The How to Read series provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon. These books use excerpts from the major texts to explain essential topics, such as Jean-Paul Sartre's pioneering thoughts on individual freedom, which served as a foundation for his role as the political champion of the oppressed.

The How to Read series provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon. These books use excerpts from the major texts to explain essential topics, such as Jean-Paul Sartre's pioneering thoughts on individual freedom, which served as a foundation for his role as the political champion of the oppressed.

作者简介： 詹姆斯·莫纳科，电影学者、影评人、作家、出版人、制片人，电影与媒体研究领域的专家。1982年创办了Baseline（全球影视数据资料库），1994年创办了Harbor Electronic Publishing。曾为《纽约时报》《村声》等著名报刊撰稿，担任美国国家公共电 台媒体评论员，也曾在哥伦比亚大学、纽约大学等高校讲课，在美国和欧洲的行业论坛上发言。其他著作有《新浪潮》《电影百科全书》《电影鉴赏指南》《新媒体词典》《媒介文化》等。 译者简介： 刘宇清，西南大学文学院教授，主要研究领域为：电影历史、理论与批评。著有《中国电影的历史审思与当下观察》，编译有《他山之石：海外华语电影研究》，译有《纪录片导论》《让·科克托》《让·热内》《我们何以成为后人类：文学、信息科学和控制论中的虚拟身体》《电影与伦理》《好莱坞简史》。 徐小棠，毕业于北京大...(展开全部)

作者简介： 詹姆斯·莫纳科，电影学者、影评人、作家、出版人、制片人，电影与媒体研究领域的专家。1982年创办了Baseline（全球影视数据资料库），1994年创办了Harbor Electronic Publishing。曾为《纽约时报》《村声》等著名报刊撰稿，担任美国国家公共电 台媒体评论员，也曾在哥伦比亚大学、纽约大学等高校讲课，在美国和欧洲的行业论坛上发言。其他著作有《新浪潮》《电影百科全书》《电影鉴赏指南》《新媒体词典》《媒介文化》等。 译者简介： 刘宇清，西南大学文学院教授，主要研究领域为：电影历史、理论与批评。著有《中国电影的历史审思与当下观察》，编译有《他山之石：海外华语电影研究》，译有《纪录片导论》《让·科克托》《让·热内》《我们何以成为后人类：文学、信息科学和控制论中的虚拟身体》《电影与伦理》《好莱坞简史》。 徐小棠，毕业于北京大...(展开全部)

Approaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a new sort of introduction—a personal master class in reading—that brings you face to face with the work of some of the most influential and challenging writers in history. In lucid, accessible language, these books explain essential topics such as Nietzsche's th...(展开全部)

The How to Read series provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon. These books use excerpts from the major texts to explain essential topics, such as Jacques Lacan's core ideas about enjoyment, which re-created our concept of psychoanalysis. Lacan s motto of the ethics of psychoanalysis involves a profoun...(展开全部)

What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full of concealed loathing, resentment and aggression? In this accessible, delightfully entertaining book, Terry Eagleton addresses these intriguing questions and a host of others. How to Read Literature is the book of choice for students new to...(展开全部)

What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full of concealed loathing, resentment and aggression? In this accessible, delightfully entertaining book, Terry Eagleton addresses these intriguing questions and a host of others. How to Read Literature is the book of choice for students new to...(展开全部)

How to Read Ethnography is an essential guide to approaching anthropological texts. It helps students to cultivate the skills they need to critically examine and understand how ethnographies are built up, as well as to think anthropologically and develop an anthropological imagination of their own. The authors reveal how ethnographically-informed anthropology plays a distinctiv...(展开全部)

How to Read Ethnography is an invaluable guide to approaching anthropological texts. Laying bare the central conventions of ethnographic writing, it helps students to develop a critical understanding of texts and explains how to identify and analyse the core ideas in order to apply these ideas to other areas of study. Above all it enables students to read ethnographies anthropo...(展开全部)