Using contemporary film theory and elements of socio-cultural and political discourse, fourteen geographers examine the effects of cinematic representation of place and space on perceptions of self and societies in the world.

作者简介： 英国地理学家、地缘政治学家、教育家。先后在阿伯里斯特维斯大学和牛津大学耶稣学院学习，曾长期担任中学地理教师，后任教于伦敦大学教育学院。主要从事人文地理学和地缘政治学的研究，深受英国著名地理学家哈尔福德‧麦金德的影响，代表作有《地理与世界霸权》《学校地理学》（Geography in School）等。 译者简介： 胡坚， 1977年参军， 18年后退役。自2008年开始发表翻译作品，译作有《英国陆军史》《美国人眼中最真实的越南战争》等。

作者简介： 英国地理学家、地缘政治学家、教育家。先后在阿伯里斯特维斯大学和牛津大学耶稣学院学习，曾长期担任中学地理教师，后任教于伦敦大学教育学院。主要从事人文地理学和地缘政治学的研究，深受英国著名地理学家哈尔福德‧麦金德的影响，代表作有《地理与世界霸权》《学校地理学》（Geography in School）等。 译者简介： 胡坚， 1977年参军， 18年后退役。自2008年开始发表翻译作品，译作有《英国陆军史》《美国人眼中最真实的越南战争》等。

America's most distinguished film professor provides the definitive A to Z course on the intricacies of film. Each entry in this remarkable book, which represents a lifetime of teaching film, has already inspired and educated several generations of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers and writers. This book examines the patterns and principles that make films popular and memorable, ...(展开全部)

Art history traditionally classifies works of art by country as well as period, but often political borders and cultural boundaries are highly complex and fluid. Questions of identity, policy, and exchange make it difficult to determine the "place" of art, and often the art itself results from these conflicts of geography and culture. Addressing an important approach to art his...(展开全部)

Art history traditionally classifies works of art by country as well as period, but often political borders and cultural boundaries are highly complex and fluid. Questions of identity, policy, and exchange make it difficult to determine the "place" of art, and often the art itself results from these conflicts of geography and culture. Addressing an important approach to art his...(展开全部)

Michel Foucault's work is rich with implications and insights concerning spatiality, and has inspired many geographers and social scientists to develop these ideas in their own research. This book, the first to engage Foucault's geographies in detail from a wide range of perspectives, is framed around his discussions with the French geography journal "Herodote" in the mid 1970s...(展开全部)

A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets. In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of ...(展开全部)