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The World in a Frame
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

The World in a Frame

The World in a Frame covers the history of popular American films from the 1930s to the 1970s. Braudy gives an account of the histories of visual style and film genres, as well as techniques of characterisation, in an evolving cultural context.

Haunted
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

Haunted

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Shaping Fear -- 2 Between Hope and Fear: Horror and Religion -- 3 Terror, Horror, and the Cult of Nature -- 4 Frankenstein, Robots, and Androids: Horror and the Manufactured Monster -- 5 The Detective's Reason -- 6 Jekyll and Hyde: The Monster from Within -- 7 Dracula and the Haunted Present -- 8 Horror in the Age of Visual Reproduction -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Illustrations

The Frenzy of Renown
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 730

The Frenzy of Renown

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997-11-25
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  • Publisher: Vintage

Traces the history of fame and how fame is defined by the political and social systems in a culture, and examines the diverse personalities who have changed the nature of fame, including Julius Caesar, Adolf Hitler, and Marilyn Monroe.

The World in a Frame
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

The World in a Frame

"An exciting, entertaining exploration of films. . . . [Braudy] attempts to understand rather than promulgate rules and categories, and somehow to keep the criteria of enjoyment in some meaningful connection with the criteria of judgment."—Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times

The Hollywood Sign
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

The Hollywood Sign

The story behind the massive white block letters set into a steep Los Angeles hillside—and the city and culture they represent: “Terrific.”—San Francisco Chronicle To so many who see its image, the Hollywood sign represents the earthly home of that otherwise ethereal world of fame, stardom, celebrity—the American and worldwide aspiration to be in the limelight, to be, like the Hollywood sign itself, instantly recognizable. How an advertisement erected in 1923, touting the real estate development Hollywoodland, took on a life of its own is a story worthy of a movie itself. Leo Braudy traces the remarkable life of this distinctly American landmark, which has been saved over the years...

From Chivalry to Terrorism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 658

From Chivalry to Terrorism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-12-08
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  • Publisher: Vintage

Manliness has always been linked to physical prowess and to war; indeed the warrior has been the archetypal man across countless cultures throughout time. In this magisterial excursion through literature, history, warfare, and sociology, one of our most prominent scholars tracks the complex relationship between the changing methods and goals of warfare and shifting models of manhood. This journey takes us from the citizen soldiers of ancient Greece to the medieval knights to the misogynistic terrorists of Al Qaeda. As he chronicles these transformations, Leo Braudy weighs the significance of everything from weapon technology to the hairstyles favored during different eras. He offers fresh insights on codes of war and codes of racial purity, and on cultural and historical figures from Socrates to Don Quixote to Napoleon to Custer to Rambo. Epic in scope and free of academic jargon, From Chivalry to Terrorism is a masterwork of scholarship that is both accessible and breathtakingly ambitious.

Narrative Form in History and Fiction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

Narrative Form in History and Fiction

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1987
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Film Theory and Criticism
  • Language: en

Film Theory and Criticism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1976
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Haunted
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

Haunted

An award-winning scholar and author charts four hundred years of monsters and how they reflect the culture that created them Leo Braudy, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, has won accolades for revealing the complex and constantly shifting history behind seemingly unchanging ideas of fame, war, and masculinity. Continuing his interest in the history of emotion, this book explores how fear has been shaped into images of monsters and monstrosity. From the Protestant Reformation to contemporary horror films and fiction, he explores four major types: the monster from nature (King Kong), the created monster (Frankenstein), the monster from within (Mr. Hyde), and the monster from the past (Dracula). Drawing upon deep historical and literary research, Braudy discusses the lasting presence of fearful imaginings in an age of scientific progress, viewing the detective genre as a rational riposte to the irrational world of the monstrous. Haunted is a compelling and incisive work by a writer at the height of his powers.

From Chivalry to Terrorism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 664

From Chivalry to Terrorism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: Knopf

Beginning with the world of the chivalric Middle Ages and ending in this age of global terrorism and limited war, Braudy shows how the perceptions and images of masculinity have changed in relation to major wars and advances in war technology.