In this book, the author offers an analysis of Hollywood's storytelling techniques and how they are used to make complex, easily comprehensible, entertaining films. She also takes on the myth that modern Hollywood films are based on a narrative system radically different from the one in use during the golden age of the studio system. Drawing on a wide range of films from the 19...(展开全部)

爱德华·杰·艾普斯坦（Edward Jay Epstein，1935— ），于康乃尔大学和哈佛大学攻读政治学，1973年取得哈佛大学博士学位，其硕士论文以追寻政治真相为题材（Inquest：The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth），博士论文以电视新闻为题材（Neus from Nowhere）,两篇论文皆已出版成书。爱德华原本在MIT和UCLA教授政治学，后来觉得写书的教化功能更强而专事写作。现居美国纽约市。 译者简介 宋伟航，台大历史系、台大历史研究所中国艺术史组毕业。曾任出版编辑，现专事翻译。译有《我的动物天堂》《补缀的星球》《人类大世纪》《重拾山居岁月》《灵魂考》《酷男的异想世界》《丘吉尔：乐在危险的人生》《我在DK的出版岁月》《秃鹰律师》《无辜主人》《帮凶律师》等书。

Francis Bacon's New Organon, published in 1620, was revolutionary in its attempt to give formal philosophical shape to a new and rapidly emerging experimental science. It challenged the entire edifice of the philosophy and learning of Bacon's time, and left its mark on all subsequent discussions of scientific method. This volume presents a new translation of the text into moder...(展开全部)

Since its initial publication in Berlin in 1928, Jan Tschichold's "The New Typography" has been recognized as the definitive treatise on book and graphic design in the machine age. First published in English in 1995, with an excellent introduction by Robin Kinross, this new edition includes a foreword by Rich Hendel, who considers current thinking about Tschichold's life and wo...(展开全部)

Book Description The protagonist of Orhan Pamuk's fiendishly engaging novel is launched into a world of hypnotic texts and (literally) Byzantine conspiracies that whirl across the steppes and forlorn frontier towns of Turkey. And with The New Life, Pamuk himself vaults from the forefront of his country's writers into the arena of world literature. Through the single act of rea...(展开全部)

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling (1775-1854) was a colleague of Hegel, Holderlin, Fichte, Goethe, Schlegel, and Schiller. Always a champion of Romanticism, Schelling advocated a philosophy which emphasized intuition over reason, which maintained aesthetics and the creative imagination to be of the highest value. At the same time, Schellings concerns for the self and the r...(展开全部)

Traditionally, museums have concerned themselves with foremost with conservation and classification. But what is conserved, and why? How is it classified? And who does this benefit? Are exhibitions really designed with the visitor in mind? And what qualities of experience are being offered? These are just some of the pressing questions which the authors - museum professionals, ...(展开全部)

People around the world are confused and concerned. Is it a sign of strength or of weakness that the US has suddenly shifted from a politics of consensus to one of coercion on the world stage? What was really at stake in the war on Iraq? Was it all about oil and, if not, what else was involved? What role has a sagging economy played in pushing the US into foreign adventurism an...(展开全部)