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| Author | : Christopher J. Koch |
| Publisher | : |
| Release Date | : 1986 |
| ISBN | : |
| Pages | : 312 pages |
| Rating | : 4.:/5 (321 download) |
Download or read book The Year of Living Dangerously written by Christopher J. Koch and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First pub. 1978. Political romance set in Indonesia. Both Guy and Billy are in love with the same woman.
| Author | : Christopher Koch |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins Australia |
| Release Date | : 2012-12-08 |
| ISBN | : 1743098413 |
| Pages | : 336 pages |
| Rating | : 4.7/5 (43 download) |
Download or read book The Year of Living Dangerously written by Christopher Koch and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2012-12-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jakarta, 1965. Waiting for explosions, the city smells of frangipani, kretek cigarettes, and fear. It is THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY. the charismatic god-king Sukarno has brought Indonesia to the edge of chaos - to an abortive revolution that will leave half a million dead. For the Western correspondents here, this gathering apocalypse is their story and their drug, while the sufferings of the Indonesian people are scarcely real: a shadow play. Working at the eye of the storm are television correspondent Guy Hamilton and his eccentric dwarf cameraman Billy Kwan. In Kwan's secret fantasy life, both Sukarno and Hamilton are heroes. But his heroes betray him, and Billy is driven to desperate action. As the Indonesian shadow play erupts into terrible reality, a complex personal tragedy of love, obsession and betrayal comes to its climax. 'A profound and beautiful book' - Les Murray, the Sydney Morning Herald 'A richly and fully realised work of fiction, well conceived and beautifully executed.' - Larry McMurtry 'Intelligent, compassionate, flavoursome, convincing ... In Billy Kwan, Mr Koch has created one of the most memorable characters of recent fiction. this book is to be prized.' - the times Literary Supplement
| Author | : Christopher Koch |
| Publisher | : |
| Release Date | : 2012-12-01 |
| ISBN | : 9780732296483 |
| Pages | : 336 pages |
| Rating | : 4.2/5 (964 download) |
Download or read book The Year of Living Dangerously written by Christopher Koch and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jakarta, 1965. Waiting for explosions, the city smells of frangipani, kretek cigarettes, and fear. It is THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY. The charismatic god-king Sukarno has brought Indonesia to the edge of chaos - to an abortive revolution that will leave half a million dead. For the Western correspondents here, this gathering apocalypse is their story and their drug, while the sufferings of the Indonesian people are scarcely real: a shadow play. Working at the eye of the storm are television correspondent Guy Hamilton and his eccentric dwarf cameraman Billy Kwan. In Kwan's secret fantasy life, both Sukarno and Hamilton are heroes. But his heroes betray him, and Billy is driven to desperate action. As the Indonesian shadow play erupts into terrible reality, a complex personal tragedy of love, obsession and betrayal comes to its climax. 'A profound and beautiful book' - Les Murray, The Sydney Morning Herald 'A richly and fully realised work of fiction, well conceived and beautifully executed.' - Larry McMurtry 'Intelligent, compassionate, flavoursome, convincing ...In Billy Kwan, Mr Koch has created one of the most memorable characters of recent fiction.This book is to be prized.' - The Times Literary Supplement
| Author | : Anthony de V. Minnaar |
| Publisher | : |
| Release Date | : 1995 |
| ISBN | : |
| Pages | : 42 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 ( download) |
Download or read book A Year of Living Dangerously written by Anthony de V. Minnaar and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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| Release Date | : 1983-01-24 |
| ISBN | : |
| Pages | : 112 pages |
| Rating | : 4./5 ( download) |
Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1983-01-24 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
| Author | : J. F. Conceicao |
| Publisher | : |
| Release Date | : 2005 |
| ISBN | : |
| Pages | : 128 pages |
| Rating | : 4.:/5 (318 download) |
Download or read book Indonesia's Six Years of Living Dangerously written by J. F. Conceicao and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
| Author | : Jay Cowan |
| Publisher | : Monsoon Books |
| Release Date | : 2012-05-01 |
| ISBN | : 9814358762 |
| Pages | : 198 pages |
| Rating | : 4.8/5 (143 download) |
Download or read book In the Land of Living Dangerously written by Jay Cowan and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With “In the Land of Living Dangerously”, an adventure travelogue set in Indonesia, author Jay Cowan explores myriad issues experienced during his travels in the Indonesian archipelago from culture and history to politics and anthropology, from exotic endemic wildlife and huge environmental challenges to one-on-one encounters with volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis, the natural disasters that keep the region in the news. Cowan and his wife climbed 13,500-foot Mount Kinabalu, took river trips deep into the interior of Borneo, were on-site for the huge eruptions of Mount Merapi volcano in Java, got a close-up view of Indonesia’s infamous corruption in Bali and witnessed radical Islamic terrorist activities that have rocked the region — all while trying to avoid getting bird flu, dengue fever, malaria, Bali belly and a variety of other brutal tropical diseases that run rampant in the area and are now focal points for battles over who controls the viruses and their potential vaccines. As well as getting up close and personal with Indonesia’s famous Komodo dragons, the author tracked down other seriously endangered species in their native habitats including orangutans, pygmy elephants, tarsiers, giant yellow-lipped clams, proboscis monkeys, mouse deer and several dozen more imperiled species of animals and birds. This exciting and informative travelogue also includes discussions of US President Obama’s childhood in Java, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visits to the area, a plane ride with Indonesia’s then-Vice-President Jusuf Kalla, and an interview by the author with the Foreign Minister of China on a beach in Bali.
| Author | : Soekarno |
| Publisher | : |
| Release Date | : 1964 |
| ISBN | : |
| Pages | : 88 pages |
| Rating | : 4.:/5 (42 download) |
Download or read book A Year of Living Dangerously written by Soekarno and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
| Author | : William J. Palmer |
| Publisher | : SIU Press |
| Release Date | : 1995 |
| ISBN | : 9780809320295 |
| Pages | : 335 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (22 download) |
Download or read book The Films of the Eighties written by William J. Palmer and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable sequel to his Films of the Seventies: A Social History, William J. Palmer examines more than three hundred films as texts that represent, revise, parody, comment upon, and generate discussion about major events, issues, and social trends of the eighties. Palmer defines the dialectic between film art and social history, taking as his theoretical model the "holograph of history" that originated from the New Historicist theories of Hayden White and Dominick LaCapra. Combining the interests and methodologies of social history and film criticism, Palmer contends that film is a socially conscious interpreter and commentator upon the issues of contemporary social history. In the eighties, such issues included the war in Vietnam, the preservation of the American farm, terrorism, nuclear holocaust, changes in Soviet-American relations, neoconservative feminism, and yuppies. Among the films Palmer examines are Platoon, The Killing Fields, The River, Out of Africa, Little Drummer Girl, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Silkwood, The Day After, Red Dawn, Moscow on the Hudson, Troop Beverly Hills, and Fatal Attraction. Utilizing the principles of New Historicism, Palmer demonstrates that film can analyze and critique history as well as present it.
| Author | : Tineke Hellwig |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Release Date | : 2009-01-01 |
| ISBN | : 0822392275 |
| Pages | : 488 pages |
| Rating | : 4.8/5 (223 download) |
Download or read book The Indonesia Reader written by Tineke Hellwig and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelago, encompassing nearly eighteen thousand islands. The fourth-most populous nation in the world, it has a larger Muslim population than any other. The Indonesia Reader is a unique introduction to this extraordinary country. Assembled for the traveler, student, and expert alike, the Reader includes more than 150 selections: journalists’ articles, explorers’ chronicles, photographs, poetry, stories, cartoons, drawings, letters, speeches, and more. Many pieces are by Indonesians; some are translated into English for the first time. All have introductions by the volume’s editors. Well-known figures such as Indonesia’s acclaimed novelist Pramoedya Ananta Toer and the American anthropologist Clifford Geertz are featured alongside other artists and scholars, as well as politicians, revolutionaries, colonists, scientists, and activists. Organized chronologically, the volume addresses early Indonesian civilizations; contact with traders from India, China, and the Arab Middle East; and the European colonization of Indonesia, which culminated in centuries of Dutch rule. Selections offer insight into Japan’s occupation (1942–45), the establishment of an independent Indonesia, and the post-independence era, from Sukarno’s presidency (1945–67), through Suharto’s dictatorial regime (1967–98), to the present Reformasi period. Themes of resistance and activism recur: in a book excerpt decrying the exploitation of Java’s natural wealth by the Dutch; in the writing of Raden Ajeng Kartini (1879–1904), a Javanese princess considered the icon of Indonesian feminism; in a 1978 statement from East Timor objecting to annexation by Indonesia; and in an essay by the founder of Indonesia’s first gay activist group. From fifth-century Sanskrit inscriptions in stone to selections related to the 2002 Bali bombings and the 2004 tsunami, The Indonesia Reader conveys the long history and the cultural, ethnic, and ecological diversity of this far-flung archipelago nation.
| Author | : Rodney P. Hide |
| Publisher | : Random House (New Zealand) |
| Release Date | : 2007 |
| ISBN | : |
| Pages | : 235 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (91 download) |
Download or read book My Year of Living Dangerously written by Rodney P. Hide and published by Random House (New Zealand). This book was released on 2007 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rodney Hide, Act leader and MP for Epsom, was the jolly perks-buster who brightened up so many debating sessions in Parliament with his pugnacious, take-no-prisoners antics. Then he signed up for Dancing With the Stars and his life was transformed. He lost weight, got in touch with a kinder, softer Rodney, realized there was more to life out there in the hinterland than the black and white power games of the Beehive, fought a desperate battle to win the Epson seat, found new allies in surprising places (with Tariana Turia and Keith Locke for example) -- and, most critically, stopped thinking and acting like a fat man. He lost weight, got fit and now he is feeling fabulous. In this no-holds-barred, rollicking memoir Rodney surveys the previous decades and his rise to political prominence, puts his Parliamentary colleagues, past and present, under the spotlight and shares his secrets for health and fitness.
| Author | : Slavoj Zizek |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Release Date | : 1992-09-08 |
| ISBN | : 9780262740159 |
| Pages | : 206 pages |
| Rating | : 4.7/5 (41 download) |
Download or read book Looking Awry written by Slavoj Zizek and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1992-09-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavoj Žižek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements that are sweeping Eastern Europe, provides a virtuoso reading of Jacques Lacan. Žižek inverts current pedagogical strategies to explain the difficult philosophical underpinnings of the French theoretician and practician who revolutionized our view of psychoanalysis. He approaches Lacan through the motifs and works of contemporary popular culture, from Hitchcock's Vertigo to Stephen King's Pet Sematary, from McCullough's An Indecent Obsession to Romero's Return of the Living Dead—a strategy of "looking awry" that recalls the exhilarating and vital experience of Lacan. Žižek discovers fundamental Lacanian categories the triad Imaginary/Symbolic/Real, the object small a, the opposition of drive and desire, the split subject—at work in horror fiction, in detective thrillers, in romances, in the mass media's perception of ecological crisis, and, above all, in Alfred Hitchcock's films. The playfulness of Žižek's text, however, is entirely different from that associated with the deconstructive approach made famous by Derrida. By clarifying what Lacan is saying as well as what he is not saying, Žižek is uniquely able to distinguish Lacan from the poststructuralists who so often claim him.
| Author | : Alan Mallach |
| Publisher | : UPNE |
| Release Date | : 2007-11-30 |
| ISBN | : 9781555536831 |
| Pages | : 516 pages |
| Rating | : 4.5/5 (368 download) |
Download or read book The Autumn of Italian Opera written by Alan Mallach and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study of the last great era of Italian opera
| Author | : Paul Coates |
| Publisher | : CUP Archive |
| Release Date | : 1994-03-25 |
| ISBN | : 9780521444729 |
| Pages | : 234 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (447 download) |
Download or read book Film at the Intersection of High and Mass Culture written by Paul Coates and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1994-03-25 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the interaction between high and low art in Hollywood and European Cinema.
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| Release Date | : 1964 |
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| Pages | : 0 pages |
| Rating | : 4.:/5 (215 download) |
Download or read book A year of living dangerously (Tahun "Vivere Pericoloso") written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
| Author | : Serena Formica |
| Publisher | : Intellect Books |
| Release Date | : 2012-01-01 |
| ISBN | : 1841507679 |
| Pages | : 214 pages |
| Rating | : 4.8/5 (415 download) |
Download or read book Peter Weir written by Serena Formica and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cinematic output of Australian director Peter Weir has garnered numerous awards and widespread critical acclaim – from his early short films of the 1970s to the Hollywood hits he’s helmed since 1985, including the likes of Witness, Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show and Master and Commander. Drawing on contemporary concepts from transnational cinema studies, this book investigates Weir’s entire three-decade career, paying particular attention to his journey from his native Sydney, with its largely auteur-driven national cinema, to the multimillion-dollar Hollywood film industry with its many genre conventions. Along the way, the author explores a host of questions accompanying this move, including Weir’s status as a transnational filmmaker and a more generalized discussion of the critically controversial idea of the auteur. Rounding out this volume are interviews with leading Hollywood filmmakers who discuss Weir’s work.
| Author | : Dorothy Kim |
| Publisher | : punctum books |
| Release Date | : 2021 |
| ISBN | : 1953035574 |
| Pages | : 513 pages |
| Rating | : 4.9/5 (53 download) |
Download or read book Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities written by Dorothy Kim and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2021 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities examines the process of history in the narrative of the digital humanities and deconstructs its history as a straight line from the beginnings of humanities computing. By discussing alternatives histories of the digital humanities that address queer gaming, feminist game studies praxis, Cold War military-industrial complex computation, the creation of the environmental humanities, monolingual discontent in DH, the hidden history of DH in English studies, radical media praxis, cultural studies and DH, indigenous futurities, Pacific Rim post-colonial DH, the issue of scale and DH, the radical, indigenous, feminist histories of the digital database, and the possibilities for an antifascist DH, this collection hopes to re-set discussions of the DH straight, white origin myths. Thus, this collection hopes to reexamine the silences in such a straight and white masculinist history and how power comes into play to shape this straight, white DH narrative."--Page 4 of cover
