African Theatre: China, India & the Eastern World: Volume 15
Martin Banham, James Gibbs and Femi Osofisan
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China is the main focus of this volume, and articles consider the way it is using "soft power" in...
ClareR (5726 KP) rated Ghost Wall in Books
Feb 11, 2019
The book becomes darker as it goes on, as we see more of Silvie's dads' outdated ideas of masculinity and a woman's station in life, and the conclusion is simply stunning.
This is well worth a read in my opinion.
Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for my copy of this book to read and fairly review.
Awix (3310 KP) rated The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) in Movies
Mar 4, 2018 (Updated Mar 4, 2018)
Actually really, really tame as a horror movie by modern standards, obviously, but also of great historical interest as the birth of a legend in British cinema. One can't help suspecting the TV show was a lot more thoughtful, but this still works pretty well as an SF movie, and an influential one at that, and the juxtaposition of B-movie SF ideas and images with post-war Britain is interesting. Imported American star Brian Donlevy is not very good as Professor Q (original writer Nigel Kneale claimed he was on the sauce all the time); Richard Wordsworth is mesmerising as the doomed astronaut.
Awix (3310 KP) rated Quatermass and the Pit (1967) in Movies
Feb 13, 2018
Pretty much a perfect fusion of horror and science fiction, giving a convincing extraterrestrial rationale for various paranormal and demonic phenomena; thoughtful and disturbing rather than actually scary. Andrew Keir rocks the joint as Professor Q but is well-supported by everyone else. The sequence in which London is transformed in the final reel is also very well done. Sets the standard for intelligent British SF movies; rather influential in its own way, too.
Before and After: Reminiscences of a Working Life
Edith Morley and Barbara Morris
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Intended to 'relate my experiences to the background of my period and to portray incidents in the...
From Cult to Culture: Fragments Toward a Critique of Historical Reason
Jacob Taubes, Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert, Amir Engel and Jan Assmann
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After launching his career with the 1947 publication of his dissertation, Occidental Eschatology,...
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Louis Passfield and Rob Hayles
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The last quarter of a century has seen major developments in the world of cycling. Heart-rate...
Space Law: A Treatise
Francis Lyall and Paul B. Larsen
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Space law is an area of International Law that has developed massively in the last fifty years....
Introduction to Computational Mass Transfer: With Applications to Chemical Engineering
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This book presents a new computational methodology called Computational Mass Transfer (CMT). It...
New Readings of Silvina Ocampo: Beyond Fantasy
Patricia Nisbet Klingenberg and Fernanda Zullo-Ruiz
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The critical essays in this volume are dedicated to the works of Argentine writer Silvina Ocampo...