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A Companion to Film Comedy By Andrew Horton, Joanna E. Rapf (eds.)
2012 | 568 Pages | ISBN: 1444338595 | PDF | 5 MB
A wide-ranging survey of the subject that celebrates the variety and complexity of film comedy from the 'silent' days to the present, this authoritative guide offers an international perspective on the popular genre that explores all facets of its formative social, cultural and political contextA wide-ranging collection of 24 essays exploring film comedy from the silent era to the presentInternational in scope, the collection embraces not just American cinema, including Native American and African American, but also comic films from Europe, the Middle East, and KoreaEssays explore sub-genres, performers, and cultural perspectives such as gender, politics, and history in addition to individual worksEngages with different strands of comedy including slapstick, romantic, satirical and ironicFeatures original entries from a diverse group of multidisciplinary international contributorsContent: Chapter 1 The Mark of the Ridiculous and Silent Celluloid (pages 13-38): Frank ScheideChapter 2 Pie Queens and Virtuous Vamps (pages 39-60): Kristen Anderson WagnerChapter 3 "Sound Came Along and Out Went the Pies" (pages 61-84): Rob KingChapter 4 Mutinies Wednesdays and Saturdays (pages 85-110): Frank KrutnikChapter 5 Jacques Tati and Comedic Performance (pages 111-129): Kevin W. SweeneyChapter 6 Woody Allen (pages 130-150): David R. ShumwayChapter 7 Mel Brooks, Vulgar Modernism, and Comic Remediation (pages 151-171): Henry JenkinsChapter 8 Humor and Erotic Utopia (pages 173-195): Celestino DeleytoChapter 9 Taking Romantic Comedy Seriously in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and Before Sunset (2004) (pages 196-216): Leger GrindonChapter 10 The View from the Man Cave (pages 217-235): Tamar Jeffers McDonaldChapter 11 The Reproduction of Mothering (pages 236-247): Lucy FischerChapter 12 It's Good to be the King (pages 249-272): Charles MorrowChapter 13 No Escaping the Depression (pages 273-292): William PaulChapter 14 The Totalitarian Comedy of Lubitsch's To Be or Not To Be (pages 293-314): Maria DibattistaChapter 15 Dark Comedy from Dr. Strangelove to the Dude (pages 315-339): Mark EatonChapter 16 Black Film Comedy as Vital Edge (pages 341-364): Catherine A. JohnChapter 17 Winking Like a One?Eyed Ford (pages 365-386): Joshua B. NelsonChapter 18 Ethnic Humor in American Film: The Greek Americans (pages 387-406): Dan GeorgakasChapter 19 Alexander Mackendrick (pages 407-431): Claire MortimerChapter 20 Tragicomic Transformations (pages 432-453): Jane ParkChapter 21 Comedy "Italian Style" and I soliti ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street, 1958) (pages 454-473): Roberta Di CarmineChapter 22 "Laughter that Encounters a Void" (pages 474-493): Najat RahmanChapter 23 Laughter is Ten Times More Powerful than a Scream (pages 495-520): Paul WellsChapter 24 Theatrical Cartoon Comedy (pages 521-543): Suzanne Buchan

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A Companion to European Romanticism By
2005 | 599 Pages | ISBN: 1405110392 | PDF | 5 MB
This companion is the first book of its kind to focus on the whole of European Romanticism. Describes the way in which the Romantic Movement swept across Europe in the early nineteenth century.Covers the national literatures of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia and Spain.Addresses common themes that cross national borders, such as orientalism, Napoleon, night, nature, and the prestige of the fragment.Includes cross-disciplinary essays on literature and music, literature and painting, and the general system of Romantic arts.Features 35 essays in all, from leading scholars in America, Australia, Britain, France, Italy, and Switzerland.Content: Chapter 1 On Pre?Romanticism or Sensibility: Defining Ambivalences (pages 10-28): Inger S. B. BrodeyChapter 2 Shakespeare and European Romanticism (pages 29-48): Heike GrundmannChapter 3 Scottish Romanticism and Scotland in Romanticism (pages 49-66): Fiona StaffordChapter 4 Byron's Influence on European Romanticism (pages 67-85): Peter CochranChapter 5 The Infinite Imagination: Early Romanticism in Germany (pages 86-100): Susan BernofskyChapter 6 From Autonomous Subjects to Self?Regulating Structures: Rationality and Development in German Idealism (pages 101-122): Thomas PfauChapter 7 German Romantic Fiction (pages 123-137): Roger PaulinChapter 8 The Romantic Fairy Tale (pages 138-156): Kari LokkeChapter 9 German Romantic Drama (pages 157-171): Frederick BurwickChapter 10 Early French Romanticism (pages 172-191): Fabienne MooreChapter 11 The Poetry of Loss: Lamartine, Musset, and Nerval (pages 192-207): Jonathan StraussChapter 12 Victor Hugo's Poetry (pages 208-223): E. H. Blackmore and A. M. BlackmoreChapter 13 French Romantic Drama (pages 224-237): Barbara T. CooperChapter 14 Romantic Poetics in an Italian Context (pages 238-255): Piero GarofaloChapter 15 UGO Foscolo and Giacomo Leopardi: Italy's Classical Romantics (pages 256-275): Margaret BroseChapter 16 Spanish Romanticism (pages 276-292): Derek FlitterChapter 17 Pushkin and Romanticism (pages 293-308): Michael BaskerChapter 18 Lermontov: Romanticism on the Brink of Realism (pages 309-325): Robert ReidChapter 19 Adam Mickiewicz and the Shape of Polish Romanticism (pages 326-344): Roman KoropeckyjChapter 20 The Revival of the ODE (pages 345-359): John HamiltonChapter 21 "Unfinish'd Sentences": The Romantic Fragment (pages 360-375): Elizabeth Wanning HarriesChapter 22 Romantic Irony (pages 376-392): Jocelyne KolbChapter 23 Sacrality and the Aesthetic in the Early Nineteenth Century (pages 393-412): Virgil NemoianuChapter 24 Nature (pages 413-432): James C. McKusickChapter 25 Romanticism and Capitalism (pages 433-449): Robert Sayre and Michael LowyChapter 26 Napoleon and European Romanticism (pages 450-466): Simon BainbridgeChapter 27 Orientalism (pages 467-485): Diego SagliaChapter 28 A Continent of Corinnes: The Romantic Poetess and the Diffusion of Liberal Culture in Europe, 1815?50 (pages 486-504): Patrick VincentChapter 29 Lighting up Night (pages 505-521): Lilian R. FurstChapter 30 Romantic Opera (pages 522-537): Benjamin WaltonChapter 31 At Home with German Romantic Song (pages 538-551): James ParsonsChapter 32 The Romantic System of the Arts (pages 552-570): Michael Ferber

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A Companion to Cultural Resource Management By Thomas F. King (ed.)
2011 | 590 Pages | ISBN: 1405198737 | PDF | 3 MB
A Companion to Cultural Resource Management is an essential guide to those wishing to gain a deeper understanding of CRM and heritage management. Expert contributors share their knowledge and illustrate CRM's practice and scope, as well as the core issues and realities in preserving cultural heritages worldwide. Edited by one of the world's leading experts in the field of cultural resource management, with contributions by a wide range of experts, including archaeologists, architectural historians, museum curators, historians, and representatives of affected groups Offers a broad view of cultural resource management that includes archaeological sites, cultural landscapes, historic structures, shipwrecks, scientific and technological sites and objects, as well as intangible resources such as language, religion, and cultural values Highlights the realities that face CRM practitioners "on the ground" Content: Chapter 1 Studying and Evaluating the Built Environment (pages 13-28): Kathryn M. KurandaChapter 2 Principles of Architectural Preservation (pages 29-53): David L. Ames and Leila HamrounChapter 3 Archaeology of the Distant Past (pages 54-77): Michael J. MorattoChapter 4 Archaeology of the Recent Past (pages 78-94): Thomas F. KingChapter 5 Geographies of Cultural Resource Management: Space, Place and Landscape (pages 95-113): William M. HunterChapter 6 Culturally Significant Natural Resources: Where Nature and Culture Meet (pages 114-127): Anna J. WillowChapter 7 History as a Cultural Resource (pages 128-140): Deborah Morse?KahnChapter 8 Portable Cultural Property: "This belongs in a Museum?" (pages 141-155): Wendy Giddens TeeterChapter 9 "Intangible" Cultural Resources: Values are in the Mind (pages 156-171): Sheri Murray EllisChapter 10 Religious Belief and Practice (pages 172-202): Michael D. McNallyChapter 11 Language as an Integrated Cultural Resource (pages 203-220): Bernard C. PerleyChapter 12 Challenges of Maritime Archaeology: In too Deep (pages 223-244): Sean KingsleyChapter 13 Historic Watercraft: Keeping them Afloat (pages 245-262): Susan B. M. LangleyChapter 14 Historic Aircraft and Spacecraft: Enfants Terribles (pages 263-271): Ric GillespieChapter 15 Studying and Managing Aerospace Crash Sites (pages 272-280): Craig Fuller and Gary QuiggChapter 16 Evaluating and Managing Technical and Scientific Properties: Rockets, Tang™, and Telescopes (pages 281-297): Paige M. PeytonChapter 17 Historic Battlefi elds: Studying and Managing Fields of Conflict (pages 298-318): Nancy FarrellChapter 18 Managing Our Military Heritage (pages 319-336): D. Colt DenfeldChapter 19 Linear Resources and Linear Projects: All in Line (pages 337-350): Charles W. WheelerChapter 20 Rock Art as Cultural Resource (pages 351-370): Linea Sundstrom and Kelley Hays?GilpinChapter 21 Consultation in Cultural Resource Management: An Indigenous Perspective (pages 373-384): Reba FullerChapter 22 A Displaced People's Perspective on Cultural Resource Management: Where We're From (pages 385-401): David NickellChapter 23 Cultural Resource Laws: The Legal Melange (pages 405-419): Thomas F. KingChapter 24 International Variety in Cultural Resource Management (pages 420-438): Thomas J. GreenChapter 25 Consultation and Negotiation in Cultural Resource Management (pages 439-453): Claudia NissleyChapter 26 Being a US Government Cultural Resource Manager (pages 454-471): Russell L. KaldenbergChapter 27 Making a Living in Private Sector Cultural Resource Management (pages 472-487): Tom LennonChapter 28 The Historic Built Environment: Preservation and Planning (pages 488-514): Diana PainterChapter 29 CRM and the Military: Cultural Resource Management (pages 515-533): Michael K. Trimble and Susan Malin?BoyceChapter 30 A Future for Cultural Resource Management? (pages 534-549): Thomas F. King

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