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Free Download America’s Corporate Art: The Studio Authorship of Hollywood Motion Pictures (1929-2001) By Christensen, Jerome
2012 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 0804771677 | PDF | 4 MB
Contrary to theories of single person authorship, America’s Corporate Art argues that the corporate studio is the author of Hollywood motion pictures, both during the classical era of the studio system and beyond, when studios became players in global dramas staged by massive entertainment conglomerates. Hollywood movies are examples of a commodity that, until the digital age, was rare: a self-advertising artifact that markets the studio’s brand in the very act of consumption.The book covers the history of corporate authorship through the antithetical visions of two of the most dominant Hollywood studios, Warner Bros. and MGM. During the classical era, these studios promoted their brands as competing social visions in strategically significant pictures such as MGM’s Singin’ in the Rain and Warner’s The Fountainhead. Christensen follows the studios’ divergent fates as MGM declined into a valuable and portable logo, while Warner Bros. employed Batman, JFK, and You’ve Got Mail to seal deals that made it the biggest entertainment corporation in the world. The book concludes with an analysis of the Disney-Pixar merger and the first two Toy Story movies in light of the recent judicial extension of constitutional rights of the corporate person.

Free Download Robin Schofield, "The Vocation of Sara Coleridge: Authorship and Religion"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 3319703706, 3319889281 | PDF | pages: 266 | 1.8 mb
This book presents a fundamental reassessment of Sara Coleridge. It examines her achievements as an author in the public sphere, and celebrates her interventions in what was a masculine genre of religious polemics. Sara Coleridge the religious author was the peer of such major figures as John Henry Newman and F. D. Maurice, and recognized as such by contemporaries. Her strategic negotiations with conventions of gender and authorship were subtle and successful. In this rediscovery of Sara Coleridge the author revises perspectives upon her literary relationship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Far from sacrificing her opportunities in service of her father’s memory, her rationale is to exploit his metaphysics in original religious writings that engage with urgent controversies of her own times. Sara Coleridge critiques the Oxford theology of Newman and his colleagues for authoritarian and elitist tendencies, and for creating a negative culture in religious discourse. In response, she experiments with methodologies of collaborative, dialogic exchange, in which form as much as content will promote liberal, inclusive and productive encounters. She develops this agenda in her major religious work, the unpublished Dialogues on Regeneration (1850-51), which this book examines in its penultimate chapter.

Free Download Paul Henley, "Beyond observation: A history of authorship in ethnographic film "
English | ISBN: 1526131366 | 2020 | 568 pages | PDF | 14 MB
Beyond Observation is structured by the argument that the ‘ethnographicness’ of a film should not be determined by the fact that it is about an exotic culture – the popular view – nor because it has apparently not been authored – a long-standing academic view – but rather because it adheres to the norms of ethnographic practice more generally. On these grounds, the book covers a large number of films made in a broad range of styles across a 120-year period, from the Arctic to Africa, from the cities of China to rural Vermont.

Free Download Lia Paradis, "Imperial Culture and the Sudan: Authorship, Identity and the British Empire"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1788318994, 0755637534 | EPUB | pages: 264 | 1.2 mb
General Gordon’s death in the Sudan marks the height of imperial cultural fever. Even in the late nineteen seventies, the themes of Khartoum were still the basis for children’s stories, comic books, and depictions of masculinity.Imperial Culture in the Sudan seeks to examine the cultural impact of Sudan on the popular image of the British empire – why were these colonial administrators characterized as ‘adventurers’? Why was Sudan and the story of General Gordon so popular? The author argues it coincided with the mass production of popular journalism, the height of Jingoism as a cultural product and therefore a study of Sudan’s experience tells us a lot about the British Empire – how it was made, consumed and remembered.

Free Download Women’s Work: Labour, Gender, Authorship, 1750-1830 By Jennie Batchelor
2010 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0719082579 | PDF | 2 MB
*Women’s Work* challenges influential accounts about gender and the novel by revealing the complex ways in which labour, as material reality and philosophical concept, informed the lives and writing of a number of middling and genteel women authors publishing between 1750 and 1830. This period saw momentous changes in the configuration of the domestic household and the labour market, as well as in the practice and conceptualization of that most precarious of occupations, authorship. As such, Batchelor contends, it provides a particularly rich, yet largely neglected, seam of texts for exploring the vexed relationship between gender, work and writing. The book’s introduction explores some of the reasons why women’s work has been historically absent from the stories we’ve told about eighteenth-century women writers’ lives and novels, and suggests how recognition of its presence can complicate these narratives in important ways. The four chapters that follow contain thoroughly contextualized case studies of the treatment of manual, intellectual and domestic labour in the work and careers of Sarah Scott, Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft and women applicants to the writer’s charity, the Literary Fund. By making women’s work visible in our studies of female-authored fiction of the period, Batchelor reveals the crucial role that these women played in articulating debates about the gendered division of labour, the (in)compatibility of women’s domestic and professional lives and the status and true value of women’s work that shaped eighteenth-century culture as surely as they shape our own.

Free Download Gropper, "In Search of the Culprit: Aspects of Medieval Authorship "
English | ISBN: 3110692678 | 2022 | 298 pages | EPUB | 12 MB
Der Tübinger Sonderforschungsbereich 1391Andere Ästhetikuntersucht Texte, Bilder und Objekte der europäischen Vormoderne. Gefragt wird danach, wie diese ihren ästhetischen Status bestimmen. Ziel ist es, den Beitrag einer 2000-jährigen Kulturgeschichte vor dem 18. Jahrhundert für ein Verständnis des Ästhetischen neu aufzuzeigen.

Free Download Kierkegaard’s Pseudonymous Authorship: A Study of Time and Self By Mark C. Taylor
2019 | 408 Pages | ISBN: 0691618135 | PDF | 40 MB
This book deals with a central problem in the writings of Soren Kierkegaard, the themes of time and the self as developed in the pseudonymous writings. Arguing that a most effective way to grasp the unity of Kierkegaard’s dialectic of the stages of existence is to focus on the dramatic presentation of time and the self that appears at each stage, Mark C. Taylor pursues these themes from the viewpoints of theology, philosophy, psychology, and related areas of study.The author works from the original texts and makes much use of untranslated primary and secondary material. His concluding evaluation offerse a critical perspective from which to view Kierkegaard’s interpretation of time and selfhood and indicates the importance of Kierkegaard’s work for our time.Mark C. Taylor teaches religion at Williams College.Originally published in 1975.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Free Download Janice Loreck, "Provocation in Women’s Filmmaking: Authorship and Art Cinema"
English | ISBN: 1474483496 | 2023 | 208 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Critics regularly use the term "provocateur" to describe controversial film directors. Although most individuals who attract this term are men, there is a long and largely unexamined history of female auteurs who shock and unsettle their viewers. Provocation in Women’s Filmmaking: Authorship and Art Cinema investigates how women directors participate in the tradition of provocative art cinema. Focusing on the post-millennium films of auteurs such as Lisa Aschan, Catherine Breillat, Jennifer Kent, Isabella Eklöf, Lucile Hadžihalilović, Claire Denis, Anna Biller and Athina Rachel Tsangari, this book considers the aesthetics and strategies of women’s provocative filmmaking in contemporary cinema. Challenging the gendering of provocation as a hyper-masculine mode of authorship, the book uncovers an enticing and complex array of divisive works by women.

Free Download Gropper, Stefanie, Rösli, "In Search of the Culprit: Aspects of Medieval Authorship"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3110692678 | PDF | pages: 302 | 4.9 mb
Despite various poststructuralist rejections of the idea of a singular author-genius, the question of a textual archetype that can be assigned to a named author is still a common scholarly phantasm. The present volume sets new standards by consistently applying current theoretical approaches from literary studies to the question of concepts of authorship in medieval and early modern literature. The basic thesis of the volume is that authorship is a narratological, inner- and intertextual function rather than an extra-textual entity.

Free Download Joseph Westfall, "Authorship and Authority in Kierkegaard’s Writings"
English | ISBN: 1350055956 | 2018 | 264 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Authorship is a complicated subject in Kierkegaard’s work, which he surely recognized, given his late attempts to explain himself in On My Work as an Author. From the use of multiple pseudonyms and antonyms, to contributions across a spectrum of media and genres, issues of authorship abound.