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Film theory: an introduction offers a highly readable account of
film theory and is an indispensable resource for students. The
discussion ranges from the late 1960s to the present, a period in
which a number of conceptual strands, notably politics, semiotics
and psychoanalysis were woven together in an ambitious synthesis.
In this book, the authors chart the construction of this synthesis
and its subsequent fragmentation, and clearly explain the various
intellectual currents which have contributed to it. Divided into
two parts, the first covers the conceptual background of film
theory, dealing with historical materialism, semiotics and
psychoanalysis, whilst in the second the authors concentrate on
particular topics such as authorship, narrative, realism, the
avant-garde and postmodernism. For this new edition, the authors
have added a new foreword, a fully updated and expanded
bibliography, and a 60-page Retrospect outlining developments
within film theory since the book's original publication in 1988.
This Retrospect identifies a number of broad readings of Theory,
each with a different perspective on the main content of the book.
As such, it provides a new and original mapping of the
'post-theory' moment in this complex and often fractured terrain.
Accessible and authoritative, this book is essential reading for
students of film theory, or indeed anyone seeking a deeper
understanding of modern cinema. -- .
Many believe economic growth is incompatible with ecological
preservation. Green Capital challenges this argument by shifting
our focus away from the scarcity of raw materials and toward the
deterioration of the great natural regulatory functions (such as
the climate system, the water cycle, and biodiversity). Although we
can find substitutes for scarce natural resources, we cannot
replace a natural regulatory system, which is incredibly complex.
It is therefore critical that we introduce a new price into the
economy that measures the costs of damage to these regulatory
functions. This change in perspective justifies such innovations as
the carbon tax, which addresses not the scarcity of carbon but the
inability of the atmosphere to absorb large amounts of carbon
without upsetting the climate system. Brokering a sustainable peace
between ecology and the economy, Green Capital describes a range of
valuation schemes and their contribution to the goals of green
capitalism, proposing a new approach to natural resources that
benefits both businesses and the environment.
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The Utopian (Paperback)
Michael Westlake; Introduction by Toril Moi; Afterword by Andrew Collier
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R547
Discovery Miles 5 470
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The world of World Enough is configured differently. From the
opening page the reader is confronted by a succession of
"anomalies" that create a transform of the world we are familiar
with. Set against the backcloth of an imagined history spanning
Russia, France, Greater Israel, the United States of Africa and the
colonies of North America engaged in a war of liberation, World
Enough is narrated in a series of flashbacks and varied temporal
registers by the novel's four main characters: Katerina and Padua,
sisters born in pre-revolutionary Russia, and two Africans, Quaque
and Million M'loy. Their four accounts, switching back and forth
throughout the novel, complement and sometimes contradict each
other in their construction of an epic tale of romance, espionage,
chess, geopolitics, war and the prolongation of people's natural
lifespan, running from the early 20th century through to some
unspecified time in the 21st.
Since the publication of the Stern Review, economists have started
to ask more normative questions about climate change. Should we act
now or tomorrow? What is the best theoretical carbon price to reach
long-term abatement targets? How do we discount the long-term costs
and benefits of climate change? This provocative book argues that
these are the wrong sorts of questions to ask because they don't
take into account the policies that have already been implemented.
Instead, it urges us to concentrate on existing policies and tools
by showing how the development of carbon markets could dramatically
reduce world greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, triggering policies to
build a new low-carbon energy system while restructuring the way
agriculture interacts with forests. This provides an innovative new
perspective on how a post-Kyoto international climate regime could
emerge from agreements between the main GHG emitters capping their
emissions and building an international carbon market.
Since the publication of the Stern Review, economists have started
to ask more normative questions about climate change. Should we act
now or tomorrow? What is the best theoretical carbon price to reach
long-term abatement targets? How do we discount the long-term costs
and benefits of climate change? This provocative book argues that
these are the wrong sorts of questions to ask because they don't
take into account the policies that have already been implemented.
Instead, it urges us to concentrate on existing policies and tools
by showing how the development of carbon markets could dramatically
reduce world greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, triggering policies to
build a new low-carbon energy system while restructuring the way
agriculture interacts with forests. This provides an innovative new
perspective on how a post-Kyoto international climate regime could
emerge from agreements between the main GHG emitters capping their
emissions and building an international carbon market.
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