The golden shore

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Jan Brokken

"Interpreting Lars yon Trier's Dogville as a comment on the Hollywood film industry and the moviegoing process, Jake Horsley examines the age-old conflict between 'artistic' and 'commercial' filmmaking. He proposes that the term 'independent', when applied to filmmaking, refers to sensibility and vision rather than backing or funds. Moving beyond the simple question: 'Can an "independent" film achieve commercial success in Hollywood and still be called independent?', Horsley also raises the disturbing possibility that the very creativity of maverick filmmakers is dependent on the 'evils' of the studio-system." "Including detailed analysis of work from early independent visionaries such as Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Kubrick and Roman Polanski, through 80s indie cinema and 90s slacker films to present day pioneers such as Keith Gordon, Charlie Kaufman and Richard Linklater."--Jacket.

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edited and introduced by Terry Gifford

Features the eight influential books in which John Muir reflects on the beauty of America's wilderness and fights for their protection.

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por Pam Muñoz Ryan

Takes the reader on an imaginary trip through California while offering information about the history and geography of this varied region with its numerous historic sites.

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Nancy Lord

"This contemporary account of the 1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition is nature writing at its best. One hundred years after that landmark voyage, Nancy Lord follows by boat and dream, seeking to understand this century's attitudes toward nature, landscape, and culture. The Harriman Alaska Expedition assembled a company of exceptional characters - the nature writers John Burroughs and John Muir, photographer Edward Curtis, scientist William Dall, conservationist and ethnographer George Bird Grinnell, bird artist Louis Agassiz-Fuertes, geologist Henry Gannett, and others - to explore Alaska's untamed coast. They cruised glacial fjords, collected specimens, and photographed Alaska's Native people."--BOOK JACKET. "Nancy Lord, an Alaskan well-rooted in coastal life and commercial fishing, revisits many of the same stops made by the expedition. Lord tells of John Burrough's visit to a cannery where imported Chinese laborers wielded their knives, then boards a modern processing ship turning salmon into frozen "product". Lord witnesses whales and imagines whalers, shows us the Native acculturation of a century ago against the fishing lives of today's villagers, and passes time with a family living in the last house on the contiguous North American continent."--BOOK JACKET.