The first international anthology to explore the historical significance of amateur film, this book makes visible, through image and analysis, the hidden yet ubiquitous world of home moviemaking. These essays boldly combine primary research, archival collections, critical analys…
The first international anthology to explore the historical significance of amateur film, this book makes visible, through image and analysis, the hidden yet ubiquitous world of home moviemaking. These essays boldly combine primary research, archival collections, critical analys…
Features essays that combine research, critical analyses and theoretical approaches regarding the meaning and value of amateur and archival films. This book identifies home movies as methods of visually preserving history. It defines a genre of film studies and establishes the h…
Historical atlas of Islam
by Kessel, Lorraine, Freeman-Grenville, G. S. P., Munro-Hay, S. C.
Hobbes's liberal absolutism -- Locke's attempt at taming the prince -- The Federalist constitution -- Hamilton's executive government -- Madison's landmarks of power -- Jefferson's prerogative -- Lincoln's example -- The civil war confiscation debate -- The discretionary executi…
Introduction : cinema, memory, modernity: the return of memory as film -- No escape from time : memory and redemption in the international postwar art film -- The "crisis" of memory : "traumatic identity" in the contemporary memory film -- "Global memory" : cinema as lingua fran…
