Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Dana Polan
yhteensä 25 hakutulosta
Pulp Fiction
Dana Polan sets out to unlock the style and technique of "Pulp Fiction". He shows how broad Tarantino's points of reference are, and analyzes the narrative accomplishment and …
Christian Metz and the Codes of Cinema
A pioneering figure in film studies, Christian Metz proposed countless new concepts for reflecting on cinema, rooted in his phenomenological structuralism. He also played a key …
The Sopranos
“In its original run on HBO, The Sopranos mattered, and it matters still,” Dana Polan asserts early in this analysis of the hit show, in which he sets out to clarify the impact and …
Skin of the Film
Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can …
Visions of Medieval History in North America and Europe
Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis
The public has a right to know that when they go to a therapist, they are almost certain to be given a psychiatric diagnosis, no matter how mild or normal their problems might be. …
Getting an Academic Job in History
After years of collecting data and volunteering advice on the history job search, Polanichka has distilled her knowledge into this unique and invaluable must-read for all graduate …
Julia Child's The French Chef
Julia Child’s TV show, The French Chef, was extraordinarily popular during its broadcast from 1963 until 1973. Child became a cultural icon in the 1960s, and, in the years since, …
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) is a film very much of its cinematic moment, combining the gritty realism of entrapment in the everyday with furtive …
Dreams of Flight
The first full-length study of the iconic 1960s film The Great Escape and its place in Hollywood and American history.Escaped POW Virgil Hilts (Steve McQueen) on a stolen …
American Cinema of the 2000s
The decade from 2000 to 2009 is framed, at one end, by the traumatic catastrophe of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and, at the other, by the election of the first …