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Screening the City
by Mark Shiel, Tony Fitzmaurice, Contributor-Jude Davies, Contributor-Matthew Gandy, Contributor-Martin Gaughan, Contributor-Paul Gormley, Contributor-Peter Jelavich, Contributor-Jessie Labov, Contributor-Tyrus Miller, Contributor-John Orr, Paula J. Massood, Allan Siegel, David Sorfa, Carsten Strathausen, Darrell Varga
Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2003 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-690-2, ISBN: 1-85984-690-4

"The city has long been an important location for filmmakers. Visually compelling and always modern, it is the perfect metaphor for man's place in the contemporary world. In this provocative collection of essays, films as diverse as The Man with the Movie Camera, Annie Hall, Street of Crocodiles, Boyz N the Hood, Three Colors Red, and Crash are examined in terms of the relationship between cinema and the changing urban experience in Eur ..."






Screening the City(1st Edition)
by Mark Shiel, Tony Fitzmaurice, Matthew Gandy, Martin Gaughan, Paul Gormley, Peter Jelavich, Jessie Labov, Tyrus Miller, Darrell Varga, Carsten Strathausen, Professor Jude Davies, Jude Davies, John Orr, Professor Paula J. Massood, Professor John Orr, Dr Allan Siegel Md Phd, Professor David Sorfa, Allan Siegel, David Sorfa, Professor Mark Shiel, Shiel Fitzmaurice
Paperback, 322 Pages, Published 2003 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-476-2, ISBN: 1-85984-476-6

"Throughout the book, the cinema's artistic encounter with the city always intersects with a social and political engagement in which urgent issues of class, race, sexuality, the environment, liberty, capital, and totalitarianism are everywhere at stake.The city has long been an important location for filmmakers. Visually compelling and always modern, it is the perfect metaphor for man's place in the contemporary world. In this provocati ..."






We Could � The Songwriting Artistry of Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
by Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum / Rumble, John/ Orr, Jay / Schuyler, Thom / Young, Kyle
Softcover, Published 2023 by Univ Of Illinois Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-915608-35-5, ISBN: 0-915608-35-9






Ancient Muses(1st Edition)
Archaeology and the Arts
by John E. Ehrenhard, Christine A. Finn, Sharyn Kane, Richard Keeton, Harold Mytum, Kirsten Brett, Claire Smith, Nicola Laneri, Jeanne Lopiparo, Martin Pate, David Middlebrook, James G. Gibb, David G. Anderson, Mary R. Bullard, Margaret A. Heath, Emily J. Donald, Lance M. Foster, David G. Orr, Sarah M. Nelson, David Orr, John H. Jameson
Paperback, 250 Pages, Published 2003 by University Alabama Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-1274-9, ISBN: 0-8173-1274-9






Fountain of Youth
Strategies and Tactics for Mobilizing America's Young Voters (Campaigning American Style)
by John Clifford Green, Daniel M. Shea, Ivan Frishberg, Michael Hoover, Susan Orr, Mark Rockeymoore, Maya Rockeymoore, Heather Smith, Melissa K. Comber, J. Cherie Strachan, John Kenneth White, William A. Galston, Shea/Green, Contributor-Cherie Strachan, Contributor-William A...
Hardcover, 268 Pages, Published 2006 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-3965-5, ISBN: 0-7425-3965-2






Fountain of Youth
Strategies and Tactics for Mobilizing America's Young Voters (Campaigning American Style)
by Daniel M. Shea, John C. Green, Michael Hoover, Susan Orr, Ivan Frishberg, Mark Rockeymoore, Maya Rockeymoore, Heather Smith, John Clifford Green, Melissa K. Comber, William A. Galston, J. Cherie Strachan, John Kenneth White, Shea/Green
Paperback, 268 Pages, Published 2006 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-3966-2, ISBN: 0-7425-3966-0






Learning to Create
One Hundred Years (1912-2012) of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Degrees at Queen's University Belfast
by Don Mccloy, Eric Beatty, Brendan Fox, John Orr, John Wilkinson
Paperback, 248 Pages, Published by Queen's University Belfast
ISBN-13: 978-1-909131-05-7, ISBN: 1-909131-05-9






Contemporary Cinema
by John Orr
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-7486-0929-1, ISBN: 0-7486-0929-6






Three Studies in Homonymics
by John Orr
Hardcover, 80 Pages, Published by Edinburgh University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-85224-105-9, ISBN: 0-85224-105-4






Tragic Drama and Modern Society
by John Orr
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-333-46458-8, ISBN: 0-333-46458-3






I Died Last Night
by John Orr
Paperback, 67 Pages, Published 2018 by Start2finish Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-941972-98-4, ISBN: 1-941972-98-5

"Where would your soul be if you died right now?Chances are, it’s not what you think. This is a fictional story of a leader in a conservative church as he takes his journey into eternity. Bible teaching, writings from early Christians and true events form the foundation of this story.But this book is more about your affection than your direction, because what you think will determine your journey in the afterlife."






The Grand Castle Hotel
by John Orr
198 Pages, Published 2017 by Independently Published
ISBN-13: 978-1-5220-2161-2, ISBN: 1-5220-2161-2

"Essentially this is a book of short stories involving the people and creatures that might reside in or around a great hotel in the West of Ireland."






Tragicomedy and Contemporary Culture
Play and Performance from Beckett to Shepard
by John Orr
170 Pages, Published 2016 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-1-349-21562-1, ISBN: 1-349-21562-7

"Hassocks: Harvester, 1981. Alvarez, A. Beckett. London: Fontana, 1971. Anderson, Perry. 'Modernity and Revolution', New Left Review, 144 (March–April 1984). Artaud, Antonin. The Theatre and Its Double (trans. Mary Caroline Richards). New York: Grove Press, 1958. Bailey, Joe. Pessimism. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1988. Bakhtin ... Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta ). London: Athlone Press, 1989. Derrida, Jacques. Glas. Paris: E ..."






Tales from a Quiet Man
by John Orr
Hardcover, Published 2015 by Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-1-78455-772-0, ISBN: 1-78455-772-2

"There is something for everyone in this book. John Orr has an imagination that knows no bounds! A collection of short stories that range from the truly grim to the little things that make up all our lives."






Tales from a Quiet Man
by John Orr
Paperback, 198 Pages, Published 2015 by Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-1-78455-771-3, ISBN: 1-78455-771-4

"There is something for everyone in this book. John Orr has an imagination that knows no bounds! A collection of short stories that range from the truly grim to the little things that make up all our lives."






The Demons of Modernity(1st Edition)
Ingmar Bergman and European Cinema
by John Orr
Hardcover, 140 Pages, Published 2014 by Berghahn Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-85745-978-7, ISBN: 0-85745-978-3

" Ingmar Bergman’s films had a very broad and rich relationship with the rest of European cinema, contrary to the myth that Bergman was a peripheral figure, culturally and aesthetically isolated from the rest of Europe. This book contends that he should be put at the very center of European film history by chronologically comparing Bergman’s relationship to key European directors such as Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo ..."






The Demons of Modernity
Ingmar Bergman and European Cinema
by John Orr
140 Pages, Published 2014 by Berghahn Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-85745-979-4, ISBN: 0-85745-979-1

"Ignored, nameless and faceless in the eyes of Rohmer's guillible subject, they may well be the key to the destiny of the film. And when they are seen, they are ' seen' but not looked at, either by the protagonist or the spectator. They are neutral recipients of the nongaze. In Full Moon in Paris (1984), Rohmer supplies us with his cruel exception to the efficacy of the blindfold. Louise overlooks the presence of Marianne with Rémi a ..."






In a Simple Rhyme
by John Orr
Paperback, Published 2013 by Lulu Pr
ISBN-13: 978-1-304-22397-5, ISBN: 1-304-22397-3






Tartan Designs for Weavers
by John Orr
Published 2013
ISBN-13: 978-1-304-07542-0, ISBN: 1-304-07542-7






Framing Pictures(Reprint)
Film and the Visual Arts (Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality)
by Steven Jacobs, Martine Beugnet, John Orr
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2012 by Edinburgh University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7486-6876-2, ISBN: 0-7486-6876-4

"Through the feature films and documentaries of directors including Emmer, Erice, Godard, Hitchcock, Pasolini, Resnais, Rossellini and Storck, Jacobs examines the way films 'animate' artworks by means of cinematic techniques, such as camera movements and editing, or by integrating them into a narrative.He explores how this 'mobilization' of the artwork is brought into play in art documentaries and artist biopics, as well as in feature fi ..."



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