Lesley Brill
Biographic Data
| ID | 779260 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lesley Brill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lesley |
| FAMILY NAME | Brill |
| SIGNATURE | BRILL L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hitchcock Romance
John Huston's Filmmaking
Terrorism, Crowds and Power, and the Dogs of War
"There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown."1 So begins Crowds and Power, Elias Canetti's monumental meditation on human nature. What might Canetti have to tell us in the U.S. about our situation post-elections 2000 and 2002, and post-September 2001? At a time of increasing mass movements world-wide and of intense religious and cultural antagonisms, his insights into the human condition offer an illuminating perspective o…
"The African Queen" and John Huston's Filmmaking
Trapped in the stifling maze of a tropical delta, Charlie Allnutt (Humphrey Bogart) and Rose Sayre (Katharine Hepburn) confront the end of their attempt to run the Ulanga River, reach the lake into which it flows, and sink the Louisa, a German battleship that controls access to Central Africa at the beginning of World War I. More important from the point of view of the audience, they also face the end of their lives and their brief time together …
Notes Toward an Analytic Criticism of Photography
Although historical, technical, and theoretical writing has always accompanied artistic photography, little sustained formal commentary exists. This article discusses seven photographs by Atget. It attempts to deepen understanding of those works and to exemplify a possible approach to photographic explication. All the photographs have symbolic meanings beyond their literal representation of the world. Applying Aristotle's conception of metaphor a…
The Hitchcock Romance
The Photography of Diane Arbus
Brett Weston and West Coast Straight Photography
"The African Queen" and John Huston's Filmmaking
Trapped in the stifling maze of a tropical delta, Charlie Allnutt (Humphrey Bogart) and Rose Sayre (Katharine Hepburn) confront the end of their attempt to run the Ulanga River, reach the lake into which it flows, and sink the Louisa, a German battleship that controls access to Central Africa at the beginning of World War I. More important from the point of view of the audience, they also face the end of their lives and their brief time together …
Brett Weston and West Coast Straight Photography
The Photography of Diane Arbus
The Hitchcock Romance
Notes Toward an Analytic Criticism of Photography
Although historical, technical, and theoretical writing has always accompanied artistic photography, little sustained formal commentary exists. This article discusses seven photographs by Atget. It attempts to deepen understanding of those works and to exemplify a possible approach to photographic explication. All the photographs have symbolic meanings beyond their literal representation of the world. Applying Aristotle's conception of metaphor a…
"The African Queen" and John Huston's Filmmaking
Trapped in the stifling maze of a tropical delta, Charlie Allnutt (Humphrey Bogart) and Rose Sayre (Katharine Hepburn) confront the end of their attempt to run the Ulanga River, reach the lake into which it flows, and sink the Louisa, a German battleship that controls access to Central Africa at the beginning of World War I. More important from the point of view of the audience, they also face the end of their lives and their brief time together …
Terrorism, Crowds and Power, and the Dogs of War
"There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown."1 So begins Crowds and Power, Elias Canetti's monumental meditation on human nature. What might Canetti have to tell us in the U.S. about our situation post-elections 2000 and 2002, and post-September 2001? At a time of increasing mass movements world-wide and of intense religious and cultural antagonisms, his insights into the human condition offer an illuminating perspective o…
John Huston's Filmmaking
Hitchcock Romance
Art (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · History (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Photography (3 works) · Photography and Visual Culture (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Brill (2 works)