The Jeweled Menagerie: A World of Animals in Gems by Suzanne Tennenbaum, ISBN 0500510490
The desire to depict animals in art has always been strong, and the early history of jewelry, from Celtic brooches to Renaissance pendants, shows abundant examples of its appeal. The Jeweled Menagerie begins by painting a picture of this historical context, but its unifying focus is the great efflorescence of jewelry design in the modern period.
It was not until the nineteenth century, with the growth of a middle class eager to show off their recently acquired wealth, that a whole new group of designers and manufacturers, mainly in France, sought to satisfy the appetite for jewels of all types made of precious metals, precious or semiprecious gems, and enamel. There was a revival of Egyptian and Etruscan styles in which animals of all sorts were incorporated: birds, mammals, insects, reptiles, and fish. The discovery of Japanese crafts also had an influence on the jewels that were created during the century. Prominent jewelry houses, such as Fontenay, Falize, Faberge, and Tiffany & Co., all created a spectacular array of animal jewels that are much prized today.
The new design developments from the turn of the century and through the whole of the twentieth -- Art Nouveau and Art Deco before the Second World War, but also a plethora of forms in the decades since -- contributed impressive animal jewelry, from Lalique's intricate insects to Cartier's panthers to the sophisticated imagery of Verdura.
Here for the first time the contents of this "jeweled menagerie" are examined in detail, showing the great imagination and skill that have gone into the fashioning of these precious objects. They exhibit not only meticulous craftsmanship, but grace, humor, and refinement. All lovers offine jewelry will be intrigued by the many examples of a demanding art, displayed lavishly here in color.
Electronic Video Systems
Intended for courses in television, VCR repair, or for advanced offerings in analog communications, this book provides readers with a practical introduction to video systems, beginning with the most obvious difference between radio and television and proceeding through computer monitors, VCRs, camcorders, cable TV, and high-definition television (HDTV).
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Television Criticism presents an original treatment of television criticism with a foundational approach to the nature of criticism, an understanding of the business of television, production background in creating television style, in-depth chapters on storytelling and narrative theories and television genres, the interaction of rhetoric and cultural studies theories, representation, and postmodernism. It presents new and comprehensive guidelines for analysis and criticism, and it has a sample critique of the television program CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
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Entertaining Politics: New Political Television and Civic Culture
Contrary to arguments that television is detrimental to democracy, Entertaining Politics explores the role of new political television in shaping a changing civic culture. Jeffrey P. Jones shows how viewers understand and make use of the increasingly blurred lines between 'serious' and 'entertainment' programming and argues that alarmist critics who predict the end of politics in the age of television have misconstrued the role of the medium and the commitment of audiences to both TV and public life.
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Our Space, Our Place: Women in the Worlds of Science Fiction Television
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Revolution Televised: Prime Time & the Struggle for Black Power
After a decade-long hiatus, African-Americans once again began appearing regularly on television in the 1960s. This book deftly illustrates how black television artists operated within the constraints of the television industry to resist and ultimately shape the mass media's portrayal of African-American life.
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Satellite Realms: Transnational Television, Globalization and the Middle East by Naomi Sakr, ISBN 1860646891
In transcending territorial boundaries, satellite television has the potential to liberate viewers from government controls on national media. Why in the Middle East has this potential liberation yet to be fully realized? This book explores the development through the 21st century of cross-border television in the region, exploring issues at the heart of the international political economy of communication.
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Somewhere between heaven and hell lies Third Street House, a Los Angeles halfway home for recovering addicts. Chief among its residents are Franky (Darren Burrows, TV's "Northern Exposure"), Cesar and Joe, three friends whose fragile grip on sobriety faces the ultimate test when Soren Dresjac (Sebastian Roche, TV's "Odyssey 5"), a world-famous rock star, moves in. The burnt-out veteran of twenty-two rehabs, Soren no sooner checks in before he's out on the street, looking for his next fix. But when...
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