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Keywords offers a conversational journey through the overlying
terrains of politically engaged art and artistically engaged
politics, combining a major statement on subversive aesthetics, a
survey of radical film strategies, and a lexicon of over a thousand
terms and concepts. * No other book combines an ambitious essay on
radical politics and aesthetics in film with a lexicon of terms and
ideas, many of which are new and innovative * Creates and
illustrates over a thousand terms and concept, drawing its examples
from a wide range of media * Provides a broad timespan, covering
the very ancient (Ramayana, Aristotle) to the most current (digital
mashups, memes) * Uniquely discusses the areas of film, television
and the internet within one book * No other book combines an
ambitious essay on radical politics and aesthetics in film with a
lexicon of terms and ideas, many of which are new and innovative
In an increasingly "event-driven" cultural environment, film
festivals have become indispensable venues for exposure and
promotion. Yet are Cannes, Sundance, and Toronto being sabotaged by
their own success? Do these festivals truly serve the needs of
cinephiles, as well as the larger public? This multifaceted
collection of essays, memoirs, and impassioned polemics explores
the decades-long debate over these controversial questions.
Featuring a distinguished array of critics and programmers, the
anthology begins with the first appearance in English of Andr?
Bazin's 1955 essay "The Festival Viewed as a Religious Order" and
follows with essays examining the ongoing tension between
market-oriented "business festivals" and festivals devoted to the
needs of local audiences. Case studies assess the shifting fortunes
of Asian film festivals, such as Hong Kong and Pusan, exemplary,
cinephilic festivals, as in Vienna, Kino Otok, and Trieste, and one
catastrophically mismanaged festival: Bangkok. The volume concludes
with an exclusive interview with the fimmaker Atom Egoyan, whose
career has been nurtured by his participation in a variety of
international film festivals.
Hailed since its initial release, Film and the Anarchist
Imagination offers the authoritative account of films featuring
anarchist characters and motifs. Richard Porton delves into the
many ways filmmakers have portrayed anarchism's long traditions of
labor agitation and revolutionary struggle. While acknowledging
cinema's predilection for ludicrous anarchist stereotypes, he
focuses on films that, wittingly or otherwise, reflect or even
promote workplace resistance, anarchist pedagogy,
self-emancipation, and anti-statist insurrection. Porton ranges
from the silent era to the classics Zero de Conduite and Love and
Anarchy to contemporary films like The Nothing Factory while
engaging the works of Jean Vigo, Jean-Luc Godard, Lina Wertmuller,
Yvonne Rainer, Ken Loach, and others. For this updated second
edition, Porton reflects on several new topics, including the
negative portrayals of anarchism over the past twenty years and the
contemporary embrace of post-anarchism.
Keywords offers a conversational journey through the overlying
terrains of politically engaged art and artistically engaged
politics, combining a major statement on subversive aesthetics, a
survey of radical film strategies, and a lexicon of over a thousand
terms and concepts. * No other book combines an ambitious essay on
radical politics and aesthetics in film with a lexicon of terms and
ideas, many of which are new and innovative * Creates and
illustrates over a thousand terms and concept, drawing its examples
from a wide range of media * Provides a broad timespan, covering
the very ancient (Ramayana, Aristotle) to the most current (digital
mashups, memes) * Uniquely discusses the areas of film, television
and the internet within one book * No other book combines an
ambitious essay on radical politics and aesthetics in film with a
lexicon of terms and ideas, many of which are new and innovative
Hailed since its initial release, Film and the Anarchist
Imagination offers the authoritative account of films featuring
anarchist characters and motifs. Richard Porton delves into the
many ways filmmakers have portrayed anarchism's long traditions of
labor agitation and revolutionary struggle. While acknowledging
cinema's predilection for ludicrous anarchist stereotypes, he
focuses on films that, wittingly or otherwise, reflect or even
promote workplace resistance, anarchist pedagogy,
self-emancipation, and anti-statist insurrection. Porton ranges
from the silent era to the classics Zero de Conduite and Love and
Anarchy to contemporary films like The Nothing Factory while
engaging the works of Jean Vigo, Jean-Luc Godard, Lina Wertmuller,
Yvonne Rainer, Ken Loach, and others. For this updated second
edition, Porton reflects on several new topics, including the
negative portrayals of anarchism over the past twenty years and the
contemporary embrace of post-anarchism.
Although there has been considerable interest and concern
surrounding the implementation of the Common Core State Standards,
there is almost no information regarding best practices for getting
at-risk students to attempt the rigor embraced by the Standards.
This text offers lesson plans, realistic advice, and explanations
and descriptions focused on how to move academically discouraged
students from failure to thrive to success with the Common Core.
Although there has been considerable interest and concern
surrounding the implementation of the Common Core State Standards,
there is almost no information regarding best practices for getting
at-risk students to attempt the rigor embraced by the Standards.
This text offers lesson plans, realistic advice, and explanations
and descriptions focused on how to move academically discouraged
students from failure to thrive to success with the Common Core.
Bearded bomb-throwers, self-indulgent nihilists, dangerous
subversives--these characteristic cliches of anarchists in the
popular imagination are often reproduced in the cinema. In "Film
and the Anarchist Imagination," the first comprehensive survey of
anarchism in film, Richard Porton deconstructs such stereotypes
while offering an authoritative account of films featuring
anarchist characters and motifs.
From the early cinema of Griffith and Rene Clair, to the work of
Godard, Lina Wertmuller, Lizzie Borden and Ken Loach, Porton
analyzes portrayals of anarchism in film, presenting commentaries
and critiques of such classics as "Zero de Conduite," "Tout Va
Bien," and "Love and Anarchy." In addition, he provides an
excellent guide to the complex traditions of anarchist thought,
from Bakunin and Kropotkin to Emma Goldman and Murray Bookchin,
disclosing a rich historical legacy that encompasses the Paris
Commune, the Haymarket martyrs, the anarcho-syndicalists of the
Spanish Civil War, as well as more familiar contemporary avatars
like the Situationists and the enrages of May 1968.
This collection of essays is the first major work in more than a
decade to discuss the critical issue of wildlife contraception and
the first ever to take up contraception-both theory and
practice-for wild animals in captivity.
The authors, leading international experts on the subject,
analyze the use of wildlife contraception for various animal
populations, including nonhuman primates, ungulates, pinnipeds,
cetaceans, and other mammals. The chapters examine and critique
types of contraception, and their effects, and explore the best
method for each situation.
Using the most recent data and findings, this comprehensive
collection addresses problems related to unrestricted population
growth, the ethics of wildlife contraception, and regulatory issues
for wildlife managers, animal rights organizations, zoos worldwide,
and anyone interested in the humane control of animal
populations.
ZOO AND AQUARIUM BIOLOGY AND CONSERVATION SERIESMichael
Hutchins, Series EditorThis series publishes innovative works in
the field of zoo and aquarium biology, conservation, and
philosophy. Books in the series cover a wide range of topics,
including zoo- and aquarium-based field conservation, animal
management science, public education, philosophy, and ethics.
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