Derived from the XXL monograph which saw TASCHEN undertake a comprehensive photographic survey of the artist's oeuvre, this compact edition explores Bruegel's 40 paintings through exceptional details and reproductions. We discover how, using his own pictorial language in scenes teeming with minutiae, Bruegel captured the theater of life.
Discover the complete works of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the most significant artist of Flemish Renaissance painting. This XL monograph gathers all 40 paintings, 65 drawings, and 89 engravings--each piece a unique witness to both the religious mores and the close-knit folk culture of Bruegel's time.
So oft totgesagt wurde das Kino wohl noch nie. Tatsächlich hat sich in der Dekade der 2010er-Jahre viel verändert – sowohl, wie wir Filme sehen, als auch, wie wir uns selbst sehen. Soziale Medien und das Internet prägten eine neue Selbst- und Welterfahrung. Streaming-Dienste vervielfachten die Möglichkeiten des Sehens , Videospiele lockten mit eigenen Welten: Die große Leinwand bekam ernsthafte Konkurrenz . Schon bevor die gewohnten Zeitfenster zwischen Kinostart und Zweitverwertung immer enger wurden, sah sich der Film oftmals zu bloßem „Content“ degradiert, anzuklicken auf bunten Bildschirmkacheln. Bleiben dem Kino nur noch Starkult, Blockbuster und computeranimierte Schauwerte? Ganz im Gegenteil – schon ein erster Blick in unsere Anthologie zeigt ein überraschend vielfältiges, dynamisches und vor allem quicklebendiges Kino. Das letzte Jahrzehnt war filmisch alles andere als langweilig, eintönig und dem Aussterben geweiht. Und ehrlich: Würden Sie all die hier versammelten Filme gerne nur im Streaming sehen? Das Kino bleibt ein Sehnsuchtsort. Unser Band lässt Sie seinen starken Atem spüren. Jeder der 100 wichtigsten Filme der Dekade wird von dem Herausgeber Jürgen Müller und seinem Team von AutorInnen ausführlich erläutert und mit einer Fülle von Bildmaterial illustriert. Der Band umfasst Biografien von Schauspielern und Regisseuren, Einspielergebnisse, Hintergrundinformationen sowie eine ausführliche Liste der Oscar®-Gewinner von 2012 bis 2021 . Quentin Tarantinos Meisterwerk Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood (2019) wird für Jürgen Müller und Philipp Bühler in ihrer ausführlichen Einleitung zur perfekten Metapher für die Widersprüche und Ambivalenzen des heutigen Kinos. Dieser Band ist ein neuer Meilenstein für alle Cineasten und Filmliebhaber!
The 1970s: that magical era betwixt the swinging 60s and the decadent 80s, the epoch of leisure suits and Afros, the age of disco music and platform shoes. As war raged on in Vietnam and the cold war continued to escalate, Hollywood began to heat up, recovering from its commercial crisis with box-office successes such as Star Wars, Jaws, The Exorcist, and The Godfather. Thanks to directors like Spielberg and Lucas, American cinema gave birth to a new phenomenon: the blockbuster. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, while the Nouvelle Vague died out in France, its influence extended to Germany, where the New German Cinema of Fassbinder, Wenders, and Herzog had its heyday. The sexual revolution made its way to the silver screen (cautiously in the US, more freely in Europe) most notably in Bertolucci's steamy, scandalous Last Tango in Paris. Amidst all this came a wave of nostalgic films (The Sting, American Graffiti) and Vietnam pictures (Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter), the rise of the anti-hero (Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman), and the prestigious short-lived genre, blaxploitation.140 A-Z film entries include:- Synopsis- Film stills and production photos- Cast/crew listings- Box office figures- Trivia- Useful information on technical stuff- Actor and director biosPlus: a complete Academy Awards list for the decade
The 40s marked a pivotal decade for cinema, characterized by a blend of propaganda and escapist entertainment amidst global conflict. As directors sought to engage audiences during the pre-television era, a movement towards realism emerged in various countries. Italy's neorealism, exemplified by De Sica's Bicycle Thieves (1948), inspired filmmakers worldwide. In Hollywood, the decade represented an unparalleled creative surge, producing edgy and experimental films. Citizen Kane (1941), Orson Welles's groundbreaking debut, set the stage for the film noir genre, which featured romantic antiheroes and femmes fatales, becoming a defining aspect of cinema for many enthusiasts. The atmospheric black-and-white world of noir showcased stars like Rita Hayworth, Ava Gardner, and Lauren Bacall as timeless icons, while Humphrey Bogart epitomized coolness following his role in The Big Sleep (1945). Concurrently, another genre was reshaping America's identity: the Western. John Ford's films revitalized this genre, with Monument Valley symbolizing the nation's grandeur, and John Wayne emerging as the quintessential figure of the wild frontier. Together, these cinematic movements captured the complexities of the era and left an indelible mark on film history.
Focusing on the transition from one-variable real analysis to complex function theory, this textbook explores classical topics like differential and integral calculus through a complex lens. It aims for a comprehensive understanding, extending to Runge theorems and the dynamics of entire functions. Each chapter includes brief sections on function theory concepts, offering insights into higher-dimensional analysis and its broader mathematical relevance. The structure allows for parts to be utilized in seminar settings, enhancing its educational value.
The ultimate anthology of cinematic showpieces, in extra-handy format. This careful selection of movie masterworks sets noir alongside new wave, slapstick alongside tragedy in a far-reaching, infinitely inspiring guide to the jewels of 20th-century filmmaking.
The research presented in this book discusses how to efficiently retrieve track and trace information for an item of interest that took a certain path through a complex network of manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, and consumers. To this end, a super-ordinate system called „Discovery Service“ is designed that has to handle large amounts of data, high insert-rates, and a high number of queries that are submitted to the discovery service. An example that is used throughout this book is the European pharmaceutical supply chain, which faces the challenge that more and more counterfeit medicinal products are being introduced. Between October and December 2008, more than 34 million fake drug pills were detected at customs control at the borders of the European Union. These fake drugs can put lives in danger as they were supposed to fight cancer, take effect as painkiller or antibiotics, among others. The concepts described in this book can be adopted for supply chain management use cases other than track and trace, such as recall, supply chain optimization, or supply chain analytics.
From horror to musical, noir to slapstick, adventure to tragedy and western to new wave, all genres are represented in this wide-ranging and fun compendium.
Uncertainty is the greatest risk management faces, but it also provides enormous opportunities for value creation. Basing strategic decisions on theoretically rigorous analysis is therefore vital to long-term corporate success in an uncertain and changing marketplace. The real option approach is the tool to integrate the values of flexibility and uncertainty into capital budgeting. Jürgen Müller applies the real option approach to service industries, in this case to retail banking; he provides empirical support for the approach and simplifies the applicability of real option concepts in corporate practice. Based on a case study of the Polish retail banking market, the author develops and illustrates a simplified approach to real option valuation based on the binomial option pricing model.