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| Author | : Arthur Golden |
| Publisher | : |
| Release Date | : 2005 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0770429963 |
| Pages | : 502 pages |
| Rating | : 4.2/5 (63 users) |
Download or read book Memoirs of a Geisha written by Arthur Golden and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Captivating, minutely imagined . . . a novel that refuses to stay shut" ("Newsweek"), "Memoirs of a Geisha" is now released in a movie tie-in edition.
| Author | : Arthur Golden |
| Publisher | : Vintage Books |
| Release Date | : 2000-02 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0099282852 |
| Pages | : 498 pages |
| Rating | : 4.8/5 (52 users) |
Download or read book Memoirs of a Geisha written by Arthur Golden and published by Vintage Books. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, which tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degredation. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where a young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. She tells her story many years later from the Waldorf Astoria in New York; it exquisitely evokes another culture, a different time and the details of an extraordinary way of life. It conjures up the perfection and the ugliness of life behind rice-paper screens, where young girls learn the arts of the geisha - dancing and singing, how to wind the kimonok, how to walk and pour tea, and how to beguile the most powerful men.
| Author | : Tomie Hahn |
| Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
| Release Date | : 2007-05-07 |
| ISBN 10 | : 081956835X |
| Pages | : 232 pages |
| Rating | : 4.6/5 (5 users) |
Download or read book Sensational Knowledge written by Tomie Hahn and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DVD contains: Examples of performances.
| Author | : Roger Ebert |
| Publisher | : Andrews McMeel Publishing |
| Release Date | : 2009-06-15 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780740792168 |
| Pages | : 944 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (921 users) |
Download or read book Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2009 written by Roger Ebert and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody has been more important in telling Americans why we should love film than Roger Ebert. --Michael Shamberg, Editor and Publisher Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert presents more than 650 full-length critical movie reviews, along with interviews, essays, tributes, film festival reports, and Q and As from Questions for the Movie Answer Man. Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2009 collects more than two years' worth of his engaging film critiques. From Bee Movie to Darfur Now to No Country for Old Men, and from Juno to Persepolis to La Vie en Rose, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2009 includes every review Ebert has written from January 2006 to June 2008. Also included in the Yearbook, which boasts 65 percent new content, are: * Interviews with newsmakers, such as Juno director Jason Reitman and Jerry Seinfeld, a touching tribute to Deborah Kerr, and an emotional letter of appreciation to Werner Herzog. * Essays on film issues, and tributes to actors and directors who died during the year. * Daily film festival reports from Cannes, Toronto, Sundance, and Telluride. * All-new questions and answers from his Questions for the Movie Answer Man columns.
| Author | : Mary Dian Molton |
| Publisher | : Fisher King Press |
| Release Date | : 2011 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781926715315 |
| Pages | : 328 pages |
| Rating | : 4.2/5 (153 users) |
Download or read book Four Eternal Women written by Mary Dian Molton and published by Fisher King Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toni Wolff was at first the patient, and later the friend, mistress for a time, long-term colleague and personal analyst of Swiss Psychiatrist Carl Jung. In addition to her work as the founder, leader and teacher for the Psychological Society in Z rich which led to the establishment of the world-renowned C.G. Jung Institute in Z rich/K snacht, she published a seminal but little known work called "Structural Forms of the Feminine Psyche" ("Der Psychologie," Berne, 1951). This treatise, certainly one of the first studies in Analytical Psychology, has been the subject of the authors' investigation, attention, research and study for the past twelve years. Toni Wolff's original outline of her four archetypes barely filled fifteen pages of the journal, and was written in the academic style of professional publications of that period, sans illustration or commentary. While Wolff's work has been mentioned in short form in the work of several writers, Four Eternal Women is the first full and serious archetypal delineation of her original thesis, and examines each of her four feminine archetypes from several perspectives: Wolff's Own Words; An Overview of History and Myth; Familiar Characteristics; Lesser-Known (Shadow) Possibilities; Career Inclinations; Relationships to Men; Relationships to Children; Relationships to Each of the Other Types; The tension of the opposites set up by Wolff's own diagrammatic representation of these archetypes provided an additional dynamic to this study. Those who have followed Jung's individuation path will recognize aspects of Jung's 'Transcendent Function.' All readers may well become personally sensitized to discover their own type preferences, and how some aspects of shadow may be present in their 'opposite' partner.
| Author | : Martha Feldman |
| Publisher | : OUP USA |
| Release Date | : 2006-03-23 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0195170296 |
| Pages | : 428 pages |
| Rating | : 4.7/5 (96 users) |
Download or read book The Courtesan's Arts written by Martha Feldman and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2006-03-23 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courtesans, hetaeras, tawaif-s, ji-s--these women have exchanged artistic graces, elevated conversation, and sexual favors with male patrons throughout history and around the world. In Ming dynasty China and early modern Italy, exchange was made through poetry, speech, and music; in pre-colonial India through magic, music, chemistry, and other arts. Yet like the art of courtesanry itself, those arts have often thrived outside present-day canons and modes of transmission, and have mostly vanished without trace.The Courtesan's Arts delves into this hidden legacy, while touching on its equivocal relationship to geisha. At once interdisciplinary, empirical, and theoretical, the book is the first to ask how arts have figured in the survival or demise of courtesan cultures by juxtaposing research from different fields. Among cases studied by writers on classics, ethnomusicology, anthropology, and various histories of art, music, literature, and political culture are Ming dynasty China, twentieth-century Korea, Edo and modern Japan, ancient Greece, early modern Italy, and India, past and present. Refusing a universal model, the authors nevertheless share a perception that courtesans hover in the crevices of space, time, and practice--between gifts and money, courts and cities, subtlety and flamboyance, feminine allure and masculine power, as wifely surrogates but keepers of culture. What most binds them to their arts in our post-industrialized world of global services and commodities, they find, is courtesans' fragility, as their cultures, once vital to civilizations founded in leisure and pleasure, are now largely forgotten, transforming courtesans into national icons or historical curiosities, or reducing them to prostitution.
| Author | : Olivia Khoo |
| Publisher | : Hong Kong University Press |
| Release Date | : 2007-10-01 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9622098797 |
| Pages | : 236 pages |
| Rating | : 4.9/5 (97 users) |
Download or read book The Chinese Exotic written by Olivia Khoo and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With great sensitivity and originality, Olivia Khoo shows us how to read popular films, female movie stars, quotidian cultural artifacts, novels, and other 'Chinese exotic'phenomena in contemporary global circulation."--Rey Chow, Brown UniversityOlivia Khoo is a lecturer in film studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia.
| Author | : Jaap van Ginneken |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Release Date | : 2007 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0742555844 |
| Pages | : 298 pages |
| Rating | : 4.5/5 (44 users) |
Download or read book Screening Difference written by Jaap van Ginneken and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at orientations in casting, make-up, sets, props, lighting, camera movements, music, and language, this book follows the genres, from animated cartoons to romantic movies. It tracks the stories to their origins and dissects their hidden messages.
| Author | : Steven Spielberg |
| Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
| Release Date | : 2000 |
| ISBN 10 | : 157806113X |
| Pages | : 300 pages |
| Rating | : 4.6/5 (3 users) |
Download or read book Steven Spielberg written by Steven Spielberg and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the ambitious drive of the movie producer and director, including his continuous fear of failure and need for approval, and discusses the themes and issues addressed in his films.
| Author | : Susan Tiefenbrun |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Release Date | : 2010-05-06 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9780195385779 |
| Pages | : 589 pages |
| Rating | : 4.9/5 (857 users) |
Download or read book Decoding International Law written by Susan Tiefenbrun and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violations of international law and human rights laws are the plague of the 20th and 21st centuries. People's inhumanity to people escalates as wars proliferate and respect for human rights and the laws of war diminish. Decoding International Law analyses international law as represented artfully in the humanities.
| Author | : Arthur Golden |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Release Date | : 2008-12-02 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781407019666 |
| Pages | : 512 pages |
| Rating | : 4.0/5 (196 users) |
Download or read book Memoirs of a Geisha written by Arthur Golden and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seductive and evocative epic told on an intimate scale. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, Memoirs of a Geisha uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where a young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. Telling her story many years later from the Waldorf Astoria in New York, each page exquisitely evokes another culture, a different time and the details of an extraordinary way of life. It conjures up the perfection and the ugliness of life behind rice-paper screens, where young girls learn the arts of geisha: dancing and singing, how to wind the kimono, how to walk and pour tea, and how to beguile the most powerful men. 'An epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world' The Times
| Author | : Lucia V. Aranda |
| Publisher | : University Press of America |
| Release Date | : 2007 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0761837302 |
| Pages | : 144 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (2 users) |
Download or read book Handbook of Spanish-English Translation written by Lucia V. Aranda and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2007 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Spanish-English Translation is a lively and accessible book for students interested in translation studies and Spanish. This book details the growth of translation studies from Cicero to postcolonial interpretations of translation as rewriting. It examines through examples the main issues involved in translation and interpretation, such as text types, register, interference, equivalence, and untranslatability. The chapters on interpretation and audiovisual translation and the comparative analysis of Spanish and English are especially significant. The second part of the book offers a rich compilation of diverse Spanish and English texts (academic, literary, and government writings, comic strips, brochures, movie scripts, and newspapers) and their published translations, each with a brief introduction by Professor Aranda.
| Author | : Inge E. Boer |
| Publisher | : Rodopi |
| Release Date | : 2003 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9042009497 |
| Pages | : 252 pages |
| Rating | : 4.0/5 (97 users) |
Download or read book After Orientalism written by Inge E. Boer and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2003 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does Edward Said's Orientalism speak to us today? What relevance did and does it have politically and intellectually? How and in what modes doesOrientalism engage with new, intersecting fields of inquiry?At the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary ofOrientalism these questions shape the essays collected in the present volume. The “after” of the title does not only guide the contributions in a look on past discussions, but specifically points at future research as well.Orientalism's critical entanglements are thus connected to productive looks; these productive looks make us read differently, but only after we recognize our struggle with the dominant notions that we live by, that divide and unite us. More specifically, this volume addresses three fields of research enabling productive looks: visual culture; the body, sexuality and the performative; and national identities, modernity and gender. All articles, weaving delicate, new analytical and theoretical textures, maintain vital links with at least two of the fields mentioned. Orientalism's role as a cultural catalyst is gauged in the analysis of materials such as Iranian film, 16th and 17th century Venetian representations of “the Turk,” Barthes' take on Japanese culture, modern Arab travel narratives, Palestinian popular culture, photography on and of the Maghreb, Japanese queer and gay culture, the 19th centuryIllustrated London News, theories on migration and exile, postcolonial cinema, and Hanan al-Shaykh's and Mai Ghoussoub's writing on civil war in Lebanon.Authors include: Karina Eileraas, Belgin Turan Özkaya, Joshua Paul Dale, John Potvin, Mark McLelland, Tina Sherwell, Nasrin Rahimieh, Stephen Morton, Anastasia Vallasopoulos, Suha Kudsieh and Kate McInturff.
| Author | : KellyM. Foreman |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Release Date | : 2017-07-05 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781351544085 |
| Pages | : 151 pages |
| Rating | : 4.5/5 (44 users) |
Download or read book "The Gei of Geisha: Music, Identity and Meaning " written by KellyM. Foreman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese geisha is an international icon, known almost universally as a symbol of traditional Japan. Numerous books exist on the topic, yet this is the first to focus on the 'gei' of geisha - the art that constitutes their title (gei translates as fine art, sha refers to person). Kelly M. Foreman brings together ethnomusicological field research, including studying and performing the shamisen among geisha in Tokyo, with historical research. The book elaborates how musical art is an essential part of the identity of the Japanese geisha rather than a secondary feature, and locates current practice within a tradition of two and half centuries. The book opens by deconstructing the idea of 'geisha' as it functions in Western societies in order to understand why gei has been, and continues to be, neglected in geisha studies. Subsequent chapters detail the myriad musical genres and traditions with which geisha have been involved during their artistic history, as well as their position within the traditional arts society. Considering the current situation more closely, the final chapters explore actual dedication to art today by geisha, and analyse how they create impromptu performances at evening banquets. An important issue here is geisha-patron artistic collaboration, which leads to consideration of what Foreman argues to be the unique and essential nexus of identity, eroticism and aesthetics within the geisha world.
| Author | : Arthur Golden |
| Publisher | : Random House of Canada |
| Release Date | : 2005 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0307275310 |
| Pages | : 551 pages |
| Rating | : 4.7/5 (1 users) |
Download or read book Memorias de una geisha written by Arthur Golden and published by Random House of Canada. This book was released on 2005 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Una sensación literaria y bestseller internacional presenta con perfecta autenticidad y exquisito lirismo las fieles confesiones de una de las geishas m‡s famosas de Japón. EnMemorias de una geishaentramos a un mundo donde las apariencias son de suma importancia; donde la virginidad de una niña es subastada al mejor postor; donde las mujeres son entrenadas para seducir a los hombres más poderosos; y donde el amor es desde–ado como una mera ilusión. Es una obra de ficción única y triunfal– al mismo tiempo romántica, erótica y de suspenso –absolutamente inolvidable.
| Author | : Rhonda Hammer |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang |
| Release Date | : 2009 |
| ISBN 10 | : 0820495263 |
| Pages | : 696 pages |
| Rating | : 4.9/5 (63 users) |
Download or read book Media/cultural Studies written by Rhonda Hammer and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology is designed to assist teachers and students in learning how to better understand and interpret our common culture and everyday life. With a focus on contemporary media, consumer, and digital culture, this book combines classic and original writings by both leading and rising scholars in the field. The chapters present key theories, concepts, and methodologies of critical cultural and media studies, as well as cutting-edge research into new media. Sections on teaching media/cultural studies and concrete case studies provide practical examples that illuminate contemporary culture, ranging from new forms of digital media and consumer culture to artifacts from TV and film, including Barbie and Big Macs, soap operas, Talk TV, Facebook, and YouTube. The lively articles show that media/cultural studies is an exciting and relevant arena, and this text should enable students and citizens to become informed readers and critics of their culture and society.
| Author | : Philippa Gates |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Release Date | : 2012-03-12 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9781136591563 |
| Pages | : 261 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (915 users) |
Download or read book Transnational Asian Identities in Pan-Pacific Cinemas written by Philippa Gates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines the exchange of Asian identities taking place at the levels of both film production and film reception amongst pan-Pacific cinemas. The authors consider, on the one hand, texts that exhibit what Mette Hjort refers to as, "marked transnationality," and on the other, the polysemic nature of transnational film texts by examining the release and reception of these films. The topics explored in this collection include the innovation of Hollywood generic formulas into 1950's and 1960's Hong Kong and Japanese films; the examination of Thai and Japanese raced and gendered identity in Asian and American films; the reception of Hollywood films in pre-1949 China and millennial Japan; the production and performance of Asian adoptee identity and subjectivity; the political implications and interpretations of migrating Chinese female stars; and the production and reception of pan-Pacific co-productions. .
