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List of Israel Prize recipients
First recipient of the prize for Jewish studies.
One of first two recipients of the prize for Literature.
First recipient of the prize for Education.
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History of film
This article is about the history of film as an artistic medium. For the history of motion-picture technology, see History of film technology.
The history of film chronicles the development of a visual art form created using film technologies that began in the late 19th century.
The advent of film as an artistic medium is not clearly defined. There were earlier cinematographic screenings by others; however, the commercial, public screening of ten Lumière brothers' short films in Paris on 28 December 1895, can be regarded as the breakthrough of projected cinematographic motion pictures. The earliest films were in black and white, under a minute long, without recorded sound, and consisted of a single shot from a steady camera. The first decade saw film move from a novelty, to an established mass entertainment industry, with film production companies and studios established throughout the world. Conventions toward a general cinematic language developed, with fil
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Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity 9780520223882, 0520223888
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GREEK PANEGYRIC
BIOGRAPHY IN
LATE
AND
ANTIQUITY
The Transformation of the Classical Heritage |
Peter Brown, General Editor
I Art and Ceremony in Late Antiquity, by Sabine G. MacCormack
II Synesius of Cyrene: Philosopher-Bishop, by Jay Alan Bregman III Theodosian Empresses: Women and Imperial Dominion in Late Antiquity, by Kenneth G. Holum IV John Chrysostom and the Jews: Rhetoric and Reality in the Late Fourth Century, by Robert L. Wilken
V_ Biography in Late Antiquity: The Quest for the Holy Man, by Patricia Cox VI Pachomius: The Making of a Community in Fourth-Century Egypt, by Philip Rousseau VIL Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, by A. P. Kazhdan and Ann Wharton Epstein VII Leadership and Community in Late Antique Gaul, by Raymond Van Dam
IX Homer the Theologian: Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition