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New Nonfiction Film

Art, Poetics, and Documentary Theory

By: Dara Waldron

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New Nonfiction Film

Art, Poetics, and Documentary Theory

By: Dara Waldron

New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetics and Documentary Theory is the first book to offer a lengthy examination of the relationship between fiction and documentary from the perspective of art and poetics. The premise of the book is to propose a new category of nonfiction film that is distinguished from – as opposed to being conflated with – the documentary film in its multiple historical guises; a premise explored in case-studies of films by distinguished artists and filmmakers (Abbas Kiarostami, Ben Rivers, Chantal Akerman, Ben Russell Pat Collins and Gideon Koppel). The book builds a case for this new category of film, calling it the 'new nonfiction film,' and argues, in the process, that this kind of film works to dismantle the old distinctions between fiction and documentary film and therefore the axioms of Film and Cinema Studies as a discipline of study.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501322508

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9781501322501

Cinema and Evil

Moral Complexities and the “Dangerous” Film

By: Dara Waldron

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Cinema and Evil

Moral Complexities and the “Dangerous” Film

By: Dara Waldron

Malevolence (and its causes) has been central to film since its inception; the birth of film coinciding with a fascination with crime, death, murder, horror, etc. Films which address the problem of evil, however, are less frequent and fewer in quantity; especially films which respond to a body of thought – philosophical or theological – which has deliberated on the topic of evil over the centuries. Cinema and Evil: Moral Responsibility and the “Dangerous” Film addresses these films. It explores the legacy of evil from Manicheanism to Arendt, assessing the alternative definitions offered by philosophers, theologians and writers per se, on its problematic status. It then considers how the films of filmmakers such as Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Michael Haneke, Gus Van Sant, and Lynne Ramsay have responded to the problem of evil in their films. In case by case studies, filmmakers’ response to “evil” events, whether those such as the Holocaust or Columbine, in which evil is used as a descriptor for human behaviour, is explored. The book refers to these as “dangerous” films, tasking us with the need to consider evil as a problem which is also our responsibility. It argues that these filmmakers have been at the forefront of ethical deliberation on evil.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443865583

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9781443865586

Mesenteric Principles of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Basic and Applied Science

By: John Calvin Coffey,Rishabh Sehgal,Dara Walsh

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Mesenteric Principles of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Basic and Applied Science

By: John Calvin Coffey,Rishabh Sehgal,Dara Walsh

Mesenteric-based gastrointestinal and colorectal surgery has been practiced internationally for over a century. However, it is not yet universally adopted, and considerable variations exist. Such variations are explained by the historical disparity that has persisted between anatomic and surgical approaches to the intestinal mesentery. While mesenteric-based surgery is far from new, it is remarkable that its anatomic basis has only recently been formally described. This means that key mesenteric principles of intestinal and colorectal surgery can now be taught, conducted and developed, in an entirely standardised manner. This book is composed of two parts. In this new book surgical anatomy, activities and operations are carefully defined, and beautifully illustrated, to enable all surgeons to conduct mesenteric-based intestinal and colorectal surgery, appropriately and with confidence.

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583

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CRC Press

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1498780652

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9781498780650

Affirmative Advocacy

Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics

By: Dara Z. Strolovitch

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Affirmative Advocacy

Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics

By: Dara Z. Strolovitch

The United States boasts scores of organizations that offer crucial representation for groups that are marginalized in national politics, from women to racial minorities to the poor. Here, in the first systematic study of these organizations, Dara Z. Strolovitch explores the challenges and opportunities they face in the new millennium, as waning legal discrimination coincides with increasing political and economic inequalities within the populations they represent. Drawing on rich new data from a survey of 286 organizations and interviews with forty officials, Strolovitch finds that groups too often prioritize the interests of their most advantaged members: male rather than female racial minorities, for example, or affluent rather than poor women. But Strolovitch also finds that many organizations try to remedy this inequity, and she concludes by distilling their best practices into a set of principles that she calls affirmative advocacy—a form of representation that aims to overcome the entrenched but often subtle biases against people at the intersection of more than one marginalized group. Intelligently combining political theory with sophisticated empirical methods, Affirmative Advocacy will be required reading for students and scholars of American politics.

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355

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University of Chicago Press

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0226777456

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9780226777450

New Nonfiction Film

Art, Poetics, and Documentary Theory

By: Dara Waldron

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Art, Poetics, and Documentary Theory

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1501322524

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Cinema and Evil

Moral Complexities and the “Dangerous” Film

By: Dara Waldron

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Moral Complexities and the “Dangerous” Film

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Book's by Dara Waldron

New Nonfiction Film

New Nonfiction Film

Cinema and Evil

Cinema and Evil

Mesenteric Principles of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Mesenteric Principles of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Affirmative Advocacy

Affirmative Advocacy

New Nonfiction Film

New Nonfiction Film

Cinema and Evil

Cinema and Evil

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