Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Luke, the adventurous future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past. As they begin to cope with chilling, even horrifying occurr...(展开全部)

The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre First published in 1959, Shirley Jacksonas "The Haunting of Hill House" has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a ahauntinga; Theodo...(展开全部)

The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre First published in 1959, Shirley Jacksonas "The Haunting of Hill House" has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a ahauntinga; Theodo...(展开全部)

Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Luke, the adventurous future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past. As they begin to cope with chilling, even horrifying occurr...(展开全部)

《The Haunting of Hill House》是美国著名女作家雪莉·杰克逊长篇小说代表作，是兰登书屋“现代文库”读者票选20世纪百大英文长篇小说之一，并获得美国国家图书奖提名。 希尔山庄是一个富豪留给两名女儿的遗产，然而，近百年来，却成了后代挥之不去的梦魇，无论是原屋主或后来搬入的房客都莫名惨死。这一切真如传言所说，全是恶灵搞的鬼？或是另有隐情？ 一位研究灵异现象的博士，决心揭开它的真相，征召了一男两女住进这栋住宅。但是才住进去没几天，他们便觉得不对劲。这栋大宅彷彿是活物，在在影响着他们的意志，其中最不寻常的，就是那间婴儿房…… 直到有一天，一个自称能与另一个世界对话的女人，准备入住那个房间，面对最可怖的敌人……

During the 30's and 40's, Hollywood produced a genre of madcap comedies that emphasized reuniting the central couple after divorce or separation. And the female protagonists were strong, independent, and sophisticated. Here, Stanley Cavell examines seven of those classic movies for their cinematic techniques, and for such varies themes as feminism, liberty and interdependence. ...(展开全部)

Acclaimed for its breakthrough approach and its combination of theoretical analysis and empirical evidence, this is the standard work on the classical Hollywood cinema style of film-making from the silent era to the 1960s.

A rich and informative look at the experiences of composers working under high pressure in the US film industry, The Hollywood Film Music Reader brings readers from film's earliest days to the modern blockbuster era. Beginning with the origins of movie music in the heyday of silent film, the book traces film music's progress through Hollywood's so-called Golden Age to changes i...(展开全部)

The pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner combines her trademark ethnographic expertise with critical film interpretation to explore the independent film scene in New York and Los Angeles since the late 1980s. Not Hollywood is both a study of the lived experience of that scene and a critical examination of America as seen through the lenses of independent filmmakers. Based...(展开全部)

The pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner combines her trademark ethnographic expertise with critical film interpretation to explore the independent film scene in New York and Los Angeles since the late 1980s. Not Hollywood is both a study of the lived experience of that scene and a critical examination of America as seen through the lenses of independent filmmakers. Based...(展开全部)