Cultural studies Books
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Castoriadis Reader
Book SynopsisCornelius Castoriadis is presently Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is a philosopher, social critic, professional economist, practicing psychoanalyst and one of Europe's foremost thinkers. The Castoriadis Reader provides for the first time an overview of the author's work and encompasses every aspect of his thought.Trade Review"The Castoriadis Reader, with representative extracts from almost fifty years of political and philosophical writing, reflects his long march from Marx back to Aristotle." Scott McLemmee, Lingua Franca "When so many pay superficial tribute to false prophets, how much better to pay serious attention to this true thinker." Nicolas Walter, New Statesman "For those unfamiliar with the thought of Castoriadis, reading his works for the first time is to encounter one of the most original and creative figures of the last half of the twentieth century." David Wallace, TopiaTable of ContentsForeword vii Acknowledgements xvi Abbreviations xviii 1.'The Only Way to Find out If You Can Swim Is to Get into the Water’: An Introductory Interview (1974) 1 2. Presentation of Socialisme ou Barbarie: An Organ of Critique and Revolutionary Orientation (1949) 35 3. On the Content of Socialism (1955-1957): Excerpts 40 From the Critique of Bureaucracy to the Idea of the Proletariat's Autonomy (1955) 40 On the Content of Socialism, II (1957) 49 4. Recommencing the Revolution (1964) 106 5. Marxism and Revolutionary Theory (1964-65). Excerpts 139 Marxism: A Provisional Assessment 139 Theory and Revolutionary Project 146 6. The Social Imaginary and the Institution (1975). Excerpt. The Social-Historical 196 7. The Social Regime in Russia (1978) 218 8. From Ecology to Autonomy (1980) 239 9. The Crisis of Western Societies (1982) 253 10. The Greek Polis and the Creation of Democracy (1983) 267 11. The Logic of Magmas and the Question of Autonomy (1983) 290 12. Radical Imagination and the Social Instituting Imaginary (1994) 319 13. Culture in a Democratic Society (1994) 338 14. Psychoanalysis and Philosophy (1996) 349 15. Done and To Be Done (1989) 361 Index 418
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sociocultural Evolution: Calculation and
Book SynopsisSociocultural evolution is the most important concept that has guided social science thought over the past 300 years. Throughout this time it has, however, been fiercely contested and has changed as it has slowly discarded the providential concerns that originally characterized it. This book traces the gradual development of the concept of sociocultural evolution and relates how it is currently understood, and misunderstood, to the major political and cultural debates of the present day. The author examines, in particular, issues relating to neo-conservative socioeconomic policy and postmodernism, which he regards as the chief cultural expression of transnational capitalism. He argues that continued sociocultural development requires a greater degree of planning than ever before in human history and far more general participation in the planning process than has been possible or attempted in the past. Sociocultural Evolution will be welcomed by students of anthropology, history, and archaeology, as well as general readers interested in the concerns surrounding further technological development and social change.Trade Review"Trigger writes about sociocultural evolution in clear, authoritative prose, informed by a marvelous breadth of scholarship in archaeology, anthropology and history. His historical essay stands as a powerful reminder that diverse social theorists have in common compelling issues and unsolved problems; equally, it is a vigorous tribute to the analytical and moral strengths of the Enlightenment heritage. It is a book to savor, debate, teach, and press on colleagues, students and friends alike." Professor Bruce Winterhalder, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillTable of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Reversing Utopia. 3. Enlightenment Evolution. 4. Romantic Reaction. 5. Racist Evolution. 6. Revolution and Solidarity. 7. Western Evolutionary Counterpoint. 8. American Neoevolutionism. 9. Evolution Attacked Again. 10. The Planning Imperative. 11. Evolution and the Future. 12. Conclusion. Bibliographic Note. References. Index.
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University of Massachusetts Press Diversity, Gender, Color and Culture
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays examines problems of race, gender and cultural identity, from a European perspective. Looking at government policies and schemes designed to ensure diversity, from multiculturalism to ""positive action"", it encourages a rethink on issues of gender, colour and culture.
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University of Massachusetts Press Constructing the Little House: Gender, Culture and Laura Ingalls Wilder
Book SynopsisWriting from a feminist perspective, the author examines what is it about the ""Little House Series"" that accounts for its enduring commercial success. It examines both the content of the novels, the process of their creation, and what it demonstrates about the current trends of American culture.
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University of Massachusetts Press Pilaf, Pozole and Pad Thai: American Women and
Book SynopsisIn this volume, 11 scholars explore the role of ethnic food in American culture, with a particular focus on women. They argue that ethnic cooking represents both a source of sustenance and a complex form of communication.
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University of Massachusetts Press Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?: American Women and
Book SynopsisIn the rural America of the past, a woman's reputation was sometimes made by her cherry pie - of her chocolate layer cake, or her biscuits. As America modernized and women left the home to enter the paid labour force, mastery of cooking remained a sign that a woman took her gendered responsibilities seriously. Ironically, over the course of the 20th century, as ready-made foods and kitchen appliances made home cooking less essential and labour-intensive, culinary skill continued to be perceived not only by society but often by women as a measure of a woman's true value. This work shows how cooking evolved during the 20th century as new challenges arose to replace the old. Still tied to the kitchen, women found that instead of simply providing sustenance for the household, they now had to master more complex cooking techniques, the knowledge of ""ethnic"" cuisines, the science of nutrition, the business of consumerism, and, perhaps most important of all, the art of keeping their families happy and healthy.Trade ReviewThis book would be an excellent beginning for in-depth research or for a pleasant introduction to the field. It will have a wide appeal to those interested in women's roles in the 20th century and in home cooking. - Choice ""An easy read - graceful and often witty. I was often charmed and just as often instructed. It is a book that could be used in American studies and women's studies courses."" - Linda K. Kerber, author of No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies
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University of Massachusetts Press Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory and the
Book SynopsisDuring the past decade and a half, scholars have increasingly addressed the relationship of history and memory. Among American historians, David W. Blight has been a pioneer in the field of memory studies, especially on the problems of slavery, race, and the Civil War. In this collection of essays, Blight examines the meanings embedded in the causes, course, and consequences of the Civil War, the nature of changing approaches to African American history, and the significance of race in the ways Americans, North and South, black and white, developed historical memories of the nation's most divisive event. The book as a whole demonstrates several ways to probe the history of memory, to understand how and why groups of Americans have constructed versions of the past in the service of contemporary social needs. Topics range from the writing and thought of Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois to a comparison of Abraham Lincoln and Douglass on the level of language and memory. The volume also includes a compelling study of the values of a single Union soldier, an analysis of Ken Burns's PBS series The Civil War, and a retrospective treatment of the distinguished African American historian Nathan I. Huggins. Taken together, these lucidly written pieces offer a thoroughgoing assessment of the stakes of Civil War memory and their consequences for American race relations. Beyond the Battlefield demonstrates not only why we should preserve and study our Civil War battlefields, but also why we should lift our vision above those landscapes and ponder all the unfinished questions of healing and justice, of racial harmony and disharmony, that still bedevil our society and our historical imagination.Trade ReviewThis is a tremendous collection of essays. The author is, beyond question, the leading scholar of the collective memory of the Civil War, the leading scholar of race and collective memory, and one of the two or three leading scholars of American memory generally. - Scott A. Sandage, Carnegic Mcllon University
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University of Massachusetts Press What a Book Can Do: The Publication and Reception
Book SynopsisIn 1962, the publication of Rachel Carson's ""Silent Spring"" sparked widespread public debate on the hazards of pesticide abuse for humans and their environment. With in a year, the controversy had spread throughout print and broadcast media. Despite its preliminary appearance in a magazine, ""Silent Spring"" reached the full media system and made its lasting impression in the form of a book. With clarity and precision, Priscilla Coit Murphy explores how a newsmaking book enabled a single voice of warning to gain the attention of the entire country, and beyond. Murphy's exploration follows the story of the book and the controversy, beginning with the author's mission and the response of her publishers, Houghton Mifflin and the New Yorker. Focus then turns to Carson's opponents and their counter-campaign, including their efforts to undermine, delay, or stop publication altogether. Moving next to the media, Murphy describes how, beyond providing a forum for the debate, they became active participants in it. Finally, she examines the general public's perceptions and expectations regarding the book, the debate, and the media. Shedding new light on the dynamic between newsmaking books, the media, and the public, Murphy raises a host of broader questions about the place of dissenting books in American culture, past, present, and future.
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University of Massachusetts Press Jump for Joy: Jazz, Basketball, and Black Culture
Book SynopsisA brilliant exploration of the outburst of cultural exuberance that swept African America during the late 1930s. If the 1930s was the Swing Era, then the years from 1937 on might well be called the Jump Era. That summer Count Basie recorded ""Jumping at the Woodside,"" and suddenly jump tunes seemed to be everywhere. Along with the bouncy beat came a new dance step - the high-flying aerials of the jitterbuggers - and the basketball games that took place in the dance halls of African America became faster, higher, and flashier. Duke Ellington and a cast of hundreds put the buoyant spirit of the era on stage with their 1941 musical revue, ""Jump for Joy"", a title that captured the momentum and direction of the new culture of exuberance.Several high-profile public victories accompanied this increasing optimism: the spectacular successes of African American athletes at the 1936 Olympics, the 1937 union victory of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and Joe Louis' 1937 and 1938 heavyweight championship fights. For the first time in history, black Americans emerged as cultural heroes and ambassadors, and many felt a new pride in citizenship.In this book, Gena Caponi-Tabery chronicles these triumphs and shows how they shaped American music, sports, and dance of the 1930s and beyond. But she also shows how they emboldened ordinary African Americans to push for greater recognition and civil liberties - how cultural change preceded and catalyzed political action.Tracing the path of one symbolic gesture - the jump - across cultural and disciplinary boundaries, Caponi-Tabery provides a unique political, intellectual, and artistic analysis of the years immediately preceding World War II.Trade ReviewA terrific piece of work - creative, imaginative, well written. Jump for Joy is the sort of book that should end up on the reading list of courses in American cultural history, African American studies, music and dance. It is also the sort of book that should reach an audience outside the academy. - Shane White, coauthor of Stylin': African American Expressive Culture, from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit ""African American expressive culture of the 1930s deserves to be as well known as Harlem Renaissance literature. Gena Caponi-Tabery reveals how new opportunities for black artists and athletes during the Black Migration - at sites as diverse as colleges, urban dance halls, and Olympic track-meets - led to an explosion of achievement and innovation. Her synthetic study will forever transform our understanding of Depression-era American culture, and her clear, accessible prose makes this book perfect for the undergraduate classroom."" - Joel Dinerstein, author of Swinging the Machine: Modernity, Technology, and African American Culture between the World Wars
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University of Massachusetts Press From Codex to Hypertext: Reading at the Turn of
Book SynopsisThe start of the twenty-first century has brought with it a rich variety of ways in which readers can connect with one another, access texts, and make sense of what they are reading. At the same time, new technologies have also opened up exciting possibilities for scholars of reading and reception in offering them unprecedented amounts of data on reading practices, book buying patterns, and book collecting habits. In From Codex to Hypertext, scholars from multiple disciplines engage with both of these strands. This volume includes essays that consider how changes such as the mounting ubiquity of digital technology and the globalization of structures of publication and book distribution are shaping the way readers participate in the encoding and decoding of textual meaning. Contributors also examine how and why reading communities cohere in a range of contexts, including prisons, book clubs, networks of zinesters, state-funded programs designed to promote active citizenship, and online spaces devoted to sharing one’s tastes in books. As concerns circulate in the media about the ways that reading?for so long anchored in print culture and the codex?is at risk of being irrevocably altered by technological shifts, this book insists on the importance of tracing the historical continuities that emerge between these reading practices and those of previous eras. In addition to the volume editor, contributors include Daniel Allington, Bethan Benwell, Jin Feng, Ed Finn, Danielle Fuller, David S. Miall, Julian Pinder, Janice Radway, Julie Rak, DeNel Rehberg Sedo, Megan Sweeney, Joan Bessman Taylor, Molly Abel Travis, and David Wright.Trade ReviewLang's book--which, it must be said, is not intended for the casual reader--is heavily influenced by modern reception studies,"" an academic field that analyzes readers' reactions to and interactions with texts. In essence, Lang and her contributors are interested in reading as a social practice. Not only do the essayists consider the inner workings of small-town book clubs to be as worthy of study as Amazon.com recommendation algorithms, they insist that understanding the interplay between the digital and the physical realms is essential to an accurate and holistic picture of the contemporary reader.""- Columbia Journalism Review;""Other books have considered the subject of reading in [the 21st century], but few, if any, have done so with the evenhandedness of From Codex to Hypertext; there is not even a hint of lament or technologically deterministic hyperbole in this volume. Rather, Lang and her contributors seem much more interested in historicizing contemporary reading regimes in order to, as Pierre Bourdieu suggests (and Lange quotes), ‘free ourselves from the unconscious presuppositions that history imposes on us.’""- SHARP News
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Emerald Publishing Limited Cultural Studies: A Research Annual
Book SynopsisThis is the first volume of an interdisciplinary publication, drawing on contemporary scholarship in such fields as speech communication, education, anthropology, sociology, history and English. Manuscripts focus on the intersection of interpretive critical theory, qualitative inquiry, culture, media, history, biography and social structure.Table of ContentsForeword - opening up cultural studies, Norman K. Denzin. Part 1 Sociology and cultural studies: relativizing sociology - the challenge of cultural studies, Steven Seidman; postmodernism, cultural studies and contemporary social inquiry, David R. Dickens; postponing the postmodern, Ben Agger. Part 2 Feminist discourse: anorexia nervosa - rereading the stories that became me, Paula Saukko; my story of anorexia nervosa - new discourses for change and recovery, Mary Walstrom; it's just a female thing, Lisa M. Sammiguel; what's wrong with this picture? comparing lived experience and textual representations of endometriosis, Lisa M. Sammiguel. Part 3 Race, popular culture and the media: race, suburban resentment and the representation of the inner city in contemporary film and television, Cameron McCarthy et al; look - it's the NBAs showtime - visions of race and popular imagery, Cheryl L. Cole and David L. Andrews; where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? discourses of nation, family and masculinity in Dyersville, IA, Charles Fruehling Springwood; Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy - pseudo-realist narratives and male hegemony, Andrea Fontana and Claudia Collins; the new childhood - home alone as a way of life, Joe Kincheloe; the emergence of contemporary sport forms - paintball, Robert Rinehart. Part 4 Critical pedagogy and interventionist texts: mobilizing meaning, demobilizing critique? dilemmas in the deconstruction of educational discourse, Maggie Maclure and Ian Stronach; from a privileged position - teachers, research and popular culture, Chris Richards; death (an assemblage), Steven Wiley.
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Temple University Press,U.S. New Left, New Right, and the Legacy of the
Book SynopsisA controversial reworking of the sixties and its ongoing impact on American politics and cultureTrade Review"Paul Lyons is one of the most sensible writers dealing with that most unsensible of subjects: the legacy of the Sixties. Ethnographically acute, politically balanced, eloquently engaged, Lyons gets at the complexities of generational conflict in ways discomforting to ideologies of the Left and the Right. New Left, New Right, and the Legacy of the Sixties ought to be a book for the Nineties." --Alan Wolfe, Boston UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. The Sixties 2. How Did We Get to the Sixties? 3. New Left, New right, New World 4. Vietnam: Silent-Majority Baby Boomers 5. Identity Politics: Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory 6. Another Sixties: The New Right 7. Yuppie: A Contemporary American Key Word 8. Clinton, Vietnam, and the Sixties 9. The Sixties: Legacy Bibliography Index
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University of South Carolina Press Critical Confrontations: Literary Theories in Dialogue
Book SynopsisTo broaden the interpretive scope of critical theory and increase its usefulness, this text draws tradition-based views of language and anti-humanistic theories from their abstract frameworks into the field of cultural studies. It examines major thinkers and contemporary writers.
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University of South Carolina Press Popped Culture: The Social History of Popcorn in
Book SynopsisThe history, legends and cookery of popcorn in America. The book tests legends against agricultural, archaeological, culinary and social findings and gauges the reasons for its unflagging popularity. The account is concluded with more than 160 historical recipes for popcorn cookery.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Austria Made in Hollywood
Book SynopsisConsiders over sixty Hollywood films set in Austria, examining the film industry, the influence of domestic factors on images of a foreign country, and the persistence of clichés. Maria von Trapp, watching the final scene of The Sound of Music for the first time as "her" family escaped into Switzerland, exclaimed, "Don't they know geography in Hollywood? Salzburg does not border on Switzerland!" Hadshe thought about the beginning of the film, which transports viewers to "Salzburg, Austria in the last Golden Days of the Thirties," when the country was in fact suffering from extreme political and social unrest, she might haveasked, "Don't they know history either?" In The Sound of Music as well as in Hollywood's many other "Austria" films, the projections on the screen resemble reflections in a funhouse mirror. Elements of a "real" place with a"real" history inhabited by "real" people can be found in the fractured distortions, which have both drawn from and contributed to the general public's perceptions of the country and its citizens. Austria Made in Hollywood focuses on films set in an identifiable Austria, examining them through the lenses of the historical contexts on both sides of the Atlantic and the prism of the ever-changing domestic film industry. The study chronicles theprotean screen images of Austria and Austrians that set them apart both from European projections of Austria and from Hollywood incarnations of other European nations and nationals. It explores explicit and implicit cultural commentaries on domestic and foreign issues inserted in the Austrian stories while considering the many, sometimes conflicting forces that shaped the films.Trade ReviewVansant's study is essential reading for students and scholars of film history and criticism, Austrian studies, and intellectual history. . . . It will be an important enhancement to library collections and a key entry on syllabi . . . . -- Felix Tweraser * CONTEMPORARY AUSTRIAN STUDIES *[Shows how] filmmakers drew on the American fascination with the empire, the aristocracy, the baroque, and classical music to address concerns of the day. . . . Students, teachers, and scholars can all draw on Vansant's focused, concise, and clear narrative, a novel and insightful examination of cinematic treatments of national cultures in historical context. -- Alan Lareau * MONATSHEFTE *[W]ould be an excellent addition to a syllabus for a history course on Europe and the United States, or as a country case study for a film course. This is the definitive book on the image of Austria and Austrians in American film. . . . An extraordinary achievement . . . . -- Michael Burri * AUSTRIAN HISTORY YEARBOOK *An immensely readable study: it persuasively illustrates how American films about Austria, both during Hollywood's golden age and at the present time, were and will continue to be projections, which often reveal much more about the contemporary concerns and values of the United States than they do about the Austria they are reconstructing on screen. -- Katya Krylova * AUSTRIAN STUDIES *As a rich source of information on often forgotten celluloid depictions of Austria, this book will be of value to scholars of Austria, and its careful readings of shifting Hollywood depictions of a single subject will make it of interest to many film scholars as well. -- Ted Dawson * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *[F]ills a gap in the history of the great migration of Nazi refugees from Europe to California by concentrating on the image of Austria in commercial products coming out of Hollywood. [Vansant] is most illuminating in her discussion of the generation from Erich von Stroheim to Otto Preminger, including Ernst Lubitsch, Michael Curtiz, Billy Wilder, and Josef von Sternberg. * CHOICE *Vansant's monograph about Hollywood's selection of Austrian topics and themes projected through the lens of the American political and sociohistorical perspective is meticulously researched and thus can serve as an excellent source book for teachers and students of film and literary studies. -- Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger * GERMAN QUARTERLY *[C]oncise [and] enjoyable to read and may inspire readers to search out films that they are not yet familiar with. It should definitely be of interest to film scholars and could potentially be useful with undergraduates or graduate students. And perhaps it will inspire a contemporary American filmmaker to reexamine Austria. -- Laura A. Detre * JOURNAL OF AUSTRIAN STUDIES *For far too long in German research on exile and film, Austria and Austrian-influenced works have been all too liberally integrated into the "German." It is exactly for this reason that Jackie Vansant's study is so important. Embedded in historical context and historically stamped motifs, she not only develops Austrian themes in the film production of Hollywood, but also the reasons for them. -- Ursula Prutsch * ZWISCHENWELT *Jacqueline Vansant's book . . . offers a unique look at how Hollywood has imagined Austria in its film production. . . . [It] has many strengths [. . . and] will be a useful reference for scholars of European and Hollywood film. -- Jason Doerre * STUDIES IN 20TH AND 21ST CENTURY LITERATURE *Table of ContentsIntroduction Erich Stroheim, His Austria(ns). and Their US Contexts Cross-Cultural Encounters of the Intimate Kind: Hollywood's Americans in Love with Austria(ns), 1932-60 The Empire Strikes Back: Imperial Austria Fights Nazis, 1938-41 Reflections and Refractions of the Anschluss on the Hollywood Screen, 1941-42 Confronting and Escaping History: The Cardinal (1963) and The Sound of Music (1965) Conclusion: Hollywood's Austria - Its Past, Present, Future Appendix: Hollywood Films Set in Austria Bibliography Index
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Pennsylvania State University Press Harlot or Holy Woman?: A Study of Hebrew Qedešah
Book SynopsisHarlot or Holy Woman? presents an exhaustive study of qedešah, a Hebrew word meaning “consecrated woman” but rendered “prostitute” or “sacred prostitute” in Bible translations. Reexamining biblical and extrabiblical texts, Phyllis A. Bird questions how qedešah came to be associated with prostitution and offers an alternative explanation of the term, one that suggests a wider participation for women as religious specialists in Israel’s early cultic practice.Bird’s study reviews all the texts from classical antiquity cited as sources for an institution of “sacred prostitution,” alongside a comprehensive analysis of the cuneiform texts from Mesopotamia containing the cognate qadištu and Ugaritic texts containing the masculine cognate qdš. Through these texts, Bird presents a portrait of women dedicated to a deity, engaged in a variety of activities from cultic ritual to wet-nursing, and sharing a common generic name with the qedešah of ancient Israel. In the final chapter she returns to biblical texts, reexamining them in light of the new evidence from the ancient Near East.Considering alternative models for constructing women’s religious roles in ancient Israel, this wholly original study offers new interpretations of key texts and raises questions about the nature of Israelite religion as practiced outside the royal cult and central sanctuary.Trade Review“Phyllis Bird deserves praise for amassing all this material into one volume and for her careful and insightful analysis of both biblical and extrabiblical texts.”—Elaine Adler Goodfriend Review of Biblical Literature“Exploring the relationship between Orientalism and the myth of sacred prostitution reveals the ongoing significance of Bird’s work. Her book shows how the myth of sacred prostitution is embedded in a broader discourse about fertility and the uncontrolled sexuality of Middle Eastern women—and this may be the lasting legacy of the work.”—Jessie DeGrado OrientaliaTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations1. Introduction2. Sacred Prostitution as Interpretive Construct3. Sir James George Frazer and the Concept of Sacred Prostitution 4. Classical Sources in Constructions of Sacred Prostitution5. New Sources from the Ancient Near East6. Qedešah in the Hebrew BibleAppendix A. Synopsis of Classical Sources in Constructions of Sacred ProstitutionAppendix B. Synopsis of qadištu /nu.gig TextsAppendix C. Nu- gig in Early Sumerian TextsBibliographyIndex of Sources
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and
Book SynopsisThis completes Ed Soja's trilogy on urban studies, which began with Postmodern Geographies and continued with Thirdspace. It is the first comprehensive text in the growing field of critical urban studies to deal with the dramatically restructured megacities that have emerged world-wide over the last half of the twentieth-century.Trade Review"Traditional sociological and urban design critiques of the American city have left vacant a wide middle ground of critical enquiry. Between statistical analysis and physical critique, Edward Soja attempts to bridge the divide by proposing a 'third way' for urban studies. The result is a broad overview, ranging between sociological and cultural points of view, with the provocative possibility of pairing the two in a new urban paradigm." Tom Leslie, World Architecture "Coming to the field as a relative novice, I found this book more straightforward and thought provoking than I expected...it is sure to be of interest and value to students and researchers alike." Regional Studies. "Postmetropolis effectively illuminates the rich complexity and multidisciplinary of urban and regional restructuring in the current era... will serve as a useful resource." Journal of Economic and Social Geography. "Postmetropolis is magisterial in its historic sweep" Thomas L. Bell, University of Tennessee.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations x Preface xii Acknowledgments xix Part I Remapping the Geohistory of Cityspace 1 Introduction 3 Outlining the Geohistory of Cityspace 4 Defining the Conceptual Framework 6 The spatial specificity of urbanism 7 The trialectics of cityspace 10 Synekism: the stimulus of urban agglomeration 12 The regionality of cityspace 16 1 Putting Cities First 19 Re-excavating the Origins of Urbanism 19 The conventional sequence: hunting and gathering – agriculture – villages – cities – states 20 A provocative inversion: putting cities first 24 Learning from Jericho 27 Learning from Çatal Hüyük 36 James Mellaart and the urban Neolithic 36 Learning from New Obsidian 42 Learning more from Çatal Hüyük 46 2 The Second Urban Revolution 50 The New Urbanization 51 Space, Knowledge, and Power in Sumeria 55 Ur and the New Urbanism 60 Fast Forward >> to the Third Urban Revolution 67 3 The Third Urban Revolution: Modernity and Urban-industrial Capitalism 71 Cityspace and the Succession of Modernities 72 The Rise of the Modern Industrial Metropolis 76 Made in Manchester 78 Remade in Chicago 84 4 Metropolis in Crisis 95 Rehearsing the Break: the Urban Crisis of the 1960s 95 Manuel Castells and the Urban Question 100 David Harvey’s Social Justice and the City 105 Summarizing the Geohistory of Capitalist Cityspace 109 5 An Introduction to the Conurbation of Greater Los Angeles 117 Los Angeles – from Space: A View from My Window 120 A Perpetual Alternation Between Vision and its Forgetting 121 1870–1900: the WASPing of Los Angeles 123 1900–1920: the Regressive–Progressive Era 127 1920–1940: roaring from war to war 129 1940–1970: the Big Orange explodes 131 Looking back to the future: Los Angeles in 1965 135 1970 and beyond: the New Urbanization 140 Part II Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis 145 Introduction 147 Border Dialogues: Previewing the Postmetropolitan Discourses 147 Conceptualizing the New Urbanization Processes 148 Grounding the Discourses 154 6 The Postfordist Industrial Metropolis: Restructuring the Geopolitical Economy of Urbanism 156 Representative Texts 156 Pathways into Urban Worlds of Production 157 The geographical anatomy of industrial urbanism 157 Production-work-territory: reworking the divisions of labor 160 Manufacturing matters: against postindustrial sociology 164 Crossing industrial divides 166 Post-ford-ism 169 The empowerment of flexibility 171 Getting lean and mean: the surge in inequality 173 Into the regional world: the rediscovery of synekism 175 Localizing Industrial Urbanism 180 Postfordist industrial cartographies 181 Developmental dynamics of the industrial complex 185 Concluding in the realm of public policy 187 7 Cosmopolis: The Globalization of Cityspace 189 Representative Texts 189 Recomposing the Discourse on Globalization 191 The globality of production and the production of globality 192 Regional worlds of globalization 197 New geographies of power 202 Adding culture to the global geopolitical economy 208 The reconstruction of social meaning in the space of flows 212 Globalized neoliberalism: a brief note 216 Metropolis Unbound: Conceptualizing Globalized Cityspace 218 The world city hypothesis 219 Commanding our attention: the rise of global cities 222 Urban dualism, the Informational City and the urban-regional process 227 The turn to cosmopolis 229 8 Exopolis: The Restructuring of Urban Form 233 Representative Texts 233 Metropolis Transformed 234 Megacities and metropolitan galaxies 235 Outer Cities, postsuburbia, and the end of the Metropolis Era 238 Edge Cities and the optimistic envisioning of postmetropolitan geographies 243 City Lite and postmetropolitan nostalgia 246 Simulating the New Urbanism 248 Exopolis as synthesis 250 Representing the Exopolis in Los Angeles 251 Starting in the New Downtown 251 Inner City blues 254 The middle landscape 258 Off-the-edge cities 259 9 Fractal City: Metropolarities and the Restructured Social Mosaic 264 Representative Texts 264 Manufacturing Inequality in the Postmetropolis 266 Normalizing inequality: the extremes at both ends 267 Variations on the theme of intrinsic causality 268 Describing metropolarities: empirical sociologies and labor market dynamics 272 Moving beyond equality politics 279 Remapping the Fractal City of Los Angeles 282 An overview of the ethnic mosaic 283 Mono-ethnic geographies: segregating cityspace 291 Multicultural geographies: mapping diversity 294 10 The Carceral Archipelago: Governing Space in the Postmetropolis 298 Representative Texts 298 Conceptualizing the Carceral Archipelago 299 Fortress L.A. and the rhetoric of social warfare 300 The destruction of public space and the architectonics of security-obsessed urbanism 303 Policing space: doing time in Los Angeles 307 Entering the Forbidden City: the imprisonment of Downtown 309 Homegrown Revolution: HOAs, CIDs, gated communities, and insular lifestyles 312 Beyond the Blade Runner scenario: the spatial restructuring of urban governmentality 319 11 Simcities: Restructuring the Urban Imaginary 323 Representative Texts 323 Re-imagining Cityspace: Travels in Hyperreality 324 Jean Baudrillard and the precession of simulacra 326 Celeste Olalquiaga and postmodern psychasthenia 330 Cyberspace and the electronic generation of hyperreality 333 M. Christine Boyer and the imaginary real world of Cybercities 337 Simcities, Simcitizens, and hyperreality-generated crisis 339 SimAmerica: a concluding critique 345 Part III Lived Space: Rethinking 1992 in Los Angeles 349 Introduction 351 12 LA 1992: Overture to a Conclusion 355 Revisionings 355 Bodies, Cities, Texts: The Case of Citizen Rodney King (by Barbara Hooper) 359 Inscriptions 359 Somatography: the order in place 361 The Trial: Us v. Them 368 13 LA 1992: The Spaces of Representation 372 Event-Geography-Remembering 372 Visible antipodes: Inner versus Outer City 373 Normalized enclosures: the development of common interests 376 The Invisible Riots Remembered 379 Downtowns: this is not the 1960s 379 Pico-Union and the desaparacidos 386 Sa-i-ku and other commemorations 389 A repetitive ending 392 14 Postscript: Critical Reflections on the Postmetropolis 396 New Beginnings I: Postmetropolis in Crisis 396 The downturn of postfordism 397 Too fulsome globalization? 399 Suddenly everywhere is Pomona 401 Repadded white bunkers 402 Deconstructed modes of regulation 403 Simgovernment in crisis 405 New Beginnings II: Struggles for Spatial Justice and Regional Democracy 407 Bibliography 416 Name Index 431 Subject Index 436
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Comic Visions: Television Comedy and American
Book SynopsisComic Visions, Second Edition is an update of the most influential critical history of American television comedy. Most comprehensive social and critical history of American television comedy Very engaging, lucid and entertaining writing style Approaches social criticism without being too scholarly and pedantic Trade Review"A new edition of David Marc's Comic Visions is grounds for rejoicing. His historical survey of TV comedy remains unrivalled, and new material on the cable era will be more than welcome." Francis Couvares, Amherst College. "David Marc's Comic Visions is the outstanding book of its type: social and cultural analysis of the most popular and important comedic forms of television." Chad Gordon, Rice University. "Recommended for all academic and large public libraries; all levels." A. Hirsh, emeritus, Central Conneticut State University.Table of ContentsPraise for the First Edition. Acknowledgments. Foreword by Ken Tucker. Preface to the Second Edition. 1. What's So Funny About America?. 2. Waking Up to Television. 3. The Making of a Sitcom, 1961. 4. Planet Earth to Sitcom, Planet Earth to Sitcom. 5. The Sitcom at Literate Peak. 6. Demographic Fantasies of the Reagan Era. 7. Friends of the Family. Bibliography. Index to Television Comedy Series. General Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd From Sociology to Cultural Studies: New
Book SynopsisThis exciting collection of new essays suggests ways that cultural analysis can become more socially grounded, while also challenging sociology to learn from analytic perspectives developed outside the discipline.Trade Review"Steve Redhead's book is a collection of pieces that show 'popular cultural studies' (as he calls it) at their most lucid and at the same time their most frustrating. The collection maps the shift form subculture- fairly rigid oppositional groups responding to dominant cultural trends-to clubcultures which are apparently more diverse, fragmentary and consumerist. This shift is framed within the move from 'moralistic individualism to hedonistic individualism'. as such the book maps Redhead's unique blend of socio-legal critique, demonstrating the centrality of the popular in the regulation and legitimation of society." Bookends 1998. "Combining a thoughtful assessment of the intellectual roots of cultural studies with an impassioned inquiry into its future directions, this original and intellectually vibrant collection of essays is an important intervention in the field. By rigorously insisting on the importance of questions about social structure and social process to cultural studies’ past, the authors of these essays demonstrate how a more socially oriented approach can revivify the tradition and strengthen its capacity fir practical and political intervention in the future. A ‘must read’ for anyone interested in the work that cultural studies can do." – Janice Radway, Duke University "In this exciting collection, Long has drawn together scholars whose work represents the potential shared concerns and characteristics of sociology and cultural studies: that of responding to changes in the world and maintaining a sense of a project for a more egalitarian society. It will be of interest to sociologists and cultural studies scholars and students alike as a set of invigorating challenges to both fields." – Ann Gray, University of Birmingham, UKTable of ContentsList of Contributors. Preface. Introduction: Engaging Sociology and Cultural Studies: Disciplinarity and Social Change: Elizabeth Long (Rice University). Part I: Thinking Through Memory and Tradition:. 1. Relativizing Sociology: The Challenge of Cultural Studies: Steven Seidman (State University of New York at Albany). 2. Reading Architecture in the Holocaust Museum: A Method and an Empirical Illustration: Magali Sarfatti Larson (Temple University). 3. Subject Crises and Subject Work: Repositioning DuBois: Jon Cruz (University of California, Santa Barbara). 4. Conserving Cultural Studies: Andres Goodwin and Janet Wolff (University of San Francisco and University of Rochester). Part II: Reframing Popular Forms and Usages:. 5. Monsters and Muppets: The History of Childhood and Techniques of Cultural Analysis: Chandra Mukerji (University of California, San Diego). 6. Rewriting the Pleasure/Danger Dialectic: Tricia Rose (New York University). 7. Situating Television in Everyday Life: Reformulating a Cultural Studies Approach to the Study of Television Use: Ron Lembo (Amherst College). 8. Facing Up to What's Killing Us: Artistic Practice and Grassroots Social Theory: George Lipsitz. Part III: Relating Cultural Processes and Social Inequality:. 9. Colliding Moralities Between Black and White Workers: Michele Lamont (Princeton University). 10. The Ideology of Intensive Mothering: A Cultural Analysis of the Best-Selling 'Gurus' of Appropriate Child-rearing: Sharon Hays (University of Virginia). 11. Mexican American Youth and the Politics of Caring: Angela Valenzuela (Rice University). 12. Jazz Tradition, Institutional Formation, and Cultural Practice: The Canon and the Street as Frameworks for Oppositional Black Cultural Politics: Herman Gray (University of California, Santa Cruz). Part IV: Engaging Disciplinarity and Other Politics of Knowledge:. 13. The Social Construction of "Social Cunstruction": Notes on "Teddy Bear Patriarchy": Michael Schudson (University of California, San Diego). 14. Critical Cultural Studies as One Power/Knowledge Like, Among, and In Engagement with Others: George Marcus (Rice University). 15. The Men We Left Behind Us, or Reading Our Br(others): Narratives Around and About Feminism from White, Leftwing, Academic Men: Judith Newton and Judith Stacey (University of California at Davis and University of Southern California). 16. Re-Inventing Cultural Studies: Remembering for the Best Version: Richard Johnson (Nottingham Trent University). 17. Whither Cultural Studies?: Ellen Messer-Davidow (University of Minnesota). Index.
£107.30
John Wiley and Sons Ltd From Sociology to Cultural Studies: New
Book SynopsisThis exciting collection of new essays suggests ways that cultural analysis can become more socially grounded, while also challenging sociology to learn from analytic perspectives developed outside the discipline.Trade Review"Steve Redhead's book is a collection of pieces that show 'popular cultural studies' (as he calls it) at their most lucid and at the same time their most frustrating. The collection maps the shift form subculture- fairly rigid oppositional groups responding to dominant cultural trends-to clubcultures which are apparently more diverse, fragmentary and consumerist. This shift is framed within the move from 'moralistic individualism to hedonistic individualism'. as such the book maps Redhead's unique blend of socio-legal critique, demonstrating the centrality of the popular in the regulation and legitimation of society." Bookends 1998. "Combining a thoughtful assessment of the intellectual roots of cultural studies with an impassioned inquiry into its future directions, this original and intellectually vibrant collection of essays is an important intervention in the field. By rigorously insisting on the importance of questions about social structure and social process to cultural studies’ past, the authors of these essays demonstrate how a more socially oriented approach can revivify the tradition and strengthen its capacity fir practical and political intervention in the future. A ‘must read’ for anyone interested in the work that cultural studies can do." – Janice Radway, Duke University "In this exciting collection, Long has drawn together scholars whose work represents the potential shared concerns and characteristics of sociology and cultural studies: that of responding to changes in the world and maintaining a sense of a project for a more egalitarian society. It will be of interest to sociologists and cultural studies scholars and students alike as a set of invigorating challenges to both fields." – Ann Gray, University of Birmingham, UKTable of ContentsList of Contributors. Preface. Introduction: Engaging Sociology and Cultural Studies: Disciplinarity and Social Change: Elizabeth Long (Rice University). Part I: Thinking Through Memory and Tradition:. 1. Relativizing Sociology: The Challenge of Cultural Studies: Steven Seidman (State University of New York at Albany). 2. Reading Architecture in the Holocaust Museum: A Method and an Empirical Illustration: Magali Sarfatti Larson (Temple University). 3. Subject Crises and Subject Work: Repositioning DuBois: Jon Cruz (University of California, Santa Barbara). 4. Conserving Cultural Studies: Andres Goodwin and Janet Wolff (University of San Francisco and University of Rochester). Part II: Reframing Popular Forms and Usages:. 5. Monsters and Muppets: The History of Childhood and Techniques of Cultural Analysis: Chandra Mukerji (University of California, San Diego). 6. Rewriting the Pleasure/Danger Dialectic: Tricia Rose (New York University). 7. Situating Television in Everyday Life: Reformulating a Cultural Studies Approach to the Study of Television Use: Ron Lembo (Amherst College). 8. Facing Up to What's Killing Us: Artistic Practice and Grassroots Social Theory: George Lipsitz. Part III: Relating Cultural Processes and Social Inequality:. 9. Colliding Moralities Between Black and White Workers: Michele Lamont (Princeton University). 10. The Ideology of Intensive Mothering: A Cultural Analysis of the Best-Selling 'Gurus' of Appropriate Child-rearing: Sharon Hays (University of Virginia). 11. Mexican American Youth and the Politics of Caring: Angela Valenzuela (Rice University). 12. Jazz Tradition, Institutional Formation, and Cultural Practice: The Canon and the Street as Frameworks for Oppositional Black Cultural Politics: Herman Gray (University of California, Santa Cruz). Part IV: Engaging Disciplinarity and Other Politics of Knowledge:. 13. The Social Construction of "Social Cunstruction": Notes on "Teddy Bear Patriarchy": Michael Schudson (University of California, San Diego). 14. Critical Cultural Studies as One Power/Knowledge Like, Among, and In Engagement with Others: George Marcus (Rice University). 15. The Men We Left Behind Us, or Reading Our Br(others): Narratives Around and About Feminism from White, Leftwing, Academic Men: Judith Newton and Judith Stacey (University of California at Davis and University of Southern California). 16. Re-Inventing Cultural Studies: Remembering for the Best Version: Richard Johnson (Nottingham Trent University). 17. Whither Cultural Studies?: Ellen Messer-Davidow (University of Minnesota). Index.
£56.00
Texas A & M University Press Flying Down to Rio: Hollywood, Tourists, and
Book SynopsisIn this book, author Rosalie Schwartz uses the 1933 RKO-Radio Pictures production Flying Down to Rio to examine the interplay of technology and popular culture that shaped a distinctive twentieth-century sensibility. The musical comedy connected airplanes, movies, and tourism, ending spectacularly with chorus girls dancing on the wings of airplanes high above Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Hollywood fantasy capped three decades during which airplanes and movies engendered new expectations and redefined people's sense of well-being, their personal satisfactions, and their interpersonal relations. Wilbur and Orville Wright flew their airplane in 1903, at the same time that film-makers began to project edited, filmed stories onto large screens. Spectators found entertainment value in both airplane competitions and motion pictures, and movie producers brought the thrill of aviators' antics to a rapidly expanding audience. Meanwhile, air shows and competitions attracted large crowds of tourists. Mass tourism grew as a leisure-time activity, stimulated in part by travelogues and feature films. By 1930, the businessmen who envisioned transporting tourists to their destinations by airplane struggled to overcome the movie-exaggerated association of flight with danger. Schwartz weaves these threads into a story of human daring and persistence, political intrigue, and international competition. From Wilbur and Orville to Fred and Ginger, Schwartz's narrative follows the fortunes of aviation and movie pioneers and the foundations and growth of Pan American Airways and RKO-Radio Pictures, the two companies that came together in Flying Down to Rio. By the end of the twentieth century, aviation, movies, and mass tourism had become powerful global industries, contributing to an internationally connected, entertainment-oriented culture. What was once unthinkable had now become expected.
£51.00
Texas A & M University Press Flying Down to Rio: Hollywood, Tourists, and
Book SynopsisIn this book, author Rosalie Schwartz uses the 1933 RKO-Radio Pictures production Flying Down to Rio to examine the interplay of technology and popular culture that shaped a distinctive twentieth-century sensibility. The musical comedy connected airplanes, movies, and tourism, ending spectacularly with chorus girls dancing on the wings of airplanes high above Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Hollywood fantasy capped three decades during which airplanes and movies engendered new expectations and redefined people's sense of well-being, their personal satisfactions, and their interpersonal relations. Wilbur and Orville Wright flew their airplane in 1903, at the same time that film-makers began to project edited, filmed stories onto large screens. Spectators found entertainment value in both airplane competitions and motion pictures, and movie producers brought the thrill of aviators' antics to a rapidly expanding audience. Meanwhile, air shows and competitions attracted large crowds of tourists. Mass tourism grew as a leisure-time activity, stimulated in part by travelogues and feature films. By 1930, the businessmen who envisioned transporting tourists to their destinations by airplane struggled to overcome the movie-exaggerated association of flight with danger. Schwartz weaves these threads into a story of human daring and persistence, political intrigue, and international competition. From Wilbur and Orville to Fred and Ginger, Schwartz's narrative follows the fortunes of aviation and movie pioneers and the foundations and growth of Pan American Airways and RKO-Radio Pictures, the two companies that came together in Flying Down to Rio. By the end of the twentieth century, aviation, movies, and mass tourism had become powerful global industries, contributing to an internationally connected, entertainment-oriented culture. What was once unthinkable had now become expected.
£19.96
Modern Language Association of America Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture
Book SynopsisItalian American studies has long been in conversation with American culture at large and is increasingly present in American universities and colleges. Yet once-celebrated works, such as Pietro di Donato’s Christ in Concrete, have slipped from the public consciousness, and many scholars fear that representations of Italian Americans in popular culture, as in The Godfather films and the television series The Sopranos, have obscured genuine historical inquiry and understanding. This volume aims to foster a deeper and more complex appreciation for the importance of Italian American texts in the study of American culture. The editors open the volume by outlining the history of Italians in the United States and exploring the potential of literature and the arts to enable the recovery of a forgotten, even repressed, historical past. Over thirty scholars and teachers then present innovative ways of teaching Italian American texts and integrating them with other texts in courses ranging from American literature and history to multiethnic and women’s studies. Contributors discuss Italian American fiction, poetry, memoir, oral history, and theater and performance. A section on film and television provides an overview of popular as well as lesser-known works and interrogates the stereotyped portrayals of Italian Americans. Other contributors offer historical and interdisciplinary approaches to Italian American texts that revolve around themes of race and gender politics, work and social class, and historical intersections. The volume concludes with a review of anthologies that can be used in teaching Italian American studies.
£34.81
Getty Trust Publications Values in Heritage Management - Emerging
Book SynopsisOver the last fifty years, conservation professionals have confronted increasingly complex political, economic, and cultural dynamics. This volume, with contributions by leading international practitioners and scholars, reviews how values-based methods have come to influence conservation, takes stock of emerging approaches to values in heritage practice and policy, identifies common challenges and related spheres of knowledge, and proposes specific areas in which the development of new approaches and future research may help advance the field.Table of ContentsForeword - Jeanne Marie Teutonico Acknowledgments Part 1: Background Introduction Mapping the Issue of Values: A Discussion - Erica Avrami and Randall Mason Part 2: Topical Papers Spatializing Values in Heritage Conservation: The Potential of Cultural Mapping - Erica Avrami Heritage Work: Understanding the Values, Applying the Values - Kristal Buckley The Shift towards Values in UK Heritage Practice - Kate Clark Understanding Values of Cultural Heritage within the Framework of Social Identity Conflicts - Karina Korostelina The Contemporary Values behind Chinese Heritage - Kuanghan Li Values-Based Management and the Burra Charter: 1979-1999-2013 Is Conservation of Cultural Heritage Halal?: Perspectives on Heritage Values Rooted in Arabic-Islamic Traditions - Hossam Mahdy Changing Concepts and Values in Natural Heritage Conservation: A View through Policies of IUCN and UNESCO - Josep-Maria Mallarach and Bas Verschuuren Valuing Traumatic Heritage Places: Arguing for Societal Values in Conservation - Randall Mason Values and Relationships between Tangible and Intangible Dimensions of Heritage Places - Ayesha Pamela Rogers The Paradox of Valuing the Invaluable: Managing Cultural Values in Heritage Places - Tara Sharma Heritage Economics: Coming to Terms with Values and Valuation - David Throsby From the Inside Looking Out: Indigenous Perspectives on Heritage Values - Joe Watkins Appendix: Conclusions and Recommendations of the Symposium Participants Further Readings in Heritage Values - Complied by Erica Avrami and Randall Mason Symposium Participants About the Contributors
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University of Iowa Press Main Street Public Library: Community Places and
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University of Iowa Press Reading Capitalist Realism
Book SynopsisAs the world has been reshaped since the 1970s by economic globalisation, neoliberalism, and financialisation, writers and artists have addressed the problem of representing the economy with a new sense of political urgency. Anxieties over who controls capitalism have thus been translated into demands upon literature, art, and mass media to develop strategies of representation that can account for capitalism’s power.Reading Capitalist Realism presents some of the latest and most sophisticated approaches to the question of the relation between capitalism and narrative form, partly by questioning how the “realism” of austerity, privatisation, and wealth protection relate to the realism of narrative and cultural production. Even as critics have sought to locate a new aesthetic mode that might consider and move beyond theorisations of the postmodern, this volume contends that narrative realism demands renewed scrutiny for its ability to represent capitalism’s latest scenes of enclosure and indebtedness.Ranging across fiction, nonfiction, television, and film, the essays collected here explore to what extent realism is equipped to comprehend and historicise our contemporary economic moment and what might be the influence or complicity of the literary in shaping the global politics of lowered expectations. Including essays on writers such as Mohsin Hamid, Lorrie Moore, Jess Walter, J. M. Coetzee, James Kelman, Ali Smith, Russell Banks, William Vollmann, and William Gibson, as well as examinations of Hollywood film productions and The Wire television series, Reading Capitalist Realism calls attention to a resurgence of realisms across narrative genres and questions realism’s ability to interrogate the crisis-driven logic of political and economic “common sense.”
£38.90
University of Iowa Press What Is Your Quest?: From Adventure Games to
Book SynopsisWhat Is Your Quest? examines the future of electronic literature in a world where tablets and e-readers are becoming as common as printed books and where fans are blurring the distinction between reader and author. The construction of new ways of storytelling is already underway: it is happening on the edges of the mainstream gaming industry and in the spaces between media, on the foundations set by classic games. Along these margins, convergent storytelling allows for playful reading and reading becomes a strategy of play.One of the earliest models for this new way of telling stories was the adventure game, the kind of game cantered on quests in which the characters must overcome obstacles and puzzles. After they fell out of fashion in the 1990s, fans made strenuous efforts to keep them alive and to create new games in the genre. Such activities highlight both the convergence of game and story and the collapsing distinction between reader and author. Continually defying the forces of obsolescence, fans return abandoned games to a playable state and treat stories as ever-evolving narratives. Similarly, players of massive multiplayer games become co-creators of the game experience, building characters and creating social networks that recombine a reading and gaming community.The interactions between storytellers and readers, between programmers and creators, and among fans turned world-builders are essential to the development of innovative ways of telling stories. And at the same time that fan activities foster the convergence of digital gaming and storytelling, new and increasingly accessible tools and models for interactive narrative empower a broadening range of storytellers. It is precisely this interactivity among a range of users surrounding these new platforms that is radically reshaping both e-books and games and those who read and play with them.
£22.75
University of Iowa Press Playing Fans: Negotiating Fandom and Media in the
Book SynopsisFans are everywhere: from Fifty Shades of Grey to Veronica Mars, from Comic-Con to sitcom, from niche to Geek Chic, fans are becoming the most visible and important audience of the twenty-first century. For years the media industries ignored fans and fan activities, but now they’re paying attention and a lot of money to develop a whole new wave of products intended to harness the power of fandom. What impact do such corporate media efforts have on fan practice and fan identities? And are the media industries actually responding to fans as fans want them to?In Playing Fans, Paul Booth argues that the more attention entertainment businesses pay to fans, the more mainstream fans have become popularized. But such mainstreaming ignores important creative fan work and tries to channel fandom into activities lucrative for the companies. Offering a new approach to the longstanding debate about the balance between manipulation and subversion in popular culture, the author argues that we can understand the current moment best through the concepts of pastiche and parody. This sophisticated alternative to conceiving of fans as either dupes of the media industry or rebels against it takes the discussion of “transformative” and “affirmative” fandom in a productive new direction.With nuanced analyses of the Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff, the representations of fans in TV shows like Community and films like Fanboys, SuperWhoLock fans’ use of gifs, and the similarities in discussions of slash fandom and pornographic parody films, this book reveals how fans borrow media techniques and media industries mimic fan activities. Just as the entertainment industry needs fans to succeed, so too do fans need—and desire—the media, and they represent their love through gif fics, crowdfunding, and digital cosplay. Everyone who wants to understand how consumers are making themselves at home in the brave new world being built by the contemporary media should read this book.
£37.00
University of Iowa Press Mass Authorship and the Rise of Self-Publishing
Book SynopsisIn the last two decades, digital technologies have made it possible for anyone with a computer and an Internet connection to rapidly and inexpensively self-publish a book. Once a stigmatized niche activity, self-publishing has grown explosively. Hobbyists and professionals alike have produced millions of books, circulating them through e-readers and the web. What does this new flood of books mean for publishing, authors, and readers? Some lament the rise of self-publishing because it tramples the gates and gatekeepers who once reserved publication for those who met professional standards. Others tout authors’ new freedom from the narrow-minded exclusivity of traditional publishing. Critics mourn the death of the author; fans celebrate the democratization of authorship.Drawing on eight years of research and interviews with more than eighty self-published writers, Mass Authorship avoids the polemics, instead showing how writers are actually thinking about and dealing with this brave new world. Timothy Laquintano compares the experiences of self-publishing authors in three distinct genres—poker strategy guides, memoirs, and romance novels— as well as those of writers whose self-published works hit major bestseller lists. He finds that the significance of self-publishing and the challenge it presents to traditional publishing depend on the aims of authors, the desires of their readers, the affordances of their platforms, and the business plans of the companies that provide those platforms.In drawing a nuanced portrait of self-publishing authors today, Laquintano answers some of the most pressing questions about what it means to publish in the twenty-first century: How do writers establish credibility in an environment with no editors to judge quality? How do authors police their copyrights online without recourse to the law? How do they experience Amazon as a publishing platform? And how do they find an audience when, it sometimes seems, there are more writers than readers?
£20.85
University of Iowa Press Half a Million Strong: Crowds and Power from
Book SynopsisFrom baby boomers to millennials, attending a big music festival has basically become a cultural rite of passage in America. In Half a Million Strong, music writer and scholar Gina Arnold explores the history of large music festivals in America and examines their impact on American culture. Studying literature, films, journalism, and other archival detritus of the countercultural era, Arnold looks closely at a number of large and well-known festivals, including the Newport Folk Festival, Woodstock, Altamont, Wattstax, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, and others to map their cultural significance in the American experience. She finds that—far from being the utopian and communal spaces of spiritual regeneration that they claim for themselves— these large music festivals serve mostly to display the free market to consumers in its very best light.
£16.10
University of Iowa Press Exploiting Fandom: How the Media Industry Seeks
Book SynopsisAs more and more fans rush online to share their thoughts on their favorite shows or video games, they might feel like the process of providing feedback is empowering. However, as fan studies scholar Mel Stanfill argues, these industry invitations for fan participation indicate not greater fan power but rather greater fan usefulness. Stanfill's argument, controversial to some in the field, compares the “domestication of fandom” to the domestication of livestock, contending that, just as livestock are bred bigger and more docile as they are domesticated, so, too, are fans as the entertainment industry seeks to cultivate a fan base that is both more useful and more controllable.By bringing industry studies and fan studies into the conversation, Stanfill looks closely at just who exactly the industry considers “proper fans” in terms of race, gender, age, and sexuality, and interrogates how digital media have influenced consumption, ultimately finding that the invitation to participate is really an incitement to consume in circumscribed, industry-useful ways.
£57.60
University of South Carolina Press Into the Flatland
Book SynopsisCapturing the rich contrasts of the land and the intimate history of generations in the Mississippi Delta, Into the Flatland, by Kathleen Robbins, is a series of photographs documenting the terrain, people, and culture of her ancestry. The photographer returned to her childhood farm in Bell Chase as an adult in 2001 after completing graduate studies in New Mexico. She and her brother then lived on their family farm for nearly two years, breathing life back into family properties that had been long dormant.In this series, which won the Photo-NOLA prize in 2011, Robbins highlights the diversity of the landscape of the Delta, from expansive, dusty cotton fields to green, vibrant swamps. Her photographs capture the people and the architecture that are present on the land and also reminiscent of a time long past, before the mechanization of farming and the exodus of her people from their native soil. The presence of Robbins’s family in some of her photographs brings an intimacy to her portrait of the Delta and shows the tension between past and present. Including a short story by a National Endowment for the Arts recipient, Cynthia Shearer, Into the Flatland transports the reader into the rich history of Mississippi. At turns both colorful and gray, the photographs capture not only the Delta landscape, but also the stark and rugged images of people and buildings that sink as deeply into the land as the roots of the trees in the woods and swamps. As large masses of birds flock to the vast blue sky, Robbins remains fixed on the ground, her lens trained on the home and the landscape of her past.
£26.96
Dartmouth College Press Stardust Monuments
Book SynopsisHollywood is placeless, timeless, and iconic, a key fabricator and forger of American cultural myths and stories. How, then, will the history of Hollywood be written?
£28.00
Brandeis University Press Knish
Book SynopsisThe one and only absolutely definitive biography of the knish
£999.99
Dartmouth College Press Finding Augusta
Book SynopsisAddresses the effect of mobile communications technologies on individuals' habits and how they are regulated
£34.20
Purdue University Press Design and Culture: A Transdisciplinary History
Book SynopsisDesign and Culture: A Transdisciplinary History offers an inclusive overview that crosses disciplinary boundaries and helps define the next phase of global design practice. This book examines the interaction of design with advances in technology, developments in science, and changing cultural attitudes. It looks to the past to prepare for the future and is the first book to offer an innovative transdisciplinary design history that integrates multidisciplinary sources of knowledge into a mindful whole. It shows design as a process that expresses goals through values and beliefs, functioning as a major factor in contemporary cultural life.Starting with the development of the Industrial Revolution, the book focuses on the evolution of design and culture in the twentieth century to predict where design will go in the future. Given the major social and political shifts currently unfolding across the globe, and the resulting changing demographics and environmental degradation, Design and Culture encourages collaboration and communication between disciplines to prepare for the future of design in a rapidly changing world.Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 1. INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 1750–1870 2. STYLE ON SHOW 1871–1939 3. MODERNIZATION 1919–1967 4. CULTURAL REVOLUTION 1950s–2000 5. THE THIRD MILLENNIUM 2001–2050 NotesIndex
£73.10
Purdue University Press The Impact of the Presidency of Donald Trump on
Book SynopsisThe Trump presidency has resulted in a fundamentally disruptive moment in this nation's political culture. Not only were there different policy options and directions, but the cultural artifacts of politics changed because of how this president dramatically challenged the existing norms of political behavior and action. As we have shifted from a period of American liberalism to a time of political populism, deep fissures are dividing Americans in general and Jews in particular.The Impact of the Presidency of Donald Trump on American Jewry and Israel unpacks President Donald Trump's distinctive and unique relationship with the American Jewish community and the State of Israel. Addressing the various dimensions of his personal and political connections with Jews and Israel, this publication is designed to provide an assessment of how the Trump presidency has influenced and altered American Jewish political behavior. Writers from different backgrounds and political orientations bring a broad range of perspectives designed to examine various aspects of this presidency, including Trump's particular impact on Israel-US relations, his special connection with Orthodox Jews, and his complex and uneven relationship with Jewish Republicans.For liberal American Jews, these four years represented a fundamental revolution, overturning and challenging much that a generation of activists had fought to achieve and protect. For Trump's supporters, it afforded them an opportunity to advance their priorities, while joining the forty-fifth president in changing the American political landscape. The ""Trump effect"" will extend well beyond his four-year tenure, creating an environment that has fomented the politics of hate and exposed a deeply embedded presence of anti-Semitism. How Americans understand this moment in time and the ways society will adapt can be reflected through the prism of the Jewish encounter with Trumpism that this volume seeks to explore.Table of Contents FOREWORD EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION Consonance or Dissonance: American Jewry in a Post-Trump Era, by Gary Phillip Zola Donald Trump and the Jews: Bad for America, Bad for the Jews, Wonderful for the Netanyahu-Led Government of Israel and Potentially Dangerous to Israel's Future, by Michael Berenbaum Trump: Friend Extraordinaire to Israel and the Jewish People, by Morton A. Klein and Elizabeth A. Berney, Esq. The Jewish Community and Younger Generations: Challenges, Opportunities, and Long-Term Impacts of the Trump Era, by Adam Basciano and Shanie Reichman The American Jewish Community: A Divergence of Political Perspectives, by Saba Soomekh Orthodox Jews and Trump, by Gilbert N. Kahn Seeing Mar-A-Lago from Jerusalem: Perceptions of President Trump in Israel, by Ehud Eiran How the Jewish Press Saw, by Rob Eshman Why Donald Trump's Vision Repelled American Jews, by Mark Mellman They Said It Couldn't Be Done: Historic Achievements of President Donald Trump, by Matthew Brooks and Shari Hillman Trump and the Jews: What Did We Learn?, by Dan Schnur Reflections on Donald Trump's Presidency and American Jewry, by Steven F. Windmueller ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS ABOUT THE USC CASDEN INSTITUTE
£23.36
University Press of Mississippi Kewpies and Beyond: The World of Rose O'Neill
Book SynopsisThe Life and Work of the fascinating creator of the Kewpie doll.
£31.46
Information Age Publishing Culture and Social Change: Transforming Society
Book SynopsisThis book brings together social scientists to create an interdisciplinary dialogue on the topic of social change as a cultural process. Culture is as much about novelty as it is about tradition, as much about change as it is about stability. This dynamic tension is analysed in collective protests, intergroup dynamics, language, mass media, science, community participation, art, and social transitions to capitalism, among others contexts. These diverse cases illustrate a number of key factors that can propel, slow-down and retract social change. An emancipatory and integrative social science is developed in this book, which offers a new explanatory model of human behaviour and thought under conditions of institutional and societal change.
£49.95
Information Age Publishing Culture and Social Change: Transforming Society
Book SynopsisThis book brings together social scientists to create an interdisciplinary dialogue on the topic of social change as a cultural process. Culture is as much about novelty as it is about tradition, as much about change as it is about stability. This dynamic tension is analysed in collective protests, intergroup dynamics, language, mass media, science, community participation, art, and social transitions to capitalism, among others contexts. These diverse cases illustrate a number of key factors that can propel, slow-down and retract social change. An emancipatory and integrative social science is developed in this book, which offers a new explanatory model of human behaviour and thought under conditions of institutional and societal change.
£87.40
Information Age Publishing Getting to Know Ourselves and Others Through the
Book SynopsisThis book is a valuable resource for teachers and other professionals who are looking for a proven way to increase cultural appreciation and awareness. New applications of the ABCs model of Cultural Understanding and Communication are presented and discussed in this new volume, based on studies done in the United States, and Canada and Europe. In this ground-breaking project, the authors describe how the ABCs model complicated and challenged and changed the cultural perceptions of those who participated in it, even those who were initially highly resistant to such possibilities. At the heart of the project is the exchange of narratives - life stories that give insight into the cultural worlds of selves and others. In addition to the narratives, other instruments including the Transcultural Competence Scale (TCC), provide further evidence of the positive impact of the ABCs on participants' receptivity toward cultural differences.In the TRANSABCs project, researchers from both sides of the Atlantic invited teacher candidates, students who will become workplace and other professionals to write an autobiography (A) of themselves from various cultural perspectives, a biography (B) of an individual who is culturally different from themselves along particular dimensions, and to use these documents to conduct cross-cultural comparisons (C) between themselves and the person they interviewed. Furthermore, candidates developed culturally responsive ideas for the school or the workplace (C). These exchanges and analyses produced epiphanies and insights that translated into specific actions to improve cultural understanding and communication in classrooms and workplaces. Educators and professionals can take from these examples to inspire their own personal journey toward greater cultural understanding and sensitivity.
£47.45
Information Age Publishing Getting to Know Ourselves and Others Through the
Book SynopsisThis book is a valuable resource for teachers and other professionals who are looking for a proven way to increase cultural appreciation and awareness. New applications of the ABCs model of Cultural Understanding and Communication are presented and discussed in this new volume, based on studies done in the United States, and Canada and Europe. In this ground-breaking project, the authors describe how the ABCs model complicated and challenged and changed the cultural perceptions of those who participated in it, even those who were initially highly resistant to such possibilities. At the heart of the project is the exchange of narratives - life stories that give insight into the cultural worlds of selves and others. In addition to the narratives, other instruments including the Transcultural Competence Scale (TCC), provide further evidence of the positive impact of the ABCs on participants' receptivity toward cultural differences.In the TRANSABCs project, researchers from both sides of the Atlantic invited teacher candidates, students who will become workplace and other professionals to write an autobiography (A) of themselves from various cultural perspectives, a biography (B) of an individual who is culturally different from themselves along particular dimensions, and to use these documents to conduct cross-cultural comparisons (C) between themselves and the person they interviewed. Furthermore, candidates developed culturally responsive ideas for the school or the workplace (C). These exchanges and analyses produced epiphanies and insights that translated into specific actions to improve cultural understanding and communication in classrooms and workplaces. Educators and professionals can take from these examples to inspire their own personal journey toward greater cultural understanding and sensitivity.
£87.40
Information Age Publishing Making Our Ideas Clear: Pragmatism in
Book SynopsisThis book brings pragmatic theory and praxis into dialogue with contemporary psychodynamic ideas, practitioners, and clinical issues. Generally considered as a historical footnote to psychoanalysis, the chapters in this volume demonstrate pragmatism’s continued relevance for contemporary thought.Not only does pragmatism share many of the values and sensibilities of contemporary psychodynamics, its rich philosophical and theoretical emphasis on active meaning making and agentic being in the world complements and extends current thinking about the social nature of self and mind, how we occupy space in the world, non-linear development, and processes of communication.
£47.45
Information Age Publishing Making Our Ideas Clear: Pragmatism in
Book SynopsisThis book brings pragmatic theory and praxis into dialogue with contemporary psychodynamic ideas, practitioners, and clinical issues. Generally considered as a historical footnote to psychoanalysis, the chapters in this volume demonstrate pragmatism’s continued relevance for contemporary thought.Not only does pragmatism share many of the values and sensibilities of contemporary psychodynamics, its rich philosophical and theoretical emphasis on active meaning making and agentic being in the world complements and extends current thinking about the social nature of self and mind, how we occupy space in the world, non-linear development, and processes of communication.
£87.40
Information Age Publishing Rebel Music: Resistance through Hip Hop and Punk
Book SynopsisArising from the street corners and underground clubs, Rebel Music: Resistance through Hip Hop and Punk, challenges standardized schooling and argues for equity, peace, and justice. Rebel Music is an important, one-of-a-kind book that takes readers through fun, radical, educational chapters examining Hip Hop and Punk songs, with each section addressing a particular social issue. Rebel Music values the experiences found in both movements as cultural capital that is de-valued in the current oppressive, standard, test-driven, rule-bound, and corporate schooling experience, making youth “just another brick in the wall.” This collection is a “rebel yell” to administrators, teachers, parents, police, politicians, and counsellors who demonize Hip Hop and Punk to listen up and respect youth culture. Finally, Rebel Music is a celebration of radical voices and an organizing tool for those who use music to challenge oppression.
£44.96
Information Age Publishing Rebel Music: Resistance through Hip Hop and Punk
Book SynopsisArising from the street corners and underground clubs, Rebel Music: Resistance through Hip Hop and Punk, challenges standardized schooling and argues for equity, peace, and justice. Rebel Music is an important, one-of-a-kind book that takes readers through fun, radical, educational chapters examining Hip Hop and Punk songs, with each section addressing a particular social issue. Rebel Music values the experiences found in both movements as cultural capital that is de-valued in the current oppressive, standard, test-driven, rule-bound, and corporate schooling experience, making youth “just another brick in the wall.” This collection is a “rebel yell” to administrators, teachers, parents, police, politicians, and counsellors who demonize Hip Hop and Punk to listen up and respect youth culture. Finally, Rebel Music is a celebration of radical voices and an organizing tool for those who use music to challenge oppression.
£82.80
University of Massachusetts Press Suburban Plots: Men at Home in Nineteenth-Century
Book SynopsisIn the middle of the nineteenth century, as Americans contended with rapid industrial and technological change, readers relied on periodicals and books for information about their changing world. Within this print culture, a host of writers, editors, architects, and reformers urged men to commute to and from their jobs in the city, which was commonly associated with overcrowding, disease, and expense. Through a range of materials, from pattern books to novels and a variety of periodicals, men were told of the restorative effects on body and soul of the natural environment, found in the emerging suburbs outside cities such as New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. They were assured that the promise of an ideal home, despite its association with women’s work, could help to motivate them to engage in the labour and commute that took them away from it each day.In Suburban Plots, Maura D’Amore explores how Henry David Thoreau, Henry Ward Beecher, Donald Grant Mitchell, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and others utilised the pen to plot opportunities for a new sort of male agency grounded, literarily and spatially, in a suburbanised domestic landscape. D’Amore uncovers surprising narratives that do not fit easily into standard critical accounts of midcentury home life. Taking men out of work spaces and locating them in the domestic sphere, these writers were involved in a complex process of portraying men struggling to fulfill fantasies outside of their professional lives, in newly emerging communities. These representations established the groundwork for popular conceptions of suburban domestic life that remain today.
£21.80
University of Massachusetts Press What Middletown Read: Print Culture in an American Small City
Book SynopsisThe discovery of a large cache of circulation records from the Muncie, Indiana, Public Library in 2003 offers unprecedented detail about American reading behavior at the turn of the twentieth century. Frank Felsenstein and James J. Connolly have mined these records to produce an in-depth account of print culture in Muncie, the city featured in the famed “Middletown” studies conducted by Robert and Helen Lynd almost a century ago. Using the data assembled and made public through the What Middletown Read Database (www.bsu.edu/libraries/wmr), a celebrated new resource the authors helped launch, Felsenstein and Connolly analyze the borrowing choices and reading culture of social groups and individuals.What Middletown Read is much more than a statistical study. Felsenstein and Connolly dig into diaries, meeting minutes, newspaper reports, and local histories to trace the library’s development in relation to the city’s cosmopolitan aspirations, to profile individual readers, and to explore such topics as the relationship between children’s reading and their schooling and what books were discussed by local women’s clubs. The authors situate borrowing patterns and reading behaviour within the contexts of a rapidly growing, culturally ambitious small city, an evolving public library, an expanding market for print, and the broad social changes that accompanied industrialization in the United States. The result is a rich, revealing portrait of the place of reading in an emblematic American community.
£24.65
