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Animation (Cinematography) --- Animation (Cinematography). --- AVANT-GARDE (ESTHETIQUE) --- CINEMA --- ETATS-UNIS --- U.S.

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film --- filmgeschiedenis --- animatie --- twintigste eeuw --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- populaire cultuur --- avant-garde --- Hollywood --- experimentele film --- abstractie --- Richter Hans --- Ruttman Walter --- Vertov Dziga --- Disney Walt --- Eisenstein Sergei --- Riefenstahl Leni --- Benjamin Walter --- Kracauer Siegfried --- 791.46 --- Film

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This book provides a history of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), a large Britain- based chemical firm which was a major industrial player in the twentieth century. Once a model for Britain’s industrial reach and dominance, ICI collapsed in the mid-2000s, with some still profitable elements sold off to other chemical firms. The book focuses on the firm’s origin site in the Northeast of England, around Middlesbrough, engaging the remnants of the company magazine, oral histories and social media posts, and material artifacts in the world, to relate a history of the social, environmental, cultural and imaginative and bodily impact of the presence (and then absence) of ICI. This unique work is open to coincidence and speculation, drawing on science fictional and urban myth narratives which emanate from the area. Through the lens of global narratives of industrial and philosophical innovation, it inquires into uncommon and diverse themes, such as the manufacture of Quorn, the place of photographic mediation of the factory, and industrial disease. Setting out from a context of heavy industry and material processing, the book seeks to stimulate poetic and creative thinking around the ways in which people’s lives were enmeshed with synthetic chemicals and the dreams that seemed to ooze and seep from them as by-products. Esther Leslie is Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck, University of London in the UK, where she is Co-director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and accreddited as a Senior Fellow of the HEA.

Great Britain --- Labor. --- History. --- Human ecology --- Science --- Technology. --- Cities and towns --- History of Britain and Ireland. --- Labor History. --- Environmental History. --- History of Science. --- History of Technology. --- Urban History. --- Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- Environmental history --- Labor and laboring classes --- Manpower --- Work --- Working class

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"Critic, essayist, translator, philosopher: Walter Benjamin maintains his position today as one of the twentieth century's most influential intellectuals. His work stimulates a profusion of responses in the form of novels, operas, films and artworks, as well as a never-abating production of academic texts. In this new biography, Esther Leslie uses the recently published entirety of Benjamin's correspondence as well as his numerous diaries and autobiographical Works in order to provide a meticulous and intimate account of his circumstances and thoughts. She sets his life in the context of his middle-class upbringing; explores the social, political and economic upheaval in Germany before and after World War One; and recounts Benjamin's eccentric love of toys, pop-up and lift-the-flap books, travel and ships. Seamlessly interweaving biographical details with an accessible yet concentrated account of Benjamin's intellectual development, Leslie draws a colourful portrait of a capacious intellect trapped in increasingly hostile circumstances." "Following Benjamin to Capri, Ibiza, Riga, Moscow, Paris and finally the Spanish border, where he dies while attempting to escape the Nazi occupation of France, Leslie challenges the populist depiction of the intellectual as a tragic and lonely figure, and restores the subject to his proper place as an artistic combatant and a relisher of experience."--Jacket.

Philosophers --- Benjamin, Walter --- Germany

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77.01 --- fotografie --- fotografietheorie --- negentiende eeuw --- twintigste eeuw --- fotografiegeschiedenis --- 77.01 Fotografie--Semiotiek van de fotografie. Theorie --- Fotografie--Semiotiek van de fotografie. Theorie --- Aesthetics of art --- Photography --- photography [process] --- aesthetics