The nature of genius : two films by Michael Apted on scientific and artistic brilliance

Wildlife films

The Problem of Images -- A Brief History of a Neglected Tradition -- Science and Storytelling -- The Classic Model -- Family Values, Social Mores, Behavioral Norms -- Nature Designed and Composed -- Chronological Highlights from the History of Wildlife and Natural History Films.

Moving environments : affect, emotion, ecology, and film

Environmental humanities

Environmental humanities.

Emotion and affect in eco-films : cognitive and phenomenological approaches / Emotions of consequence? Viewing eco-documentaries from a cognitive perspective / Irony and contemporary ecocinema : theorizing a new affective paradigm / On the "inexplicable magic of cinema" : critical anthropomorphism, emotion, and the wildness of wildlife films / Emotion, argumentation, and documentary traditions : Darwin's nightmare and The cove / Documenting animal rights and environmental ethics at sea / Animation, realism, and the genre of nature / What can a film do? Assessing Avatar's global affects / Animated ecocinema and affect : a case study of Pixar's UP / Moving home : documentary film and other remediations of post-Katrina New Orleans / Evoking sympathy and empathy : the ecological Indian and indigenous eco-activism / Affect and environment in two artists' films and a video

Christianity and the arts in Russia

Aural icons of Orthodoxy : the sonic typology of Russian bells / On the links between music and icon painting in medieval Rus / The role of the devotional image in the religious life of pre-Mongol Rus / The slavic reception of Byzantine Chant / Piety and pragmatism : Orthodox saints and Slavic nature gods in Russian folk art / "We don't summon spring in the summer" : traditional music and beliefs of the contemporary Russian village / Christian themes in Russian opera / The "New style" and the revival of Orthodox Church architecture, 1900-1914 / Liturgical singing or sacred music? : understanding the aesthetic of the New Russian choral school / The icon and the machine in Russia's religious renaissance, 1900-1909 / Orthodoxy and the avant-garde : sacred images in the work of Goncharova, Malevich, and their contemporaries / Art and religion in the films of Andrei Tarkovskii

Framing the world : explorations in ecocriticism and film

from literary to cinematic ecocriticism / The rhetoric of ascent in An inconvenient truth and Everything's cool / Shifting paradigms : from environmentalist films to ecocinema / Ecocinema, ecojustice, and indigenous worldviews : native and first nations media as cultural recovery / Testimonial structures in environmental justice films / Disposable bodies : biocolonialism in The constant gardener and Dirty pretty things / Engaging the land/positioning the spectator : environmental justice documentaries and Robert Redford's The horse whisperer and A river runs through it / The landscape's lie : class, economy, and ecology in Hotel Rwanda / Fast, furious, and out of control : the erasure of natural landscapes in car culture films / The screaming silence : constructions of nature in Werner Herzog's Grizzly man / Bambi and Finding Nemo : a sense of wonder in the wonderful world of Disney? / The rules of the world : Japanese ecocinema and Kiyoshi Kurosawa / Beyond the frame : the spirit of place in Peter Greenaway's The draughtsman's contract

Framing the world : explorations in ecocriticism and film

Under the sign of nature : explorations in ecocentricism

Under the sign of nature.

from literary to cinematic ecocriticism / The rhetoric of ascent in An inconvenient truth and Everything's cool / Shifting paradigms : from environmentalist films to ecocinema / Ecocinema, ecojustice, and indigenous worldviews : native and first nations media as cultural recovery / Testimonial structures in environmental justice films / Disposable bodies : biocolonialism in The constant gardener and Dirty pretty things / Engaging the land/positioning the spectator : environmental justice documentaries and Robert Redford's The horse whisperer and A river runs through it / The landscape's lie : class, economy, and ecology in Hotel Rwanda / Fast, furious, and out of control : the erasure of natural landscapes in car culture films / The screaming silence : constructions of nature in Werner Herzog's Grizzly man / Bambi and Finding Nemo : a sense of wonder in the wonderful world of Disney? / The rules of the world : Japanese ecocinema and Kiyoshi Kurosawa / Beyond the frame : the spirit of place in Peter Greenaway's The draughtsman's contract

German essays on film

German Library

German library.

Introduction / Late Wilhelmine Germany -- Artists, Critics, and Scholars -- The Theater of the Little People / Art at the Cinema / An Abyss Not to Be Bridged / Thoughts on an Aesthetics of Cinema / Cinema and the Desire to Watch / Film and I / War Films / From On the Sociology of the Cinema / Weimar Republic, 1918-33 -- Writers, Critics, and Artists -- An Expressionist Film / American Cinema / The Substitute for Dreams / The Bankruptcy of German Film / The Artistic Composition of the Film Drama / The Ideal Picture Needs No Titles: By Its Very Nature the Art of the Screen Should Tell a Complete Story Pictorially / Theorists -- From The Visible Human / The Little Shopgirls Go to the Movies / From The Three Penny Trial: A Sociological Experiment / From Film / Nazi Germany 1933-45--And Those Who Fled ... -- Artists and Bureaucrats in the "Third Reich" -- Dr. Goebbels's Speech at the Kaiserhof on March 28, 1933 / May the Strength and Beauty of Youth Have Found Cinematic Form / History and Film / The Formative Power of Film / Gratitude toward the Theater

Cold waters : tangible and symbolic seascapes of the North

Springer Polar Sciences

Springer Polar sciences.

The Problem of Plastic in the Arctic / Rivers through the Prism of Oil Spills: Native Voices from the Russian Arctic / Baltic Seals and Changing Marine Frontiers in the Twentieth Century / Conceptualizing Arctic Documentary: Combining Scientific Authority and the Interests of Broadcasters in BBC's Frozen Planet / The Voice of Ice in the Turku Archipelago: Narrating Icegraphy with Environmental Ethnography / The "International" in Water-Society Relations: A Case Study of an Arctic Urban Watershed / Living by the River: Means, Meanings and Sense of Place / Emerging Trends in Arctic North America's Maritime Security Agenda: From Ice to Water / Between Pomor Traditions and Arctic Modernities: The Northern Sea in Early Soviet Pomor Literature / Water, Oil and Spirits: Liquid Maps of the Taiga in Eremei Aipin's Novel Khanty, or the Star of the Dawn / The Ambiguity of the Arctic Littoral: Changing Perspectives of Chukchi Communities in Two Russian Films / "The Silvery Song of Water": Nature, Experience, and Time in Paul Harding's Fiction / Speculative Water: Atopic Space and Oceanic Agency in Julie Bertagna's Raging Earth Trilogy

The Female body in western culture : contemporary perspectives

(Re)writing the body : the politics and poetics of female eroticism / Somagrams of Gertrude Stein / In praise of the ear (Gloss's glosses) / Dangling virgins : myth, ritual, and the place of women in ancient Greece / Speaking silences : women's suicide / Death sentences : writing couples and ideology / Stabat master / Matrix of war : mothers and heroes / Rest cure : repetition or resolution of Victorian women's conflicts? / Clinical eye : medical discourses in the "woman's film" of the 1940s / Interpreting anorexia nervosa / Virgin's one bare breast : female nudity and religious meaning in Tuscan early Renaissance culture / "This heraldry in Lucrece' face" / Edgar Degas and the representation of the female body / Sexuality at a loss : the films of F.W. Murnau / Ladies shot and painted : female embodiment in surrealist art / Jean Rhys : poses of a woman as guest / Woman as a semiotic object / Sexuality, sin, and sorrow : the emergence of female character (a reading of Genesis 1-3) / Politics of women's bodies : reflections on Plato / Rereading as a woman : the body in practice / Female fetishism : the case of George Sand / Huysmans : writing against (female) nature

Experimental film and video : an anthology

Philosophies and Critical Histories of Avant-Garde Film and Current Practice Post Future Past Perfect / Matter's Time Time For Material / Films and Installations -- A Systems View of Nature / A Line Through My Work / A Few Notes on Filmmaking / Film Noise Aesthetics / Line Describing a Cone and Related Films / Languages of Representation in Film and Video: Thresholds of Materiality Trilogical Distractions / The 'autoethnographic' in Chantal Akerman's News from Home, and an Analysis of Almost Out and Stages of Mourning / Film, The Body, The Fold An Interview with Nina Danino on Now I Am Yours / Attitudes 1-8 / Video Works 1973-1983 / Early Video Tapes 1978-1987 / Andrew Kotting. What he does, how he does it and the context in which it has been done: An Alphabetarium of Kotting / Ardent for Some Desperate Glory: Revisiting Smothering Dreams / War Stories, or Why I Make Videos About Old Soldiers / Moving Parts: The Divergence of Practice / Philosophies and Critical Histories of Video Art to Cinema Mutation on a Form / Video: Incorporeal, Incorporated / Tamara Krikorian -- Defending the Frontier / Another Place -- David Hall / Alchemy and the Digital Imaginary / Reflections on My Practice and Media Specificity / Expanded Cinema -- Proto, Post-Photo / Image Con Text (1978-2003): Film/Performance/Video/Digital / Images

Copyright for archivists and records managers

Facet copyright classics

What is copyright? -- The nature of copyright, p.1 -- The development of copyright, p.6 -- Copyright and records, p.13 -- Copyright protection, p.17 -- Protection for works, p.17 -- Literary, dramatic and musical works, p.34 -- Artistic works, p.43 -- Films, p.53 -- Sound recordings, p.58 -- Otherworks, p.63 -- Ownership, p.67 -- Qualification, p.67 -- First owner, p.69 -- Acquisition of copyright, p.89 -- Assertion of ownership, p.98 -- Publication, exhibition and performance, p.99 -- Publication, p.99 -- Exhibition and performance, p.106 -- Use III -- The copyright owner's rights and infringement of them, p.111 -- Permission, p.124 -- Exceptions and limitations, p.141 -- Copying in archives, libraries and museums, p.164 -- Litigation and legal advice, p.181 -- Copyright in the electronic environment, p.183 -- Introduction, p.183 -- Internet, p.187 -- Electronic mail, p.192 -- Databases, p.192 -- Records in the electronic environment, p.192 -- Computers and computer programs, p.197.

Special cases, p.201 -- British Isles outside the UK, p.201 -- Records of a repository's parent institution or authority, p.210 -- Gifts and deposits of records, p.211 -- Public records, p.216 -- Records of local authorities, p.216 -- Records of ecclesiastical and religious bodies, p.220 -- Legal records, p.222 -- Electoral registers, p.229 -- Business records, p.231 -- Estate, manorial and personal records, p.233 -- Hospital and medical records, p.235 -- Transport record, p.236 -- Office-holders, members and unincorporated bodies, p.237 -- Maps, charts and plans, together with engravings and prints, p.238 -- Other intellectual property rights, p.243 -- Moral rights, p.243 -- Databases and database right, p.249 -- Publication right, p.258 -- Public Lending Right, p.261 -- Performers' rights, p.262 -- Designs, patents and trade marks, p.266 -- Confidentiality, p.272 -- Artist's resale right (droit de suite), p.276 -- Appendix, p.277 -- Charts for the duration of copyright, p.278 -- Copyright declarations, p.302 -- Modellicences, p.304 -- Model assignment to the record office, p.313 -- Bibliography, p.317 -- Documents, p.317 -- Publications, p.317 -- Useful websites, p.319 -- Authorities, p.323 -- Treaties and EU instruments, p.323 -- Statutes, p.324 -- Statutory instruments, p.328 -- Cases, p.332.

Categories--on the beauty of physics : essential physics concepts and their companions in art and literature

On the beauty of physics

Essential physics concepts and their companions in art and literature

Categories ;

How to use this book -- Introductions -- Acceleration -- With an excerpt from Marshall McLuhan's Understanding media -- Edward Hopper's Nighthawks -- Suggested readings by Larry Gonick & Art Huffman, James Gleick, Daniel Keyes -- Angle -- With an excerpt from Hayden White's Tropics of discourse -- Paul Cézanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire -- Suggested reading by Calvin Clawson, Stan Gibilisco, Ian Stewart -- Angular velocity -- With an excerpt from Beowulf -- Alfred Stieglitz's Equivalent -- Suggested readings by Timothy Ferris, Kingfisher Publications, Scientific American -- Antimatter -- With excerpts from Gary Zukav's The dancing Wu Li masters and H.G. Wells' The war of the worlds -- Henri Matisse's Venus -- Suggested readings by Gordon Fraser, Brian Greene -- Suggested film by Joseph McMaster -- Chaos -- With an excerpt from Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn's The gulag archipelago -- Paolo Uccello's The battle of San Romano -- Suggested readings by James Gleick, Benoit Mandelbrot, John Briggs -- Color -- With an excerpt from Vincent Van Gogh's Dear Theo -- Raphael's Madonna del Granduca -- Suggested readings by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Margaret Livingston, Jeanne Heifetz --

Electricity -- g With an excerpt from Benjamin Franklin's The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin -- John Sloan's The city from Greenwich Village -- Suggested readings by Martin Uman, Paul Horowitz & Winfield Hill, Robert Becker & Gary Selden -- Energy -- With an excerpt from Daniel C. Dennett's Consciousness explained -- Gustav Klimt's The kiss -- Suggested readings by Helen Caldicott, Robert March -- Entropy -- With excerpts from Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote and Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias" -- Leonardo Da Vinci's The last supper -- Suggested readings by Ian Stewart, Rudolf Arnheim, Richard Feynman, Robert Leighton, & Matthew Sands -- Equation -- With an excerpt from Aristotle's The categories : on interpretation : prior analytics -- Piet Mondrian's Composition in color B, 1917 -- Suggested readings by Richard Friedberg, Albrecht Fölsing, Martin Gardner -- Field -- With an excerpt from William Faulkner's The sound and the fury -- Helen Frankenthaler's Madame Matisse -- Suggested readings by Roger Penrose, Albert László Barabási, Fritjof Capra --

Force -- With an excerpt from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh -- Pablo Picasso's The tragedy -- Suggested readings by I. Bernard Cohen & Richard Westfall, Sir Isaac Newton, T.L. Heath -- Friction -- With an excerpt from Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the artists : volume 1 -- Paul Gauguin's Vairumati -- Suggested readings by Bertrand Russell, David Lind & Scott Sanders, Sandor Nagyszalanczy, Robert Ehrlich -- Gravity -- With an excerpt from Ernest Becker's The denial of death -- Giotto's The lamentation -- Suggested readings by Steven Weinberg, Alan Lightman, John Archibald Wheeler -- Heat -- With an excerpt from Henry David Thoreau's Walden and other writings -- Georges de la Tour's The repentant Magdalen - Suggested readings by Ross Gelbspan, Gino Segrè, Hans Christian Von Baeyer -- Image -- With excerpts from Trinh T. Minh-Ha's Woman, native, other and Edward O. Wilson's On human nature -- falling cow panel by Unknown -- Suggested readings by Faye Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, & Brian Larkin, Michel Foucault, John Berger -- Light -- With an excerpt from The letters of Abelard and Heloise -- Marc Chagall's An angel -- Suggested readings by James Burke, Richard Feynman -- Mass -- With an excerpt from Albert Einstein & Leopold Infeld's The evolution of physics -- Michaelangelo Buonarroti's Pieta -- Suggested readings by Lewis Mumford, Max Jammer -- Suggested film by MacGillivray Freeman films --

Measurement -- With an excerpt from Mircea Eliade's "Time and eternity in Indian thought" -- Canaletto's The grand canal from Carità to Bacino di S. Marco -- Suggested readings by Alex Hebra, David Bourg, Lee Smolin, Barry Zimmerman & David Zimmerman -- Momentum -- With excerpts from Lewis Hyde's The gift and Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America -- Panel with striding lion by Unknown -- Suggested readings by Noam Chomsky, Fritjof Capra -- Motion -- With an excerpt from Ayn Rand's Atlas shrugged -- Ludwig Van Beethoven's Ninth symphony -- Suggested readings by John Gribbin, Lewis Thomas, Howard Zinn, Sir James Jeans -- Orbit -- With excerpts from Bruno Bettelheim's The uses of enchantment and Fritjof Capra's The web of life -- Mary Cassatt's The bath -- Suggested readings by Leïla Haddad & Alan Cirou, Andrew Mishkin, Adrian Malone -- Particle -- With an excerpt from Marcel Proust's Swann's way -- Georges Seurat's A Sunday on la Grande Jatte -- Suggested readings by John Gribbin, Isaac Asimov, Toby E. Huff -- Position -- With excerpts from Pearl S. Buck's The good Earth and Mary Wollstonecraft's A vindication of the rights of woman -- Alberto Giacometti's Walking man II -- Suggested readings by Dava Sobel, David Rumsey & Edith M. Punt --

Power -- With excerpts from John Berger's Ways of seeing and Niccolò Machiavelli's The prince -- Rogier Van Der Weyden's Portrait of a lady -- Suggested readings by Rodney Brooks, Richard Rhodes, Frank Barron, Alfonso Montuori, & Anthea Barron -- Pressure -- With an excerpt from Lewis Mumford's The city in history -- Katsushika Hokusai's The great wave at Kanagawa -- Suggested readings by Craig Hogan, Rachel Carson, Jacques-Yves Cousteau & Frédéric Dumas -- Radiation -- With an excerpt from Albert Camus' The stranger -- Georgia O'Keeffe's Evening star no. VI -- Suggested readings by Nevil Shute, Erik Barnouw -- Suggested film by Daniel Goldberg -- Reflection -- With excerpts from Alice Miller's The drama of the gifted child and Sir James Jeans' Science & music -- Diego Velázquez's Las meninas -- Suggested readings by Walter Benjamin, Gary Waldman -- Refraction -- With an excerpt from Dylan Thomas' Under milk wood -- Annie Mae Young's Blocks and strips -- Suggested readings by Harald Falck-Yttr, Joseph Kasper & Steven Feller, John Alton -- Relativity -- With an excerpt from Pablo Picasso's "Picasso speaks" -- René Magritte's Two mysteries -- Suggested readings by Albert Einstein, George Gamow --

Space-time -- With an excerpt from Kahlil Gibran's The prophet and Pablo Picasso's Les demoiselles d'Avignon -- Suggested readings by Janna Levin, Michio Kaku -- Suggested film by Harold Ramis -- Spin -- With an excerpt from Antonio Carlo Jobim's Waters of March -- Vincent Van Gogh's Wheatfield with crows -- Suggested readings by Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann -- Torque -- With excerpts from W.E.B. Du Bois' The souls of black folk and Ernest Hemingway's The sun also rises -- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's Jane Avril -- Suggested readings by Henry Petroski, Thomas Kuhn, K.C. Cole -- Uncertainty -- With an excerpt from William Shakespeare's Hamlet -- Maurice Denis' The green trees or Beech trees in Kerduel -- Suggested readings by F. David Peat, Douglas Hofstadter -- Vector -- With an excerpt from Homer's The odyssey -- Jacques-Louis David's The death of Marat -- Suggested reading by Julian Barbour, Henry Petroski, Steven Pinker -- Velocity -- With an excerpt from Clause Brown's Manchild in the promised land -- Robert Motherwell's No. 7 (from the Basque suit) -- Suggested readings by Edwin Abbott, Peter Hoffman -- Suggested film by Stacy Peralta --

Wave -- With an excerpt from Dziga Vertov's Kino eye -- Jacob Lawrence's The migration of the Negro, Panel 3 -- Suggested readings by Sir James Jeans, George Gamow -- Suggested film by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott, & Joel Bakan -- Wave/particle duality -- With an excerpt from Gary Zukav's The dancing Wu Li masters -- Joan Miró's Une étoile caresse le sein d'une négresse (peinture-poème) -- Suggested readings by Roland Barthes, Ambrose Bierce, Lao Tzu -- Work -- With excerpts from John Ruskin's The lamp of beauty and Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the artists : volume 1 -- Emile Bernard's The buckwheat harvest -- Suggested readings by Studs Terkel, Charles Panati -- Appendices -- Index.