Inicio > Humanidades > Historia > Intimate Strangers
Intimate Strangers

Intimate Strangers

Intimate Strangers

Richard Schickel

14,31 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Editorial:
RLPG/Galleys
Año de edición:
2000
Materia
Historia
ISBN:
9781566633178
14,31 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Añadir a favoritos
Sobre IBD

In explaining the power of celebrity in modern life, Richard Schickel ranges through every realm of our culture-film, theatre, television, literature, art, the media, pop music, politics-for examples of how celebrity shapes our world and bends our minds.

Artículos relacionados

  • It’s All About Muhammad
    F. W. Burleigh / FWBurleigh
    Why all the car bombs, beheadings, and mass murders in the Middle East? Why the relentless killing of non-Muslims throughout the world by the followers of Muhammad's religion? Why Boston, Chattanooga, Paris, San Bernardino? People blame verses of the Koran for all of this, but it's not about the Koran.Author F. W. Burleigh draws on an academic, investigative, and litera...
    Disponible

    21,08 €

  • Raising Freedom's Banner
    Paul Harris
    World wide history of peaceful street demonstrations from their earliest beginning in eighteenth century England to their use throughout the world in the twenty-first century. Describes why some demonstration movements succeeded and others failed. Contrasts demonstrations within the law with civil disobedience demonstrations. Describes Peterloo, the Chartists, the Suffragettes,...
    Disponible

    23,59 €

  • Gifford Pinchot and the First Foresters
    Bibi Gaston
    In 2005, six tattered blue boxes were unearthed in the Library of Congress’s Pinchot Collection in Washington D.C. Inside were 5,000 pages of letters describing the work of early resource conservation professionals. The boxes were labeled simply “The Old Timers.” Penned between the years 1937–1941 by the first class of American Forest Rangers to serve under President Theodo...
  • Waipi’o Valley
    Jeffrey L. Gross
    Waipi’o Valley: A Polynesian Journey from Eden to Eden recounts the remarkable migrations of the Polynesians across a third of the circumference of the earth. Their amazing journey began from Kalana i Hau’ola, the biblical “Garden of Eden” located along the shore of the Persian Gulf, extended to the Indus River Valley of ancient Vedic India, to Egypt where some ancestors of the...
    Disponible

    18,64 €

  • Floralia
    June Rainsford Butler
    A century characterized by a growing interest in science, the opportunity for travel, and leisure for gardening furnishes the setting for Butler’s book. The rise of landscape gardening in England is traced, and the origin and history of its most famous gardens are given. The close relation between England and America in the field of horticulture is also discussed.Originally pub...
    Disponible

    61,20 €

  • Nyerere and Africa
    Godfrey Mwakikagile
    This is the fourth edition of 'Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era. It is also the largest and includes new material not found in previous editions. The work is a comprehensive study of the political career of President Julius Nyerere spanning half a century. The author takes a critical look at Nyerere's policies and influence in the domestic and international arenas for an obje...

Otros libros del autor

  • The Stars
    Richard Schickel
    In 'The Stars,' Richard Schickel takes readers on a journey through the world of Hollywood stardom. He explores the lives and careers of some of the biggest stars in the history of cinema, revealing the behind-the-scenes stories that shaped their legacies. This book is a must-read for film lovers and anyone interested in the history of Hollywood.This work has been selected by s...
  • The Stars
    Richard Schickel
    In 'The Stars,' Richard Schickel takes readers on a journey through the world of Hollywood stardom. He explores the lives and careers of some of the biggest stars in the history of cinema, revealing the behind-the-scenes stories that shaped their legacies. This book is a must-read for film lovers and anyone interested in the history of Hollywood.This work has been selected by s...
  • Elia Kazan
    Richard Schickel
    From the late forties through the sixties, Elia Kazan was the most important and influential director in America, and the only one who managed simultaneously to dominate both theater and film. In that role he manifestly shaped the conception and writing, as well as the presentation, of many of the period’s iconic works, reshaping the values of the stage and bringing a new reali...
    Disponible

    14,28 €

  • D.W. Griffith
    Richard Schickel
    D.W. GRIFFITH ...
    Disponible

    28,25 €

  • The Men Who Made the Movies
    Richard Schickel
    Mr. Schickel takes on eight of Hollywood’s finest directors in conversation-Hitchcock, Capra, Minnelli, Cukor, Hawks, Wellman, Vidor, and Walsh-reminiscing about their working lives which spanned the most intriguing decades of American filmmaking. Each of these directors created a canon of work that even today sustains critical analysis without sacrificing popular appeal. 'Imme...
    Disponible

    17,13 €