Author: Antonia Caroline Lant File Type: pdf The most universal civilian privation in World War II Britain, the blackout possessed many symbolic meanings. Among its complicated implications for filmmakers was a stigmatization of film spectacle--including the display of Hollywood women, whose extravagant appearance connoted at best unpatriotic wastefulness and at worst collaboration with the enemy. Exploring the wartime breakdown of conventional gender roles on the screen and in the audience, Antonia Lant demonstrates that many British films of the period signaled their national cinematic identity by diverging from the notion of the Hollywood star, the mainstay of commercial American motion pictures, replacing her with a deglamourized, mobilized heroine. Nevertheless, the war machine demanded that British films continue to celebrate stable and reassuring gender roles. Contradictions abounded, both within film narratives and between narrative and real life. Analyzing films of all the major wartime studios, the author scrutinizes the efforts of realist and melodramatic texts to confront womens wartime experiences, including conscription. By combining study of contemporary posters, advertisements, propaganda notices, and cartoons with consideration of recent feminist theoretical work on the cinema, spectatorship, and history, she has produced the first book to examine the relationships among gender, cinema, and nationality as they are affected by the stresses of war. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. **

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Author: Richard Rinehart File Type: pdf How will our increasingly digital civilization persist beyond our lifetimes? Audio and videotapes demagnetize CDs delaminate Internet art links to websites that no longer exist Amiga software doesnt run on iMacs. In Re-collection, Richard Rinehart and Jon Ippolito argue that the vulnerability of new media art illustrates a larger crisis for social memory. They describe a variable media approach to rescuing new media, distributed across producers and consumers who can choose appropriate strategies for each endangered work. New media art poses novel preservation and conservation dilemmas. Given the ephemerality of their mediums, software art, installation art, and interactive games may be heading to obsolescence and oblivion. Rinehart and Ippolito, both museum professionals, examine the preservation of new media art from both practical and theoretical perspectives, offering concrete examples that range from Nam June Paik to Danger Mouse. They investigate three threats to twenty-first-century creativity technology, because much new media art depends on rapidly changing software or hardware institutions, which may rely on preservation methods developed for older mediums and law, which complicates access with intellectual property constraints such as copyright and licensing. Technology, institutions, and law, however, can be enlisted as allies rather than enemies of ephemeral artifacts and their preservation. The variable media approach that Rinehart and Ippolito propose asks to what extent works to be preserved might be medium-independent, translatable into new mediums when their original formats are obsolete. **Review Art is just one professional field that is trying to grapple with the preservation of digital and new media material, says Richard Rinehart, director of the Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University. With fellow digi-trailblazer Jon Ippolito, Rinehart has penned what will be the first book dedicated to the subject of conserving new media art, Re-collection New Media, Art, and Social Memory. It is due to be released by MIT Press in the spring. (ARTnews) Three specters haunt the digital cabinets of the cultural heritage sector death by institution, death by law, death by technology. This book explains our options. Read it if you want to prevail. (Bruce Sterling) This book will arrive like a bombshell in the twin citadels of art museums and conservation departments. The incredibly interesting and compelling narrative explains the need to rethink conservation and the very idea of the artwork. (John G. Hanhardt, Consulting Senior Curator for Film and Media Arts, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and former curator at the Guggenheim and Whitney Museums) With years of experience in curation, preservation, art making, and writing, Rinehart and Ippolito have written their definitive statement on variable media, that is, any kind of artifact designed (or doomed) to change over time. Materials decompose, technologies grow obsolete, and software stops running. But far from simply bemoaning the entropy of our times, this book offers a bold and inspiring manifesto on how best to care for the art and culture of the digital age. (Alexander R. Galloway, author of The Interface Effect) For almost 20 years, there has been debate and speculation about a potential digital dark ages, when we lose our collective memory through a plague of digital depredations. Re-collection is not just a clear-headed summary of the issues. Ippolito and Rinehart have written a manifesto and a virtual Swiss Army knife of what should and can be done to prevent such degradation. Curators, conservators, archivists, collection managers, programmers, lawyers, creators, and dealers alike will benefit and hence benefit the future by committing these principles and lessons to memory. (Steve Dietz, Founding Curator, New Media Initiatives, Walker Art Center) As curators, Ippolitos and Rineharts sense of passion for saving digital art and our social memory is evident in Re-Collection and their book is a manifesto for museum professionals who are feeling the anxieties over how to best hold on to a sense of our collective, cultural heritage in the digital age. (Hyperrhiz) Part informational overview, part professional manual, and part preliminary theoretical dialogue, this useful, thought-provoking book collates and calibrates information about the emergent field of cultural technology preservation. (Choice) Although the focus of the book is on new media art, it is of interest for anybody who deals with the preservation of non-traditional media in museums -- which also include digitalexhibitions. About the Author Richard Rinehart is Director of the Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University. Jon Ippolito is Associate Professor of New Media and Codirector of the Still Water Lab and Digital Curation Program at the University of Maine.

Author: Dahlia Evans File Type: mobi The Book Every Aspiring Fiction Writer Needs On Their Bookshelf! Sometimes the word said just doesnt cut it. Sometimes a writer needs something with a little more expressive power a word or phrase that helps the reader visualize the tonal quality or mood of the character doing the talking. For many years, writers have been eagerly awaiting the publication of a resource to help them with this dilemma. Thankfully, that wait is finally over. Now theres a way for any writer, regardless of their experience, to craft dialogue tags that add emotion and vibrancy to their storytelling all while avoiding tired and worn out cliches. Dahlia Evans has compiled a dialogue thesaurus unlike anything ever published. This unique sourcebook is filled to the brim with words and phrases gathered from hundreds of bestselling novels. Finally, you will be able to open up vistas of endless inspiration and bring your dialogue to life. Inside Youll Discover h1Over 500 dialogue and action tags you can use instead of said.h1h1More than 2900 adverbs that can be used to describe speech.h1h1Thousands of emotion and feeling words in adjective and noun form.h1h1A thousand phrases to describe body language and movement.h1h1Tons of example sentences to help solidify your understanding.h1h1And best of all, words are sorted in alphabetical order, as well as by category.h1The Dialogue Thesaurus is the first book of its kind a thesaurus geared towards writers who want to frame their dialogue with compelling and expressive words and phrases. **