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Mr. Punch's Country Life: Humours of Our Rustics

Rustic Charm: A Tapestry of British Country Humor

by Phil May, Charles Keene, L. Raven-Hill, Will Owen, George du Maurier, C. E. Brock, F. H. Townsend, Bernard Partridge, Tom Browne, Lewis Baumer, G. D. Armour, Gunning King, Linley Sambourne, G. H. Jalland, G. E. Stampa ...

In 'Mr. Punch's Country Life: Humours of Our Rustics,' readers are invited to explore the rich tapestry of rural life through a medley of literary styles and comedic lenses. The collection artfully captures the essence of bucolic England, ranging from whimsical illustrations to sharp, satirical prose. Each piece serves as a testament to the authors' ability to blend humor with cultural critique, ... Read more

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In 'Mr. Punch's Country Life: Humours of Our Rustics,' readers are invited to explore the rich tapestry of rural life through a medley of literary styles and comedic lenses. The collection artfully captures the essence of bucolic England, ranging from whimsical illustrations to sharp, satirical prose. Each piece serves as a testament to the authors' ability to blend humor with cultural critique,
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The Natural Language Processing Workshop

Confidently design and build your own NLP projects with this easy-to-understand practical guide

by Rohan Chopra, Aniruddha M. Godbole, Nipun Sadvilkar, Muzaffar Bashir Shah, Sohom Ghosh, Dwight Gunning, Ankit Bhatia, Nagendra Nagaraj, John Bura, Sumit Kumar Raj, Tom Taulli, Ankit Verma ...

Make NLP easy by building chatbots and models, and executing various NLP tasks to gain data-driven insights from raw text dataKey FeaturesGet familiar with key natural language processing (NLP) concepts and terminologyExplore the functionalities and features of popular NLP toolsLearn how to use Python programming and third-party libraries to perform NLP tasksBook DescriptionDo you want to learn ... Read more

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Make NLP easy by building chatbots and models, and executing various NLP tasks to gain data-driven insights from raw text dataKey FeaturesGet familiar with key natural language processing (NLP) concepts and terminologyExplore the functionalities and features of popular NLP toolsLearn how to use Python programming and third-party libraries to perform NLP tasksBook DescriptionDo you want to learn
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The Attractions of the Moving Image

Essays on History, Theory, and the Avant-Garde

by Tom Gunning ...

An essential collection of new and selected essays by influential cinema and media studies scholar Tom Gunning.Tom Gunning is the author of multiple books and nearly two hundred essays that have defined the field of cinema and media studies. His works have transformed our understanding of early cinema and the American avant-garde and reset the terms of many central debates in film and media ... Read more

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An essential collection of new and selected essays by influential cinema and media studies scholar Tom Gunning.Tom Gunning is the author of multiple books and nearly two hundred essays that have defined the field of cinema and media studies. His works have transformed our understanding of early cinema and the American avant-garde and reset the terms of many central debates in film and media
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The Films of Fritz Lang

Allegories of Vision and Modernity

by Tom Gunning ...

ln this volume Tom Gunning examines the films of Fritz Lang not only as a stylistically coherent body of work, but as an attempt to portray the modern world through cinema. The world of modernity in which systems replace individuals is conveyed by Lang's mastery of cinematic set design, composition and editing. Lang presents not only a decades-long vision of cinematic narrative which can be ... Read more

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ln this volume Tom Gunning examines the films of Fritz Lang not only as a stylistically coherent body of work, but as an attempt to portray the modern world through cinema. The world of modernity in which systems replace individuals is conveyed by Lang's mastery of cinematic set design, composition and editing. Lang presents not only a decades-long vision of cinematic narrative which can be
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Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema

by Tom Gunning, Giovanna Fossati, Joshua Yumibe, Jonathon Rosen ...

Series series Framing Film
We normally think of early film as being black and white, but the first color cinematography appeared as early as the first decade of the twentieth century. In this visually stunning book, the editors present a treasure trove of early color film images from the archives of EYE Film Institute Netherlands, bringing to life their rich hues and forgotten splendor., Carefully selecting and reproducing ... Read more

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We normally think of early film as being black and white, but the first color cinematography appeared as early as the first decade of the twentieth century. In this visually stunning book, the editors present a treasure trove of early color film images from the archives of EYE Film Institute Netherlands, bringing to life their rich hues and forgotten splendor., Carefully selecting and reproducing
... Read more
Still Moving

Between Cinema and Photography

by Tom Gunning, Timothy Corrigan ...

In Still Moving noted artists, filmmakers, art historians, and film scholars explore the boundary between cinema and photography. The interconnectedness of the two media has emerged as a critical concern for scholars in the field of cinema studies responding to new media technologies, and for those in the field of art history confronting the ubiquity of film, video, and the projected image in ... Read more

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In Still Moving noted artists, filmmakers, art historians, and film scholars explore the boundary between cinema and photography. The interconnectedness of the two media has emerged as a critical concern for scholars in the field of cinema studies responding to new media technologies, and for those in the field of art history confronting the ubiquity of film, video, and the projected image in
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Thinking in the Dark

Cinema, Theory, Practice

by Murray Pomerance, R. Barton Palmer, Jeremy T. Blatter, Tom Gunning, Steven Woodward, Johannes von Moltke, Colin Williamson, Sarah Keller, Matthew Solomon0, Dominic Lennard1, Nathan Holmes2, William Brown3, William Rothman4, Dudley Andrew5, Will Scheibel6, Daniel Morgan7, Tom Conley8, Steven Rybin9, Alex Clayton0, Gilberto Perez1, Jonah Corne2, Kristen Hatch3 ...

Today’s film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives—they’re just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to quote classic film theorist André Bazin. To students first encountering them, these theoretical lenses for viewing film can seem exhilarating, but also overwhelming.Thinking in the Dark introduces readers to twenty-one key theorists whose work has ... Read more

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Today’s film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives—they’re just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to quote classic film theorist André Bazin. To students first encountering them, these theoretical lenses for viewing film can seem exhilarating, but also overwhelming.Thinking in the Dark introduces readers to twenty-one key theorists whose work has
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Virtual Voyages

Cinema and Travel

by Tom Gunning, Lauren Rabinovitz, Rick Altman, Jennifer Lynn Peterson ...

Virtual Voyages illuminates the pivotal role of travelogues within the history of cinema. The travelogue dominated the early cinema period from 1895 to 1905, was central to the consolidation of documentary in the 1910s and 1920s, proliferated in the postwar era of 16mm distribution, and today continues to flourish in IMAX theaters and a host of non-theatrical venues. It is not only the first ... Read more

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Virtual Voyages illuminates the pivotal role of travelogues within the history of cinema. The travelogue dominated the early cinema period from 1895 to 1905, was central to the consolidation of documentary in the 1910s and 1920s, proliferated in the postwar era of 16mm distribution, and today continues to flourish in IMAX theaters and a host of non-theatrical venues. It is not only the first
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The Philosophy of Documentary Film

by Diana Allan, Rick Altman, Ariella Azoulay, Noël Carroll, Stanley Cavell, Gregory Currie, William Day, Keith Dromm, K. L. Evans, Michael Fried, Elan Gamaker0, Dan Geva1, Tom Gunning2, Werner Herzog3, Selmin Kara4, Scott MacDonald5, Bill Nichols6, Claudia Pederson7, V. F. Perkins8, Vivian Sobchack9, Lars von Trier0, Thomas Vinterberg1, Charles Warren2, Bernadette Wegenstein3, Linda Williams4, Mieke Bal5, Karen D. Hoffman6, Jennifer L. McMahon7, Patricia R. Zimmermann8, Erika9, David LaRocca1, :Prof. Carl Plantinga3, William Rothman4 ...

Series series The Philosophy of Popular Culture
The spirit that founded the volume and guided its development is radically inter- and transdisciplinary. Dispatches have arrived from anthropology, communications, English, film studies (including theory, history, criticism), literary studies (including theory, history, criticism), media and screen studies, cognitive cultural studies, narratology, philosophy, poetics, politics, and political ... Read more

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The spirit that founded the volume and guided its development is radically inter- and transdisciplinary. Dispatches have arrived from anthropology, communications, English, film studies (including theory, history, criticism), literary studies (including theory, history, criticism), media and screen studies, cognitive cultural studies, narratology, philosophy, poetics, politics, and political
... Read more
Hollywood Goes Oriental

Caucasian Performance in American Film

by Karla Rae Fuller ...

Series series Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media
An in-depth look at the portrayal of Asian characters by non-Asian actors in classical Hollywood film.In the "classical" Hollywood studio era of the 1930s to the 1960s, many iconic Asian roles were filled by non-Asian actors and some—like Fu Manchu or Charlie Chan—are still familiar today. In Hollywood Goes Oriental: CaucAsian Performance in American Film, Karla Rae Fuller tracks specific cosmetic ... Read more

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An in-depth look at the portrayal of Asian characters by non-Asian actors in classical Hollywood film.In the "classical" Hollywood studio era of the 1930s to the 1960s, many iconic Asian roles were filled by non-Asian actors and some—like Fu Manchu or Charlie Chan—are still familiar today. In Hollywood Goes Oriental: CaucAsian Performance in American Film, Karla Rae Fuller tracks specific cosmetic
... Read more
The Image in Early Cinema

Form and Material

Edited by Scott Curtis, Philippe Gauthier, Tom Gunning, Joshua Yumibe ...

In The Image in Early Cinema, the contributors examine intersections between early cinematic form, technology, theory, practice, and broader modes of visual culture. They argue that early cinema emerged within a visual culture composed of a variety of traditions in art, science, education, and image making. Even as methods of motion picture production and distribution materialized, they drew from ... Read more

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In The Image in Early Cinema, the contributors examine intersections between early cinematic form, technology, theory, practice, and broader modes of visual culture. They argue that early cinema emerged within a visual culture composed of a variety of traditions in art, science, education, and image making. Even as methods of motion picture production and distribution materialized, they drew from
... Read more
The Image in Early Cinema

Form and Material

Edited by Scott Curtis, Philippe Gauthier, Tom Gunning, Joshua Yumibe ...

In The Image in Early Cinema, the contributors examine intersections between early cinematic form, technology, theory, practice, and broader modes of visual culture. They argue that early cinema emerged within a visual culture composed of a variety of traditions in art, science, education, and image making. Even as methods of motion picture production and distribution materialized, they drew from ... Read more

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In The Image in Early Cinema, the contributors examine intersections between early cinematic form, technology, theory, practice, and broader modes of visual culture. They argue that early cinema emerged within a visual culture composed of a variety of traditions in art, science, education, and image making. Even as methods of motion picture production and distribution materialized, they drew from
... Read more

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