David Bordwell's new book is at once a history of film criticism, an analysis of how critics interpret film, and a proposal for an alternative program for film studies. It is an anatomy of film criticism meant to reset the agenda for film scholarship. As such "Making Meaning" should be a landmark book, a focus for debate from which future film study will evolve. Bordwell syst...(展开全部)

In "The Quest" Mircea Eliade stresses the cultural function that a study of the history of religions can play in a secularized society. He writes for the intelligent general reader in the hope that what he calls a new humanism "will be engendered by a confrontation of modern Western man with unknown or less familiar worlds of meaning." "Each of these essays contains insights w...(展开全部)

米尔恰·伊利亚德，世界著名宗教史家，美国芝加哥大学教授。伊利亚德早年在文学创作上颇有声名，其罗马尼亚语小说《孟加拉之夜》《没有青春的青春》还被改编成了电影。二战结束后至1955年，伊利亚德一直居住在法国巴黎，这期间他的宗教研究达到了一个高峰，以法文的形式出版了一系列宗教著作：《比较宗教的范型》《宇宙和历史》《永恒回归的神话》《瑜伽:不死与自由》《萨满教：古老的昏迷术》等。这系列著作几乎涵盖了20世纪所有宗教的重要研究领域，使他成为一名蜚声国际学术界的宗教史家。1956年伊利亚德到美国任芝加哥大学宗教系主任和教授等职，与同事将芝加哥神学院建设成为国际知名的宗教史研究中心。 晏可佳，上海社会科学院宗教研究所所长、研究员，上海宗教文化研究中心主任。主要译著有《袄教史》《中国天主教简史》《...(展开全部)

This new exciting book includes more than 170 previously unseen ‘ghost signs’ that have been fortunately captured by photography over t he past six to seven years through the cracks of the rapid urban regeneration in Shanghai. It is produced by The Type and three local photographers who have been tracking the ghost signs throughout Shanghai — Colleague Dong, Jiayu Shi and Jianw...(展开全部)

How can a voice whose source is never seen--such as Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey or the mother of Norman Bates in Psycho--have such a powerful hold on an audience? When does "synchronized sound" fail to link bodies to their voices, and how do such great stylists of sound film as Jacques Tati, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Marguerite Duras deploy the power of the voice? In this brillia...(展开全部)

In this richly detailed study, James Naremore focuses on the work of film acting, showing what players contribute to movies. Ranging from the earliest short subjects of Charles Chaplin to the contemporary features of Robert DeNiro, he develops a useful means of analyzing performance in the age of mechanical reproduction; at the same time, he reveals the ideological implications...(展开全部)

Unique showcase exploring the use of signs and symbols for visual communication across design disciplines The latest in the highly collectable Communicating with Pattern series, Signs and Symbols showcases stunning examples of designs that incorporate all manner of signs, symbols, and glyphs, explaining how they can be used in contemporary design to communicate a variety of mes...(展开全部)