Gaudi Afternoon

Author : Barbara Wilson
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480455172
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gaudí Afternoon written by Barbara Wilson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A professional translator and amateur detective travels to Barcelona to find a missing man in this mystery hailed as a “high-spirited comic adventure” (The New York Times). American but with an Irish passport, the itinerant translator Cassandra Reilly is living in London when she receives an unexpected phone call. The voice on the other end belongs to Frankie Stevens, a San Francisco transplant with an unusual request. Her husband, Ben, has gone missing—presumably in Barcelona—and Frankie needs a translator to help her find him. Not one to pass up a well-paying gig or a free trip to Barcelona, Cassandra takes the job. But she quickly realizes that all is not as it seems. Frankie’s charm is matched only by her guile. As Cassandra chases down leads in search of Ben, she becomes increasingly tangled in a web of half-truths—and caught between former flames Ana and Carmen. Winner of the British Crime Writers’ Award for Best Mystery Based in Europe and the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Mystery, Gaudí Afternoon is the first book in the Cassandra Reilly Mystery series, which continues with Trouble in Transylvania and The Death of a Much-Travelled Woman, and concludes with The Case of the Orphaned Bassoonists.

Author : Bella Brodzki
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804755429
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Can These Bones Live? written by Bella Brodzki and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fundamentally concerned with the means by which translation ensures the afterlife of literary and cultural texts, this book examines multiple processes of translation, temporal and spatial, through acts of intercultural exchange and intergenerational transmission.

Author : Douglas Burnham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351884115
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Transubstantiation written by Douglas Burnham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection explore the concept of 'transubstantiation', its adaptations and transformations in English and European culture from the Elizabethans to the twentieth century. Favoring an interartistic and comparative perspective, a wide range of critical approaches, from the philosophical to the semiological, from cultural materialism to gender and queer studies, are brought to bear on authors ranging from Descartes, Shakespeare and Joyce, to Macpherson, Madox Ford, and Winterson, as well as on contemporary sculpture and an Italian adaptation of Conrad for the screen in an unusually comic vein. The volume, edited by Douglas Burnham of Staffordshire University and by Enrico Giaccherini of Pisa University, will be of interest to those concerned with the cultural history of Christianity and with the remarkable critical and theoretical insights generated by contemporary approaches to this traditional theme.

Author : Eugeni Osácar Marzal
Publisher : Diëresis
ISBN 13 : 8494143840
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barcelona Movie Walks written by Eugeni Osácar Marzal and published by Diëresis. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy a star-struck holiday in Barcelona in the footsteps of Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Robert de Niro, Scarlett Johansson and many more. Make your visit to Barcelona a film-star experience: see the locations of Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Biutiful, All About My Mother and more than 90 other films by directors such as Woody Allen, Pedro Almodóvar and Steven Soderbergh. Discover the parts of Barcelona immortalized by filmmakers and find out lots of interesting facts about the favourite places of the stars. Every chapter begins with a presentation: you will find detailed and interesting information about films of a certain genre shot in Barcelona, or about a specific director or film. You can find more info about the shoots and then re-live stories on the routes. This book also includes QR codes for mobile access to exclusive Internet maps including all the information and spots selected by the author. With the QR codes, you will have all the information you need, directly from the book to your smartphone! Barcelona is on the big screen – Lights, camera, action!

Author : Lucy Fischer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231544227
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cinema by Design written by Lucy Fischer and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art Nouveau thrived from the late 1890s through the First World War. The international design movement reveled in curvilinear forms and both playful and macabre visions and had a deep impact on cinematic art direction, costuming, gender representation, genre, and theme. Though historians have long dismissed Art Nouveau as a decadent cultural mode, its tremendous afterlife in cinema proves otherwise. In Cinema by Design, Lucy Fischer traces Art Nouveau's long history in films from various decades and global locales, appreciating the movement's enduring avant-garde aesthetics and dynamic ideology. Fischer begins with the portrayal of women and nature in the magical "trick films" of the Spanish director Segundo de Chomón; the elite dress and décor design choices in Cecil B. DeMille's The Affairs of Anatol (1921); and the mise-en-scène of fantasy in Raoul Walsh's The Thief of Bagdad (1924). Reading Salome (1923), Fischer shows how the cinema offered an engaging frame for adapting the risqué works of Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley. Moving to the modern era, Fischer focuses on a series of dramatic films, including Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger (1975), that make creative use of the architecture of Antoni Gaudí; and several European works of horror—The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), Deep Red (1975), and The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (2013)—in which Art Nouveau architecture and narrative supply unique resonances in scenes of terror. In later chapters, she examines films like Klimt (2006) that portray the style in relation to the art world and ends by discussing the Art Nouveau revival in 1960s cinema. Fischer's analysis brings into focus the partnership between Art Nouveau's fascination with the illogical and the unconventional and filmmakers' desire to upend viewers' perception of the world. Her work explains why an art movement embedded in modernist sensibilities can flourish in contemporary film through its visions of nature, gender, sexuality, and the exotic.

Author : Barbara Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gaudi Afternoon written by Barbara Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M. Makinen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230511783
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Popular Fiction written by M. Makinen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-09-25 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of feminist writers' appropriation of a range of popular genres: detective fiction, science fiction, romance and the fairy tale. The author argues that feminists can successfully appropriate all four genres because genres, as cultural productions, have accommodated the cultural changes brought about by second-wave feminism. The book provides a history of each of the genres, reinstating women's contributions in those histories, and a comprehensive review of the feminist critical debates on each of the genres.

Author : Brian James Baer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027231888
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Ivory Tower written by Brian James Baer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is divided into three sections. The first explores the pedagogical interventions that are focused on the performance of translation. The second part discusses approaches to translator training. The third part examines some of the pedagogical opportunities and challenges.

Author : Erin Smith
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1592139116
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hard-Boiled written by Erin Smith and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-07 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the culture that produced and supported pulp-fiction.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
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Download or read book The Advocate written by and published by . This book was released on 2004-03-02 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.