Film music a history / by Wierzbicki, James Eugene

Table of Contents: “…The long advent of sound, 1894-1926 ; Vitaphone and movietone, 1926-8 ; Hollywood's early sound films, 1928-33 -- Music in the "classical-style" Hollywood film (1933-60) ; The "golden age" of film music, 1933-49 ; Postwar innovations and the strugge for survival, 1949-58 -- Film music in the post-classic period (1958-2008). A "new wave" of film music, 1958-1978 ; Eclecticism, 1978-2001 ; Epilogue, 2001-8.…”
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Critical practices in international theory selected essays / by Der Derian, James

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Mediating estrangement : a theory for diplomacy -- Arms, hostages, and the importance of shredding in earnest : reading the national security culture (II) -- The (s)pace of international relations : simulation, surveillance, and speed -- Narco-terrorism at home and abroad -- The terrorist discourse : signs, states, and systems of global political violence -- S/N : international theory, Balkanisation and the new world order -- Cyberwar, video games, and the Gulf War syndrome -- ACT IV : fathers (and sons), mother courage (and her children), and the dog, the cave, and the beef -- The value of security : Hobbes, Marx, Nietzsche and Baudrillard -- The CIA, Hollywood, and sovereign conspiracies -- Great men, monumental history, and not-so-grand theory: a meta-review of Henry Kissinger's Diplomacy -- Post-theory : the eternal return of ethics in international relations -- Cyber-deterrence -- Global swarming, virtual security, and Bosnia -- The simulation triangle : in the simulated battlefields of tomorrow, war has more in common with Disneyworld than the Pentagon -- Virtuous war and Hollywood : the Pentagon wants what Hollywood's got -- Virtuous war/virtual theory -- The illusion of a grand strategy -- In terrorem : before and after 9/11 -- The question of information technology in international relations -- Hedley Bull and the case for a post-classical approach.…”
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