Author: Publisher:
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Hollywood Highbrow
Author: Shyon BaumannPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691187282
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art.
The Kalayaan Islands
Author: Philippines. Ministry of National DefensePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geopolitics
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Classics of the Silent Screen
Author: Joe FranklinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258823580
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Judge Over Your Shoulder
Author: Great Britain. Cabinet Office. Management and Personnel OfficePublisher:
ISBN: 9780711501300
Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
Fire Design of Concrete Structures - Materials, Structures and Modelling
Author: fib Fédération internationale du bétonPublisher: fib Fédération internationale du béton
ISBN: 2883940789
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Fire design of concrete structures has emerged in recent years as a high profile subject of great interest to both experts and the public. This has been largely prompted by severe damage to concrete in a number of recent tunnel fires, as well as a considerable amount of research and development that has taken place world-wide. fib Task Group 4.3, "Fire Design of Concrete Structures", therefore took the initiative to develop this bulletin in order to present the results of this international research to a wider group of concrete professionals. The report presents a general brief outline of the effect of fire on both concrete material and concrete structures, with emphasis placed on the important developments of the past few years, namely: (a) the increasing use of high strength concrete (HSC) in buildings, tunnels and bridges; (b) the growing acceptance of the use of performance based fire engineering calculations for the structural analysis and design against fire; (c) the problem of, and solutions to, explosive spalling; and (d) fires in tunnels. This report is not intended to be an exhaustive review of the effect of fire on concrete and concrete structures, nor to present a database of properties at high temperature. Instead, the main aims of this document are to present recent trends and developments, highlight key influencing factors, bring together the disparate but related issues in one short document, highlight the deficiencies in current practice and point to the future. The basic principles of performance based codes and fire engineering are also presented on the assumption that the reader is not a specialist in this field.
The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America
Author: Victor Bulmer-ThomasPublisher:
ISBN: 9780521857161
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Digital Design and Fabrication
Author: Environment, Health, and Safety
Author: Lari A. BishopPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Author: John Galsworthy