A Page of Madness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Page of Madness write by Aaron Gerow. This book was released on 2016-02-02. A Page of Madness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kinugasa Teinosuke’s 1926 film A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeiji) is celebrated as one of the masterpieces of silent cinema. It was an independently produced, experimental, avant-garde work from Japan whose brilliant use of cinematic technique was equal to if not superior to that of contemporary European cinema. Those studying Japan, focusing on the central involvement of such writers as Yokomitsu Riichi and the Nobel Prize winner Kawabata Yasunari, have seen it as a pillar of the close relationship in the Taisho era between film and artistic modernism, as well as a marker of the uniqueness of prewar Japanese film culture. But is this film really what it seems to be? Aaron Gerow brings meticulous research to the film’s production, distribution, exhibition, and reception and closely analyzes the film’s shooting script and shooting notes, which were recently made available. He draws a new picture of this complex work, revealing a film divided between experiment and convention, modernism and melodrama, the image and the word, cinema and literature, conflicts that play out in the story and structure of the film and its context. A Page of Madness, a film fundamentally about differing perceptions and conflicting worlds, was received at the time in different versions and with varying interpretations, and ironically, the film that exists today is not in fact the one originally released. Including a detailed analysis of the film and translations of contemporary reviews and shooting notes for scenes missing from the current print, Gerow’s book offers provocative insight into the fascinating film A Page of Madness was—and still is—and into the struggles over this work that tried to articulate the place of cinema in Japanese society and modernity.
At the Mountains of Madness
At the Mountains of Madness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook At the Mountains of Madness write by H. P. Lovecraft. This book was released on 2016-06-16. At the Mountains of Madness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Initially rejected by Lovecraft's publisher, 'At The Mountains of Madness' is now considered a classic of the horror genre. The disturbing, nightmarish story of a journey through Antarctica and a discovery of secrets hidden in a frozen mountain range has influenced writers and film-makers for decades.
The Book of Madness
The Book of Madness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book of Madness write by Levent Senyurek. This book was released on 2009. The Book of Madness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written for the discerning science fiction reader, the book races from the creation to apocalypse and from the ordinary to utter insanity, while the fire smoldering between the words may indeed set preconceptions alight. He who doesn't lose himself doesn't understand or he who understands loses himself. Translated seamlessly by English writer and translator Feyza Howell.
A Curious Madness
A Curious Madness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Curious Madness write by Eric Jaffe. This book was released on 2014-01-14. A Curious Madness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beyond 'all vestiges of doubt,' concluded a classified American intelligence report, 'Okawa moved in the best circles of nationalist intrigue.' Okawa's guilt as a conspirator appeared straightforward. But on the first day of the Tokyo trial, he made headlines around the world by slapping star defendant and wartime prime minister Tojo Hideki on the head. Had Okawa lost his sanity? Or was he faking madness to avoid a grim punishment? A U.S. Army psychiatrist stationed in occupied Japan, Major Daniel Jaffe--the author's grandfather--was assigned to determine Okawa's ability to stand trial, and thus his fate. Jaffe was no stranger to madness. He had seen it his whole life: in his mother, as a boy in Brooklyn; in soldiers, on the battlefields of Europe. Now his seasoned eye faced the ultimate test. If Jaffe deemed Okawa sane, the war crimes suspect might be hanged.
The Faber Book of Madness
The Faber Book of Madness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Faber Book of Madness write by Roy Porter. This book was released on 1991. The Faber Book of Madness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is true that little is known about the mind and for that matter the mind in the state of derangement. This book does not unlock the secrets of either but it does give the reader a look into the different states and perhaps possible causes that lead to insanity. The author provides a collaboration of letters taken from history that describes the point of view of the patient and their families as well as the physicians who dealt with the patients.
