Автор: Osborne Frances Название: The Bolter ISBN: 0307476421 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307476425 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 1094.00 р. 1563.00-30% Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year An O, The Oprah Magazine #1 Terrific Read In an age of bolters--women who broke the rules and fled their marriages--Idina Sackville was the most celebrated of them all. Her relentless affairs, wild sex parties, and brazen flaunting of convention shocked high society and inspired countless writers and artists, from Nancy Mitford to Greta Garbo. But Idina's compelling charm masked the pain of betrayal and heartbreak. Now Frances Osborne explores the life of Idina, her enigmatic great-grandmother, using letters, diaries, and family legend, following her from Edwardian London to the hills of Kenya, where she reigned over the scandalous antics of the "Happy Valley Set." Dazzlingly chic yet warmly intimate, The Bolter is a fascinating look at a woman whose energy still burns bright almost a century later.
Описание: How the creative abundance of today's media culture was made possible by the decline of elitism in the arts and the rise of digital media.
Media culture today encompasses a universe of forms--websites, video games, blogs, books, films, television and radio programs, magazines, and more--and a multitude of practices that include making, remixing, sharing, and critiquing. This multiplicity is so vast that it cannot be comprehended as a whole. In this book, Jay David Bolter traces the roots of our media multiverse to two developments in the second half of the twentieth century: the decline of elite art and the rise of digital media. Bolter explains that we no longer have a collective belief in "Culture with a capital C." The hierarchies that ranked, for example, classical music as more important than pop, literary novels as more worthy than comic books, and television and movies as unserious have broken down. The art formerly known as high takes its place in the media plenitude. The elite culture of the twentieth century has left its mark on our current media landscape in the form of what Bolter calls "popular modernism." Meanwhile, new forms of digital media have emerged and magnified these changes, offering new platforms for communication and expression.
Bolter outlines a series of dichotomies that characterize our current media culture: catharsis and flow, the continuous rhythm of digital experience; remix (fueled by the internet's vast resources for sampling and mixing) and originality; history (not replayable) and simulation (endlessly replayable); and social media and coherent politics. Donald Trump, Bolter says, is a master of the politics of flow.
Автор: Bolter, Andrea Thompson, Nancy Robards Название: Captivated by her parisian billionaire / her savannah surprise ISBN: 0263278859 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780263278859 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 923.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Captivated by Her Parisian Billionaire by Andrea Bolter Paris already has Cinderella`s heart... Can the billionaire steal it?
