Cinema and the Cultural Cold War explores the ways in which postwar Asian cinema was shaped by transnational collaborations and competitions between newly independent and colonial states at the height of Cold War politics. Sangjoon Lee adopts a simultaneously global and regional approach when analyzing the region's film cultures and industries. New economic conditions in the As...(展开全部)

保罗•维利里奥 （Paul Virilio， 1932—）是1970年代以降最富原创力的法国哲学家之一，同时也是著名的城市建筑家、随笔作家。1963年，维希留与建筑师克罗德．巴宏（Claude Parent）成立“建筑原则”（Architecture Principe）团体，并发行同名刊物，宣扬建筑的“倾斜功能”（水平与直角被彻底弃绝），曾先后完成两栋建筑作品。1973年起执教于巴黎建筑专业学校（ESA），直到1999年退休。维利里奥的哲学著作围绕着一系列以科技、速度、城市、虚拟、事件、意外及失序为核心的概念群，代表著作有：《领土的不安》(1976)、《速度与政治》(1977)、《消失的美学》(1980)、《批判空间》(1984)、《否定的视域》(1982)、《马达的艺术》 (1933)、《解放的速度》(1995)、《事件的风景》(1996)等。 关...(展开全部)

One of the most original thinkers of our time. --Lib ration

保罗•维利里奥 （Paul Virilio， 1932—）是1970年代以降最富原创力的法国哲学家之一，同时也是著名的城市建筑家、随笔作家。1963年，维希留与建筑师克罗德．巴宏（Claude Parent）成立“建筑原则”（Architecture Principe）团体，并发行同名刊物，宣扬建筑的“倾斜功能”（水平与直角被彻底弃绝），曾先后完成两栋建筑作品。1973年起执教于巴黎建筑专业学校（ESA），直到1999年退休。维利里奥的哲学著作围绕着一系列以科技、速度、城市、虚拟、事件、意外及失序为核心的概念群，代表著作有：《领土的不安》(1976)、《速度与政治》(1977)、《消失的美学》(1980)、《批判空间》(1984)、《否定的视域》(1982)、《马达的艺术》 (1933)、《解放的速度》(1995)、《事件的风景》(1996)等。 关...(展开全部)

..". a fresh, compelling, essential work of film theory. Recommended for all libraries." --Choice "[Jean Mitry] is the Aristotle of film." --R.D. MacCann "This text marks a watershed in film theory. Mitry sums up the first fifty years of theoretical writings on the cinema..." --Richard Abel "The rediscovery of Mitry could change the parameters of film teaching, breaking down th...(展开全部)

During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherished possession―but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the...(展开全部)

The "rivetingly told" (Times Literary Supplement) story of the CIA's Cold War cultural operations, short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders presents for the first time the shocking evidence that the CIA infiltrated every niche of the cultural sphere during the postwar years. In a "hammer-blow of a book" (The Spectator, Lo...(展开全部)

During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherished possession―but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the...(展开全部)

In Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema, Daisuke Miyao explores the influence of Japanese art on the development of early cinematic visual style, particularly the actualité films made by the Lumière brothers between 1895 and 1905. Examining nearly 1,500 Lumière films, Miyao contends that more than being documents of everyday life, they provided a medium for experimenting with aest...(展开全部)