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Ridley Scott's Blade Runner is widely regarded as a "masterpiece of
modern cinema" and is regularly ranked as one of the great films of
all time. Set in a dystopian future where the line between human
beings and 'replicants' is blurred, the film raises a host of
philosophical questions about what it is to be human, the
possibility of moral agency and freedom in 'created' life forms,
and the capacity of cinema to make a genuine contribution to our
engagement with these kinds of questions. This volume of specially
commissioned chapters systematically explores and addresses these
issues from a philosophical point of view. Beginning with a helpful
introduction, the seven chapters examine the following questions:
How is the theme of death explored in Blade Runner and with what
implications for our understanding of the human condition? What can
we learn about the relationship between emotion and reason from the
depiction of the 'replicants' in Blade Runner? How are memory,
empathy, and moral agency related in Blade Runner? How does the
style and 'mood' of Blade Runner bear upon its thematic and
philosophical significance? Is Blade Runner a meditation on the
nature of film itself? Including a brief biography of the director
and a detailed list of references to other writings on the film,
Blade Runner is essential reading for students - indeed anyone -
interested in philosophy and film studies. Contributors: Colin
Allen, Peter Atterton, Amy Coplan, David Davies, Berys Gaut,
Stephen Mulhall, C. D. C. Reeve.
Ridley Scott's Blade Runner is widely regarded as a "masterpiece of
modern cinema" and is regularly ranked as one of the great films of
all time. Set in a dystopian future where the line between human
beings and 'replicants' is blurred, the film raises a host of
philosophical questions about what it is to be human, the
possibility of moral agency and freedom in 'created' life forms,
and the capacity of cinema to make a genuine contribution to our
engagement with these kinds of questions. This volume of specially
commissioned chapters systematically explores and addresses these
issues from a philosophical point of view. Beginning with a helpful
introduction, the seven chapters examine the following questions:
How is the theme of death explored in Blade Runner and with what
implications for our understanding of the human condition? What can
we learn about the relationship between emotion and reason from the
depiction of the 'replicants' in Blade Runner? How are memory,
empathy, and moral agency related in Blade Runner? How does the
style and 'mood' of Blade Runner bear upon its thematic and
philosophical significance? Is Blade Runner a meditation on the
nature of film itself? Including a brief biography of the director
and a detailed list of references to other writings on the film,
Blade Runner is essential reading for students - indeed anyone -
interested in philosophy and film studies. Contributors: Colin
Allen, Peter Atterton, Amy Coplan, David Davies, Berys Gaut,
Stephen Mulhall, C. D. C. Reeve.
Sexual images saturate today's culture--and children will learn
about sex somewhere. But research shows that they want to learn
from the parents they trust.
Talking about sex doesn't have to be a fear-filled challenge. The
"Focus on the Family(R) Guide to Talking with Your Kids about Sex
"shows parents how to talk with confidence to their kids about sex
and sexuality. This candid resource is full of the latest
information, practical insights, and age-appropriate answers to the
questions parents and children ask about sex. Focus on the Family's
Physicians Resource Council, along with research from The Medical
Institute for Sexual Health provides parents with the tools and
empowering encouragement they need in order to communicate more
effectively and biblically about sex, self-control, and
self-respect at every stage of a child's development.
David Davies (1742 1819) was an English clergyman and social
commentator, best remembered for this survey of the lives of rural
agricultural labourers. Davies was ordained in 1782 and became the
rector of Barkham parish, where he remained incumbent until his
death. This volume, first published in 1795, contains Davies'
discussion of the living conditions of agricultural labourers in
England. Davies discusses in detail the causes of the poverty of
labourers, linking the high prices of goods with poverty, and
proposes measures to relieve the labourers, including linking their
daily wage to the price of bread. Davies' observations also
demonstrate the failings of the contemporary Poor Laws. Originally
focusing on the annual expenditure of labourers in Davies' own
parish, this volume was expanded to include accounts of expenditure
from elsewhere in Britain. This meticulously researched volume
provides valuable evidence for the increase in rural poverty in the
late eighteenth century.
WHEELS OF COURAGE reveals the never-before-told story of the
world's first wheelchair athletes: U.S. soldiers, sailors, and
Marines who were paralysed on the battlefield during World War II.
They organised the first-ever wheelchair basketball teams within
V.A. hospitals after the war, which quickly spread across the
nation and changed the perception and treatment of disabled people.
The book tells this story through the lens of three of these vets,
describing their time in the military, their injuries, their
recovery, and their role in creating wheelchair basketball. These
men changed the narrative of disability, from pity for people whose
lives were over to seeing them as capable people who happened to
have a disability. Their doctors changed the way the medical
community looked at and treated disabled patients by treating the
whole patient instead of just trying to make the patient as
comfortable as possible in a hopeless situation. And laws started
changing to make the world more accessible to the disabled --
things we take for granted today, like sidewalk ramps. For the
disabled, for sports fans, for veterans, for history buffs -- this
is a narrative of hope, perseverance, and acceptance.
The Thin Red Line is the third feature-length film from acclaimed
director Terrence Malick, set during the struggle between American
and Japanese forces for Guadalcanal in the South Pacific during
World War Two. It is a powerful, enigmatic and complex film that
raises important philosophical questions, ranging from the
existential and phenomenological to the artistic and technical.
This is the first collection dedicated to exploring the
philosophical aspects of Malick's film. Opening with a helpful
introduction that places the film in context, five essays, four of
which were specially commissioned for this collection, go on to
examine the following: the exploration of Heideggerian themes -
such as being-towards-death and the vulnerability of Dasein's world
- in The Thin Red Line how Malick's film explores and cinematically
expresses the embodied nature of our experience of, and agency in,
the world Malick's use of cinematic techniques, and how the style
of his images shapes our affective, emotional, and cognitive
responses to the film the role that images of nature play in
Malick's cinema, and his 'Nietzschean' conception of human nature.
The Thin Red Line is essential reading for students interested in
philosophy and film or phenomenology and existentialism. It also
provides an accessible and informative insight into philosophy for
those in related disciplines such as film studies, literature and
religion. Contributors: Simon Critchley, Hubert Dreyfus and Camilo
Prince, David Davies, Amy Coplan, Iain Macdonald.
Diego Velazquez (1599-1660), considered by many to be the greatest
of Spain's great painters, spent his crucial formative years in
Seville, learning his craft and producing many early masterpieces.
When he departed from his native city as a young man of 24,
Velazquez's accomplishments were already impressive: he left to
assume the position of Court Painter to Philip IV of Spain in
Madrid. In this beautifully illustrated book, an international team
of art scholars explores the importance of Seville for Velazquez.
Discussions range across many topics, including Velazquez's
education and training, Sevillian culture and Catholic theology,
picaresque literature, and Velazquez's subject matter-portraiture,
sacred subjects, and the bodegones (kitchen and tavern scenes with
prominent still life) in which Velazquez developed his distinctive
naturalistic style. The Seville of Velazquez's youth was the chief
Spanish port of trade with the New World and a major religious
center that witnessed the passionate controversy over the mystery
of the Immaculate Conception, a subject depicted in an early
Velazquez painting. Other surviving paintings from the artist's
Sevillian years include his first dated painting, Old Woman Cooking
Eggs (1618), and his famous masterpiece Water-seller of Seville.
This book serves as the catalogue for a major exhibition on
Velazquez's early work to be held at the National Gallery of
Scotland in Edinburgh, August 8 through October 20, 1996. The
exhibit also includes a selection of influential works by
Velazquez's important contemporaries, such as the sculptor Montanes
and painters Alonso Cano and Ribalta. Distributed by Yale
University Press for National Galleries of Scotland
A comic actor who first came to attention on the popular radio series The Goon Show, Peter Sellers remains one of the world’s most acclaimed comedy stars. Graduating from radio and TV to significant film roles, Sellers demonstrated a remarkable gift for character transformation.
The three films in this exclusive box-set are from the late 50s / early 60s period of Sellers’ career before he became an international star as Inspector Clouseau.
Heavens Above! (1963) is a British comedy of manners par excellence in which Sellers’ socialist priest is mistakenly sent to an upper-crust parish.
I’m All Right, Jack (1959) won Sellers a BAFTA for Best Actor as a naïve ex-soldier looking to get ahead in business who unwittingly ends up as a pawn in the machinations between management and the trade unions.
Only Two Can Play (1962) sees Sellers as John Lewis, a bored librarian tempted by the wife of a local councilor - risky stuff in a small Welsh Valley town.
And finally, the box-set is completed by a definitive collection of his very best work on TV: The Very Best of Peter Sellers.
Cambridge IGCSE and O Level Geography has been written specifically
for Cambridge International syllabuses 0460 and 2217. From tourism
in Kenya to the summit of an active volcano in Japan, this revision
guide helps students understand the processes that affect physical
and human environments on a local, regional and global scale. The
narrative style of the revision guide, with detailed explanations,
complements the range of activities in the coursebook and
reinforces understanding. Exam-style questions, international case
studies and example maps give students practice with course content
and skills in preparation for assessment. Sample answers to all the
questions are in the back of the book.
Sleepy rustic Carmarthenshire was secretly a hotbed of debauchery,
violence and drunkenness according to Russell Davies in a new
edition of his very successful book, Secret Sins. Behind the facade
of idyllic rural life, there was a twilight world of mental
illness, suicide, crime, vicious assaults, infanticide, cruelty and
other assorted acts of depravity. This almost anecdotal historical
study is often funny, sometimes disturbing, always revealing.
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David Davies; Cover design or artwork by Emily Grace Brooker
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Edward Bond; Edited by David Davis
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Described by Edward Bond as 'almost irresponsibly optimistic',
"Saved "is a play set in London in the sixties and reflects a time
of social change. Its subject is the cultural poverty and
frustration of a generation of young people on the dole and living
on council estates. The play was first staged privately in November
1965 at the Royal Court Theatre for members of the English Stage
Society at a time when plays were still censored. With its scenes
of violence, including the stoning of a baby in its stroller, "
Saved "became a notorious play and a cause celebre. It has since
had a profound influence on a whole new generation of writers who
emerged in the 1990s.
Commentary and notes by David Davis.
This Open Access book aims to find out how and why states in
various regions and of diverse cultural backgrounds fail in their
gender equality laws and policies. In doing this, the book maps out
states' failures in their legal systems and unpacks the clashes
between different levels and forms of law-namely domestic laws,
local regulations, or the implementation of international law,
individually or in combination. By taking off from the confirmation
that the concept of law that is to be used in achieving gender
equality is a multidimensional, multi-layered, and to an extent,
contradictory phenomenon, this book aims to find out how different
layers of laws interact and how they impact gender equality.
Further to that, by including different states and jurisdictions
into its analysis, this book unravels whether there are any
similarities/patterns in how these states define and utilise
policies and laws that harm gender equality. In this way, the book
contributes to the efforts to devise holistic and universal
policies to address various forms of gender inequalities across the
world. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students in
Gender Studies, Sociology, Law, and Criminology.
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