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Symbolism in motion pictures --- Anderson, Wes, --- Criticism and interpretation.
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Earning critical acclaim and commercial success upon its 1998 release, Rushmore-the sophomore film of American auteur Wes Anderson-quickly gained the status of a cult classic. A melancholic coming-of-age story wrapped in comedy drama, Rushmore focuses on the efforts of Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman)-a brazen and precocious fifteen-year-old-to find his way. Restless, energetic, struggling, and overcompensating for his insecurities, Max pursues a dizzying range of possible futures, leading him into the orbit of local steel magnate Herman Blume (Bill Murray), elementary school teacher Rosemary Cross (Olivia Williams), and a host of cooperative schoolmates who help him to stage lavish film-derivative plays.Kristi McKim's compelling study of the film argues that despite the film's titular call for haste and excess (rush/more), it challenges a drive toward perfectionism and celebrates the quiet connections that defy such passion and speed. After establishing Rushmore's history and reception, McKim closely reads Rushmore's energetic musical montages relative to slower moments that introduce tenderness and ambiguity, in a form subtler than Max's desire-built drive or genre-based plays.Her analysis offers an urgent corrective to what might be perceived as an endearing portrait of privilege that perpetuates a status quo power. Drawing out Rushmore's subtleties that soften, temper, ease, expand, and equalize the film's zeal, she reads the film with a generosity learned from the film itself.(Provided by publisher)
Anderson, Wes, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Rushmore (Motion picture)
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Wes Anderson is considered one of the most important directors of the post-Baby Boom generation, making films such as Rushmore (1998) and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) in a style so distinctive that his films are often recognizable from a single frame. Through the travelogue The Darjeeling Limited (2007) and the stop-motion animation of Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), his films examine issues of gender, race, and class through dysfunctional family dynamics, with particular focus on masculinity and male bonding. Anderson's auteur status is enriched by his fascination with Truffaut and the French New Wave, as well as his authorship of every one of his screenplays, drawing on influences as diverse as Mark Twain, J. D. Salinger, Roald Dahl, and Stefan Zweig. Works such as Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) continue to fascinate with their postmodern, hyper-nostalgic attention to detail. This book explores the filmic and literary influences that have helped make Anderson a major voice in 21st century "indie" culture, and reveals why Wes Anderson is one of the most inventive filmmakers working in cinema today.
Motion picture producers and directors --- Motion picture producers and directors. --- Performing Arts. --- Anderson, Wes, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Bibel --- United States. --- Anderson, Wes, 1969 --- -Filmproducers en -regisseurs --- Kritiek en interpretatie --- Verenigde Staten
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This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact
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This study examines a network of writers that coalesced around the publication of The History of Mary Prince (1831), which recounts Prince's experiences as an enslaved person in the West Indies and the events that brought her to seek assistance from the Anti-Slavery Society in London. It focuses on the three writers who produced the text - Mary Prince, Thomas Pringle, and Susanna Moodie - with glances at their pro-slavery opponent, James MacQueen, and their literary friends and relatives. The History connects the Black Atlantic, a diasporic formation created through the colonial trade in enslaved people, with the Anglophone Atlantic, created through British migration and colonial settlement. It also challenges Romantic ideals of authorship as an autonomous creative act and the literary text as an aesthetically unified entity. Collaborating with Prince on the History's publication impacted Moodie's and Pringle's attitudes towards slavery and shaped their own accounts of migration and settlement.
English literature --- Slave narratives --- Slavery in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Prince, Mary. --- Wes Indies, British --- Biography --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Autobiography --- Slaves' writings --- Enslaved persons in literature --- Enslaved persons' writings
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This book describes the latest research on the geological, geochemical, geochronological, biological, and geomorphic evolution of the unique and relatively pristine landscape of the Cape Mountains and the Karoo Basin, a region in South Africa that is currently being targeted for shale gas exploration and development. With up-to-date graphics, maps, drill-core and seismic data, it offers the latest observations and synthesis, and highlights areas of ongoing research. The work presented also considers a wider connection of the Cape-Karoo system to other basins in Central Gondwana, including South America, thus following in the footsteps of A. L. du Toit. Clearly, there is still much to be learned before shale gas development can be considered, and this book provides some timely perspectives.
Earth sciences. --- Fossil fuels. --- Historical geology. --- Structural geology. --- Geobiology. --- Earth Sciences. --- Structural Geology. --- Historical Geology. --- Biogeosciences. --- Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture). --- Mountains --- Karoo Basin (Lesotho and South Africa) --- Geotectonics --- Structural geology --- Tectonics (Geology) --- Fossil energy --- Geosciences --- South Africa. --- Western Cape (South Africa) --- History. --- Intshona Koloni (South Africa) --- Province of the Western Cape (South Africa) --- Province of Western Cape (South Africa) --- Provinsie Wes-Kaap (South Africa) --- Wes-Kaap (South Africa) --- Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) --- Africa, South --- Geology, Structural. --- Geology. --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Earth sciences --- Natural history --- Physical geology --- Fuel --- Energy minerals --- Biology --- Biosphere --- Geology
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Architecture --- anno 1900-1999 --- Jones, Partners --- Ten Arquitectos --- Roto --- Smith-Miller + Hawkinson --- Architecture and technology. --- Architecture, Modern --- 72 --- 1976-2000 --- Jones Partners Architecture --- Jones, Wes --- TEN Arquitectos --- Smith-Miller Hawkinson --- Smith-Miller, Henry --- Hawkinson, Laurie --- Norten, Enrique --- Taller de Enrique Norten --- Gómez-Pimienta, Bernardo --- RoTo --- Rotondi, Michael --- Amerika --- Mexico --- Verenigde Staten --- Architectuur --- Architecture and technology --- Technology and architecture --- Technology --- History --- Architecture, Modern - 20th century.
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Prehistoric peoples --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Homme préhistorique --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) --- Western Cape (South Africa) --- Blombos Cave (South Africa) --- Le Cap (Afrique du Sud : Province) --- Le Cap-Occidental (Afrique du Sud) --- Blombos, Grotte de (Afrique du Sud) --- Antiquities --- Antiquités --- Homme préhistorique --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Antiquités --- Cavemen (Prehistoric peoples) --- Early man --- Man, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric archaeology --- Prehistoric human beings --- Prehistoric humans --- Prehistory --- Human beings --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Blombos Cave. --- Intshona Koloni (South Africa) --- Province of the Western Cape (South Africa) --- Province of Western Cape (South Africa) --- Provinsie Wes-Kaap (South Africa) --- Wes-Kaap (South Africa) --- Kaapland (South Africa) --- Cape Province (South Africa) --- Kapland (South Africa) --- Cap de Bonne-Espérance (South Africa) --- Kaap die Goeie Hoop (South Africa) --- Kapprovinz (South Africa) --- Kaapprovinsie (South Africa) --- Cape of Good Hope (Colony) --- Eastern Cape (South Africa) --- Northern Cape (South Africa) --- Antiquities. --- Primitive societies
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The premier source of scholarship and research on the history of the Mountain State, West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies, covers the political, social, economic, and cultural history of the state and its regional context.
West Virginia --- West Virginia. --- History --- W. Va. --- WV --- West Va. --- W.V. (West Virginia) --- W. Virg. --- State of West Virginia --- Wes-Virginië --- Wescht Virginia --- Virchinia Occidental --- Estato de Virchinia Occidental --- Virginia du Ponant --- Virxinia Occidental --- Kuarahyresẽ Virginia --- Qärbi Virciniya --- Штат Заходняя Вірджынія --- Shtat Zakhodni︠a︡i︠a︡ Virdz︠h︡ynii︠a︡ --- Заходняя Вірджынія --- Zakhodni︠a︡i︠a︡ Virdz︠h︡ynii︠a︡ --- Западна Вирджиния --- Zapadna Virdzhinii︠a︡ --- Щат Западна Вирджиния --- Shtat Zapadna Virdzhinii︠a︡ --- Zapadna Virginia --- Virginia ar C'hornaoueg --- Virgínia de l'Oest --- Virgínia Occidental --- Анăç Вирджини --- Anăś Virdzhini --- Virginia --- Virginia (Reorganized government : 1861-1863) --- Shtat Zakhodni͡ai͡a Virdz͡hynii͡ --- Shtat Zapadna Virdzhinii͡ --- Wes-Virgini --- Zakhodni͡ai͡a Virdz͡hynii͡ --- Zapadna Virdzhinii͡
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