Marco Bellocchio: The Cinematic I in the Political Sphere By Clodagh Brook
2010 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0802097103 | PDF | 2 MB
Marco Bellocchio is one of Italy's most important and prolific directors, with a career spanning five decades. In this book, Clodagh J. Brook explores the boundaries between the public and the private, the political and the personal, and the collective and the individual as they appear in Bellocchio's films. Including work on psychoanalysis, politics, film production, autobiography, and the relationship between film tradition and contemporary culture, Marco Bellocchio touches on fundamental issues in film analysis.Brook's study interrogates what it means to make personal or anti-institutional art in a medium dominated by a late-capitalist industrial model of production. Her readings of Bellocchio's often enigmatic and perplexing work suggest new ways to answer questions about subjectivity, objectivity, and political commentary in modes of filmmaking. Relating the art of a private director to a public medium, Clodagh J. Brook's work is an important contribution to our understanding of film.
Ishita Sinha Roy, "Manufacturing Indianness: Nation-Branding and Postcolonial Identity "
English | ISBN: 1433113961 | 2019 | 536 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Manufacturing Indianness takes an interdisciplinary approach in deconstructing nation-branding exercises in neoliberal India, utilizing the fetish as a critical device to demonstrate how postcolonial nation-building can become colonizing. Using interviews with media-makers and nation-branding professionals, postcolonial theory, media and cultural studies, psychoanalytic theories, political economy approaches, affective theory, cultural geography, and branding and marketing perspectives, Manufacturing Indianness provides an insightful and academically sophisticated investigation into how the Indian state and its corporate partners have merged cultural/ethnic nationalism (Hindutva) with neoliberalism to form the ultimate fetish of Brand India.
Manual of Surgery of the Gallbladder, Bile Ducts, and Exocrine Pancreas by Robert E. Hermann
English | PDF | 1979 | 309 Pages | ISBN : 0387903518 | 57 MB
Comprchcnsivc Manuals of SurRical Specialties is a series of surgical manuals designed to present current operative techniques and to explore various aspects of diagnosis and treatment. The series features a unique format with emphasis on large, detailed, full-color illustrations, schematic charts and photographs to demonstrate integral steps in surgical procedures.
Manual of Pulmonary Surgery by Edward W. Humphrey
English | PDF | 1982 | 269 Pages | ISBN : 0387907327 | 43.7 MB
The Manual of Pulmonary Surgery has been designed primarily as a guide to the techniques of surgery on the lungs of adults and older children. The information included and the technical points stressed are those in which, in more than 20 years of teaching thoracic surgery, I have found residents to most commonly need instruction. An effort has been made to depict the usual anatomy of the lung and its more frequent variations, as it is encountered by the surgeon.
Manual of Cardiac Surgery by Bradley J. Harlan
English | PDF | 1981 | 155 Pages | ISBN : 0387905634 | 17.6 MB
Originally published in 1980-1981 as a two-volume set, the Manual of Cardiac Surgery has been completely revised and now includes new full-color illustrations in a single convenient volume. This new edition maintains the high standards established in the first edition: insightful descriptions of various cardiac surgical procedures illuminated by clear, brilliant illustrations.
Karl W. Palachuk, "Managed Services in a Month: Build a Successful, Modern Computer Consulting Business in 30 Days, 3rd Edition"
English | 2018 | pages: 274 | ISBN: 1942115474 | PDF | 8,2 mb
The ultimate do-it-now guide to getting started in managed services. Now includes chapters on cloud services, bundling, and more.
Mammoth Book of Gorgeous Guys: Erotic Photographs of Men by Barbara Cardy
English | ISBN: 1849013748 | 482 pages | EPUB | September 1, 2011 | 42 Mb
Stunning male nudes and erotic portraits representing the best work of nearly 50 artists, a substantial number of them women. Each photographer's work reveals unique and innovative ways of capturing the beauty of the male body and bringing fresh eroticism to its form.
Abdurahman Abdullahi, "Making Sense of Somali History, Volume I"
English | 2018 | pages: 220 | ISBN: 1909112984 | PDF | 2,0 mb
The collapse of the postcolonial Somali state in 1991 and the consequent outbreak of civil war drastically transformed the socio-political landscape in Somalia. Somalis reverted to the pre-colonial state of affairs and sought refuge in their clan attachments. Local authorities were contested by the warlords, traditional elders, Islamist organizations and modern civil society. Indeed, it was non-state actors that played incredible role in sustaining the livelihood of the stateless people. During this period, the role of women in socio-political affairs grew exponentially and Somalis' national identity became reconfigured profoundly.
Mainstream Culture Refocused: Television Drama, Society, and the Production of Meaning in Reform-Era China By Zhong Xueping
2010 | 219 Pages | ISBN: 0824834178 | PDF | 3 MB
Serialized television drama (dianshiju), perhaps the most popular and influential cultural form in China over the past three decades, offers a wide and penetrating look at the tensions and contradictions of the post-revolutionary and pro-market period. Zhong Xueping's timely new work draws attention to the multiple cultural and historical legacies that coexist and challenge each other within this dominant form of storytelling. Although scholars tend to focus their attention on elite cultural trends and avant-garde movements in literature and film, Zhong argues for recognizing the complexity of dianshiju's melodramatic mode and its various subgenres, in effect "refocusing" mainstream Chinese culture. Mainstream Culture Refocused opens with an examination of television as a narrative motif in three contemporary Chinese art-house films. Zhong then turns her attention to dianshiju's most important subgenres: "emperor dramas," "anti-corruption dramas," "youth dramas," and "family-marriage dramas." The Epilogue returns to the relationship between intellectuals and the production of mainstream cultural meaning in the context of China's post-revolutionary social, economic, and cultural transformation.
Jan Kajfosz, "Magic in Popular Narratives "
English | ISBN: 3631840357 | 2021 | 218 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The book deals with manifestations and relics of magical thinking in the narrative folklore of Cieszyn Silesia (Teschen Silesia, Těšín Silesia). The point of departure is a phenomenological and social constructivist approach to human cognition. The author follows the cognitive dimensions of pre-modern folklore and popular texts in general. They are conventional in the sense that they are repeated in many variants inside one communicative group. Habituation based on more or less accurate reproduction of stereotypes (and corresponding experiences), motives, action scenarios, rationalizations, and motivations, is the source of relatively stable world image. The key concept developed in the book is redefined categorization understood as the simplification and stabilization of too complex and changing reality through shared narratives.