布赖恩•博伊德，新西兰奥克兰大学英语系杰出教授，对美国、巴西、英国、希腊、爱尔兰、新西兰及俄罗斯的小说、戏剧、诗歌、散文以及从史诗到喜剧的翻译多有著述，成果在四大洲荣获多种奖励，并被译成12种文字。他最富盛名的学术成果包括《纳博科夫的<阿达>：意识之地》（1985,2001），两卷本传记《纳博科夫传：俄罗斯时期》（1990）、《纳博科夫传：美国时期》（1991），《纳博科夫的<微暗的火>：艺术发现的魅力》（1999），网站“阿达在线”，此外还编有八卷本的纳博科夫小说、回忆录、蝴蝶著述、诗歌翻译及诗集，最近的一卷是《微暗的火》（2011）。他对文学与进化论的研究也很著名，成果包括《论故事的起源：进化、认识与小说》（贝尔克纳普/哈佛，2009）以及合编的《进化、文学与电影读本》（2010）。 刘佳林，1965年11月生，上海交通大学人文学院中文系副教授，...(展开全部)

The advent of new media presents a serious challenge to our understanding of visual representation, of narrative and indeed the whole art of the moving image. New media forms are emerging in hypertext, multimedia, computer games, interactive broadcast and screen media. These are constantly redefining the relationship between story and text and between the creators of art and th...(展开全部)

What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion--imageability--and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuil...(展开全部)

This book approaches the topic of the state of post-cinema from a new direction. The authors explore how film has left the cinema as a fixed site and institution and now appears ubiquitous - in the museum and on the street, on planes and cars and new digital communication platforms of various kinds. The authors investigate how film has become more than cinema, no longer a mediu...(展开全部)

"Moving images take us on mental and emotional journeys, over the course of which we and our worlds undergo change. This is the premise of Ecologies of the Moving Image, which accounts for the ways cinematic moving images move viewers in ways that reshape our understanding of ourselves, of life, and of the Earth and universe. This book presents an ecophilosophy of the cinema: a...(展开全部)

In "The Future of the Image", Jacques Ranciere develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. Covering a range of art movements, and thinkers such as Foucault, Deleuze, Adorno, Barthes, Lyotard and Greenberg, Ranciere argues that contemporary theorists of the image are suffering from ...(展开全部)

A leading philosopher presents a radical manifesto for the future of art and film. In The Future of the Image, Jacques Ranci&232;re develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. Covering a range of art movements, and thinkers such as Foucault, Deleuze, Adorno, Barthes, Lyotard and G...(展开全部)

If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation to truth. Mistrusted by philosophy, forbidden and embraced by religions, manipulated as spectacleand proliferated in the media, images never cease to present their multiple aspe...(展开全部)

吉尔・德勒兹 ，1925年1月18日生于法国巴黎，1944年中学毕业后就读于巴黎索邦大学哲学系，1952年发表处女作《休谟及其生活、著作和哲学》，1957年任索邦大学哲学史助教，1960年任法国国家科学研究中心研究专员，1964-1969年任里昂学院哲学教师，1969年接替米歇尔・福柯，任巴黎第八大学哲学教授至1987年退休。 1995年11月4日，德勒兹因难忍肺疾折磨，从巴黎住处的窗户坠楼自杀。

Cinema 2: The Time-Image brings to completion Gilles Deleuze's work on the theoretical implications of the cinematographic image. In Cinema 1: The Movement-Image, Deleuze proposed a new way to understand narrative cinema, based on Henri Bergson's notion of the movement-image and C. S. Peirce's classification of images and signs. In Cinema 2, he explains why, since World War II,...(展开全部)