Film is the pre-eminent mass medium of the modern age. It is a valuable source of evidence for the study of both the past and the contemporary world, and is a social practice that has affected the lives of millions. How can historians engage with this important and influential medium? Written for both students and teachers, Film and History: • provides a concise, accessible introduction to the use of film in historical enquiry and a summary of the main theoretical debates • charts the development of film history as a subject area and a discipline in its own right • considers different approaches to film history, including film as an art form, as ideology, as a historical source, and as a social practice • includes case studies to ground discussion of theories and approaches in specific examples. Wide-ranging and authoritative, Film and History equips students with the methods both to analyse film texts and to understand the place of film in history and culture.

Film and History (Theory and History, 16)

Humor & Entertainment

James Chapman

Movies

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Excerpt from Travels in the Interior of South Africa, Vol. 1 of 2: Comprising Fifteen Years Hunting and Trading; With Journeys Across the Continent From Natal to Walvis Bay, and Visits to Lake to and the Victoria Falls The narratives of Travel comprehended within these volumes extend, as will be seen, over a lengthened period, and cover a wide area of the African continent. With, indeed, a single great and striking exception - whose name is on everyone's lips, and whose fate engages at the present moment the hopeful expectations of civilized mankind in every quarter of the globe - no traveller can pretend to an acquaintance with the interior of Southern Africa, from the shores of the Atlantic to those of the Indian Ocean, and from the Cape to the Zambesi, so prolonged in duration, and so varied in range, as the Author of these volumes. If Mr. Chapman's records of personal experience, acquired in the pursuits of the hunter and trader, lay for the most part no claim to the merits that belong to original investigation or discovery, they at least embody the results of prolonged and intelligent observation, directed, during many years, towards regions, many of which have hitherto been seldom visited by civilized man, and towards native races whose social life presents a highly interesting problem of inquiry to all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Travels in the Interior of South Africa, Vol. 1 of 2: Comprising Fifteen Years Hunting and Trading; With Journeys Across the Continent From Natal to Walvis Bay, and Visits to Lake to and the Victoria

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Africa

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Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films

I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd

This novel is about an absence. Rat is in love with a dancer he has never seen.  He tries to forget her. He hears her feet dancing overhead. She is all he cares about.  He finds many reasons why he should not love her.  He desiccates his heart through work, he grinds his heart to powder with absurdly difficult tasks.  He turns all the love in him over to ideas, to abstractions, to darkness. He tries to occupy his whole heart with the desperate unrequited worship of a subway train. For years he tries to kill his emotion in every possible way. And every minute of every single day he thinks about her, this absent love, this possibility, and constantly hears her dancing footsteps over his head. In order to meet her, in order to love her, he is going to have to change.

The Rat Veda

Fugue State Press

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