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The B Word

Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television

By: Maria San Filippo

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The B Word

Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television

By: Maria San Filippo

Often disguised in public discourse by terms like "gay," "homoerotic," "homosocial," or "queer," bisexuality is strangely absent from queer studies and virtually untreated in film and media criticism. Maria San Filippo aims to explore the central role bisexuality plays in contemporary screen culture, establishing its importance in representation, marketing, and spectatorship. By examining a variety of media genres including art cinema, sexploitation cinema and vampire films, "bromances," and series television, San Filippo discovers "missed moments" where bisexual readings of these texts reveal a more malleable notion of subjectivity and eroticism. San Filippo's work moves beyond the subject of heteronormativity and responds to "compulsory monosexuality," where it's not necessarily a couple's gender that is at issue, but rather that an individual chooses one or the other. The B Word transcends dominant relational formation (gay, straight, or otherwise) and brings a discursive voice to the field of queer and film studies.

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Indiana University Press

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0253008921

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9780253008923

Sudden Death: Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome

By: Maria Pia Donato

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Sudden Death: Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome

By: Maria Pia Donato

In 1705-1706, during the War of the Spanish Succession and two years after a devastating earthquake, an ’epidemic’ of mysterious sudden deaths terrorized Rome. In early modern society, a sudden death was perceived as a mala mors because it threatened the victim’s salvation by hindering repentance and last confession. Special masses were celebrated to implore God’s clemency and Pope Clement XI ordered his personal physician, Giovanni Maria Lancisi, to perform a series of dissections in the university anatomical theatre in order to discover the 'true causes' of the deadly events. It was the first investigation of this kind ever to take place for a condition which was not contagious. The book that Lancisi published on this topic, De subitaneis mortibus (’On Sudden Deaths’, 1707), is one of the earliest modern scientific investigations of death; it was not only an accomplished example of mechanical philosophy as applied to the life sciences in eighteenth-century Europe, but also heralded a new pathological anatomy (traditionally associated with Giambattista Morgagni). Moreover, Lancisi’s tract and the whole affair of the sudden deaths in Rome marked a significant break in the traditional attitude towards dying, introducing a more active approach that would later develop into the practice of resuscitation medicine. Sudden Death explores how a new scientific interpretation of death and a new attitude towards dying first came into being, breaking free from the Hippocratic tradition, which regarded death as the obvious limit of physician’s capacity, and leading the way to a belief in the 'conquest of death' by medicine which remains in force to this day.

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Routledge

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1317048520

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9781317048527

Film Fourth Edition

A Critical Introduction

By: Maria Pramaggiore,Tom Wallis

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Film Fourth Edition

A Critical Introduction

By: Maria Pramaggiore,Tom Wallis

Updated and expanded for a new edition, this is the perfect starter text for students of film studies. Packed full of visual examples from all periods of film history up to the present, Film:A Critical Introduction illustrates film concepts in context and in depth, addressing techniques and terminology used in film production and criticism, and emphasising thinking and writing critically and effectively. With reference to 450 new and existing images, the authors discuss contemporary films and film studies scholarship, as well as recent developments in film production and exhibition, such as digital technologies and new modes of screen media. New features in the fourth edition: Expanded discussion of changing cultural and political contexts for film and media industries, including #MeToo, #TimesUp, and #OscarsSoWhite Updated examples drawing from both contemporary and classic films in every chapter highlight that film studies is a vibrant and growing field New closing chapter expands the book's theoretical framework, linking foundational concepts in cinema studies to innovative new scholarship in media and screen studies Thoroughly revised and updated discussions of auteur theory, the long-take aesthetic, ideology in the superhero film and more

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Laurence King Publishing

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178627759X

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9781786277596

Selected Writings

By: Saint Alfonso Maria de' Liguori

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Selected Writings

By: Saint Alfonso Maria de' Liguori

This volume of the acclaimed Classics of Western Spirituality(TM) is a significant one. It offers new translations of a representative selection of the spiritual writings of Alphonsus de Liguori (1696-1787)-saint, bishop, religious founder (the Redemptorist Congregation), and doctor of the church. The late Frederick M. Jones, principal editor of this volume, and author of an acclaimed biography of Alphonsus, has written an exceptional introduction that outlines this saint's life, with particular emphasis on the political, sociological, and intellectual climate of Bourbon Naples in which he lived, wrote, and ministered. The writings presented here demonstrate the wide range of his work and its relevance to Christian life and spirituality in our own day: o Spiritual Writings o Spiritual Direction o Devotional Writings o Prayer o Moral Theology o Letters Alphonsus' devotional writings had an enormous impact on the practices of Catholic piety right up to Vatican II. In addition, he played an influential role in the development of moral theology. This collection of his works fills a demand for an English translation of Alphonsus' major spiritual works. Among the interested readers will be members of the Redemptorist order, theology students, and students of 18th century Italian church history and society. +

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Paulist Press

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0809137712

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9780809137718

Pietre Dure

The Art of Semiprecious Stonework

By: Anna Maria Giusti

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Pietre Dure

The Art of Semiprecious Stonework

By: Anna Maria Giusti

Pietre dure (Italian for "hard stone") is mosaic design made from semiprecious stones. This comprehensive survey looks at the uses of decorative stonework and the variety of techniques used to produce it from prehistory to the present day, focusing especially on the period from its rebirth in sixteenth-century Rome through the developments of the nineteenth century. The history of pietre dure in the modern era began in Rome in the 1500s where, thanks to patrons' commissions, new techniques and new types of designs appeared, intended for interior and furniture decoration. These innovations spread throughout Italy in the seventeenth century, producing the most spectacular period in the history of pietre dure in Florence under the Medici. In the eighteenth century numerous royal workshops based on the Florentine model appeared across Europe, under the patronage of the Hapsburgs in Prague, Louis XIV in France, and Frederick II in Prussia. Annamaria Giusti's richly illustrated book captures the beauty and craftsmanship of this ancient technique for "painting in stone.

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Getty Publications

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0892368497

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Doctors and Patients: History, Representation, Communication from Antiquity to the Present

By: Maria Malatesta

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Doctors and Patients: History, Representation, Communication from Antiquity to the Present

By: Maria Malatesta

For the first time, a book considers the doctor/patient relationship in the long period and from a broad geographical perspective. Historians, anthropologists and doctors reflect on the factors that, from the Classical age until the present, have altered the care relationship and the power relations embedded within it. The book also highlights that communication and narration, understood as constitutive aspects of care, are the elements which link the past to the present. From the encounter between religion and medicine to the centuries-long struggle between doctors and patients in defence of their respective positions, from medical dramas to efforts to humanize medicine, the book describes the doctor/patient relationship in all its cultural, transnational and transtemporal dimensions.

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0988986590

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9780988986596

Fighting Market Failure

Collected Essays in the Cambridge Tradition of Economics

By: Maria Cristina Marcuzzo

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Fighting Market Failure

Collected Essays in the Cambridge Tradition of Economics

By: Maria Cristina Marcuzzo

This collection brings together fifteen essays published between 1994 and 2008 which all look into the contribution of a remarkable group of economists known as the "Cambridge school" or the "Cambridge Keynesians". The people involved are better defined as a "group" rather than a "school", to denote not adhesion to a common body of doctrine but rather the idea of both cohesion and sharing. This collection focuses on Keynes, Kahn, J. Robinson and Sraffa, who all shared in the physical space and lifestyle of the University of Cambridge. The bond between them was intellectual partnership, a recognised common ground, dialogue and acceptance of criticism. Some of the essays in this collection address the content, as well as the method and "style", of the type of economics associated with the Cambridge tradition at the very core of which those economists stand. The first section opens with a chapter presenting the group within the physical and metaphorical place which was Cambridge, and the remaining five chapters centre on the life and work of each economist. The second section has papers looking at them in pairs, as it were, and revolves around the theme of their collaboration in various intellectual achievements. In particular, the opening piece makes the rather bold point that the road to the General Theory was not a solitary path. In other two papers much is said of Sraffa’s intellectual isolation in Cambridge and the difficulty of communication with Joan Robinson. The chapters in the third section take up aspects of their theories and approaches which justify the importance and relevance of the Cambridge tradition in economics. This book should be of interest to students and researchers within the history of economics and economic thought, particularly those focussing on the Cambridge or Keynesian traditions.

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1136662340

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9781136662348

I Testamenti dei Cardinali: Tommaso Ruffo (1663-1753)

By: Maria Gemma Paviolo

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I Testamenti dei Cardinali: Tommaso Ruffo (1663-1753)

By: Maria Gemma Paviolo

Trascrizione commentata del Testamento e dei Codicilli (1753) del Cardinal Tommaso Ruffo, versione integrale dall'Archivio di Stato di Roma.

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1291696830

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9781291696837

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

A Bibliographic Guide to the Canon of Greek Authors and Works

By: Maria C. Pantelia

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Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

A Bibliographic Guide to the Canon of Greek Authors and Works

By: Maria C. Pantelia

The thesaurus of the Greek language (1972-2022) : a brief history of the project -- Classifications and conventions : the Canon standard -- Acknowledgments -- Codes and sigla -- Bibliographic abbreviations -- The Canon of Greek authors and works -- Index of TLG author numbers.

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0520388194

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Montvale

By: Maria Pratt Hopper

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Montvale

By: Maria Pratt Hopper

Montvale is a small borough of approximately 4.5 square miles in the picturesque Pascack Valley in northeastern Bergen County, New Jersey. How the borough grew from a small farming community to a population of nearly 9,000 in 2019 is told through the use of vintage photographs. Pictures of 18th-century Dutch Colonial sandstone houses, a 19th-century octagon house, a cider mill that made "Jersey applejack," horses and buggies, and antique cars all have stories to tell, as do advertisements and posters. In one for an 1896 social and basket picnic, folks were invited to "bring your team, wife and children," but there would be "no swearing or fighting.'' Turn-of-the-century postcards tell of the hundreds of summer visitors escaping the city heat. After Montvale became the last stop in New Jersey on the Garden State Parkway, the western section of the borough changed from farmland to the headquarters of some of the most prestigious national and international corporations, including Benjamin Moore, KPMG, Sharp Electronics, and Western Union, as well as home to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467104299

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9781467104296

I Testamenti dei Cardinali: Giovanni Battista Spada (1597-1675)

By: Maria Gemma Paviolo

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I Testamenti dei Cardinali: Giovanni Battista Spada (1597-1675)

By: Maria Gemma Paviolo

Trascrizione commentata del Testamento e dei Codicilli (1675) del Cardinal Giovanni Battista Spada, versione integrale dall'Archivio di Stato di Roma in lingua latina con traduzione in italiano.

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1291891471

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The B Word

The B Word

Sudden Death: Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome

Sudden Death: Medicine and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Rome

Film Fourth Edition

Film Fourth Edition

Selected Writings

Selected Writings

Pietre Dure

Pietre Dure

Doctors and Patients: History, Representation, Communication from Antiquity to the Present

Doctors and Patients: History, Representation, Communication from Antiquity to the Present

Fighting Market Failure

Fighting Market Failure

I Testamenti dei Cardinali: Tommaso Ruffo (1663-1753)

I Testamenti dei Cardinali: Tommaso Ruffo (1663-1753)

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

Montvale

Montvale

I Testamenti dei Cardinali: Giovanni Battista Spada (1597-1675)

I Testamenti dei Cardinali: Giovanni Battista Spada (1597-1675)

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