A short introduction to the history and politics of Southeast Asia

Allen, Richard

Oxford University Press

A reasonable and balanced attempt to understand the historical background of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Allen, a member of the British Diplomatic corps in the '20's, goes all the way back to the empire of David and Solomon crisscrossing the separate histories of the Jews, Arabs, Turks and British who have at various times exercised suzerainty over Palestine. Always, Allen points out, the Fertile Crescent has been something of an imperial pawn with the fate of the indigenous peoples determined by the power plays of alien lords. The final chapters are devoted to a rather dry chronicling of Israel's vexed relations with her neighbors before and after the '67 war (the book went to press before the '73 conflict). Here again, while deploring intransigence on both sides, Allen makes it clear that rhetoric notwithstanding, Israel has been less than generous on the question of the Palestinian refugees and the recently conquered territories. He suggests that the best hope for peace lies in Israel's ultimate willingness to become a ""Middle Eastern state"" free of ""her present artificial and abnormal dependence upon her Western launching pad."" Still, it's a valuable if rather sweeping overview less for scholars than interested general readers.

Imperialism and Nationalism in the Fertile Crescent: Sources and Prospects of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

History

Middle East

Hitchcock's Romantic Irony (Film and Culture Series)

Is Hitchcock a superficial, though brilliant, entertainer or a moralist? Do his films celebrate the ideal of romantic love or subvert it? In a new interpretation of the director's work, Richard Allen argues that Hitchcock orchestrates the narrative and stylistic idioms of popular cinema to at once celebrate and subvert the ideal of romance and to forge a distinctive worldview-the amoral outlook of the romantic ironist or aesthete. He describes in detail how Hitchcock's characteristic tone is achieved through a titillating combination of suspense and black humor that subverts the moral framework of the romantic thriller, and a meticulous approach to visual style that articulates the lure of human perversity even as the ideal of romance is being deliriously affirmed. Discussing more than thirty films from the director's English and American periods, Allen explores the filmmaker's adoption of the idioms of late romanticism, his orchestration of narrative point of view and suspense, and his distinctive visual strategies of aestheticism and expressionism and surrealism.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Columbia University Press

Is Hitchcock a superficial, though brilliant, entertainer or a moralist? Do his films celebrate the ideal of romantic love or subvert it? In a new interpretation of the director's work, Richard Allen argues that Hitchcock orchestrates the narrative and stylistic idioms of popular cinema to at once celebrate and subvert the ideal of romance and to forge a distinctive worldview-the amoral outlook of the romantic ironist or aesthete. He describes in detail how Hitchcock's characteristic tone is achieved through a titillating combination of suspense and black humor that subverts the moral framework of the romantic thriller, and a meticulous approach to visual style that articulates the lure of human perversity even as the ideal of romance is being deliriously affirmed. Discussing more than thirty films from the director's English and American periods, Allen explores the filmmaker's adoption of the idioms of late romanticism, his orchestration of narrative point of view and suspense, and his distinctive visual strategies of aestheticism and expressionism and surrealism.

This manual is a precise, primary reference source for everyone involved in renal transplantation and dialysis. It combines the practical experience of the major renal transplant unit of Westmead Hospital in New South Wales with findings from current research. It provides a source of reference on drugs and dosages and features problem solving flow sheets and reference tables which have been thoroughly tested in the Westmead Unit.

Manual of Renal Transplantation

Science & Math

Chapman, Jeremy

Allen, Richard D.M.

Biological Sciences

Hodder Education Publishers

The Life, Experience, And Gospel Labors Of The Rt. Rev. Richard Allen: To Which Is Annexed, The Rise And Progress Of The African Methodist Episcopal ... Narrative Of The Yellow Fever In The Year Of

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Jones, Absalom

Africa

Franklin Classics

Social Analysis and the COVID-19 Crisis: A Collective Journal

Politics & Social Sciences

Seed, John

Gupta, Suman

Katsarska, Milena

Basu, Maitrayee

Durão, Fabio Akcelrud

Gupta, Ayan-Yue

Schuller, Sebastian

Tu, Peter H.

Social Sciences

Routledge India

Wittgenstein, Theory and the Arts

This is the first full exploration of the implications of Wittgenstein's philosophy for understanding the arts and cultural criticism. These original essays by philosophers and critics address key philosophical topics in the study of the arts and culture, such as humanism, criticism, psychology, painting, film and ethics. All exemplify Wittgenstein's method of conceptual investigation and highlight his notion of philosophy as a cure.

Turvey, Malcolm

Arts & Photography

Routledge

Boot Boys

Literature & Fiction

Action & Adventure

New English Library

Terrace Terrors

Genre Fiction

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