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The Films of Fay Wray
Widely acclaimed as a horror movie actress, Fay Wray is best remembered for her performances in King Kong and four other classic 1930s film thrillers, Doctor X, The Most Dangerous Game, Mystery of the Wax Museum and The Vampire Bat. Yet Wray appeared in 77 feature films between 1925 and 1958, playing leading roles in 67. Many of her films, including her entire silent film output, have been lost or are available only on a limited basis. This heavily illustrated filmography at last makes obvious her sizeable contribution to the film industry. After an overview of her professional acting career, the filmography is divided into three sections. The first introduces Wray's early silent feature film appearances; the second covers her "leading lady" period in popular horror thrillers and other films in the sound era; and the third covers her latter-day supporting roles. Appendices document her work in film shorts and her television appearances. Commentary throughout includes first-person interviews with Fay Wray.
The Collection of Antiquities of the American Academy in Rome
A comprehensive presentation of the ancient and diverse artifacts from the American Academy in Rome's collection.
Performing the Gospel
What is the difference between good worship and good entertainment? Too often, people disparage some aspect of worship by calling it "just entertainment" or "just a performance." Others say that they do not need to go to church because they have profound spiritual or even religious experiences at concerts, plays, movies, or dances. How is worship different from these performing arts? How is art different from entertainment? This book looks at the history of the performing arts both in worship and as worship, with particular attention to the attitudes that shape our ideas about both worship and entertainment. Working definitions of words like "art," "excellence," "liturgy," and "play" help to illuminate what different people mean when they use them in conversations about Christian worship. Putting theological, scriptural, and practical writings on worship and the performing arts in conversation with interviews with dancers, musicians, actors, preachers, and liturgical scholars, this volume is intended to help pastors, performers, and everyone who plans, leads, or cares about worship talk with one another in mutually respectful and helpful ways.
Singles 22
Singles K é uma série de ebooks semanais que trazem para o leitor cotidiano as melhores crônicas de colunistas e escritores da KBR publicadas no blog da editora. Nesta edição, uma resenha informal do livro Wave, de Sonali Deraniyagala, que perdeu a família no tsunami de 2004 na Ásia, a verdade sobre cruzeiros marítimos, a simplicidade voluntária, os impedimentos na comunicação humana e uma estrangeira (brasileira) na terra de Tio Sam, estranhando o futebol americano, entre outros assuntos. Como está provado mais uma vez, Singles K não só lida com agilidade e profundidade com os assuntos prementes da atualidade, como resgata os melhores textos entre os mais de oitocentos originais garimpados pelo conselho editorial da KBR, uma excelente porta de entrada para um dos mais completos e instigantes portfolios de escritores do Brasil. Ano 2/ Número 22 Sumário - Sexo, verdades e sofrimento - Cruzeiros - O desabafo do cronista - Depois do furacão - Neandertal ou Homo Sapiens? - O presente - Fora de contexto - Imprevisto - A arte de viver bem com pouco - Amor por demais - Feliz Natal - Os homens e o brinquedo novo - O saco do Papai Noel
Healing Grief
Both our view of Seneca’s philosophical thought and our approach to the ancient consolatory genre have radically changed since the latest commentary on the Consolatio ad Marciam was written in 1981. The aim of this work is to offer a new book-length commentary on the earliest of Seneca’s extant writings, along with a revision of the Latin text and a reassessment of Seneca’s intellectual program, strategies, and context. A crucial document to penetrate Seneca’s discourse on the self in its embryonic stages, the Ad Marciam is here taken seriously as an engaging attempt to direct the persuasive power of literary models and rhetorical devices toward the fundamentally moral project of healing Marcia’s grief and correcting her cognitive distortions. Through close reading of the Latin text, this commentary shows that Seneca invariably adapts different traditions and voices – from Greek consolations to Plato’s dialogues, from the Roman discourse of gender and exemplarity to epic poetry – to a Stoic framework, so as to give his reader a lucid understanding of the limits of the self and the ineluctability of natural laws.
Singles 12
Singles K é uma série de ebooks semanais que trazem para o leitor cotidiano as melhores crônicas de colunistas e escritores da KBR publicadas no blog da editora. Nesta edição, entre outros assuntos, a corrupção dos fiscais da receita, os modernistas brasileiros na literatura de crime e mistério, a mania de alugar filmes, jardinagem de apartamento, a falta de pontualidade, as agruras da editora da KBR, o amor em um longo casamento. Singles K não só lida com agilidade e profundidade com os assuntos prementes da atualidade, como resgata os melhores textos entre os mais de oitocentos originais garimpados pelo conselho editorial da KBR, uma excelente porta de entrada para um dos mais completos e instigantes portfolios de escritores do Brasil. Ano 1/ Número 12. Na poltrona do editor/ Diário de uma paixão/ Paz e amor/ A opção pelas lagartas/ Beijo de novela/ Um relógio suíço para a autoestima/ Preenchendo espaços/ Teixeirinha/ Corrupção: Sociedade Anônima/ Me engana que eu gosto/ Máquina grega de prever o futuro/ A arte de cortar palavras: o retorno/ Mania/ Modernos e modernistas.
Contact with Alien Civilizations
This book describes a wide variety of speculations by many authors about the consequences for humanity of coming into contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. The assumptions underlying those speculations are examined, and some conclusions are drawn. The book emphasizes the consequences of contact rather than the search, and takes account of popular views. As necessary background, the book also includes brief summaries of the history of thinking about extraterrestrial intelligence, searches for life and for signals, contrasting paradigms of how contact might take place, and the paradox that those paradigms allegedly create.
Singles 21
Singles K é uma série de ebooks semanais que trazem para o leitor cotidiano as melhores crônicas de colunistas e escritores da KBR publicadas no blog da editora. Nesta edição, a solidão de uma artista remediada em Paris vem com um toque a mais: uma ilustração exclusiva da dublê de escritora e artista Maria Anna Machado usada na capa. E mais: os micos indesculpáveis em entrevistas ao vivo para a mídia, a dor de um escritor transformada em arte e uma bela reflexão sobre a solidão a dois, entre outros assuntos. Como está provado mais uma vez, Singles K não só lida com agilidade e profundidade com os assuntos prementes da atualidade, como resgata os melhores textos entre os mais de oitocentos originais garimpados pelo conselho editorial da KBR, uma excelente porta de entrada para um dos mais completos e instigantes portfolios de escritores do Brasil. Ano 2/ Número 21 Sumário - Mico na mídia - The mansions - A solidão a dois - Estigma - Paris, solidão, dinheiro - L’ultima volta - Desejos - Chegou a hora - Manias de escritor - Achaques - Território perigoso - O prejuízo da dúvida - A quarta dimensão - A máquina de criar (in)diferença
The Image of Librarians in Cinema, 1917-1999
From its earliest days to the present, the onscreen image of the librarian has remained largely the same. A silent 1921 film set the precedent for two female librarian characters: a dowdy spinster wears glasses and a bun hairstyle, and an attractive young woman is overworked and underpaid. Silent films, however, employed a variety of characteristics for librarians, showed them at work on many different tasks, and featured them in a range of dramatic, romantic, and comedic situations. The sound era (during which librarians appeared in more than 200 films) frequently exaggerated these characteristics and situations, strongly influencing the general image of librarians. This chronologically arr...
