STAFFORD, Barbara Maria;

GOOD LOOKING. ESSAYS ON THE VIRTUE OF IMAGES,

Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997 Pictorial softcover, 175 x 230mm., 259pp., b/w illustration. ISBN 9780262692106.
¶ Building on the arguments of her previous books, Body Criticism (MIT Press, 1991) and Artful Science (MIT Press, 1994), Good Looking challenges the reflexive identification of images with vice. Today rampant criticism, both inside and outside the academy, condemns the immoralities of aesthetic illusion, museum display, cable television, and hypermedia. Believing with the American pragmatists that it is harder to do than to denounce, Barbara Stafford urges imagists to abandon Foucault's bankrupt paradigm of verbal combat. Instead of more "improving" theoretical discourse, she calls for developing a positive visual praxis on the interpretive ruins of linguistic postmodernism. Organized around three major themes'the explosion of optical information, the urgency of inventing an imaging interdiscipline, and the ethical dilemmas of technological transparency'these twelve essays connect a disappearing lens culture to the digital diaphanousness of the twenty-first century. Book is in good condition.

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Boeknummer: 32546

Catalogus: kunst wetenschappen ; Art studies ; Art sudies ; Art studies

Trefwoorden: beeld .

Stephen Kassel , Frank Jastfelder

Album Cover Art of Soundtracks

New York, United States, Little, Brown & Company 1997, 1997 Paperback, 128 pages, English, 300 x 300 mm, fine copy, with illustrations in colour and b/w. ISBN 9780316482400.
¶ This unique book presents the first visual history of today's most hotly collected records - the great movie and television soundtracks from the 1950s to the early 1970s, from Breakfast at Tiffany's and Thunderball to Mission: Impossible and Barbarella. The soundtrack albums of these and other classic movies are among the most prized collectibles today - recordings that summon up the secret agents, starlets, glamour and exotica of the past and set the mood for the "cool modern" lounge scene of today. The book showcases art, in brilliant full color, from nearly 300 of the greatest soundtrack covers, including many sought-after items by film music legends such as John Barry, Jerry Goldsmith, Henry Mancini, Ennio Morricone and Lalo Schifrin. It is a must for record collectors, graphic designers and anyone into the new easy listening scene.

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Boeknummer: 57083

Catalogus: Muziek ; Music ; Musique ; Music

Trefwoorden: Schilderkunst kunst paint schilder Beaux Arts Sciences antique antiek deco beeldhouwkunst beelden sculpturen & Architecture schilderen Kunst Fotografie Histoire et patrimoine Nouveauté arts plastiques culture histoire livre siècle Artiste peintre photo fo

STOCKER, JACK H.

Chemistry and Science Fiction (American Chemical Society Publication)

Washington, DC, American Chemical Society. 1999, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0841232482) Soft cover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, pict, paper binding, xxii, 292 pages : illustrations (8 illustrations in full color) ; This collection looks at science as filtered through literature, film and television. It discusses classic works in science fiction and provides an in-depth look at the chemistry depicted in popular culture, particularly in "Star Trek", "Star Wars", and "Doctor Who". Near Fine.

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Boeknummer: 1125558007

Catalogus: Literature

Trefwoorden: 0841232482 Science Fiction Science Fiction Study and Teaching Science Fiction Films Science Fiction Films History and Criticism Science Fiction, American Science Fiction, American History and Criticism Science Fiction, English Science Fiction, English His

STRIKER, FRAN (CREATED BY GEORGE W. TRENDLE)

The Lone Ranger Traps the Smugglers

New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1941. Possible First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Paul Laune. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. Possible 1st Edition with no later statement of printing. Impossible to tell for certain without the dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. There is a slight slant to the spine of the book. The text pages are clean and bright." The Lone Ranger is a fictional masked former Texas Ranger who fought outlaws in the American Old West with his Native American friend, Tonto. The character has been called an enduring icon of American culture. He first appeared in 1933 in a radio show conceived either by WXYZ (Detroit) radio station owner George W. Trendle, or by Fran Striker, the show's writer. The radio series proved to be a hit and spawned a series of books (largely written by Striker) , an equally popular television show that ran from 1949 to 1957, comic books, and several movies. The title character was played on the radio show by George Seaton, Earle Graser, and Brace Beemer. Clayton Moore portrayed the Lone Ranger on television, although during a contract dispute, Moore was replaced temporarily by John Hart, who wore a different style of mask." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

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Boeknummer: 46504

Catalogus: Modern Fiction

Trefwoorden: Modern Fiction Fran Striker The Lone Ranger Western Fiction Historical Fiction Books Into Film Paul Laune

Strong, Marilee

A Bright Red Scream: Self-mutilation and the Language of Pain (A Virago V)

Virago Press Ltd. London, 2000. First Thus, Softcover. As New. 9781860497544 There are people who deliberately cut their skin, burn themselves and break their own bones. They do it systematically for many years, and without help they can rarely stop. Most have lived through severe forms of emotional or physical childhood abuse. The pain they feel is mute, their only cry 'a bright red scream'. They call themselves 'cutters' - and this book is their story. Self-mutilation is a behaviour so shocking and cloaked in denial that it is almost never discussed. Yet a recent study suggests that as many as one in eight young people have deliberately harmed themselves at some point in their lives. When the late Princess Diana intimated in an extraordinary television interview that she had been a cutter, millions of people around the globe finally realised that they were not alone in their suffering. Grounded in science and filled with human stories, 'A Bright Red Scream', like the pioneering works on Incest of the 1970's and eating disorders of the 1980's, is destined to become a classic and to change the way we think about this condition - 'the addiction of the nineties'. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 232 pages. no Dust Jacket as published.. Red & blue titles spine;. Includes bibliography & index. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Psychology & Psychiatry; Medicine & Health; Sociology & Culture; Cutters; Women & Feminism. ISBN: 1860497543. ISBN/EAN: 9781860497544. Inventory No: 2580.

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Boeknummer: 2580

Catalogus: Psychology & Psychiatry

Trefwoorden: BZDB227 Psychology/Psychiatry/ Feminism/Self-mutilation/Health/Cutters/Cutting Psychology & Psychiatry; Medicine & Health; Sociology & Culture; Cutters; Women & Feminism. Unbranded ISBN: 1860497543 EAN: 9781860497544 Marilee Strong A Bright Red Scream:

Su Holmes , Sean Redmond

Framing Celebrity

Routledge, 2006. Paperback. Pp: 369. Celebrity culture has a pervasive presence in our everyday lives - perhaps more so than ever before. It shapes not simply the production and consumption of media content but also the social values through which we experience the world. This collection analyses this phenomenon, bringing together essays which explore celebrity across a range of media, cultural and political contexts. The authors investigate topics such as the intimacy of fame, political celebrity, stardom in American 'quality' television (Sarah Jessica Parker), celebrity 'reality' TV (I'm a Celebrity. Get Me Out of Here!), the circulation of the porn star, the gallery film (David/David Beckham), the concept of cartoon celebrity (The Simpsons), fandom and celebrity (k.d. lang, *NSYNC), celebrity in the tabloid press, celebrity magazines (heat, Celebrity Skins), the fame of the serial killer and narratives of mental illness in celebrity culture. The collection is organized into four themed sections: Fame Now broadly examines the contemporary contours of fame as they course through new media sites (such as 'reality' TV and the internet) and different social, cultural and political spaces. Fame Body attempts to situate the star or celebrity body at the centre of the production, circulation and consumption of contemporary fame. Fame Simulation considers the increasingly strained relationship between celebrity and artifice and 'authenticity'. Fame Damage looks at the way the representation of fame is bound up with auto-destructive tendencies or dissolution. ISBN: 9780415377102. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Boeknummer: 3205045

Catalogus: Sociologie

Trefwoorden: 9780415377102

Sutherland, Neil

Growing Up: Childhood in English Canada from the Great War to the Age of Television

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University Of Toronto Press, 1997. Softcover. pp. xv, 327. 8vo. Illustrated covers. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine. As New Childhood is a socially constructed state that can differ significantly from culture to culture and period to period. The history of childhood is rapidly emerging as an important area of study. Neil Sutherland looks at children's lives in modern, industrialized, pre-television Canada, from before the First World War to the 1960s. Based on adult memories of childhood, this book investigates a wide selection of experiences of growing up. Sutherland lays out the structure of children's lives in such settings as the home, the classroom, the church, the streets, and the playgrounds - in short, in the communities of childhood. He explains how children arrived at their gender, class, and other identities, and how they came to adopt the values they did. Sutherland focuses on recurrent, common features of the everyday life of children. This book offers a unique, child-centred approach developed by a leading expert on the history of Canadian childhood. Written in straightforward, jargon-free language and illustrated with numerous photographs, it will be of special interest to those in the fields of social and educational history. Also, because Sutherland is successful in describing the perceptions and feelings of children, it will intrigue anyone who grew up in this period or who wants to understand the experiences of friends and family who did.

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Boeknummer: 4502

Catalogus: Canadian History

C. A. Taylor; Bryan Cogman

Inside Hbo&Apos;S Game of Thrones; Inside Hbo&Apos;S Game of Thrones II: Seasons 3 & 4

London, Gollancz, 2012-2014. Hardback. Two brightly illustrated companion guides to the hugely successful 'Game of Thrones' series. Two volumes of informative and extensively illustrated companions to the television adaptation of American author George R. R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' saga, 'Game of Thrones&apos.The first volume, published in 2012 and present here in its second impression, is the work of television writer and producer Bryan Cogman, the writer of numerous episodes of the series. It is organised geographically, with five chapters focused on the houses and characters of each major location, including Winterfell and King's Landing.The second volume, here in its first impression, includes countless set photos, production and costume designs, storyboards and insider accounts of the production of series two and three of the show. In the publisher's original pictorial paper covered boards. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine .

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Boeknummer: 787F38

Catalogus: History & Culture

Trefwoorden: Game of Thrones George R R Martin A Song of Ice and Fire Fantasy George R R Martin None

TAYLOR, ELLA

Prime-Time Families : Television Culture in Post-War America

Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.: University of California Press, 1989. First Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 0520074181. 196 pages including index. Provides a wide-ranging new look at television entertainment in the past four decades. Analyzes television as a constellation of social practices. Sheds light on the way television shapes our lives. Unmarked. Clean with moderate wear and some curling to front cover plus crease to back cover. Good working copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; TELEVISION BROADCASTING SOCIAL ASPECTS PERFORMING ARTS HISTORY CRITICISM Prime-Time Families : Television Culture in Post-War America Television and Family Serials united States 196 pages including index. Provides a wide-ranging new look at television e. Very Good .

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Boeknummer: 45301094

Trefwoorden: 0520074181 Prime Time Americana

Telotte, J. P. [1949- ]

Science Fiction Film

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (2001). orig.boards. 23x15cm, xiii,254 pp, Series: Genres in American Cinema.. Textual photo illustrations. Minor rubbing. VG.
¶ Contents: Introduction: the world of the science fiction film; Science fiction film: the critical context; A trajectory of American science fiction; The science fiction film as fantastic text: THX 1138; The science fiction film as marvelous text: Close Encounters of the Third Kind; The science fiction film as uncanny text: Robocop; Crossing genre boundaries/ bound by fantasy: The Fly; Conclusion. ["Science Fiction Film examines one of the most enduring and popular genres of Hollywood cinema, suggesting how the science fiction film reflects attitudes toward science, technology,and reason as they have evolved in American culture over the course of the twentieth century. J. P. Telotte provides a survey of science fiction film criticism, emphasizing humanist, psychological, ideological, feminist,and postmodern critiques. He also sketches a history of the genre, from its earliest literary manifestations to the present, while touching on and comparing it to pulp fiction, early television science fiction, and Japanese anime;. Telotte offers in-depth readings of three key films: Robocop, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and THX 1138, each of which typifies a particular form of science fiction fantasy. Challenging the boundaries usually seen between high and low culture, literature and film, Science Fiction Film reasserts the central role of fantasy in popular films, even those concerned with reason, science, and technology. " - Publisher's description]

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Boeknummer: BOOKS012785I

Trefwoorden: American Cinema History, Film Criticism, Motion Pictures, Science Fiction, , , , ,

Thomas Y. Levin , Ursula Frohne 23553, Peter Weibel 16977

Ctrl [space]. Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother

ZKM Center for Art and Media / MIT Press, 2002. Hardcover. Pp: 655. This book investigates the state of panoptic art at a time when issues of security and civil liberties are on many people's minds. Traditional imaging and tracking systems have given way to infinitely more powerful "dataveillance" technologies, as an evolving arsenal of surrogate eyes and ears in our society shifts its focus from military to domestic space. Taking as its point of departure an architectural drawing by Jeremy Bentham that became the model for an entire social regime, CTRL [SPACE] looks at the shifting relationships between design and power, imaging and oppression, from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. From the photographs taken with hidden cameras by Walker Evans and Paul Strand in the early twentieth century to the appropriation of military satellite technology by Marko Peljhan a hundred years later, the works of a wide range of artists have explored the dynamics of watching and being watched. The artists whose panoptical preoccupations are featured include, among others, Sophie Calle, Diller + Scofidio, Dan Graham, Pierre Huyghe, Michael Klier, Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Nauman, Yoko Ono, Thomas Ruff, Julia Scher, Andy Warhol, and Peter Weibel. This book, along with the exhibition it accompanies, is the first state-of-the-art survey of panopticism"in digital culture, architecture, television, video, cinema, painting, photography, conceptual art, installation work, robotics, and satellite imaging. ISBN: 9780262621656. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Boeknummer: 1600065

Catalogus: Kunst

Trefwoorden: 9780262621656

Thomas, Amos Owen:

Imagi-Nations and Borderless Television: Media, Culture and Politics Across Asia.

SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd., 2005. 289 S., Hardcover. Like new. Shrink wrapped. Free shipping within Germany. Shipping costs to EU-countries: 9.50 EUR, to non-EU-countries: 15.00 EUR.

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Boeknummer: 814573

Catalogus: Medien

Trefwoorden: Technics ISBN: 9780761933953

Frank T. Thompson

Abraham Lincoln. Twentieth-Century Popular Portrayals

Taylor Pub. 1999. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 290. Examines Lincoln as perceived in Hollywood films, television shows, and popular culture from Henry Fonda's "Young Mr. Lincoln" to comic portrayals in "Police Squad" and "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.". ISBN: 9780878332410. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Boeknummer: 2910847

Catalogus: Geschiedenis

Trefwoorden: 9780878332410

Tichi, Cecelia

Electronic Hearth : Creating an American Television Culture

New York, Oxford University Press, (1992). Reprint. orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, x,249 pp, PAPERBACK.. Minor rubbing. VG.
¶ We all talk about the "tube" or "box," as if television were simply another appliance like the refrigerator or toaster oven. But Cecilia Tichi argues that TV is actually an environment--a pervasive screen-world that saturates almost every aspect of modern life. In Electronic Hearth, she looks at how that environment evolved, and how it, in turn, has shaped the American experience. Tichi explores almost fifty years of writing about television--in novels, cartoons, journalism, advertising, and critical books and articles--to define the role of television in the American consciousness. She examines early TV advertising to show how the industry tried to position the new device as not just a gadget but a prestigious new piece of furniture, a highly prized addition to the home. The television set, she writes, has emerged as a new electronic hearth--the center of family activity. John Updike described this "primitive appeal of the hearth" in Roger's Version: "Television is--its irresistable charm--a fire. Entering an empty room, we turn it on, and a talking face flares into being." Sitting in front of the TV, Americans exist in a safety zone, free from the hostility and violence of the outside world. She also discusses long-standing suspicions of TV viewing: its often solitary, almost autoerotic character, its supposed numbing of the minds and imagination of children, and assertions that watching television drugs the minds of Americans...." - Publisher's description.

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Boeknummer: BOOKS019639I

Trefwoorden: American Popular Culture, Television, Mass Media, Communications, Broadcasting, Social Psychology, , ,

Tin, Louis-Georges.

The invention of heterosexual culture.

Cambridge, Mass & London : MIT Press, 2012. Hardcover. Dustjacket. xi, 197 pp. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - The rise of heterosexual culture and the resistance it met from feudal lords, church fathers, and the medical profession. Heterosexuality is celebrated-in film and television, in pop songs and opera, in literature and on greeting cards-and at the same time taken for granted. It is the cultural and sexual norm by default. And yet, as Louis-Georges Tin shows in The Invention of Heterosexual Culture, in premodern Europe heterosexuality was perceived as an alternative culture. The practice of heterosexuality may have been standard, but the symbolic primacy of the heterosexual couple was not. Tin maps the emergence of heterosexual culture in Western Europe and the significant resistance to it from feudal lords, church fathers, and the medical profession. Tin writes that before the phenomenon of courtly love in the early twelfth century, the man-woman pairing had not been deemed a subject worthy of more than passing interest. As heterosexuality became a recurrent theme in art and literature, the nobility came to view it as a disruption of the feudal chivalric ethos of virility and male bonding. If feudal lords objected to the hetero in heterosexuality and what they saw as the associated dangers of weakness and effeminacy, the church took issue with the sexuality, which threatened the Christian ethos of renunciation and divine love. Finally, the medical profession cast heterosexuality as pathology, warning of an epidemic of lovesickness. Noting that the discourse of heterosexuality does not belong to heterosexuals alone, Tin offers a groundbreaking history that reasserts the cultural identity of heterosexuality. ISBN 9780262017701.

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Boeknummer: #296536

Trefwoorden: SEXUALITY,