A Gleam in the Eye
Title | A Gleam in the Eye PDF eBook |
Author | Louis Daniel Brodsky |
Publisher | Time Being Books |
Pages | 92 |
Release | 2012-06-26 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1568091680 |
Poetry. What mom doesn't recall the magical seasons surrounding the birth of her baby--the anticipation felt during pregnancy; the pain and pride, on delivering; the joy of watching her child grow? And what dad can forget saying to himself, upon first holding his infant, "I'm really a father now," with all the accompanying awareness of being responsible for another human being? Chronicling the development of his own firstborn, from her conception through age one, Louis Daniel Brodsky provides, for us all--from experienced parents to those who have yet to see that "gleam in the eye"--a window on that glorious time.
Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary Reference Book with CD-ROM
Title | Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary Reference Book with CD-ROM PDF eBook |
Author | Cambridge University Press |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 1162 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780521691963 |
The Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary defines the vocabulary students need to succeed in high school and beyond. Entries cover more than 2,000 content-area vocabulary items, as well as general academic vocabulary and full coverage of everyday words and phrases. The CD-ROM lets students search for vocabulary by subject area, includes audio of all entry words, offers word family and frequency information, and has a thesaurus and instant lookup feature. The CD-ROM is compatible with Windows XP/Vista and with Mac OSX 10.4 (32-bit only).
Visions of Heaven
Title | Visions of Heaven PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Kemp |
Publisher | Lund Humphries Publishers Limited |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2021-03 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781848224674 |
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the greatest European writers, whose untrammelled imaginative capacity was matched by a huge base in embracing the science of his era. His texts also paint compelling visual images. In Visions of Heaven, renowned scholar Martin Kemp investigates Dante's supreme vision of divine light and its implications for the visual artists who were the inheritors of Dante's vision. The whole book may be regarded as a new Paragone (comparison), the debate that began in the Renaissance about which of the arts is superior. Dante's ravishing accounts of divine light set painters the severest challenge, which took them centuries to meet. A major theme running through Dante's Divine Comedy, particularly in its third book, the Paradiso, centres on Dante's acts of seeing (conducted according to optical rules with respect to the kind of visual experience that can be accomplished on earth) and the overwhelming of Dante's earthly senses by heavenly light, which does not obey his rules of earthly optics. The repeated blinding of Dante by excessive light sets the tone for artists' portrayal of unseeable brightness.
Film Fourth Edition
Title | Film Fourth Edition PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Pramaggiore |
Publisher | Laurence King Publishing |
Pages | 1046 |
Release | 2020-01-13 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 178627759X |
Updated and expanded for a new edition, this is the perfect starter text for students of film studies. Packed full of visual examples from all periods of film history up to the present, Film:A Critical Introduction illustrates film concepts in context and in depth, addressing techniques and terminology used in film production and criticism, and emphasising thinking and writing critically and effectively. With reference to 450 new and existing images, the authors discuss contemporary films and film studies scholarship, as well as recent developments in film production and exhibition, such as digital technologies and new modes of screen media. New features in the fourth edition: Expanded discussion of changing cultural and political contexts for film and media industries, including #MeToo, #TimesUp, and #OscarsSoWhite Updated examples drawing from both contemporary and classic films in every chapter highlight that film studies is a vibrant and growing field New closing chapter expands the book's theoretical framework, linking foundational concepts in cinema studies to innovative new scholarship in media and screen studies Thoroughly revised and updated discussions of auteur theory, the long-take aesthetic, ideology in the superhero film and more
Who Goes There? (Filmed as The Thing)
Title | Who Goes There? (Filmed as The Thing) PDF eBook |
Author | John W. Campbell Jr. |
Publisher | Wildside Press LLC |
Pages | 74 |
Release | 2022-07-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 147942613X |
"Who Goes There?" is the novella that formed the basis of John Carpenter's film "The Thing." John W. Campbell's classic tells of an antarctic research base that discovers and thaws the ancient, frozen body of a crash-landed alien -- with terrifying results!
The Attentive Eye
Title | The Attentive Eye PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Dudar |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Pages | 486 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9781401059958 |
This book is an album of the famous and infamous seen through the attentive eye of the late journalist Helen Dudar "a writer," as the editor's preface remarks, "of wit, grace, rigor, intellect and astonishing range." In these pages, Paul Cézanne cohabits with John Updike, Sigmund Freud with Shelley Winters, Michael Douglas with Malcolm X; Dylan Thomas and Janice Joplin are discovered sleeping under the same roof, although in different beds and at different times; Woody Allen is encountered as a young comic on the way up, Henry Kissinger as a world leader on the way down, Norman Mailer as an office-seeker on the way nowhere. The threads binding them together in these fifty-two stories are Dudar's luminous prose, her authoritative voice, and her keen, ironic vision. "She is a writer's writer, a journalist's journalist, and a reporter's reporter," the filmmaker Nora Ephron says in her introduction. "...Helen Dudar writes frequently about everything and does it better than just about anyone else." The Editor
A Concordance to the Poems of W.B. Yeats
Title | A Concordance to the Poems of W.B. Yeats PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Maxfield Parrish |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 1014 |
Release | 2019-06-30 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1501742892 |
Now it is possible for the first time to trace in a systematic way the language patterns of one of the greatest poets who have written in English, W. B. Yeats. Like A Concordance to the Poems of Matthew Arnold, the first of the Cornell Concordances that are under the general editorship of Professor Parrish, this volume was produced on an IBM 704 electronic data-processing machine. Computer technique has so advanced that the Yeats concordance includes punctuation and gives cross references for the second parts of hyphenated words. The frequency of every word in Yeats's poems is given, and an appendix lists all indexed words in order of frequency. The body of this book consists of an index of all significant words in Yeats, each word listed in the line or lines in which it occurs. The concordance is based on the variorum text of Yeats, edited by Alspach and Allt, and includes all variants that occur in printed versions of Yeats's poems.