Ozu Yasujiro's moving family drama, Tokyo monogatari/Tokyo Story (1953), is universally acknowledged as one of the most significant Japanese films ever made, and regularly cited as one of the greatest films of all time in polls of leading critics and filmmakers around the world. Telling the story of an elderly couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their grown-up children, the fil...(展开全部)

Film is arguably the dominant art form of the twentieth century. In this Very Short Introduction, Michael Wood offers a wealth of insight into the nature of film, considering its role and impact on society as well as its future in the digital age. As Wood notes, film is many things, but it has become above all a means of telling stories through images and sounds. The stories ar...(展开全部)

The documents emerging from the secret police archives of the former Soviet bloc have caused scandal after scandal, compromising revered cultural figures and abruptly ending political careers. Police Aesthetics offers a revealing and responsible approach to such materials. Taking advantage of the partial opening of the secret police archives in Russia and Romania, Vatulescu foc...(展开全部)

The documents emerging from the secret police archives of the former Soviet bloc have caused scandal after scandal, compromising revered cultural figures and abruptly ending political careers. Police Aesthetics offers a revealing and responsible approach to such materials. Taking advantage of the partial opening of the secret police archives in Russia and Romania, Vatulescu foc...(展开全部)

文学成就比肩海明威、福克纳、马尔克斯的大师 改变侦探小说书写规则，引领“美国革命”的巨匠 硬汉派小说鼻祖，“黑色电影”的创始人 被誉为欧美侦探文学最后一位先知 * * * 达希尔·哈米特全名萨缪尔·达希尔·哈米特，出生于美国马里兰州西岸的圣玛利县，在费城和巴尔的摩长大。 哈米特十三岁辍学，之后数年间做过报童、码头装卸工、机关勤杂人员和证券公司小职员，后来加入位于巴尔的摩的“平克顿全国侦探事务所”。一九一五年至一九二一年期间，他在平克顿事务所任职，这段经历为他后来创作侦探小说提供了广泛的素材。在第一次世界大战期间，达希尔应召入伍，但是后来因结核病而被迫长期疗养，继而导致他的婚姻破裂。之后他开始依赖酒精，曾尝试广告业，最终踏上了写作一途。他贫寒的出身、在下层社会摸爬滚打的青年时代，以及在当时全美最大的平克顿侦探社任职多年所获得的丰富经验，使他的作品独树一...(展开全部)

Documentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty's pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore's anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9/11, from Dziga Vertov's artful Soviet propaganda piece Man with a Movie Camera to Luc Jacquet's heart-tugging wildlife epic March of the Penguins. In this concise, crisply written guide, Patricia Aufderheide takes reader...(展开全部)

Documentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty's pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore's anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9/11, from Dziga Vertov's artful Soviet propaganda piece Man with a Movie Camera to Luc Jacquet's heart-tugging wildlife epic March of the Penguins. In this concise, crisply written guide, Patricia Aufderheide takes reader...(展开全部)

Timothy Corrigan is a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania.

"This book . . . examines the problem of police corruption . . . in such a way that the stereotype of the crude, greedy cop who is basically a grown-up delinquent, if not an out-and-out robber, yields to portraits of particular men, often of earnest good will and even more than ordinary compassion, contending with an enormously demanding and challenging job."--Robert Coles, "Ne...(展开全部)