An examination of experimental cinema and media art from the Arabic-speaking world that explores filmmakers' creative and philosophical inventiveness in trying times.In this book, Laura Marks examines one of the world's most impressive, and affecting, bodies of independent and experimental cinema from the last twenty-five years: film and video works from the Arabic-speaking world. Some of these works' creative strategies are shared by filmmakers around the world; o...

In The Fold, Laura U. Marks offers a practical philosophy and aesthetic theory for living in an infinitely connected cosmos. Drawing on the theories of Leibniz, Glissant, Deleuze, and theoretical physicist David Bohm—who each conceive of the universe as being folded in on itself in myriad ways—Marks contends that the folds of the cosmos are entirely constituted of living beings. From humans to sandwiches to software to stars, every entity is alive and occupies its own private encl...

Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working between cultures use cinema, a visual medium, to transmit that physical sense of place and culture? In The Skin of the Film Laura U. Marks offers an answer, building on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and others to explain how and why intercultural cinema represents embodied experience in a ...

Madame Moulin hat sich das Schlüsselbein gebrochen. Die Ballettschule wird vorübergehend geschlossen. Laura und Kim machen sich große Sorgen. Sie wollen doch tanzen! Eine Vertretung muss her, die die Tanzstunden übernimmt. Madame Moulin bittet einen befreundeten Tänzer um Hilfe. Aber ein Mann als Ballettlehrer?

Laura tanzt inzwischen in der Anfängerklasse bei Madame Moulin. Da besucht eine Primaballerina aus Sankt Petersburg die Ballettschule. Das russische Ballett ist so ganz anders als das, was Laura bisher kennt - aber genauso aufregend und faszinierend.

As if catching murders wasn't hard enough, now Amy and Ambrose have to work with the Vampire Court to close their case.When an open and shut case crosses the Paranormal Police Department's desk, Amy is a little disappointed that her consultant talents aren't needed.But after a shocking discovery leads to Amy and Ambrose working closely with a liaison from the Vampire Court, they uncover a conspiracy that stretches far further than they ever imagined.Ca...

Jaden was dead... Until Piper strode into his life.Disgraced from shifter black ops, Jaden struggles to find purpose. Especially after his battle buddy drops the perfect business endeavor he never wanted in his lap, and the first job goes awry. At the worst possible moment, his mate enters his life like a wrecking ball.Despite founding Mateless Mates for human females, Piper feels like she'll never find her fated mate. Almost at her wit's end, she can't com...

D'Kota lost it all… until Yani fell into his arms.I gave everything I had. From the moment I signed my name on that piece of paper, I knew I'd die serving my country… and my fellow shifters. My father, my grandfather, and so on through my documented ancestry, the first male son always upheld the honor of the family by serving.Except, I came home in pieces. As I lay there, a broken male, my family said I should have died. Exiled from the Pride. Years of phys...

He rejected her before the whole pack.Lyra Thorne has lived her whole life under a stain she did not earn. Daughter of a disgraced bloodline, healer's assistant, and scent-reader no one dares trust too much, she knows exactly what Ravenmoor thinks of her. Useful. Tolerated. Never truly wanted.Then the impossible happens. The Mad King Alpha scents her as his mate.Kael Morvane is feared across the Dominion for his savage rule, his cursed blood, and the darkness people...

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e-artnow presents to you the greatest Christmas novels, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) Silent Night The Night After Christmas The Child Born at Bethlehem The Adoration of the Shepherds The Visit of the Wise Men As J...

The tight-knit residents of Blue Moon Mountain, nestled high in the Colorado Mountains, form an interconnected community of those living off the land, stunned by the beauty and isolation all around them. So when, at the onset of winter, the town veterinarian commits a violent act, the repercussions of that tragedy will be felt all across the mountainside, upending their lives and causing their paths to twist and collide in unexpected ways.The housecleaner rediscovering her sexual a...