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Smith-Obolensky Media is an international media boutique featuring the work by award-winning author Ivan Obolensky. His gothic mystery, Eye of the Moon, sold over ten thousand copies and the sequel is well underway for release next year. The Latin American Spanish literary translation has been accepted into the Librería Nacional chain, the largest in Colombia, for a thousand paperbacks to be sold in their stores (including those in three international airports). We are magicmakers. How many of us have changed from a simple line we once read, or a film we saw at a crossroads moment? The art of storytelling, in all its facets, is something we celebrate. In this spirit, we accept projects on a limited basis and focus on one author at a time, so we can fully present their works.
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The Arts

March 2005

French cinema in the 1970s

The echoes of May

by Alison Smith

This book re-examines French cinema of the 1970s. It focuses on the debates which shook French cinema, and the calls for film-makers to rethink their manner of filming, subject matter and ideals in the immediate aftermath of the student revolution of May 1968. Alison Smith examines the effect of this re-thinking across the spectrum of French production, the rise of new genres and re-formulation of older ones. Chapters investigate political thrillers, historical films, new naturalism and Utopian fantasies, dealing with a wide variety of films. A particular concern is the extent to which film-makers' ideas and intentions are contained in or contradicted by their finished work, and the gradual change in these ideas over the decade. The final chapter is a detailed study of two directors who were deeply involved in the debates and events of the 70s, William Klein and Alain Tanner, here taken as exemplary spokesmen for those changing debates as their echoes reached the cinema. ;

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The Arts

January 2019

French cinema in the 1970s

The echoes of May

by Alison Smith

This book re-examines French cinema of the 1970s. It focuses on the debates which shook French cinema, and the calls for film-makers to rethink their manner of filming, subject matter and ideals in the immediate aftermath of the student revolution of May 1968. Alison Smith examines the effect of this re-thinking across the spectrum of French production, the rise of new genres and re-formulation of older ones. Chapters investigate political thrillers, historical films, new naturalism and Utopian fantasies, dealing with a wide variety of films. A particular concern is the extent to which film-makers' ideas and intentions are contained in or contradicted by their finished work, and the gradual change in these ideas over the decade. The final chapter is a detailed study of two directors who were deeply involved in the debates and events of the 70s, William Klein and Alain Tanner, here taken as exemplary spokesmen for those changing debates as their echoes reached the cinema.

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The Arts

January 2019

Agnes Varda

by Alison Smith

The first introduction in English devoted wholly to Varda and aimed at a general and student audience. Places Varda's major films in the context of her whole oeuvre and follows the development of important themes across her work.

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May 1980

Moskauer Tagebuch

by Walter Benjamin, Gary Smith, Gary Smith, Gershom Scholem

Am 4. Dezember 1926 reiste Walter Benjamin nach Moskau. Das Tagebuch seines Aufenthaltes vom 6. Dezember 1926 bis zum 1. Februar 1927 ist zu einer Zeit geschrieben, in der Stalin nicht nur Trotzki und die »Opposition« im Kampf um die Nachfolge Lenins ausschaltet, sondern auch der revolutionären russischen Kunst, ihren experimentellen Neuerungen in Theater und Literatur ein Ende setzt. Mit wichtigen Exponenten dieser revolutionären Ästhetik trifft Benjamin noch zusammen. Wenig erfolgreich sind die Kontakte mit offiziellen Stellen: Benjamins für die neue Große Sowjet-Enzyklopädie geschriebenes Exposé des Goethe-Artikels wird abgelehnt. Mehr noch als ein kulturpolitisches Kaleidoskop und mehr auch noch als eine physiognomische Vergegenwärtigung der Stadt Moskau ist Benjamins Tagebuch ein herausragendes persönliches Dokument – »wohl das rücksichtsloseste und offenherzigste«, wie Scholem schrieb. Es hält auf bedrückende Weise Benjamins ebenso beharrliche wie vergebliche Bemühungen um Asja Lacis fest. Schließlich zieht sich durch das Tagebuch ein Element, in dem Kultur-Politik und Biographie sich unmittelbar berühren: Benjamins ausführliche Erwägungen für und gegen den Eintritt in die Kommunistische Partei.

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January 1989

Auf schönen Beinen in den Tod

by Smith, Alison

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Literature & Literary Studies

June 2017

Victorian demons

Medicine, masculinity, and the Gothic at the fin-de-siècle

by Andrew Smith

Victorian demons provides the first extensive exploration of largely middle-class masculinities in crisis at the fin de siècle. It analyses how ostensibly controlling models of masculinity became demonised in a variety of literary and medical contexts, revealing the period to be much more ideologically complex than has hitherto been understood, and makes a significant contribution to Gothic scholarship. Andrew Smith demonstrates how a Gothic language of monstrosity, drawn from narratives such as 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' and 'Dracula', increasingly influenced a range of medical and cultural contexts, destabilising these apparently dominant masculine scripts. He provides a coherent analysis of a range of examples relating to masculinity drawn from literary, medical, legal and sociological contexts, including Joseph Merrick ('The Elephant Man'), the Whitechapel murders of 1888, Sherlock Holmes's London, the writings and trials of Oscar Wilde, theories of degeneration and medical textbooks on syphilis.

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Literature & Literary Studies

September 2011

Literature and Agency in English Fiction Reading

by Adam Reed, Alexander Smith

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Humanities & Social Sciences

November 2022

The religion of Orange politics

by Joseph Webster, Alexander Smith

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Film theory & criticism

December 2000

100 years of European cinema

Entertainment or ideology?

by Diana Holmes, Alison Smith

Cinema provides entertainment, but it also communicates a set of values, a vision of the world or an ideology. From its beginnings more than a century ago, European cinema has dealt with the tension between these two functions in a variety of ways: at the extremes, dictatorial regimes have sweetened the pill of ideology with the sugar of entertainment. Meanwhile, spectators have persisted in seeking out, above all, the pleasure film can provide. Now available again in paperback, this book explores the complex relationship between entertainment, ideology and audiences in European film, through studies that range from the Stalinist musicals of the 1930s, to cinematic representations of masculinity under Franco, to recent French films and their Hollywood remakes. Diverse and entertaining, this study is addressed to students of film - especially French, German, Russian or Spanish - and to those readers and academics interested in both the history of cinema and in European culture.

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The Arts

January 2019

Jacques Rivette

by Douglas Morrey, Alison Smith

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September 2020

Das Gin-Buch

by David T. Smith, Stuart Patience, Susanne Hornfeck

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1988

Das Haupt der Medusa

Phantastische Erzählungen

by Clark A Smith, Kalju Kirde, Friedrich Polakovics

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Humanities & Social Sciences

August 2023

Made in France

Societal structures and political work

by Andy Smith

How has French society been made, by whom and why? And how in turn has it influenced the French? This book sets out the institutionalized rules and norms that continue to structure France, together with the 'political work' that has recently changed or reproduced these power relations. Exploring a range of age groups and types of social activity, including work, business, entertainment, political mobilizations and retirement, Made in France examines where significant change has occurred over the last four decades. Smith argues that while transformation has occurred in France's financial and education sectors, only relatively marginal shifts have occurred elsewhere in French society. To explain this pattern of continuity and isolated change, the book strongly nuances claims that neo-liberalism, globalization or a rise in populism have been its causes. References to these trends have impacted upon French politics to varying extents, Smith argues; however, France continues to be dominated by issues which are specific to the country and linked to its deep societal structures and history. Smith provides a comprehensive account of French society and politics and in doing so proposes an insightful analytical framework applicable to the comparative analysis of other nations.

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April 2019

Glück am Morgen

Roman

by Betty Smith, Eike Schönfeld

Annie liebt Carl. Und Carl liebt Annie. Und so verlässt die Achtzehnjährige heimlich die Wohnung ihrer Mutter in Brooklyn und zieht in die kleine Universitätsstadt im Mittleren Westen, wo Carl Jura studiert. Sie lassen sich gegen den Willen ihrer Eltern trauen und genießen das Glück, endlich beisammen zu sein, auch wenn der Alltag Schatten wirft: Sie müssen mit wenig zurechtkommen, Carl hat kaum Zeit, Annie dafür umso mehr. Doch das Leben meint es gut mit ihnen, Annie findet neue Freunde, Carl bessere Nebenjobs, Annie besucht klammheimlich Literaturseminare und hat erste kleine Erfolge als Schriftstellerin. Und obwohl sie wenig besitzen, fühlen sie sich reich, denn sie wissen, worauf es wirklich ankommt: Sie haben einander. Nachdem Betty Smith uns in Ein Baum wächst in Brooklyn mit der Geschichte der kleinen Francie verzaubert hat, beglückt sie uns nun mit einem wunderbar leichten Roman über das große Glück, zu lieben und geliebt zu werden.

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The Arts

September 2013

Dickens and the dream of cinema

by Grahame Smith

An original blending of literary and film studies which seeks to dissolve barriers between the two disciplines. Offers a new reading of Dickens from the perspective of film, technology and visuality. Proposes a new reading of the emergence of film in the light of social and industrial transformations. Suggests that Dickens was one of the forces which contributed to the appearance of film towards the end of the nineteenth century. ;

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Humanities & Social Sciences

April 2023

The fall and rise of the English upper class

Houses, kinship and capital since 1945

by Daniel R. Smith

The fall and rise of the English upper class explores the role traditionalist worldviews, articulated by members of the historic upper-class, have played in British society in the shadow of her imperial and economic decline in the twentieth century. Situating these traditionalist visions alongside Britain's post-Brexit fantasies of global economic resurgence and a socio-cultural return to a green and pleasant land, Smith examines Britain's Establishment institutions, the estates of her landed gentry and aristocracy, through to an appetite for nostalgic products represented with pastoral or pre-modern symbolism. It is demonstrated that these institutions and pursuits play a central role in situating social, cultural and political belonging. Crucially these institutions and pursuits rely upon a form of membership which is grounded in a kinship idiom centred upon inheritance and descent: who inherits the houses of privilege, inherits England.

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Literature & Literary Studies

April 2018

Samuel Richardson and the theory of tragedy

by James Smith

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January 2015

Der schimmernde Feenflügel

Hanna und die magischen Tiere (3)

by Taylor-Smith, Claire / Illustriert von Alvarez, Lorena; Übersetzt von Brauner, Anne

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June 2015

Ein Regenbogen für die kleine Meerjungfrau

Hanna und die magischen Tiere (4)

by Taylor-Smith, Claire / Illustriert von Alvarez, Lorena; Übersetzt von Brauner, Anne

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April 2014

Eine zügellose Lady

Erotischer Roman

by Smith, Jan

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Entertainment or ideology?

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Phantastische Erzählungen

by Clark A Smith, Kalju Kirde, Friedrich Polakovics

Societal structures and political work

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Roman

by Betty Smith, Eike Schönfeld

by Grahame Smith

Houses, kinship and capital since 1945

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Hanna und die magischen Tiere (3)

by Taylor-Smith, Claire / Illustriert von Alvarez, Lorena; Übersetzt von Brauner, Anne

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