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Columbia University Press The Subject of Torture Psychoanalysis and
Book SynopsisShowcases film and television studies’ singular ability to expose and potentially disable the fantasies that sustain torture and the regimes that deploy itTrade ReviewOne of the clearest signs of the ethical regression that characterizes the last decade is the changed status of torture in public discourse: no longer a taboo, something that is to be done in secret, torture is today a topic of 'rational' legal, ethical, and medical debates. This renormalization of torture would not have been possible without movies and television series that gradually rendered it acceptable. This is why Hilary Neroni's The Subject of Torture reaches well beyond cultural studies and provides a courageous examination of the ongoing moral catastrophe-everyone who cares about our ethical predicament should read it. The book is not only very readable and simultaneously a work of highest academic standards, it is much more: an alarm call that should awaken us all from our moral slumber. -- Slavoj Zizek, author of Less Than Nothing and The Year of Dreaming Dangerously and coauthor of What Does Europe Want? Wonderfully astute, politically timely, and deeply engaging. Hilary Neroni undertakes the pressing task of destroying the logic that sustains contemporary justifications for torture. The Subject of Torture is truly pathbreaking in its lucid engagement with the torture debate from a psychoanalytic perspective. -- Jennifer Friedlander, Pomona College The suffering, tremulous body examined in this excellent book is not that of the torture victim, who must pay in the flesh for our access to truth, but that of the torturer, who conceals his obscene pleasure behind euphemisms such as 'enhanced interrogation' and rationalizations based on false scenarios of imminent threat. Hilary Neroni's expert and detailed readings of the Abu Ghraib photographs, documentary films about the events leading up to them, and the new genre of 'torture porn' that appeared in their wake execute a fine twist, one that completely revises the course of reflections on the body at stake in biopolitics. -- Joan Copjec, Brown University Neroni deftly illuminates the conspicuous uptick of post-9/11 media representations of torture by adopting the neglected but indispensable viewpoint of unconscious motives and distorting fantasies. A valuable contribution. -- Richard Boothby, Loyola University MarylandTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Confronting the Abu Ghraib Photographs 1. Torture, Biopower, and the Desiring Subject 2. The Nonsensical Smile of the Torturer in Post-9/11 Documentary Films 3. Torture Porn and the Desiring Subject in Hostel and Saw 4. 24, Jack Bauer, and the Torture Fantasy 5. The Biodetective Versus the Detective of the Real in Zero Dark Thirty and Homeland 6. Alias and the Fictional Alternative to Torture Notes Index
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Columbia University Press The Con Men
Book SynopsisA hard-edged guide to New York City swindles, street life, and culture, through direct interviews with con artists and hustlers.Trade ReviewPart sociology, part psychology, and always interesting history, The Con Men is a valuable tool in understanding how this small community, living in a gray market, manages to survive in a society that for the most part rejects and disdains them. -- Patrick O'Reilly, author of Undue Influence: Cons, Scams, and Mind Control The Con Men is a revealing portrait of a critical but little known element of city life: the urban hustler. Terry Williams and Trevor B. Milton go deep and emerge with the goods, powerfully illuminating this subterranean world and the social lives of its inhabitants. At once timely, incisive, and poignant, this is a fascinating work of lasting importance. -- Elijah Anderson, author of Code of the Street and The Cosmopolitan Canopy Bold and illuminating... A thoroughly researched academic study accessible to general readers. Kirkus Reviews This terrific ethnography explains that cons and hustles are no longer the preserve of roguish proletarians in loud suits and painted ties. Everybody wants a bargain, and creative capitalism makes mugs of us all. -- Dick Hobbs Times Higher Education [Williams & Milton] bring the reader with them into places from Brooklyn to the Bronx that are supposed to be invisible to those not in the know... An engaging read. -- Malcolm Harris The New Republic A fascinating look at the New York underworld. Integrating history, social psychology and sociology, the authors provide an educated lens to examine some of the oldest cons in Manhattan, perpetuated by the hands of career schemers, counterfeiters, drug dealers and even the men and women in blue. It is an eye-opening initiation to the uninformed or the curious. -- Jeffrey S. Podoshen Consumption Markets & CultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Alibi: Portrait of a Con Man 2. City Cons and Hustles 3. The Con Crew 4. The Con Game as Street Theater 5. Petty Street Hustles 6. Canal Street as Venus Flytrap 7. The Numbers Game 8. New York Tenant Hustles 9. A Drug Hustle: The Crack Game 10. NYPD and the Finest Cons 11. Wall Street Cons Epilogue Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Why We Dance
Book SynopsisOffers a visionary definition of dance that illuminates its constitutive work in the ongoing evolution of human persons.Trade ReviewA brilliant, pioneering work. Readers join a rich, deeply informed, erudite conversation and are rewarded with LaMothe's original insights and vision of the purpose and promise of dance to transform individuals, communities, and the world we create together. -- Miranda Shaw, author of Buddhist Goddesses of India A rare and welcome book. LaMothe offers a view of the world from one who has woven together three experiential bodies of knowledge crucial to gaining insight into the terrible fractures eroding human life. A dancer and a scholar of dance, she is also a mother and a farmer. Her writing has the feel of the kinds of wisdom cultivated in older cultures, through rituals rooted in the ancient patterns of the cosmos. She brings her considerable experience of moving to bear on the basic questions that engage us all: mattering, meaning, connecting, healing, loving, and caring for the earth. -- Don Hanlon Johnson, author of Body, Spirit, and Democracy LaMothe gracefully reminds us that every part of our life is in motion and that when we dance we are healed, renewed, and made whole by the natural movement of our moving nature. This book brings an extraordinary wake-up call, an energized jolt reminding us that all professions and practices need to give birth to 'movement-oriented ways of knowing.' Why We Dance holds a moving answer that will touch the heart and intellect of all. -- Bradford Keeney and Hillary Keeney, coeditors of Way of the Bushman: Spiritual Teachings and Practices of the Kalahari Ju/'hoansi LaMothe's book breaks new ground... Philosophers interested in writing about dance may find this book as a source of thoughtful provocation. -- Edyta J. Kuzian Metapsychology Highly recommended. Journal of Dance Movement and SpiritualitiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Why Dance? 1. To Dance Is to Matter 2. To Dance Is to Evolve 3. To Dance Is to Know 4. To Dance Is to Be Born 5. To Dance Is to Connect 6. To Dance Is to Heal 7. To Dance Is to Love Earth Within Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press FDA in the TwentyFirst Century
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Columbia University Press Reading the Mahavamsa
Book SynopsisReading the Mahāvamsa advocates a new, literary approach to this text by revealing its embedded reading advice (to experience samvega and pasada) and affective work of metaphors (the Buddha's dharma as light) and salient characters (nagas).Trade ReviewThis is a fresh look at the Mahavamsa. Showing how imaginative practices of narratives-shape-shifting nagas, the imagery of light, and the veneration of relics-have shaped Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka, Kristin Scheible demonstrates that the Mahavamsa sought to construct and inspire a community of readers by prompting an aesthetic and religious response. Her literary sensibility illuminates this perceptive study. -- Maria Heim, author of The Forerunner of All Things: Buddhaghosa on Mind, Intention, and Agency Scheible views the Mahavamsa as a piece of religious literature, in contrast to other scholars who have generally seen it through a historian's lens, or who have read it from a political or ethnic perspective as something intended to bolster notions of kingship and Sinhalese nationalism. Clearly written, solidly grounded in Buddhist scholarship, well attuned to theory in the fields of history, literature, and religion, and just plain insightful, this book is inspiring not only for what it has to say about an important Sri Lankan Buddhist text but more generally for our study of Buddhist literature as a whole. -- John S. Strong, author of Buddhisms: An Introduction This groundbreaking book successfully provides a corrective to the study of Buddhism and Sri Lanka by going beyond the received, common interpretations of the great chronicle text, the Mahavamsa. -- Bradley Clough, author of Early Indian and Theravada Buddhism: Soteriological Controversy and Diversity [An] excellent and timely book. -- Justin Fifield Reading ReligionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on Transliteration and Translation Introduction 1. Instructions, Admonitions, and Aspirations in Vamsa Proems 2. Relocating the Light 3. Nagas, Transfigured Figures Inside the Text, Ruminative Triggers Outside 4. Nagas and Relics 5. Historicizing (in) the Pali Dipavamsa and Mahavamsa Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Eqbal Ahmad
Book SynopsisNew personal and professional writings amplify the incisive, passionate, and often prophetic analyses of a major thinker of the twentieth century.Trade ReviewThis book is full of remarkable original primary material on the life and writings of an intellectual and activist well deserving of a biography. -- Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University Eqbal Ahmad was a brilliant and penetrating critic and analyst, a courageous fighter for justice and freedom in much of the world, steeped in humanistic understanding, warm and compassionate, a dear friend. His accomplishments ranged from demolishing self-serving dogmas about the Cold War to such constructive work as bringing Indians and Pakistanis together in a search for an amicable settlement of a tragic conflict, and far too much more even to try to mention. His life, achievements, and legacy are vividly portrayed by his close friend Stuart Schaar in this outstanding study, a fine tribute to one of the most remarkable people I've been fortunate enough to know, or even to know about. -- Noam Chomsky Eqbal Ahmad was a remarkable human being as well as a seminal progressive political thinker. In this illuminating intellectual biography, Stuart Schaar, brings his subject to life, drawing on their long, intimate friendship and shared scholarly engagement with the politics of the Middle East and the Islamic world. Above all, Ahmad grasped the toxic interplay between the maladies of postcolonialism and the persistent imperial ambitions of the West better than any of his contemporaries. -- Richard A. Falk By taking readers across the entire fascinating range of Ahmad's preoccupations and passions, Schaar has made his subject accessible to all those who never had the privilege of knowing him. In a fairly short, fluently written work, Schaar has done his old friend proud, and shed light on a thinker, an engaged activist and a wonderful man. -- Irfan Husain Dawn Schaar has done us a service in providing an introductory overview of Eqbal Ahmad's life and thought, unveiling the man's humanity, frustrations, foibles, brilliance, and even his culinary talents (an appendix provides a recipe for a "Chicken Tikka Masala Marinade"). Friday Times Short but poignant... Schaar does a wonderful job capturing the special relationship and bond metween Ahmad and Said. Journal of Palestine StudiesTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Eqbal's Life 2. Reflections on Eqbal's Life 3. Polemics 4. Islam and Islamic History 5. Imperialism, Nationalism, Revolutionary Warfare, Insurgency, and the Need for Democracy 6. The Middle East and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict 7. India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh: The Problem of Nuclear Proliferation and Views on Partitioning States 8. Critique of U.S. Foreign Policy, the Cold War, and Terrorism Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Spirituality and Hospice Social Work
Book SynopsisSpirituality and Hospice Social Work helps practitioners understand various forms of spiritual assessment for use with their clients. The book teaches practitioners to recognize a client’s spiritual needs and resources, as well as signs of spiritual suffering.Trade ReviewSpirituality frequently becomes more salient as clients approach death. Spiritual needs, for instance, often become more acute. Yet relatively little guidance exists on this critical topic. This important new text addresses this gap in the literature and equips social work practitioners and other hospice workers to navigate the often difficult process of providing spiritual care in hospice settings. Indeed, anyone involved in end-of-life care will likely benefit from this significant contribution. -- David R. Hodge, Arizona State University Callahan's Spirituality in Hospice Social Work is a scholarly yet practical resource for social workers to better recognize and attend to the spiritual needs and distresses of patients suffering from chronic health conditions. This book integrates research and practicality, and provides ways for social workers to facilitate and enhance interprofessional spiritual care while working with spiritual care professionals. The multidimensional systems and relational perspectives of social worker training enhances other clinical team members understanding and implementation of spiritual care, and is a valuable resource not only for social workers, but for other clinicians and students. -- Christina M. Puchalski, Director, George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health Ann Callahan has integrated insights from social work and other helping professions dedicated to compassionate and skillful end-of-life care. Thus she provides an excellent framework for spiritually sensitive assessment and practice that honors the diversity of worldviews, highlights qualities necessary for a caring therapeutic relationship, and supports people's resilience and growth even while dying. This will prepare social workers well for their direct work with clients and for their partnership in palliative care and hospice teams. -- Edward R. Canda, The University of Kansas School of Social WelfareTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Understanding Key Components 1. Champion of Spiritual Care 2. Spiritual Diversity 3. Spiritual Needs 4. Spiritual Suffering Part II. Facilitating Quality Spiritual Care 5. Relational Spirituality 6. Spiritual Care 7. Spiritual Sensitivity 8. Spiritual Competence Works Cited Index
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Columbia University Press Flying Dinosaurs How Fearsome Reptiles Became
Book SynopsisRecent fossil discoveries prove dinosaurs didn’t die out after al--instead, they turned into birds, opening up thrilling new possibilities in our knowledge of the prehistoric world.Trade ReviewIn Flying Dinosaurs John Pickrell challenges everything you were told about dinosaurs as a child... Through extensive research and interviews with leading paleontologists, Flying Dinosaurs charts how each new discovery confirmed the link between dinosaurs and birds... The author's fascination with dinosaurs is evident throughout the book. But his passion aside, it takes a skilled science writer to transform the incremental progress of a field such as paleontology into a narrative that sustains a book. -- Nicky Phillips The Sydney Morning Herald After digesting all that Pickrell has to offer, it will be difficult for any reader to think about dinosaurs -- or birds -- in the same ways they had before. Publishers Weekly [An] engaging book. GrrlScientist - a Guardian Blog A remarkable book, with a wealth of interviews with palaeontologists and a comprehensive catalogue of virtually all the findings of feathered dinosaurs since 1996. It's a useful catch-up if you have lost track of this rapidly developing area of palaentology, and full of fascinating, unusual facts-did you know that birds are the closest living relatives to the crocodile? -- Bill Condie Cosmos Magazine [Flying Dinosaurs] deftly covers the history behind the decades-old debate over just when and how birds first arose. -- Bruce Dorminey Forbes Pickrell covers the history of changing thought on dinosaurs and the bird-dinosaur link... Pickrell's book is well written and accessible, and thus is an excellent companion. -- Greg Laden Greg Laden's Blog A detailed and timely overview of our rapidly-improving scientific understanding of how massive, lumbering dinosaurs evolved into agile, flying birds. -- Mike Lee The Conversation A readable introduction to the subject. -- Ian Paulsen The Bridbooker Report [A] fast-paced... Fascinating read. BirdWatching A well-structured overview of the various lines of evidence connecting the evolution of birds with that of theropod dinosaurs... Any general reader or student interested in dinosaurs should find it a pleasure to read... Highly recommended. Choice An exceptional read... I would recommend this volume not only to dinosaur aficionados, who will find in its pages a plethora of interesting facts about dinosaurs and birds, but also to professional paleontologists who are looking for a comprehensive yet quick account on the most recent research in dinosaur paleontology. -- Marco Signore Quarterly Review of Biology Delightful and accessible. I highly recommend it for readers of all ages and backgrounds. ZME ScienceTable of ContentsForeword, by Philip Currie Preface Introduction: A whole new world Before we begin 1. The missing link 2. A feathered revolution begins 3. The dinosaur hunters 4. From dinosaur to bird 5. Fake fossils 6. The evolution of feathers 7. The struggle to the skies 8. Sex for T. rex 9. Colouring in the dinosaurs 10. Back from the dead 11. The survival game Relationships of the theropod dinosaurs An A-Z of feathered dinosaurs References Glossary Select bibliography Acknowledgments Index
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Columbia University Press Sebalds Vision
Book SynopsisA major new assessment of one of the most important writers of the late twentieth century and his work with history and its representation.Trade ReviewCarol Jacobs's Sebald's Vision provides one of the first all-encompassing studies of W. G. Sebald. The match could not be better: one of the foremost literary scholars in the United States takes on the work of one of the best-known German-speaking authors of the twentieth century. The result is remarkable. Jacobs's careful, patient readings draw out the insights and blind spots of Sebald's influential oeuvre. -- Elke Siegel, Cornell University Attentive at every turn to the highly unusual literary practices of W. G. Sebald's texts, Jacobs asks whether such a radical stylistics can be reconciled with moral certitude, and, if not, what are the consequences? A work of great patience, stamina, and critical vigilance, Sebald's Vision is meticulously researched, beautifully written, and certain to become the standard by which future work on this important writer is measured. -- Michael G. Levine, Rutgers University In Sebald's Vision, Jacobs not only grants insight into the enigmatic source of Sebald's aesthetic authority but also provides a model of ethical reading that is grounded in the unsettling maxim she locates in his writing: 'Each time different perspectives.' -- Peter Fenves, Northwestern University [Sebald's Vision] will leave serious readers with plenty to contemplate regarding Sebald's aesthetic and moral insights. Publishers Weekly Her focus on the gaze does indeed offer a striking insight into Sebald's complex representations of history... Jacobs' book will doubtless make a long-lasting contribution to Sebald criticism. -- Simon Ward Times Higher Education An important addition to the criticism on this fascinating writer. Highly recommended. CHOICETable of ContentsPreface: "Sebald's Vision" Acknowledgments 1. "Like the snow on the Alps": After Nature 2. What Does It Mean to Count?: The Emigrants 3. Frames and Excursions: Rings of Saturn 4. Toward an Epistemology of Citation: "Air War and Literature" 5. A is for Austerlitz: Austerlitz 6. Deja vu or... : "Like Day and Night-On the Pictures of Jan Peter Tripp" 7. A Critical Eye: The Interviews Notes Works Cited Index
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Columbia University Press The Story of Life in 25 Fossils
Book SynopsisEvery fossil tells a story. Best-selling paleontology author Donald R. Prothero describes twenty-five famous fossils in a gripping scientific history. Recounting the adventures behind the discovery of these objects and interpreting their significance within the larger fossil record, Prothero creates a riveting history of life on our planet.Trade ReviewDonald R. Prothero is one of the most talented science writers of his generation-as a paleontological writer, he has no peer. This is an engaging, attractive book! -- David J. Bottjer, University of Southern California There is no other book that brings together such diverse fossils and tells their unique stories in a way that is both accurate and approachable. -- Xiaoming Wang, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County The Story of Life in 25 Fossils shows the reader the joys of paleontological discovery as well as the stories behind some of the most important fossils. I loved reading it, and I suspect that most paleontologists, and many members of the general public, will feel the same way-the text is lucid, extremely easy to read, and highly informative. Anyone interested in ancient life-forms and the fossil record would be well served to buy this book. -- Bruce S. Lieberman, University of Kansas Prothero, an outstanding paleontologist and skilled communicator, has written the best up-to-date account of the history of life as revealed by the fossil record that I have ever had the pleasure to read. His lucid prose brings these long-dead organisms back to life, while painting a picture of how all life has been interconnected through evolution. I was especially struck by the inclusion of field outcrops, as well as museums, where one can go to see these fossils. I will keep Prothero's book handy as a core reference for years to come! -- Niles Eldredge, author of Eternal Ephemera: Adaptation and the Origin of Species from the Nineteenth Century Through Punctuated Equilibria and Beyond A guide to museums where the original fossils or high-quality reproductions are housed and more than 150 illustrations accompany Prothero's lively account of the science and politics that shaped the rich history of these discoveries. Kirkus Reviews Engaging and accessible... Ideal for anyone interested in the origins of life on earth. Library Journal (starred review) An accessible, well-done book that will better enable general readers to understand the fossil record and how paleontologists interpret it. Publishers Weekly Prothero's careful description of 25 fossils... offer[s] an overview of the progression of plants and animals in the last 3.5 billion years. -- Ashley Yeager Sciece News [Prothero] pays attention not just to the fossils themselves but to the continuing quest to uncover and understand how life has been changing since it first came into existence on Earth. Sure, The Story of Life in 25 Fossils includes snakes with legs, giant dinosaurs, walking whales and extinct primates whose existence confirms that our own species is a variety of modified ape. But most chapters also introduce us to the researchers who labored to pull back the curtain on lost worlds. -- Brian Switek Wall Street Journal Ideal for all who love prehistoric landscapes and delight in the history of science, this book makes a treasured addition to any bookshelf, stoking curiosity in the evolution of life on Earth. -- Ian Paulsen The Birdbooker Report Prothero brings erudition and expert perspective to the material, but animates it in an entertaining and accessible manner. It reads like a fun conversation with a learned friend. -- Nathan H. Lents The Human Evolution Blog Written with bright enthusiasm... [The Story of Life in 25 Fossils] is a wonderful primer. -- Rob Hardy The Commercial Dispatch Chock full of excellent and interesting illustrations... [Prothero] writes excellent, readable prose, and vigorously makes connections between evolutionary questions and evolutionary data. Greg Laden's Blog A thoroughly enjoyable, highly readable, and entertaining book. Prothero is a masterful communicator of science and a lover of paleontology, and these traits have combined to produce one of the best books on the history of life I have read. If you want an introduction to the history of life on Earth, get this book. -- Jason S. Anderson BioScience A great introduction to the history of life on the planet Earth... A solid primer on why evolution is true... A fun read with lots of tales of paleontological adventure and derring-do... I recommend this book without hesitation. -- John Dupuis Confessions of a Science Librarian A magnificent journey through life's story told in such loving detail... Highly recommended. Choice [The book], written with bright enthusiasm and describing clearly how the fossil record shows evolution to have occured, is a wonderful primer about what paleontologists do. The DispatchTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Planet of the Scum: The First Fossils (Cryptozoon) 2. Garden of Ediacara: The First Multicellular Life (Charnia) 3. "Little Shellies": The First Shells (Cloudina) 4. Oh, Give Me a Home, When the Trilobites Roamed: The First Large Shelled Animals (Olenellus) 5. Is It a Worm or an Arthropod? The Origin of Arthropods (Hallucigenia) 6. Is It a Worm or a Mollusc? The Origin of Molluscs (Pilina) 7. Growing from the Sea: The Origin of Land Plants (Cooksonia) 8. A Fishy Tale: The Origin of Vertebrates (Haikouichthys) 9. Mega-Jaws: The Largest Fish (Carcharocles) 10. Fish out of Water: The Origin of Amphibians (Tiktaalik) 11. "Frogamander": The Origin of Frogs (Gerobatrachus) 12. Turtle on the Half-Shell: The Origin of Turtles (Odontochelys) 13. Walking Serpents: The Origin of Snakes (Haasiophis) 14. King of the Fish-Lizards: The Largest Marine Reptile (Shonisaurus) 15. Terror of the Seas: The Largest Sea Monster (Kronosaurus) 16. Monster Flesh-Eater: The Largest Predator (Giganotosaurus) 17. Land of the Giants: The Largest Land Animal (Argentinosaurus) 18. A Feather in Stone: The First Bird (Archaeopteryx) 19. Not Quite a Mammal: The Origin of Mammals (Thrinaxodon) 20. Walking Into the Water: The Origin of Whales (Ambulocetus) 21. Walking Manatees: The Origin of Sirenians (Pezosiren) 22. Dawn Horses: The Origin of Horses (Eohippus) 23. Rhinoceros Giants: The Largest Land Mammal (Paraceratherium) 24. The Ape's Reflection? The Oldest Human Fossil (Sahelanthropus) 25. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds: The Oldest Human Skeleton (Australopithecus afarensis) Appendix: The Best Natural History Museums Index
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Columbia University Press Last Words
Book SynopsisLast Words features extensive interviews with contemporary directors and overviews of the directors' workTrade ReviewWood asks crisp, pointed, well-focused questions while simultaneously building a conversational relationship with the person being interviewed. The remarkable assemblage of filmmakers who comprise his cast of characters represent just about every point along the spectrum of serious screen art today, and every one of them has ideas, opinions, and experiences that deserve the attention of everyone who cares about the troubled present and uncertain future of worthwhile cinema. -- David Sterritt, chair, National Society of Film CriticsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Forewords by Andrew Kotting Introduction Lenny Abrahamson Clio Barnard Marco Bellocchio Anton Corbijn Florian Henkel von Donnersmarck Fernando Eimbcke Michel Gondry Joanna Hogg Tom Kalin Charlie Kaufman Gideon Koppel Harmony Korine Andrew Kotting Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy Ray Lawrence James Marsh Christopher Nolan Christian Petzold Nicolas Winding Refn Kelly Reichardt Ben Rivers Ira Sachs Celine Sciamma Peter Strickland Tilda Swinton Wim Wenders Ben Wheatley Michael Winterbottom
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Columbia University Press Last Words
Book SynopsisLast Words features extensive interviews with contemporary directors and overviews of the directors' workTrade ReviewWood asks crisp, pointed, well-focused questions while simultaneously building a conversational relationship with the person being interviewed. The remarkable assemblage of filmmakers who comprise his cast of characters represent just about every point along the spectrum of serious screen art today, and every one of them has ideas, opinions, and experiences that deserve the attention of everyone who cares about the troubled present and uncertain future of worthwhile cinema. -- David Sterritt, chair, National Society of Film CriticsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Forewords by Andrew Kotting Introduction Lenny Abrahamson Clio Barnard Marco Bellocchio Anton Corbijn Florian Henkel von Donnersmarck Fernando Eimbcke Michel Gondry Joanna Hogg Tom Kalin Charlie Kaufman Gideon Koppel Harmony Korine Andrew Kotting Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy Ray Lawrence James Marsh Christopher Nolan Christian Petzold Nicolas Winding Refn Kelly Reichardt Ben Rivers Ira Sachs Celine Sciamma Peter Strickland Tilda Swinton Wim Wenders Ben Wheatley Michael Winterbottom
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Wallflower Press The Cinema of István Szabó
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Columbia University Press The Cinema of Clint Eastwood
Book SynopsisFrom A Fistful of Dollars and Dirty Harry to Million Dollar Baby and beyond, takes a close-up look at one of the screen’s most influential and charismatic stars.Trade Review[A] perceptive, reader-friendly study. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Play Mystic for Me 1. Pros and Cons: The Case For/Against Clint 2. A Fistful of Movies: Rowdy Yates and the Man With No Name 3. The Rising Star: Clintus, Siegelini, and Company 4. Any Which Way He Can: From Misty and Harry to High Plains Drifter and The Outlaw Josey Wales 5. Portrait of the Artist as a Major Player: From Pale Rider to Bird 6. Invictus: From John Huston to Jersey Boys 7. Eastwood's Politics: 'Leave everyone alone' Epilogue: 'If somebody's dumb enough to ask me...' Filmography as Director Index
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Columbia University Press Biopics
Book SynopsisThrough a carefully selected range of thematically linked bio-pics, explores key issues surrounding their resurgence, structure, production, subject representation or misrepresentation, and critical responseTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: A Life in Pictures 1. The Sound of Music: Singers and Musicians Take Centre Stage 2. Hollywoodland: Actors and Directors as Portrayed by Actors and Directors 3. Prick Up Your Ears: Now a Word on Writers 4. Through the Eyes of a Painter: The Art of the On-screen Artist 5. A Winner Never Quits: The Powerful Force of Sporting Biographies 6. Awakenings: Voices from the Ivory Towers of Academia 7. Into the Storm: The Politics of Political Bio-pics 8. A Royal Affair: The Majesty of Royal Representations Epilogue Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Latin Hitchcock
Book SynopsisThis study explores how five major Spanish and Latino directors modeled their early careers on Hitchcock and his film aesthetics.Trade ReviewRefreshingly free of academese... Latin Hitchcock is an academic study that enthusiastic amateurs will also find illuminating. -- Miranda France Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Spain 1. First Loves, First Cuts: The Initial Response to Hitchcock's Films in Spain 2. Pedro Almodovar's Criminal Side: Plot, Humour and Cinematic Style 3. Drawing on a Darker Humour, Cultural Icons and Mass Media: Alex de la Iglesia's Journey from Outer Space to the Spanish Academy 4. Against Hitchcock: Alejandro Amenabar's Meteoric Career Part II: Latin America 5. Latin American Openings: The Reception History of Hitchcock's Films for Mexico City 6. Guillermo del Toro's Continuing Education: Adapting Hitchcock's Moral and Visual Sensibilities to the World of Horror 7. Understanding Osmosis: Hitchcock in Argentina Through the Eyes of Juan Jose Campanella Conclusion: They Became Notorious Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Edo Kabuki in Transition From the Worlds of the
Book SynopsisSatoko Shimazaki revisits three centuries of kabuki theater and its representations of medieval Japanese tales and tradition, reframing Edo kabuki as a key player in the formation of an early modern urban identity. Challenging the common understanding of kabuki as subversive, Shimazaki argues that kabuki instilled a sense of shared history.Trade ReviewA sophisticated, entertaining, and well-written contribution to nineteenth-century kabuki studies that both challenges the conventional wisdom of early modern theater scholarship and illuminates the splendid, ghastly world of Japanese horror. -- Keller Kimbrough, author of Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater Satoko Shimazaki's fascinating study of early modern kabuki performance reveals a new kabuki theater to us, not a cultural practice with a relatively stable body of texts at its center but a major site of social and cultural negotiation whose central feature and strength lies in its remarkable variety and adaptability. -- Marvin Carlson, author of The Haunted Stage: The Theatre as Memory Machine Edo Kabuki in Transition is an extraordinary contribution to the field of kabuki studies, in both the West and Japan. Its unconventional yet comprehensive view of Edo kabuki's evolution, especially its playwriting practices, filtered through the lens of Tsuruya Nanboku IV's 1825 coproduction of his revolutionary ghost play Yotsuya kaidan and the popular history play Chushingura, is original and searching. Satoko Shimazaki's highly readable, marvelously researched study gives us both a penetrating understanding of the fluidity of Edo dramaturgy and an exceptionally thorough examination of the ghost play genre. -- Samuel L. Leiter, author of The Art of Kabuki: Five Famous Plays This fascinating book is a bold revisioning of the development of kabuki theater in Edo (present-day Tokyo)... Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note to the Reader Introduction Part I. The Birth of Edo Kabuki 1. Presenting the Past: Edo Kabuki and the Creation of Community Part II. The Beginning of the End of Edo Kabuki: Yotsuya kaidan in 1825 2. Overturning the World: The Treasury of Loyal Retainers and Yotsuya kaidan 3. Shades of Jealousy: The Body of the Female Ghost 4. The End of the World: Figures of the Ubume and the Breakdown of Theater Tradition Part III: The Modern Rebirth of Kabuki 5. Another History: Yotsuya kaidan on Stage and Page Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Happiness and Goodness Philosophical Reflections
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHappiness and Goodness reminds me of a Socratic dialogue. The absence of jargon and use of realistic examples in this book make philosophy accessible to all interested in improving their lives. -- Andrea Tschemplik, American University Happiness and Goodness is a phenomenal book that offers innovative and penetrating insights into the most fundamental questions of human concern, such as happiness, love, morality, death, and God. Drawing from a vast array of philosophical, religious, and literary sources, Steven M. Cahn and Christine Vitrano brilliantly challenge long-standing assumptions about what it means to live a satisfying and successful life. They also have an uncanny ability to transmit their ideas in a vivid and enjoyable fashion by providing colorful vignettes and everyday life stories. I, for one, could not put the book down. -- Dov Weiss, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign This crisply written and incisive book draws on ancient thought and contemporary examples to develop a compelling account of living well. -- David Shatz, Yeshiva University I can't remember the last time I read a book about ethics that was so fascinating. -- Ed Lake, Deputy Editor, AeonTable of ContentsForeword, by Robert B. Talisse Preface 1. Introduction 2. Wasted Lives? 3. Projects of Worth? 4. Flourishing? 5. Things That Matter? 6. Morality and Happiness 7. Morality and Unhappiness 8. Character 9. Appearing Moral 10. God and Morality 11. Heaven and Hell 12. Moral Judgments 13. Moral Standards 14. Choosing the Experience Machine 15. Happiness and Ignorance 16. Assessing Achievement 17. Pleasures and Pains 18. Fear of the Divine 19. Fear of Unfulfilled Desires 20. Fear of Death 21. Futility 22. Living Well 23. Satisfaction 24. Concluding Questions Notes Index About the Authors
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Columbia University Press Feasting Our Eyes
Book SynopsisFeasting Our Eyes takes a second look at modern American food films to emphasize their conventional approaches to nation, gender, race, sexuality, and social status. Devoured visually and emotionally, these films are particularly effective defenders of the status quo.Trade ReviewIn Feasting Our Eyes: Food Films and Cultural Identity in the United States, Laura Lindenfeld and Fabio Parasecoli offer a comprehensive study of food films. They frame their discussion around multiple themes that connect food films to identity formation in the United States including race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. It is an essential read for all interested in the intersections of food, media, and identity. -- Peter Naccarato, co-author of Edible Ideologies: Representing Food and Meaning Feasting Our Eyes offers a thorough and thoughtful examination of food films at the nexus of consumption and citizenship. Lindenfeld & Parasecoli authoritatively argue that food films, although apparently progressive, in fact reinforce the very cultural and social dynamics they wish to critique. Decisive and taut, the book is a must-read. -- Kathleen LeBesco, author of Revolting Bodies? The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity Feasting Our Eyes is a marvel. From the indie classic Babette's Feast to Disney's blockbuster Ratatouille, Lindenfeld and Parasecoli map the origins and evolution of American food films, revealing their ability to reflect and shape our corporeal, emotional, and gustatory desires. -- Amy Bentley, author of Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health and the Industrialization of the American Diet Feasting Our Eyes offers an engaging new perspective on "food films," and how they are often as interesting for what they omit as what they include when it comes to representations of cultural identity. Highly recommended reading. -- Signe Rousseau, author of Food and Social Media: You Are What You Tweet Going beyond the obvious "good to eat, good to watch" analysis, Lindenfeld and Parasecoli offer both close-up and wide angle views on food and film, consolidating their considerable expertise to explore the aspirations and contradictions in American cinema. From Big Night to Ratatoille to Food, Inc, the authors unpack visual narratives to show how the desire for belonging in multicultural nations is often at odds with the commodification of authenticity and identity. This is one of the very few books to capture the complications of pleasure and oppression, particularly by noting the absence of labor and the need for reconciliatory, successful happy endings, where food soothes the challenges and disruptions to gender, race, and class hierarchies through consumption. -- Alice Julier, author of Eating Together: Food, Friendship, and InequalityTable of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Food Films and Consumption: Selling Big Night 2. Autonomy in the Kitchen? Food Films and Postfeminism 3. Magical Food, Luscious Bodies 4. Culinary Comfort: The Satiating Construction of Masculinity 5. When Weirdos Stir the Pot: Cooking Identity in Animated Movies 6. Consuming the Other: Food Films as Culinary Tourism Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Striking Beauty
Book SynopsisUsing the ethics and aesthetics of the Asian martial arts to enrich our knowledge of human behavior, bodily movement, technical knowledge, and artistic creation.Trade ReviewStriking Beauty presents a beautifully and forcefully written account of the philosophical background of martial arts in Eastern and Western traditions. At the same time, it also presents the author's vision of a contemporary philosophy, and phenomenology, of the martial arts and their aesthetic, somatic, and ethical dimensions. It is a ground-breaking and inspiring book that will appeal to everyone interested in the practice, theory, and history of martial arts. -- Hans-Georg Moeller, University of Macau An incredible book that views the Chinese martial arts from every angle-philosophical, psychological, and practical-from their home of origin throughout the world at large, from ancient times to the present. Truly a breathtaking experience. -- Stanley Henning, independent scholar of Chinese martial arts history One might think that there is no connection at all between the martial arts and philosophy; but there are many, as Barry Allen shows in Striking Beauty. The book is both knowledgeable and perceptive, and Allen writes with a clarity that makes it a pleasure to read. This is an engaging book for any martial artist or any philosopher with an interest in the martial arts, as well as for any other philosopher who welcomes a novel perspective on his or her subject -- Graham Priest, Graduate Center, CUNY Striking Beauty is a necessary book, connecting themes from Chinese and Western spiritual and philosophical traditions with the embodied aesthetics of self-cultivation found in the martial arts. Allen's discussion is lively, wide-ranging, and multiply revealing. From Buddha and Laozi to Bruce Lee and postmodernism, from dance to sport to sculpture: Allen displays mastery of incredibly wide-ranging materials. Both philosophers and practitioners will find his treatment accurate, broad, profound, and potentially transformative, revealing much about combat and art, life and intellect, body and mind. -- Crispin Sartwell, Dickinson College, author of Six Names of Beauty Displaying a firm understanding of both Western and Chinese philosophical traditions, Striking Beauty instructively addresses the much neglected topic of East Asian martial arts philosophy, providing scholarly insights into ethics, aesthetics, and comparative philosophy from a convincing somatic perspective. -- Richard Shusterman, author of Thinking through the Body: Essays in Somaesthetics Allen presents a dazzling display of intellectual moves that strike to the core of the wisdom behind the Asian martial arts. As though we were on the mat, he gracefully throws the reader from illuminating historical accounts to pages of penetrating philosophical analysis. He locks up with broad issues about the nature of violence and power as well as such strange but compelling questions as how it is that some of us can find a violent punch an object of sublime beauty.Both a romp and a workout, this elegantly written book should be mandatory reading for all students of the martial arts. -- Gordon Marino, St. Olaf College Allen is our preeminent student of artistry in the applied arts, the beauty that comes as an unsought byproduct of devotion to instrumental effectiveness. Here he writes as a seasoned practitioner about Asian martial arts-disciplines whose devotion to bodily excellence and violence pose special challenges to sympathetic philosophical understanding -- David Hills, Stanford University A significant contribution to comparative philosophy, Allen's Striking Beauty is a focused investigation of the intersection of Asian martial arts, the philosophical traditions surrounding them, and Western philosophy... Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. The Dao of Asian Martial Arts: Themes from Chinese Philosophy 2. From Dualism to the Darwinian Body: Themes from Western Philosophy 3. Power and Grace: Martial Arts Aesthetics 4. What a Body Can Do: Martial Arts Ethics Epilogue: Martial Arts and Philosophy Chinese-English Glossary Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Studios Before the System
Book SynopsisThe first book to retell the history of film studio architecture, Studios Before the System expands the social and cultural footprint of cinema’s virtual worlds and their contribution to wider developmentsTrade ReviewThis is an impressive, groundbreaking book that joins other recent revisionist works in offering an innovative notion of early cinema history that has invaluable ramifications for cinema history overall. Furthermore, it promises to make a considerable impact on the study of cinema's profound interrelations with architecture, modern technologies, and urban infrastructure at the beginnings of the 20th century. -- Richard Abel, University of Michigan A breakthrough book-at once a history of technology, cinema, and architecture-showing how they merge in the invention of the cinematic studio in a few wildly innovative years around 1900. Jacobson tells the story of this invention with flair, fluency, and most of all with awareness of its historical significance: by uniting real and virtual space in cinematic space, the studio transformed the human-built world. -- Rosalind H. Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rare is the book that justly can be called an instant classic, but Studios Before the System is just that. Meticulously researched, elegantly written, and admirably capacious, it is a landmark study of the built environments of early cinematic production. It is a foundational work that is also a pleasure to read -- Edward Dimendberg, author of Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture after Images Studios Before the System offers a fresh, enormously productive and (as it turns out) badly needed perspective on filmmaking before the classical Hollywood studio system was fully established. Examining the buildings where films were made with unprecedented rigor, Jacobson illuminates the many ways in which these architectural spaces determined how subjects were filmed and represented--and the ways the studios themselves shaped the larger system of production and representation as personnel left the studios and moved on location. -- Charles Musser, Yale University In this excellent book, Jacobson (Univ. of Toronto) blends history and theory to create a landmark study of the very first film studios... Essential. Choice A truly important book, which will easily find its way to the 'must-read' section in all literature on film studies as well as art and technology studies. -- Jan Baetens Leonardo Reviews Studios Before the System is certain to become an indispensable resource for scholars of early cinema. What is more, the new theoretical perspective Jacobson brings to filmmaking during the period has far-reaching ramifications for the history and theory of the art form as a whole... A work of great originality and insight, which is also brilliantly written and accessible to scholars working in a broad range of academic fields. -- Alice Thorpe Early Popular Visual CultureTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Studios and Systems 1. Black Boxes and Open-Air Stages: Film Studio Technology and Environmental Control from the Laboratory to the Rooftop 2. Georges Melies's "Glass House": Cineplasticity for a Human-Built World 3. Dark Studios and Daylight Factories: Building Cinema in New York City 4. Studio Factories and Studio Cities: Paris's Cites du Cinema and the Inconsistency of Modernity 5. The Studio Beyond the Studio: Nature, Technology, and Location in Southern California Conclusion: More Than "Dream Factories" Notes Films Cited Bibliography Index
£79.20
Columbia University Press Studios Before the System
Book SynopsisThe first book to retell the history of film studio architecture, Studios Before the System expands the social and cultural footprint of cinema’s virtual worlds and their contribution to wider developmentsTrade ReviewThis is an impressive, groundbreaking book that joins other recent revisionist works in offering an innovative notion of early cinema history that has invaluable ramifications for cinema history overall. Furthermore, it promises to make a considerable impact on the study of cinema's profound interrelations with architecture, modern technologies, and urban infrastructure at the beginnings of the 20th century. -- Richard Abel, University of Michigan A breakthrough book-at once a history of technology, cinema, and architecture-showing how they merge in the invention of the cinematic studio in a few wildly innovative years around 1900. Jacobson tells the story of this invention with flair, fluency, and most of all with awareness of its historical significance: by uniting real and virtual space in cinematic space, the studio transformed the human-built world. -- Rosalind H. Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rare is the book that justly can be called an instant classic, but Studios Before the System is just that. Meticulously researched, elegantly written, and admirably capacious, it is a landmark study of the built environments of early cinematic production. It is a foundational work that is also a pleasure to read -- Edward Dimendberg, author of Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture after Images Studios Before the System offers a fresh, enormously productive and (as it turns out) badly needed perspective on filmmaking before the classical Hollywood studio system was fully established. Examining the buildings where films were made with unprecedented rigor, Jacobson illuminates the many ways in which these architectural spaces determined how subjects were filmed and represented--and the ways the studios themselves shaped the larger system of production and representation as personnel left the studios and moved on location. -- Charles Musser, Yale University In this excellent book, Jacobson (Univ. of Toronto) blends history and theory to create a landmark study of the very first film studios... Essential. Choice A truly important book, which will easily find its way to the 'must-read' section in all literature on film studies as well as art and technology studies. -- Jan Baetens Leonardo Reviews Studios Before the System is certain to become an indispensable resource for scholars of early cinema. What is more, the new theoretical perspective Jacobson brings to filmmaking during the period has far-reaching ramifications for the history and theory of the art form as a whole... A work of great originality and insight, which is also brilliantly written and accessible to scholars working in a broad range of academic fields. -- Alice Thorpe Early Popular Visual CultureTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Studios and Systems 1. Black Boxes and Open-Air Stages: Film Studio Technology and Environmental Control from the Laboratory to the Rooftop 2. Georges Melies's "Glass House": Cineplasticity for a Human-Built World 3. Dark Studios and Daylight Factories: Building Cinema in New York City 4. Studio Factories and Studio Cities: Paris's Cites du Cinema and the Inconsistency of Modernity 5. The Studio Beyond the Studio: Nature, Technology, and Location in Southern California Conclusion: More Than "Dream Factories" Notes Films Cited Bibliography Index
£25.20
Columbia University Press Climate Change
Book SynopsisThis second edition of Climate Change is an accessible and comprehensive guide to the science behind global warming. Edmond A. Mathez and Jason E. Smerdon provide a broad, informative introduction to the science that underlies our understanding of the climate system and the effects of human activity on the warming of our planet.Trade ReviewThis text should have great appeal for teaching an introductory undergraduate course on climate change science as well as a broad survey for graduate students. The book is well written with concepts adequately explained. Mathez and Smerdon have done a great job at hitting many of the very important concepts for understanding past, present, and future climate change as well as what we can and should do about it. I particularly liked the “back of the envelope” sections that let students confront some quantitative thinking without getting bogged down in mathematical details. The many illustrations and beautiful photos should make the book appealing to students as well as the general public. -- Lonnie G. Thompson, Distinguished University Professor, School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State UniversityMathez and Smerdon present a concise, accurate description of the workings of our climate system that is rich with historical context, vivid graphics, and concrete examples. The beauty and wonder of our atmosphere and oceans are on full display, even as many of their mysteries are revealed for the nonspecialist. Readers will not only understand the fundamental causes and implications of climate change, but they also will understand the diverse set of tools and approaches that scientists use to study the climate system in all its complexity. This book is a treasure trove of insights for anyone with an affinity for science and an interest in the future of our planet and its inhabitants. -- Kim M. Cobb, Georgia Power Chair and ADVANCE Professor, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of TechnologyA superb textbook, easily one of the best currently available. Very few texts are written as thoughtfully as this one. Mathez and Smerdon hit a home run! -- Scott Mandia, cofounder and chairman of the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, Professor of Physical Sciences at Suffolk County Community CollegeThis book has great coverage of all the salient issues—the history of climate science, the climate science of (pre)-history, the scientists' own histories, and, most importantly, what this means going forward. The writing is clear while also comprehensive and the look and feel of the book make it a text you want to dive in to at random, confident that you'd find something interesting. -- Gavin Schmidt, climate scientistInformative and insightful, this textbook clearly explains the basic science of the Earth's climate system and the human influence on it. Superb illustrations bring the science to life, and the historical stories that accompany the key concepts paint a vivid picture of not only what we know, but how and why we learned it. -- Katharine Hayhoe, Co-Director of the Climate Science Center, Texas Tech UniversityThis excellent updated text on climate change was written by scientists in geophysics and climate change....Recommended. All readers. * Choice *Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, this new second edition. . . is ideal and highly recommended as a climate change curriculum textbook. * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsPrefaceProloguePart I. The Climate System1. The Atmosphere2. The World Ocean3. Ocean–Atmosphere Interactions4. The Carbon Cycle and How It Influences Climate Part II. Climate Change and Its Drivers5. The Concept of Radiation Balance, a Scientific Framework for Thinking About Climate Change6. Radiative Forcing, Feedbacks, and Some Other Characteristics of the Climate System7. Learning from the Climate of the Distant PastPart III. Consequences of Climate Change8. The Climate of the Recent Past and Impacts on Human History9. Observing the Change10. Greenland, Antarctica, and Sea-Level RisePart IV. The Future11. Climate Models and the Future12. Climate Change Risk in an Unknowable Future13. Energy and the FutureEpilogueNotesGlossary BibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Must We Divide History Into Periods
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Columbia University Press A Brief History of Entrepreneurship
Book SynopsisA Brief History of Entrepreneurship charts how the pursuit of profit by private individuals has been a prime mover in revolutionizing civilization. Entrepreneurs circumvent, innovate, and violate to obtain what they want. This creative destruction has brought about a host of revolutionary technologies that have transformed society.Trade ReviewJoe Carlen delves in primary and secondary sources, including texts on modern management, and presents them in readable and attractive prose. A Brief History of Entrepreneurship is a light and enjoyable read. -- Ali Kahn, Abram Hutzler Professor of Political Economy, Johns Hopkins University This enjoyable book is full of great stories and practical ideas that any entrepreneur can use to be more successful faster. -- Brian Tracy, author of The Way to Wealth Covering millennia and the whole planet, Carlen provides us with the fascinating story of how those individuals taking risks in the search for profits not only adapted and responded to seemingly unsurmountable challenges but also (and more importantly) shaped the world we live in. -- Marcelo Bucheli, author of Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899-2000 A Brief History of Entrepreneurship is an unbelievably enthralling and inspirational book, especially so for enthusiasts, practitioners and students of entrepreneurship and business. -- Sapphire Ng Impeccable Business Entrepreneurs will come to better understand who they are and what they do by reading this book... Highly recommended. CHOICE Carlen's enlightening book considers many aspects of the historical development of entrepreneurship and will attract business-minded readers. Library JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. "One Shekel of Your Private Silver" 2. The Pirates of Phoenicia 3. The Reluctant Romans 4. An Enterprising Faith 5. Flying Money and Capitalist Monks 6. Western Europe and a "New World" of Profit 7. Captains of the Revolution 8. The Land of (Entrepreneurial) Opportunity 9. Flattening the World and Colonizing Space Conclusion Notes Acknowledgments Index
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Columbia University Press Electric Santería
Book SynopsisDrawing on eight years of ethnographic research, Beliso-De Jesús traces the phenomenon of copresence in the lives of Santería practitionersTrade ReviewAisha Beliso-De Jesus allows us to see the densely intertwined modes of becoming that include the racing, sexing, and engendering of bodies. Electric Santeria is an exciting and timely addition to the series Gender, Theory, and Religion. -- Solimar Otero, author of Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World, and coeditor of Yemoja: Gender, Sexuality, and Creativity in the Latina/o and African Diasporas An inspiring-even astonishing-piece of anthropological research. -- John L. Jackson Jr., author of Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem A brilliantly coherent and insightful contribution to the way that we think about the complexities and nuances of new transnational formations. This artfully mastered ethnography is bound to become an influential staple for a range of actors: Santeria practitioners, academics, and cultural critics. Not only does it demand from its readership a rethinking of our ontologies of knowing, but it also requires that we take seriously affective practices in clarifying the way we make sense of our world. This is a must read for all! -- Kamari Clarke, University of Pennsylvania Ethnographically rich and theoretically audacious, Beliso-De Jesus's Electric Santeria breathes fresh air into the scholarship on Afro-Cuban ritual praxis. Her principled refusal of an analytic of transcendence, her spirited critique of conventional approaches towards mediation, her focus of the sensorium, and her mobilization of black feminist and queer theory give us a handle on problems that anthropologists of religion and religious studies scholars have yet to pay full attention to. -- Stephan Palmie, author of The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion In this brilliant, theoretically exciting, and innovative ethnography, Beliso-De Jesus explains Santeria in Cuba in terms of a transnational, diasporic geo-ontology. Critiquing the ubiquity of religious universals-based Christian notions of transcendence and transubstantiation, she reveals Santeria's 'trans' as an assemblage of co-presences, in which nationalisms, gender, and sexuality are mediated through sound, image, and sense. Electric Santeria is a new 'classic' for religious studies and for African diaspora studies. -- Inderpal Grewal, Yale University An innovative exploration of a protean and complex religious phenomenon, Electric Santeria presents a powerful challenge to the longstanding dominance of the Abrahamic within anthropological scholarship on religion. Drawing on her own vast ethnographic archive, Beliso-De Jesus carries us along the historical and transnational peregrinations of people, spiritual forces, racial formations, and nationalist projects that together constitute the relational ontology of Santero worlds. This is a work of considerable insight and theoretical daring, a rare accomplishment that deserves to be widely read. -- Charles Hirschkind, University of California, Berkeley Electric Santer'ia should be required reading for ethnographers of not only Cuba and African-inspired religious traditions, but any new religious movements that challenge Western theories of being in the world. Nova Religio This book is a major breakthrough in the conceptualization of transnational religious ontologies be they in Cuba or not. American Anthropologist This book is an important contribution to writing stories that are not nationally bounded but also that work to look beyond binary dualisms. SociologyTable of ContentsAuthor's Note Preface: Despedidas Acknowledgments Introduction: Transnational Santeria Assemblages 1. Electric Oricha 2. Transnational Caminos 3. Pacts with Darkness 4. Scent of Empire 5. Contaminating Femininities Epilogue: A Death at Dawn Glossary Notes References Index
£999.99
Columbia University Press The End of Progress
Book SynopsisAmy Allen fractures critical theory from within by dispensing with its progressive reading of history while retaining its notion of progress as a political imperative. In reimagining a decolonized critical theory after the end of progress, she rescues it from oblivion and gives it a future for achieving emancipatory social goals.Trade ReviewAmy Allen has performed the long-overdue task of pulling contemporary Frankfurt School theory into the light that postcolonial theory sheds upon its quietude about imperialism and colonialism, its insufficient appreciation of global inequality and differences, and its fetishism and purification of European modernity. While honoring the power of the School's theoretical foundations and insights, she stages a steady and profound encounter with its worldly Others-an encounter that cannot be dismissed. -- Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley In this courageous and path-breaking text, Allen challenges critical theory to live up to its own pretensions and begin to decolonize itself, starting with its still insufficiently interrogated foundational Euro-progressivist assumptions. -- Charles Mills, Northwestern University The End of Progress is a beautifully written and engaging critique of critical theory. It challenges basic assumptions of the Frankfurt School to expand our field of view and builds bridges with other genres of critical thinking. This book charts a bold direction that breathes new life into critical theory. -- Kevin Olson, University of California, Irvine In this engaging, perceptive, and illuminating book, Amy Allen seeks to decolonize Critical Theory. Exposing weaknesses in the normative claims of Habermas, Honneth, and Forst and with a fresh interpretation of Adorno and Foucault, this book is stimulating and provocative for anyone interested in both the limitations and prospects of Critical Theory. -- Richard J. Bernstein, New School for Social Research I highly recommend this outstanding internal critique of the idea of universal, developmental progress in the critical theory tradition and its role in legitimating Western imperialism by a leading critical theorist. Allen also initiates a promising dialogue with postcolonial theorists who have advanced external critiques, a dialogue oriented to decolonizing normative political theory together. -- James Tully, University of Victoria In her perspicacious and penetrating discussion of major figures of the Frankfurt School, Allen shows how deeply the tradition of critique is entangled with the grand narrative of enlightenment, the myth of the progressive unfolding of reason. Drawing on Adorno and Foucault, she shows the path contemporary critique has to take: the path to radical self-critique. -- Christoph Menke, Goethe-Universitat FrankfurtTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1. Critical Theory and the Idea of Progress 2. From Social Evolution to Multiple Modernities: History and Normativity in Habermas 3. The Ineliminability of Progress? Honneth's Hegelian Contextualism 4. From Hegelian Reconstructivism to Kantian Constructivism: Forst's Theory of Justification 5. From the Dialectic of Enlightenment to the History of Madness: Foucault as Adorno's Other Other Son 6. Conclusion: "Truth," Reason, and History Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Neither Ghost nor Machine
Book SynopsisJeremy Sherman distills Terrence Deacon’s breakthrough natural science hypothesis for the emergence of agents and agency, selves and aims in an otherwise aimless universe. The theory cuts a new path through the dualistic spirit vs. mechanism debate, unifying the hard and soft sciences and suggesting new solutions to philosophical mysteries.Trade ReviewIn Neither Ghost nor Machine, Jeremy Sherman takes on a central mystery: How did the universe get from matter to mattering? Whence purpose? Whence selves? These are topics too easily ignored in our rush to find the molecular stuff of life and not the organizational "what is” of life. With this fine book, and that of Deacon, we are well launched. -- Stuart Kauffman, MacArthur Fellow, author of At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and ComplexityNeither Ghost nor Machine reckons with the most profound questions one can ask about the nature of the self and of life on earth. It is the work of a fiercely inquisitive and original mind. -- Kaja Perina, editor in chief, Psychology TodayWhen the Big Bang banged all there was was just the stuff of basic physics, fermions, bosons, and such. There was neither life nor mind. Now there is life all over the place and some of it is conscious. How is that possible? How could such things as life and mind emerge? Jeremy Sherman has written a clear, clever, witty guide to the new science of emergence championed by Terrence Deacon. This is a philosophical treasure trove that explains how novelty emerges without explanatory gaps and violations of the laws of nature. -- Owen Flanagan, James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy, Duke University, author of Consciousness ReconsideredFinally! A breakthrough approach to fundamental questions that have gone unanswered for so long that many forget to ask them. Fascinating, profound! -- Daniel Ellsberg, behavioral economist, Right Livelihood Award recipientFor those of us who call ourselves religious/spiritual naturalists, this book is sure to become an instant classic. Its narrative of how living beings are and came to be is rigorous, accessible, and lyrical, and will greatly deepen our affinity with the natural world and with one another. -- Ursula Goodenough, Washington University in St. Louis, author of The Sacred Depths of NatureNeither Ghost nor Machine is an eloquent manifesto in the movement to reclaim questions of purpose and agency for science. Presenting Terrence Deacon’s account of the natural emergence of living agents, Jeremy Sherman casts aside the stale, old dichotomies to show us a new way of thinking scientifically about life. -- Jessica Riskin, author of The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things TickJeremy Sherman lucidly explicates the paradigm-changing vision of Terrence Deacon, which addresses the mysteries of the origin of living systems from the nonliving and the emergence of mind and purpose in a nature that is still the the process of evolving. -- Bruce H. Weber, coauthor of Darwinism Evolving: Systems Dynamics and the Genealogy of Natural SelectionThe persistent Western dualism of mind and matter is finally done for, and the burden of proof has shifted. Thanks to books like Neither Ghost Nor Machine, inspired by the work of Terrence Deacon, we are now crossing the threshold to a brave new self-understanding -- Loyal D. Rue, Luther CollegeClearly written and accessible to any reader with an interest in the Big Questions of Life and Mindedness. * Biosemiotics *Table of ContentsForeword, by Terrence DeaconI. Overview1. The Mystery of Purpose2. The Biggest Mystery We Ever Ignore3. Deacon’s Solution in BriefII. Framing the Mystery4. Two Sources of Change5. Selves6. Two Ghosts, Two Machines7. Interpretation8. Aims9. Evolution’s Limited Limiting RoleIII. Dead Ends, Live Clues10. The History11. Evolutionary Theory’s Elusive Self12. Information About Nothing for Anyone13. The Engineered Ghosts in Our Machines14. Small Is DubiousIV. Grounding a Solution15. Processes of Emergent Elimination16. Second Law Irregularity17. Emergent Regularization18. Emergent Regularization vs. Emergent Self-Regeneration19. Other Emergent Regularization Dynamics20. Coupled Regularization ProcessesV. Deacon’s Solution21. Autogens: Self-Generators22. Evolved Autogens23. Where Is the Self?24. The Consequences of Self-RegenerationVI. The Interpreting Self25. Codes, Signs, Interpreters26. Kinds of SignsVII. Implications27. A Constraint-Based Approach to Evolutionary Theory28. Implications for the Free Will Debate?29. Making Science Safe for ValueAcknowledgmentsAppendixNotesIndex
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Columbia University Press The Wheel
Book SynopsisA visually rich, analytical history of the key cycles in a revolutionary technology.Trade ReviewThis is a wonderful book, brimming at once with fascinating tales and with fundamental insights into the nature of invention. -- Patrick Manning, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History, University of Pittsburgh A fascinating book. New Scientist This concise and well-executed work is technology history at its best... Simply excellent, this work will appeal not just to history readers but also to those interested in the social and cultural developments that both fuel and are fueled by technical changes. Library Journal (starred review) A deft narrative. Nature A fine contribution to the history of transport. Journal of Interdisciplinary History Bulliet brings a fresh view to a story that interests many: the invention of the wheel, providing new and interesting details about when and why the wheel was first adopted. -- Hermione Giffard History TodayTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Wheel Versus Wheel 2. Why Invent the Wheel? 3. A Square Peg in a Round Wheel 4. Home on the Range 5. Wheels for Show 6. The Rise and Demise of the Charioteer 7. The Princess Ride 8. The Carriage Revolution 9. Four Wheels in China 10. Rickshaw Cities 11. The Third Wheel Notes Glossary Further Reading Index
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Columbia University Press At the End of the Street in the Shadow
Book SynopsisExplores Welles’s vision of cities by following recurring themes across his work, including urban transformation, race relations and fascism, the utopian promise of cosmopolitanism, and romantic nostalgia for archaic forms of urban culture.Trade ReviewAn impressive work of archival research and film analysis... A valuable contribution to the scholarly literature on cinematic places. Mediapolis Asprey Gear's At the End of the Street in the Shadow: Orson Welles and the City has much to offer anyone interested in the numerous projects brought into being by Welles. afterimageTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Prelude. A Nuisance in a Factory: Hollywood: 1939-48, 1956-58 Welles's U.S.A 1. The Decline and Fall of the Lincoln Republic 2. An Empire Upon an Empire: Citizen Kane (1941) 3. The Darkening Midland: The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) Pan-America 4. Darkness and Fear: The Early Anti-fascist Thrillers 5. The Raucous Raggle-Taggle Jamboree of the Streets: It's All True (unfinished, 1942) 6. Ratline to Main Street: The Stranger (1946) 7. Port to Port: The Lady from Shanghai (1947) 8. The Border: Touch of Evil (1958) 9. Return to the Periphery: The Other Man (unproduced, 1977) Interlude. A Free Man Is Everywhere: Europe & Beyond: 1947-55, 1958-85 Postwar Europe 10. Skies and Rubblescape: Mr. Arkadin/Confidential Report (1955) 11. Lost in a Labyrinth: The Trial (1962) Immortal Stories 12. To Adore the Impossible 13. In the Land of Don Quixote Index
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Columbia University Press Eating Ethically
Book SynopsisBy intertwining ancient wisdom from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam with cutting-edge research, Jonathan K. Crane demonstrates that ethical eating is a means to achieve both personal health and social cohesion. Grounded in science and tradition, Eating Ethically shows us what it truly means to eat well.Trade ReviewAn accomplished ethicist and philosopher, Crane crafts a careful argument for what it means to eat well. Following a trajectory set by Michael Pollan and others, Eating Ethically is set apart by its interdisciplinarity, using biblical scholarship, nutritional science, biochemistry, and medicine to effectively buttress the idea that eating is an activity that resonates in both personal and social contexts. -- Benjamin Zeller, coeditor of Religion, Food, and Eating in North AmericaTable of ContentsContentsPrefacePart I: Eating Unwell1. Full of Ourselves2. Deprivation and GluttonyPart II: I Eat Therefore I Am3. The Eater4. The Eaten5. EatingPart III: Eating Well6. Eating’s Genesis7. Satisfaction8. Just RightPart IV: I Eat Therefore I Am Tasteful9. Savoring10. Sacrificing11. SharingPart V: Conclusion12. Go Ahead, RefrainNotesReferencesIndex
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Columbia University Press The Ethnic AvantGarde
Book SynopsisThe Ethnic Avant-Garde remaps global modernism and interwar literary, political, and art history along minority and Soviet-centered lines. Steven S. Lee details an absorbing collage of writers and artists who cohered around experimental techniques of montage, fragment, and interruption, advancing the avant-garde project of seeing the world anew.Trade ReviewA prodigiously researched, insightful, and lucid book, Lee's work offers fresh perspective on the links between avant-garde aesthetics and vanguard politics. His scholarship is nothing short of transformative for those seeking new ways of configuring the relationships between ethnicity and cultural production between the wars. -- Kate Baldwin, Northwestern University Beautifully written, deeply researched, and constantly engaging, The Ethnic Avant-Garde restores the allure of Moscow as the beacon of political and perceptual revolution in the early Soviet period. The aspiration to conjoin the socialist vanguard and the cultural avant-garde in an international alliance was engraved in the border-crossing works of activist intellectuals who sought to link indigenous roots to vertiginous upheaval. Steven S. Lee truly understands the pathos and promise of this global experiment. -- Dale E. Peterson, Amherst College A dazzlingly original, ambitious book that challenges us to reconsider the relationship between politics and artistic experimentation during a complex, contradictory, and intriguing period in the history of the United States and the Soviet Union. Lee draws astute and surprising insights into literature, art, modernism, revolution, and the fraught, never-ending struggle to counter racism around the globe. -- Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Stanford University Lee's brilliant book not only redefines 'ethnic literature' but also fundamentally alters our sense of the political promises and aesthetic possibilities of 'the avant-garde.' It is essential reading for students and scholars of twentieth-century literature and culture. -- Jonathan Flatley, Wayne State University A highly engaging exploration. The Russian Review Provocative and wide-ranging. Slavic Review Ambitious, prodigiously researched, and often dazzling. Melus This book is of obvious interest to those studying interactions between Soviet and American culture. Slavists generally can gain much from its international focus, which helps illustrate the enduring relevance of Soviet and Russian culture to the world at large. Indeed, for those hoping to engage a wider variety of students, Lee's framework, rooted not only in American culture but also in contemporary social issues, will be an invaluable resource. -- Emily Wang Slavic and East European Journal The Ethnic Avant-Garde is an unusually imaginative work of cultural history. But its inventiveness is fostered by nose-to-the-grindstone feats of archive digging and cross-cultural translation. -- William J. Maxwell African American ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations A Note on Transliteration Introduction 1. Translating the Ethnic Avant-Garde 2. The Avant-Garde's Asia: Factography and Roar China 3. From Avant-Garde to Authentic: Revisiting Langston Hughes's "Moscow Movie" 4. Cold War Pluralism: The New York Intellectuals Respond to Soviet Anti-Semitism Afterword: Chinese Communism, Cultural Revolution, and American Multiculturalism Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Credits and Permissions Index
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Columbia University Press The End of Cinema
Book SynopsisA positive look at cinema’s ongoing digital revolution that reaffirms its central place in a rapidly expanding media landscapeTrade ReviewAnyone involved in the debates surrounding the shift from 35mm film stock to digital production practices and exhibition formats will need to confront Andre Gaudreault and Philippe Marion's arguments. A provocative and timely book, the authors remind viewers that the 'cinema' has never been a static technology. -- Richard Neupert, University of Georgia Gaudreault and Marion make a nuanced argument for rethinking the very nature and impact of the digital revolution on cinema. Their book is an unusually thorough and balanced analysis. It should be required reading. -- Richard Abel, University of Michigan Readable and refreshingly entertaining.Times Higher Education -- Philip Kemp Times Higher Education This thought-provoking volume... will appeal mostly to scholars and serious students of film. ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: The End of Cinema? 1. Cinema Is Not What It Used to Be 2. Digitalizing Cinema from Top to Bottom 3. A Brief Phenomenology of "Digitalized" Cinema 4. From Shooting to Filming: The Aufhebung Effect 5. A Medium Is Always Born Twice... 6. New Variants of the Moving Image 7. "Animage" and the New Visual Culture Conclusion: A Medium in Crisis in the Digital Age Notes Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Impersonal Enunciation or the Place of Film Film
Book SynopsisThe late work of an avant-garde theorist adds clarity to the phenomenology of new media.Trade ReviewMetz's generous personality is captured well here, something that no other English translation has accomplished. It is both an extension of Metz's path-breaking work in bringing the concepts and methods of linguistics and psychoanalysis to the study of film, and the articulation of fundamentally new directions in his thought. -- D. N. Rodowick, University of Chicago At long last, Christian Metz's final book, Impersonal Enunciation, is available in English, expertly translated by Cormac Deane. Metz's non-deictic, reflexive theory of enunciation, in which the film text continually references itself, constitutes the culmination of his lifelong semiotic analysis of the cinema. -- Warren Buckland, author of The Cognitive Semiotics of Film In this splendid new translation... Metz shines through, avoiding jargon, using richly illustrative examples, and writing with a persuasive voice.Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly Metz returns to and develops the question of what speaks in the moving image: code, or something else. In meticulous and enlightening readings of films, television shows, and changing ways of watching them, Metz's posthumous text is a true ghost in the machine, a revenant who reopens many of the arguments we thought were closed and makes audiovisual media matter, once more, in every sense of the word -- Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths, University of London The moments of poetry, wit, and charming cinephilia scattered throughout make this work as engaging as it is enlightening... Essential. CHOICETable of ContentsAcknowledgments Translator's Introduction Part I: Humanoid Enunciation 1. Humanoid Enunciation Part II: Some Landscapes of Enunciation (A Guided Tour) 2. The Voice of Address in the Image: The Look to Camera 3. The Voice of Address Outside the Image: Related Sounds 4. Written Modes of Address 5. Secondary Screens, or Squaring the Rectangle 6. Mirrors 7. "Exposing the Apparatus" 8. Film(s) Within Film 9. Subjective Images, Subjective Sounds, "Point of View" 10. The I-voice and Related Sounds 11. The Oriented Objective System: Enunciation and Style 12. "Neutral" (?) Images and Sounds Part III: A Walk in the Clouds (Taking Theoretical Flight) 13. (Taking Theoretical Flight) Afterword, by Dana Polan Notes On the Shelf: Works Cited Index
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Columbia University Press The Fate of Ideas
Book SynopsisAs editor of the magazine Salmagundi for the past fifty years, Robert Boyers has been on the cutting edge of developments in politics, culture, and the arts. Reflecting on his collaborations and quarrels with some of the twentieth century’s most transformative writers, artists, and thinkers, Boyers writes a wholly original intellectual memoir.Trade ReviewThe Fate of Ideas is a brilliant, highly original, and delightful book that achieves a unique balance between criticism and personal essay, revealing the author himself as both a decisive thinker and an appealingly flawed, divided human being. Looking at a wide range of ideas by peeling away attendant presuppositions and contradictions, Robert Boyers argues with friends, intellectual heroes, and respected elders while examining his own prejudices. Throughout we find ourselves in the company of a first-rate mind alert to changes in intellectual fashion and the quickness with which politically or aesthetically 'correct' assumptions harden into received ideas. -- Phillip Lopate, director (nonfiction) of the Writing Program, Columbia University School of the Arts, and author of Getting Personal: Selected Essays In a dance that is both demanding and exhilarating, Robert Boyers engages thinkers and ideas, insisting there are things worth arguing about that are larger and grander than the standard scholarly or academic discourse can get at. An elegant and courageous book. -- Mary Gordon, Mcintosh Professor, Barnard College, author of The Company of Women This book is a combination of memoir and cultural criticism, though all of the chapters shed light on the protean character of the author, a prominent cultural critic and-perhaps above all-the founder and longtime editor of the quarterly Salmagundi. Whatever form they take-some chapters are deeply personal, others are largely polemical-all are thought experiments, essays often ironic and self-deprecating, Emersonian in the sense that Robert Boyers is unabashed in his 'appetite for masters and masterpieces' that can become 'a constitutive aspect of my very being.' A superb and singular work. -- James Miller, director of liberal studies, graduate faculty, New School for Social Research, author of The Passion of Michel Foucault An attractive, original, subtle, and heartening book that combines the methods of the moral and personal essay with informal literary and cultural criticism. -- Richard Locke, Columbia University, author of Critical Children: The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels The 12 literary essays collected in this volume are bottomless wells of provocation and insight... Readers who crave rich food for thought will find much to savor in this volume. Publisher's Weekly (starred review) Boyers's intellectual rigor and literary acuity showcase the life's work of an individual deeply committed to the liberal arts. A timely collection... Essential. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Authority 2. Pleasure 3. Reading from the Life 4. Fidelity 5. Saving Beauty 6. My "Others" 7. Politics and the Novel 8. Realism 9. The Sublime 10. Psychoanalysis 11. Modernism 12. Judgment Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press After the American Century
Book SynopsisFrom Egyptian cyberpunk to dubbed versions of Shrek in Iran, this book examines the emergence of new forms of culture in circulation and their geopolitical implications.Trade ReviewAfter the American Century offers a fascinating tour of the appropriation and deployment of American popular culture in a globalized, restless Middle East. From cinema and novels to hip-hop and comic books, this wonderfully written and richly observed book presents novel and exciting readings of familiar cultural forms in new political environments. -- Marc Lynch, author of The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East After the American Century is a book of exquisite audacity. Bold in its detailed precision and daring in its imaginative topography of topics, Brian T. Edwards's writing cuts through much noise and nuisance to lay bare what lies ahead. Its arguments do not just dismantle the imperial fantasy of an 'American century,' but point to the uncharted worlds far beyond its captured imagination. -- Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Columbia University This book is a rich account of what happens when cultural objects, literary texts, and films circulate between the Middle East and the United States: how they are interpreted and reinvented, in the process engendering new publics and counterpublics. A nuanced analysis of cultural politics that extends our understanding of the forms and limits of Western domination of the Middle East. -- Saba Mahmood, author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject In After the American Century, Edwards has devised subtle, ethnographically informed reading methodologies to explain how anomalous logics of transnational circulation have radically undermined plans for a 'new American century.' The book will fast become indispensable to an understanding of the genealogy of transnational American studies. -- Donald E. Pease, Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities and founding director of the Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth College Edwards plunges into the cultural lives of Cairo, Casablanca, and Tehran to illustrate the demise of one aspect of "the American century": the outsize influence that U.S. popular culture exercised in the Middle East. -- John Waterbury Foreign Affairs Edwards' background and considerable expertise shine... making the book a worthwhile read for anyone interested in the region. Middle East Journal Now that American power is receding across the globe it is a good time to ask how... methodologies might adapt to these new circumstances, and what we might name such an academic adaptation. Brian T. Edwards' important new book... provides us with a possible answer to this arguably urgent question. Post45 Ambitious, wide-ranging, and highly valuable. European Journal of American Culture Edwards challenges traditional narratives of US cultural imperialism... Highly recommended. CHOICE Edwards is to be commended for his ethnographic methods, his command of local languages, and the originality of his archive. International Journal of Middle East Studies A genuinely important contribution to our understanding of how American literary studies circulates internationally in the twenty-first century. American Literature A welcome work, valuable for its rich readings of unfamiliar yet important Middle Eastern artists and for its stimulating arguments about the transnational circulation of American culture in our global, digital age. Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsPreface 1. After the American Century: Ends of Circulation 2. Jumping Publics: Egyptian Fictions of the Digital Age 3. "Argo Fuck Yourself": Iranian Cinema and the Curious Logics of Circulation 4. Coming Out in Casablanca: Shrek, Sex, and the Teen Pic in Contemporary Morocco Epilogue: Embracing Orientalism in the Homeland Acknowledgments Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Beastly Morality
Book SynopsisFeaturing original essays by philosophers, ethicists, religionists, and ethologists, this collection demonstrates the ability of animals to operate morally, process ideas of good and bad, and think seriously about sociality and virtue.Trade ReviewIssues surrounding animal moral agency have become a cutting-edge area of research in animal studies. Beastly Morality is poised to make a significant contribution to the field. -- Matthew Calarco, author of Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida Beastly Morality is a wide-ranging, scholarly, and forward-looking book that will surely cause many people to think about animals in new and more respectful ways. Congratulations to all concerned. I hope it enjoys a wide audience. -- Jane Goodall, Ph.D., DBE, United Nations Messenger of Peace Building on copious contemporary philosophical and scientific work, Beastly Morality moves from previous, somewhat limited interspecific comparisons of moral behavior to a wider discourse within which the very notion of moral agency is reshaped in an open-ended, species-neutral manner, thus marking a further step in the development of a more impartial worldview. -- Paola Cavalieri, author of The Animal Question. Why Nonhuman Animals Deserve Human Rights This is one of the most fascinating books I have ever read. It does not just bring together scholars from across the academy interested in questions about the animal but also shows the synergistic benefits of intense discussions among philosophers, ethologists, and experts from diverse religious traditions. The reader is caught up in wave after wave of arguments that will challenge current thinking on the status and significance of other animals. The depth and level of inquiry is impressive while still being accessible for the nonspecialist. This book is radical in the very best sense of the word, serious scholarship combined with far reaching ethical implications. -- Celia Deane-Drummond, Inaugural Director of the Center for Theology, Science and Human Flourishing and Professor, Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame, Indiana This worthwhile, thought-provoking collection opens an important dialogue concerning nonhuman animals and moral agency... Recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Beastly Morality: A Twisting Tale, by Jonathan K. Crane Part I: The Permeability of Morality 2. De-humanizing Morality, by Kendy Hess 3. HumAnI(m)Morality, by Sean Meighoo 4. Not All Dogs Go to Heaven: Judaism's Lessons in Beastly Morality, by Mark Goldfeder Part II: Observing Animal Morality 5. Animal Empathy as Moral Building Block, by Frans B. M. de Waal 6. Humans, Other Animals, and the Biology of Morality, by Elisabetta Palagi 7. Moral Mutts: Social Play, Fairness, and Wild Justice, by Marc Bekoff 8. Fighting Fair: The Ecology of Honor in Humans and Animals, by Dan Demetriou Part III: Reading Animal Morality 9. Reading, Teaching Insects: Ant Society as Pedagogical Device in Rabbinic Literature, by Harrison King 10. Jakushin's Dogs and the Goodness of Animals: Preaching the Moral Life of Beasts in Medieval Japanese Tale Literature, by Michael Bathgate Part IV: Reconceiving Animal Morality 11. Just Chimpanzees? A Thomistic Perspective on Ethics in a Nonhuman Species, by John Berkman 12. Brutal Justice? Animal Litigation and the Question of Countertradition, by Jonathan K. Crane and Aaron S. Gross Part V: Epilogue 13. Beastly Morality: Untangling Possibilities, by Jonathan K. Crane, Ani B. Satz, Lori Marino, and Cynthia Willett List of Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press The Invention of Private Life
Book SynopsisAn acclaimed political thinker traces the intimate experiences of history in the formal experiments of modern literature.Trade ReviewSudipta Kaviraj is one of the foremost scholars anywhere in the world working on South Asia. A master of the essay form, his writings on political theory and Indian politics show him to be a scholar of vast erudition, subtle analytical skill, and brilliant humor. -- Partha Chatterjee, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Literature as the Mirror of Modernity 1. On the Advantages of Being a Barbarian 2. Literature and the Moral Imaginations of Modernity 3. The Two Histories of Literary Culture in Bengal 4. A Strange Love of Abstractions: The Making of a Language of Patriotism in Modern Bengali 5. Tagore and Transformations in the Ideals of Love 6. The Poetry of Interiority: The Creation of a Language of Modern Subjectivity in Tagore's Poetry 7. Laughter and Subjectivity: The Self-Ironical Tradition in Bengali Literature 8. Reading a Song of the City: Images of the City in Literature and Films 9. The Art of Despair: The Sense of the City in Modern Bengali Poetry 10. The Invention of Private Life: A Reading of Sibnath Sastri's Autobiography 11. The Second Mahabharata Index
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Columbia University Press Marx After Marx
Book SynopsisRevisiting Marx’s seminal conception of capital and production to better critique our diverse global economies.Trade ReviewHarry Harootunian is singularly qualified to give us a Marxism adequate to the conditions of a genuine 'world' (as against a Hegelian 'universalist') history in a global age. The Marx who emerges from this book is a nuanced, empirical, and genuinely historical thinker instead of the pseudo-scientific 'philosopher of history' met with in textbook accounts of Western Marxism. -- Hayden White, University of California, Santa Cruz This is a landmark study within Marxist thought. Drawing largely on Marx's later works for its conceptual tools and theoretical method, Marx After Marx analyzes how different regions under differing circumstances cast a plurality of developmental forms all under the general code of capitalist accumulation. -- Michael Dutton, author of Policing Chinese Politics: A History Harootunian's reading of Marx, in particular, is a revelation and should put to rest the facile assumption that Marx's conception of the historical is reducible to the banalities of modernization theory. Marx After Marx is a provocative and important intervention in a critical conjuncture by a major scholar. -- William Haver, translator of Nishida Kitaro's Ontology of Production: Three EssaysTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Deprovincializing Marx 1. Marx, Time, History 2. Marxism's Eastward Migration 3. Opening to the Global South 4. Theorizing Late Development and the "Persistence of Feudal Remnants": Wang Yanan, Yamada Moritaro, and Uno Kozo 5. Colonial/Postcolonial Afterword: World History and the Everyday Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Words on Screen
Book SynopsisA poetic investigation into the many ways that the written word is used in cinemaTrade ReviewWords On Screen offers a radically new understanding of cinema. By concentrating on the written word in a very wide variety of films, Chion turns what in the past has always been no more than a passing concern into a full-fledged reading strategy, applicable to films of all periods and types. I never could have imagined that Chion would once again create an entirely new approach to cinema. -- Rick Altman, author of A Theory of Narrative We tend to take the appearance of written words in movies for granted. In this book, the great film critic Michel Chion compiles an inventory of textual effects, and shows us just how strange, powerful, and surprising words on screen can be. -- Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University We too often think of the film as a purely visual medium and the text as a purely verbal one. In his highly original and incisive study, Michel Chion illuminates the overt yet overlooked presence of the fusion of visual and verbal that is writing on the screen. The results are revelatory. Chion tracks the whole panoply of inscriptions in film and makes clear how our understanding of film depends on the force of these inscriptions. You will never again look at or read the titles, intertitles, subtitles, signage, or hand-written letters on screen in quite the same way. -- Ian Balfour, York UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction Part I: An Infinite Inventory 1. The Name on Screen 2. Nondiegetic Writing 3. Diegetic Writing as Athorybos Part II: Writing, Reading 4. Fingers, Tablets, and Machines Writing 5. From Books Undone, Films 6. Half-Reading 7. Hearing One Language and Reading Another Part III: Writing in Film Space 8. Writing in the Land of Three Dimensions 9. Anagrams and Clinamen 10. Excription Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press The Lost Garden
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA beautifully written novel, from a prominent and prolific Taiwanese writer, including multiple themes of love, gender, sex, capitalism, as well as ethnic identity and Taiwan's historical and political memory. This expertly executed translation is long overdue. -- Yenna Wu, University of California, Riverside Encoded with an impressive array of tantalizing allegorical meanings, complete with a fantastical re-envisioning of Taiwan's local history and its ancestral ties with China, Li Ang's The Lost Garden has often been read as a political parable. Yet the novel boasts other arresting features as well, among them the author's daring treatment of female sexuality-taken here as the core of the relentless war between the sexes-in the mise en scene of a modish urban romance. -- Sung-Sheng Yvonne Chang, University of Texas at Austin This novel's dense sensuality-from its tropical flora to its frenetic lust-weaves time and space into mesmerizing patterns, like the looping paths of the title garden itself. -- Joseph Allen, author of Taipei: City of Displacements Stories of an old Chinese garden replanted with native Taiwanese species, a sultry island with a buried past, and liaisons between old money and nouveau riche hint at torrid energies and hidden traps in Taiwan's postwar past. -- Jeffrey Kinkley, author of Corruption and Realism in Late Socialist China: The Return of the Political Novel An exploration of contemporary Taiwan through the lens of the past, this novel hits many poignant notes as it threads its way. Kirkus Reviews The lush, descriptive narrative immerses the reader in the humid garden of the title that sits at the core of the novel, standing for history, desire, and family. World Literature Today Ably translated... a consistently compelling read. Midwest Book Review A knowing and astute novel. -- Bradley Winterton Taipei Times Lin and Goldblatt's translation of The Lost Garden is a significant accomplishment that succeeds in presenting this masterpiece to English readers... Li's portrayal of post-World War II Taiwan is both sophisticated and penetrating. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature Striking in its ambitious reach and political slant... The Lost Garden is a distinctive contribution to the literature of place, and its translation into English gives welcome access to a country and culture often obscured by its neighbours, China and Japan. -- Francesca Rhydderch Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsWhat Separates Us from China Translator's Note The Lost Garden
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Columbia University Press The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Emergence of Iranian Nationalism breaks new ground in the study of recent Iranian history. It reveals and analyzes the dirty little secret of Iranian nationalism, namely that it contains a racist dimension. It is not only a well-researched and well-written book, it is also a courageous book. -- Houchang Chehabi, Boston University The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism is a major contribution to the intellectual history of modern Iran. Reza Zia-Ebrahimi has brought into critical focus some of the most pious and intractable certainties that have long defined the ideology of Iranian nationalism. Both erudite and iconoclastic, this book is sure to stir much contentious debate. -- Afshin Marashi, author of Nationalizing Iran: Culture, Power, and the State, 1870-1940 Zia-Ebrahimi persuasively argues that the texts of a few writers furnished the basis of a nationalist ideology asserting the Aryan essence of an ancient nation, an ideology taken up by Iran's Pahlavi rulers and still significant. His book is a substantial contribution to modern Iranian history and has relevance beyond the field of Iranian studies. Zia-Ebrahimi's argument is related to key debates in the field of nationalism studies and his methods can be illuminatingly applied to other cases. -- John Breuilly, London School of Economics The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism brings to final and definitive fruition a body of critical thinking about the origin and rise of Iranian nationalism deeply rooted in the Eurocentric racism of the nineteenth century. Zia-Ebrahimi lasers in on the crucial instantiations of this powerful ethnocentric construction of the nation, carefully dissecting and critically dismantling them. This is a must read and an exemplary piece of scholarship declaring the rise of a new generation of scholars who are overriding the cliches and hang-ups of their parental generation. -- Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University An important work and should be read by anyone interested in modern Iranian studies... Highly recommended. Choice This vital and meticulously researched book will serve as a challenge to scholars in Iranian studies and to Iranian intellectuals in general to more meaningfully engage with transnational critical race theories. International Journal of Middle East StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Spelling Introduction 1. The Paleontology of Iranian Nationalism 2. Akhundzadeh and Kermani: The Emergence of Dislocative Nationalism 3. Pre-Islamic Iran and Archaistic Frenzy 4. Of Lizard Eaters and Invasions: The Import of European Racial Thought 5. Europe, That Feared Yet Admired Idol 6. Aryanism and Dislocation 7. The Road to Officialdom 8. Triumph Conclusion: The Failure of Dislocative Nationalism Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Philosophers on Film from Bergson to Badiou
Book SynopsisPhilosophers on Film from Bergson to Badiou is an anthology of writings on cinema and film by many of the major thinkers in continental philosophy. The book presents a selection of fundamental texts, each introduced by the editor, Christopher Kul-Want, who places the philosophers within a historical and intellectual framework.Trade ReviewAny film lover in or freshly out of school may just have their life changed with this little diddy. * CriterionCast *Philosophers on Film is an important collection, especially for students first breaking into film studies or scholars who desire quick reference to diverse groundbreaking texts. -- ANDREW KETTLER, University of South Carolina * Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television *The contemporary philosophers included in this anthology have been prominent in Anglophone discourse in the humanities over the last twenty years, yet their contributions to film theory have not been addressed in a systematic fashion. Philosophers on Film from Bergson to Badiou offers a coherent framework for approaching this diverse group of philosophers, and the summaries of the arguments of the individual selections are informed, accurate, and accessible. This anthology promises to serve an important function in cinema studies. -- Ronald Bogue, University of GeorgiaAn essential collection that gathers the most important works, both classical and contemporary, on film and philosophy. It covers all of the field’s complex configurations from the continental tradition: philosophy of film, philosophy in film, as well as film as philosophy. No serious film philosopher will be able to leave home without it. -- John Ó Maoilearca, Kingston University, LondonThis important and comprehensive collection offers a complex and carefully chosen series of texts that set out the difficult and urgent relations between film and philosophy, as well as between popular cultures and critical thinking over the last century. Christopher Kul-Want's introduction is a subtle and definitive guide through these crucial issues of modern culture that will enable the reader to find their own place among them. -- Adrian Rifkin, Goldsmiths College, University of LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Creative Evolution, by Henri Bergson2. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, by Walter Benjamin3. The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception, by Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer4. The Film and the New Psychology, by Maurice Merleau-Ponty5. On Contemporary Alienation or the End of the Pact with the Devil, by Jean Baudrillard6. The Looking Glass, from the Other Side, by Luce Irigaray7. Acinema, by Jean-François Lyotard8. Cinema I: The Movement-Image, by Gilles Deleuze9. Cinema II: The Time-Image, by Gilles Deleuze10. The Malady of Grief: Duras, by Julia Kristeva11. Notes on Gesture, by Giorgio Agamben12. “In His Bold Gaze My Ruin Is Writ Large”, by Slavoj Žižek13. And Life Goes On: Life and Nothing More, by Jean-Luc Nancy14. Contesting Tears, the Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman, by Stanley Cavell15. From One Manhunt to Another: Fritz Lang Between Two Ages, by Jacques Rancière16. Cinema as Philosophical Experimentation, by Alain Badiou17. Cinematic Time, by Bernard Stiegler18. The Miracle of Analogy: or, The History of Photography, Part 1, by Kaja SilvermanSelected BibliographyIndex
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Wallflower Press For His Eyes Only The Women of James Bond
Book SynopsisThe first book-length anthology on femininity and feminism in the Bond seriesTrade ReviewAt long last, a book about the women of Bond that not only fills a gap in Bond scholarship but also contributes to a wider understanding of the representation of women, and the relationship between gender politics and the media. This is an eye-opening collection for anyone who wants to see beyond the iconic images from past and present to consider that the world of Bond is nothing without women, and that understanding the representation of women in the franchise is a complex process. -- Claire Hines, Southampton Solent University This comprehensive and impressive collection of essays is essential for those working within the burgeoning area of 'Bond studies'. It covers a broad spectrum of topics, from the colonisation of the black and Asian female agent's body to the franchise's troubled negotiation of patriarchy and feminism, and from the articulation of female desire to the problem of female authority in the Bond fantasy. The book is absolutely up to date, with a whole section devoted to Skyfall and to Judi Dench's legacy as M. Containing contributions from established and emerging scholars, its combination of breadth and depth makes it both a pleasure to read and an important addition to the literature on the subject. -- Estella Tincknell, University of the West of England This extensive yet accessible collection forms a vital and timely addition to the existing academic literature on the Bond franchise. Drawing together international and interdisciplinary perspectives, the book offers diverse critical approaches to the close analysis of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, age, national identity and power in the films. It is essential reading for students and scholars alike. -- Sarah Gilligan, Hartlepool College An illuminating and provocative new contribution to 'Bondology.' Journal of British Cinema and TelevisionTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword, by Christoph Lindner Introduction: The Women of James Bond, by Lisa Funnell Section 1: From Novel to Film 1. "Women Were for Recreation": The Gender Politics of Ian Fleming's James Bond, by James Chapman 2. The Bond Girl Who Is Not There: The Tiffany Case, by Boel Ulfsdotter 3. James Bond and Female Authority: The Female M in the Bond Novels and Films, by Jim Leach Section 2: Desiring the Other 4. Desiring the Soviet Woman: Tatiana Romanova and From Russia with Love, by Thomas M. Barrett. 5. "The Old Ways Are Best": The Colonization of Women of Color in Bond Films, by Travis L. Wagner 6. Bond's Bit on the Side: Race, Exoticism and the Bond "Fluffer" Character, by Charles Burnetts 7. The Politics Representation: Disciplining and Domesticating Miss Moneypenny in Skyfall, by Kristen Shaw 8. Objects of White Male Desire: (D)Evolving Representations of Asian Women in Bond Films, by Lisa Funnell Section 3: Feminist Critiques and Movements 9. "Never Trust a Rich Spy": Ursula Andress, Vesper Lynd, and Mythic Power in Casino Royale 1967, by Robert von Dassanowsky 10. "This Never Happened to the Other Fellow": On Her Majesty's Secret Service as Bond Woman's Film, by Marlisa Santos 11. "What Really Went on up There James?": Bond's Wife, Blofeld's Patients, and Empowered Bond Women, by Dan Mills 12. Sisterhood as Resistance in For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy, by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns 13. Bond Is Not Enough: Elektra King and the Desiring Bond Girl, by Alexander Sergeant Section 4: Gendered Conventions 14. Female Bodies in James Bond Title Sequences, by Sabine Planka 15. Random Access Mysteries: James Bond and the Matter of the Unknown Woman, by Eileen Rositzka 16. Pussy Galore: Women and Music in Goldfinger, by Catherine Haworth 17. Female Voice and the Bond Films, by Anna G. Piotrowska 18. Designing Character: Costume, Bond Girls, and Negotiating Representation, by Andrea J. Severson Section 5: Female Agency and Gender Roles 19. Secret Agent Nuptials: Marriage, Gender Roles, and the "Different Bond Woman" in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, by Stephen Nepa 20. The Spy Who Fooled Me: The Early Bond Girl and the Magician's Assistant, by Ross Karlan 21. "Women Drivers": The Changing Role of the Bond Girl in Vehicle Chases, by Stephanie Jones 22. "It's Not for Everyone": James Bond and Miss Moneypenny in Skyfall, by Klaus Dodds 23. "Who Is Salt?": The Difficulty of Constructing a Female James Bond and Reconstructing Gender Expectations, by Jeffrey A. Brown Section 6: Judi Dench's Tenure as M 24. From Masculine Mastermind to Maternal Martyr: Judi Dench's M, Skyfall, and the Patriarchal Logic of James Bond Films, by Peter C. Kunze 25. M, 007, and the Challenge of Female Authority in the Bond Franchise, by Brian Patton 26. "M"(o)thering: Female Representation of Age and Power in James Bond, by Lori L. Parks 27. Mothering the Bond-M Relation in Skyfall and the Bond Girl Intervention, by Christopher Holliday 28. Property of a Lady: (S)Mothering Judi Dench's M, by Michael W. Boyce Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press The Cinema of Hal Hartley
Book SynopsisFeaturing new essays on this important director and his films, this collection explores Hartley’s work from a variety of aesthetic, cultural, and economic contexts, while also looking closely at his collaborations with actors, his reworking of the romantic comedy and other genres, and the shifting economics of his filmmaking.Trade ReviewHal Hartley has been at work for a quarter of a century and his films still seem like fresh discoveries. Independent, individualistic, idiosyncratic, and indefatigable, he defies all known pigeonholes, and this balanced, wide-ranging collection marks a welcome new stage in the exploration of his work. -- David Sterritt, author of The Cinema of Clint Eastwood: Chronicles of America This first collection to showcase the curiously under-celebrated independent filmmaker reminds us why Hartley and his films matter. Rich in original insights about conditions of authorship into the crowdfunding era, textuality and intertextuality, film style, critical reception, the local in location production, indie genericity, performance, and more across the past 25 years, this book brings Hartley's vibrant work back to the fore of film studies. -- Mark Gallagher, University of NottinghamTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Hal Hartley: A Quality of Attention, by Steven Rybin 1. Up Close and Impersonal: Hal Hartley and the Persistence of Tradition, by David Bordwell 2. 'Young. Middle-Class. College-Educated. Unskilled.': Hal Hartley in 1991, by Mark L. Berrettini 3. 'Some Things Shouldn't Be Fixed': Frameworks of Critical Reception and the Early Career of Hal Hartley, by Jason Davids Scott 4. The Locality of Hal Hartley: The Aesthetics and Business of Smallness, by Steven Rawle 5. Hal Hartley's Romantic Comedy, by Sebastian Manley 6. A New Man: The Logic of the Break in Hal Hartley's Amateur, by Daniel Varndell 7. Not Getting It: Flirt as Anti-Puzzle Film, by Steven Rybin 8. Poiesis and Media in The Book of Life and No Such Thing, by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns 9. Bodies, Space and Theatre in The Unbelievable Truth (and its American Precursors), by Zachary Tavlin 10. Parker Posey as Hal Hartley's 'Captive Actress', by Jennifer O'Meara 11. The Figure Who Writes: On the Henry Fool Trilogy, by Steven Rybin Filmography Bibliography Index
£56.00
Columbia University Press The Cinema of Hal Hartley
Book SynopsisFeaturing new essays on this important director and his films, this collection explores Hartley’s work from a variety of aesthetic, cultural, and economic contexts, while also looking closely at his collaborations with actors, his reworking of the romantic comedy and other genres, and the shifting economics of his filmmaking.Trade ReviewHal Hartley has been at work for a quarter of a century and his films still seem like fresh discoveries. Independent, individualistic, idiosyncratic, and indefatigable, he defies all known pigeonholes, and this balanced, wide-ranging collection marks a welcome new stage in the exploration of his work. -- David Sterritt, author of The Cinema of Clint Eastwood: Chronicles of America This first collection to showcase the curiously under-celebrated independent filmmaker reminds us why Hartley and his films matter. Rich in original insights about conditions of authorship into the crowdfunding era, textuality and intertextuality, film style, critical reception, the local in location production, indie genericity, performance, and more across the past 25 years, this book brings Hartley's vibrant work back to the fore of film studies. -- Mark Gallagher, University of NottinghamTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Hal Hartley: A Quality of Attention, by Steven Rybin 1. Up Close and Impersonal: Hal Hartley and the Persistence of Tradition, by David Bordwell 2. 'Young. Middle-Class. College-Educated. Unskilled.': Hal Hartley in 1991, by Mark L. Berrettini 3. 'Some Things Shouldn't Be Fixed': Frameworks of Critical Reception and the Early Career of Hal Hartley, by Jason Davids Scott 4. The Locality of Hal Hartley: The Aesthetics and Business of Smallness, by Steven Rawle 5. Hal Hartley's Romantic Comedy, by Sebastian Manley 6. A New Man: The Logic of the Break in Hal Hartley's Amateur, by Daniel Varndell 7. Not Getting It: Flirt as Anti-Puzzle Film, by Steven Rybin 8. Poiesis and Media in The Book of Life and No Such Thing, by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns 9. Bodies, Space and Theatre in The Unbelievable Truth (and its American Precursors), by Zachary Tavlin 10. Parker Posey as Hal Hartley's 'Captive Actress', by Jennifer O'Meara 11. The Figure Who Writes: On the Henry Fool Trilogy, by Steven Rybin Filmography Bibliography Index
£19.80
Columbia University Press The Cinema of Sean Penn
Book SynopsisSean Penn’s directorial works consist of some of the most interesting and singular films made in the United States over the past twenty years.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Politics 2. Penn's Performance Places 3. The Indian Runner 4. The Crossing Guard 5. The Pledge 6. Interlude: 'U.S.A.' 7. Into the Wild Conclusion: Places of Hope Filmography Bibliography Index
£22.50
Columbia University Press The Cinema of Robert Altman
Book SynopsisSurveys all of Robert Altman's major films in their sociohistorical context to reposition the director as a trenchant satirist and social critic of postmodern AmericaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Introduction 1. Three Dream Films: Explorations of Female Identity 2. Experiments in Genre Revision 3. Large Canvases 4. Falling from Grace 5. In the Wilderness 6. Return to Form 7. Final Phase: More Large Canvases and Minor Works Coda Filmography Bibliography Index
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