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Mercenaries (DVD)
Robert Fucilla, Billy Zane, Kirsty Mitchell, Geoff Bell, Vas Blackwood, …
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Robert Fucilla and Billy Zane star in this low-budget British
special forces action thriller. Former SAS man turned mercenary
Andy Marlow (Fucilla) is sent into the Balkans to rescue an
American ambassador and his aide in the wake of a military coup.
This study traces the evolution of early film societies in Germany
and Austria, from the emergence of mass movie theaters in the 1910s
to the turbulent years of the late Weimar Republic. Examining a
diverse array of groups, it approaches film societies as formations
designed to assimilate and influence a new medium: a project
emerging from the world of amateur science before taking new
directions into industry, art and politics. Through an
interdisciplinary approach-in dialogue with social history, print
history and media archaeology-it also transforms our theoretical
understanding of what a film society was and how it operated. Far
from representing a mere collection of pre-formed cinephiles, film
societies were, according to the book's central argument,
productive social formations, which taught people how to nurture
their passion for the movies, how to engage with cinema, and how to
interact with each other. Ultimately, the study argues that
examining film societies can help to reveal the diffuse agency by
which generative ideas of cinema take shape.
Rich in implications for our present era of media change, the
Promise of Cinema offers a compelling new vision of film theory.
The volume conceives of "theory" not as a fixed body of canonical
texts, but as a dynamic set of reflections on the very idea of
cinema and the possibilities once associated with it. Unearthing
more than 275 early-twentieth-century German texts, this
ground-breaking documentation leads readers into a world that was
striving to assimilate modernity's most powerful new medium. We
encounter lesser-known essays by Bela Balazs, Walter Benjamin, and
Siegfried Kracauer alongside interventions from the realms of
aesthetics, education, industry, politics, science, and technology.
The book also features programmatic writings from the Weimar
avant-garde and from directors such as Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau.
Nearly all documents appear in English for the first time; each is
meticulously introduced and annotated. The most comprehensive
collection of German writings on film published to date, The
Promise of Cinema is an essential resource for students and
scholars of film and media, critical theory, and European culture
and history.
Rich in implications for our present era of media change, the
Promise of Cinema offers a compelling new vision of film theory.
The volume conceives of "theory" not as a fixed body of canonical
texts, but as a dynamic set of reflections on the very idea of
cinema and the possibilities once associated with it. Unearthing
more than 275 early-twentieth-century German texts, this
ground-breaking documentation leads readers into a world that was
striving to assimilate modernity's most powerful new medium. We
encounter lesser-known essays by Bela Balazs, Walter Benjamin, and
Siegfried Kracauer alongside interventions from the realms of
aesthetics, education, industry, politics, science, and technology.
The book also features programmatic writings from the Weimar
avant-garde and from directors such as Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau.
Nearly all documents appear in English for the first time; each is
meticulously introduced and annotated. The most comprehensive
collection of German writings on film published to date, the
Promise of Cinema is an essential resource for students and
scholars of film and media, critical theory, and European culture
and history.
Cult of the Will is the first comprehensive study of modernity's
preoccupation with willpower. From Nietzsche's "will to power" to
the fantasy of a "triumph of the will" under Nazism, the will--its
pathologies and potential cures--was a topic of urgent debates in
European modernity. In this study, Michael Cowan examines the
emergence of "will therapy" and its impact on arts and culture in
Germany after 1900. The book's five chapters lead readers through
cross sections of modern German cultural history, including not
only literature and aesthetics but also medicine, economics, body
culture, and pedagogy. Modernity's fixation on willpower helped
prepare the way for fascism, but this trajectory is not Cowan's
main concern. His focus falls rather on more widespread
"technologies of the self" and their role in the effort to
reimagine agency for a modern subject caught up in increasingly
complex systemic networks.
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