Культура и искусство

Лейтенанта милиции Елену Егорову после ранения направляют служить в подразлеление, которое занимается охраной Дороги жизни. Она попадает на заброшенны…

Как художник сам рассказал бы о себе, будь у него такая возможность? Почему он рассказал бы именно это? О чём бы он умолчал? Какой образ захотел бы со…

The Poetry Toolkit: For Readers and Writers provides students with the essential intellectual and practical tools necessary to read, understand, and w…

Chromatic Cinema provides the first wide-ranging historical overview of screen color, exploring the changing uses and meanings of color in moving imag…

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Автор иронической киноповести «Корень „Suomi“» – известный кинорежиссёр, народный артист РСФСР, лауреат Государственной премии Игорь Масленников проси…

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Featuring twenty one newly-commissioned essays, A Companion to the Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion demonstr…

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A Short History of Early Modern England presents the historical and cultural information necessary for a richer understanding of English Renaissance l…

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After the Fall presents a timely and provocative examination of the impact and implications of 9/11 and the war on terror on American culture and lite…

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Incorporating over a century of archaeological research, Greaves offers a reassessment of Archaic Ionia that attempts to understand the region within …

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Главный вопрос этой лекции: а было ли искусство у наших первобытных предков? На этот вопрос мы ответим вместе с увлекательным путешествием в пещеру Ла…

This book is the definitive guide to Victorian poetry, which its author approaches in the light of modern critical concerns and contemporary contexts.…

This is the second part of a major theoretical work by Patrik Schumacher, which outlines how the discipline of architecture should be understood as it…

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An accessible and thorough introduction to literary theory and contemporary critical practice, this book is an essential resource for beginning studen…

The Literary Theory Toolkit offers readers a rich compendium of key terms, concepts, and arguments necessary for the study of literature in a critical…

Guitar Exercises For Dummies includes over 300 exercises along with lots of technique-building practice opportunities. It starts off with warm-up exer…

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Novel Characters offers a fascinating and in-depth history of the novelistic character from the “birth of the novel” in Don Quixote, through the great…

The most up-to-date study of the Hollywood romantic comedy film, from the development of sound to the twenty-first century, this book examines the his…

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«Ира Алферова – глубоко славянский тип. И французская легкость ей не свойственна», – утверждал режиссер Георгий Юнгвальд-Хилькевич, не желавший снимат…

Cinema Wars explores the intersection of film, politics, and US culture and society through a bold critical analysis of the films, TV shows, and docum…

First published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin has become a classic of architectural theory. It asks the far-reaching question why, when there are five…

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