This book advances the thesis that memorials are fundamentally rhetorical and cultural forms of expression, that a careful examination of American memorializing discloses the contours of at least three distinct American cultures, and that shifting visual and discursive memorial patterns across time reveal the ascendancy and subordination of these three cultures and their cultural memories. It unveils a mode of human expression that embodies the ethoi and world views of divergent American cultures--each of which has possessed and continues to seek to possess America's hegemonic voice and to become (or remain) the custodian of America's collective memory.

The unveiling of memorializing as a mode of expression proceeds diachronically and synchronically. Diachronically tracing the contours of American memorial traditions from 1630 to the present provides a nearly cinemagraphic representationof the ebb and flow, the movement and moment of cultural transformation and dominance. This demonstrates why the content of public memory at any given moment in a multicultural society depends largely on the needs and inclinations, the values and the norms, the ethos and the world view of the culture that is dominant at that moment. Within this interpretive frame, responses to Lincoln's assassination--considered as a synchronic balance--provide images akin to still photographs of a specific moment and place that deepen our understanding of memorializing. Taken together, these twin focal points reveal a historically embedded cultural struggle that has significant implications for how we interpret cultural conflict in past, present, and future America.

A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema provides the firstcomprehensive scholarly exploration of this unique global cinema.By embracing the interdisciplinary approach of contemporary filmand cultural studies, this collection navigates theoretical debateswhile charting a new course for future research in Hong Kongfilm.Examines Hong Kong cinema within an interdisciplinary context,drawing connections between media, gender, and Asian studies,Asian regional studies, Chinese language and cultural studies,global studies, and critical theoryHighlights the often contentious debates that shape currentthinking about film as a medium and its possible futureInvestigates how changing research on gender, the body, andsexual orientation alter the ways in which we analyze sexualdifference in Hong Kong cinemaCharts how developments in theories of colonialism,postcolonialism, globalization, neoliberalism,  Orientalism,and nationalism transform our understanding of the economics andpolitics of the Hong Kong film industryExplores how the concepts of diaspora, nostalgia, exile, andtrauma offer opportunities to rethink accepted ways ofunderstanding Hong Kong’s popular cinematic genres andstars

A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema provides the firstcomprehensive scholarly exploration of this unique global cinema.By embracing the interdisciplinary approach of contemporary filmand cultural studies, this collection navigates theoretical debateswhile charting a new course for future research in Hong Kongfilm.Examines Hong Kong cinema within an interdisciplinary context,drawing connections between media, gender, and Asian studies,Asian regional studies, Chinese language and cultural studies,global studies, and critical theoryHighlights the often contentious debates that shape currentthinking about film as a medium and its possible futureInvestigates how changing research on gender, the body, andsexual orientation alter the ways in which we analyze sexualdifference in Hong Kong cinemaCharts how developments in theories of colonialism,postcolonialism, globalization, neoliberalism,  Orientalism,and nationalism transform our understanding of the economics andpolitics of the Hong Kong film industryExplores how the concepts of diaspora, nostalgia, exile, andtrauma offer opportunities to rethink accepted ways ofunderstanding Hong Kong’s popular cinematic genres andstars

War-time love story set in Abyssinia, Eritrea and the Yemen 1935-1945. Amedeo Guillet is still alive and living in County Meath, Ireland. Khadija is lost.

This is the story of Amedeo Guillet – an Italian calvary officer who was sent out to Abyssinia as part of Mussolini’s army to establish and command a troupe of 2,000 Spahis – or Arabic calvary. He met and fell in love with Khadija – a beautiful Ethiopian Muslim. Together they held up the British lorries heaving up the mountain road to Asmara and blew up the important Ponte Aosta. Eventually captured, Amedeo went on the run disguised as an Arab, eventually making it to Yemen, only to be thrown in jail.

This is a rare view of the Second World War from an Italian perpective; particularly valuable are the chapters that tell the story of Italian resistance to the Nazis, and their subsequent withdrawal from Italy in 1943.

There are few stories more cinemagraphic than this – Fascist Italy, his early years in Ethiopia commanding the Cossack-like Spahis, the brutal Abyssinian war waged by the Duce, Italian and British colonial rivalry; Amedeo led the last ever cavalry charge the British army faced (Eritrea 1941 – they were massacred by tanks and sub-machine guns), defeat and guerrilla warfare against the British; then flight, disguised as an Arab, imprisonment in the Yemen and a great love lost as he leaves his beloved Khadija behind to face her future alone and returns to Italy, to his fiancée and a career as a distinguished Italian diplomat and Arabist.

Amedeo is still alive and living in County Meath, Ireland. Sebastian O’Kelly is a journalist for the Mail and Telegraph and has Amedeo’s full co-operation in writing this book.

This is a very valuable and absolutely stunning story, beautifully told by O’Kelly.

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平面設計說來簡單，但要依不同版面尺寸及使用需求做出適合的作品可不容易，平面海報、Facebook 封面相片 & 大頭貼、普普風創意、網拍產品圖後製…等實務設計都收納在書中內容，簡單的一張相片也能變化出無限創意。

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Photoshop已不是單純的影像編輯軟體，你可利用其完成網拍網頁編排、遊記相片影片，甚至最流行的「會動的相片」Cinemagraph都能輕易製作。從設計網頁版型、割版、輸出成HTML，一次搞定網頁設計案；如果靜態網頁已滿足不了你，還可加上動態效果GIF動態圖檔或是MP4影片。

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