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The June 1991 symposium in Thredbo, NSW, Australia, brought together people from medicine, sports, resort management, and equipment manufacture and sales, to discuss aspects of skiing accidents. The 24 papers cover alpine skiing epidemiology, the biomechanical and physiological aspects of skiing, bindings, the safety of ski areas, and injuries in related sports such as snowboarding, ski jumping, and tobogganing. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
In this, the first comprehensive book on Liliana Cavani, Gaetana Marrone redraws the map of postwar Italian cinema to make room for this extraordinary filmmaker, whose representations of transgressive eroticism, spiritual questing, and psychological extremes test the limits of the medium, pushing it into uncharted areas of discovery. Cavani's film The Night Porter (1974) created a sensation in the United States and Europe. But in many ways her critically renowned endeavors--which also include Francesco di Assisi, Galileo, I cannibali, Beyond Good and Evil, The Berlin Affair, and several operas and documentaries--remain enigmatic to audiences. Here Marrone presents Cavani's work as a cinema o...