Автор: Tom Gunning Название: The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity ISBN: 0851707432 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780851707433 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 27940.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This study examines the early work of Fritz Lang, proposing readings of the entire output of one of cinema's foremost directors. It emphasizes Lang's reflection on modernity, and hones in on the problem of identity and subjectivity in a progressively more automated, impersonal world.
Автор: Iarocci, Michael Название: Properties of modernity: romantic Spain, modern Europe, and the legacies of empire ISBN: 0826515215 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826515216 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 90810.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Traces the ways in which Spain went from being central to European history and identity during the early modern period to being marginalized and displaced by England, France, and Germany during the Romantic period. This book points out that it has been an assumption tainting literary criticism that Spain did not have a strong Romantic movement.
Автор: Mejias-Lopez, Alejandro Название: The inverted conquest: the myth of modernity and the transatlantic onset of modernism ISBN: 0826516777 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826516770 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 94990.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Modernismo (1880S-1920S) is considered one of the most groundbreaking literary movements in Hispanic history. This title shows how modernismo originated in Latin America and traveled to Spain, where it provoked a complete renovation of Spanish letters and contributed to a national identity crisis.
Автор: Sippial Tiffany A. Название: Prostitution, Modernity, and the Making of the Cuban Republic, 1840-1920 ISBN: 1469608944 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469608945 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 38810.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Between 1840 and 1920, Cuba abolished slavery, fought two wars of independence, and was occupied by the United States before finally becoming an independent republic. Tiffany A. Sippial argues that during this tumultuous era, Cuba`s struggle to define itself as a modern nation found focus in the social and sexual anxieties surrounding prostitution and its regulation.
Автор: Sheller Mimi Название: Aluminum Dreams: The making of light modernity ISBN: 0262026821 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262026826 Издательство: MIT Press Рейтинг: Цена: 36110.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание:
How aluminum enabled a high-speed, gravity-defying American modernity even as other parts of the world paid the price in environmental damage and political turmoil.
Aluminum shaped the twentieth century. It enabled high-speed travel and gravity-defying flight. It was the material of a streamlined aesthetic that came to represent modernity. And it became an essential ingredient in industrial and domestic products that ranged from airplanes and cars to designer chairs and artificial Christmas trees. It entered modern homes as packaging, foil, pots and pans and even infiltrated our bodies through food, medicine, and cosmetics. In Aluminum Dreams, Mimi Sheller describes how the materiality and meaning of aluminum transformed modern life and continues to shape the world today.
Aluminum, Sheller tells us, changed mobility and mobilized modern life. It enabled air power, the space age and moon landings. Yet, as Sheller makes clear, aluminum was important not only in twentieth-century technology, innovation, architecture, and design but also in underpinning global military power, uneven development, and crucial environmental and health concerns. Sheller describes aluminum's shiny utopia but also its dark side. The unintended consequences of aluminum's widespread use include struggles for sovereignty and resource control in Africa, India, and the Caribbean; the unleashing of multinational corporations; and the pollution of the earth through mining and smelting (and the battle to save it). Using a single material as an entry point to understanding a global history of modernization and its implications for the future, Aluminum Dreams forces us to ask: How do we assemble the material culture of modernity and what are its environmental consequences?
Aluminum Dreams includes a generous selection of striking images of iconic aluminum designs, many in color, drawn from advertisements by Alcoa, Bohn, Kaiser, and other major corporations, pamphlets, films, and exhibitions.
A study of water at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure in Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Mumbai, Los Angeles, and London.
Water lies at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure, crossing between visible and invisible domains of urban space, in the tanks and buckets of the global South and the vast subterranean technological networks of the global North. In this book, Matthew Gandy considers the cultural and material significance of water through the experiences of six cities: Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Mumbai, Los Angeles, and London. Tracing the evolving relationships among modernity, nature, and the urban imagination, from different vantage points and through different periods, Gandy uses water as a lens through which to observe both the ambiguities and the limits of nature as conventionally understood.
Gandy begins with the Parisian sewers of the nineteenth century, captured in the photographs of Nadar, and the reconstruction of subterranean Paris. He moves on to Weimar-era Berlin and its protection of public access to lakes for swimming, the culmination of efforts to reconnect the city with nature. He considers the threat of malaria in Lagos, where changing geopolitical circumstances led to large-scale swamp drainage in the 1940s. He shows how the dysfunctional water infrastructure of Mumbai offers a vivid expression of persistent social inequality in a postcolonial city. He explores the incongruous concrete landscapes of the Los Angeles River. Finally, Gandy uses the fictional scenario of a partially submerged London as the starting point for an investigation of the actual hydrological threats facing that city.
Автор: Thompson, Emily Название: The soundscape of modernity: architectural accoustics and the culture of listening in America ISBN: 0262701065 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262701068 Издательство: MIT Press Рейтинг: Цена: 45090.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A vibrant history of acoustical technology and aural culture in early-twentieth-century America.
Автор: Thomas, Julia Adeney, Название: Reconfiguring Modernity ISBN: 0520228545 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520228542 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 51750.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Shows that nature necessarily functions as a political concept and that changing ideas of nature`s political authority were central during Japan`s transformation from a semifeudal world to an industrializing colonial empire. This book presents insights into prewar Japan`s failure to achieve liberal democracy.
Автор: Daly, Nicholas Название: Literature, Technology and Modernity, 1860-2000 ISBN: 0521123844 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521123846 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 44350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Daly considers the way human/machine encounters have been imagined from the 1860s on. He argues that collisions, literal and metaphorical, dramatise the relationship between the individual and the industrial society, and suggests that the pleasures of fictional suspense help people to assimilate the speeding up of everyday life.
Автор: Daly Название: Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s ISBN: 1107630207 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107630208 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 33790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Offers an account of high and low literature and culture in the years leading up to the 1867 Reform Act. It argues that writers and artists re-evaluated their role as Britain moved towards democracy. Some embraced the crowd; some tried to escape from it; others tried to manipulate it.
Автор: Fung Название: The Intellectual Foundations of Chinese Modernity ISBN: 1107547679 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107547674 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 27450.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In the early twentieth century, China was on the brink of change. Different ideologies - radicalism, conservatism, liberalism, and social democracy - were much debated in political and intellectual circles. Edmund S. K. Fung shows how they related to one another and how intellectuals engaged according to their different cultural and political persuasions.
Автор: Bauman, Zygmunt Название: Liquid Modernity ISBN: 0745624103 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780745624105 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 16890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: aeo A major new book by one of the most original thinkers today. aeo Develops a distinctive argument about the a liquida nature of modernity. aeo Re--examines key concepts which look at the heart of orthodox accounts of the human condition, including the concepts of emancipation, individuality, work and community.
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