I'll Close My Eyes

A personal and intimate view of the craft of eye-making. This is a book about artificial eyes—about the artisans and artists who make them, and about the life-changi...

GALILEO Vision is perfect. People have very good eyes.APICIUS Whose weak eyes, then, need the help of your lenses?GALILEO They are the eyes of the philosophers.Fontenelle, Dialogue...

Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) is a film very much of its cinematic moment, combining the gritty realism of entrapment in the everyday with furtive dr...

This chapter describes one framework for teaching close reading to groups of learners. It proposes that learners focus on one narrative feature at a time—for example, time, space, ...

Animator Norman McLaren is best known for his experimental films using pioneering techniques and his work as founder of the animation department of the National Film Board of Canad...

This chapter analyzes the impact of location in network evening newscasts. The background surrounding newscasters is one indicator of location. Correspondents appear close to the a...

Abstract This book presents an interdisciplinary theory of friendship that draws on psychological science, Aristotle’s theory, evolutionary science, attachment sc...

Nationalism: Past as Prologue began as a single volume being compiled by Ad Akande, a scholar from South Africa, who proposed it to me as co-author about two years ago. The origina...