The fact that the tagline culminates in the emboldening of‘again’highlights therepetitionofdeath,whichprovidesthemotionpicture’sforwardmomentum.Inthefilm, protagonist and quintessential final girl, Teresa “Tree” Gelbman finds herselfcaptured in a Groundhog Day-esque loop in which she keeps being murdered, onherbirthday(Mondaythe18th),onlytowakeupagainthemorningofthatverysameday.The es…
How Divine Images Became Art tells the story of the parallel ‘discovery’ of Russian medieval art and of the Italian ‘primitives’ at the beginning of the twentieth century. While these two developments are well-known, they are usually studied in isolation. Tarasov’s study has the great merit of showing the connection between the art world in Russia and the West, and its impact in the c…
Since the turn of the 21st century, countless literary endeavors by 'new Germans' have entered the spotlight of academic research. Yet 'minority writing', with its distinctive renegotiation of traditional concepts of cultural identity, is far from a recent phenomenon in German literature. A hundred years previously, the intense involvement of German-Jewish intellectuals in cultural and politica…
How Divine Images Became Art tells the story of the parallel ‘discovery’ of Russian medieval art and of the Italian ‘primitives’ at the beginning of the twentieth century. While these two developments are well-known, they are usually studied in isolation. Tarasov’s study has the great merit of showing the connection between the art world in Russia and the West, and its impact in the c…
Introducing Italian culture and people through the medium of the language used today, Basic Italian: A Grammar and Workbook provides readers with the basic tools to express themselves in a wide variety of situations. Presenting twenty-three individual grammar points in lively and realistic contexts, Basic Italian is an accessible reference grammar with related exercises in one, easy to follo…
April 2020. It had begun as little more than a flicker on a news feed, a tiny spark in a media agenda that was already crackling with the electric charge of a world increasingly divided. But as the Covid-19 crisis began to take hold, with every new outbreak confirming its deadly horror, two opposing phenomena very quickly began to emerge. The first was a kind of global solidarity in…
Stella mendorong para wanita muda untuk menemukan empat kunci utama mencapai kehidupan yang bahagia. Keempat kunci tersebut adalah success (kesuksesan), transformation (transformasi), achievement (pencapaian), dan recognition (penghargaan). Keempatnya akan membawa kita menuju pemahaman atas makna hidup yang sebenarnya. Kebahagiaan Yang Kutahu merupakan saripati dari pengalaman hidup Stella Chin…