Cities possess a cinematic quality instilled with character ranging from bustling excitement to shadowy romance. What makes the city such a magnetic place and how has cinema shaped our view of the city? Offering thought-provoking insight into the connections between screen- and cityscape, The Cinematic City exploring genres, historical periods, and urban locales, to link...(展开全部)

The Cinematic City offers an innovative and thought-provoking insight into cityscape and screenscape and their inter-connection. Illustrated throughout with movie stills, a diverse selection of films (from 'Bladerunner' to 'Little Caesar'), genres, cities and historical periods are examined by leading names in the field. The key dimensions of film and urban theory are introduce...(展开全部)

A classic work on Freud by one of France's foremost philosophers and literary critics. Jacques Lacan's commentaries on Freud had revolutionary implications not only for the analytic movement but also for contemporary philosophy and literary criticism. Lacan held that if the unconscious, as Freud described it, exists, it functions linguistically, rather than symbolically or inst...(展开全部)

Oaths play an essential part in the political and religious history of the West as a ′sacrament of power′. Yet despite numerous studies by linguists, anthropologists and historians of law and of religion, there exists no complete analysis of the oath which seeks to explain the strategic function that this phenomenon has performed at the intersection of law, religion and politic...(展开全部)

An introduction to the art of decorative patterning, of equal value to craftworkers, collectors and students of art history. Trilling analyzes the historical importance of ornament across the world, whether in the monumental architecture of Mycenean Greece or the inlaid vessels of Zhou Dynasty China, in the bronze mirrors of early Celtic Britain, or the carved and woven ornamen...(展开全部)

Essays discuss science, mythology, language, style, history, semiotics, literature, and meaning.

The Rustle of Language is a collection of forty-five essays, written between 1967 and 1980, on language, literature, and teaching--the pleasure of the text--in an authoritative translation by Richard Howard.