Is a film watched on a video screen still cinema? Have digital compositing, motion capture, and other advanced technologies remade or obliterated the craft? Rooted in their hypothesis of the "double birth of media," André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion take a positive look at cinema's ongoing digital revolution and reaffirm its central place in a rapidly expanding media landsca...(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)

維克多．布特羅斯(Victor Boutros) 畢業於貝勒大學、哈佛大學、牛津大學、芝加哥大學法學院。曾任美國聯邦檢察官，現任美國司法部人口販運起訴處，芝加哥大學法學院客座教授，在人權與外交事務方面亦有著作。 蓋瑞．豪根(Gary A. Haugen) 華盛頓國際公義協會主席，哈佛大學及芝加哥大學法律學院畢業。曾任美國司法部民權科檢察官，聯合國盧安達種族大屠殺調查組總監，及人權律師委員會成員。曾就國際法及人權發表不少著名及學術性作品。現任國際公義使命團（International Justice Mission）執行長，並任教於芝加哥大學法學院。 譯者 楊芩雯 政治大學新聞學系畢業，在美國紐約大學修過幾堂出版課。一直是書和雜誌的文字工，做採訪寫作、編輯和翻譯。

維克多．布特羅斯(Victor Boutros) 畢業於貝勒大學、哈佛大學、牛津大學、芝加哥大學法學院。曾任美國聯邦檢察官，現任美國司法部人口販運起訴處，芝加哥大學法學院客座教授，在人權與外交事務方面亦有著作。 蓋瑞．豪根(Gary A. Haugen) 華盛頓國際公義協會主席，哈佛大學及芝加哥大學法律學院畢業。曾任美國司法部民權科檢察官，聯合國盧安達種族大屠殺調查組總監，及人權律師委員會成員。曾就國際法及人權發表不少著名及學術性作品。現任國際公義使命團（International Justice Mission）執行長，並任教於芝加哥大學法學院。 譯者 楊芩雯 政治大學新聞學系畢業，在美國紐約大學修過幾堂出版課。一直是書和雜誌的文字工，做採訪寫作、編輯和翻譯。

From four of the liveliest personalities on the Web comes a provocative, outrageous, and wickedly smart account of what it will take to prosper in the fast-forward world on the wire. This nationally acclaimed best seller is a spirited, original, and wonderfully irreverent conversation that will challenge, provoke, and forever change your outlook on the digital economy. A rich ...(展开全部)

There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj Zizek has identified the four horsemen of this coming apocalypse: the worldwide ecological crisis; imbalances within the economic system; the biogenetic revolution; and, exploding social divisions and ruptures. But, he asks, if the end of capitalism seems to many like the end ...(展开全部)

The time when "fashion" was defined by French designers whose clothes could be afforded only by elite has ended. Now designers take their cues from mainstream consumers and creativity is channeled more into mass-marketing clothes than into designing them. Indeed, one need look no further than the Gap to see proof of this. In The End of Fashion, Wall Street Journal, reporter Ter...(展开全部)

This book, by one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers, represents a broad, general, and ambitious undertaking--nothing less than an attempt to rethink the nature of poetic language and to rearticulate relationships among theology, poetry, and philosophy in a tradition of literature initiated by Dante. The author presents "literature" as a set of for...(展开全部)

This book explores the theme of violence, repression and atrocity in imperial and colonial empires, as well as its representations and memories, from the late eighteenth through to the twentieth century. It examines the wide variety of violent means by which colonies and empire were maintained in the modern era, the politics of repression and the violent structures inherent in ...(展开全部)