A critical introduction the most important Japanese horror films produced over the last fifty years, Japanese Horror Cinema provides an insightful examination of the tradition's most significant trends and themes.

An essential analysis of cinema from one of the great figures of French philosophy The cinema, like language, can be said to exist as a system of differences. In his latest book the acclaimed philosopher Jacques Rancière relates cinema to literature and theatre. With literature, he argues, cinema takes its narrative conventions, while at the same time effacing its images and it...(展开全部)

This book explores the border zones between life and non-life as represented in cinema from the end of the nineteenth century, when France led the global film industry, to the first decades of the twenty-first century, when world film markets are dominated by Hollywood. Informed by both the Internet of Things and the Parliament of Things, The Cinema of Things examines cinematic...(展开全部)

"The Cinema of Eisenstein" is David Bordwell's comprehensive analysis of the films of Sergei Eisenstein, arguably the key figure in the entire history of the film. The director of such classics as Potemkin, Ivan the Terrile, October, Strike, and Alexander Nevsky, Eisenstein theorized montage, presented Soviet realism to the world, and mastered the concept of the film epic. Comp...(展开全部)

An essential analysis of cinema from one of the great figures of French philosophy The cinema, like language, can be said to exist as a system of differences. In his latest book the acclaimed philosopher Jacques Rancière relates cinema to literature and theatre. With literature, he argues, cinema takes its narrative conventions, while at the same time effacing its images and it...(展开全部)

Moral thinking pervades our practical lives, but where did this way of thinking come from, and what purpose does it serve? Is it to be explained by environmental pressures on our ancestors a million years ago, or is it a cultural invention of more recent origin? In The Evolution of Morality, Richard Joyce takes up these controversial questions, finding that the evidence support...(展开全部)

Moral thinking pervades our practical lives, but where did this way of thinking come from, and what purpose does it serve? Is it to be explained by environmental pressures on our ancestors a million years ago, or is it a cultural invention of more recent origin? In The Evolution of Morality, Richard Joyce takes up these controversial questions, finding that the evidence support...(展开全部)

艾伦•沃森系英国著名法学家，罗马法、比较法、法律史、宗教法等领域的权威学者，其首创的“法律移植”概念在世界范围内具有广泛的影响力。 余成峰副教授系清华大学法学博士、康奈尔大学访问学者，现任北京航空航天大学大学副教授，在法律与社会研究领域耕耘有年，成果丰硕。