the subject. The series provides high quality reviews written in an accessible format, on a wide variety of topics in



sedimentology-sedimentary geology. The series will

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910963511203321

Titolo

The new extremism in cinema : from France to Europe / / edited by Tanya C. Horeck, Tina Kendall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2011

ISBN

9786613221841

9780748651221

0748651225

9781283221849

1283221845

9780748647095

0748647090

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HoreckTanya

KendallTina

Disciplina

791.4361

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Europe - History

Sex in motion pictures

Violence in motion pictures

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

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Flesh and Blood: Sex and Violence in Recent French Cinema; PART I French Cinema and the NewExtremism; Chapter 3 The Wounded Screen; Chapter 4 Reframing Bataille: On Tacky Spectatorship in the New European Extremism; Chapter 5 Beyond Anti-Americanism, Beyond Euro-Centrism: Locating Bruno Dumont's Twentynine Palms in the Context of European Cinematic Extremism; PART II Becoming Animal: Posthumanism and the New Extremism; Chapter 6 Shadows of Being in Sombre: Archetypes, Wolf-men and Bare Life



Chapter 7 Eastern Extreme: The Presentation of Eastern Europe as a Site of Monstrosity in La Vie nouvelle and Import/ExportChapter 8 Naked Women, Slaughtered Animals: Ulrich Seidl and the Limits of the Real; PART III Watching the Extreme: Cultural Reception; Chapter 9 Watching Rape, Enjoying Watching Rape . . .: How Does a Study of Audience Cha(lle)nge Mainstream Film Studies Approaches?; Chapter 10 Censorship, Reception and the Films of Gaspar Noé: The Emergence of the New Extremism in Britain; Chapter 11 'Sex and Violence from a Pair of Furies': The Scandal of Baise-moi

Chapter 12 'Close Your Eyes and Tell Me What You See': Sex and Politics in Lukas Moodysson's FilmsPART IV Ethics and Spectatorship in the New Extremism; Chapter 13 Lars von Trier's Dogville: A Feel-Bad Film; Chapter 14 A 'Passion for the Real': Sex, Affect and Performance in the Films of Andrea Arnold; Chapter 16 On the Unwatchable; Afterword; Chapter 17 More Moralism from that 'Wordy Fuck'; Notes on Contributors; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Explosive images of sex and violence characterise what has come to be known as the 'new extremism' in contemporary European cinema. This collection of essays is devoted to the new extremism in contemporary European cinema and will critically interrogate this highly contentious body of work.