Blowup, says Armando Prats, is one of the necessary movies. It is a "living expression of the transition into the new narrative domains" in terms of man's "new vision of himself as a narrative creature in a world whose very essense is cinematic narration." Prats' work on the new humanism inherent in postwar filmmaking is a rewarding work with implications for the fields of esthetics and axiology as well as film criticism. In his analyses of four films by three directors—Fellini's ...

When the Vietnam War punctured the myth of American military invincibility, Hollywood needed a new kind of war movie. The familiar triumphal narrative was relegated to history and, with it, the heroic legacy that had passed from one generation to the next for more than two hundred years.How Hollywood helped create and instill the American myth of heroic continuity, and how films revised that myth after the Vietnam War, is what Armando José Prats explores in Hollywood’s Imperial...

Cet ouvrage présente des sujets à la fois théoriques et pratiques : méthodes de prédiction et de modélisation numériques des mouvements de la neige, prévision des risques d'avalanches, méthodes d'évaluation des actions. Les effets sur les constructions sont abordés par référence aux derniers développements en matière de normalisation et de projets d'ouvrages paravalanches.