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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: 704

The Frenzy of Renown

Beginning with the Homeric epics and the exploits of Alexander the Great and proceeding right up to the current idolatry of media figures, Braudy explains how the definition of fame depends on the political and social system in which it is found, the culture's conception of what a person is, and, of course, the media available for the dissemination of images.

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

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.

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...

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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The Frenzy of Renown
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 674

The Frenzy of Renown

What is fame? A name? A face? The "it" in "making it"? In this wide-ranging and ambitious book, Leo Braudy traces the evolving definition of fame from the time of Homer to the present. As Braudy points out, fame is far from just a 20th-century obsession: it has a history, and the twists and turns of that history have determined the terms by which we now understand the phenomenon. Beginning with the Homeric epics and exploits of Alexander the Great, and proceeding to our current idolatry of media figures, the book explains how the definition of fame depends on the political and social system in which it is found, the culture's concept of what a person is, and, of course, the media available f...

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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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.