This book is about American films from the late sixties and early seventies, how they use music and sound to foreground an imagined engagement with the lived immediacy of experience, and how this experience is related to the idea of the historical past.
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Business Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know ® is a succinct, practical survey that explains what ethical lines are, how not to cross them, and what to do... Læs mere
Acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship, Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History is a ten-volume analysis of the rise... Læs mere
Few personalities from classical antiquity are more familiar yet more poorly grasped than Cleopatra (69-30 BC), queen of Egypt. In this work, Duane Roller has written the... Læs mere
This book brings together for the first time an updated, revised collection of influential essays and articles that capture some... Læs mere
In The Twentieth Century: A World History, R. Keith Schoppa offers a window into one of the most turbulent and exciting periods in world history. Through a global... Læs mere
Sound Relations delves into histories of Inuit musical life in Alaska to trace the ways in which sound is integral to self-determination and... Læs mere
"The best biography of a crucial figure at pivotal moment in American history since Robert E. Sherwood's Pulitzer... Læs mere