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Exporting Perilous Pauline
Exceptionally popular during their time, the spectacular American action film serials of the 1910s featured exciting stunts, film tricks, and effects set against the background of modern technology, often starring resourceful female heroines who displayed traditionally male qualities such as endurance, strength, and authority. The most renowned of these "serial queens" was Pearl White, whose career as the adventurous character Pauline developed during a transitional phase in the medium's evolving production strategies, distribution and advertising patterns, and fan culture. In this volume, an international group of scholars explores how American serials starring Pearl White and other female stars impacted the emerging cinemas in the United States and abroad. Contributors investigate the serial genre and its narrative patterns, marketing, and cultural reception, and historiographic importance, with essays on Pearl White's life on and off the screen as well as the "serial queen" genre in Western and Eastern Europe, India, and China. Contributors are Weihong Bao, Rudmer Canjels, Marina Dahlquist, Monica Dall'Asta, Kevin B. Johnson, Christina Petersen, and Rosie Thomas.
Prague in Danger
A dramatic account of life in Czechoslovakia's great capital during the Nazi Protectorate With this successor book to Prague in Black and Gold, his account of more than a thousand years of Central European history, the great scholar Peter Demetz focuses on just six short years—a tormented, tragic, and unforgettable time. He was living in Prague then—a "first-degree half-Jew," according to the Nazis' terrible categories—and here he joins his objective chronicle of the city under German occupation with his personal memories of that period: from the bitter morning of March 15, 1939, when Hitler arrived from Berlin to set his seal on the Nazi takeover of the Czechoslovak government, until ...
Karel Teige
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Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2005
The present volume is the result of the second international symposium dedicated to the necropolis of Abusir, Saqqara and Dahshur that took place in Prague in June-July 2005. The thirty articles include contributions by Hartwig Altenmueller, Dieter Arnold, Vassil Dobrev, Ludwig Morenz, Miroslav Verner, Christiane Ziegler and numerous other scholars. The contributions cover various aspects of the Memphite region from the Early Dynastic Period to the Roman era, but the bulk of the papers focus on the Abusir-Saqqara necropolis in the Old Kingdom. A study and interpretation of the archaeological remains and literary sources form the main themes of interest among the contributions, but the most characteristic feature of most papers is the use of a combination of archaeological, literary and iconographic material in order to attain a deeper knowledge and better understanding of the Memphite necropolis and its development over time.
Neue Staaten - neue Bilder?
Das 20. Jahrhundert erlebte infolge der beiden Weltkriege und des Zusammenbruchs der kommunistischen Regime eine Reihe von Staatsgründungen und Systemwechseln. Im Jahre 1918 triumphierte das Nationalstaatsprinzip, die Neuordnung nach 1945 brachte ein Vorrücken des sozialistischen Systems nach Zentraleuropa und dessen Zerfall in den Jahren 1989/90 zog schließlich in zahlreichen Ländern erneut einen Wandel nach sich. In jeder Umbruchssituation waren die Staaten mit der Neubestimmung ihres Selbstverständnisses und ihrer Selbstdarstellung konfrontiert. Dieser Band betrachtet die Visualisierungsstrategien staatlicher Macht in den Spannungsfeldern zwischen Modernisierung und Kontinuität, zwischen Europäisierung und nationaler Tradition.
Dílo
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Z mého života
Kniha vzpomínek přibližuje autorův lidský a básnický vývoj i kulturní a společenské souvislosti, v nichž se utvářela jeho tvorba. Přítomné vydání je založeno na kritické důvěře v časopisecké znění a ponechává proto na rozdíl.
Karel Jaromír Erben
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