Perlin jenny (4 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Paperback, with slightly marked rear cover, and a bumped spine head. Pages are clean and binding is sound; text and imagery are clear throughout. TS. Used.

Condición: Gut. Film / Art / Cultural Studies. 95 Seiten; Illustr.; 18 cm; kart. Gutes Exemplar; Einband etwas berieben. - Englisch. - This book takes the reader on a journey through obsession, the drive for success, 1915 self-help tricks, and demonstrations at the Ford Motor Company. It is based on Jenny Perlin's Perseverance & How to Develop It, a 16mm film inspired by a slim volume of the same title. Perlin proposes that in the United States there is a historical and cultural cycle of hard work driven by the desire to succeed, a subsequent emotional collapse, and the use of self-help or medication, enabling the return to work. The cycle continues to this very day. This publication contains an essay, film stills, interviews with the film's main characters and excerpts from the book that started it all, Besser's 1915 best-seller, Perseverance: How to Develop It. (Verlagstext) / INHALT : Prologue ---- Perseverance: How to Develop It ---- Chapter 1 ---- The cycle's start: ascending the mountain (with practical exercises) ---- Chapter 2 ---- Cycle part two: the collapse ---- Chapter 3 ---- Cycle part three: "the method is simple" ---- Epilogue ---- The "pursuit of happiness" and the uselessness of music ---- Images from the Film ---- Perseverance & How to Develop It ---- Text of the Film ---- Perseverance & How to Develop It ---- Interviews ---- Captions ---- Notes ---- Selected Bibliography ---- In Gratitude ---- Index ---- About the Author. ISBN 8890205989 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.…

Condición: Wie neu. Film / Art / Cultural Studies. 95 Seiten; Illustr.; 18 cm; kart. Sehr gut; neuwertig; in Folie verschweißt. - Englisch. - This book takes the reader on a journey through obsession, the drive for success, 1915 self-help tricks, and demonstrations at the Ford Motor Company. It is based on Jenny Perlin's Perseverance & How to Develop It, a 16mm film inspired by a slim volume of the same title. Perlin proposes that in the United States there is a historical and cultural cycle of hard work driven by the desire to succeed, a subsequent emotional collapse, and the use of self-help or medication, enabling the return to work. The cycle continues to this very day. This publication contains an essay, film stills, interviews with the film's main characters and excerpts from the book that started it all, Besser's 1915 best-seller, Perseverance: How to Develop It. (Verlagstext) / INHALT : Prologue ---- Perseverance: How to Develop It ---- Chapter 1 ---- The cycle's start: ascending the mountain (with practical exercises) ---- Chapter 2 ---- Cycle part two: the collapse ---- Chapter 3 ---- Cycle part three: "the method is simple" ---- Epilogue ---- The "pursuit of happiness" and the uselessness of music ---- Images from the Film ---- Perseverance & How to Develop It ---- Text of the Film ---- Perseverance & How to Develop It ---- Interviews ---- Captions ---- Notes ---- Selected Bibliography ---- In Gratitude ---- Index ---- About the Author. ISBN 8890205989 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.…

Broschur. Condición: Sehr gut. [48] Seiten. Tadelloses Exemplar. Erschienen in einer Auflage von 60 Exemplaren. / Flawless copy. Edition of 60. - In the summer of 2001 I was in Kosovo making a documentary about life after the war there. I visited a small town where a traveling theater company had come to perform 'Little Red Riding Hood in danger,1 a play written to teach kids about land mines in the fields and roads surrounding the town.While I was there I met a young girl and interviewed her about life in the town. After the play, I tried to find her again but she had disappeared.This film started with the memory of this moment.In the film I'm connecting three stories, the story of meeting this girl, a story about a woman working in an art library in Berlin, and my own story, about how memory and the present can connect. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.…