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Between Stage and Screen : Ingmar Bergman Directs
Ingmar Bergman is worldwide known as a film and stage director. Yet no-one has attempted to compare his stage and screen activities. In Between stage and screen Egil Törnqvist examines formal and thematical correspondences and differences between a number of Bergman's stage, screen, and radio productions. In the prologue Bergman's spiritual and aesthetic heritage and his position in the twenti…
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- 9053561374
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- Film Culture In Transition
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- 927 TOR b
Benjamin's Library : Modernity, Nation, and the Baroque
In Benjamin’s Library, Jane O. Newman offers, for the first time in any language, a reading of Walter Benjamin’s notoriously opaque work, Origin of the German Tragic Drama that systematically attends to its place in discussions of the Baroque in Benjamin’s day. Taking into account the literary and cultural contexts of Benjamin’s work, Newman recovers Benjamin’s relationship to the ide…
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Babel' In Context : A Study in Cultural Identity
Isaak Babel (1894–1940) is arguably one of the greatest modern short story writers of the early twentieth century. Yet his life and work are shrouded in the mystery of who Babel was—an Odessa Jew who wrote in Russian, who came from one of the most vibrant centers of east European Jewish culture and all his life loved Yiddish and the stories of Sholom Aleichem. This is the first book in Engl…
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- 78-1-61811-145-6
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- Borderlines: Russian аnd East European Jewish Studies
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- 928 SIC b
Australian Political Lives : Chronicling political careers and administrative…
Biography; Politicians; History; Australia
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- 1 920942 74 2
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- 808.066 320 092 AUS
Austerity baby
"Austerity Baby might best be described as an ‘oblique memoir’. Janet Wolff’s fascinating volume is a family history – but one that is digressive and consistently surprising. The central underlying and repeated themes of the book are exile and displacement; lives (and deaths) during the Third Reich; mother-daughter and sibling relationships; the generational transmission of trauma and e…
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- 978 1 5261 2130 1
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- 923.8 WOL a
The Angevin Empire : Or the Three Reigns of Henry II, Richard I, and John (A.…
This work lends a wonderfully-comprehensive look at the Angevin Empire, which consists of the reigns of Henry II, Richard I and John from 1154 to 1216. The book documents well the difficult family dynamics that led to war within the family for many years. This volume also features detailed maps and illustrations pertaining to the kings' reigns and the Crusades.
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Always an Adventure : An autobiography
Hugh Dempsey has for decades been one of Alberta’s most prolific and influential public historians. Author of more than twenty books, he has also been “in on the ground floor” of the development of many key Alberta institutions, including the Indian Association of Alberta, the Historical Society of Alberta, and most importantly, the Glenbow Museum. Now, in his own words, he recounts his i…
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- 978-1-55238-567-8
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- The West series
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- 971.230 072 02 DEM a
The Writing on the Wall: The Work of Joane Cardinal-Schubert
Artist. Activist. Curator. Joane Cardinal-Schubert was a phenomenal talent. Her work recognizes the social and political ramifications of lived Indigenous experience, exposing truths about history, culture, and the contemporary world. She was a teacher and mentor, supporting those who struggle against the legacies of colonial history. She was an activist for Indigenous sovereignty, advocating f…
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- 9781552389508
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Marion Nicoll: Silence and Alchemy
Marion Nicoll (1909 1985) is a widely acknowledged and important founder of Alberta art and certainly one of a dedicated few that brought abstraction into practice in the province. Her life and career is a story of determination, of dedication to her vision regardless of professional or personal challenges. Nicoll became the first woman instructor hired at the Provincial Institute of Art and Te…
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From Realism to Abstraction: The Art of J. B. Taylor
J. B. (Jack) Taylor (1917-1970) was an important figure in the history of Banff and western Canada’s artistic community. Inspired by the locale, Taylor spent his career striving to depict the idea of the mountain, moving over time from traditional representations of nature to an intuitive perception of the essential elements of landscape rock, water, and sky. Always, he sought to capture his …
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