Cinema of Choice Tribology (friction and lubrication)Standard Hollywood narrative movies prescribe linear narratives that cue the viewer to expect predictable outcomes and adopt a closed state of mind. There are, however, a small number of movies that, through the presentation of alternate narrative paths, open the mind to thoughts of choice and possibility. Through the study of several key movies for which this concept is central, such as Sliding Doors, Run Lola Run, Inglourious Basterds, and Rashomon,
Kartini’s letters illuminate the mind of a young woman with a deep understanding of the political and personal ramifications of injustice in her native Java
of peoples and ideas-and newspapers' coverage and management of crises
This is the first book-length study of the Chinese new historical fiction (NHF)
Developed through a series of encounters with a Bosnian Serb soldier
Thomas Hobbes set out to develop a coherent philosophical system extending from logic and natural philosophy to civil and religious philosophy
This book puts forward an alternative conflict theory
famous friends
including hostile native groups
the book situates literacy in the internal fictive worlds of the self and other
as well as to influence how humans interact with one another
identifiably Jewish patterns of behavior into modern urban variations
part novel of ideas