The Cinematic Sublime

The Cinematic SublimeAn academic reader bridging the disciplines of aesthetics and film studies by focusing on cinematic sublimity. Original essays by contemporary film scholars and philosophers with topics and case studies ranging from early cinema and classical Hollywood to avant garde film and contemporary digital cinema.

Yet public policy often focuses on average or likely outcomes

the book examines the roles

By foregrounding the everyday politics of popular mobilization

weaknesses

both through objects that have been destroyed and as a process within art that the object courts through form

”—Magdalena Rek

the collection contains writings by both established writers

told for the first time

Using an wide range of sources

and architectural evidence

This book examines the broader impacts on Australian culture and cultural practice of the Australian High Court’s landmark Mabo decision of 1992

Three dramas of wandering and adventure which explore the great diversity of responses in the period to the lures of tourism and colonial expansion and to challenges posed by the encounter with exotic places and peoples