Christopher Morris Bücher

Questions Without Answers presents the groundbreaking work of photo agency VII and includes over 50 stories by leading photographers such as Marcus Bleasdale, Alexandra Boulat, Ron Haviv, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil and Christopher Morris. The extraordinarily talented group of photographers who make up this collective are at the forefront of digital, up-to-the minute photojournalism, providing an unflinching record of people and events around the world. From the end of the Cold War to the present day, this book brings together some of the most important, moving and compelling stories they have told – from images of 9/11 and the South Asian Tsunami to portraits of our most respected, cultural figures – and provides a powerful visual history of our changing world and its defining events.

Christopher Morris’s My America was produced over the past three years while on assignment for Time magazine covering the first and now second administrations of U. S. President George W. Bush. Morris describes My America as his personal journey into a Republican America. “Hopefully,” Morris says, “you will see what I saw and feel what I felt—a nation that has wrapped its eyes so tightly in red, white, and blue that it has gone blind. This is ‘My America’.” My America is the first monograph of Morris’s work.

North Jersey residents have enjoyed frothy pints since the first brewhouse opened in Hoboken in 1641. Brewing was big in the Garden State prior to Prohibition, and by 1900, more than fifty breweries were in operation. Nearly half of them--like Krueger--were located in Newark. The dry reign of Prohibition and the region's proximity to major cities made it a hub for bootleggers and gangsters like Longy Zwillman and Waxey Gordon. Even after the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed, North Jersey brewing sputtered. Some independent breweries like Ballantine restarted operation, but it wasn't until the 1990s that the region saw a craft brewing renaissance. Today, Jerseyans enjoy premium ales and lagers from breweries like Climax, River Horse and New Jersey Beer Company. Beer writer Chris Morris explores the origins and the new revolution of brewing in North Jersey.

The story follows Jacob, a dedicated volunteer with Z.A.K.A, who faces a moral dilemma when he chooses to aid a young Palestinian woman over a soldier after a tragic incident. This decision profoundly impacts his life, leading him into a deep exploration of his beliefs and responsibilities amidst the chaos of violence. The Runner is a gripping thriller that delves into the complexities of morality, sacrifice, and the human condition in a conflict-ridden environment.

Exploring the intersection of opera and German modernism, the study highlights how operatic depictions of mountains reflect broader themes of politics, nature, technology, and aesthetics. Morris delves into the landscape's liminality, examining its role in shaping opera's self-awareness and its relationship with various media. The analysis extends to musical works like Strauss's Alpine Symphony and the Bergfilm, demonstrating how the ideology of mountains enhances the understanding of these artistic expressions. This innovative approach contributes significantly to modernist studies.

Exploring the role of orchestral interludes, this book delves into how they connect scenes in Wagnerian and post-Wagnerian opera. It examines the techniques and artistic choices made by composers to enhance narrative flow and emotional depth, providing insights into the evolution of operatic structure and the significance of orchestration in storytelling.

Focusing on the HOPE VI program, this book conducts a rhetorical analysis of its impact on public housing and mixed-income communities. It explores the concept of participatory capture, which exacerbated social inequality, urging a critical reevaluation of participation in urban America. The author delves into the implications of these dynamics, challenging readers to rethink the nature of civic engagement in the context of city life.

"From the early days of radio broadcast to today's recorded simulcasts and live online productions, opera houses have embraced technology as a way to reach new audiences. But how do these new forms of remediated opera extend, amplify, or undermine production values, and what does the audience gain or lose in the process? In Screening the Operatic Stage, Christopher Morris critically examines the cultural implications of opera's engagement with screen media. Foregrounding a playful exchange and self-awareness between stage and screen, Screening the Operatic Stage analyzes how opera sees itself on video. Morris uses the conceptual tools of media theory to understand the historical and contemporary screen cultures that have transmitted the opera house into living rooms, onto desktops and portable devices, and across networks of movie theaters. These screen cultures reveal how inherently "technological" opera is as a medium, begging the question of whether it can be understood independently of technology. Ultimately, Screening the Operatic Stage shows how the technologies of televisual representation employed in opera reinforce its audience's expectations for the genre"--

Americans is the second book in a series on America by Christopher Morris. While the first book My America (Steidl, 2006) focused on Republican nationalism, Americans takes a much broader journey across American society. With an empathetic and critical eye, Morris presents a nation in a state of perpetual loss and its people searching for an identity – stranded within two long-running wars and an economy on the verge of collapse.