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Author | : Elisabeth Young-Bruehl |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780674853713 |
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl illuminates the psychological and intellectual demands writing biography makes on the biographer and explores the complex and frequently conflicted relationship between feminism and psychoanalysis. She considers what remains valuable in Sigmund Freud's work, and what areas - theory of character, for instance - must be rethought to be useful for current psychoanalytic work, for feminist studies, and for social theory. Psychoanalytic theory used for biography, she argues, can yield insights for psychoanalysis itself, particularly in the understanding of creativity.
Author | : Peter France |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2004-09-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780197263181 |
These essays on the problems and functions of biography - particularly those of writers, thinkers and artists - investigate a subject of enduring importance for those interested in culture.
Author | : Walter Isaacson |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1451648545 |
Based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
Author | : Kate Summerscale |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2012-05-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1408832208 |
_______________ 'A biography that sparkles with enthusiastic research and empathetic writing' - Sunday Times 'A small jewel of a biography' - The New Yorker 'A fascinating, hilarious and deliciously subversive book' - Literary Review _______________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Born in 1900 to a promiscuous American oil heiress and a British army captain, Marion Barbara Carstairs realised very early on that she was not like most little girls. Liberated by war work in WWI, Marion reinvented herself as Joe, and quickly went on to establish herself as a leading light of the fashionable lesbian demi-monde. She dressed in men's clothes, smoked cigars and cheroots, tattooed her arms, and became Britain's most celebrated female speed-boat racer - the 'fastest woman on water'. Yet Joe tired of the limelight in 1934, and retired to the Bahamian Island of Whale Cay. There she fashioned her own self-sufficient kingdom, where she hosted riotous parties which boasted Hollywood actresses and British royalty among their guests. Although her lovers included screen sirens such as Marlene Dietrich, the real love of Joe's life was a small boy-doll named Lord Tod Wadley, to whom she remained devoted throughout her remarkable life. She died, aged 93, in 1993.
Author | : Teresa Iles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Biography (as a literary form) |
ISBN | : 9780080374680 |
Author | : Alvy Ray Smith |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2021-08-03 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0262542455 |
The pixel as the organizing principle of all pictures, from cave paintings to Toy Story. The Great Digital Convergence of all media types into one universal digital medium occurred, with little fanfare, at the recent turn of the millennium. The bit became the universal medium, and the pixel--a particular packaging of bits--conquered the world. Henceforward, nearly every picture in the world would be composed of pixels--cell phone pictures, app interfaces, Mars Rover transmissions, book illustrations, videogames. In A Biography of the Pixel, Pixar cofounder Alvy Ray Smith argues that the pixel is the organizing principle of most modern media, and he presents a few simple but profound ideas that unify the dazzling varieties of digital image making. Smith's story of the pixel's development begins with Fourier waves, proceeds through Turing machines, and ends with the first digital movies from Pixar, DreamWorks, and Blue Sky. Today, almost all the pictures we encounter are digital--mediated by the pixel and irretrievably separated from their media; museums and kindergartens are two of the last outposts of the analog. Smith explains, engagingly and accessibly, how pictures composed of invisible stuff become visible--that is, how digital pixels convert to analog display elements. Taking the special case of digital movies to represent all of Digital Light (his term for pictures constructed of pixels), and drawing on his decades of work in the field, Smith approaches his subject from multiple angles--art, technology, entertainment, business, and history. A Biography of the Pixel is essential reading for anyone who has watched a video on a cell phone, played a videogame, or seen a movie. 400 pages of annotations, prepared by the author and available online, provide an invaluable resource for readers.
Author | : Fred Kaplan |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 881 |
Release | : 2012-11-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1408840723 |
Novelist, culture critic, essayist, historian, comic satirist, image maker, actor, homosexual, bisexual, controversial, confrontational - finding words to describe Gore Vidal is never difficult. And yet, an accurate picture of this multifaceted chameleon has eluded us until now. This book provides a biography of a literary icon.
Author | : William H. Epstein |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2017-11-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1512801887 |
Epstein's narrative interweaves interpretive and theoretical chapters as it emplots the discourse of English biography from Walton to Strachey. In this way familiar generic relationships between biographer, subject, life, text, falsehood, and readership are analyzed in specific (if constantly shifting) historical, literary, cultural, and economic texts.
Author | : Gerald M. Meier |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Economic development |
ISBN | : 9780195170030 |
Gerald Meier - one of the leading thinkers in the economics of development - interprets the past treatment of development problems with the present and future in mind.
Author | : Gerald M. Meier |
Publisher | : New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780195018011 |
A little boy explains away the noise of the night by telling himself a story about a world full of friendly monsters.