Pandaemonium

Author : Humphrey Jennings
Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848315864
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Pandaemonium 1660–1886 written by Humphrey Jennings and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting texts taken from letters, diaries, literature, scientific journals and reports, Pandæmonium gathers a beguiling narrative as it traces the development of the machine age in Britain. Covering the years between 1660 and 1886, it offers a rich tapestry of human experience, from eyewitness reports of the Luddite Riots and the Peterloo Massacre to more intimate accounts of child labour, Utopian communities, the desecration of the natural world, ground-breaking scientific experiments, and the coming of the railways. Humphrey Jennings, co-founder of the Mass Observation movement of the 1930s and acclaimed documentary film-maker, assembled an enthralling narrative of this key period in Britain's national consciousness. The result is a highly original artistic achievement in its own right. Thanks to the efforts of his daughter, Marie-Louise Jennings, Pandæmonium was originally published in 1985, and in 2012 it was the inspiration behind Danny Boyle's electrifying Opening Ceremony for the London Olympic Games. Frank Cottrell Boyce, who wrote the scenario for the ceremony, contributes a revealing new foreword for this edition.

Author : Richard BOVET
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Pandæmonium, or the Devil's Cloyster. Being a further blow to modern Sadduceism, proving the existence of witches and spirits, etc written by Richard BOVET and published by . This book was released on 1684 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Abina Manning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Pandæmonium written by Abina Manning and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : K. Uszkalo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137498226
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Bewitched and Bedeviled written by K. Uszkalo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narratives of possession have survived in early English medical and philosophical treatises. Using ideas derived from cognitive science, this study moves through the stages of possession and exorcism to describe how the social, religious, and medical were internalized to create the varied manifestations of demon possession in early modern England.

Author : Paul Newland
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526133148
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book British art cinema written by Paul Newland and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to provide a direct and comprehensive account of British art cinema. Film history has tended to view British filmmakers as aesthetically conservative, but the truth is they have a long tradition of experiment and artistry, both within and beyond the mainstream. Beginning with the silent period and running up to the 2010s, the book draws attention to this tradition while acknowledging that art cinema in Britain is a complex and fluid concept that needs to be considered within broader concerns. It will be of particular interest to scholars and students of British cinema history, film genre, experimental filmmaking, and British cultural history.

Author : LucyD. Curzon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351558994
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Mass-Observation and Visual Culture written by LucyD. Curzon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mass-Observation and Visual Culture: Depicting Everyday Lives in Britain critically analyses the role that visual culture played in the early development of Mass-Observation, the innovative British anthropological research group founded in 1937. The group?s production and use of painting, collage, photography, and other media illustrates not only the broad scope of Mass-Observation?s efforts to document everyday life, but also, more specifically, the centrality of visual elements to its efforts at understanding national identity in the 1930s. Although much interest has previously focused on Mass-Observation?s use of written reports and opinion surveys, as well as diaries that were kept by hundreds of volunteer observers, this book is the first full-length study of the group?s engagement with visual culture. Exploring the paintings of Graham Bell and William Coldstream; the photographs of Humphrey Spender; the paintings, collages, and photographs of Julian Trevelyan; and Humphrey Spender?s photographs and widely recognized ?Mass-Observation film?, Spare Time, among other sources, Mass-Observation and Visual Culture: Depicting Everyday Lives in Britain positions these works as key sources of information with regard to illuminating the complex character of British identity during the Depression era.

Author : L. Knoppers
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403983186
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Milton in Popular Culture written by L. Knoppers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-06-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breathing life into a Milton for the Twenty-first century, this cutting-edge collection shows students and scholars alike how Milton transforms and is transformed by popular literature and polemics, film and television, and other modern media.

Author : Eric B. Song
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801468094
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Dominion Undeserved written by Eric B. Song and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That the writings of John Milton continue to provoke study and analysis centuries after his lifetime speaks no doubt to his literary greatness but also to the many ways in which his art both engaged and transcended the political and theological tensions of his age. In Dominion Undeserved, Eric B. Song offers a brilliant reading of Milton's major writings, finding in them a fundamental impasse that explains their creative power. According to Song, a divided view of creation governs Milton's related systems of cosmology, theology, art, and history. For Milton, any coherent entity-a nation, a poem, or even the new world-must be carved out of and guarded against an original unruliness. Despite being sanctioned by God, however, this agonistic mode of creation proves ineffective because it continues to manifest internal rifts that it can never fully overcome. This dilemma is especially pronounced in Milton's later writings, including Paradise Lost, where all forms of creativity must strive against the fact that chaos precedes order and that disruptive forces will continue to reemerge, seemingly without end. Song explores the many ways in which Milton transforms an intractable problem into the grounds for incisive commentary and politically charged artistry. This argument brings into focus topics ranging from Milton's recurring allusions to the Eastern Tartars, the way Milton engages with country house poetry and colonialist discourses in Paradise Lost, and the lasting relevance of Anglo-Irish affairs for his late writings. Song concludes with a new reading of Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes in which he shows how Milton's integration of conflicting elements forms the heart of his literary archive and confers urgency upon his message even as it reaches its future readers.

Author : Keith Beattie
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 184779727X
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Humphrey Jennings written by Keith Beattie and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humphrey Jennings has been described as the only real poet that British cinema has produced. His documentary films are remarkable records of Britain at peace and war, and his range of representational approaches transcended accepted notions of wartime propaganda and revised the strict codes of British documentary film of the 1930s and 1940s. Poet, propagandist, surrealist and documentary filmmaker – Jennings' work embodies an outstanding mix of startling apprehension, personal expression and representational innovation. This book carefully examines and expertly explains the central components of Jennings' most significant films, and considers the relevance of his filmmaking to British cinema and contemporary experience. Films analysed include Spare Time, Words for Battle, Listen to Britain, Fires Were Started, The Silent Village, A Diary for Timothy and Family Portrait.

Author : Mato Sato
Publisher : Yen Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1975319729
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Executioner and Her Way of Life, Vol. 2 written by Mato Sato and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey to where the fog never lifts… Libelle, a city by the sea. Those who venture into its fog are said never to make it back alive—a murderous phenomenon that’s another of the Four Major Human Errors that has ravaged the world. But for Menou, it just may be the solution she’s looking for. To fulfill her role as Executioner, she needs to find a way to murder Akari, the girl who seems to spring back to life whenever she’s killed. Maybe this time, Menou will be successful in carrying out her duty... but a calculated encounter with Manon, the daughter of Count Libelle, shifts all their fates in a direction that even Akari never could have predicted. Just what will become of the Executioner and her seemingly unkillable target...?