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UNINA9910158965803321 |
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Autore |
Leeder Murray |
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The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema / / by Murray Leeder |
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London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
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[1st ed. 2017.] |
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1 online resource (XII, 209 p. 21 illus., 1 illus. in color.) |
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Motion pictures - History |
Film genres |
Motion pictures |
Stage management |
Motion picture acting |
Television broadcasting |
Film and TV History |
Genre Studies |
Film Theory |
Technology and Stagecraft |
Screen Performance |
Film and Television Studies |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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1.Introduction -- 2. The Haunting of Film Theory -- 3. Light and Lies: Screen Practice and (Super-) Natural Magic -- 4. The Strange Case of George Albert Smith: Mesmerism, Psychical Research and Cinema -- 5. Aesthetics of Co-Registration: Spirit Photography, X-Rays and Cinema -- 6. Méliès’s Skeleton: Gender, Cinema’s Danse Macabre and the Erotics of Bone -- 7. Living Pictures at Will: Projecting Haunted Minds -- 8. Conclusion: Lost Worlds, Ghost Worlds. . |
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This study sees the nineteenth century supernatural as a significant context for cinema’s first years. The book takes up the familiar notion |
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of cinema as a “ghostly,” “spectral” or “haunted” medium and asks what made such association possible. Examining the history of the projected image and supernatural displays, psychical research and telepathy, spirit photography and X-rays, the skeletons of the danse macabre and the ghostly spaces of the mind, it uncovers many lost and fascinating connections. The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema locates film’s spectral affinities within a history stretching back to the beginning of screen practice and forward to the digital era. In addition to examining the use of supernatural themes by pioneering filmmakers like Georges Méliès and George Albert Smith, it also engages with the representations of cinema’s ghostly past in Guy Maddin’s recent online project Seances (2016). It is ideal for those interested in the history of cinema, thestudy of the supernatural and the pre-history of the horror film. |
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UNINA9910970859103321 |
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Autore |
Haslam Jonathan |
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Russia's Cold War : from the October Revolution to the fall of the wall / / Jonathan Haslam |
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New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2011 |
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9786613096180 |
9781283096188 |
1283096188 |
9780300168532 |
0300168535 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (544 p.) |
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Cold War |
Soviet Union Foreign relations 1917-1945 |
Soviet Union Foreign relations 1945-1991 |
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Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Acronyms and |
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Abbreviations -- 1. Underlying Antagonisms -- 2. Ideology Triumphant -- 3. Cominformity -- 4. On The Offensive in Asia -- 5. Thaw -- 6. Sudden Frost -- 7. Taking the World to the Brink -- 8. Détente -- 9. The Impact of Vietnam -- 10. Détente Fails -- 11. The Reagan Presidency -- 12. Down Comes The Wall -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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The phrase "Cold War" was coined by George Orwell in 1945 to describe the impact of the atomic bomb on world politics: "We may be heading not for a general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity." The Soviet Union, he wrote, was "at once unconquerable and in a permanent state of 'cold war' with its neighbors." But as a leading historian of Soviet foreign policy, Jonathan Haslam, makes clear in this groundbreaking book, the epoch was anything but stable, with constant wars, near-wars, and political upheavals on both sides. Whereas the Western perspective on the Cold War has been well documented by journalists and historians, the Soviet side has remained for the most part shrouded in secrecy-until now. Drawing on a vast range of recently released archives in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, and Eastern Europe, Russia's Cold War offers a thorough and fascinating analysis of East-West relations from 1917 to 1989.Far more than merely a straightforward history of the Cold War, this book presents the first account of politics and decision making at the highest levels of Soviet power: how Soviet leaders saw political and military events, what they were trying to accomplish, their miscalculations, and the ways they took advantage of Western ignorance. Russia's Cold War fills a significant gap in our understanding of the most important geopolitical rivalry of the twentieth century. |
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