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Roadside South (Hardcover)
David Wharton; Contributions by Steve Yarbrough
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R880
Discovery Miles 8 800
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Much of the American South, especially its small towns and rural
areas, is connected not by interstate highways but through a
web-like network of country roads, many of which appear only on the
most detailed of maps. These are the backroads that most
Southerners drive on every day. Unlike the interstates, whose
roadsides have been largely scrubbed clean of regional character,
these smaller roads travel through unplanned, vernacular landscapes
that tell much about local life, both past and present, and suggest
that we make connections between the two. David Wharton has been
traveling throughout the American South since 1999, resulting in
his first two books - Small Town South (2012) and The Power of
Belief: Spiritual Landscapes from the Rural South (2016). As he
journeyed, he often paused to make pictures of hamlets and the
countryside he was driving through that did not fit the themes of
those earlier books. These are scenes that speak to a sense of
wonderment, or curiosity, about how those landscapes came to be and
how they reflect a complex past with a modern-day world in which
the urban competes with the rural in nearly every way. In Roadside
South, the third book in Wharton's magical Trilogy of the American
South, the photographer captures the quirky and the humorous, the
sometimes sad and sometimes ironic scenes that are commonplace
along the local, county, and state roads of the South. No artist
has revealed the on-the-ground truth of the South as Wharton has,
giving rise to a new understanding of and appreciation for a
distinctive regional culture that all too frequently, and sometimes
mistakenly, is imagined as a bastion of rural and small-town
virtue.
London: 1963. The lives of a professional shoplifter and a young
art student collide. Delia needs to atone for a terrible mistake;
Tess is desperate to convince herself she really is an artist.
Elsewhere in London, the Krays are on the rise and a gang war is in
the offing. Tess's relationship with her gay best friend grows
unexpectedly complicated, and Delia falls for a man she's been paid
to betray. At last, the two women find a resolution together - a
performance that is both Delia's goodbye to crime and Tess's one
genuine work of art.
Since 1983 David Wharton has photographed the twelve states that
define the American South, focusing his attention on rural and
small-town culture, vernacular architecture and landscape, the role
of religion in Southern life, and the relationship between
Southerners, their natural surroundings, and the communities they
have built. "Small Town South" is the result of Wharton's travels
through a region that extends from Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas
in the west to Virginia and the Carolinas in the east, from
Kentucky and Tennessee in the north to Florida in the south, with
Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia forming the region's center in
between.No other photographer has devoted so much time and
attention to recording this distinctive American place. The 115
duotone photographs which serve as the book's core, combined with
the author's insightful text, convey an overall sense of what the
small Southern town has become and looks like during the early
twenty-first century. Wharton organizes his study into thematic
portfolios that address themes such as the intersection of
tradition and modernity, local commemorations of the past, the
omnipresence of the church in town life, the difficulties of making
a living in the New World economy, the look of Main Street, the
display of public murals and memorials, and the iconographic
unfolding of community values.Many have likened Wharton's
photographic eye and approach to the work of other photographic
masters of the South, including Walker Evans, Eudora Welty, William
Christenberry, Shelby Lee Adams, Alex Harris, Rob Amberg, and
Martha A. Strawn. And, just as we turn to those artists to help us
understand and reckon with Southern history and culture, we now can
look to David Wharton as another pioneer photographer of the
Southern small town in all its simplicity and complexity.(See the
publisher's website for further information: http:
//gftbooks.com/books_Wharton.html )
Nematodes are renowned for their ability to survive severe
environmental fluctuations. Their mechanisms to withstand
temperature extremes, desiccation, and osmotic and ionic stress are
presented here together with information on the underlying
biochemical basis contributing to survival. Highlighting parallels
and contrasts between parasitic and free-living nematode groups,
this book integrates strategies that enable nematodes to persist in
the absence of food with tactics used by parasitic forms to survive
the defence responses of a plant or animal host. This functional
study is an essential resource for researchers in nematology,
parasitology and zoology.
A Cultural History of Color in Antiquity covers the period 3000 BCE
to 500 CE. Although the smooth, white marbles of Classical
sculpture and architecture lull us into thinking that the color
world of the ancient Greeks and Romans was restrained and
monochromatic, nothing could be further from the truth. Classical
archaeologists are rapidly uncovering and restoring the vivid,
polychrome nature of the ancient built environment. At the same
time, new understandings of ancient color cognition and language
have unlocked insights into the ways - often unfamiliar and strange
to us - that ancient peoples thought and spoke about color. Color
shapes an individual's experience of the world and also how society
gives particular spaces, objects, and moments meaning. The 6 volume
set of the Cultural History of Color examines how color has been
created, traded, used, and interpreted over the last 5000 years.
The themes covered in each volume are color philosophy and science;
color technology and trade; power and identity; religion and
ritual; body and clothing; language and psychology; literature and
the performing arts; art; architecture and interiors; and
artefacts. David Wharton is Associate Professor of Classical
Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA.
Volume 1 in the Cultural History of Color set. General Editors:
Carole P. Biggam and Kirsten Wolf
Auteur study is a key element of Film Studies, and has become
increasingly important in Media Studies, thanks to the popularity
of cult auteurs such as Tarantino and Fincher. However, this
theoretical aspect of film can seem obscure and difficult to
communicate. Teaching Auteur Study provides a coherent and clear
approach to the topic. Using examples throughout, the guide
outlines the main elements of Auteur theory, provides an overview
of how it developed, summarising some of its main proponents, and
considers the influence it has had in the way we think about film.
It summarises the criteria for defining a filmmaker as an auteur
and explores issues of creative control. The guide also looks at
the idea of film authorship from the point of view of the audience,
and how it influences audience expectations and marketing
campaigns.
Winner of the 2017 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Literature
award for photography. The rural American South has no grand
cathedrals or other wonder-of-the-world monuments to religious
belief. Nor has it ever been the site of religious wars or
large-scale religious persecutions we see throughout the world.
Nevertheless, as David Wharton reveals in his remarkable new book
of photographs, the rural South is a place-a land, a region, a
culture, a "way of life"-so heavily invested in religious belief
that the spiritual is constantly made manifest in the ordinary.
This is how religion becomes pervasive and integral to everyday
life in the South for believers and nonbelievers alike. Just as
David Wharton did for his pioneering book, Small Town South, he has
traveled throughout the entire South since 1999, on hundreds of
trips, making thousands upon thousands of photographs about the
region's spiritual landscapes-from churches both active and
abandoned in all vernacular shapes and sizes to actual church
services and outdoor baptisms, from iconographic signs about Jesus
and redemption and sin to welcoming gestures about the wonders of
revivals and of grace and compassion. Lurking behind every image,
however, is a sense of place about this most distinctive American
region, in which religious commitment is confined neither to
Sundays nor to individual houses of worship. Religion in the rural
South is, quite literally, everywhere. It is Wharton's unique gift
that his photographs have meaning and memory beyond merely
recording the physical appearance of spiritual sites and worship
activities. The people and places that appear in The Power of
Belief are seen not to be a product of recent changes in religious
life seen elsewhere in urban and suburban America but, instead, as
an ongoing living tradition that dates back far into the history
and culture of the rural South.
Auteur study is a key element of film studies and has become
increasingly important in media studies, thanks to the popularity
of cult auteurs such as Quentin Tarantino and David Fincher.
However, this theoretical aspect of film can seem obscure and
difficult to communicate. "Teaching Auteur Study "provides a
coherent and clear approach to the topic. Using examples
throughout, the guide outlines the main elements of auteur theory,
provides an overview of how it developed, summarizes some of its
main proponents, and considers the influence it has had in the way
we think about film. The book describes the criteria for defining a
filmmaker as an auteur and explores issues of creative control. The
guide also looks at the idea of film authorship from the point of
view of the audience, and how it influences audience expectations
and marketing campaigns.
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