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Cahiers du Cinema: Interviews with Film Directors, 19531970 brings together eighteen directorsOtto Preminger, Roberto Rossellini, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Max Ophuls, Nicholas Ray, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, Alain Resnais, Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Michelangelo Antonioni, Carl-Theodor Dreyer, Federico Fellini, Robert Bresson, Joseph L.

This study sets out to explain and understand the worldview of students at Female madrasas (FeM) in Pakistan. However, one focusing on women's madrasas exclusively was needed, because currently the number of female students enrolled in madrasas is higher than the male students.

This study seeks to explore Brian Patten's position in relation to his fellow "Liverpool Poets" and to contemporary poetry more widely.

The aims and actions of the three main protagonists the Armed Forces, the political parties and mass social organizations are linked in myriad ways: the political role of the Armed Forces; Attention is paid to the immediate post-revolution period, and the national, political and military choices made as this unexpected path to democracy took hold.

An Earthy Entanglement with Spirituality offers compelling perspectives on the human spirit as represented in literature and art. Authors approach the inquiry using distinct critical approaches to varied primary sources-poetry of various genres and periods, Shakespearean drama, contemporary theater, Renaissance sculpture, and the novel, short story, sketch, and dialogue.

After Shakespeare the most famous British author in Europe, in Britain Byron was for years either neglected, or a victim of the myth of his own personality. Now he is read and studied both for his complex politics and as a forerunner of many of the ideas and techniques more usually associated with post-modernism.

Beyond inspiring the New Wave movement and continuing to reflect, and reflect on, its central tenets, Rivettes enduring contribution to the history of film is unquestionably evident in his sensitive treatment of the histories and destinies of women, especially through strong roles for actresses.

Drawing on a vast range of sources - philosophy and theology, ethics and law, biblical commentary, Hebrew poetry, medical literature, and a host of family and communal records from the Cairo Genizah - this is a ground-breaking study of ageing as both a reality and a cultural paradigm in medieval Jewish society.

Produced by an international team of experts, the volume offers the sources in their language of origin - Old English, Old Norse, Welsh, Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman, Middle English, Early Modern English - with facing-page translations and explanatory notes.

Human zoos, forgotten symbols of the colonial era, have been totally repressed in our collective memory. This book puts into perspective the spectacularization of the Other, a process that is at the origin of contemporary stereotypes and of the construction of our own identities. It allows us to understand the genesis of identity.

This book takes as its historical point of departure the radical appearance in 1779 of technically difficult keyboard music in a set of six sonatas (Op.

Martin Sohn-Rethel brings a lifetime of teaching film and media to bear on developing a new approach to analyzing the "realism" of the moving image

Gladiator was one of the great commercial successes of the early twenty-first century, a fascinating example of how an old genre can be resuscitated for a new generation. Audience - how did the makers of Gladiator 'win the crowd' and appeal to today's block-buster audience?

If Christianity in Indonesia has not been sufficiently considered, works published in English on Christianity among the ethnic Chinese in Indonesia are even scarcer, notwithstanding the fact that almost half of the Chinese minority are either Protestant or Catholic.

This study considers howBritish literature from the late-Victorian era to the 1930s draws upon Gothic andsupernatural narrative and imagery in its representations of place, whethermetropolitan, suburban or rural; it argues that this period of dramatic socio-culturalchange is shadowed by a corresponding evolution in Gothic literaryrepresentation.

This collection places the fiction of Bram Stoker in relation to this life, career and status as a late Victorian. It centres on various aspects of his interests and career, such as politics, the legal system, his role as Irvings stage manager, and analyses his work in relation to these.

W. B. Yeats's A Vision is notoriously dense. This book provides an authoritative, clear and straightforward guide to the system of A Vision, the framework within which he created many of his most important works.

What is turmoil? How may it be captured? What were its manifestations in the eighteenth century? Why does it feel so familiar, even urgent, nowadays? This book proposes a completely new ontology of turmoil through study of its incidence and impact in the eighteenth-century francophone context.

Followingthe editors introduction to the collection, the essays in Scholarly Milton examine thenature of Miltons own formidable scholarship and its implications for hisprose and poetryscholarly Milton the writeras well as subsequent scholarshistorical and theoretical framing of Milton studies as an object of scholarlyattentionscholarly Milton as at first an emergent and later an establishedacademic discipline. The essays are particularly concerned with the topics ofthe ethical ends of learning, of Miltons attention to the trivium within theRenaissance humanist educational system, and the development of scholarlycommentary on Miltons