Author: Jane Stadler File Type: pdf Presenting a manner of thinking on both sides of the screen, this review offers screen enthusiasts the analytical and theoretical vocabulary required to articulate responses to film and television. It provides guidelines for developing the skills to understand and analyze how and why a screen text was shot, scored, and edited in a particular way, as well as for considering what impact those production choices might have on the audience. Production techniques and approaches to screen analysis are presented in a historical context. Other topics discussed include recent technological developments the implications of increasing convergence of film and television technologies and the aesthetics, narrative, realism, genre, celebrity, and cult media of global screen culture. Featuring extensive international examples, this is an ideal introduction to critical engagement with film and television.About the AuthorJane Stadleristhe author of Pulling Focus and the coauthor of Media and Society.Kelly McWilliam is theauthor of When Carrie Met Sally and the coeditor of Story Circle.

Author: Jennifer Wallis File Type: pdf This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book explores how the body was investigated in the late nineteenth-century asylum in Britain. As more and more Victorian asylum doctors looked to the bodily fabric to reveal the truth of mental disease, a whole host of techniques and technologies were brought to bear upon the patients body. These practices encompassed the clinical and the pathological, from testing the patients reflexes to dissecting the brain. Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylumtakes a unique approach to the topic, conducting a chapter-by-chapter dissection of the body. It considers how asylum doctors viewed and investigated the skin, muscles, bones, brain, and bodily fluids. The book demonstrates the importance of the body in nineteenth-century psychiatry as well as how the asylum functioned as a site of research, and will be of value to historians of psychiatry, the body, and scientific practice.**ReviewA highly original and stimulating approach to the history of psychiatry. It is likely to be added to a whole range of reading lists, including the histories of medicine, psychiatry and the body. I will certainly be adding it to mine. (Gayle Davis, Senior Lecturer in the History of Medicine, University of Edinburgh, UK)From the Back CoverThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book explores how the body was investigated in the late nineteenth-century asylum in Britain. As more and more Victorian asylum doctors looked to the bodily fabric to reveal the truth of mental disease, a whole host of techniques and technologies were brought to bear upon the patients body. These practices encompassed the clinical and the pathological, from testing the patients reflexes to dissecting the brain. Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylumtakes a unique approach to the topic, conducting a chapter-by-chapter dissection of the body. It considers how asylum doctors viewed and investigated the skin, muscles, bones, brain, and bodily fluids. The book demonstrates the importance of the body in nineteenth-century psychiatry as well as how the asylum functioned as a site of research, and will be of value to historians of psychiatry, the body, and scientific practice.

Author: Hugh Chisholm File Type: epub The 1911 Encyclopdia Britannica Eleventh Edition is a 29-volume reference work. It was developed during the process of transitioning from being a British to an American publication. Many of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of that time. This edition of the encyclopedia is now in the public domain, and has been used extensively by Wikipedia. This volume contains words starting with A - M.

Author: James J. Farrell File Type: epub Loved and hated, visited and avoided, seemingly everywhere yet endlessly the same, malls occupy a special place in American life. What, then, is this invention that evokes such strong and contradictory emotions in Americans? In many ways malls represent the apotheosis of American consumerism, and this synthetic and wide-ranging investigation is an eye-popping tour of American cultures values and beliefs. Like your favorite mall, One Nation under Goods is a browsers paradise, and in order to understand Americas culture of consumption you need to make a trip to the mall with Farrell. This lively, fast-paced history of the hidden secrets of the shopping mall explains how retail designers make shopping and goods irresistible. Architects, chain stores, and mall owners relax and beguile us into shopping through water fountains, ficus trees, mirrors, and covert security cameras. From food courts and fountains to Santa and security, Farrell explains how malls control their patrons and convince us that shopping is always an enjoyable activity. And most importantly, One Nation Under Goods shows why the malls ultimate promise of happiness through consumption is largely an illusion. Its all herefor one low price, of course.**ReviewThe Mall is the dipstick of our 20th-century culture. Its a quart down and dirty and James Farrell is telling us why.Paco Underhill, author of Why We Buy and managing director of Envirosell James Farrell shares his deeply held moral conviction that there is something wrong with a society based on the continued cycle of work-and-spend, but he never preaches, and, like many other Americans, he revels in the details of the mall experience. Carefully researched, often laugh-aloud funny, and sometimes brilliant, One Nation under Goods is an important book.Susan Strasser, author of Satisfaction Guaranteed The Making of the American Mass Market and Waste and Want A Social History of Trash. About the Author James Farrell is professor of history and director of the American Studies program at St. Olaf College. He is the author of Inventing the American Way of Death, 1830-1920 and The Spirit of the Sixties Making Postwar Radicalism.