Ronald L Schwartz

Circle of Protest: Political Ritual in the Tibetan Uprising

Circle of Protest: Political Ritual in the Tibetan Uprising

An Introduction to the WATFOR and WATFIV Programming Languages

Statistical Programs in FORTRAN

Statistical Programs in BASIC

Information Systems Using DSS Software

Peasants, Primitives, and Proletariats: The Struggle for Identity in South America

Law and Aging: Essentials of Elder Law

An EasyGuide to APA Style (EasyGuide Series)

Written by experienced psychology instructors Beth M. Schwartz, R. Eric Landrum, and Regan A. R. Gurung, all active and respected members of the American Psychological Association (APA) Society for the Teaching of Psychology, the updated Third Edition of An EasyGuide to APA Style provides a reader-f...

Noir, Now and Then: Film Noir Originals and Remakes (1944-1999)

This examniation of the cinematic style of film noir originals and their neo-noir remakes compares thirty-five films, beginning with Billy Wilder's classic Double Indemnity and concluding with Jim McBride's Breathless. In-depth analysis of the films explain the qualities and characteristics of film ...

Great Spanish Films Since 1950

When it began, modern Spanish cinema was under strict censorship, forced to conform to the ideological demands of the Nationalist regime. In 1950, the New Spanish Cinema was born as a protest over General Francisco Franco's policies: a new series of directors and films began to move away from the co...

Houses of Noir: Dark Visions from Thirteen Film Studios

Film noir is a particularly American stylistic phenomenon (although named by French film critics) that permeated nearly every major, minor and independent Hollywood studio production from 1940 through the early 1960s. The author examines the best noir film from each studio and includes each studio's...

Neo-Noir: The New Film Noir Style from Psycho to Collateral

According to many critics, the era of "Film Noir" ended with the 1958 release of Orson Welles' classic Touch of Evil. The style was not dead, but rather had been transformed, and two years later, Alfred Hitchcock ushered in a new era of "Noir" films with the release of his 1960 masterpiece, Psycho.F...

Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS, 2003: Tibetan Modernities: Notes from the Field on Cultural and Social Change (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library / Proceedings of the Tenth S) (v. 11)

This book, the first scholarly publication in the West to provide detailed documentation of modern life in contemporary Tibet, presents the cutting-edge field work carried out by an interdisciplinary group of researchers studying caste, pop music, media, painting, education, economics, childbirth an...

Law and Aging: Essentials of Elder Law (2nd Edition)

For courses in Elder Law. Updated to reflect the enormous legal changes since the first edition in 1998, this text includes detailed and comprehensive descriptions of the essential topics of elder law-including advance directives, wills, financial planning, diseases of aging, love and marriage, HIPA...

Latin American Films, 1932-1994: A Critical Filmography

In 1931 Antonio Moreno completed Santa, Mexicos first true sound film. In it he established one of the foremost genres of Latin American cinema--the popular melodrama--which continues to this day. Latin American filmmakers came to the fore in the fifties and sixties and, as 1992s Como agua para choc...