1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996248175703316

Autore

Saunders Thomas J

Titolo

Hollywood in Berlin [[electronic resource] ] : American cinema and Weimar, Germany / / Thomas J. Saunders

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1994

ISBN

0-520-91416-3

0-585-07922-6

Edizione

[1 frontisp., Reprint 2020]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 332 p. ) : ill. ;

Collana

Weimar and now ; ; 6

Disciplina

791.43/0943

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Germany - History

Motion pictures, American - Germany - Influence

Motion pictures, German - United States - Influence

National characteristics, American, in motion pictures

National characteristics, German, in motion pictures

Motion pictures - History - Germany

Motion pictures, American - Influence - Germany

Motion pictures, German - Influence - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-325) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. THE SETTING: WEIMAR GERMANY AND THE MOTION PICTURE -- CHAPTER 2. GERMAN-AMERICAN FILM RELATIONS: COMPETITION AND COOPERATION -- CHAPTER 3. HOLLYWOOD IN BERLIN: THE INITIATION, 1921-1923 -- CHAPTER 4. THE HOLLYWOOD INVASION: AMERIKANISMUS AND AMERIKAMÛDIGKEIT -- CHAPTER 5. EXCURSUS: POPULAR CULTURE AND AMERICAN HEGEMONY -- CHAPTER 6. COMIC REDEMPTION: THE SLAPSTICK SYNTHESIS -- CHAPTER 7. GERMAN-AMERICAN PRODUCTION IN HOLLYWOOD AND THE MEANING OF NATIONAL CINEMA -- CHAPTER 8. THE COMING OF SOUND AND THE WANING OF AMERICA -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910644261003321

Autore

He Yaomin

Titolo

The Agricultural Civilization of Ancient China / / by Yaomin He

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023

ISBN

9789811984693

9789811984686

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (162 pages)

Disciplina

630

Soggetti

China - History

Economic history

Agriculture

Ethnology - Asia

Culture

History of China

Economic History

Asian Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

I. The birth of traditional agriculture: the choice between man and nature -- Natural conditions for agricultural development -- Natural environment of agricultural development -- Social conditions for agricultural development -- Interaction between natural environment and economic life II. Characteristics and advantages of traditional agricultural economy -- Characteristics of traditional agriculture -- Establishment of Chinese traditional agriculture -- Brilliant agricultural civilization -- Developed agricultural Empire -- III. Traditional agricultural knowledge and technology system -- Traditional agricultural knowledge and technology system -- Development of traditional agricultural knowledge and technology system -- Development of traditional agricultural planting knowledge and technology  -- Improvement of rotation multiple cropping and intercropping interplanting -- IV. Flexible land relations and ownership structure -- Land relations in traditional agriculture -- Small peasant



economy and its land ownership  -- Tenancy system and its economic relations -- Land ownership structure and its changes -- V. Huge irrigation system and water conservancy project -- Water control activities in traditional society -- Northern dryland agricultural water conservancy irrigation project -- Rice farming water conservancy project in South China -- Famous water conservancy project -- VI. Complete agricultural policies and measure -- Policies and principles of agriculture first -- The first national project in the world -- Strong natural economic structure -- VII. Unstoppable agricultural expansion -- The first traditional agricultural expansion process -- The second traditional agricultural expansion process -- The third traditional agricultural expansion process -- VIII. Advocating the value pursuit of Agriculture -- The ideological and cultural interest of advocating agriculture -- Rich agricultural works and ideas -- Perfect portrayal of agricultural production and life: farming andweaving ma -- IX. Dilemma and decline of traditional agriculture -- Development limit of traditional agriculture -- Reasons for the decline of traditional agriculture. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a systematic account of the development of agriculture and agricultural civilization in ancient China. It mainly discusses the birth of traditional agriculture, the characteristics and advantages of traditional agricultural economy, traditional agricultural knowledge and technology system, flexible land relations and ownership structure, extensive irrigation system and water conservancy projects, complete policies and measures to emphasize agriculture, the three agricultural expansion processes, the value pursuit of revering agriculture, and the plight and decline of traditional agriculture.