Cultural studies Books

Book SynopsisFrom intertextuality to postmodern cultural studies, narratology to affect theory, poststructuralism to metamodernism, and postcolonialism to ecocriticism, humanities adaptation studies has engaged with a host of contemporary theories. Yet theorizing adaptation has been declared behind the theoretical times compared to other fields and charged with theoretical incorrectness by scholars from all theoretical camps. In this thorough and groundbreaking study, author Kamilla Elliott works to explain and redress the problem of theorizing adaptation. She offers the first cross-disciplinary history of theorizing adaptation in the humanities, extending back to the sixteenth century, revealing that until the late eighteenth century, adaptation was valued for its contributions to cultural progress, before its eventual and ongoing marginalization by humanities theories. The second half of the book offers ways to redress the troubled relationship between theorization and adaptation. Ultimately,Theorizing Adaptation proffers shared ground upon which adaptation scholars can debate productively across disciplinary, cultural, and theoretical borders.Trade ReviewA dazzlingly comprehensive, indeed Herculean, cleaning out of the dysfunctional stables in which both adaptation and theorizing have been kept! * Linda Hutcheon, author of A Theory of Adaptation *An extraordinarily expansive and incisive assessment of the cutting-edge field of contemporary adaptation studies, lucidly argued by one its most articulate scholars. * Timothy Corrigan, author of The Essay Film: From Montaigne, After Marker and editor of Film and Literature: An Introduction and Reader *This is the most ambitious and exciting book about adaptation Ive ever read. Kamilla Elliott, long established as an unrivaled historian of adaptation and adaptation studies, here confirms her status as their leading theorist as well. Theorizing Adaptation will be indispensable reading for anyone attempting to take the measure of adaptation studies. * Thomas Leitch, author of The History of American Literature on Film *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Problem of Theorizing Adaptation Part 1: Theorizing Adaptation Chapter 1 Histories of Theorizing Adaptation Chapter 2 Theorizing Adaptation in the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries Chapter 3 Theorizing Adaptation in the Twentieth Century Chapter 4 Theorizing Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century Part 2: Adapting Theorization I. Retheorizing Theorization Chapter 5 Redefining Definitions Chapter 6 Resetting Taxonomies Chapter 7 Rethinking Theoretical Principles II. Refiguring Theorization Chapter 8 The Rhetoric of Theorizing Adaption Chapter 9 Refiguring Adaptation Studies Conclusion Bibliography

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This Handbook charts the new and emerging contexts, practices, pedagogies, and research approaches which will define the field of community music in coming decades.

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Book SynopsisCommonly rendered "shame", "modesty" and "respect", "aidos" is one of the most difficult Greek words to translate. In this work, Cairns traces the history and development of this central concept of Greek moral discourse, across the range of Greek literature.Trade Review'He has written an important book which worthily extends the work of such writers as Arthur Adkins (Merit and Responsibility, 1960) and Eric Dodds (The Greeks and the Irrational, 1951) ... is scrupulous and acute, and discussion of primary evidence is buttressed by a massive array of well-organised secondary material. The texture of Cairn's scholarship is dense, but his style is clear and direct ... this book is a very distinguished achievement.' Times Higher Education Supplement'long and interesting a book' M.J. Edwards, New College, Oxford, The Classical Review, XLIII, No. 2, 1993'Cairns's study of the concept of "aidos" is an impressive achievement...conveys a complex impression of an important concept and its operations over a range of authors and contexts, and offers readings of passages and whole works which will need to be taken into account in future discussions.' V J Gray, Prudentia, Vol XXV, No 2 November 1993one's final response to this excellent book must be extremely positive, and one may conclude with the hope that Cairns may now turn his attention to such further areas and issues; he has given so much that one longs for more * N.R.E. Fisher, University of Wales, Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences, Volume 33 (2) Spring 1997 *Table of ContentsIntroduction; Aidos in Homer; From Hesiod to the Fifth Century; Aeschylus; Sophocles; Euripides; The Sophists, Plato, and aristotle; References; Glossary; Index of Principal Passages; General Index.

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Book SynopsisThis work adopts an interdisciplinary approach in its study of 20th-century Spanish culture and society, emphasizing contemporary developments. The contributors take into account major recent changes which have taken place in the context of higher education Spanish studies.Trade ReviewThe authors include both established and young academics and the essays are readable and informative./Forum for Modern Language Studies 35 : 4 1999a challenge to Hispanists to broaden our perspectives and a practical aid in our everyday teaching and research ... a major contribution to resources for the study of twentieth-century Spain ... The editors are to be complimented on their thoughtful use of illustrations ... a brilliantly-conceived and well-executed volume which will no doubt be indispensable to all students, teachers and enthusiasts of Spanish culture. * Kathryn Crameri, JHR 4 (1995-1996) *I look forward to using this text; a book dealing so comprehensively with such a wide range of issues is well overdue. * Cathy Warshall, Staffordshire University *Because of the scope and quality of its approach this is a textbook which lays the foundations for Spanish Cultural Studies ... The volume is both informative and accessible and will become a key reference work for a large spectrum of curricular disciplines and comparative courses. * Tesserae *Because of the scope and quality of its approach this is a textbook which lays the foundations for Spanish Cultural Stuies and marks the entry of this discipline into a movement within the humanities long established in other academic departments and especially dominant in Latin-American studies. The volume is both informative and accessible and will become a key reference work for a large spectrum of curricular disciplines and comparative courses. * Xon De Ros, King's College, London, Tesserae 2 (1996) *the breadth of the fields and topics covered is to be applauded, for the book is in fact tightly structured ... The need for brevity in each article has forced a concise style upon the authors who have pared down and concentrated their material, which makes for a stimulating read. The book is enlivened by apt illustrations with useful explanatory captions, a good glossary and politico-cultural chronology. Altogether a must for the Reading List. * Monica Threlfall, Loughborough University, Journal of Area Studies 9: 1996 *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ; 1. Culture and Modernity: The Case of Spain ; I: ELITES IN CRISIS, 1898-1931 ; NATIONAL IDENTITIES ; 2. The Loss of Empire, Regenerationism, and the Forging of a Myth of National Identity ; 3. The Nationalisms of the Periphery: Culture and Politics in the Construction of National Identity ; IDEOLOGICAL TENSIONS ; 4. The Social Praxis and Cultural Politics of Spanish Catholicism ; 5. Education and the Limits of Liberalism ; MODERNISMO AND MODERNISME ; 6. Literary Modernismo in Castilian: The Creation of a Dissident Cultural Elite ; 7. Catalan Literary Modernisme and Noucentisme: From Dissidence to Order ; 8. Catalan Modernista Architecture: Using the Past to Build the Modern ; THE AVANT-GARDE ; 9. The Literary Avant-Garde: A Contradictory Modernity ; 10. Internationalism and Eclecticism: Surrealism and the Avant-Garde in Painting and Film, 1920-1930 ; 11. The Musical Avant-Garde: Modernity and Tradition ; POPULAR CULTURE ; 12. Rural and Urban Popular Cultures ; 13. The Cuple: Modernity and Mass Culture ; II: THE FAILURE OF DEMOCRATIC MODERNIZATION, 1931-1939 ; SEXUAL POLITICS ; 14. Women and Social Change ; 15. Beyond Tradition and 'Modernity': The Cultural and Sexual Politics of Spanish Anarchism ; INTELLECTUALS AND POWER ; 16. Reform Idealized: The Intellectual and Ideological Origins of the Second Republic ; 17. The Republican State and Mass Educational-Cultural Initiatives, 1931-1936 ; MONOLITHICITY VERSUS PLURALISM: POLITICAL DEBATES ; 18. The Political Debate within Catholicism ; 19. Catalan Nationalism: Cultural Plurality and Political Ambiguity ; THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF THE CIVIL WAR ; 20. The Republican and Nationalist Wartime Cultural Apparatus ; 21. Propaganda Art: Culture and the People or For the People? ; III: AUTHORITARIAN MODERNIZATION, 1940-1975 ; i Building the State and the Practice of Power, 1940-1959 ; THE MATERIAL REALITY OF STATE POWER ; 22. 'Terror and Progress': Industrialization, Modernity, and the Making of Francoism ; 23. Gender and the State: Women in the '40s ; CULTURAL CONTROL ; 24. Education and Political Control ; 25. The Moving Image of the Franco Regime: Noticiaros y Documentales 1943-1975 ; 26. The Ideology and Practice of Sport ; 27. Censorship or the Fear of Mass Culture ; CULTURAL NATIONALISM ; 28. Cifesa: Cinema and Authoritarian Aesthetics ; 29. Constructing the Nation: Francoist Architecture ; 30. Music and the Limits of Cultural Nationalism ; RESISTING THE STATE ; 31. The Urban and Rural Guerrilla of the '40s ; 32. Popular Culture in the 'Years of Hunger' ; 33. The Emergence of a Dissident Intelligentsia ; ii Developmentalism, Mass Culture, and Consumerism, 1960-1975 ; ADAPTING TO SOCIAL CHANGE ; 34. Social and Economic Change in a Climate of Political Immobilism ; 35. Educational Policy in a Changing Society ; 36. Catholicism and Social Change ; OPPOSITION CULTURE ; 37. The Left and the Legacy of Francoism: Political Culture in Opposition and Transition ; 38. The Politics of Popular Music: On the Dynamics of New Song ; ARTISTIC EXPERIMENT AND DIVERSIFICATION ; 39. Literary Experiment and Cultural Cannibalization ; 40. Painting and Sculpture: The Rejection of High Art ; 41. Cimema, Memory, and the Unconscious ; IV: DEMOCRACY AND EUROPEANIZATION: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE, 1975-1992 ; DEMOCRACY AND CULTURAL CHANGE ; 42. Political Transition and Cultural Democracy: Coping with the Speed of Change ; 43. Educational Policy in Democratic Spain ; 44. Back to the Future: Cinema and Democracy ; REGIONAL AUTONOMY AND CULTURAL POLICY ; 45. Some Perspectives on the Nation State and Autonomies in Spain ; 46. The Politics of Language: Spain's Minority Languages ; 47. Becoming Normal: Cultural Production and Cultural Policy in Catalonia ; 48. Negotiating Galician Cultural Identity ; 49. The Promotion of Cultural Production in Basque ; THE STATE, ENTERPRISE CULTURE, AND THE ARTS ; 50. The Mass Media: A Problematic Modernization ; 51. Redefining the Public Interest: Television in Spain Today ; 52. The Film Industry: Under Pressure from the State and Television ; 53. Artistic Patronage and Enterprise Culture ; 54. Designer Culture in the '80s: The Price of Success ; GENDER AND SEXUALITY ; 55. The Silent Revolution: The Social and Cultural Advances of Women in Democratic Spain ; 56. Work, Women, and the Family: A Critical Perspective ; 57. Gay and Lesbian Culture ; CONCLUSION: MODERNITY AND CULTURAL PLURALISM ; 58. Postmodernism and the Problem of Cultural Identity ; 59. The Politics of 1992

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Book SynopsisWhat is a woman? And what does it mean to be a feminist today? In her first full-scale engagement with feminist theory since her internationally renowned Sexual/Textual Politics (1985), Toril Moi challenges the dominant trends in contemporary feminist and cultural thought, arguing for a feminism of freedom inspired by Simone de Beauvoir''s The Second Sex. Written in a clear and engaging style What is a Woman? brings together two brand new book-length theoretical interventions, Moi''s work on Freud and Bourdieu, and her studies of desire and knowledge in literature.In the controversial title-essay, Toril Moi radically rethinks current debates about sex, gender, and the body - challenging the commonly held belief that the sex/gender distinction is fundamental to all feminist theory. Moi rejects every attempt to define masculinity and femininity, including efforts to define femininity as that which ''cannot be defined''.In the second new book-length essay, ''I Am a Woman'', Toril Moi rewoTrade ReviewReview from previous edition a treat for weary readers of the outrageously obscure. * Elizabeth Fallaize, TLS *Moi's long-awaited re-entry into the lists of mainstream feminist debate will not be perceived as a reopening of hostilities. Moi shows herself extraordinarily attentive to the work of American feminists....The psychoanalysis of Freud, Lacan and Kristeva has been joined by the sociology of Bordieu, the existentialism of Sartre and Beauvoir and, increasingly, by the ordinary language philosophy of Wittgenstein, Austin and Cavell....A bold rehabilitation of the theoretical importance of Beauvoir's feminism....[Issues] an explicit challenge to American feminist orthodoxy. But it is a challenge issued only at the end of a sustained and immensely careful labor of thought. * Modern Language Notes *[Moi is] one of the most astute and lucid critics writing today. What she calls her `attempt to work [her] way out from under post-structuralism, and to see what happens when one goes elsewhere'--a move undertaken in good faith as a feminist and with uncommon critical common sense--points a way forward, both for literary critics and other feminists....[This book] could serve as a lucid introduction to recent theoretical debates, and also as a farewell to them....[Moi proceeds] through careful close readings, sensitive to both historical context and textual nuance....She offers the views of even those she disagrees with with refreshing clarity.' * Women's Review of Books *Table of ContentsPART I: A FEMINISM OF FREEDOM: SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR ; PART II: APPROPRIATING THEORY: BOURDIEU AND FREUD ; PART III: DESIRE AND KNOWLEDGE: READING TEXTS OF LOVE

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Book SynopsisThis major critique on the important new discipline of cultural studies offers readings of Pierre Bourdieu, Michel de Certeau, Stuart Hall and Ernesto Laclau. The author argues for a new orientation for cultural studies starting from a recognition of the complexity of the category of culture.Trade Review...astute and judicious unfolding of the problem of value in cultural studies. * Times Literary Studies *lively and engrossing book ... Frow deftly exposes the weaknesses of relativism showing that it does not so much resolve as side-step the problem of value. * Times Higher Education Supplement *Frow's argument, though conducted in rather forbidding prose, is frequently brilliant * Peter Schwendener, The American Scholar, Volume 65, No. 3, Summer 1996 *

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Book SynopsisThis is the long-awaited publication of a set of writings by the British philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R. G. Collingwood on critical, anthropological, and cultural themes only hinted at in his previously available work. At the centre of the book are six chapters of a study of folktale and magic, composed by Collingwood in the mid-1930s and intended for development into a book. Here Collingwood applies the principles of his philosophy of history to problems in the long-term evolution of human society and culture. This is preceded, in Part I, by a range of contextualizing material on such topics as the relations between music and poetry, the nature of language, the value of Jane Austen''s novels, the philosophy of art, and the relations between aesthetic theory and artistic practice. Part III of the volume consists of two essays, one on the relationship between art and mechanized civilization, and the second, written in 1931, on the collapse of human values and civilization lTrade ReviewReview from previous edition The appearance in print in a scholarly and scrupulously edited form of Collingwood's folktale manuscript is very much to be welcomed as something of an event in Collingwood studies. The editors have done a superb job in presenting the folktale manuscript in a highly accessible form and in linking it with a number of other previously unpublished manuscripts and papers on broadly connected themes. * Peter Johnson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ; The Re-Enactment of Self: Perspectives from Literature, Criticism, and Culture ; A Fieldworker's Philosopher: Perspectives from Anthropology ; In Defence of Collingwood: Perspectives from Philosophy and the History of Ideas ; PART I: ART AND CULTURE ; 1. Words and Tune ; 2. Observations on Language ; 3. Jane Austen (1921) ; 4. Jane Austen (?1934) ; 5. The Philosophy of Art ; 6. Aesthetic Theory and Artistic Practice ; PART II: TALES OF ENCHANTMENT ; 7. Fairy Tales ; 8. Three Methods of Approach: Philological, Functional, Psychological ; 9. The Historical Method ; 10. Magic ; 11. Excavating Cinderella and King Lear ; 12. The Authorship of Fairy-Tales ; Addenda to the Folktale Manuscript ; PART III: THE MODERN UNEASE ; 13. Art and the Machine ; 14. Man Goes Mad

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Book SynopsisWhy do gardens matter so much and mean so much to people? That is the intriguing question to which David Cooper seeks an answer in this book. Given the enthusiasm for gardens in human civilization ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, it is surprising that the question has been so long neglected by modern philosophy. Now at last there is a philosophy of gardens. Not only is this a fascinating subject in its own right, it also provides a reminder that the subject-matter of aesthetics is broader than the fine arts; that ethics is not just about moral issues but about ''the good life''; and that environmental philosophy should not focus only on ''wilderness'' to the exclusion of the humanly shaped environment. David Cooper identifies garden appreciation as a special human phenomenon distinct from both from the appreciation of art and the appreciation of nature. He explores the importance of various ''garden-practices'' and shows how not only gardening itself, but activities to which thTrade Reviewan intricately argued, beautifully nuanced and highly sensitive analysis of what gardens mean and what sort of enterprise they are . . . David E. Cooper has written a book that anyone who wants to understand gardening, our relationship with nature, and the arts will want to read. * Mara Miller, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism *Table of Contents1. Taking Gardens Seriously ; 2. Art or Nature? ; 3. Art-and-Nature ; 4. Gardens, People, and Practices ; 5. Gardens and the Good Life ; 6. The Meaning of Gardens ; 7. The Garden as Epiphany ; 8. Conclusion: The Garden's Distinction

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Book SynopsisWhat are Christians saying when they call the Bible the Word of God? This book tackles such questions by bringing post-modern theory into critical dialogue with the doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture. It constructs 'the sufficiency of Scripture' as both a concept and a doctrine which must remain central to Christian theology and practice.Trade ReviewWard's work merits reading and discussion among both academic and pastoral theologians. * SCottish Journal of Theology *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. Development and Decline ; 3. The Sufficiency of Divine Speech ; 4. The Sufficiency of the Text ; 5. The Sufficiency of the Canon ; 6. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisNationalism has become the most prevalent source of political conflict and violence in the world. Scholarship has provided scant guidance about the prospects of containing the dark side of nationalism-its widely publicized excesses of violence, such as ethnic cleansing and genocide. Departing from the usual practice of considering only a few examples of nationalism drawn from a limited geographical and historical canvas, this book is based on fundamental theoretical ideas about the formation and solidarity of groups. Containing Nationalism offers a unified explanation of the dynamics of nationalism across the broad sweep of time and space. Among other things, it explains why nationalism is largely confined to modern history, why it is supported by specific forms of inequality between cultural groups, and why it is inclusive at sometimes and exclusive at others.Nationalism is the attempt of culturally-distinct peoples to attain political self-determination. Self-determination was generaTrade ReviewHechter has written more for the advanced scholar of nationalism studies and cognate fields. He is already an established name in the field ... Hechter's argument has considerable merits. * The Global Review of Ethnopolitics *Chapter 2 'Causes of Nationalism', is concise, managing to provide explanations for group formation, group solidarity, the modernity of nations and national identification ... the striking feature is that the author is able to usefully clarify in only fourteen pages what so many others take entire books to do. * The Global Review of Ethnopolitics *Containing Nationalism is a trenchant discussion of a problem that shows little sign of abating. Even more, however, it is a thoughtful attempt by a veteran observer to offer a theoretical analysis with very practical implications. This book will be indispensable for academics and policymakers alike. * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsNationalist Puzzels ; Causes of Nationalism ; Indirect Rule and the Absence of nationalism ; State-Building Nationalism ; Other Types of Nationalism ; The Demand for Sovereignty and the Emergence of Nationalism ; Containing Nationalism

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Book SynopsisUsing previously unpublished material from the National Archives, this book provides a thoroughgoing account of the introduction and abolition of theatre censorship in England, from Sir Robert Walpole's Licensing Act of 1737 to the successful campaign to abolish theatre censorship in 1968. It concludes with an exploration of possible new forms of covert censorship.Trade Review`This book, well researched, cogently argued, and frequently revealing, is an important addition to the scholarly literature on theatrical censorship in Britain.' Jeffrey M. Richards, Comparative Drama`a lucid and thorough account' Alec Patton, Theatre JournalTable of ContentsTimeline. Statutory Theatre Censorship ; 1. Theatre Censorship under the Royal Prerogative ; 2. Statutory Theatre Censorship: 1737-1892 ; 3. The 1909 Challenge to Statutory Theatre Censorship ; 4. The Inter-War Years ; 5. The 1949 Bid to end Statutory Theatre Censorship ; 6. Further Attempts to end Statutory Theatre Censorship ; 7. The 1960s and the 1968 Theatres Act ; 8. The Aftermath: British Theatre following the Abolition of Statutory Censorship ; Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis affordable, compact edition, designed specially for use in university courses, consists of two of the most celebrated essays from Toril Moi''s highly-acclaimed What Is a Woman?What is a woman? Does it make sense to think of a woman as the combination of sex and gender? Is ''I am a woman'' the same kind of declaration as ''I am a man''? What does it mean to speak ''as a woman''? In these essays Moi rethinks the contribution of Simone de Beauvoir to feminist theory, and shows that The Second Sex, properly read, offers inspiring solutions to urgent contemporary problems. By suggesting that we think of the body as a situation, the first essay offers a serious challenge to dominant poststructuralist theories of sex and gender. The second essay investigates the place of the personal in theory. What is the status of references to personal experiences, or to one''s person (one''s race, sex, sexuality, ethnicity, nationality) in theoretical debates? Both essays provide, in vivid and compelTrade ReviewIn these two essays Moi goes beyond her previous writings and shows the reader in great detail how Beauvoir can help us get past the stagnation that has come to characterize feminist theory. They provide, in vivid and compelling detail, a "third way" for feminism. * Nancy Bauer, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University *Each of the two chapters offers a very well-constructed argument that clarifies an important issue in contemporary feminism. Toril Moi has a very high public profile, and the quality of these essays shows her reputation is based on substance. * Emily R. Grosholz, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University *These two essays have the stature of classics, as theoretical contributions to feminist theory and women's studies more generally. The brilliance of these essays, and why they remain so inspirational, is that they offer not only a critique of the philosophical situation of women, but also offer a philosophical path forward out of that situation. * Carla A. Hesse, Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley *These essays have been very important in shaping my own thinking on a wide variety of subjects. Most importantly, they establish Simone de Beauvoir as a voice who engages the central questions of gender, culture, and society with which we wrestle today. * Linda K. Kerber, May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of History, University of Iowa *These essays remain very timely and original interventions in two major problem areas of feminist theory, first the "sex/gender" debate and second the place of the "personal" in philosophical and theoretical thinking. Moi's work is important in its own right and her voice and theoretical positions entirely original; at the same time, because her writing is so rigorous and lucidly analytical, these interventions are immensely useful for students trying to find their way through feminist theory. * Diana Knight, Professor of French, University of Nottingham *Moi's two essays constitute major, original interventions into key debates in feminist theory. They are also accessibly and clearly written. * Sonia Kruks, Robert S. Danforth Professor of Politics, Oberlin College *Toril Moi's work is of central importance to the history of feminist theory and feminist literary criticism, and her thoughtful engagement with Simone de Beauvoir has been cited by scholars as the most important work on that founding feminist author to date. * Robyn Wiegman, Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies, Duke University *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. What Is a Woman? Sex, Gender, and the Body in Feminist Theory ; 2. 'I Am a Woman': The Personal and the Philosophical

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Book SynopsisEveryday aesthetic experiences and concerns occupy a large part of our aesthetic life. However, because of their prevalence and mundane nature, we tend not to pay much attention to them, let alone examine their significance. Western aesthetic theories of the past few centuries also neglect everyday aesthetics because of their almost exclusive emphasis on art. In a ground-breaking new study, Yuriko Saito provides a detailed investigation into our everyday aesthetic experiences, and reveals how our everyday aesthetic tastes and judgments can exert a powerful influence on the state of the world and our quality of life.By analysing a wide range of examples from our aesthetic interactions with nature, the environment, everyday objects, and Japanese culture, Saito illustrates the complex nature of seemingly simple and innocuous aesthetic responses. She discusses the inadequacy of art-centered aesthetics, the aesthetic appreciation of the distinctive characters of objects or phenomena, responTrade ReviewYurkio Saito's Everyday Aesthetics is an excellent introduction to what is perhaps analytic aesthetics' newist topic: the aesthetics of everyday life. It is also the most important contribution to this topic to date... a volume that presents an array of powerful new ideas, employs a remarkable range of sources, and is illustrated by a stunning variety of examples... [it] will inform and enrich both professional aestheticians and anyone else fortunate enough to read it. * Allen Carlson, MIND *Everyday Aesthetics is a well-argued and ground-breaking piece of philosophy which has much to say about issues in contemporary philosophy of art and design theory while also helping to form a new sub-discipline within aesthetics. It also has the advantage of being immensely readable. * Tom Leddy, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *a welcome book: Saito has given serious attention to an area of the human aesthetic response that has been sadly neglected in the West. * Robert Wilkinson, British Journal of Aesthetics *The first explicit aim of Saito's book is, in effect, a reply to those who neglect or scoff at the aesthetics of mundane things and activities - an attempt to establish the credentials of 'everyday aesthetics' by showing that it renders aesthetic discourse more truthful and faithful to the richness of aesthetic experience. It is only various pre judices, she argues, that can explain the neglect of the everyday in Western aesthetic tradition. * David E. Cooper, Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; I. The Neglect of Everyday Aesthetics ; II. The Significance of Everyday Aesthetics ; III. Aesthetics of Distinctive Characteristics and Ambience ; IV. Everyday Aesthetic Qualities and Transience ; V. Moral-Aesthetic Judgments of Artifacts ; Conclusion ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisRelativist and constructivist conceptions of truth and knowledge have become orthodoxy in vast stretches of the academic world in recent times. In his long-awaited first book, Paul Boghossian critically examines such views and exposes their fundamental flaws. Boghossian focuses on three different ways of reading the claim that knowledge is socially constructed - one as a thesis about truth and two about justification. And he rejects all three. The intuitive, common-sense view is that there is a way the world is that is independent of human opinion; and that we are capable of arriving at beliefs about how it is that are objectively reasonable, binding on anyone capable of appreciating the relevant evidence regardless of their social or cultural perspective. Difficult as these notions may be, it is a mistake to think that philosophy has uncovered powerful reasons for rejecting them. This short, lucid, witty book shows that philosophy provides rock-solid support for common sense against tTrade Reviewanyone interested in a careful assessment for the considerations for and against social constructivism would do well to begin with Boghossian's book. * Mark McEvoy, Metaphilosophy *Fear of Knowledge is a clear and compelling work. * Travis Dumsday, Science Et Esprit *This is a great book for a seminar or discussion group. And its about time that someone wrote it. Happily, it was someone with Boghossians clarity, verve, and panache. * Graham Priest, Review of Metaphysics 25/07/07 *...the book does a fine job of assessing in brief compass the sort of relativism/constructivism advocated by Rorty and his fellow travelers, and Boghossian's sophisticated and careful arguments against that Rortian view are often ingenious and invariably telling. Aimed at non-specialists, Fear of Knowledge may well suceed in distancing those who are enamored of "postmodern relativism"...from their postmodern enthusiasms. * Harvey Siegel, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *If only Boghossian's eminently reasonable book were required reading for every freshman considering entrance into the humanities... * Ars Disputandi *In both subject matter and execution, this book promises to become a small classic of philosophical analysis. * Choice *For all its sophistication and erudition, the writing is remarkably clear, free of specialized jargon, and accessible to nonspecialist readers. * Choice *...lucid and effective ... * Times Literary Supplement *This is a book that can be read in an afternoon and thought about for a lifetime. * Wall Street Journal *...a tour de force: subtle and originalbut accessible enough to be read by anyone with an interest in the subject. * Wall Street Journal *...this is an important book that should be widely read. * Philosophers' Magazine *Boghossian has written an excellent book ... it contains relentless exposures of confusion, falsehood, and incoherence. * John R. Searle, New York Review of Books *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. The Social Construction of Knowledge ; 3. Constructing the Facts ; 4. Relativizing the Facts ; 5. Epistemic Relativism Defended ; 6. Epistemic Relativism Rejected ; 7. The Paradox Resolved ; 8. Epistemic Reasons and the Explanation of Belief ; Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThis book is a critical introduction to Finnegans Wake and its genesis. As well as offering a survey of critical, scholarly and theoretical approaches to Joyce''s masterpiece, it analyses in detail the compositional development of certain key passages which describe the artist (Shem) and his project; the river-mother (ALP) and her ''first kiss''; the Oedipal shooting of the universal father (HCE) by the priestly son (Shaun); and the bewitching and curious daughter (Issy). The analyses demonstrate ''genetic'' ways of reading the text which illustrate its immense range and playfulness and how these qualities were generated in composition. As well as opening up the densely detailed textuality of the Wake in all its multiplicity, Fordham argues for a relation between the way the text was formed and key aspects of its thematic content: an uprising of particularity and detail against universality, absolutes and generality. The proliferation of individuated textual details overwhelm any unitaTrade ReviewReview from previous edition Sophisticated, erudite, and elegant... it is clear that we have here one of those landmark works on Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Among its many accomplishments Fordham's book demonstrates to a wide audience the procedure and potential productivity of genetic criticism and shows how this approach both stimulates and authorizes new ways of reading the Wake. The readings themselves are a marvelously layered consideration of words, sentences, and passages that illuminate how meaning becomes enlarged, complicated, shifted by revision. At the same time Fordham tracks a complex and fascinating thesis with theoretical implications. A brilliant job and lots of fun to boot. * Margot Norris, The James Joyce Literary Supplement *Fordham's book is one of the most engaging and original studies of Finnegans Wake to appear in a very long time...Fordham has done Joyce's readers a great service by opening up this Pandora's box of inquiry. * Jed Deppman, Review of English Studies *Fordham provides readings of Joyce's language with an improvisational air that belies the sheer erudition informing his writing. Like the Wake itself, there are flashes of insight and brilliance. * Forum for Modern Language Studies *Wonderful. It does the most difficult thing - it renders the book more interesting without making it (or Joyce) sound too coherent. It has been really illuminating for me, a great pleasure to read. * Adam Phillips, General Editor of the Penguin Freud *Certainly one of the best books on the Wake yet published, Lots of Fun is no heavy-handed guidebook or querimonious, would-be summary, but something far more enjoyable and useful: an attempt to experience the Wake on and with its own terms. * Tim Conley, James Joyce Quarterly *A brilliant study of Joyce's drafting of Finnegans Wake, interesting for its own sake and offering an illuminating approach to reading the text. One of the best books on the Wake to have appeared in the last decade or two, it will appeal to all students of Joyce's work. The introduction will be valuable for those who are new to the Wake, but those who know it well will also find Finn Fordham's able survey extremely useful. * Derek Attridge *excellent introduction...a commendably open and fluid approach...organically amenable to Joyce's own theory and practice of composition...the principles of genetic criticism are ably demonstrated here, and the value of this method is vouchsafed by Fordham's energetic and scholarly analysis...Fordham [proposes] the idea of character function...a subtle and supple approach, which stays faithful to the linguistic ebb and flow of Joyce's tragicomic heteroglossia. Thanks to the sterling work of Finn Fordham...Finnegans Wake is a garden in which a few more of us may play. * Keith Hopper, Notes and Queries, vol.56, no. 2, 303-6. *Finn Fordham has given us an important and major new study of Finnegans Wake, one that investigates the book with unparalleld intensity and in a brilliantly unique way. Among its many other accomplishments, Fordham's work contributes powerfully to the renewed upsurge of interest in what Helen Vendler has called "the art of close reading", offering its reader both a compelling defence of the practice and a brilliant exemplification of its exercise. Finn Fordham is a great and electrifying reader. No one else reads the Wake with quite the same kind of depth or intensity...This is a book that should appeal to and reward both the seasoned reader of the Wake and the novice... Its genetic exegeses are mind-widening and fun... [It] is a powerful and thought-provoking new study, one that will stimulate and reward any interested reader of the book. This is first-rate and important work. * John Bishop, James Joyce Broadsheet *Table of ContentsPART I; PART II; PART III; PART IV

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Book SynopsisDespite the dramatic expansion of modern technology, which defines and dominates many aspects of contemporary life and thought, the Western magical traditions are currently undergoing an international resurgence. How can we account for this widespread interest in ancient magical belief systems? In historical terms, Gnosticism and the Hermetica, the medieval Kabbalah, Tarot and Alchemy, and more recently, Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, collectively laid the basis for the modern magical revival, which first began to gather momentum in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century. Modern Western magic has since become increasingly eclectic, drawing on such diverse sources as classical Greco-Roman mythology, Celtic cosmology, Kundalini yoga and Tantra, shamanism, chaos theory, and the various spiritual traditions associated in many different cultures with the Universal Goddess.In this overview of the modern occult revival, Nevill Drury traces the rise of various forms of magical belief andTrade ReviewDrury is a skilled word craftsman, making his prose a pleasure to read. The many years he has spent researching this field are reflected in his masterly analysis, with information presented in a flowing, yet systematic fashion. I expect Stealing Fire from Heaven will immediately be recognized as filling an important gap in the literature. * James R. Lewis, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Tromso, Norway *Table of ContentsPREFACE; INTRODUCTION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

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Book SynopsisThis book traces the history of the Cuban mulata and her association with hips, sensuality and popular dance. It examines how the mulata choreographs her identity through her hips. Combining literary and personal narratives with historical and theoretical accounts of Cuban popular dance history, religiosity and culture, this work investigates the power of embodied exchanges.Trade Review"This triumphant offering invigorates dance scholarship with an outstanding coordination of historical method, performative writing, and coherent, compelling analysis of dance practice in Cuba. Written with authority, literary drive, and compassion, She Is Cuba answers a call for carefully considered research to explore the racialized feminine, the powers of the State, and to demonstrate the centrality of the living body in the construction of social identity." --Thomas F. DeFrantz, Duke University, Professor of African & African American Studies and Dance, Duke University "The mulata body dances off the page. Blanco Borelli writes her way through the Cuban siren-call of the hips. Her bi-lingual and seductive language privileges rumor and corporeality while engaging with rich histories sprung from archival research."--Anita Gonzalez, Professor of Theatre and Drama, University of MichiganTable of ContentsPrologue, Entre Familia/Between Family ; Introduction ; Chapter 1: Historicizing Hip(g)nosis ; Interlude 1: Echando Cuentos/Telling Stories ; Chapter 2: Hip(g)nosis at Work: Rumors, Social Dance and Cuba's Academias de Baile ; Interlude 2: A Marriage Proposal ; Chapter 3: Hip(g)nosis as Pleasure: The Mulata in Film ; Interlude 3: Lost Baggage ; Chapter 4: Hip(g)nosis as Brand: Despelote, Tourism and Mulata Citizenship ; Conclusion or Rear Endings ; Index

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Book SynopsisGestures of Music Theater explores examples of Song and Dance as performative gestures that entertain and affect audiences. The chapters interact to reveal the complex energies of performativity. In experiencing these energies, music theatre is revealed as a dynamic accretion of active, complex and dialogical experiences.Trade ReviewThis book makes for a very rewarding read: it combines an excellent selection of emerging and established scholars and practitioners' voices and despite its diversity with regard to genre, time, methodology and focus, it is held together firmly by a very specific and timely common research question: how song and dance can be read as performative gestures. The editors and contributors demonstrate vividly how song and dance are not merely the concern of a limited group of musicologists and dance scholars, but are omnipresent in our culture and provide a fascinating prism through which to see and understand human communication. * Dr. David Roesner, University of Kent *This impressive volume offers important new insights on the act of music theatre and the performativity of song and dance. The collection of essays on vocality and physical gesture expands our understanding of how voices and bodies can be located in multiple theatrical contexts. * Dr. William A. Everett, University of Missouri-Kansas City *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Singing the Dance, Dancing the Song ; Chapter 1: The Song's the Thing: Capturing the "Sung" to Make it "Song" ; Chapter 2: The (Un)Pleasure of Song: On the Enjoyment of Listening to Opera ; Performativity as Dramaturgy ; Chapter 3: Relocating the Song: Julie Taymor's Jukebox Musical Across the Universe (2007) ; Chapter 4: Dynamic shape: the Dramaturgy of Song and Dance in Lloyd Webber's Cats (1981) ; Performativity as Transition ; Chapter 5: Dance Breaks and Dream Ballets: Transitional Moments in Musical Theater ; Chapter 6: "Love Let Me Sing you": The Liminality of Song and Dance in La Chiusa's Bernarda Alba (2006) ; Performativity as Identity ; Chapter 7: Tapping the Ivories: Jazz and Tap Dance in Jelly's Last Jam (1992). ; Chapter 8: Everything's Coming up Kurt: the Broadway Song in Glee ; Chapter 9: Angry Dance: Postmodern Innovation, Masculinities and Gender Subversion ; Performativity as Context ; Chapter 10: Deconstructing the Singer: the Concerts of Laurie Anderson ; Chapter 11: Singing and a Song: The "Intimate Difference" in Susan Philipsz's Lowlands (2010) ; Chapter 12: Acting Operatically: Body, Voice and the Actress in Beckett's Theater ; Performativity as Practice ; Chapter 13: Vox Elettronica: Song, Dance and Live Electronics in the Practice of Sound Theater ; Chapter 14: From Ear to Foot: How Choreographers Interpret Music ; Chapter 15: Singing from Stones: Physiovocality and Gardzienice's Theater of Musicality ; Performativity as Community ; Chapter 16: Singing the Community: the Musical Theater Chorus as Character ; Chapter 17: Singing and Dancing Ourselves: The Politics of the Ensemble in A Chorus Line (1975) ; Performativity as Writing ; Bibliography ; Index ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book details how France's most profitable plantation colony became Haiti, Latin America's first independent nation, through an uprising by slaves and the largest and wealthiest free population of people of African descent in the New World.Trade Review'This work makes an enormous contribution to the existing scholarship on Haiti, on free people of colour in the Caribbean, and more generally to our understanding of the history of the Atlantic world.' - Laurent Dubois, Michigan State University, USA 'In 1791, the western third of the island of Hispaniola stood as the crown jewel of France's empire and the world's most valuable slave-based colony. It also possessed the most prosperous class of free-coloured slaveholders in the history of the Americas. John Garrigus zeroes in on members of this ambivalent class, particulary those from St. Domingue's South Province who exerted disproportionate influence in challenging the metropolis to apply the high ideals of the French Revolution to end racial discrimination in France's overseas possessions. With this important book, Garrigus has illuminated the complex process that transformed slave revolt into social revolutio, subjects into citizens, and colony into nation.' - Robert L. Paquette, Publius Rogers Professor of American History, Hamilton College, USA 'Before Haiti, an important new study of free people of colour in southern colonial Saint-Domingue, offers critical insights into the social and cultural roots of the Haitian Revolution. John Garrigus brings a nuanced understanding of the complexities of racial ideology to this detailed and grounded analysis of the kinship, business and political strategies free people of colour undertook in the colonial plantation regime.' - Sue Peabody, Department of History, Washington State University, Vancouver, Canada 'In this elegant and dynamic study, John Garrigus uncovers the ways in which colour lines were built and un-built in different spheres of life in colonial Saint-Domingue. By focusing on free people of colour from the southern penninsula, he shows the interplay of metropolitan interests and American Identities in the domains of colour, privilege, and citizenship. Using a rich vein of notarial records, Garrigus proposes a new and very subtle understanding of the development of racial ideologies on the eve of the Haitian Revolution.' - Rebecca J Scott, Professor of History and Law, University of Michigan, and author of Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after slavery 'This long-awaited volume confirms Garrigus as the leading authority on Saint Domingue's free people of colour, the wealthiest nonwhite population in the colonial Americas. Combining a meticulous socio-economic regional study with political and cultural analysis set in a broad hemispheric context, the work will assuredly reshape thinking about the Haitian Revolution.' - David Geggus, Department of History, University of Florida, USATable of ContentsThe Development of Creole Society on the Colonial Frontier Race and Class in Creole Society: Saint-Domingue in the 1760s Freedom, Slavery, and the French Colonial State Reform and Revolt after the Seven Years War Citizenship and Racism in the New Republic Sphere The Rising Economic Power of Free People in Color in the 1780s Proving Free Colored Virtue Free People of Color in the Southern Peninsula and the Origins of the Haitain Revolution Revolution and Republicanism in Aquin Parish

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Book SynopsisThe first substantial interdisciplinary, cross-genre critique of Margaret Thatcher and her cultural 'afterlife', exploring Thatcher's legacy across a range of areas including public policy, broadcast media, film, poetry, architectural design, political cartoons and literature.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors 'The Lady's Not For Turning': New Cultural Perspectives on Thatcher and Thatcherism; L.Hadley & E.Ho PART I: THATCHER 'There Is No Such Thing!': On Public Service, Broadcasting, The National Health Service and 'People' in the 1980s; P.Holland & G.Eglezou 'New Times' Television?: Channel 4 and My Beautiful Laundrette ; A.Beaumont The Gospel of Gandhi : Whiteness and State Narcissism in Thatcherite England; J.Mezey Rural Heritage and Colonial Nostalgia in the Thatcher Years: V. S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival ; L.Loh There's No Place like Home: Margaret Thatcher at Number 10 Downing Street; K.A.Morrison PART II: AFTER Shameless?: Picturing the 'Underclass' after Thatcherism; H.Nunn & A.Biressi Carving Up Value: The Tragicomic Thatcher Years in Jonathan Coe; R.Trimm Let's Dance: The Line of Beauty and the Revenant Figure of Thatcher; K.Duff Sarah Kane: Cool Britannia's Reluctant Feminist; G.Saunders Parodic Reiterations: Representations of Margaret Thatcher and Thatcherism in Late Twentieth-Century British Political Cartoons; H.Joyce Notes Index

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Book SynopsisNews media, movies, blogs and video games issue constant invitations to picture war, experience the thrill of combat, and revisit battles past. War, it''s often said, sells. But what does it take to sell a war, and to what extent can news media be viewed as disinterested reporters of truth?Lively and highly readable, this book explores how wars have been reported, interpreted and perpetuated from the dawn of the media age to the present digital era. Spanning a broad geographical and historical canvas, Susan L. Carruthers provides a compelling analysis of the forces that shape the production of news and images of war from state censorship to more subtle forms of military manipulation and popular pressure. This fully revised second edition has been updated to cover modern-day conflict in the post 9/11 epoch, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.Rich in historical detail, The Media at War also provides sharp insights into contemporary experience, prompting critical reflectioTrade Review'With a fine appreciation of the breadth of her subject, Susan Carruthers has delivered a valuable assessment of the complex synergy between media and conflict. Well written and thoughtful, The Media at War is an essential contribution to the literature of this important field.' - Philip Seib, University of Southern California, USA 'Displaying an outstanding command of the area, Susan L. Carruthers provides a well-written and cogently-argued introduction to the terrain between media, popular imagination and war.' - Steven Livingston, George Washington University, USA 'Studded with brilliant insight, Susan Carruthers draws on a wide range of disciplines to produce a carefully crafted analysis of the relationship between media and war. The result is a true tour de force that is guaranteed to inspire the reader.' - David Welch, University of Kent, UK Reviews of the first edition: 'Carruthers has produced an ambitious and accomplished study that will be of obvious interest across a range of academic disciplines but a particularly welcome addition to the growing literature on the subject of war and the media.' - Greg McLaughlin, Ethnicity and Cultural Politics 'an excellent introduction to the study of the media and war. The circular format the author adopts makes the book intriguingly readable. The text is well documented and balanced in its presentation of existing scholarship in this field.' - Elizabeth Stanley-Mitchell, Millennium '...an interesting and pleasant lecture for those interested in how mass media affects and models inter-ethnic relations in welfare times, while constructing powerful stereotypical images based on ethnic, cultural or religious differences.' - Despina Dumitrica, The Ethnic Conflict 'Susan Carruthers...has done an excellent job of analysing journalistic and entertainment media as integral elements of the war system...Citing an array of primarily UK and US sources...the author provides both historical context and a realistic projection of what lies ahead.' - Philip Seib, News and MythTable of ContentsIntroduction Mobilization: The Media Before War Total War Television Wars: Vietnam and After Other People's Wars: Interventions in Real-Time Wars on Terror Warin the Digital Age: Afghanistan and Iraq Conclusion: After War, More War.

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Book SynopsisThis is thefirst comprehensivetext on social psychological approaches to communication, providing an excellent introduction to theoretical perspectives, special topics, and applied areas and practice in communication. Bringing together scholarsof international reputation, this book provides a unique contribution to the field.Trade Review'A very timely book...the focus on the multi-faceted nature of the social and behavioural changes that are allied to communication processes is impressive' - Jaan Valsiner, Professor, Department of Psychology, Clark University, USA '...The Social Psychology of Communication is rich in differing and often even competing theoretical perspectives and practical applications, and yet it also manages to be a book of singular purpose...the reader will jump back and forth between agreement, objection, and wonder. When this occurs, the book has accomplished its goal.' Psychology in SocietyTable of ContentsGlossary of Keywords and Definitions Introduction: The Social Psychology of Communication: Towards an 'Inter-Field' Approach; D.Hook & B. Franks PART I: INTRODUCING THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF COMMUNICATION The Developmental Impact of Communicative Interaction; J.Hardman Dialogue, Critical Consciousness and Praxis; C.Vaughan Non-verbal Communication and Culture; A.de-Graft Aikins Social Influence: Modes and Modalities; G.Sammut & M.Bauer Pragmatic Theory and Social Relations; B.Franks & H.Green Communicative Action and the Dialogical Imagination; S.Jovchelovitch PART II: SPECIAL TOPICS IN COMMUNICATIONIdentity and Resistance in Communication; C.Howarth Rumours and Gossip as Genres of Communication; B.Franks & S.Attia Empty and Full Speech; D.Hook Argument and Rhetoric; V. Glaveanu with M.Bauer Evolution and Communication; B.Franks & J.Dhesi PART III: APPLIED AREAS AND PRACTICE Religion as Communicative Action; E.Arens Media Health Campaigns: From Information to Social Change; C.Campbell & K.Scott Social Psychology of Political Communication; M.C.Nisbet & L.Feldman Science Communication; J.Gregory

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Book SynopsisPhillip McIntyre presents the latest scholarly research into creativity and creative practice. The book provides insights to media practitioners and policy professionals, looking at television, radio, film, journalism, photography, popular music and new media in relation to psychology, sociology and cultural studies.Trade Review'This is a pioneering and thorough examination of creativity and cultural production. It brings together a vast array of knowledge, critical analysis and insight to the field of creativity and cultural studies. It will be essential reading for anyone involved in popular music and media practices in journalism, television and photography, including academia, industry, researchers and policy makers and debaters. This book is appropriate for use and essential reading on university undergraduate and postgraduate media courses, as well as those who study and practice the different forms of creativity in the larger community. It will not ask you to think only positively about change, but will ask you to think anew about our experiential and conceptual understanding of creativity. It deserves to be widely read.' - Pamela Burnard, University of Cambridge, UK 'Drawing from the experiences of practitioners, Phillip McIntyre interrogates the varied disputes about creativity, and argues for a shift away from person-centred approaches to theorizing creative practice. This bold and challenging book de-romanticises the artist, proposing that understanding creativity should entail studying the operations of media systems, rather than the talented individuals so often portrayed as at odds with such systems.' - Keith Negus, Glodsmiths, University of London, UK 'This scholarly book is innovative and absolutely necessary to further our understanding of contemporary media practices. McIntyre aligns with the contemporary conception of creativity as a socially contextualized practice, rather than a personality type or a moment of insight. He develops a comprehensive overview of these contemporary frameworks, and then uses them to analyze contemporary media practices in radio, journalism, television, film, photography, and popular music. This is a valuable book for scholars of media production, and for scholars interested in creativity in general.' - Keith Sawyer, Associate Professor at Washington University, USA, and author of Explaining Creativity and Group GeniusTable of ContentsPART I: THEORIES ABOUT CREATIVITY AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION Introductory Perspectives on Creativity The Creator as Genius Bio-Psychological Perspectives Creativity and The Social The Cultural View Reconceptualising Creativity PART II: ISSUES FOR MEDIA PRACTICE Agency and Structure: The Case of Radio Journalism: Structures and Motivation Television: Form, Format and Being Formulaic Film: Auteur Theory, Collaboration, Systems Photography: Art, Craft and Their Symbiosis Popular Music: Creativity and Authenticity The Digital Revolution: Copyright and Creativity Refocusing Methods for Creative Work Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNiall Richardson is Senior Lecturer in Media and Film at the University of Sussex, UK. Sadie Wearing is Lecturer in Gender Theory, Culture and Media at the London School of Economics, UK.Trade Review"With refreshing clarity and insight, Gender and the Media condenses a body of challenging critical theory with consummate rigour in ways that undergraduates will find both accessible and thought-provoking. Its media case studies, from make-over TV to online dating sites and quality television drama, are timely and illuminating, as the authors examine a range of examples from popular culture to demonstrate the magnitude of the politics at stake. This is an essential text for students seeking both an introduction to key debates surrounding gender and the media, and an understanding of how this powerful conjunction is constructed and experienced in the everyday world." - Deborah Jermyn, Reader in Film and Television, University of Roehampton, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: Gender and Representation PART I: QUESTIONS OF THEORY 1. Feminisms 2. Masculinities 3. Beyond the Two Gender System: Queer Theory PART II: MEDIA CASE STUDIES 4. 'Quality' Television Drama 5. The Make-Over Show 6. Celebrity Bodies and Lifestyle Magazines 7. New Media and 'Performing' Gender: Online Dating.

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Book SynopsisPre-financial crisis, EU citizens were 'overlooking' Europe ignoring it in favour of globalisation, economic flows, and crises of political corruption. Innovative focus group methods allow an analysis of citizens' reactions, and demonstrate how euroscepticism is a red herring, instead articulating an indifference to and ambivalence about Europe.Trade ReviewThe last decade has witnessed the publication of major qualitative comparative studies of citizens' views and experiences of European integration. None can match, however, Overlooking Europe's theoretical and methodological rigor, nor its intellectual honesty. In a rare instance of genuine and successful collective work, the authors demonstrate and provide a highly sophisticated and original account of the ordinary citizens' cognitive and affective distancing with respect to the European integration process on the eve of Europe's 2008 debt and fiscal crisis. This account largely contradicts previous conclusions drawn from the analysis of public opinion survey data and forever changes our interpretation of political developments in the European Union since the late 1980s. Definitely a 'must' for those interested in European integration and in learning qualitative research methods." Juan Díez Medrano is Rafael del Pino Professor in the Department of Economic History and Institutions at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid 'This book takes us backstage in a refreshing way to help us understand the thinking process and the ambivalences that people in different countries feel about the idea of Europe.' William Gamson is Professor of sociology at Boston college and co-director of the Media Research and Action Porject. 'For their focus group data, the authors take a very useful interpretive approach. I especially appreciated the way they investigated a political topic by encouraging debate that helped in understanding different political positions. This method for carefully studying similarities and differences is exactly the kind of innovation that we need in focus group research. David Morgan is Professor of Sociology at Portland State University 'The political normalisation of European integration is in the heart of this very beautiful book. It will interest the specialists of the European studies as well as the readers attentive to the methodological innovations. It is an excellent catalogue of some the richest, most innovative and empirically solid research in comparative political science' Yves Déloye, is Professor of political science at Sciences Po Bordeaux and the editor of the Revue française de science politique. 'In a field replete with studies of citizen's views of the EU, Overlooking Europe stands alone for the originality of its focus group approach, providing new insights into how Europeans from different member-states look at and, indeed, 'overlook' Europe differently. The book explodes many of the received assumptions about European citizens whether as increasingly pro-European or Eurosceptic to show that mostly they simply don't know, and very often don't care. Overlooking Europe, in brief, is a book that should not be overlooked.' Vivien A. Schmidt is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Director of the Center for the Study of Europe, Boston University.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Preface and Acknowledgements; S.Duchesne, E.Frazer, F.Haegel & V.Van Ingelgom Introduction: Outline of the Book; S.Duchesne, E.Frazer, F.Haegel & V.Van Ingelgom Concepts and Theory: Political Sociology and European Study; S.Duchesne, E.Frazer, F.Haegel & V.Van Ingelgom National Frames: Reactions to a Multi-level World; F.Haegel Social Gap: the Double Meaning of 'Overlooking'; S.Duchesne When Ambivalence meets Indifference; V.Van Ingelgom Representation and Legitimation; E.Frazer & V.Van Ingelgom Reflections on Design and Implementation; S.Duchesne, E.Frazer, A.P.Frognier, G.Garcia, F.Haegel & V.Van Ingelgom Conclusion: Citizens Talking about Europe; S.Duchesne, E.Frazer, F.Haegel & V.Van Ingelgom Post Script: Searching for the Grail; A.P.Frognier References Appendices Notes

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Book SynopsisList of Figures Glossary Acknowledgments Introduction 1 PART I: MUSEUM, MEMORY, MEDIUM 1. A New Type of Museum? 2. Memory Boom, Memory Wars and Memory Crisis 3. Is There Such a Thing as 'Collective Memory'? 4. Media Frameworks of Remembering 5. Difficult Pasts, Vicarious Trauma: The Concept of 'Secondary Witnessing' 6. Empathy and its Limits in the Museum 7. Nostalgia and Post-Nostalgia in Heritage Sites PART II: THE DEATHS OF OTHERS: REPRESENTING TRAUMA IN WAR MUSEUMS 8. Sites of Trauma 9. Icons of Trauma PART III: SCREEN MEMORIES AND THE 'MOVING' IMAGE: EMPATHY AND PROJECTION IN ISM, LIVERPOOL, AND IWM NORTH, MANCHESTER 10. The Politics of Empathy 11. Testimonial Video Installation 12. Middle Passage Installation 13. The Big Picture in IWM North 14. Guilt, Grief and Empathy PART IV: THE PARADOXES OF NOSTALGIA IN MUSEUMS AND HERITAGE SITES 15. (Post-)Nostalgia for the Museum? The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 16. The Ghosts of Spitalfields: 18 Folgate Street and 19 Princelet Street 17. ITrade Review“Silke Arnold-de Simine’s book is a tour de force that introduces readers to a variety of new museums and heritage sites across Europe … When the reader finishes reading this intriguing and moving book, the first thing he or she wants to do is rush out and visit those new museums.” (Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi, European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, Vol. 2 (3-4), March, 2016)“Arnold-de Simine provides a very useful starting point for those wading into the research area situated between memory studies and museum studies. In making clear distinctions between authentic objects, representational displays, video testimony, and memory texts within her analysis of the mediated exhibits, she provides a nuanced understanding of the differences between museums, memorials, remembrance, and the spatial reenactment of trauma. Her synthesis of concepts from the various fields associated with the flourishing of “spaces of memory” will prove especially useful for anyone new to this burgeoning field.” (Amy Freier, Memory Studies, 2015, Vol. 8(3), p.379–382)"This book is a welcome and extremely useful contribution to the subject of memory studies. I suspect it will reinvigorate the field in some interesting ways and may even form the core of a new, much-needed round of cross-disciplinary research." (Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 2014)Table of ContentsList of Figures Glossary Acknowledgments Introduction 1 PART I: MUSEUM, MEMORY, MEDIUM 1. A New Type of Museum? 2. Memory Boom, Memory Wars and Memory Crisis 3. Is There Such a Thing as 'Collective Memory'? 4. Media Frameworks of Remembering 5. Difficult Pasts, Vicarious Trauma: The Concept of 'Secondary Witnessing' 6. Empathy and its Limits in the Museum 7. Nostalgia and Post-Nostalgia in Heritage Sites PART II: THE DEATHS OF OTHERS: REPRESENTING TRAUMA IN WAR MUSEUMS 8. Sites of Trauma 9. Icons of Trauma PART III: SCREEN MEMORIES AND THE 'MOVING' IMAGE: EMPATHY AND PROJECTION IN ISM, LIVERPOOL, AND IWM NORTH, MANCHESTER 10. The Politics of Empathy 11. Testimonial Video Installation 12. Middle Passage Installation 13. The Big Picture in IWM North 14. Guilt, Grief and Empathy PART IV: THE PARADOXES OF NOSTALGIA IN MUSEUMS AND HERITAGE SITES 15. (Post-)Nostalgia for the Museum? The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 16. The Ghosts of Spitalfields: 18 Folgate Street and 19 Princelet Street 17. Intangible Heritage, Place and Community: Écomusée d'Alsace 18. Ostalgie – Nostalgia for GDR Everyday Culture? The GDR in the Museum PART V: UNCANNY OBJECTS, UNCANNY TECHNOLOGIES 19. Phantasmagoria and its Spectres in the Museum Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection is the first to address the topic of adolescence in Irish history. It brings together established and emerging scholars to examine the experience of Irish young adults from the 'affective revolution' of the early nineteenth century to the emergence of the teenager in the 1960s.Trade Review“As the first academic study to address the topic of adolescence in Irish history, this volume is therefore a welcome addition to a developing field. … it remains a valuable publication and one that marks out a new area of historical enquiry.” (Virginia Crossman, Childhood in the Past, Vol. 10 (1), June, 2017) Table of Contents1. Robert Hyndman's toe: romanticism, schoolboy politics and the affective revolution in late Georgian Belfast; Jonathan Wright 2. 'A sudden and complete revolution in the female': female adolescence and the medical profession in post-Famine Ireland; Ann Daly 3. The 'wild Irish girl' in selected novels of L. T. Meade; Sandra McAvoy 4. 'The most dangerous, reckless, passionate ... period of their lives': the Irish borstal offender, 1906-1921; Conor Reidy 5. An Irish nationalist adolescence: Na Fianna Eireann, 1909-23; Marnie Hay 6. 'Storm and stress': Richard Devane, adolescent psychology and the politics of protective legislation 1922-35; Susannah Riordan 7. 'How will we kill the evening?': 'degeneracy' and 'second generation' male adolescence in independent Ireland; Bryce Evans 8. A powerful antidote? Catholic youth clubs in the sixties; Carole Holohan 9. The emergence of an Irish adolescence: 1920s to 1970s; Mary E. Daly

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Book SynopsisCosmopolitanism and the Media explores the diverse implications of today's digital media environments in relation to people's worldviews and social practices. The book presents an empirically grounded account of the relationship between cosmopolitanized lifeworlds and forces of surveillance, control and mobility.Trade Review“Cosmopolitanism and the Media: Cartographies of Change explores the impact of mainstream media, in particular, digital media, on people's cosmopolitan worldviews and social practices and, vice versa: how cosmopolitan practices are connected to media framing. … The book provides a nice balance of the relationship between mediatized cosmopolitan life-worlds and forces of surveillance, control and mobility, etc.” (Weiwu Zhang, CBQ Communication Booknotes Quarterly, Vol.47, January-March, 2016)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements PART I: MAPPING THE TERRAIN: BOUNDARIES AND BRIDGES 1. Introductory Essay: Cosmopolitanization, Mediatization and Social Change 2. Cosmopolitan Trajectories: Connectivity, Reflexivity and Symbolic Power 3. Remediated Sociality and the Dual Logic of Surveillance PART II: CONTEXTUALIZING SPACE, MOBILITY AND BELONGING 4. Transnational Media Flows: Globalization, Politics and Identity 5. Transclusion vs. Demediation: Mediatization and the Re-Embedding of Cosmopolitanism 6. Cities, Embodied Expressivity and Morality of Proximity 7. In Conclusion: Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents References Index

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Book SynopsisIraq's Last Jews is a collection of first-person accounts by Jews about their lives in Iraq's once-vibrant, 2500 year-old Jewish community and about the disappearance of that community in the middle of the 20th century.Trade Review'These stories provide more than just the details of Iraq's former Jewish community; we learn so much about that country's larger history and culture Iraq's Last Jews is without a doubt the most surprising and informative book about that country's culture and history to date.' - The New York Post 'Editors Tamar Morad, Dennis Shasha and Robert Shasha have trimmed the narratives skillfully to present a composite picture of a once-thriving community...The small but significant acts of kindness and heroism that punctuate this tragic tale lend it an air of humanity and hope, as well as the fact that by its mere existence, there is the opportunity to learn from the mistakes of the past and forge a brighter future.' - The Jewish Journal, Boston North 'The moving experiences, insights, and the story of how the Israelis spirited masses out of the country make this a very special volume that needed to be written.' - Jewish Voice and Opinion 'In this fascinating book, the last generation of Iraqi Jews tells their story in their own words. It's a tragic and profoundly moving account. This volume is a must-read for understanding one of the most important and overlooked aspects of the Middle East - the fate of Jews in Arab countries.' David A. Harris, Executive Director, American Jewish Committee 'Iraq's Last Jews is a thoroughly researched, riveting account of the last generation of Iraqi Jews. The editors have identified some of the most remarkable stories about this community, and in doing so have brought to light the rich, sometimes sad, always interesting history of the oldest Jewish diaspora in the world. This book will be of great value to all who care about the history of the Middle East, Iraq in the twentieth century, and the saga of the last Jews of Arab lands.' - David Landau, former editor-in-chief, Ha'aretz 'This important book opens a window onto the fate of the Jewish community of Iraq, which for many years had been obscured by attempts to hide the brutal policies practiced by state governments against the Jews. It is possible now to get a real picture of the suffering of the Babylonian Jewish community as expressed in these authentic testimonies. The appearance of this book in English is a great service to Western readers.' - Nissim Kazzaz, Ben Gurion University, member of the Academic Committee of the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center, Or-Yehuda and the Association of Jewish Academics from Iraq in Israel '...the volume begins to fulfill its aims for uncovering less-known history, and it elicits some important questions for readers and for publishers.' - Oral History ReviewTable of ContentsIraq, Our Country' An Audacious Plan 'Our Country No More' 'On the Outside'

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Book SynopsisBridges the gap between the history and theory of twentieth-century architecture and cultural theories of modernity.In this exploration of the relationship between modernity, dwelling, and architecture, Hilde Heynen attempts to bridge the gap between the discourse of the modern movement and cultural theories of modernity. On one hand, she discusses architecture from the perspective of critical theory, and on the other, she modifies positions within critical theory by linking them with architecture. She assesses architecture as a cultural field that structures daily life and that embodies major contradictions inherent in modernity, arguing that architecture nonetheless has a certain capacity to adopt a critical stance vis-à-vis modernity.Besides presenting a theoretical discussion of the relation between architecture, modernity, and dwelling, the book provides architectural students with an introduction to the discourse of critical theory. The subchapters on Walter

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Book SynopsisVariations on the theme of the ornament in Kracauer's urban writings, suggesting ways in which the subjective can reappropraite urban life.For Siegfried Kracauer, the urban ornament was not just an aspect of design; it was the medium through which city dwellers interpreted the metropolis itself. In Ornaments of the Metropolis, Henrik Reeh traces variations on the theme of the ornament in Kracauer's writings on urbanism, from his early journalism in Germany between the wars to his sociobiography of Jacques Offenbach in Paris. Kracauer (1889-1966), often associated with the Frankfurt School and the intellectual milieu of Walter Benjamin, is best known for his writings on cinema and the philosophy of history. Reeh examines Kracauer's lesser-known early work, much of it written for the trendsetting newspaper Frankfurter Zeitung in the 1920s and early 1930s, and analyzes Kracauer's continuing reflections on modern urban life, through the pivotal idea of ornament. Kracauer d

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Book SynopsisThis text examines a variety of socialist cultural phenomena from China and the Third World to show that Cold War representations of socialism as hostile to artistic expression were misleading.Table of ContentsIntroduction by Dubravka Juraga and M. Keith Booker The Political Logic of Cosmopolitanism by Timothy Brennan Against Premature Internationalism: Reasserting the Necessity of Nationalism for Socialist Liberation in the Age of Post-Theory by Tim Libretti Revolutions in History and Memory: The Politics of Cultural Revolution in Historical Perspective by Arif Dirlik What is "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics"?: Debates about Culture, Ideology, and Modernity in China in the 1990s by Liu Kang Writing for the Wretched of the Earth: Frantz Fanon and the Radical African Novel by M. Keith Booker "Structurally Adjusted Amnesia,": South Africa's Long March and Longer Walk by Barbara Harlow Striking Images: Ralph de Boissiere's Australian Socialist Realism by Allan Gardiner

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Book SynopsisThis volume aims to demonstrate that propagandist Cold War depictions of socialism as inimical to genuine aesthetic achievement were inaccurate and misleading.Table of ContentsIntroduction by Dubravka Juraga and M. Keith Booker The Reds and The Blacks: The Historical Novel in the Soviet Union and Postcolonial Africa by M. Keith Booker and Dubravka Juraga From Laughter "Out of Sync" to Post-Synchronized Comedy: How the Stalinist Film Musical Caught Up with Hollywood and Overtook It by Thomas Lahusen Miroslav Krleza's Zastave: Socialism, Yugoslavia, and the Historical Novel by Dubravka Juraga The Matter of Art: Reinventing Brecht in the Society of the Spectacle by Michael Sprinker Mike Gold or Jame Joyce?: The Literature of Politics and the Politics of Literature by M. Keith Booker Revising the Barricades: Scholarship about the U.S. Cultural Left in the Post-Cold War Era by Alan Wald Material Grounds: Border and Place in Raymond Williams's Fiction by H. Gustav Klaus Jean Devanny and Dorothy Hewett: Two Australian Industrial Fiction Writers by Carole Ferrier and Stephen Knight

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Book SynopsisSociety is fixated on looks and celebrities, but how we look has deep ramifications for ordinary people too. This book explains how social inequality pertains to prejudice and discrimination against people based on their physical appearance. It discusses the pressures to be attractive and the methods by which we strive to alter our appearance.Trade ReviewPublic and general libraries. * Choice *Sociologist Berry has taught at several American universities….In this text, she tackles social inequality centered on physical appearance skin color, hair texture, height, weight, eye shape, disabilities and deformities, condition of the teeth, evidence of aging, and beauty which, compared to other forms of racism, is still legal and socially acceptable. Berry examines the ways that physical appearance affects health, chances at romance (and marriage and family), and workplace experiences; the activities and procedures people undergo to become more socially desirable via their appearance; how various systems medical and health insurance professions, the legal system, the global and economic community respond to people differently depending on appearance; the issue of choice to engage in appearance enhancement; and movements to promote looks-diversity acceptance. * Reference & Research Book News *Table of ContentsPreface INTRODUCTION: The Power of Looks PART I: The Ramifications Chapter 1. Looks and Health Chapter 2. Looks and Romance Chapter 3. Looks and Workplace PART II: The Pressures Chapter 4. The Diet, Fitness, and Supplements Industries Chapter 5. Cosmetics, Cosmeceuticals, and Other Superficial Changes Chapter 6. The Plastic Surgery Industry PART III: The System Chapter 7. The Medical and Health Insurance Communities Chapter 8. The Legal Community Chapter 9. The Economy, Globalization, and Power CONCLUSION: Toward an Acceptance of Looks Diversity APPENDIX: Filmography

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Book SynopsisRebelling against bourgeois vacuity, the Beat writers and artists have long symbolized a spirit of freedom and radical democracy. Juxtaposing them with Chicano rationalists and Mexican migrant writers, this text offers a challenge to this view and uncovers reactionary strains in the Beats' vision.Trade ReviewA fresh and compelling perspective on social dissent in postwar America. - Albert Gelpi, Stanford University; ""A totally original and brilliant revision of American cultural studies and Chicano studies."" - Jose E. Limon, University of Texas at Austin

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Book SynopsisFrom essays about the Salem witch trials to literary uses of ghosts by Twain, Wharton, and Bierce to the cinematic blockbuster The Sixth Sense, this book is the first to survey the importance of ghosts and hauntings in American culture across time.

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Book SynopsisThis work carefully scrutinizes the emotional and intellectual attitudes of the Victorian era.Trade ReviewWinner of the 1957 Christian Gauss Award given by Phi Beta Kappa"The most thorough and comprehensive study of its subject that has yet been written. . . . Here is a full and intelligent analysis of the different facets of that many-sided thing, the Victorian mind and soul. An important part of this analysis is the relating of one attitude and tendency to another, so that, although some are contradictory, the agreements and the discords and their causes are made intelligible. The analysis is supported everywhere by rich and often fresh documentation. Mr. Houghton writes with vigor and clarity. The book seems to me a large and solid contribution to the understanding of Victorian civilization and Victorian literature."—Douglas Bush

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