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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Victorian literature and the Victorian visual imagination Author: Christ, Carol T Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature \| Art History \| English Literature \| Victorian History \| Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: Nineteenth-century British culture frequently represented the eye as the preeminent organ of truth. These essays explore the relationship between the verbal and the visual in the Victorian imagination. They range broadly over topics that include the relationship of optical devices to the visual imag . . . [more] Matches in book (210): ...Excrement, Repression, and the Victorian City in Photography and Literature... ...Excrement, Repression, and the Victorian City in Photography and Literature... ...Criminal and Observing the Law in Victorian Photography and Detective Fiction... Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: On the edge of America: California modernist art, 1900-1950 Author: Karlstrom, Paul J Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| California and the West \| United States History \| Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: To many, California's social and cultural identity has set it apart from the rest of the nation. Identified almost exclusively with Hollywood and popular culture, the entire region has been denied a meaningful relationship to mainstream twentieth-century modernism. This groundbreaking collection emp . . . [more] Matches in book (103): ...Modernist Photography and the Group f.64... ...Modernist Photography and the Group f.64... ...The New Deal, Reporting, and Straight Photography... Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Empire of ecstasy: nudity and movement in German body culture, 1910-1935 Author: Toepfer, Karl Eric 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| German Studies \| Gender Studies \| Dance Publisher's Description: Empire of Ecstasy offers a novel interpretation of the explosion of German body culture between the two wars - nudism and nude dancing, gymnastics and dance training, dance photography and criticism, and diverse genres of performance from solo dancing to mass movement choirs. Karl Toepfer presents t . . . [more] Matches in book (68): ...Photography... ...example of the dramatic athletic photography of Gerhard Riebicke, Berlin, ca. ... ...sculpture; cinema; architecture; photography asexuality, in dance, 345 Auerbach,... Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Out of Eden: essays on modern art Author: Di Piero, W. S Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Art \| Art Criticism Publisher's Description: Out of Eden presents the rigorous investigations and musings of a poet-essayist on the ways in which modern artists have confronted and transfigured the realist tradition of representation. Di Piero pursues his theme with an autobiographical force and immediacy. He fixes his attention on painters an . . . [more] Matches in book (52): ...Notes on Photography... ...Beaumont. Supreme Instants: The Photography of Edward Weston . Exh. cat. New... ...Alberto Giacometti," "Notes on Photography," and "Matisse's Broken Circle." The... Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Roberto Rossellini Author: Brunette, Peter Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: This is the first full-length study in any language of the most significant film director of Italian Neorealism. Peter Brunette combines close analyses of Roberto Rossellini's formal and narrative style with a thorough account of his position in the political and cultural landscape of postwar Italy. . . . [more] Matches in book (48): ...Incom. Music: Edorado [ sic ] Miccuci. Photography: Rodolfo Lombardi. Director:... ...PREPOTENTE (The Overbearing Turkey). Photography: Mario Bava. Short, 1939.... ...LA VISPA TERESA (The Lively Teresa). Photography: Mario Bava. Short, 1939. IL... Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Landscapes of resistance: the German films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub Author: Byg, Barton 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| German Studies \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Fervently admired and frequently reviled, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet - who have lived and worked together for almost forty years - may well be the most uncompromising, not to say intransigent, filmmakers in the history of the medium. Their radical and deeply political films placed them as . . . [more] Matches in book (37): ...Lothringen! ( Lorraine! ) 21 minutes Photography: Christophe Pollock (35 mm,... ...En Râchaâchant 7 1/2 minmutes Photography: Henri Alekan (35 mm, black & white)... ...Pavese, Cesare, 18 Photography, 16 , 22 Point of view, 227 -228, 243 Political... Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Cecil B. DeMille and American culture: the silent era Author: Higashi, Sumiko Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| History \| Film \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture demonstrates that the director, best remembered for his overblown biblical epics, was one of the most remarkable film pioneers of the Progressive Era. In this innovative work, which integrates cultural history and cultural studies, Sumiko Higashi shows how DeMil . . . [more] Matches in book (38): ...novel, Tomorrow's Bed , by Wallace Irwin. Photography by J. Peverell Marley. Art... ...Rib . Scenario by Jeanie Macpherson. Photography by Alvin Wyckoff. Art direction... ...Scenario by Jeanie Macpherson. Photography by Bert Glennon, Edward Curtis, J.... Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Unpacking Duchamp: art in transit Author: Judovitz, Dalia Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art \| Literature Publisher's Description: Perhaps no twentieth-century artist utilized puns and linguistic ambiguity with greater effect - and greater controversy - than Marcel Duchamp. Through a careful "unpacking" of his major works, Dalia Judovitz finds that Duchamp may well have the last laugh. She examines how he interpreted notions of . . . [more] Matches in book (34): ...artistic media, those of painting, photography, and sculpture. The "appearance"... ...threatens the artistic autonomy of photography. 51. Bauer, "Duchamp's Ubiquitous... ...53 , 59 , 99 , 118 , 246 n; and photography, 29 -30, 43 ; machine imagery and... Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Light moving in time: studies in the visual aesthetics of avant-garde film Author: Wees, William C. (William Charles) 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film Publisher's Description: To view a film is to see another's seeing mediated by the technology and techniques of the camera. By manipulating the cinematic apparatus in unorthodox ways, avant-garde filmmakers challenge the standardized versions of seeing perpetuated by the dominant film industry and generate ways of seeing th . . . [more] Matches in book (23): ...18. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Painting, Photography, Film , trans. Janet Seligman (... ...H. Pirenne, Optics, Painting, and Photography (Cambridge: Cambridge University... ...Eye, Film, and Camera in Color Photography. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1959.... Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Before the nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company Author: Musser, Charles Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| United States History \| Popular Culture Publisher's Description: Musser takes us into the long-forgotten world of early cinema - unexpectedly sophisticated and yet radically different from current movie-making. Focusing on Edwin S. Porter, most often remembered as the producer of The Great Train Robbery , Musser situates Porter's achievements within the vibrant c . . . [more] Matches in book (40): ...retained complete control over photography, editing, and developing—over all the... ...5. 62. Cecil M. Hepworth, Animated Photography — The ABC of Cinematography , 2nd... ...in conjunction with "life-like photography" and a "life-size" image provided an... Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Film quarterly: forty years--a selection Author: Henderson, Brian Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film Publisher's Description: During its forty years as a forum for scholars, filmmakers, critics, and film lovers, Film Quarterly has looked in depth at the most critical elements in the political, social, theoretical, and aesthetic history of the cinema. Once closely tied to Hollywood, the journal was investigated by the Tenne . . . [more] Matches in book (34): ...Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography , trans. Richard Howard (New York:... ...p. 5. 18. John Berger, "Uses of Photography," in About Looking (London: Writers... ...of the living and the dead. If photography does not steal the soul it steals... Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Singular women: writing the artist Author: Frederickson, Kristen 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Art Criticism \| Art Theory \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this groundbreaking volume, contemporary art historians - all of them women - probe the dilemmas and complexities of writing about the woman artist, past and present. Singular Women proposes a new feminist investigation of the history of art by considering how a historian's theoretical approach a . . . [more] Matches in book (15): ...critical theory in the Fine Art Photography Program at Rochester Institute of... ...as: Why did Carroll suddenly quit photography in 1880? Did he really ask Alice... ...Women's Time,” 191. Christian Metz, “Photography and Fetish,” October 34 (Fall... Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Echo and Narcissus: women's voices in classical Hollywood cinema Author: Lawrence, Amy Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Do women in classical Hollywood cinema ever truly speak for themselves? In Echo and Narcissus , Amy Lawrence examines eight classic films to show how women's speech is repeatedly constructed as a "problem," an affront to male authority. This book expands feminist studies of the representation of wom . . . [more] Matches in book (18): ...as the daguerreotype and still photography, as well as in early silent films... ...from the novel by Harper Lee; photography, Russell Harlan; art direction, Henry... ...Rain" by W. Somerset Maugham; photography, George Barnes, Robert Kurrle, and... Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: California riparian systems: ecology, conservation, and productive management Author: Warner, Richard E Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| California and the West Publisher's Description: This volume presents 135 of the papers presented at the 1981 California Riparian Systems Conference. The papers address all aspects of riparian systems: habitat, wildlife, land management, land use policy planning, conservation and water resource management. Matches in book (35): ...Aerial Photography... ...of 1956 (compiled from 1954 aerial photography). The lack of dramatic changes... ...The platform used for all the photography acquired for this study was a Cessna... Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Fifteen jugglers, five believers: literary politics and the poetics of American social movements Author: Reed, T. V. (Thomas Vernon) Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| American Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: T.V. Reed urges an affiliation between literary theory and political action - and between political action and literary theory. What can the "new literary theory" learn from "new social movements"; and what can social activists learn from poststructuralism, new historicism, feminist theory, and neom . . . [more] Matches in book (16): ...Burgin, Victor, ed. Thinking Photography . Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities... ...afterthoughts (on documentary photography)." In 3 Works . Halifax, Nova Scotia:... ...59. Solomon-Godeau, Abigail. Photography at the Dock . Minneapolis: University... Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Hollywood quarterly: film culture in postwar America, 1945-1957 Author: Smoodin, Eric Loren Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: The first issue of Hollywood Quarterly, in October 1945, marked the appearance of the most significant, successful, and regularly published journal of its kind in the United States. For its entire life, the Quarterly held to the leftist utopianism of its founders, several of whom would later be blac . . . [more] Matches in book (23): ...all the so-called "tricks" of photography and setting. In a sense it was the... ...however, was felt more in still photography, then making an upsurge as an art... ...field because of his work in still photography was Ralph Steiner, the New York... Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Pioneer urbanites: a social and cultural history of Black San Francisco Author: Daniels, Douglas Henry Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: American Studies \| African American Studies \| Social Problems \| California and the West \| United States History Publisher's Description: The black migration to San Francisco and the Bay Area differed from the mass movement of Southern rural blacks and their families into the eastern industrial cities. Those who traveled West, or arrived by ship, were often independent, sophisticated, single men. Many were associated with the transpor . . . [more] Matches in book (16): ...58. 10. Ibid. 11. Howard S. Becker, "Photography and Sociology," Studies in the... ...Mr. Watkins started studying photography, developing film and making prints in... ...Paris, 1968). 6. John Collier, "Photography in Anthropology," American... Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Modern drama and the rhetoric of theater Author: Worthen, William B 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Theatre \| Rhetoric Publisher's Description: The history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert "styles." Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s onward, W. B. Worthen instead sees drama as the interplay of text, stage production, and audience.How are audiences manipulated? What makes drama meaningful? Worthen identi . . . [more] Matches in book (17): ...Newhall, Beaumont. The History of Photography. Rev. ed. New York: Museum of... ...audience of detached observers; like photography, the realistic drama tends to... ...his own theatrical procedures, for photography in The Wild Duck is mainly an art... Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Erotic faculties Author: Frueh, Joanna Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art \| Gender Studies \| Women's Studies \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Art Theory Publisher's Description: The erotic and the intellectual come together to create a new kind of criticism in the lushly written work of Joanna Frueh. Addressing sexuality in ways that are usually hidden or left unsaid, Frueh - a noted performance artist and art historian - explores subjects such as aging, beauty, love, sex, . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS... ...Illinois, February 1994 Women in Photography Conference, Houston, Texas, March... ...Illinois, February 1994 Women in Photography Conference, Houston, Texas, March... Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Women and the war story Author: Cooke, Miriam Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature \| Gender Studies \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| European History Publisher's Description: In a book that radically and fundamentally revises the way we think about war, Miriam Cooke charts the emerging tradition of women's contributions to what she calls the "War Story," a genre formerly reserved for men. Concentrating on the contemporary literature of the Arab world, Cooke looks at how . . . [more] Matches in book (19): ...ordinary vision" (Susan Sontag, On Photography [New York: Farrar, Straus and... ...sympathy, distance the emotions. Photography's realism creates a confusion about... ...Sontag 1977, 18, 79, 99). 8. The photography historian John Tagg writes, "The... Similar Items

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