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In Canada's Eastern Arctic and Greenland, the Inuit have been the majority for centuries. In recent years, they have been given a promise from Canadian and Danish governments that offers them more responsibility for their lands and thus control over their lives without fear of being outnumbered by outsiders. The Arctic Promise looks at how much the Inuit vision of self-governance relates to the existing public governance systems of Greenland and Nunavut, and how much autonomy there can be for territories that remain subordinate units of larger states. By means of a bottom-up approach involving cultural immersion, contextual, jurisprudential, and historical legal comparisons of Greenland and ...
This book examines the career and creative labour of production designer Polly Platt. It focuses mainly on her contributions to 1970s Hollywood, but also considers her later work. Considering films such as The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, The Bad News Bears, and The Witches of Eastwick, it argues that Platt’s construction of their visual palette and mise-en-scène was so creative and so comprehensive that it can be considered authorial. Chapters discuss Platt’s life and its influence on her work, her attention to detail, her role in location decisions and costume design, and her use of colour. An epilogue discusses her later career as a producer and her mentorship to young filmmakers like Cameron Crowe and Wes Anderson. This is the first full-length examination of the career of one of the women practitioners whose work was so important to 1970s cinema, and provides an alternative methodology to the auteur-driven framing that so regularly defines the era.
Piraten, Freibeuter, Buccaniere - sie schäumten die Meere und tun es wohl auch immer noch, wenn auch die heutigen Vertreter dieses Seewerks nicht so sehr unseren Sinn für Romantik und Abenteuer erregen, wie es etwa Klaus Störtebeker und Konsorten taten und tun. Doch wer meint, dass die Seeräuberei eine rein männliche Domäne , irrt, es gab einige sehr erfolgreiche Frauen in diesem Beruf, wie etwa Grace O'Malley. Ihr irischer Landsmann David Slattery geht sogar so weit zu erklären, seiner Meinung nach sei die Piraterie ein Frauenberuf. Weshalb er uns in seiner Geschichte mit einer Piratenkönigin bekannt macht, und sie ist wahrlich nicht die einzige in unserer Sammlung. In dieser Anthologie finden sich sowohl Geschichten, die der klassischen Vorstellung der Seeräuberei entsprechen, als auch solche, die von Piratinnen und Piraten im übertragenen Sinne handeln.
With detailed essays on the Arctic's environment, wildlife, climate, history, exploration, resources, economics, politics, indigenous cultures and languages, conservation initiatives and more, this Encyclopedia is the only major work and comprehensive reference on this vast, complex, changing, and increasingly important part of the globe. Including 305 maps. This Encyclopedia is not only an interdisciplinary work of reference for all those involved in teaching or researching Arctic issues, but a fascinating and comprehensive resource for residents of the Arctic, and all those concerned with global environmental issues, sustainability, science, and human interactions with the environment.
Lyst til å bli hushai? Eller kanskje du helst vil unngå å treffe på en? Denne boka gir deg en humoristisk beskrivelse av livet som hushai i gode og vanskelige dager: -‐ Fristelsene; hvordan lure nykommere på leiemarkedet. -‐ Gledene; penger som renner inn! -‐ Ruinerende ulykker; å få leieboere som ikke følger noen regler. -‐ Bekymringene; hvordan berge stumpene når økonomisk ruin er et faktum. Det finnes ingen vaksine mot å bli lurt. Men det å kjenne sin motstander, minsker sjansen. Uansett på hvilken side av leiekontrakten du signerer! Om forfatteren: Sylvi Jane Husebye har leid ut leiligheter i over 17 år. Om illustratøren: Anne-‐Gro Berg har i mange år spesiali-‐sert seg på uttrykksfulle høner.
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Hvordan er det å bo midt i en krig og nesten bli truffet av ei bombe? Hvordan er det å bli brent på bålet fordi noen sa at de så deg fly med djevelen? Hva med å fryse ihjel på Sydpolen? Eller bli knust av en monsterbølge mot svaberget? I denne boka reiser du med hurtigruta. Du treffer Jossi som er på din alder. Med et underlig kamera og en spesiell venn opplever du grusomme hendelser i Norges historie på litt for nært hold. Fortellingen i boka følger hurtigrutas reise og stoppesteder fra Kirkenes til Hammerfest. Her finner du statuer og forskjellige minnesmerker. Hvorfor står de akkurat her? Faktadelene spenner fra tidlig steinalder til 2. verdenskrig. Temamessig fra ishavsfangs...
The Palgrave Handbook of Script Development provides the first comprehensive overview of international script development practices. Across 40 unique chapters, readers are guided through the key challenges, roles and cultures of script development, from the perspectives of creators of original works, those in consultative roles and those giving broader contextual case studies. The authors take us inside the writers’ room, alongside the script editor, between development conversations, and outside the mainstream and into the experimental. With authors spanning upwards of 15 countries, and occupying an array of roles – including writer, script editor, producer, script consultant, executive...