Author: Therese Grisham File Type: pdf Dominated by men and bound by the restrictive Hays Code, postwar Hollywood offered little support for a female director who sought to make unique films on controversial subjects. But Ida Lupino bucked the system, writing and directing a string of movies that exposed the dark underside of American society, on topics such as rape, polio, unwed motherhood, bigamy, exploitative sports, and serial murder. The first in-depth study devoted to Lupinos directorial work, this book makes a strong case for her as a trailblazing feminist auteur, a filmmaker with a clear signature style and an abiding interest in depicting the plights of postwar American women. Ida Lupino, Director not only examines her work as a cinematic auteur, but also offers a serious consideration of her diverse and long-ranging career, getting her start in Hollywood as an actress in her teens and twenties, directing her first films in her early thirties, and later working as an acclaimed director of television westerns, sitcoms, and suspense dramas. It also demonstrates how Lupino fused generic elements of film noir and the social problem film to create a distinctive directorial style that was both highly expressionistic and grittily realistic. Ida Lupino, Director thus shines a long-awaited spotlight on one of our greatest filmmakers. **Review [A] landmark study of this underrecognized director. The book couldnt be timelier Grisham and Grossman do not consider their subject narrowly as a woman filmmaker. They present Lupino broadly as a pioneer independent moviemaker and director. (Film Quarterly) Exactly the serious study Ida Lupino deserves, this superb book sketches her directing career against larger developments in postwar Hollywood, demonstrating her feminist impact on a changing industry. (Shelley Stamp author of Lois Weber in Early Hollywood) Low budget, unheralded and genre bending, Lupinos work has never received its full due. Grisham and Grossmans sensitive study, informed by thorough research and new paradigms, provides a welcome corrective. (Sarah Kozloff author of Overhearing Film Dialogue) One of Hollywoods few female directors, Ida Lupino was a true maverick, making movies with the same steely determination and emotional sensitivity that characterized her work as an actor. Therese Grisham and Julie Grossmans thoughtful study sheds a welcome light on an oeuvre that has been too long obscured. (J. Hoberman author of Film After Film Or, What Became Of 21st Century Cinema?) Grossman and Grishams book is an urgently needed and long overdue reclamation of the directorial work of Ida Lupino, one of the most significant auteurs of the twentieth century. Cineastes will be delighted by this dazzling, well written, and comprehensive book. (Gwendolyn Audrey Foster coauthor of A Short History of Film) About the Author THERESE GRISHAM is a lecturer in film and media studies in the department of humanities at Oakton Community College in Des Plaines, Illinois, as well as an instructor at the Facets Multimedia Film School in Chicago. She is also an editor for the English translations of The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg (Verso). JULIE GROSSMAN is a professor of English, and communication and film studies at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. Her books include Rethinking the Femme Fatale in Film Noir, and Literature, Film, and Their Hideous Progeny. She is also a coeditor of the forthcoming collection Adaptation in Visual Culture Images, Texts, and Their Multiple Worlds.

Author: Jonathan Peter Balcombe File Type: pdf Nature documentaries often depict animal life as a grim struggle for survival, but this visually stunning book opens our eyes to a different, more scientifically up-to-date way of looking at the animal kingdom. In more than one hundred thirty striking images, The Exultant Ark celebrates the full range of animal experience with dramatic portraits of animal pleasure ranging from the charismatic and familiar to the obscure and bizarre. These photographs, windows onto the inner lives of pleasure seekers, show two polar bears engaged in a bout of wrestling, hoary marmots taking time for a friendly chase, Japanese macaques enjoying a soak in a hot spring, a young bull elk sticking out his tongue to catch snowflakes, and many other rewarding moments. Biologist and best-selling author Jonathan Balcombe is our guide, interpreting the images within the scientific context of what is known about animal behavior. In the end, old attitudes fall away as we gain a heightened sense of animal individuality and of the pleasures that make life worth living for all sentient beings.ReviewAn exuberant look at animal pleasure.(Katherine Bouton New York Times 2011-07-18) An irresistible new photo book.(Maureen Callahan New York Post 2011-07-24) Intersperses glorious images of animals preening, grooming and gallivanting with snippets of studies suggesting such behaviours belie an overly utilitarian interpretation.(Tiffany OCallaghan New Scientist 2011-05-07) Here is a book to put a spring into anyones step. The Exultant Ark is a celebration of animal behaviour at its most uplifting.(Stuart Blackman Bbc Wildlife Magazine 2011-06-01) All readers of this column must immediately purchase Jonathan Balcombes fabulous book.(Leigh Dayton The Australian 2011-10-22) One of those rare volumes that will look good on your coffee table but might also change the way you think.(Harold Herzog American Journal Of Play 2012-02-20) This visually stunning book opens our eyes to a different, more scientifically up-to-date way of looking at the animal kingdom. . . . Old attitudes fall away as we gain a heightened sense of animal individuality and of the pleasures that make life worth living for all sentient beings.(Ian Paulsen The Guardian Birdbooker Report Blog 2011-06-19) This is one of those rare volumes that will look good on your coffee table but might also change the way you think.(Hal Herzog Psychology Today 2011-11-25) The studies he [Balcombe] invokes are hard to explain away. . . . Likewise, the photographs that make up the bulk of The Exultant Ark remind us that we are not as different from other animals on our planet as we like to think the photos are anecdotal in nature, but they are utterly compelling.(Scott F. Parker Rain Taxi Review Of Books 2011-07-01) Both the stunning photography and Balcombes masterful prose are welcome additions to the growing literary and scientific evidence that debunk long-assumed myths while continuing to eliminate the gap between us and them.(Veg News Mag 2011-09-01) From the Inside FlapIt is rare to find a scientist writing with such delight about, of all things, joy in the animal world! I have rarely experienced such pleasure in reading a book. I recommend it to all animal lovers, and even challenge a few skeptics, whose minds may be changed by this extraordinary work.Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of *When Elephants Weep * The Exultant Ark brilliantly and definitively demonstrates what pet owners have always known but what certain scientists still question, that animals think, feel, and have emotions, often pleasurable ones. Its a must-read for anyone with even the slightest interest in the truths of the natural world. I couldnt put it down!Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Hidden Life of Deer and The Hidden Life of Dogs There is no question that the whales experience pleasure when they sing, that the wolf enjoys howling at the moon, that lion cubs enjoy wrestling with each other. I love books like this, that challenge the rigidity of human prejudices, that open our minds to other realities and revolutionary perspectives, that question both our collective ignorance and our arrogance as humans.Captain Paul Watson, Founder and President, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society The Exultant Ark bubbles over with joy. Its important words and moving photographs offer powerful proof of what we knew was true all along the pleasure of animals is vividly real and matters deeplyboth to the animals who experience it, and to we humans who are privileged to share their happiness. Rejoice!Sy Montgomery, author of The Good Good Pig and Birdology

Author: Rimgaila Salys File Type: pdf This two-volume reader is intended to accompany undergraduate courses in the history of Russian cinema and Russian culture through film. Each volume consists of newly commissioned essays, excerpts from English language criticism and translations of Russian language essays on subtitled films which are widely taught in American and British courses on Russian film and culture. The arrangement is chronological Volume one covers twelve films from the beginning of Russian film through the Stalin era volume two covers twenty films from the Thaw era to the present. General introductions to each period of film history (Early Russian Cinema, Soviet Silent Cinema, Stalinist Cinema, Cinema of the Thaw, Cinema of Stagnation, Perestroika and Post-Soviet Cinema) outline its cinematic significance and provide historical context for the non-specialist reader. Essays are accompanied by suggestions for further reading. The reader will be useful both for film studies specialists and for Slavists who wish to broaden their Russian Studies curriculum by incorporating film courses or culture courses with cinematic material. Volumes one and two may be ordered separately to accommodate the timeframe and contents of courses. Volume one films Stenka Razin, The Cameramans Revenge, The Merchant Bashkirovs Daughter, Child of the Big City, The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks, Battleship Potemkin, Bed and Sofa, Man with a Movie Camera, Earth, Chapaev, Circus, Ivan the Terrible, Parts I and II. Volume two films The Cranes are Flying, Ballad of a Soldier, Lenins Guard, Wings, Commissar, The Diamond Arm, White Sun of the Desert, Solaris, Stalker, Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, Repentance, Little Vera, Burnt by the Sun, Brother, Russian Ark, The Return, Night Watch, The Tuner, Ninth Company, How I Ended This Summer. Contributors Birgit Beumers, Robert Bird, David Bordwell, Mikhail Brashinsky, Oksana Bulgakova, Gregory Carlson, Nancy Condee, Julian Graffy, Jeremy Hicks, Andrew Horton, Steven Hutchings, Vida Johnson, Lilya Kaganovsky, Vance Kepley, Jr., Susan Larsen, Mark Lipovetsky, Tatiana Mikhailova, Elena Monastireva-Ansdell, Joan Neuberger, Vlada Petric, Graham Petrie, Alexander Prokhorov, Elena Prokhorova, Rimgaila Salys, Elena Stishova, Vlad Strukov, Yuri Tsivian, Meghan Vicks, Josephine Woll, Denise J. Youngblood **

Author: Lokman Turgut File Type: pdf