There is no more contentious and perennial issue in the history of modern Western thought than the vexed relationship between the genesis of an idea and its claim to validity beyond it. Can ideas or values transcend their temporal origins and overcome the sin of their original context, and in so doing earn abiding respect for their intrinsic merit? Or do they inevitably reflect...(展开全部)

罗伯特•C•艾伦（Robert C. Allen），北卡罗来纳大学历史系教授，主要研究美国大众娱乐与流行文化史，著有关于美国广播电视史的《话说肥皂剧》，关于美国19世纪与20世纪早期大众戏院的《令人不快的愉悦：杂耍表演与美国文化》。他开设有美国影视媒体史，全球化与民族身份，美国家庭社会变迁，社会与文化历史比较等课程。 道格拉斯•戈梅里（Douglas Gomery），马里兰大学美国广播与电影图书馆（世界五大广播图书馆之一）资深学者、荣休教授，曾在马里兰大学教授传播学，为《村声》杂志撰稿，出版了十余本关于美国媒体经济学与历史学的著作，如《好莱坞制片厂制度史》、《声音的到来》等，大量著作已被翻译为八种语言。

This important new book develops a new concept of autonomy. The notion of autonomy has emerged as central to contemporary moral and political philosophy, particularly in the area of applied ethics. professor Dworkin examines the nature and value of autonomy and uses the concept to analyse various practical moral issues such as proxy consent in the medical context, paternalism, ...(展开全部)

The Technique of Film and Video Editing provides a detailed, precise look at the artistic and aesthetic principles and practices of editing for both picture and sound. Because editing is about more than learning a specific software program, this book focuses on the fundamentals of editing as art. Analysis of photographs from dozens of classic and contemporary films and videos ...(展开全部)

Unnatural Narrative: Theory, History, and Practice provides the first extended account of the concepts and history of unnatural narrative. In this book, Brian Richardson, founder of unnatural narrative studies, offers a theoretical model that can encompass antirealist and antimimetic works from Aristophanes to postmodernism. Unnatural Narrative begins with a sustained critique ...(展开全部)

Theory and Practice is one of Habermas's major works and is widely recognized as a classic in contemporary and social and political theory. Through a series of highly original historical studies, Habermas reexamines the relations between philosophy, science and politics. Beginning with the classical doctrine of politics as developed by Aristotle, he traces the changing constell...(展开全部)