"The Violet Isle" is a little-known nickname for Cuba, inspired by its richly colored soil--one of the many qualities that make the country so seductive to photographers. This handsomely designed, slipcased edition offers an engaging, at times unsettling document of a country that, for the past 50 years, has remained in an economic, political, cultural and ecological bubble, is...(展开全部)

"The Violet Isle" is a little-known nickname for Cuba, inspired by its richly colored soil--one of the many qualities that make the country so seductive to photographers. This handsomely designed, slipcased edition offers an engaging, at times unsettling document of a country that, for the past 50 years, has remained in an economic, political, cultural and ecological bubble, is...(展开全部)

Originally published in 1945, Prater Violet is a stingingly satirical novel about the film industry. It centers around the production of the vacuous fictional melodrama Prater Violet, set in nineteenth-century Vienna, providing ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitler annexes the real Vienna of the 1930s. The novel features the vivid portraits of imperious, passionate, an...(展开全部)

A classic novel about the golden age of film. It is based on Isherwood's experience of co-writing the 1934 Berthold Viertel film Little Friend. 'A deliberate historical parable. Prater Violet resembles episodes in Goodbye to Berlin and keeps up the same high level of excellence' Edmund Wilson An impatient phone call from the temperamental Austrian director, Friedrich Bergmann, ...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

编著者简介 劳伦·威尔福德（Lauren Wilford）与瑞安·史蒂文森（Ryan Stevenson）是《明墙/暗室》的编辑。该杂志刊载电影方面的深度长篇评论。两人于2015年结婚，并合作至今，现居罗得岛州的普罗维登斯。 作序者简介 马特·佐勒·塞茨（Matt Zoller Seitz）是RogerEbert.com的主编，《纽约》（New York）杂志的电视评论人，著有The Wes Anderson Collection、《布达佩斯大饭店：韦斯·安德森作品典藏》、The Oliver Stone Experience以及Mad Men Carousel，合著有TV一书，现居纽约。 泰勒·拉莫斯（Taylor Ramos）是二维动画师和视频论文制作者。她学习过传统手绘动画和三维动画，曾任电视节目和手机游戏的动画师和设计师。托尼·周（Tony ...(展开全部)

From one of our most perceptive and provocative voices comes a deeply researched account of the last days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas, Maurice Sendak, and James Salter—an arresting and wholly original meditation on mortality. In The Violet Hour, Katie Roiphe takes an unexpected and liberating approach to the most unavoidable of subjects. She invest...(展开全部)

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