When The Cinema, or The Imaginary Man first appeared in 1956, the movies and the moviegoing experience were generally not regarded as worthy of serious scholarly consideration. Yet, French critic and social theorist Edgar Morin perceived in the cinema a complex phenomenon capable of illuminating fundamental truths about thought, imagination, and human nature - which allowed him...(展开全部)

..". less about film than about the psychology of the viewing experience." -- American FilmEmploying Freudian psychoanalysis, Christian Metz explores the nature of cinematic spectatorship and looks at the operations of meaning in the film text.

克里斯蒂安·麦茨，1931年生于法国，1953年获德国文学文学士，从1966年开始在法国高等社会科学院任教，1971年获语言学博士学位。罗兰·巴特的学生。在巴黎大学讲授过克拉考尔的电影理论。后来为巴黎三大影视研究所教授。麦茨是充满理想主义和理性主义的迄今为止最深刻的电影理论家。

夏洛特．柏金斯．吉爾曼（Charlotte Perkins Gilman，1860-1935） 美國知名作家、女性主義先鋒，及社會運動改革家。 父親在她嬰兒時期就棄家離去，家境貧寒。母親為保護她，禁止她與別人有過多交往和閱讀小說，童年時期很孤單，上過七所不同的公立學校。後來與父親取得連繫，得到資助，十八歲進入羅德島設計學院。 1884年與藝術家查理斯．沃爾特．斯泰森（Charles Walter Stetson）結婚。第二年女兒出生後就變得抑鬱，接受「休息療法」，醫生禁止她下床、閱讀、寫作、縫補、說話、自己吃飯。出院後仍遵照醫生建議，盡可能居家不出，孩子不離左右，每天只有兩小時的智力活動，但後來抑鬱症仍然加重，開始出現自殺行為。她的半自傳式短篇小說《黃壁紙》即來自此段經歷。 1894年正式離婚，與女兒搬到了加州，開始活躍於一些女權和改革組織中...(展开全部)

夏洛特．柏金斯．吉爾曼（Charlotte Perkins Gilman，1860-1935） 美國知名作家、女性主義先鋒，及社會運動改革家。 父親在她嬰兒時期就棄家離去，家境貧寒。母親為保護她，禁止她與別人有過多交往和閱讀小說，童年時期很孤單，上過七所不同的公立學校。後來與父親取得連繫，得到資助，十八歲進入羅德島設計學院。 1884年與藝術家查理斯．沃爾特．斯泰森（Charles Walter Stetson）結婚。第二年女兒出生後就變得抑鬱，接受「休息療法」，醫生禁止她下床、閱讀、寫作、縫補、說話、自己吃飯。出院後仍遵照醫生建議，盡可能居家不出，孩子不離左右，每天只有兩小時的智力活動，但後來抑鬱症仍然加重，開始出現自殺行為。她的半自傳式短篇小說《黃壁紙》即來自此段經歷。 1894年正式離婚，與女兒搬到了加州，開始活躍於一些女權和改革組織中...(展开全部)

The Book of Imaginary Beings is Borges’s whimsical compendium of more than one hundred of the "strange creatures conceived down through history by the human imagination." This unique contribution to fantasy literature ranges widely across the world’s mythologies and literatures to bring together the fantastical inventions drawn from the Kabbalah, Homer, Confucius,...(展开全部)

The Book of Imaginary Beings is Borges’s whimsical compendium of more than one hundred of the "strange creatures conceived down through history by the human imagination." This unique contribution to fantasy literature ranges widely across the world’s mythologies and literatures to bring together the fantastical inventions drawn from the Kabbalah, Homer, Confucius,...(展开全部)

A cornerstone of Sartre’s philosophy, The Imaginary was first published in 1940. Sartre had become acquainted with the philosophy of Edmund Husserl in Berlin and was fascinated by his idea of the 'intentionality of consciousness' as a key to the puzzle of existence. Against this background, The Imaginary crystallized Sartre's worldview and artistic vision. The book is an ex...(展开全部)

This volume contains the four essays that Spencer published as The Man Versus the State in 1884 as well as five essays added by later publishers. In addition, it provides "The Proper Sphere of Government", an important early essay by Spencer. Spencer develops various specific disastrous ramifications of the wholesale substitution of the principle of compulsory co-operation -- ...(展开全部)

Two brothers meet at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback. In an isolated belt of Western Australia, they are each other’s nearest neighbor, their homes four hours’ drive apart. The third brother lies dead at their feet. Something caused Cam, the middle child who had been in charge of the family homestead, to die alone in the middle of now...(展开全部)