Libros de la editorial UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

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  • DUDLEY MURPHY: HOLLYWOOD WILD CARD

    DELSON, S.

    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2006)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-8166-4654-8
    • EAN: 9780816646548
    • Páginas: 250
    • Fecha de edición: 2006

    pvp.9,00 €

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    Dudley Murphy (1897-1968) was one of early Hollywood's most intriguing figures. Active from the 1920s through the 1940s, Murphy was one of the industry's first independents and a guiding intelligence behind some of the key ...

  • HERSCHEL V. JONES THE IMPRINT OF A GREAT COLLECTOR

    DICKINSON MICHAUX, L.

    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2006)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-8166-4904-4
    • EAN: 9780816649044
    • Páginas: 224
    • Fecha de edición: 2006

    pvp.48,00 €

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    In 1916, Herschel V. Jones, a distinguished and passionate art collector, purchased 5,600 prints from William Mead Ladd of Portland, Oregon. Jones promptly gave his newly acquired etchings, engravings, woodcuts, and lithographs to The Minneapolis ...

  • BUILDING WITHIN NATURE A GUIDE FOR HOME OWNERS, CONTRACTORS, AND ARCHITECTS

    WASAWSKI, A.

    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2006)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-8166-4902-0
    • EAN: 9780816649020
    • Páginas: 152
    • Fecha de edición: 2006

    pvp.34,10 €

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    Every year, many thousands of acres of woodlands, deserts, meadowlands, and coastal scrub are turned into home or commercial sites. Ironically, by the time these structures are complete, bulldozers have scraped the land clean of ...

  • THE AESTHETICS OF DISENGAGEMENT : CONTEMPORARY ART AND DEPRESSION

    autor no determinado

    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2005)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-8166-4539-8
    • EAN: 9780816645398
    • Páginas: 264
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

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    Reveals how artists engage the scientific notion of depression.
    According to the National Institute of Mental Health, more than half of the world's population will have a depressive disorder at some point in their ...

  • THE CINEMA DREAMS ITS RIVALS

    YOUNG, P

    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2005)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-8166-3599-3
    • EAN: 9780816635993
    • Páginas: 360
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

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    Reveals the complexity of the ties between Hollywood and new media.
    By the middle of the twentieth century, Hollywood, formerly the one and only dream factory, found itself facing a host of media rivals for ...

  • METONYMY IN CONTEMPORARY ART : A NEW PARADIGM

    GREEN, D.

    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2005)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-8166-4878-8
    • EAN: 9780816648788
    • Páginas: 136
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.53,00 €

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    In Metonymy in Contemporary Art, Denise Green develops an original approach to art criticism and modes of creativity inspired by aspects of Australian Aboriginal and Indian thought. Interweaving her own evolution as an artist with ...

  • SMALL NATION GLOBAL CINEMA

    HJORT, METTE

    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2005)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-8166-4649-4
    • EAN: 9780816646494
    • Páginas: 330
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.31,00 €

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    Investigates the relationship between globalization and the New Danish Cinema.
    Small Nation, Global Cinema engages the effects of globalization from the perspective of small nations. Focusing her study on the specific cultural context of the ...

  • CARNAL ART

    O'BRYAN, C. J.

    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2005)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-8166-4323-3
    • EAN: 9780816643233
    • Páginas: 216
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.34,00 €

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    An in-depth exploration of the surgical performances of the artist Orlan.
    The French artist Orlan is infamous for performances during which her body is surgically altered. In nine such performance surgeries, features from Greek goddesses ...

  • HITCHCOCK'S VOL. II WAR MACHINES

    COHEN, T.

    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2005)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-8166-4171-0
    • EAN: 9780816641710
    • Páginas: 360
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.33,00 €

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    An interpretation of Hitchcock's films as deeply subversive works that realize cinema's potential to transform society.
    In the first The Man Who Knew Too Much, Alfred Hitchcock films a clay pigeon crossing the sky, a ...

  • HITCHCOCK'S CRYPTONYMIES: VOL. I SECRET AGENTS

    COHEN, T.

    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2005)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-8166-4206-9
    • EAN: 9780816642069
    • Páginas: 376
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.33,00 €

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    A radical rereading of Hitchcock decodes the director's dense network of signatures and markings.
    Tom Cohen's radical exploration of Hitchcock's cinema departs from conventional approaches-psychoanalytic, feminist, political-to emphasize the dense web of signatures and markings ...

  • A CULTURE OF LIGHT: CINEMA AND TECHNOLOGY IN 1920'S GERMANY

    GUERIN, F.

    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2005)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-8166-4286-1
    • EAN: 9780816642861
    • Páginas: 316
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.33,00 €

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    Cinema is a medium of light. And during Weimar Germany's advance to technological modernity, light - particularly the representational possibilities of electrical light - became the link between the cinema screen and the rapid changes ...

  • A LINE OF SIGHT AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE FILM SINCE 1965

    ARTHUR, PAUL

    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2005)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-8166-4265-6
    • EAN: 9780816642656
    • Páginas: 232
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.26,48 €

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    For three decades, Paul Arthur has been a leading observer and critic as well as a direct participant in America's avant-garde cinema. In A Line of Sight, he provides a sweeping new account of the ...

  • MODERNITY ISLAM AND SECULARISM IN TURKEY

    ÇINAR, A

    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2005)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-8166-4411-7
    • EAN: 9780816644117
    • Páginas: 240
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

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    What would an Islamic modernism look like? The question is a pressing one, as cultures rebel against modernity in its almost exclusively European forms. Alev Çinar's groundbreaking examination of contemporary Turkey, which stands at the ...

  • NO MORE, NO MORE: SLAVERY AND CULTURAL RESISTANCE IN HAVANA AND NEW ORLEANS

    WALKER, D. E.

    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2004)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-8166-4327-1
    • EAN: 9780816643271
    • Páginas: 294
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

    pvp.29,00 €

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    An illuminating look at the festival performances of slaves in Havana and New Orleans.
    However urban slave societies might have differed from their rural counterparts, they still relied on a concerted assault on the psychological, ...

  • THE MILLER COLLECTION OF ROMAN SCULPTURE : MYTHOLOGICAL FIGURES AND PORTRAITS

    BRILLIANT, RICHARD

    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2004)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-912964-91-1
    • EAN: 9780912964911
    • Páginas: 88
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

    pvp.40,00 €

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    A tour through an important private collection with one of the world's foremost art historians.
    The ancient Greeks presented a vision of man, rendered in stone, as an idealized, god like individual. Romans took portraiture ...

  • INFINITE VARIETY : THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF THE MARCHESA CASATI

    RYERSSON, SCOT D.

    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2004)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-8166-4520-6
    • EAN: 9780816645206
    • Páginas: 264
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

    pvp.9,00 €

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    The updated biography of the most spectacular fashion and artistic muse of the twentieth century.
    For the first three decades of the twentieth century, the Marchesa Casati astounded Europe: nude servants gilded in gold leaf ...

  • RAIN FOREST LITERATURES

    SA, L.

    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2004)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-8166-4325-7
    • EAN: 9780816643257
    • Páginas: 320
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

    pvp.38,00 €

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    Native texts of the Amazonian rain forest have been viewed as myth or ethnographic matter-the raw material of literature-rather than as significant works in their own right. But in this unprecedented study, Lúcia Sá approaches ...

  • THE SUBJECT OF DOCUMENTARY

    RENOV, M.

    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2004)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-8166-3441-5
    • EAN: 9780816634415
    • Páginas: 264
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

    pvp.31,00 €

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    The documentary, a genre as old as cinema itself, has traditionally aspired to objectivity. Whether making ethnographic, propagandistic, or educational films, documentarians have pointed the camera outward, drawing as little attention to themselves as possible. ...

  • FASSBINDER THE LIFE AND WORK OF A PROVOCATIVE GENIUS

    THOMSEN, CH. B.

    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2004)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-8166-4364-6
    • EAN: 9780816643646
    • Páginas: 384
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

    pvp.38,00 €

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    Rainer Werner Fassbinder was the most innovative practitioner of New German Cinema. He worked at breakneck speed and in fourteen years made forty-four films, including Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1973) and The Marriage of ...

  • THE CULTURE GAME

    OGUIBE, OLU

    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS (2004)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-8166-4131-4
    • EAN: 9780816641314
    • Páginas: 0
    • Fecha de edición: 2004

    pvp.31,00 €

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    An acclaimed artist and cultural provocateur reveals the hidden biases of the contemporary art world
    In the celebrated, controversial essays gathered here, Olu Oguibe exposes the disparities of the treatment afforded Western and non-Western ...