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The Tyranny of Elegance: Consumer Cosmopolitanism in the Era of Goethe
Daniel L. Purdy
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In a famous intersection of fashion and literature, the popularity of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther provoked hundreds -- perhaps thousands -- of young Germans to purchase and wear the blue and yellow suit of the novel's protagonist. Their actions not only showed their affinity with Werther and with other wearers of the blue and yellow, but also elevated cultural identification over more traditional elements of social standing, such as employment, education, region, or family. Even aristocratic Prussians forsook their riding garb for Werther's rustic suit.
In The Tyranny of Elegance, Daniel Purdy examines the coming of bourgeois fashion (Mode) and luxury consumerism (Luxus) to eighteenth-century Germany. The liberation symbolized by Werther's suit was illusory, he explains, as fashion itself quickly became a force for conformity as rigid as the sumptuary laws -- such as clothing ordinances -- of earlier centuries. Purdy examines the extraordinary influence of Frederick Bertuch's Mode Journal, which chronicled in obsessive detail the clothing and decorative trends in London, Paris, and other European capitals. He traces the elite reaction against fashion that followed the example of the king, Frederick the Great, who dressed poorly -- in worn and even dirty clothes -- to separate himself from the francophile fastidiousness typical of absolutist armies. The changing notions of personal appearance that swept Europe at the end of the eighteenth century, Purdy concludes, were more than simply new styles reflecting new political ideologies -- they indicated a fundamental shift in the epistemology of the subject and the body.
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Now in its 25th year, the Commercial Theater Institute sponsors an annual intensive program in New York for individuals interested in producing or investing in the theatre that attracts people from all over the world. The top working theatre professionals offer hard, factual information to those interested in producing for Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, anywhere in North America, as well as in the United Kingdom. The Commercial Theater Institute Guide to Producing Plays and Musicals now collects for the first time the cream of the crop of that advice, from the noted theatre professionals who participate in the program, in their own words. Interviews, contributions, and a resource directory are included from 30 theatre professionals who have won a total of 45 Tony Awards. Agents, directors, production designers, general managers, fundraisers, marketing directors, producers, and theatrical attorneys all offer invaluable advice in a book that will be the definitive resource in its field.
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Real info on the Real Deal.......2007-08-28
This book isn't for everyone. However, if you're seriously interested in producing for COMMERCIAL theater, this is THE book. It's full of useful, pertinent info, and is a guide to and insight into some of the top players in the exhilirating world of commercial theater. As a playwright, I learned a lot -- including a definite sense that I am NOT the one to produce my own musical.
Excellent survey.......2007-05-12
Any who want to put on a play will find the decades of experience of the Commercial Theatre Institute lends to working knowledge and real-world applications, collecting for the first time the cream of the crop of advice from the professionals who participate in an annual intensive program in New York. Chapters include interviews and contributions from over thirty such professionals as they explore everything from fundraising and Broadway and off-Broadway productions to community theatre and sponsorship and co-production opportunities. This excellent survey will appeal to any interested in commercial play production's nuts and bolts as well as to those libraries specializing in community drama and theatre efforts.
Wonderful.......2007-01-16
This book is an exciting read for anyone who has ideas for plays and musicals, but is unsure how to get them produced. It gives practical informations in a way that makes it "user friendly". I highly recommend this book for anyone with unheard ideas for the stage!!!
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The Training Manager's Quick-Tip Sourcebook is a comprehensive guide that distills the best thinking and planning from experts in the field of training and development. This handy resource offers you proven solutions to a variety of training challenges, including quick steps for taking the pulse of your training programs, analyzing training costs, and identifying return on investment pitfalls. In addition, the book contains easy-to-use tools and strategies that tell you how to
- Build a solid training business plan
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In this remarkable new study, the renowned historian and theorist of early cinema turns his attention to the work of Fritz Lang, proposing new readings of the entire output of one of cinema's foremost directors. Gunning examines the films not only as a stylistically coherent body of work, but as an attempt to portray the modern world through cinema. The world of modernity in which systems replace individuals is conveyed by Lange's mastery of cinematic set design, composition, and editing. Lang presents not only a decades-long vision of cinematic narrative that can be compared to that of Alfred Hitchcock or Jean Renoir, but a view of modernity that relates strongly to the ideas of Adorno, Brecht, Benjamin, and Kracauer.
From the sweeping allegorical films of the '20s to the chilly and abstract thrillers of the '50s, Fritz Lang's films, Gunning claims, are among the most precious records of the twentieth century. The Films of Fritz Lang immeasurably enriches our understanding of a great artist who fades away even in being recognized and interpreted, an enigmatic figure at the junction of aesthetics, history, biography and theory.
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Great book on Lang.......2006-09-25
Occasionally quirky and idiosyncratic, this rich and thought-provoking book uses wide variety of sources and methodologies to analyse the work of one of the true geniuses of cinema.
Recomended to all students of cinema.
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The first book to bring together these interviews of master moviemakers from the American Film Institute’s renowned seminars, Conversations with the Great Moviemakers offers an unmatched history of American cinema in the words of its greatest practitioners.
Here are the incomparable directors Frank Capra, Elia Kazan, King Vidor, David Lean, Fritz Lang (“I learned only from bad films”), William Wyler, and George Stevens; renowned producers and cinematographers; celebrated screenwriters Ray Bradbury and Ernest Lehman; as well as the immortal Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini (“Making a movie is a mathematical operation. It’s absolutely impossible to improvise”). Taken together, these conversations offer uniquely intimate access to the thinking, the wisdom, and the genius of cinema’s most talented pioneers.
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Tailored to give business professionals and their staffs precisely what they need to know about this regulatory sea change, PLI's Guide to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for Business Professionals concisely explains the governance, disclosure, reporting, and record-keeping reforms reflected in many new SEC, NYSE, and NASD rules.
Featuring subject-oriented compliance checklists and citations to the rules for follow-up research, the book avoids legal jargon and technical references while it clarifies:
• New management certification requirements for quarterly and annual reports. • The steps involved in developing mandatory disclosure procedures and financial controls. • Ways of improving Management's Discussion & Analysis to meet new SEC standards for MD&A. • Restrictions on the use of non-GAAP measures in SEC filings to protect investors. • Stricter standards for director, auditor, and research analyst independence to prevent conflicts of interest.
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Everything You Need to Know About Making Rolled Cookies, Filled Cookies, Molded Cookies, Refrigerator Cookies, Drop Cookies, Cookie Bars, Rolled Wafers, Macaroons, Meringues and Kisses, and Christmas Cookies
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Seoul Stirring: 5 Korean Directors
Tony Rayns , and
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Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
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ASIN: 0905263790 |
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A wonderful companion to the DVD........2002-12-29
This extraordinary book on the last hundred years American cinema is an exceptionally well written, edited and researched document of the film, without any of the usual scholarly classroom didactics or conceited Hollywood self-congratulatory posturing. Scorsese's humble voice is evident throughout, and it is one of self-confidence, clarity and enthusiasm. The book is a wonderful companion to the DVD.
It's kind of corny.......2000-02-17
I was reading it to find out some tips, yet it was a corny book. I didn't like it.
Highly recommed book to supplement the programme.......1998-08-15
This book is more of a transcript of the 4½ hour long master piece of the documentary, but it's curtainly worth the money. Here you have all the still pictures from the hundreds of film Scorsese comments in his programme. A book for every filmbuffs bookself.
TYPICAL PICTURE BOOK.......1998-07-11
YOU WOULD THINK THE AUTHORS WOULD WRITE SOMETHING. THEY PROBABLY TALKED AND TRANSCRIBED WHAT SCORSESE SAID. YOU FIGURE WITH A GUY LIKE SCORSESE THAT HE WOULD HAVE A LOT TO SAY ABOUT HIS FAVORITE MOVIES AND THE MOVIES THAT INFLUENCED HIM SO MUCH. HE DOES NOT DO THAT IN THIS BOOK. IT IS FULL OF NICE PICTURES, BUT NOT MUCH AS INFORMATION GOES. YOU EXPECT TO LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT THE MOVIES HE LOVES BUT HE DOESN'T GIVE ANY USEFUL INFORMATION. HE PROBABLY THOUGHT THAT IF IT HAD A LOT OF GLOSSY STILLS OF HIS FAVORITE MOVIES THE BOOK WOULD SELL. THE THING IS THIRTY DOLLARS AND NOT REALLY WORTH IT. HE SEEMS TO BE SAYING THE SAME THINGS OVER AND OVER WHEREVER YOU READ ABOUT HIM OR SEE HIM ON TV. HE IS AN EXPERT BUT WHY DOESN'T HE SHOW THAT IN THIS BOOK. IT IS VERY VERY SKIMPY AND UNLIKE HIS MOVIES LACK CONTENT. IF HE SPENT MORE TIME WITH THE BOOK INSTEAD OF HAVING SOMEONE ELSE WRITE IT AND THEN CHECK AND OKAY THE BOOK, THE BOOK MAY HAVE TURNED OUT TO BE SOMETHING OF A GREAT BOOK ON FILM AND FILM HISTORY AS WELL AS THE FIRST GREAT FILM CRITICISM BOOK BY A WORKING FILM DIRECTOR SINCE THE BOOKS OF TRUFFAUT. THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM. WHAT HE SHOULD DO NOW IS REWRITE THE BOOK FOR THE PAPERBACK RELEASE. THIS BOOK IS NOT WORTH THE WEIGHT.
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The Griffith Project: Volume 3: Films Produced in July - December 1909 (Distributed for the British Film Institute)
Manufacturer: British Film Institute
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No other silent film director has been so extensively studied as D. W. Griffith. However, only a small group of his more than 500 films has been the subject of a systematic analysis and the vast majority of his other works stills await proper examination. For the first time in film studies, the complete creative output of Griffith - from Professional Jealousy (1907) to The Struggle (1931) - will be explored in this multi-volume collection of contributions from an international team of leading scholars in the field.
Created as a companion to the on-going retrospective held by the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, The Griffith Project is an indispensable guide to the work of a crucial figure in the arts of the nineteenth century.
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Demystifying the Global Economy: A Guide for Students
David E. O'Connor
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Do your students understand the global economy? This guide, written by a nationally known teacher of economics, provides a clearly explained, engagingly presented introduction to the global economy and a wealth of the most recent information, statistics, and primary materials on all aspects of the topic. Written specifically for students, the guide includes a narrative discussion defining and discussing the global economy in its historical and contemporary context; a variety of essays on a number of important aspects of the global economy; a timeline of events; a selection of important recent primary documents for critical thinking assignments and research papers; a glossary of selected terms; and a useful annotated research guide of books, films and videos, and recommended Web sites. This guide is a must purchase for school and public libraries and classrooms. A variety of materials makes this an indispensable tool for students. In addition to a thorough narrative discussion of the global economy in its historical and contemporary context, O'Connor provides four essays with specific examples and many charts, tables and statistics, as well as published editorial cartoons from nationally known political cartoonist Bob Englehart of The Hartford Courant, on these topics: international trade and regional trade organizations; multinational corporations; the "have" and "have not" countries; and global challenges for the 21st century. Fifteen prmary documents published in the last few years offer a variety of viewpoints on the global economy, from the Economist's "Case for Globalization" to the role of NGOs, the position of labor organizations, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and the President's Economic Report for 2000--all of which will stimulate critical thinking skills. The annotated research guide provides needed print sources and Web sites for further research, as well as recommended films and videos for classroom use.
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Choice Magazine.......2003-01-28
O'Connor, David E. Demystifying the global economy: a guide for students. Greenwood, 2002. 229p bibl index afp ISBN 0-313-31863-8, $.... Outstanding Title! Reviewed in 2002nov CHOICE.
Fortunate indeed will be the students whose first exposure to international economics is an assignment to read this book, written by an established author (e.g., The Global Economy, 2000) and high school economics teacher. He summarizes in a clear and concise style the major developments, institutions, relevant data, and economic and social issues that have contributed to and are associated with the emergence of worldwide commerce and industry over the last century. Following an introductory chapter describing the technological developments and government policies fostering the network of international trade, two chapters cover the roles of international and regional organizations and of multinational business corporations. The penultimate chapter focuses on the disparities of wealth and income among nations. The fifth and final chapter addresses environmental concerns raised by economic globalization. To assist readers unfamiliar with the topic, the volume contains a list of commonly used terminology and abbreviations for international organizations, a time line of the 20th century's major events impacting international trade, a glossary of selected terms, and an annotated bibliography. A final section contains several primary source documents that present current views on issues raised by the global economy. Highly recommended for general readers and undergraduate students, lower-division undergraduate and up. -- E. L. Whalen, formerly, Clark College
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Did you know that Abraham Lincoln and Muhammad Ali both consumed bee pollen to boost energy, or that beekeepers in nineteenth-century Europe viewed their bees as part of the family? Or that after man, the honeybee, Apis mellifera, is the most studied creature on the planet? And that throughout history, honey has been highly valued by the ancient Egyptians (the first known beekeepers), the Greeks, and European monarchs, as well as Winnie the Pooh?
In Sweetness and Light, Hattie Ellis leads us into the hive, revealing the fascinating story of bees and honey from the Stone Age to the present, from Nepalese honey hunters to urban hives on the rooftops of New York City. Uncovering the secrets of the honeybee one by one, Ellis shows how this small insect, with a collective significance so much greater than its individual size, can carry us through past and present to tell us more about ourselves than any other living creature.
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Absolutely Delightful!.......2007-07-20
I find honeybees fascinating, and when I went to find a book, this was the first thing in my search. It was a great find. The book has a lot of information, but also it isn't dull to read like some books. The information is spliced in with her personal experiences and descriptions of various types of honey. Plus, the woman writes beautifully. Her writing style is romantic and concise, presumably because she is a food writer. But if you are at all interested in bees or honey, I highly recommend it. If you are someone who already knows a lot about the science behind bees, most of the basic information you may already know, but perhaps not the history of the hive, old traditions with bees, or the way honey is classified the world over. And there is an amazing section on how the Africanized bees came to this country and how things went awry. It was an absolutely delightful book to read, and I was sad when I came to the last pages, Ellis pulled me into the world of bees and honey, and I was truly attached to some of the people she had met in her journey to do research for the book. It truly was a joy in every way that a book should be.
A great overview of the history of apiculture.......2006-01-24
I was enchanted by this book. Artfully written, it gives you a real sense of the history of the honey bee and of the people who cultivated it. Hattie Ellis incorporates a great diversity of viewpoints and imparts her love of the myriad flavors of honey, honey products and the foods they grew up with.
The stories of bees & honey from ancient to modern times.......2005-05-11
It's amazing to receive two books on honey and honeybees virtually simultaneously from different publishers, but that's how the publishing world goes, and Sweetness And Light is one of the two, following the stories of bees and honey from ancient to modern times. Hattie Ellis' history blends social issues, science, travel and nature insights, and comes from a columnist who specializes in writing about food. Lively anecdotes follow the history, especially the individuals involved in pioneering discoveries in the field. A 'must' for honey historians.
An Intimate Connection Between Human and Insect.......2005-03-30
Jonathan Swift, in _The Battle of the Books_, wrote about bees that they had filled their hives with honey and wax, "... thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light." The quote is the epigram for Hattie Ellis's book, Sweetness & Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee (Harmony Books). The book is partly a travelogue, as she visits different continents and describes their particular honeys, and a partly a review of bee literature, as well as an account of biology and natural history affecting human history. It is thus a wide-ranging tale, but anyone reading it will understand that bees and humans have had an intimate connection that surpasses in complexity any other we have made to domesticated animals.
Ellis's book begins with the evolution of the bee; the oldest known bee was found in New Jersey, preserved in amber from around a hundred million years ago. Cave paintings going back some 8,000 years show honey-hunters, climbing trees with ancient vessels to bring back sweet treasure. When humans left hunter-gathering and settled on agriculture, they also made pots and baskets; probably some bees took advantage of such containers for their hives, and thus the venerable partnership was born. The Egyptians were the first farmers to keep bees, and many of their practices from over 4,000 years ago are still used by beekeepers. Honeybees are part of the old world, not native elsewhere, but they have been carried all over the world. Transporting them was difficult, for they would be two months at sea to reach America, or six months to Australia. Among the most interesting of chapters here is the one having to do with urban bees and beekeepers. Urban honey has its advantages, among which are that the bees forage on a varied horticultural diet, the flowers of which are untouched by pesticides and chemicals of agriculture. Ellis interviews a beekeeper who has seventeen hives on rooftops in New York, and shuttles by subway to tend them. He got the use of the rooftops by advertising, and giving a percentage of the honey to the owners of the buildings.
Ellis tells over and over incidents that recount a particular closeness to our one domesticated insect. There is folklore devoted to bees that has no equivalent in, say, the raising of cattle. Bees were often thought of as part of the family, and "telling the bees" is an ancient, and still current, ritual to keep them in the family circle. Family news, like an upcoming wedding, is whispered to a hive, and some wedding cake eventually left for the bees to consume. The bees certainly had to be told of deaths, and perhaps a bit of food from the obsequies left for them. If the beekeeper died, the hives, perhaps with black crepe on them, were turned away from the procession. Such traditions make a modicum of sense; if a beekeeper dies, the intimate connection between keeper and bees is broken, and the importance of a connection to the new keeper is reinforced. One beekeeper after another relates that not only is there a particular affection for one's hives, the bees can sense the keeper's emotional state. Bad language and quarreling, the legend goes, offend the bees and cause the moral insects to deliver a reproof by stinging; but keepers do say that to work with bees, you need to have a patience and be in a good mood. One keeper says, "Whatever tension or anger you have from the rest of the world, you just have to let go." It is one of the pleasant lessons bees have for us, and Ellis has written a book full of similar sweet stories and enlightening facts.
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