Cinema's Conversion to Sound

Cinema's Conversion to Sound
Author: Charles O’Brien
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2005-01-18
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780253217202

A groundbreaking look at the transition to sound in the French Cinema.

Oedipus at Thebes

Oedipus at Thebes
Author: Bernard Knox
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780300074239

Examines the way in which Sophocles' play "Oedipus Tyrannus" and its hero, Oedipus, King of Thebes, were probably received in their own time and place, and relates this to twentieth-century receptions and interpretations, including those of Sigmund Freud.

Esther Happy

Esther Happy
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2021-04-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"Esther Happy" is one of the four parts of the serial novel, "The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (also known as, "A Harlot High and Low,") a novel by French novelist Honoré de Balzac. Lucien de Rubempré and Carlos Herrera (Vautrin) have made a pact, in which Lucien will arrive at success in Paris if he agrees to follow Vautrin's instructions blindly. Esther van Gobseck throws a wrench into Vautrin's best-laid plans, however, because Lucien falls in love with her and she with him. One night, however, the incredibly rich banker Baron de Nucingen spots Esther and falls deeply in love with her. When Vautrin realizes that Nucingen's obsession is with Esther, he decides to use her power as a tool to help advance Lucien by extrapolating the maximum amount of money from the Baron as possible. Something that will result in a series of tragic results...

Propaganda and Mass Persuasion

Propaganda and Mass Persuasion
Author: Nicholas J. Cull
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2003-07-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 157607434X

A truly international, authoritative A–Z guide to five centuries of propaganda, in both wartime and peacetime, which covers key moments, techniques, concepts, and some of the most influential propagandists in history. This fascinating survey provides a comprehensive introduction to propaganda, its changing nature, its practitioners, and its impact on the past five centuries of world history. Written by leading experts, it covers the masters of the art from Joseph Goebbels to Mohandas Gandhi and examines enormously influential works of persuasion such as Uncle Tom's Cabin, techniques such as films and posters, and key concepts like black propaganda and brainwashing. Case studies reveal the role of mass persuasion during the Reformation, and wars throughout history. Regional studies cover propaganda superpowers, such as Russia, China, and the United States, as well as little-known propaganda campaigns in Southeast Asia, Ireland, and Scandinavia. The book traces the evolution of propaganda from the era of printed handbills to computer fakery, and profiles such brilliant practitioners of the art as Third Reich film director Leni Riefenstahl and 19th-century cartoonist Thomas Nast, whose works helped to bring the notorious Boss Tweed to justice.

Democracy, Nationalism and Multiculturalism

Democracy, Nationalism and Multiculturalism
Author: Ramón Máiz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2004-06-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1134276966

This book provides an up to date review of subnational and multicultural issues in Western multinational states.

French National Cinema

French National Cinema
Author: Susan Hayward
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2005
Genre: Motion pictures
ISBN: 0415307821

This revised and updated edition of a successful and established text provides a much-needed historical overview of French cinema from its roots through to the political and social developments in the 1990s and beyond.

Treason on the Airwaves

Treason on the Airwaves
Author: Judith Keene
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

This work traces the extraordinary journeys of three World War II radio broadcasters in Germany and Japan whose wartime choices became treason in Britain, Australia, and the United States. John Amery, a member of a well-connected British family, joined Hitler's propagandists in Berlin. He was executed for treason by Britain after the war. Charles Cousens was a soldier in Japanese captivity when he was put to work on Radio Tokyo with a team of Allied POWs. Cousens was later tried as a traitor in Australia. Iva Toguri, better known as Tokyo Rose, was an American student visiting Japan when war broke out. She broadcast her English show on Radio Tokyo out of necessity rather than conviction. The United States jailed Toguri for treason. Through these powerful stories, this work not only sheds new light on the history of wartime radio broadcasting in Germany and Japan, but also examines the laws of treason in Britain, Australia, and the United States and the ways in which trials such as these helped shape modern-day treason trials. All three accounts provoke thoughtful questions as to the nature of justice—and the justice of retribution. This work traces the extraordinary journeys of three World War II radio broadcasters in Germany and Japan whose wartime choices became treason in Britain, Australia, and the United States.