Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
|
Your cart is empty |
|||
Showing 1 - 4 of 4 matches in All Departments
The documents emerging from the secret police archives of the
former Soviet bloc have caused scandal after scandal, compromising
revered cultural figures and abruptly ending political careers.
"Police Aesthetics" offers a revealing and responsible approach to
such materials. Taking advantage of the partial opening of the
secret police archives in Russia and Romania, Vatulescu focuses on
their most infamous holdings--the personal files--as well as on
movies the police sponsored, scripted, or authored. Through the
archives, she gains new insights into the writing of literature and
raises new questions about the ethics of reading. She shows how
police files and films influenced literature and cinema, from
autobiographies to novels, from high-culture classics to
avant-garde experiments and popular blockbusters. In so doing, she
opens a fresh chapter in the heated debate about the relationship
between culture and politics in twentieth-century police states.
Svetlana Boym was a prolific writer, a charismatic professor, a novelist, and a public intellectual. She was also a fiercely resourceful and reflective immigrant; her most resonant book, The Future of Nostalgia, was deeply rooted in that experience. Even after The Future of Nostalgia carried her fame beyond academic circles, few readers were aware of all of her creative personas. She was simply too prolific, and her work migrated across most people's disciplinary boundaries-from literary and cultural studies through film, visual, and material culture studies, performance, intermedia, and new media. The Svetlana Boym Reader presents a comprehensive view of Boym's singularly creative work in all its aspects. It includes Boym's classic essays, carefully chosen excerpts from her five books, and journalistic gems. Showcasing her roles both as curator and curated, the reader includes interviews and excerpts from exhibition catalogues as well as samples of intermedial works like Hydrant Immigrants. It also features autobiographical pieces that shed light on the genealogy of her scholarly work and rarities like an excerpt from Boym's first graduate school essay on Russian literature, complete with marginalia by her mentor Donald Fanger. Last but not least, the reader includes late pieces that Boym did not live to see through publication, as well as transcripts of her memorable last lectures and performances.
The documents emerging from the secret police archives of the
former Soviet bloc have caused scandal after scandal, compromising
revered cultural figures and abruptly ending political careers.
"Police Aesthetics" offers a revealing and responsible approach to
such materials. Taking advantage of the partial opening of the
secret police archives in Russia and Romania, Vatulescu focuses on
their most infamous holdings--the personal files--as well as on
movies the police sponsored, scripted, or authored. Through the
archives, she gains new insights into the writing of literature and
raises new questions about the ethics of reading. She shows how
police files and films influenced literature and cinema, from
autobiographies to novels, from high-culture classics to
avant-garde experiments and popular blockbusters. In so doing, she
opens a fresh chapter in the heated debate about the relationship
between culture and politics in twentieth-century police states.
Svetlana Boym was a prolific writer, a charismatic professor, a novelist, and a public intellectual. She was also a fiercely resourceful and reflective immigrant; her most resonant book, The Future of Nostalgia, was deeply rooted in that experience. Even after The Future of Nostalgia carried her fame beyond academic circles, few readers were aware of all of her creative personas. She was simply too prolific, and her work migrated across most people's disciplinary boundaries-from literary and cultural studies through film, visual, and material culture studies, performance, intermedia, and new media. The Svetlana Boym Reader presents a comprehensive view of Boym's singularly creative work in all its aspects. It includes Boym's classic essays, carefully chosen excerpts from her five books, and journalistic gems. Showcasing her roles both as curator and curated, the reader includes interviews and excerpts from exhibition catalogues as well as samples of intermedial works like Hydrant Immigrants. It also features autobiographical pieces that shed light on the genealogy of her scholarly work and rarities like an excerpt from Boym's first graduate school essay on Russian literature, complete with marginalia by her mentor Donald Fanger. Last but not least, the reader includes late pieces that Boym did not live to see through publication, as well as transcripts of her memorable last lectures and performances.
|
You may like...
Palaces Of Stone - Uncovering Ancient…
Mike Main, Thomas Huffman
Paperback
Women In Solitary - Inside The Female…
Shanthini Naidoo
Paperback
(1)
The Lie Of 1652 - A Decolonised History…
Patric Mellet
Paperback
(7)
Comrade & Commander - The Life And Times…
Ronnie Kasrils, Fidelis Hove
Paperback
Wits University At 100 - From Excavation…
Wits Communications
Paperback
Introducing Hibirism ... In The Meantime…
Donald Mokgale, Ernest Nkomotje
Paperback
|