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January 2009Kurven, Karten, Stammbäume
Abstrakte Modelle für die Literaturgeschichte
by Franco Moretti, Florian Kessler, Alberto Piazza
Man könne auch als Literaturwissenschaftler durchaus über Bücher reden, ohne jemals eines gelesen zu haben – mit solch provokanten Thesen bringt Franco Moretti seit Jahren die internationale Literaturtheorie durcheinander. In seinem neuen Buch demonstriert Moretti, der ob seiner innovativen Verve bereits mit Umberto Eco verglichen wird, wie eine »abstrakte Literaturwissenschaft« aussehen könnte: Anstatt sich mit einzelnen kanonischen Texten auseinanderzusetzen, kartographiert er die Landschaft englischer Dorfgeschichten oder erprobt die Anwendbarkeit evolutionstheoretischer Konzepte auf die Entwicklung des Detektivromans.
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August 1988Gedichte für Städtebewohner
Herausgegeben und mit einem Nachwort von Franco Buono
by Bertolt Brecht, Franco Buono, Franco Buono
Seit den Anfängen der Massengesellschaft im 19. Jahrhundert ist sie nicht mehr aus der ›lyrischen‹ Produktion wegzudenken: die Stadt. Vervielfältigung wie Zerstörung menschlicher Beziehungen, Befreiung von (dörflicher) Naturbornierung und Zerstörung natürlicher Bedürfnisse, kurz: Faszination und Grauen sind die Pole dieses genuin ›modernen‹ Motivs. Seine raffiniertesten Versionen verschränken beides: entdecken die Trauer des Berauschenden großer Städte und die Faszination noch ihres Unmenschlichen. Auch Brechts Stadt-Gedichte sind, obwohl gewiß das Trostlose und Unmenschliche akzentuierend, nicht ohne eine solche dialektische Kehrseite. Denn ihre gesellschaftliche Hoffnung wie ihre didaktische Maxime ist, daß »die tiefste Verzweiflung die Bedingung für die Rettung« ist – so Franco Buono, der diese Auswahl zusammengestellt hat. Buonos Nachwort hebt das Besondere von Brechts Stadt-Gedichten hervor und skizziert die Geschichte des Stadt-Motivs in Brechts Werk.
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Spanish cinema 1973–2010
Auteurism, politics, landscape and memory
by Maria M. Delgado, Robin Fiddian
This collection offers a new lens through which to examine Spain's cinema production following the isolation imposed by the Franco regime. The seventeen key films analysed in the volume span a period of 35 years that have been crucial in the development of Spain, Spanish democracy and Spanish cinema. They encompass different genres (horror, thriller, melodrama, social realism, documentary), both popular (Los abrazos rotos/Broken Embraces, Vicky Cristina Barcelona) and more select art house fare (En la ciudad de Sylvia/In the City of Sylvia, El espíritu de la colmena/Spirit of the Beehive) and are made in English (as both first and second language), Basque, Castilian, Catalan and French. Offering an expanded understanding of 'national' cinemas, the volume explores key works by Guillermo del Toro and Lucrecia Martel alongside an examination of the ways in which established auteurs (Almodóvar, José Garci, Carlos Saura) and younger generations of filmmakers (Cesc Gay, Amenábar, Bollaín) have harnessed cinematic language towards a commentary on the nation-state. The result is a bold new study of the ways in which film has created new prisms that have determined how Spain is positioned in the global marketplace.
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Early learning / early learning conceptsOctober 2017Una cabeza distinta (A different head)
by Luis Panini, Chiara Carrer
This child tells us that he is not happy with the head that he has. He thinks it is a wrong head. The parents, after listening to him, take him to a specialist, who agrees with the little one. A mysterious man dressed in black supplies him with heads in exchange for his own. The child tries several, until he finds the one he was looking for. A reindeer head, a crocodile head, a whisk head: the narrator child and protagonist of this story tells us about his disagreement with the head he has and the vicissitudes that he has to go through to find the head with which he will finally agree: the head of a grown man, of a mathematician. This is a story of search for identity and growth, developed with fine fantasy and humor, with the wisdom of someone he has sought and perhaps already found.
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Biography & True StoriesSeptember 2024Bedsit land
The strange worlds of Soft Cell
by Patrick Clarke
A rich and revealing examination of the legendary pop duo Soft Cell. Soft Cell are not your average pop band. Marc Almond and Dave Ball may be best known for the string of hits they released in 1981, but the powerful first phase of their collaboration embraced a staggering array of sounds, influences and innovations that would change the face of music to come. In Bedsit land, Patrick Clarke plunges into the archives and interviews more than sixty contributors, including the band members themselves, to follow Soft Cell through the many strange and sprawling worlds that shaped their extraordinary career. They lead him from the faded camp glamour of the British seaside to the dizzying thrills of the New York club scene. From transgressive student performance art to the sleaze and squalor of pre-gentrified Soho. From the glitz of British showbiz to the drug-addled chaos of post-Franco Spain. He emerges on the other side with the most in-depth, innovative and entertaining account of the duo ever written.
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Multiple Sclerosis
by Pearl B. Werfel, Ron E. Franco-Durán, Linda J. Trettin
This innovative book will help both mental health and medical professionals empower patients or clients to live well with multiple sclerosis (MS). It is a practical, evidence-based, culturally relevant guide to the most effective current medical, psychological, and neuropsychological diagnostic methods and interventions. The book describes a biopsychosocial, multidisciplinary, and integrative approach to treatment and provides information on psychological, mind-body, and complementary interventions for symptom management and to increase quality of life. Both seasoned practitioners and students will find this volume useful in helping clients cope with this complex, unpredictable, and chronic neurological disorder. Target Group: clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, counselors, students.
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May 1978Die negierte Institution oder die Gemeinschaft der Ausgeschlossenen
Ein Experiment der psychiatrischen Klinik in Görz. Herausgegeben von Franco Basaglia. Aus dem Italienischen übersetzt von Anneheide Ascheri-Osterlow
by Franco Basaglia, Anneheide Ascheri-Osterlow, Anneheide Ascheri-Osterlow, Franco Basaglia
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June 1995Die Kunst, Recht zu behalten
In achtunddreißig Kunstgriffen dargestellt
by Arthur Schopenhauer, Franco Volpi
Organ der natürlichen Boshaftigkeit des Menschen, unverzichtbares Instrument, um Diskussionen erfolgreich zu führen und auf diese Weise dem Hang zur Rechthaberei nachzukommen, mithin der Wille, Recht zu behalten, gleichviel ob man im Recht ist oder nicht - dies und nichts anderes ist für Schopenhauer Dialektik.
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1971
Die negierte Institution oder die Gemeinschaft der Ausgeschlossenen
Ein Experiment der Psychiatrischen Klinik in Görz
by Franco Basaglia, Heide Ascheri
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Contemporary Spanish cinema
by Barry Jordan, Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas
Contemporary focus, right up to date with material from 1980s and 90s. Wide-ranging analyses of major directors, themes, genres and issues, including historical film, genre cinema, women in film and autonomies.
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The ArtsJanuary 2019The war that won't die
The Spanish Civil War in cinema
by David Archibald
The war that won't die charts the changing nature of cinematic depictions of the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, a significant number of artists, filmmakers and writers - from George Orwell and Pablo Picasso to Joris Ivens and Joan Miró - rallied to support the country's democratically-elected Republican government. The arts have played an important role in shaping popular understandings of the Spanish Civil War and this book examines the specific role cinema has played in this process. The book's focus is on fictional feature films produced within Spain and beyond its borders between the 1940s and the early years of the twenty-first century - including Hollywood blockbusters, East European films, the work of the avant garde in Paris and films produced under Franco's censorial dictatorship. The book will appeal to scholars and students of Film, Media and Hispanic Studies, but also to historians and, indeed, anyone interested in why the Spanish Civil War remains such a contested political topic.
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The ArtsJune 2021The war that won't die
The Spanish Civil War in cinema
by David Archibald
The war that won't die charts the changing nature of cinematic depictions of the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, a significant number of artists, filmmakers and writers - from George Orwell and Pablo Picasso to Joris Ivens and Joan Miró - rallied to support the country's democratically-elected Republican government. The arts have played an important role in shaping popular understandings of the Spanish Civil War and this book examines the specific role cinema has played in this process. The book's focus is on fictional feature films produced within Spain and beyond its borders between the 1940s and the early years of the twenty-first century - including Hollywood blockbusters, East European films, the work of the avant garde in Paris and films produced under Franco's censorial dictatorship. The book will appeal to scholars and students of Film, Media and Hispanic Studies, but also to historians and, indeed, anyone interested in why the Spanish Civil War remains such a contested political topic.
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