John Mowitt
Auteur de Text: The Genealogy of an Antidisciplinary Object (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
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John Mowitt holds the Leadership Chair in the Critical Humanities at the University of Leeds. He is the author of several books, including Radio: Essays in Bad Reception, (UC Press, 201), Percussion: Drumming, Beating, Striking, and Re-takes: Postcoloniality and Foreign Film Languages.
Œuvres de John Mowitt
Text: The Genealogy of an Antidisciplinary Object (Post-Contemporary Interventions) (1992) 18 exemplaires
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- 5
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- 50
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- #316,248
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- 3.0
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- 2
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- 18
The intro in particular drove me batty, and negatively shaded the body of the book for me. It seemed like a perfect example of why people outside academia like to scoff at 'ivory tower' types for their overblown rhetoric... jargon, jargon, tedious rhetorical 'play', then more jargon... Being direct isn't *automatically* the equivalent of dumbing something down. In fact, it can be really impressive... and I wish this book had been. 3 stars.… (plus d'informations)