M Alter: 5 books

Book cover of The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction
by Nora M. Alter
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018

Nora M. Alter reveals the essay film to be a hybrid genre that fuses the categories of feature, art, and documentary film. Like its literary predecessor, the essay film draws on a variety of forms and approaches; in the process, it fundamentally alters the shape of cinema. The Essay Film After Fact...
Book cover of Stan Douglas: Abbott and Cordova, 7 August 1971
by Stan Douglas, Alexander Alberro, Nora M. Alter
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012

This is an art book on the politics of urban conflict based around artist Stan Douglas' stunning photo installation of the same name, depicting a violent confrontation in 1971 between police and Vancouver's counterculture known as the Gastown Riot. The book, which features essays by Alexander...
Book cover of Projecting History

Projecting History

German Nonfiction Cinema, 1967-2000

by Nora M. Alter
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2009

The intersection between social, historical, and political developments in Germany and the emergence of a nonfiction mode of film production
Book cover of Dermatoglyphics in Medical Disorders
by B. Schaumann, M. Alter
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

The skin on the fingertips and palmar and plantar surfaces of man is not smooth. It is grooved by curious ridges, which form a variety of configurations. These ridge configurations have attracted the at­ tention of laymen for millenia. They have also evoked the serious interest of scientists for...
Book cover of Community Pest Management in Practice
by Tanya M. Howard, Theodore R. Alter, Paloma Z. Frumento
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018

This book presents a collection of practitioner and community stories that reveal how invasive species management is a community issue that can spark community formation and collective action. It combines the unique first-person narratives of practitioners on the frontline of invasive species management...
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