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David Ben Shaul
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David Ben-Shaul
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Film
Film: The Key Concepts presents a coherent, clear and exciting overview of film theory for beginning readers. The book takes the reader through the often conflicting analyses that make up film theory, illustrating arguments with examples from mainstream and independent films. Concise and comprehensive, the book guides the reader through realism, formalism, structuralism, semiotics, Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism, cognitivism, post-colonialism, postmodernism, gender and queer film theory, stardom and film audience research. The book as a whole provides a complete overview of the evolution of film theory. Throughout, the analysis is illustrated with lively boxed studies of key mainstream and independent films. Bulleted chapter summaries, questions and guides to further reading are also provided.
Cinema of Choice
Standard Hollywood narrative movies prescribe linear narratives that cue the viewer to expect predictable outcomes and adopt a closed state of mind. There are, however, a small number of movies that, through the presentation of alternate narrative paths, open the mind to thoughts of choice and possibility. Through the study of several key movies for which this concept is central, such as Sliding Doors, Run Lola Run, Inglourious Basterds, and Rashomon, Nitzan Ben Shaul examines the causes and implications of optional thinking and how these movies allow for more open and creative possibilities. This book examines the methods by which standard narrative movies close down thinking processes and deliver easy pleasures to the viewer whilst demonstrating that this is not the only possibility and that optional thinking can be both stimulating and rewarding.
Mega Life
Mega-Life, by Ben-Shaul, follows his hugely successful Hebrew book, The Second Life Cycle - The New Education for Life Cycles and Careers, published in Israel which is noted for longevity rates among the highest in the Western world. The author describes a world in which we can already guarantee our children a mega-life - a much longer life than we have known - till now. With Western populations changing so drastically, the world as we know it is transforming before our very eyes. This book explains why there hasn't been a grand psychological theory of aging for over 50 years and formulates a.
Micelles, Membranes, Microemulsions, and Monolayers
Over the last decades, the study of surfactants (detergents, for example) has been profoundly changed by ideas and techniques from physics, chemistry, and materials science. Among these are: self assembly; critical phenomena, scaling, and renormalization; high-resolution scattering, and magnetic resonance spectroscopy. This book represents the first systematic account of these new developments, providing both a general introduction to the subject as well as a review of recent developments. The book will be a very useful tool for the biophysist, biochemist or physical chemist working in the field of surfactants.
Mythical Expressions of Siege in Israeli Films
This study presents a comprehensive analysis of Israeli film and society, from 1948 to the present. It examines the Israeli-Palestine conflict, Zionist-Socialism, Zionist Statism, post-Six Day War Euphoria, the Israeli Left, and Ethnic Fusion vs. Ethnic Fission.
