LEADER 02751ojm 2200229z- 450 001 9910150460703321 005 20230913112557.0 010 $a1-4423-1640-3 035 $a(CKB)3710000000944448 035 $a(BIP)036632668 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000944448 100 $a20231107c2010uuuu -u- - 101 0 $aeng 200 10$aPimsleur Chinese (Mandarin) Level 2 : Learn to Speak and Understand Mandarin Chinese with Pimsleur Language Programs 210 $cPimsleur (Simon & Schuster) 330 8 $aMandarin is the official language in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Singapore. The Mandarin dialect is used in most Chinese schools, colleges, and universities, and in most TV programs, movies, and radio stations throughout the country. Mandarin is one of the five official languages of the UN.Can learning another language be as easy as speaking your own? Yes with Pimsleur its that easy. Learn on your own time, at your own pace, and wherever you choose.Mandarin Chinese Phase 2 includes 15 hours of spoken language practice and one additional hour of culture notes, and is designed to be used after completing Phase 1.In the first 10 lessons of Phase 2, you begin to use the past tense. Structures become more complex and informal speech is introduced. Conversations become fuller, and learners are able to discuss business and social activities, manage shopping situations, and express their interests. As you progress, vocabulary is expanded and fluency increases.The next 10 lessons of Phase 2 allow you to further combine and build upon known elements, and produce longer and more complex sentences. You learn to bargain with shopkeepers, deal with business situations, get and give medical information, and discuss the weather.In the final 10 lessons of Phase 2, youve doubled your vocabulary and have several hundred structures to draw upon. Youll gain experience asking for assistance, finding a location that is some distance away, and using relative structures faster, slower, etc. Sports and leisure activities are explored, as well as shopping, changing money, and future travel plans. By the end of Phase 2, youre speaking at a midintermediate level with nearnative pronunciation, and you are comfortable meeting most social demands and limited job requirements.One hour of recorded Culture Notes are included at the end of Unit 30. These Notes are designed to provide you with some insight into Chinese culture. 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From Bad to Worse MURRAY POMERANCE -- PART I: It's a Slimy World, After All -- 1. Flickers: On Cinema's Power for Evil TOM GUNNING -- 2. Monstrosity and the Bad-White-Body Film GWENDOLYN AUDREY FOSTER -- 3. Beyond the Thin Line of Black and Blue: Movies and Police Misconduct in Los Angeles AARON BAKER -- 4. Genocidal Spectacles and the Ideology of Death CHRISTOPHER SHARRETT -- 5. Bad, Worse, Worst: 8MM and Hollywood's Bad Boys of Porn PETER LEHMAN -- 6. Toxic Corps: Rage against the Corporate State KIRBY FARRELL -- 7. The Ghost World of Neoliberalism: Abandoning the Abandoned Generation HENRY A. GIROUX -- PART II: Auteurs of Negativity, Icons of Darkness -- 8. "How Will I Get My Opium?": Jean Cocteau and the Treachery of Friendship WHEELER WINSTON DIXON -- 9. The Sweeter the Kitten the Sharper the Claws: Russ Meyer's Bad Girls KRISTEN HATCH -- 10. Wanted for Murder: The Strange Case of Eric Portman TONY WILLIAMS -- 11. The Arch Archenemies of James Bond STEVEN WOODWARD -- 12. From Fu Manchu to M. Butterfly and Irma Vep: Cinematic Incarnations of Chinese Villainy GINA MARCHETTI -- 13. On the Bad Goodness of Born to Be Bad: Auteurism, Evaluation, and Nicholas Ray's Outsider Cinema DANA POLAN -- 14. The Villain in Hitchcock: "Does He Look Like a 'Wrong One' to You?" WILLIAM ROTHMAN -- PART III: The Charisma of Villainy -- 15. The "Evil Medieval": Gender, Sexuality, Miscegenation, and Assimilation in Cat People ALEXANDER DOTY AND PATRICIA CLARE INGHAM -- 16. Wicked Old Ladies from Europe: Jeanne Moreau and Marlene Dietrich on the Screen and Live E. ANN KAPLAN -- 17. Darkness Visible: Images of Nazis in American Film LESTER D. FRIEDMAN -- 18. "The Whole Fucking World Warped around Me": Bad Kids and Worse Contexts CYNTHIA FUCHS. 327 $a19. Searching for Blobby Fissures: Slime, Sexuality, and the Grotesque REBECCA BELL-METEREAU -- 20. Crazy Like a Prof: Mad Science and the Transgressions of the Rational INA RAE HARK -- 21. Tom Ripley's Talent MURRAY POMERANCE -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z. 330 $aExamines the many forms of cinematic "badness" over the past one hundred years, from Nosferatu to The Talented Mr. Ripley. 606 $aGood and evil in motion pictures 606 $aSensationalism in motion pictures 606 $aSocial problems in motion pictures 615 0$aGood and evil in motion pictures. 615 0$aSensationalism in motion pictures. 615 0$aSocial problems in motion pictures. 676 $a791.43/653 701 $aPomerance$b Murray$f1946-$0883499 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910964039803321 996 $aBad$94361225 997 $aUNINA