Author: Michael Northcott
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Keywords: american, empire, religion, apocalyptic, directs, storm, angel
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2004-12-17
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1850434786
ISBN-13: 9781850434788

This passionately argued book provides the first in-depth investigation of the religious politics of current American neo-conservatism. It shows that behind the neo-imperialism of the White House and George W. Bush lies an apocalyptic vision of the United States’s sacred destiny "at the end of history", a vision that is shared by millions of Americans. The authors trace the roots of American apocalyptic to Puritan Millennialism and contemporary fundamentalist readings of the Book of Revelation. They suggest that Americans urgently need to recover a critique of Empire of the kind espoused

Author: Egil Tornqvist
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Keywords: press, film, culture, transition, university, amsterdam, screen, ingmar, bergman, directs, stage
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 1996-06-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 9053561714
ISBN-13: 9789053561713

Ingmar Bergman is worldwide known as a film and stage director. Yet no-one has attempted to compare his stage and screen activities. In Between Stage and Screen Egil Törnqvist examines formal and thematical correspondences and differences between a number of Bergman’s stage, screen, and radio productions. In the prologue Bergman’s spiritual and aesthetic heritage and his position in the twentieth century media landscape is outlined. In the epilogue the question is answered to what extent one can speak of Bergman’s directorial ’method’ irrespective of the chosen m