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Improvising Cinema

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Gilles Mouëllic examines improvisational practices that can be specifically attributed to the cinema and argues in favors of their powers as instigators of unprecedented forms of expression. Improvising Cinema reflects both on the permanence of attempting improvisation and the relationship between technology and aesthetics. Mouëllic concludes preservation becomes even more invaluable in the case of improvisation, as the creative act exists only within the brief time span of the performance.

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Arte, Arquitectura y Artes Aplicadas›Bellas Artes

Peter Carey

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Peter Carey is one of the most respected novelists currently writing. Since the original edition of this book, Carey's fiction has reached a far wider international audience: he has won the Booker Prize for the second time with True History of the Kelly Gang, while Oscar and Lucinda has been made into a successful feature film.

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Lengua y Literatura›Filología y Lingüística

Constructing Iron Europe : Transnationalism and Railways in the Interbellum

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Conventional histories portray the development of railway infrastructures as a tool to build empires and nation states. Recent scholarship however, has stressed the importance of a transnational perspective beyond an exclusive focus on the nation state. The new perspective enriches both the history of modern Europe and European integration. Constructing Iron Europe demonstrates how during the interwar years key players saw railroads as instruments for building a transnational European community.

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Historia y Arqueología›Historia (General)›Obras Generales

The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya : Tangled Strands of Modernity

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The book, using a small group of left-wing student activists as a prism, explores the complex politics that underpinned the making of nation-states in Singapore and Malaysia after World War Two. While most works have viewed the period in terms of political contestation groups, the book demonstrates how it is better understood as involving a shared modernist project framed by British-planned decolonization.

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Historia y Arqueología›Historia (General)›Obras Generales

Het Hemels Mandaat : De Geschiedenis van het Chinese Keizerrijk

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History, geography, and auxiliary disciplinesHet Hemels Mandaat vormde de basis van de heerschappij van de Chinese keizers als vertegenwoordigers van de hemel op aarde. Onder deze illustere titel behandelt Barend ter Haar op overzichtelijke en heldere wijze de geschiedenis van het Chinese keizerrijk tot 1911. Hij geeft een kritische analyse van cruciale gebeurtenissen als de zestiende-eeuwse globalisering, de opkomst en ondergang van het Mandsjoerijk en het westerse impe-rialisme in de negentiende en vroege twintigste eeuw. Ook komt de recentere geschiedenis aan bod.

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Historia y Arqueología›Historia (General)›Obras Generales

Parliaments, nations and identities in Britain and Ireland, 1660-1860

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In 1660 the four nations of the British Isles were governed by one imperial crown but by three parliaments. The abolition of the Scottish and Irish Parliaments in 1707 and 1800 created a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland centred upon the Westminster legislature. What did the making of the monolith mean for the four nations? Did conceptions of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh identities flourish, change or wither as a consequence to the growth of the imperial Parliament and to what extent did Parliament help or hinder a developing sense of Britishness as a new nationality?

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Historia y Arqueología›Historia (General)›Obras Generales

Déjà Vu : Herhaling in culturen wereldwijd

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Historical treatment of fine and decorative artsHerhaling speelt een centrale rol in menselijke cultuuruitingen. Slaap - liedjes en smeekbeden, protesten en strijdkreten: van de wieg tot het graf begeleidt de herhaling de essentiële gebeurtenissen in het leven. Maar in een wereld die zelf voortdurend in beweging is, kan van zuivere herhaling geen sprake zijn. Je kunt onmogelijk tweemaal in dezelfde rivier stappen. Dat geldt ook in literatuur en kunst, waar herhaling veelvuldig wordt ingezet als artistiek middel. Daarbij is juist het verschil van essentieel belang.

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