wired - History & Criticism 5

William Rothman argues that the driving force of Hitchcock’s work was his struggle to reconcile the dark vision of his favorite Oscar Wilde quote, Each man kills the thing he loves,” with the quint……続きを見る

“Eddie’s story is by turns hilarious, informative, and the living spirit of its age. . . . [He] piles the most unlikely anecdotes on top of one another, creating a land of enchantment and an order o……続きを見る

It is fitting that film noir, a genre shrouded in dark suspense, in many ways owes its existence to two loners who linked their talents and created Hollywood movie history. The film noir genre has e……続きを見る

Dompteur, Dämon, Despot - wie kein zweiter steht der Dirigentenberuf für musikalische Machtausübung, die traditionell mit Männlichkeit assoziiert wird. Dass im Pantheon und selbst in der Mittelklass……続きを見る

Recognized for its distinctive musical features and its connection to periods of social innovation and ferment, the genre of psychedelia has exerted long-term influence in many areas of cultural pro……続きを見る

More than a quarter-century after his death, James Baldwin remains an unparalleled figure in American literature and African American cultural politics. In Who Can Afford to Improvise? Ed Pavlić off……続きを見る

Wilhelm Furtw ler left not only some of the greatest interpretations of operatic and symphonic music on record, but also expressed his views on musical issues of the moment in a number of outspoken ……続きを見る

Drawing on the work of contemporary French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, Cinema and Contact investigates the aesthe-tics and politics of touch in the cinema of three of the most prominent and distinct……続きを見る

A 'conservative radical' is William Alexander Eddie's description of the French virtuoso composer-pianist Charles Valentin Alkan (1813-1888). Judaic culture, the French baroque and German classicism……続きを見る

First published in 1989, The Singing Bourgeois challenges the myth that the 'Victorian parlour song' was a clear-cut genre. Derek Scott reveals the huge diversity of musical forms and styles that in……続きを見る

Charles Avison's Essay on Musical Expression, first published in 1752, is a major contribution to the debate on musical aesthetics which developed in the course of the 18th century. Considered by Ch……続きを見る

A rich, fact-filled collectible, packed with vibrant history, amazing trivia, and rare photographs, The Twilight Zone Encyclopedia, assembled with the full cooperation of the Rod Serling estate, inc……続きを見る

Since the Soviet occupation of 1968 censorship has closed the curtain on free expression in Czechoslovakia. But plays continue to be circulated in typescript within the country, are regularly smuggl……続きを見る

Europe Un-Imagined examines one of the world’s first and only trans nationally produced television channels, Association relative à la télévision européenne (ARTE). ARTE calls itself the "European c……続きを見る

This is the first book-length study to systematically and theoretically analyse the use and representation of individual body parts in Gothic fiction. Moving between filmic and literary texts and ac……続きを見る

Roderick Chadwick and Peter Hill give a detailed account of the evolution of Olivier Messiaen's Catalogue d'oiseaux for piano solo, from its initial conception in the Black Forest in 1953 to its com……続きを見る

Small Cinemas in Global Markets addresses aspects such as identity, revisiting the past, internationalized genres, new forms of experimental cinema, markets and production, as well as technological ……続きを見る

Claudio Monteverdi: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography that navigates the vast scholarly resources on the composer withthe most updated compilation since 1989. Claudio Mon……続きを見る

Is William Shakespeare of Stratford-Upon-Avon the true author of the poems and plays attributed to him? This book once and for all silences those critics who say he isn't. It takes particular aim at……続きを見る

First published in 1975, Music and the Middle Class made a trail-blazing contribution to the social history of music, bringing together sociological and historical methods that have subsequently bec……続きを見る

The late 17th century through to the end of the 18th century saw rapid progress in the development of woodwind instruments and the composition of a vast body of music for those instruments. During t……続きを見る

Die 1913 von Guido Adler gegründete Zeitschrift umfasst Studien, die in direktem Zusammenhang mit Bänden der DTÖ stehen, methodische Überlegungen zur musikalischen Philologie, Aufsätze zur Musikgesc……続きを見る

The Wind Band Music of Henry Cowell studies the compositions for wind band by twentieth-century composer Henry Cowell, a significant and prolific figure in American fine art music from 1914-1965. Th……続きを見る

With more than 250 images, new information on international cinemaーespecially Polish, Chinese, Russian, Canadian, and Iranian filmmakersーan expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated……続きを見る

Le frecce della gioventù che attraversano la vita, esponendo la bellezza al mondo, tra milioni di luci e ombre, per le strade dell'universo, hanno avuto come semplice obiettivo quello di nutrirsi di……続きを見る

Può essere considerata la Seduzione una pratica eccelsa tra quelle dello spettacolo, tale da elevare la performance ad opera d’arte, nell’era della morale neo-giacobina e del “politicamente corretto……続きを見る

Questa serie di guide all'ascolto ha lo scopo di svelare i segreti custoditi dentro ogni disco preso in esame, per offrirli al lettore per dare nuova linfa vitale ai successivi ascolti. In questo li……続きを見る

Tutto il mondo gira intorno leggende che hanno fatto un'epoca di concerti, rassegne, dischi, festival, abbracciando tutti i generi possibili, dal Rock al Pop, dal Country al Blues, dal Jazz all'Hard……続きを見る

I Genesis sono stati il gruppo delle illusioni e delle apparenze, con i circolari, doppi, tripli arpeggi che ipnotizzano, le canzoni-fiabe dal sontuoso drappeggio simbolico, talvolta ermetico; loro,……続きを見る

Alfred Mathis-Rosenzweig (1897-1948) was a Viennese musicologist and critic who studied at the universities of Budapest and Vienna. From 1933 he embarked on producing a large-scale study of Mahler b……続きを見る