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The Seventh Seal (BFI Film Classics)
by Melvyn BraggA medieval allegory of faith and doubt, 'The Seventh Seal' contains the horrors of witch-burnings and plague, yet also features flashes of peace and joy. Each volume in the 'BFI Film Classics' series contains a personal commentary on the film, a brief production history and a detailed filmography.
The Seventh Seal (BFI Film Classics)
by Melvyn BraggThe Seventh Seal is probably Bergman's best-known work and the film that most clearly bears the director's unmistakeable signature. The opening scene sets the tone: a stony beach under a leaden sky, the knight alone with his thoughts, then the approach of black-clad Death, whom the knight invites to play a game of chess. Bergman's medieval allegory of faith and doubt is dark with the horrors of witch-burnings and the plague. But it is also shot through with bright flashes of peace and joy, symbolised in the milk and wild strawberries offered to the knight by an innocent family of actors.In his compelling appreciation, Melvyn Bragg describes his own first encounter as a student with this extraordinary film, and how it revealed to him another cinema, quite different from the Hollywood he had grown up with. He recounts too his later meeting with Bergman himself, and how the marks of the director's powerful personality are everywhere in this troubling and inspiring masterpiece.
The Seventh Seal (BFI Film Classics)
by Melvyn BraggThe Seventh Seal is probably Bergman's best-known work and the film that most clearly bears the director's unmistakeable signature. The opening scene sets the tone: a stony beach under a leaden sky, the knight alone with his thoughts, then the approach of black-clad Death, whom the knight invites to play a game of chess. Bergman's medieval allegory of faith and doubt is dark with the horrors of witch-burnings and the plague. But it is also shot through with bright flashes of peace and joy, symbolised in the milk and wild strawberries offered to the knight by an innocent family of actors.In his compelling appreciation, Melvyn Bragg describes his own first encounter as a student with this extraordinary film, and how it revealed to him another cinema, quite different from the Hollywood he had grown up with. He recounts too his later meeting with Bergman himself, and how the marks of the director's powerful personality are everywhere in this troubling and inspiring masterpiece.
The Seventies: The Age of Glitter in Popular Culture
by Shelton WaldrepThe Seventies is must reading for anyone who wants to revisit that glam decade and the contributions it made to our culture. The contributors take you on a fascinating journey that looks at the Black Panthers, Jonestown, glam rock, black action films and gay male subcultures as well as including queer rereadings of cultural phenomena, examinations of clothing and seventies bodies, and an essay on the meaning of sound in the seventies.
The Seventies: The Age of Glitter in Popular Culture
by Shelton WaldrepThe Seventies is must reading for anyone who wants to revisit that glam decade and the contributions it made to our culture. The contributors take you on a fascinating journey that looks at the Black Panthers, Jonestown, glam rock, black action films and gay male subcultures as well as including queer rereadings of cultural phenomena, examinations of clothing and seventies bodies, and an essay on the meaning of sound in the seventies.
Seventies British Cinema
by Robert ShailSeventies British Cinema provides a comprehensive re-evaluation of British film in the 1970s. The decade has long been written off in critical discussions as a 'doldrums' period in British cinema, perhaps because the industry, facing near economic collapse, turned to 'unacceptable' low culture genres such as sexploitation comedies or extreme horror. The contributors to this new collection argue that 1970s cinema is ripe for reappraisal: giving serious critical attention to populist genre films, they also consider the development of a British art cinema in the work of Derek Jarman and Peter Greenaway, and the beginnings of an independent sector fostered by the BFI Production Board and producers like Don Boyd. A host of highly individual directors managed to produce interesting and cinematically innovative work against the odds, from Nicolas Roeg to Ken Russell to Mike Hodges. As well as providing a historical and cinematic context for understanding Seventies cinema, the volume also features chapters addressing Hammer horror, the Carry On films, Bond films of the Roger Moore period, Jubilee and other films that responded to Punk rock; heritage cinema and case studies of key seventies films such as The Wicker Man and Straw Dogs. In all, the book provides the final missing piece in the rediscovery of British cinema's complex and protean history. Contributors: Ruth Barton, James Chapman, Ian Conrich, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Christophe Dupin, Steve Gerrard, Sheldon Hall I. Q. Hunter, James Leggott, Claire Monk, Paul Newland, Dan North, Robert Shail, Justin Smith and Sarah Street.
Seventies British Cinema
by Robert ShailSeventies British Cinema provides a comprehensive re-evaluation of British film in the 1970s. The decade has long been written off in critical discussions as a 'doldrums' period in British cinema, perhaps because the industry, facing near economic collapse, turned to 'unacceptable' low culture genres such as sexploitation comedies or extreme horror. The contributors to this new collection argue that 1970s cinema is ripe for reappraisal: giving serious critical attention to populist genre films, they also consider the development of a British art cinema in the work of Derek Jarman and Peter Greenaway, and the beginnings of an independent sector fostered by the BFI Production Board and producers like Don Boyd. A host of highly individual directors managed to produce interesting and cinematically innovative work against the odds, from Nicolas Roeg to Ken Russell to Mike Hodges. As well as providing a historical and cinematic context for understanding Seventies cinema, the volume also features chapters addressing Hammer horror, the Carry On films, Bond films of the Roger Moore period, Jubilee and other films that responded to Punk rock; heritage cinema and case studies of key seventies films such as The Wicker Man and Straw Dogs. In all, the book provides the final missing piece in the rediscovery of British cinema's complex and protean history. Contributors: Ruth Barton, James Chapman, Ian Conrich, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Christophe Dupin, Steve Gerrard, Sheldon Hall I. Q. Hunter, James Leggott, Claire Monk, Paul Newland, Dan North, Robert Shail, Justin Smith and Sarah Street.
Seventies British Cinema
Seventies British Cinema provides a comprehensive re-evaluation of British film in the 1970s. The decade has long been written off in critical discussions as a 'doldrums' period in British cinema, perhaps because the industry, facing near economic collapse, turned to 'unacceptable' low culture genres such as sexploitation comedies or extreme horror. The contributors to this new collection argue that 1970s cinema is ripe for reappraisal: giving serious critical attention to populist genre films, they also consider the development of a British art cinema in the work of Derek Jarman and Peter Greenaway, and the beginnings of an independent sector fostered by the BFI Production Board and producers like Don Boyd. A host of highly individual directors managed to produce interesting and cinematically innovative work against the odds, from Nicolas Roeg to Ken Russell to Mike Hodges. As well as providing a historical and cinematic context for understanding Seventies cinema, the volume also features chapters addressing Hammer horror, the Carry On films, Bond films of the Roger Moore period, Jubilee and other films that responded to Punk rock; heritage cinema and case studies of key seventies films such as The Wicker Man and Straw Dogs. In all, the book provides the final missing piece in the rediscovery of British cinema's complex and protean history. Contributors: Ruth Barton, James Chapman, Ian Conrich, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Christophe Dupin, Steve Gerrard, Sheldon Hall I. Q. Hunter, James Leggott, Claire Monk, Paul Newland, Dan North, Robert Shail, Justin Smith and Sarah Street.
Seville: Through the Urban Void (Built Environment City Studies)
by Miguel TorresRecent years have seen a growing interest in undetermined and unqualified urban spaces. Understanding cities as spaces for encounter, conflict and otherness, this book argues that this indeterminacy is not marginal but a key characteristic of urban space, and degrees of liberty foster change, creativity, and political action. The urban void is a conceptual construct that aims to render a principle of absence apprehensible, and to describe how it intervenes in place-making in the city. Seville: Through the Urban Void build mostly upon Henri Lefebvre’s work using concepts drawn on the social sciences, in order to articulate a biographic narrative of the Alameda de Hércules in Seville, Spain, which stands both as an outstanding instance of urban space and a very influential urban type. During its long historical span the Alameda has undergone alternating periods of decline and development, revealing the relations between successive urban paradigms and ideas of nature, territory, and the people. For the first time its whole history is told in a single account, which adds new perspectives to its understanding, and brings forward formerly disregarded aspects. This book shows how its liminal nature, which stubbornly persists over time, creates the conditions for creative processes.
Seville: Through the Urban Void (Built Environment City Studies)
by Miguel TorresRecent years have seen a growing interest in undetermined and unqualified urban spaces. Understanding cities as spaces for encounter, conflict and otherness, this book argues that this indeterminacy is not marginal but a key characteristic of urban space, and degrees of liberty foster change, creativity, and political action. The urban void is a conceptual construct that aims to render a principle of absence apprehensible, and to describe how it intervenes in place-making in the city. Seville: Through the Urban Void build mostly upon Henri Lefebvre’s work using concepts drawn on the social sciences, in order to articulate a biographic narrative of the Alameda de Hércules in Seville, Spain, which stands both as an outstanding instance of urban space and a very influential urban type. During its long historical span the Alameda has undergone alternating periods of decline and development, revealing the relations between successive urban paradigms and ideas of nature, territory, and the people. For the first time its whole history is told in a single account, which adds new perspectives to its understanding, and brings forward formerly disregarded aspects. This book shows how its liminal nature, which stubbornly persists over time, creates the conditions for creative processes.
Sew Birthday Fun: Beautiful Projects for Special Celebrations
by Mandy ShawBeautiful projects for special celebrations!Sew Birthday Fun by Mandy Shaw includes:Birthday CakesBirthday BadgesCrowns and TiarasTechniquesAnd more!
Sew Birthday Fun: Beautiful Projects for Special Celebrations
by Mandy ShawBeautiful projects for special celebrations!Sew Birthday Fun by Mandy Shaw includes:Birthday CakesBirthday BadgesCrowns and TiarasTechniquesAnd more!
Sew Chinelo: How To Transform Your Wardrobe With Sustainable Style
by Chinelo BallyMinimise waste and maximise creativity with 14 stylish freehand dressmaking projects from Chinelo Bally.
Sew Cute to Carry: 12 stylish bag patterns for handbags, purses and totes
by Melanie McNeiceYou can never have too many bags and this collection from Melly McNeice is the perfect inspiration to make a few more! The book is packed with bag designs for all occasions including totes, clutch bags and handbags, together with the more practical 'sleepover' bag, back pack and ubiquitous nappy changing bag. Full sized pull out patterns are included for each bag for precision pattern cutting enabling you to get sewing straight away without having to print out sheets of paper! All the patterns have step diagrams for easy piecing. There's also a general techniques section explaining the tools and equipment you'll need to get started.
Sew Cute to Carry: 12 stylish bag patterns for handbags, purses and totes
by Melanie McNeiceYou can never have too many bags and this collection from Melly McNeice is the perfect inspiration to make a few more! The book is packed with bag designs for all occasions including totes, clutch bags and handbags, together with the more practical 'sleepover' bag, back pack and ubiquitous nappy changing bag. Full sized pull out patterns are included for each bag for precision pattern cutting enabling you to get sewing straight away without having to print out sheets of paper! All the patterns have step diagrams for easy piecing. There's also a general techniques section explaining the tools and equipment you'll need to get started.
Sew Cute to Carry - Beautiful Blooms Handbag
by Melanie McNeiceDownload this PDF to create your very own Beautiful Blooms Handbag everything is included from sewing techniques to full-sized patterns for you to create this fabulously floral fabric handbag, which will sit on your arm perfetly. This stylish handbag will have you showing off your sewing and needlecraft techniques and while it is compact, it still has plenty of room for your wallet, phone and all other daily necessities. A sewn handy outer pocket is pefect for those essential quick-reach items. This practical and pretty handbag sewing project is perfect if you love sewing and floral fabrics
Sew Cute to Carry - Blue Skies Backpack
by Melanie McNeiceGet sewing nowwith this great download, including all the sewing techniques and patterns you need to create your own Blue Skies Backpack This charming, casual backpack is sure to become a favourite accessory for shopping and day trips. Completely secure, it cannot be opened when on your back, making it ideal to carry all those essential valuables safely in busy crowds. The sewn front pocket is handy for items that you need quick access to on your travels. This sewing project is perfect to sew for yourself or as a gift.
Sew Cute to Carry - City Nights Clutch
by Melanie McNeiceCity Nights Clutch The perfect handbag sewing project will have you stitching your own collection of chic clutch bags. All the sewing techniques and patterns you need to create your own clutch bag to complement the perfect outfit for a night out with friends are included. This eye-catching floral fabric print with its cute crochet flower button makes a bold statement. Mix and match your favourite fabrics to that new outfit to add a splash of colour and fun in your collection of sewn clutch bags with this great pattern..
Sew Cute to Carry - Cute Carry-All
by Melanie McNeiceGet this essential sewing project for the true bag-a-holic, all the sewing techniques and full-sized patterns you need to sew a cute carry-all bag with room for absolutely everything! This versatile carry-all could be used as an oversized handbag, a project bag or a super stylish changing bag. With a large zipped front sewn pocket and a generous double pocket inside, you can secure any precious items while the main bag remains easily accessible.
Sew Cute to Carry - Happy Hobo Bag
by Melanie McNeiceDownload this simple sewing project, perfect for beginners, to sew your very own fresh and fashionable Hobo Bag. Quick and easy to sew and to put together, the project incluces all the sewing techniques and patterns you need to create this fun and playful bag. With a handy sewn pocket on the front for quick access items and plenty of room inside for all your everyday needs, it is a practical and comfortable shoulder bag. This cute and colourful design is sure to bring a smile to the face of a beginner or a more experienced sewer.
Sew Cute to Carry - Luscious Little Layered Bag
by Melanie McNeiceSweet layered shoulder bag for young girls or 'tweenies', all the sewing techniques and patterns are included in this project download that will have you sewing the perfect gift in no time. This trendy handbag can be made up with fabrics in any colours, patterns and textures to match the latest trends - a must for the fashion-concious tweenies! Just imagine this cute shoulder bag teamed up with a matching outfit using fabrics from your little girl's favourite collection - a simply adorable sewing project!
Sew Cute to Carry - Melly's Messenger
by Melanie McNeiceMelly's Messenger this sewing project includes all the patterns and sewing techniques you need to make your own trendy messenger bag. Super practical for everyday use it will comfortably fit a good supply of paper and books, inside there is a large sewn double pocket as well as an internal divider to keep everything organised and easy to find. This simple sewing design can be made as bright and fun or as minimalstic as you like, with lots of fabric options - it will look classic in any combination, everything you need to get sewing.
Sew Cute to Carry - Mobile Mummy Changing Bag
by Melanie McNeiceThe essential sewing project for a new Mum, the Mummy Changing Bag. When there are little ones in your life, it seems as if you need to carry everthing around with you! This download includes all the sewing techniques and patterns you need to sew your own changing bag in a cute cherry print fabric, ideal for fitting in all those baby necessities. There are sewn internal and external pockets for soothers, rattles and snacks, plus a matching machine-washable changing mat to sew which will make changes a breeze. The generous strap can be adjusted to fit either your shoulder or the pram, the perfect sewn changing bag pattern.
Sew Cute to Carry - Ruffle Duffle
by Melanie McNeiceRuffle Duffle Why not sew your very own duffle bag, the perfect sports bag for the boys or girls in your life, just adapt the sewing patterns and fabrics to make the perfect gift. All the sewing techniques and patterns are included to download and to create a highly practical sports or overnight bag, whether its cute and girlie or trendy and masculine this sewing project is all you need to create your own sewn duffle bag.
Sew Cute to Carry - Shopaholic's Shopper
by Melanie McNeiceThe Shopaholics's Shopper is the essential bag pattern for the shopaholic who loves going shopping in style. This gorgeous sewing project includes all the patterns and sewing techniques you need to create a shopping bag to fit everything but the kitchen sink! With its generous panelling and sturdy base, it is ideal for trips to the supermaket or farmers' market and could even double up as the perfect beach bag or even a sewing project bag