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Epic Films
"Epic" films, those concerned with monumental events and larger-than-life characters, cover the period from the Creation to the A.D. 1200s and have been churned out by Hollywood and overseas studios since the dawn of filmmaking. Cecil B. DeMille, a master of the genre, hit upon the perfect mixture of sex, splendor, and the sacred to lure audiences to his epic productions. The 355 film entries include casts and credits, plot synopsis, and narratives on the making of the films. There are 190 photographs in this editon.
Cinemascope 3
This third collection of widescreen wonders photographed in CinemaScope, focuses on such popular movies as "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing," "Cleopatra," "Three Coins in the Fountain," "Bus Stop," "There's No Business Like Show Business," "The Seven Year Itch," "Let's Make Love," "Peyton Place," "North to Alaska," "The Longest Day," "The Eddy Duchin Story," "Far from the Madding Crowd," "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit," "The Helen Morgan Story," "A Star Is Born" and "2001: A Space Odyssey."
The Programming Approach and the Demise of Economics
In this book – the first of three volumes – Franco Archibugi sets out to create an epistemology of economics, arguing for a radical overturning of the conventional analysis from a “positive” approach to a “programming” approach. This overturning leads to a reappraisal of the foundations of Economics itself, and to an improved integration of Economics as an autonomous discipline alongside Sociology, Political Science, Operational Research, Social Engineering and Physical or Spatial Planning. The author interrogates how scientific the social sciences really are before proposing a new scientific paradigm for the social sciences, a political preference function and a general programm...
The Mirage of America in Contemporary Italian Literature and Film
The Mirage of America in Contemporary Italian Literature and Film explores the use of images associated with the United States in Italian novels and films released between the 1980s and the 2000s. In this study, Barbara Alfano looks at the ways in which the individuals portrayed in these works – and the intellectuals who created them – confront the cultural construct of the American myth. As Alfano demonstrates, this myth is an integral part of Italians’ discourse to define themselves culturally – in essence, Italian intellectuals talk about America often for the purpose of talking about Italy. The book draws attention to the importance of Italian literature and film as explorations of an individual’s ethics, and to how these productions allow for functioning across cultures. It thus differentiates itself from other studies on the subject that aim at establishing the relevance and influence of American culture on Italian twentieth-century artistic representations.
Amore di un altro tempo
Un grande e inaspettato amore e all’improvviso tutto cambia, niente è più come prima. Ma la vita presenta tranelli che non sempre si riesce ad aggirare. Un grande amore può davvero sistemare tutto? Ha davvero una forza tale da stendere un impalpabile velo di luce su qualsiasi cosa? Sarebbe affascinante capire attraverso un passato lontano, in altri luoghi, il nostro presente... ma non è possibile. O forse sì? Il tempo non è forse un’invenzione dell’uomo...? Buon viaggio oltre il tempo... Paolo D’Eramo è nato a Roma il 7 settembre 1956. È sposato e padre di tre figli. Architetto e imprenditore con l’hobby delle buone letture, hobby che si tramuta in passione per lo scrivere romanzi. Amore di un altro tempo è il suo secondo libro e arriva dopo Tutto ha inizio, pubblicato nell’aprile del 2019.
Tutto ha inizio
Tutto ha inizio da una lettera. Poche righe di una confessione sincera. Per ricordare il passato, per riscoprire un rapporto. Quando un padre muore si deve avere il coraggio di rientrare in quei luoghi che dolorosamente ce lo ricordano. Quando un padre muore bisogna aprire dei sigilli che non si aveva mai avuto il coraggio di aprire e scoprire, dietro l’ingombrante figura paterna, un uomo, con la sua passione, il suo impegno e con tutti i suoi difetti. Quando un padre muore, può capitare di dover raccogliere un’eredità, umana e morale, che non si è mai voluta. Dal grave lutto, a ritroso piano piano, attraverso ricordi personali e memorie altrui, l’autore ricostruisce la storia di un...
The Encyclopedia of Epic Films
Soon after film came into existence, the term epic was used to describe productions that were lengthy, spectacular, live with action, and often filmed in exotic locales with large casts and staggering budgets. The effort and extravagance needed to mount an epic film paid off handsomely at the box office, for the genre became an immediate favorite with audiences. Epic films survived the tribulations of two world wars and the Depression and have retained the basic characteristics of size and glamour for more than a hundred years. Length was, and still is, one of the traits of the epic, though monolithic three- to four-hour spectacles like Gone with the Wind (1939) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962)...
