Cultural studies Books
The University of Chicago Press The Perfect Fit Creative Work in the Global Shoe
Book SynopsisThe most prolific ethnographic filmmaker in the world, a pioneer of cinéma vérité and one of the earliest ethnographers of African societies, Jean Rouch (1917-) remains a controversial and often misunderstood figure in histories of anthropology and film. By examining Rouch's neglected ethnographic writings, Paul Stoller seeks to clarify the filmmaker's true place in anthropology. A brief account of Rouch's background, revealing the ethnographic foundations and intellectual assumptions underlying his fieldwork among the Songhay of Niger in the 1940s and 1950s, sets the stage for his emergence as a cinematic griot, a peripatetic bard who recites the story of a people through provocative imagery. Against this backdrop, Stoller considers Rouch's writings on Songhay history, myth, magic and possession, migration, and social change. By analyzing in depth some of Rouch's most important films and assessing Rouch's ethnography in terms of his own expertise in Songhay culture, Stoller demonstrat
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The University of Chicago Press Selling the Air A Critique of the Policy of
Book SynopsisIn this study of the laws and policies associated with commercial radio and television, the author shows that government regulation creates rather than intervenes in the market. It shows that liberal marketplace principles have come into contradiction with themselves.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Culture and Power
Book SynopsisA study of the social theorist Pierre Bourdieu's work, this work focuses on a central theme, the complex relationship between culture and power, and explains that sociology for Bourdieu is a mode of political intervention. The book aims to clarify Bourdieu's concepts and correct misinterpretations.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Nots
Book SynopsisNots is a virtuoso exploration of negation and negativity in theology, philosophy, art, architecture, postmodern culture, and medicine. In nine essays that range from nihility in Buddhism to the embodiment of negativity in disease, Mark C. Taylor looks at the surprising ways in which contrasting concepts of negativity intersect. In the first section of this book, Taylor discusses the question of the not in the religious thought of Anselm, Hegel, Derrida, and Nishitani. In the second part, he analyzes artistic efforts to figure not in the work of artists Arakawa and Madeline Gins, architect Daniel Libeskind, pop artist David Sallee, and pop icon Madonna. The final section consists of a deeply personal and scientifically informed chapter that discusses the workings of negativity in immunology and illness. Taylor's essays work toward a sense of the not as unnameable as it is irrepressiblean unthinkable third that falls between being and nonbeing. Bringing together concerns that span Taylo
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The University of Chicago Press About Religion Economies of Faith in Virtual
Book SynopsisTravelling from high culture to pop culture and back again, this book approaches cyberspace and Las Vegas through Hegel and Kant and reads Melville's The Confidence-Man through the film Wall Street.
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The University of Chicago Press Crossing Ocean Parkway
Book SynopsisMarianna De Marco Torgovnick's unflinching account of crossing cultural boundaries in American life, of what it means to be an Italian American woman who became a scholar and literary critic.Table of ContentsCrossing Ocean Parkway; on being White, female, and born in Bensonhurst; crossing Ocean Parkway; Slasher stories; the college way. Readings by an Italian American daughter; Dr. Dolittle and the acquisitive life; the Paglia principle; The Godfather as the world's most typical novel; the politics of the "We".
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Early Cinema in Russia and Its Cultural Reception
Book SynopsisThis text chronicles a great lost period in cinema history, that of pre-Revolutionary Russia. In contrast to standard film histories, this book focuses on reflected images: it features the historical filmgoer and early writings on film, as well as examining the physical elements of performance.
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The University of Chicago Press The Cultural Revolution and PostMao Reforms A
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The University of Chicago Press Sonic Mobilities
Book SynopsisA fascinating look at how the popular musical culture of Guangzhou expresses the city's unique cosmopolitanism. Guangzhou is a large Chinese city like many others. With a booming economy and abundant job opportunities, it has become a magnet for rural citizens seeking better job prospects as well as global corporations hoping to gain a foothold in one of the world's largest economies. This openness and energy have led to a thriving popular music scene that is every bit the equal of Beijing's. But the musical culture of Guangzhou expresses the city's unique cosmopolitanism. A port city that once played a key role in China's maritime Silk Road, Guangzhou has long been an international hub. Now, new migrants to the city are incorporating diverse Chinese folk traditions into the musical tapestry. In Sonic Mobilities, ethnomusicologist Adam Kielman takes a deep dive into Guangzhou's music scene through two bands, Wanju Chuanzhang (Toy Captain) and Mabang (Caravan), that express tiesTrade Review“Sonic Mobilities is elegantly written and informative. Kielman has produced a thorough and well-written analysis of the production of worlds through “cosmopolitan musicking” in Southern China. Kielman’s extensive experience, first as a musician and then later as an ethnographer, affords him a truly deep understanding of the issues that impact the musical lives of those he encounters and the rich theoretical potential gained through performance in every sense of the word.” -- Jennifer Matsue, author of Making Music in Japan’s Underground: The Tokyo Hardcore Scene“Adam Kielman’s manuscript focuses on the life, condition, practice, experience, and culture created by music bands in Guangzhou. It is a valuable piece of original scholarship that fills in the gap of knowledge in this particular music epoch in China.” -- Anthony Fung, author of Global Capital, Local Culture: Transnational Media in China"This book is a valuable contribution to the fields of popular music studies and cultural studies in China. It presents a hybridized and mosaic-like musical landscape from a locality that accommodates both national and transnational migrations. Leveraging the historical depths of Chinese music and culture, Kielman constructs multi-dimensional micro-narratives of several individual musicians’ biographies, their connections to their music, their identities and their approaches to communication with the audiences." * The China Quarterly *Table of ContentsNote on Romanization 1 Musical Cosmopolitanism and New Mobilities 2 Worlding Genres 3 Places and Styles Converging 4 Singing in Dialects No One Understands 5 Musical Lives: Mabang 6 Musical Lives: Wanju Chuanzhang 7 Sonic Infrastructures Epilogue: Music, China, and the Political Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
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The University of Chicago Press Sonic Mobilities
Book SynopsisA fascinating look at how the popular musical culture of Guangzhou expresses the city's unique cosmopolitanism. Guangzhou is a large Chinese city like many others. With a booming economy and abundant job opportunities, it has become a magnet for rural citizens seeking better job prospects as well as global corporations hoping to gain a foothold in one of the world's largest economies. This openness and energy have led to a thriving popular music scene that is every bit the equal of Beijing's. But the musical culture of Guangzhou expresses the city's unique cosmopolitanism. A port city that once played a key role in China's maritime Silk Road, Guangzhou has long been an international hub. Now, new migrants to the city are incorporating diverse Chinese folk traditions into the musical tapestry. In Sonic Mobilities, ethnomusicologist Adam Kielman takes a deep dive into Guangzhou's music scene through two bands, Wanju Chuanzhang (Toy Captain) and Mabang (Caravan), that express tiesTrade Review“Sonic Mobilities is elegantly written and informative. Kielman has produced a thorough and well-written analysis of the production of worlds through “cosmopolitan musicking” in Southern China. Kielman’s extensive experience, first as a musician and then later as an ethnographer, affords him a truly deep understanding of the issues that impact the musical lives of those he encounters and the rich theoretical potential gained through performance in every sense of the word.” -- Jennifer Matsue, author of Making Music in Japan’s Underground: The Tokyo Hardcore Scene“Adam Kielman’s manuscript focuses on the life, condition, practice, experience, and culture created by music bands in Guangzhou. It is a valuable piece of original scholarship that fills in the gap of knowledge in this particular music epoch in China.” -- Anthony Fung, author of Global Capital, Local Culture: Transnational Media in China"This book is a valuable contribution to the fields of popular music studies and cultural studies in China. It presents a hybridized and mosaic-like musical landscape from a locality that accommodates both national and transnational migrations. Leveraging the historical depths of Chinese music and culture, Kielman constructs multi-dimensional micro-narratives of several individual musicians’ biographies, their connections to their music, their identities and their approaches to communication with the audiences." * The China Quarterly *Table of ContentsNote on Romanization 1 Musical Cosmopolitanism and New Mobilities 2 Worlding Genres 3 Places and Styles Converging 4 Singing in Dialects No One Understands 5 Musical Lives: Mabang 6 Musical Lives: Wanju Chuanzhang 7 Sonic Infrastructures Epilogue: Music, China, and the Political Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
£22.00
The University of Chicago Press Thinking with Ngangas
Book SynopsisA comparative investigation of Afro-Cuban ritual and Western science that aims to challenge the rationality of Western expert practices. Inspired by the exercises of Father Lafitau, an eighteenth-century Jesuit priest and protoethnographer who compared the lives of the Iroquois to those of the ancient Greeks, Stephan Palmié embarks on a series of unusual comparative investigations of Afro-Cuban ritual and Western science. What do organ transplants have to do with ngangas, a complex assemblage of mineral, animal, and vegetal materials, including human remains, that serve as the embodiment of the spirits of the dead? How do genomics and ancestry projects converge with divination and oracular systems? What does it mean that Black Cubans in the United States took advantage of Edisonian technology to project the disembodied voice of a mystical entity named ecué onto the streets of Philadelphia? Can we consider Afro-Cuban spirit possession as a form of historical knowledge production? By writing about Afro-Cuban ritual in relation to Western scientific practice, and vice versa, Palmié hopes to challenge the rationality of Western expert practices, revealing the logic that brings together enchantment and experiment.Trade Review“Thinking with Ngangas is a major intellectual contribution delivered with flair, humor, and unfailing erudition. Via his ‘method of reciprocal illumination,’ Palmié offers a series of lively and richly perturbing essays offering insights into problems as diverse as the rationality debate, transplant surgery, anthropology’s ontological turn, genomic identity realization, acoustic technology, and the future of anthropology itself.” * Janice Boddy, University of Toronto *“In this highly original and thought-provoking encounter between anthropology and philosophy, Palmié thinks with some of his most dramatic ‘finds’ from decades contemplating the ethnographic interface with Afro-Cuban religion. Playful and utterly earnest, this book will have you savoring historical ironies and rethinking anthropology’s foundational questions about cultural difference.” * Kristina Wirtz, Western Michigan University *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter 1 EP and the Problem of Other Worlds Chapter 2 Thinking with Ngangas about Transplant Surgery, Personhood, and the Limits of “Objectively Necessary Appearances” Chapter 3 Thinking with Ifá about Genomic Ancestry Profiles and “Racecraft” Chapter 4 Thinking with Abakuá about Early Analog Acoustic Technology and the “Dialectics of Ensoniment” Chapter 5 Thinking with the Cajón pa’ los Muertos about Historicist Knowledge and Its Conditions of Impossibility Chapter 6 Thinking with Otanes about Mid-Twentieth-Century American Anthropology Epilogue Thinking with Tomás about My Own Work Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Inspiration Machine
Book SynopsisExplores how creative digital technologies and artificial intelligence are embedded in culture and society. In The Inspiration Machine, Eitan Y. Wilf explores the transformative potentials that digital technology opens up for creative practice through three ethnographic cases, two with jazz musicians and one with a group of poets. At times dissatisfied with the limitations of human creativity, these artists do not turn to computerized algorithms merely to execute their preconceived ideas. Rather, they approach them as creative partners, delegating to them different degrees of agentive control and artistic decision-making in the hopes of finding inspiration in their output and thereby expanding their own creative horizons. The algorithms these artists develop and use, however, remain rooted in and haunted by the specific social predicaments and human shortfalls that they were intended to overcome. Experiments in the digital thus hold an important lesson: although Wilf's interlocTrade Review“In this moment when generative AI is being declared the successor to human creativity, Wilf offers us a vital counternarrative. His nuanced ethnographic investigations challenge myths of autonomy in either creative practitioners or computational machines while insisting on the cultural/historical embeddedness and situated practices of meaning-making. This book should become an obligatory reference for anyone speaking about computational creativity.” * Lucy Suchman, author of Human-Machine Reconfigurations *“The Inspiration Machine powerfully unsettles both commonplace imaginaries and banal critiques of how digital technology shapes and reshapes contemporary art-making. Along the way it clearly establishes Wilf as anthropology’s leading theorist of modernity’s vexed relationship to creative practice.” * Steven Feld, VoxLox Media Arts *“The Inspiration Machine is itself a model and an inspiration, a highly original and ethnographically rich exploration of digital art-making. Drawing upon three revelatory case studies—and on a broad and subtle engagement with contemporary theory—Wilf illuminates the complex mutual entanglement of machinic creativity with human practices, aesthetics, and sociality. This is a singular study of emergent relationalities in unexpected places and practices and wonderful to think with.” * Don Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of Computational Creativity PART I Jazz: Mimicry, Originality, Sociality 1 “I Prefer Playing with It to Playing with Most People”: The Computer as a Musical Conversation Partner 2 An Island of Interactivity in an Ocean of Nonreactivity: The Trade-Offs of a Made-to-Order Artificial Musical World 3 “A Device That Would Generate New Musical Ideas”: The Computer as a Source of Musical Inspiration 4 Separating Noise from Signal: The Ethnomethodological Uncanny as Aesthetic Pleasure in Human-Machine Interaction PART II Poetry: Indeterminacy, Potentiality, Intentionality 5 Computer-Generated Poetry and Some of Its Aesthetic and Technical Dimensions 6 “I Randomize, Therefore I Think”: Computational Indeterminacy and the Tensions of American Liberal Subjectivity 7 Analog Precursors and Their Digital Logical End: The Oulipo 8 Crosscurrents and Opposing Perspectives Conclusion: Neither Our Doom nor Our Salvation: Open-Ended Digital Systems and Cultural Critique Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press After Pomp and Circumstance
Book SynopsisHigh school reunions force participants to account for themselves, not only to their own satisfaction, but also to the satisfaction of others. This text explores the ongoing construction of identity in American society, and the narratives we tell ourselves about who we are.
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The University of Chicago Press The Moro Morality Play Terrorism as Social Drama
Book SynopsisOn March 16, 1978, the former prime minister of Italy, Aldo Moro, was kidnapped by the Red Brigades, and what followedthe fifty-five days of captivity that resulted in Moro's murderconstitutes one of the most striking social dramas of the twentieth century. In this compelling study of terrorism, Robin Wagner-Pacifici employs methods from sociology, symbolic anthropology, and literary criticism to decode the many social texts that shaped the event: political speeches, newspaper reports, television and radio news, editorials, photographs, Moro's letters, Red Brigade communiques, and appeals by various international figures. The analysis of these texts calls into question the function of politics, social drama, spectacle, and theater. Wagner-Pacifici provides a dramaturgic analysis of the Moro affair as a method for discussing the culture of politics in Italy.
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The University of Chicago Press All the Rage The Story of Gay Visibility in
Book SynopsisFrom the public outing of Ellen DeGeneres to the murder of Matthew Shepard, gay lives and images have moved onto the centre stage of American public life. Combining personal stories with analysis, this book argues that we live in a time where gays are seen, but not necessarily heard.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Philadelphia Barrio The Arts Branding and
Book SynopsisHow does a so-called bad neighborhood go about changing its reputation? Is it simply a matter of improving material conditions or picking the savviest marketing strategy? What kind of role can or should the arts play in that process? This title examines one neighborhood's fight to erase the stigma of devastation.
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The University of Chicago Press Managing Turbulent Hearts A Balinese Formula for
Book SynopsisHow do Balinese manage to present to the world the clear, bright face, the grace and poise, that they regard as crucial to self-respect and social esteem? How can the anthropologist pass behind the conventions of such a complex culture to recognize what is going on between people, in terms that convey their own experience?Wikan's study of the Indonesian island of Bali is an absorbing debate with previous anthropological interpretations as well as an innovative development of the anthropology of experience. This is indeed an important book, a landmark in studies of Bali and one surely destined to have major theoretical impact on anthropological research well beyond that famous Indonesian island.Anthony R. Walker, Journal of Asian and African Studies
£31.35
The University of Chicago Press Cop Knowledge Police Power and Cultural Narrative
Book SynopsisIn this text, Christopher Wilson examines narratives of police power in crime news, popular fiction and film, showing how they reflect and influence the real strategies of law enforcement on the beat, in the squad room and in urban politics.
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The University of Chicago Press Desiring Theology Religion and Postmodernism
Book SynopsisArgues for the possibility of theological thinking in a postmodern secular milieu, equating a desire to think theologically with a desire for thinking that does not disappoint. Winquist suggests that, in the wake of psychoanalysis, theology must elaborate the meaning of desire in its own discourse.
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The University of Chicago Press Animal Rites
Book SynopsisIn 'Animal rites', Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism, ethics, and animals by reconstructing a little known but crucial underground tradition of theorizing the animal.Trade Review"Animal Rites offers exciting new readings of a rich variety of texts. This is an original and provocative work that will open up important new arenas of discussion in literary and cultural studies, as well as the discourse of animal rights." - N. Katherine Hayles, author of How We Became Posthuman
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Saints and Postmodernism Revisioning Moral
Book Synopsis"In this exciting and important work, Wyschogrod attempts to read contemporary ethical theory against the vast unwieldy tapestry that is postmodernism. . . . [A] provocative and timely study." Michael Gareffa, "Theological Studies" "A 'must' for readers interested in the borderlands between philosophy, hagiography, and ethics." Mark I. Wallace, "Religious Studies Review""
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The University of Chicago Press An Ethics of Remembering History Heterology the
Book SynopsisThrough the figure of the heterological historian, this text creates a framework for the understanding of history and the ethical duties of the historian. It also weighs the impact of modern archival methods, such as film and the Internet, which add new constraints to the writing of history.Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Prologue Abbreviations 1: Re-signing History, De-signing Ethics The Historian's Promise Historical Truth and the End of Representation The Necessity of Naming That Which Cannot Be Named: The Cataclysm Historical Narrative History as Science: L'Esprit de Geometrie et L'Esprit de Finesse Factuality Revisited: Lies, Fiction, Ficciones Ficciones and History: Foucault 2: Reading the Heterological Historian Reading Kant The Nihil and Analogy Heteronomy's Rule The Ends of History The Aesthetic and the Cataclysm 3: The Historical Object and the Mark of the Grapheme: Images, Simulacra, and Virtual Reality Runaway Images The Historian and the Camera: Still Photography The Co-optation of the Look History as Archive of the Moving Image The French Revolution in Narrative and Film Images and Information 4: Wired in the Absolute: Hegel and the Being of Appearance The Specular Absolute and Release from the Object Plenum and Void Terror and Cataclysm 5: Re-membering the Past: The Historian as Time Traveler Voyages in Time Time's Duality: From Hegel to Nietzsche and Back McTaggart's Paradox: Tensed and Tenseless Time The Speech and Silence of Heterology 6: Re-membering the Past The Tablet and the Aviary "That This Too Too Solid Flesh Would Melt" From "Trace" to Shining Trace Flickering Memories: Images and Signs La Cage aux Folles: From Tablet to Aviary and Back The Mind Is a Bone: Skull, Brains, and Memory Matter Matters: Brain States and Mental Acts Differance Is in the Neurons Ownerless Memories: Artificial Life and Biological Computers 7: The Gift of Community Unsaying Rational Community: Autochthony and Desire Humanity's Essence Is Production Exteriority and Community The Gift of the Future The Gift of Hope Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press An Ethics of Remembering
Book SynopsisThrough the figure of the heterological historian, this text creates a framework for the understanding of history and the ethical duties of the historian. It also weighs the impact of modern archival methods, such as film and the Internet, which add new constraints to the writing of history.
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press Tekstura Russian Essays on Visual Culture
Book SynopsisAssembles 13 key essays in art history and cultural theory by Russian-language writers. The essays erase boundaries between high and low, official and dissident, avant-garde and socialist realism. Everything visual is deemed worthy of analysis, from painting to architecture.
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Covering the Body The Kennedy Assassination the
Book SynopsisImages of the assassination of John F. Kennedy are burned deeply into the memories of millions who watched the events of November 1963 unfold live on television. Never before had America seen an event of this magnitude as it happened. But what is it we remember? How did the near chaos of the shooting and its aftermath get transformed into a seamless story of epic proportions? In this book, Barbie Zelizer explores the way we learned about and came to make sense of the killing of the president. Covering the Body (the title refers to the charge given journalists to follow a president) is a powerful reassessment of the media's role in shaping our collective memory of the assassinationat the same time as it used the assassination coverage to legitimize its own role as official interpreter of American reality. Of the more than fifty reporters covering Kennedy in Dallas, no one actually saw the assassination. And faced with a monumentally important story that was continuously breaking, most j
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The University of Chicago Press Body Subject Power in China
Book SynopsisThis volume brings to the study of China the theoretical concerns and methods of contemporary critical cultural studies. Contributors investigate problems of bodiliness, engendered subjectivities and discourses of power through written texts, paintings, buildings, interviews and observations.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Body, Subject, and Power in China Angela Zito, Tani E. Barlow. 1: The Imagination of Winds and the Development of the Chinese Conception of the Body Shigehisa Kuriyama 2: The Body Invisible in Chinese Art? John Hay 3: Multiplicity, Point of View, and Responsibility in Traditional Chinese Healing Judith Farquhar 4: Silk and Skin: Significant Boundaries Angela Zito 5: The Politicized Body Ann Anagnost 6: The Female Body and Nationalist Discourse: Manchuria in Xiao Hong's Field of Life and Death Lydia H. Liu 7: Sovereignty and Subject: Constituting Relationships of Power in Qing Guest Ritual James L. Hevia 8: (Re)inventing Li: Koutou and Subjectification in Rural Shandong Andrew Kipnis 9: The Classic "Beauty-Scholar" Romance and the Superiority of the Talented Woman Keith McMahon 10: Theorizing Woman: Funu, Guojia, Jiating Tani E. Barlow Glossary of Chinese Characters List of Contributors Index
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The University of Chicago Press Body Subject and Power in China
Book SynopsisThis volume brings to the study of China the theoretical concerns and methods of contemporary critical cultural studies. Contributors investigate problems of bodiliness, engendered subjectivities and discourses of power through written texts, paintings, buildings, interviews and observations.
£30.00
University of Chicago Press Postmodern Platos Nietzsche Heidegger Gadamer
Book SynopsisThis study examines the work of five key philosophical figures from the 19th and 20th centuries through the lens of their own postmodern readings of Plato. It offers a perspective on the relation between the Western philosophical tradition and the evolving postmodern enterprise.
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McGill-Queen's University Press Mass Capture
Book SynopsisMass Capture argues the CI 9 documents implemented by the Canadian government to acquire information on Chinese migrants acted as a process of mass capture that produced non-citizens. Cho reveals CI 9s as more than documents of racist repression: they offer possibilities for beauty and dignity in the archive, for captivation as well as capture.Trade Review"Lily Cho pays homage to the subjects of these captivating photographs by searching for signs of resistance in the archive. She has written a deeply humane book that sharpens our understanding of the racist logics of exclusion that founded the Canadian nation-state. Mass Capture is a rich resource for any consideration of citizenship, photography, and migration." Sharon Sliwinski, University of Western Ontario and author of Human Rights in Camera"Mass Capture is a terrific book, full of careful insight into a neglected set of state records. Lily Cho writes with passion and a sense of ethical purpose and provides a new way to sleuth histories from the files of officialdom. This book will be a touchstone for future inquiries in photo history." Anthony W. Lee, Mount Holyoke College and author of The Global Flows of Early Scottish Photography: Encounters in Scotland, Canada, and China“Cho’s monograph is an obvious choice for those interested in Chinese Canadian histories of citizenship and labour, but her focus on aesthetics extends the project’s disciplinary boundaries and potential readership.” University of Toronto Quarterly
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John Wiley & Sons Expo 67 and Its World Staging the Nation in the
Book SynopsisExpo 67 and Its World brings together Québécois, Canadian, First Nations, and international scholars to propose a reappraisal of Expo 67 as an opportunity for collective re-imagining across a range of social spaces, from the dispossession of Indigenous Peoples to the increasingly global ambit of youth culture, medicine, film, and finance.
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McGill-Queen's University Press Expo 67 and Its World
Book SynopsisExpo 67 and Its World brings together Québécois, Canadian, First Nations, and international scholars to propose a reappraisal of Expo 67 as an opportunity for collective re-imagining across a range of social spaces, from the dispossession of Indigenous Peoples to the increasingly global ambit of youth culture, medicine, film, and finance.
£999.99
John Wiley & Sons The Spiritual Significance of Overload Boredom
Book SynopsisThe spiritual crisis of the digital age is overload boredom. This book attends to sensation and emotion to show how our interior lives are radically reconfigured by information, stimulation, and choice overload. Sharday Mosurinjohn argues that the antidote is not withdrawal or resistance, but kedia, an ethic of care.Trade Review“Sensitively and intelligently composed, The Spiritual Significance of Overload Boredom advances scholarship on contemporary boredom and digital life, whilst imaginatively exploring an ethics of care through which we might create and curate meaning in an overload age. An indispensable text for understanding the present condition” Ben Anderson, Durham University
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McGill-Queen's University Press The Spiritual Significance of Overload Boredom
Book SynopsisThe spiritual crisis of the digital age is overload boredom. This book attends to sensation and emotion to show how our interior lives are radically reconfigured by information, stimulation, and choice overload. Sharday Mosurinjohn argues that the antidote is not withdrawal or resistance, but kedia, an ethic of care.Trade Review“Sensitively and intelligently composed, The Spiritual Significance of Overload Boredom advances scholarship on contemporary boredom and digital life, whilst imaginatively exploring an ethics of care through which we might create and curate meaning in an overload age. An indispensable text for understanding the present condition” Ben Anderson, Durham University
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McGill-Queen's University Press Configurations of a Cultural Scene
Book SynopsisIn the 1920s, a remarkable number of young writers and artists lived and worked in Madrid, resulting in a tightly-woven network of both personal and artistic relationships. Configurations of a Cultural Scene explores this growing community of artists with a focus on how sites of face-to-face interaction fostered creative work and forged identities.Trade Review“Configurations of a Cultural Scene is a major step forward in illuminating the vibrant and often radical cultural activities of the 1920s. Moreover, it demonstrates the crucial importance of collective engagement in fomenting artistic innovation.” Juli Highfill, University of Michigan and author of Modernism and Its Merchandise: The Spanish Avant-Garde and Material Culture, 1920–1930
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McGill-Queen's University Press Singular Creatures
Book SynopsisIn Singular Creatures Mark Kingwell plumbs the depths of cultural and political meaning in the apparent transition to posthuman life. Can humans and their own creations co-exist in a cyberflesh world, or is a struggle for superiority inevitable? Singular Creatures is an attempt at sketching the field before any deadly battle is joined.Trade Review“Singular Creatures offers a timely meditation on two interrelated problems of philosophy: human consciousness attempting its own self-understanding and human society attempting to quantify what constitutes "conscious life." References to thinkers like Aristotle, Heidegger, and Marx abound as Kingwell deftly argues for the urgency of these conceptual debates. In his most thought-provoking section, Kingwell contends that any sufficiently intelligent robot collective will eventually demand social justice. After all, nobody likes to be exploited, whether they are "cloned, built, or born."” Literary Review of Canada
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McGill-Queen's University Press Psychedelic New York
Book SynopsisAs LSD moves towards the medical mainstream, it continues to evoke powerful memories of the psychedelic sixties and west coast counterculture. In this lively account, Chris Elcock follows a different branch of psychedelic history one that is sprawling, layered, and centred on New York City. A major hub for the production and consumption of LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs, New York spawned a unique psychedelic culture that reverberated through the city, from psychoanalytic circles to artists' studios, Greenwich Village to Central Park. Based on years of archival research, interviews with former acid heads, and a range of cultural artifacts, Psychedelic New York shows how the postwar city was at the forefront of LSD medical research, the burgeoning of psychedelic art, drug-accompanied spiritual seeking, and a proliferation of drug subcultures. Elcock recounts stories of New Yorkers such as Holocaust survivor Nina Graboi and artist Isaac Abrams, whose lives were dramatTrade Review“Previous research on LSD in the US focused on California, but Elcock persuasively argues that New York City was at least as important. Recommended.” Choice
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McGill-Queen's University Press Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies
Book SynopsisNatalie Kononenko describes the everyday lives of Ukrainian Canadians on the prairies and explores how they have preserved existing Ukrainian traditions and developed a new culture sensitive to the realities of Canadian life. Drawing on ten years of interviews, the book focuses on Ukrainian Canadian ritual practices such as weddings and holidays.Trade Review“Snapshots of a still-evolving culture, within the churches and beyond them.” Saskatoon Star Phoenix
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McGill-Queen's University Press EighteenthCentury Ukraine
Book SynopsisIn 1648, the Cossack revolution of Eastern Europe established a new social and political order that endured until the early nineteenth century. Eighteenth-Century Ukraine provides an innovative reassessment of this crucial period and reflects new developments in the study of eighteenth-century Ukrainian social and cultural history.Trade Review“Eighteenth-Century Ukraine offers an eye-opening reading experience – the scholarship and methodological mastery exhibited by contributors to better explain the intricate pathways of Ukraine’s national modernity are outstanding. Using less-explored angles and innovative perspectives, this volume advances the ongoing historiographical turn towards social and cultural history, while strengthening existing trends in military, political, religious, and intellectual histories of Ukraine.” Andrey V. Ivanov, University of Wisconsin–Platteville and author of A Spiritual Revolution: The Impact of the Reformation and Enlightenment in Orthodox Russia
£77.35
Columbia University Press The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and
Book SynopsisMore than 450 succinct entries from A to Z help readers make sense of the interdisciplinary knowledge of cultural criticism that includes film, psychoanalytic, deconstructive, poststructuralist, and postmodernist theory as well as philosophy, media studies, linguistics.
£90.40
Columbia University Press Colonialism and Gender Relations from Mary
Book SynopsisAgainst the historical background of slavery and colonialism, this study investigates how white and Afro-Caribbean women writers have responded to feminist, abolitionist and post-emancipationist issues. It aims to reveal a relationship between colonial exploitation and female sexual oppression.
£23.80
Columbia University Press De Los Otros
Book SynopsisA detailed description of sexual practices and bonds among Latino males in Guadalajara, Mexico using a combination of ethnographic techniques and participant observations.
£90.00
Columbia University Press Adcult USA The Triumph of Advertising in American
Book SynopsisA spirited exploration of the culture created when advertising becomes not just a central institution, but the central institution.Trade ReviewTwitchell is the beaming Koresh of Adcult... Often amusing and illuminating, but always extreme-just like advertising. Time Out, New York What are we to make of this mixture of high and not-so-high culture? 'If we find the process invigorating, you call it bricolage,'writes Twitchell. 'If not, you call it tasteless.' Adweek Twitchell eloquently excoriates the standard dull rants about the evils of commercialism. In true postmodern fashion, he argues that there can be no meaningful division between high art and advertising... Not a single page is without a cleverly turned sentence, thought-provoking remark, or outrageous conclusion. WiredTable of ContentsPreface 1. Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz: American Culture Awash in a Sea of Advertising 2. We Build Excitement: The Delivery of Adcult 3. Strong Enough for a Man but Made for a Woman: The Work of Adcult 4. Halo Everybody, Highlow: Adcult and the Collapse of Cultural Hierarcy 5. Takes a Licking, but Keeps on Ticking: The Future of AdcultSelective Bibliography Index
£70.40
Columbia University Press Recognizing Ourselves Ceremonies of Lesbian and
Book SynopsisLewin explores the intersections of kinship, community, morality, and love bound up in same-sex marriage through the experiences of lesbian and gay couples who have sanctified their relationships in commitment ceremonies. Through detailed profiles, Lewin provides the first comprehensive account of lesbian and gay weddings in America.Trade ReviewAn important look at the meaning of the ceremonies for those involved. Library Journal Not a how-to guide, but rather profiles and portraits of same-sex marriages intertwined with the surrounding politics. San Francisco Bay Times
£70.40
Columbia University Press Recognizing Ourselves
Book SynopsisLewin explores the intersections of kinship, community, morality, and love bound up in same-sex marriage through the experiences of lesbian and gay couples who have sanctified their relationships in commitment ceremonies. Through detailed profiles, Lewin provides the first comprehensive account of lesbian and gay weddings in America.Trade ReviewAn important look at the meaning of the ceremonies for those involved. Library Journal Not a how-to guide, but rather profiles and portraits of same-sex marriages intertwined with the surrounding politics. San Francisco Bay Times
£25.20
Columbia University Press African American Power and Politics The Political
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive analysis of the impact of the Reagan revolution on African-American political life. The book also critically assesses the Clinton administration's record on race and the Democratic party response to affirmative action, welfare, and other aspects of the African-American political agenda.Table of Contents1. Elections 1. Epistemology and the Native-Son Candidate 2. Theory 3. Methodology 2. The Political Context of a Native-Son Candidate 4. The Arkansas Electorate 5. The African American Electorate 3. The Making of a Native-Son Candidate 6. The Congressional Vote for Clinton 7. The Attorney General Vote for Clinton 8. The Gubernatorial Vote for Clinton 4. The Southern Native-Son Presidential Candidate 9. The Presidential Vote for Clinton 10. The Regional Vote: Clinton and Carter 5. The Native-Son Candidate and the Democratic Party 11. The Democratic Party in Presidential Elections: The Native-Son Theory Revisited 12. Epilogue: Scandal, Public Support, and the Native-Son Variable
£28.80
Columbia University Press The Jazz Cadence of American Culture Film and
Book SynopsisA comprehensive collection of essays, speeches, and interviews on the impact of jazz on other arts, on politics, and on the rhythm of everyday life, including an essay on poet and novelist James Weldon Johnson as a cultural critic, an interview with Wynton Marsalis, a speech on the heroic image in jazz, and a newspaper review of Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk.Trade ReviewO'Meally's volume is the first to focus exclusively on the rich interdisciplinary commentary that jazz has inspired over the decades... Impressive and thoughtfully assembled. -- Mark Tucker Jazz Times An important resource for understanding how such hard-to-define aspects as 'hipness' and 'soulfulness' shape a culture and its most characteristic forms of artistic expression. -- Jerome Klinkowitz American Literary Scholarship An innovative approach to understanding jazz within a larger social context. Library Journal Both a celebration and an analysis of jazz, this massive omnibus of essays, interviews, riffs, reminiscences, lectures and meditations examines the impact of jazz on American culture from the 1920s Harlem Renaissance to the 1960s black arts revolution... Outstanding. Publishers Weekly There is much that is ducal among the 35 wide-ranging essays collected in The Jazz Cadence of American Culture. Billboard O'Meally has assembled an impressive anthology that achieves an almost synesthetic rendering of jazz...the best designed reference book on the topic to date. It should be in every library. Choice The Jazz Cadence of American Culture is a celebration of jazz that goes beyond the usual jazz history, carefully and informatively examining the impact of jazz on other arts, politics, and daily life. The Bookwatch A monument to a grand and vital intellectual tradition that we cannot afford to neglect as jazz enters its second century--and as that great interdisciplinary, interpretive synthesis of jazz scholarship finally gets written. Notes If race keeps us apart, jazz brings us together, as Ralph Ellison pointed out when he called American life 'jazz shaped.' The 35 essays in The Jazz Cadence of American Culture, edited by Robert G. O'Meally, testify that Ellison was on to something. The Washington Post Book WorldTable of ContentsWhat Is Jazz? Introduction Jazz-the Word, by Alan P. Merriam and Fradley H. Garner Forward Motion: An Interview with Benny Golson, by Benny Golson and Jim Merod James A. Snead Black Music as an Art Form, by Olly Wilson Remembering Thelonious Monk: When the Music Was Happening Then He'd Get Up and Do His Little Dance, by Quincy Troupe and Ben Riley Improvisation and the Creative Process, by Albert Murray One Nation Under a Groove; or, the United States of Jazzocracy Introduction What's American About America, by John Kouwenhoven Jazz and the White Critic, by Amiri Baraka Duke Ellington Music Like a Big Hot Pot of Good Gumbo, by Wynton Marsalis and Robert G. O'Meally Blues to Be Constitutional: A Long Look at the Wild Wherefores of Our Democratic Lives as Symbolized in the Making of Rhythm and Tune, by Stanley Crouch The Ellington Programme, by Barry Ulanov Jazz Lines and Colors: The Sound I Saw Introduction Art History and Black Memory: Toward a Blues Aesthetic, by Richard J. Powell Skyscrapers, Airplanes, and Airmindedness: The Necessary Angel, by Ann Douglas Calvin Tomkins Celebration, by Sherry Turner DeCarava Black Visual Intonation, by Arthur Jafa Improvisation in Jazz, by Bill Evans Jazz is a Dance: Jazz art in Motion Introduction Jazz Music in Motion: Dancers and Big Bands, by Jacqui Malone Characteristics of Negro Expression, by Zora Neale Hurston African Art and Motion, by Robert Farris Thompson Be Like Mike? Michael Jordan and the Pedagogy of Desire, by Michael Eric Dyson Noise Taps a Historic Route to Joy, by Margo Jefferson Tell the Story: Jazz, History, Memory Introduction Pulp and Circumstance: The Story of Jazz in High Places, by Gerald Early Jazz and American Culture, by Lawrence W. Levine The Golden Age, Time Past, by Ralph Ellison Double V, Double-Time: Bebop's Politics of Style, by Eric Lott It Jus Be's Dat Way Sometime: The Sexual Politics of Women's Blues, by Hazel V. Carby Other: From Noun to Verb, by Nathaniel Mackey Writing the Blues, Writing Jazz Introduction The Blues as Folk Poetry, by Sterling A. Brown Richard Wright's Blues, by Ralph Ellison Preface to Three Plays, by August Wilson The Function of the Heroic Image, by Albert Murray The Seemingly Eclipsed Window of Form: James Weldon Johnson's Prefaces, by Brent Edwards Sound and Sentiment, Sound and Symbol, by Nathaniel Mackey
£27.00
Columbia University Press The Erotic in Sports
Book SynopsisFrom Greek athletic competitions to the cult of body-building at Gold's Gym, this text examines literature, art, television, and movies to uncover a vast array of evidence that cultures across the ages have reflected at length, in celebration and censure, on the erotic nature of sports.
£52.70
Columbia University Press Realms of Memory
Book SynopsisOffers the best essays from the acclaimed collection originally published in French. This monumental work examines how and why events and figures become a part of a people's collective memory, how rewriting history can forge new paradigms of cultural identity, and how the meaning attached to an event can become as significant as the event itself.Trade ReviewThis is an indispensable guide to understanding France and the French. As usual, Arthur Goldhammer's translation is superb. Foreign Affairs This unusual book deals fascinatingly with everything from the creation of the rousing anthem "La Marseillaise" to the changing role of Joan of Arc in France's collective memory. Even the Eiffel Tower shines forth in surprising new facets. Chicago Tribune Provides arresting genealogies of a number of the major cleavages in French history, with chapters on the embattled relationship of Jews to the French republic, the peculiar affinities of Gaulism and Communism, and... Paris' haughty condescension toward la province... Without resorting to polemics, the volume reminds us that the image of the French past is confected as much out of amnesia as out of memory. Lingua Franca A magisterial attempt to define what it is to be French. Times Literary Supplement A magnificent achievement... [The essays included] are the high-carat jewels of the project. The New RepublicTable of ContentsIntroduction - Pierre Nora Part I: Emblems1. The Three Colors: Neither White nor Red, Raoul Girardet2. La Marseillaise: War or Peace, Michel Vovelle3. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Mona Ozouf4. Bastille Day: From Dies Irae to Holiday, Christian Almavi Part II: Major Sites1. Lascaux, Jean-Paul Demoule2. Reims, City of Coronation, Jacques Le Goff3. The Louvre, Royal Residence and Temple of the Arts, Jean-Pierre Babelon4. Versailles, the Image of the Sovereign, Edouard Pommier5. The Pantheon, The Ecole Normale of the Dead, Mona Ozouf6. The Eiffel Tower, Henry Loyette7. Verdun, Antoine Prost Part III: Identifications1. The Gallic Cock, Michael Pastoureau2. Joan of Arc, Michael Winock3. Descartes, Francois Azouvi4. Paris, A Traversal from East to West, Maurice Agulhon5. The Genius of the French Language, Marc Fumaroli6. The Era of Commemoration, Pierre Nora Notes Index of NamesIndex of Subjects
£52.70
