Light Motives

Light Motives
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Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Total Pages : 480
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ISBN-10 : 0814330452
ISBN-13 : 9780814330456
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Light Motives by : Randall Halle

Critics rarely associate popular film with German cinema, despite the international success of such films as Das Boot (1981), The Never-Ending Story (1984), Run, Lola, Run (1998), and recent German comedies, all representing a rich body of work outside the parameters of high culture. This very success compels the authors of Light Motives to take an unprecedented look at German popular film across the historical spectrum and to challenge the tendency among critics to divvy up German film, like Germans themselves, into the Good and the Bad. Together the essays reexamine popular film production along with larger cultural, historical, and political meanings suggested by the term "popular." Most critical accounts have focused on the golden era of Weimar film and the New German Cinema of the 1960s and 70s leaving much of popular film by the wayside. This volume attributes the division to such sources as Frankfurt School dictates, Goethe Haus film offerings, and state-funded film production during the 1970s, which promoted high-culture art films to broadcast the success of West German democratization. The essays challenge the traditional shape of German film history, while offering in-depth analyses of films that have until now been beyond the pale of critical attention. What emerges is a "Never-Ending Story" of oft-repeated obsessions, overlapping generic forms, omnipresent or subtle nods to Hollywood, and myriad political concerns irreducible to a unified message or aesthetic form-all bearing witness to the vibrancy of German culture.

Chitty's Annual Statutes

Chitty's Annual Statutes
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 830
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ISBN-10 : CORNELL:31924061084830
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Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Chitty's Annual Statutes by : Great Britain

Man and His Motives

Man and His Motives
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 476
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ISBN-10 : NLS:V000356595
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Man and His Motives by : George Moore (M.D.)

Man and His Motives

Man and His Motives
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 428
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ISBN-10 : BL:A0019849980
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Man and His Motives by : George Moore

The Motives of Eloquence

The Motives of Eloquence
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 246
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ISBN-10 : 9781725210059
ISBN-13 : 1725210053
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis The Motives of Eloquence by : Richard A. Lanham

We have in 'The Motives of Eloquence a significant contribution to theory, criticism, and history that graces us with the eloquence of its own motives....For comparatists of all interests and persuasions. - William J. Kennedy, 'Comparative Literature' This is a stunning book....The central thesis of 'The Motives of Eloquence' is subtle, complicated, imaginative, and bold. - Anne Barton, 'Shakespeare Quarterly In this brilliant tour de force Lanham speaks with sound and fury -- signifying everything. Though exacting and difficult, the book is well worth the effort it demands, and it succeeds admirably in providing a viable and provocative approach to reinterpreting Western literature. - William C. Johnson, 'Sixteenth Century Journal' The book offers bold and often controversial insights. Its readers will find themselves bringing significantly altered premises to much of their subsequent reading in the field. - Newsletter of the National Endowment for the Humanities A celebration of rhetoric and a challenge to all who consign consideration of style to the periphery of attention....Lanham's book represents a good place to begin, both for the student of literature and for the student of religion who wishes to review Western history in the light of its rhetorical motifs. - Thomas E. Helm, 'Journal of Religion'

Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession

Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession
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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages : 358
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X001126866
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Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession by : Beverley Bland Munford

This work is designed as a contribution to the volume of information from which the historian of the future will be able to prepare an impartial and comprehensive narrative of the American Civil War, or to speak more accurately-The American War of Secession. No attempt has been made to present the causes which precipitated the secession of the Cotton States, nor the states which subsequently adopted the same policy, except Virginia. Even in regard to that commonwealth the effort has been limited to the consideration of two features prominent in the public mind as constituting the most potent factors in determining her action-namely, devotion to slavery and hostility to the Union. That the people of Virginia were moved to secession by a selfish desire to extend or maintain the institution of slavery, or from hostility to the Union, are propositions seemingly at variance with their whole history and the interests which might naturally have controlled them in the hour of separation.

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Total Pages : 24
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X030788279
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Review by : Arthur Preuss

The Spirit of the American Revolution

The Spirit of the American Revolution
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:32044004377065
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Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis The Spirit of the American Revolution by : Samuel White Patterson