The advent of new media presents a serious challenge to our understanding of visual representation, of narrative and indeed the whole art of the moving image. New media forms are emerging in hypertext, multimedia, computer games, interactive broadcast and screen media. These are constantly redefining the relationship between story and text and between the creators of art and th...(展开全部)

From 1976 to the present day, there have been over 45 films adapted from the spine-tingling works of Stephen King. Bringing detailed analysis of adaptations and literature together, Browning examines these films in their own right and suggests why they succeeded in scaring viewers, as well as why they often fail. The book rejects previous attempts to make the films and books fi...(展开全部)

Life on the Screenis a book not about computers, but about people and how computers are causing us to reevaluate our identities in the age of the Internet. We are using life on the screen to engage in new ways of thinking about evolution, relationships, politics, sex, and the self. Life on the Screen traces a set of boundary negotiations, telling the story of the changing impac...(展开全部)

gy of online life and how the computer provokes new ways of thinking about our most basic concepts of self.

An eye-opening look at the invisible workers who protect us from seeing humanity’s worst on today’s commercial internet Social media on the internet can be a nightmarish place. A primary shield against hateful language, violent videos, and online cruelty uploaded by users is not an algorithm. It is people. Mostly invisible by design, more than 100,000 commercial content modera...(展开全部)

Lynn Margulis, and her son, the writer Dorion Sagan, here present a selection from their many essays that have been published. Margulis's proposal that eukaryotic cells (the cells of all multicellular animals and plants) are made up of symbiotic unions of more primitive cells was at first widely derided but is now mainstream science. She has described the previously unrecognize...(展开全部)

Maugham spent the winter months of 1919-20 travelling 1500 miles up the Yangtze River. Always more interested in people than places, he gave full rein to a sensitive and philosophical nature. On a Chinese Screen is the refined accumulation of the countless scraps of paper on which he had taken notes. Within the narrow confines of their colonial milieu, missionaries, consuls, ...(展开全部)

Maugham spent the winter months of 1919-20 travelling 1500 miles up the Yangtze River. Always more interested in people than places, he gave full rein to a sensitive and philosophical nature. On a Chinese Screen is the refined accumulation of the countless scraps of paper on which he had taken notes. Within the narrow confines of their colonial milieu, missionaries, consuls, ...(展开全部)

巫鸿（Wu Hung）早年任职于故宫博物院书画组、金石组，获中央美术学院美术史系硕士。1987年获哈佛大学美术史与人类学双重博士学位，后在该校美术史系任教，1994年获终身教授职位。同年受聘主持芝加哥大学亚洲艺术的教学、研究项目，执“斯德本特殊贡献教授”讲席，2002年建立东亚艺术研究中心并任主任。 其著作《武梁祠：中国古代画像艺术的思想性》获1989年全美亚洲学年会最佳著作奖（李文森奖）；《中国古代美术和建筑中的纪念碑性》获评1996年杰出学术出版物，被列为20世纪90年代最有意义的艺术学著作之一；《重屏：中国绘画中的媒介与表现》获全美最佳美术史著作提名。参与编写《中国绘画三千年》（1997）、《剑桥中国先秦史》（1999）等。多次回国客座讲学，发起“汉唐之间”中国古代美术史、考古学研究系列国际讨论会，并主编三册论文集。 近年致力于中国现当代艺术的...(展开全部)

巫鸿（Wu Hung）早年任职于故宫博物院书画组、金石组，获中央美术学院美术史系硕士。1987年获哈佛大学美术史与人类学双重博士学位，后在该校美术史系任教，1994年获终身教授职位。同年受聘主持芝加哥大学亚洲艺术的教学、研究项目，执“斯德本特殊贡献教授”讲席，2002年建立东亚艺术研究中心并任主任。 其著作《武梁祠：中国古代画像艺术的思想性》获1989年全美亚洲学年会最佳著作奖（李文森奖）；《中国古代美术和建筑中的纪念碑性》获评1996年杰出学术出版物，被列为20世纪90年代最有意义的艺术学著作之一；《重屏：中国绘画中的媒介与表现》获全美最佳美术史著作提名。参与编写《中国绘画三千年》（1997）、《剑桥中国先秦史》（1999）等。多次回国客座讲学，发起“汉唐之间”中国古代美术史、考古学研究系列国际讨论会，并主编三册论文集。 近年致力于中国现当代艺术的...(展开全部)