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Columbia University Press The Other Catholics
Book SynopsisThe Other Catholics recounts the remarkable history and current activity of independent Catholics. Julie Byrne focuses on the Church of Antioch, one of the first Catholic groups to ordain women in modern times, to explain how these understudied churches change the narrative of modern Catholicism.Trade ReviewJulie Byrne's well researched book, The Other Catholics, shows that there are major communities of Christians who understand themselves as Catholics but not Roman Catholics. These Christians are creating vibrant communities of believers and are elevating women to leadership, including ordination as priests and bishops. This broader reality of world Catholicism can now be better understood, thanks to Byrne's excellent work. -- Rosemary Ruether, author of Catholic Does Not Equal the Vatican: A Vision for Progressive CatholicismThis beautifully written study illuminates the range of groups that exist across the whole Catholic spectrum. Linked, despite their diversity, by a shared identification as Catholic and common emphasis on succession, sacrament, and saints, Byrne surfaces the complex, often unnoticed interactions between independent Catholics, Roman Catholics, and numerous religious traditions. This fresh approach opens a provocative window through which to view the meaning and making of Catholicity. -- Ann Taves, coeditor of What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular AgeByrne's intrepid research and vivid prose brings to light a subterranean realm of 'Other Catholics,' an utterly fascinating world of colorful characters and inventive approaches to authority. Just as Protestantism cannot be reduced to, say, Presbyterians, this book makes it increasingly difficult to equate 'Catholicism' merely with the Roman Catholic church. -- Randall Balmer, coeditor of Mormonism and American PoliticsThe growing phenomenon of Independent Catholicism is notoriously difficult to capture. Its varied forms defy easy categorization, and it generally makes its home in the ever-shifting margins of church and culture. Julie Byrne's years of research and extensive fieldwork have yielded this immensely valuable guide to the "Other Catholics." This book will doubtless open a window onto the "independent movement" for both scholars and interested people of faith. Byrne's choice to focus on two significant communities results in an engaging and sympathetic narrative, but never fails to be clear-eyed and critically informed. Any reader interested in the American religious landscape will be captivated. -- John Plummer, author of The Many Paths of the Independent Sacramental Movement: A National Study of Its Liturgy, Doctrine, and LeadershipI could not put The Other Catholics down. It is an excellent book, one that will make important contributions to the fields of Catholic studies, American studies, and American religious history. Moreover, the focus on gender and the dynamics of power and privilege will be of special interest to scholars of gender, women's studies, and sexuality. Byrne's historical, sociological, and anthropological research is at once original and rock solid, and her findings are compelling. Most important, her clear and approachable writing style will make this book appealing to a wide swath of readers. -- Kristy Nabhan-Warren, author of The Cursillo Movement in America: Catholics, Protestants, and Fourth-Day SpiritualityThe growing field of ethnographic history will never be the same after The Other Catholics is published. Without question, this work will be considered a significant contribution to the fields of American Catholic studies and American religious history. There hasn't been a finer study of alternative forms of Catholic identity since James Fisher's The Catholic Counterculture in America. The Other Catholics is unique for its careful consideration of the role of women and LGBTQ people in the life of American Catholicism. Byrne's lucid and accessible writing style only adds to the book's value and usability in undergraduate courses. -- Michael Pasquier, editor of Gods of the Mississippi[A] probing study.... Byrne's enlightening research and analysis will undoubtedly raise awareness of these little-known Catholic denominations. * Publishers Weekly *[A] landmark new book. -- Nathan Schneider * America Magazine *Byrne's book is an excellent study of churches on the fringe that incubate new ideas and shed new light on mainstream religion. Through her storytelling, Byrne documents the multiple claims to be Catholic and recognizes that in the very writing of her book she, too, is producing Catholicism. -- Jane Shaw * Times Higher Education *Byrne's fresh approach opens a window through which to explore the meaning and making of Catholicism. Any reader interested in the American faith landscape will be captivated. * Washington Review of Books *Drawing on deep research in archives as well as surveys, interviews, and ten years of field research and participant observations, the book is as important for the self-reflexive methods it reveals as for the remarkable story it tells. -- Grant Wacker * The Christian Century *Path-breaking study * Catholic Library World *[Julie Byrne] brings an astonishing narrative drive to a wide range of little-known historical and contemporary ethnographic material. There's nothing like a good story. * Equal Writes *The Other Catholics is a heartfelt, readable, welcome addition to the history of religions. * Reading Religion *The book makes intriguing reading, and Byrne skillfully combines a quite colloquial style with impeccable scholarship. For the specialist, the book is indispensable, but it could be appreciated by a more general readership,too. * Nova Religio *[A] sympathetic and robust presentation. * National Catholic Reporter *An engaging, highly readable, and comprehensive study of the evolution of independent Catholic communities, and of the challenges and opportunities they have encountered in their efforts to reimagine Catholicism and build alternative models of church. -- Kathleen Kautzer * The Journal of Religion *A remarkable book, written with extraordinary clarity and eloquence and which exhibits a heartfelt sympathy with the individuals who populate it. It is both a wonderful introduction to the phenomenon of ‘independent’ Catholicism and an intriguing analysis of how one particular church of this kind has operated. * Reviews in Religion & Theology *Byrne's field-shaping work will be an indispensable touchstone for future scholarship. * Journal of Religious History *A very interesting and timely book. * Church History *This carefully researched anthropological and ethnographic history will appeal to a wide readership, including anyone generally interested in religion, particularly Catholics, religious historians, and scholars in religious studies, and anyone interested in the dynamics of group struggle, the power plays in which “Big bodies block or expel” while the “other” shelters, shapes, and showcases the blocked and expelled. -- Jeanie C. Crain Missouri Western State University * Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Other CatholicsPart I. Catholic1. Weeping and Woo-Woo: Observing Independent Catholicism in AmericaPart II. Succession2. Mission and Metamorphosis: Narrating Modern Catholic History3. Love and Meta-Catholicism: Founding the Church of AntiochPart III. Sacraments and Saints4. Dance and Balance: Leading American Independents5. Mix and Mysticism: Experimenting with US Catholicism6. Sacraments and Saints: Hearing a New CallConclusion: All CatholicsAppendix: Independent Catholicism SurveyNotesPrimary SourcesIndex
£26.68
Columbia University Press Ahmed the Philosopher
Book SynopsisAn exuberantly comic introduction to the thought of one of the world’s greatest living philosophers.Trade ReviewThis is a terrific translation of an intriguing play. In it, Badiou translates the most fundamental elements of his philosophy, including his critique of multiculturalism, his theory of the event, and his ruminations on love, into a vivid, dramatic form. The text makes an excellent introduction to Badiou. -- Martin Puchner, author of The Drama of Ideas: Platonic Provocations in Theater and Philosophy Joseph Litvak's translation of Ahmed the Philosopher is smart, eloquent, and truly a delight to read. The play is a timely work, addressing questions of great political and social seriousness and contemporary relevance with an ironic yet never bitter eye. -- Kenneth Reinhard, director, UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory With Alain Badiou's acclaimed Ahmed the Philosopher now available in this expert English translation, a new public will discover what many in the Francophone world already knew: Badiou, premier theorist of the politics of the subject and the logics of worlds, is also a brilliant playwright! A 'red' Moliere by way of Aristophanes who has invented an experimental language that combines slang and philosophical concepts in a new theatrical idiom. -- Emily Apter, New York University An outline of philosophy as a series of commedia dell'arte lazzi, Badiou audaciously stages his thought under the theatrical cover of the improvisations of Ahmed, a philosopher, punster, and thinker from the banlieux of Paris. These skits - slapstick, profound, scatological - insist on the political significance of Badiou's thought even at its most abstract. Joseph Litvak deftly translates these Brechtian fables into an American idiom without surrendering the peculiarities of the French context to which, as Litvak's excellent introduction and notes suggest, they very much belong. Richly stage-worthy, intellectually provocative, and at times as funny as Harry Frankfurt - really the only comparison among contemporary philosophers who comes to mind - this volume is also perhaps the best introduction to Badiou's thought available in English. -- Martin Harries, University of California, Irvine, author of Forgetting Lot's Wife Badiou's plays offer the Anglophone world not only theatrical opportunities to produce Badiou's work in English, but also - and this is especially the case for Ahmed the Philosopher - provocative pedagogical tools for bringing an experiment in 'philosophical joy' into the university classroom. -- Ethan Philbrick TDR: The Drama ReviewTable of ContentsPreface to the English Translation of Ahmed philosophe Translator's Introduction: Badiou the Comedian/Ahmed the Philosopher Ahmed the Philosopher Notes
£22.50
Columbia University Press The Sarashina Diary
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAs the first translation to do justice to the complexity of the Sarashina Diary, Arntzen and Ito's work offers a fresh perspective on premodern Japanese diary literature as well as an accessible yet scholarly window into Heian culture, the life of one woman, and the transformation of a life into literature. -- Christina Laffin, University of British Columbia, author of Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women: Politics, Personality, and Literary Production in the Life of Nun Abutsu This sparkling new version of the Sarashina Diary opens out an eleventh-century classic for twenty-first-century readers. Sonja Arntzen and Ito Moriyuki situate the diary culturally and historically, and their translation conveys both the vivid realism of Takasue no Musume's prose and the haunting melancholy of her poems. As the author herself says of Mount Fuji, this unique work 'looks like nothing else in the world.' -- David Damrosch, Harvard University Arntzen and Ito accept the theory, generally disregarded by twentieth-century scholarship, that the author of the Sarashina Diary was also the author of several court romances (monogatari), two of which are extant. Yet her diary makes no mention of these works, showing that the careful reader must pay as much attention to what Takasue no Musume does not say as to what she does. This translation presents a Sarashina unlike that of any previous English translation and is supported by an extensive introduction that thoroughly contextualizes the author and her work. -- Joshua Mostow, University of British Columbia A well-conceived edition of a poignant text that remains of both literary and historical appeal, with very good presentation of useful supporting material to go with the solid translation. Complete Review We can be grateful for this new translation... through long, thoughtful immersion, the translators have brought to life a world otherwise unavailable to the modern, non-specialist reader. Times Literary Supplement At last Sonja Artnzen, one of our most conscientious translators, has given us a new and weighty version of this beautiful and useful short classic... the lover of Heian letters - or of Japanese history, of women's writing from any place or time, of dreams - will find this book exciting. H-Asia With its extensive and insightful analysis, this excellent translation supplants the 1971 translation by Ivan Morris. CHOICE Sonja Arntzen and Ito Moriyuki have produced a fluid and engaging translation of Sugawara no Takasue no Musume's eleventh-century diary, one worthy in our own time of comfy reading nook and carrel. Gusts Arntzen and Ito have provided a useful and provocative book. -- Fay Beauchamp Education About AsiaTable of ContentsPreface: A Collaborative Project, by Sonja Arntzen Acknowledgments A Note on the Translation and Technical Matters Introduction and Study, by Sonja Arntzen and Ito Moriyuki 1. Text and Author 2. The Relationship of Theme and Structure 3. Dreams and Religious Consciousness 4. A Child's Viewpoint and Layers of Narration 5. Text and Intertext: The Sarashina Diary and The Tale of Genji 6. A Life Composed in Counterpoint Sarashina Diary Afterword, by Ito Moriyuki Appendix 1. Family and Social Connections Appendix 2. Maps Bibliography Index
£35.70
Columbia University Press ChristoFiction
Book SynopsisA revolutionary effort to restore the radical politics of Christianity and the inherent value of faith.Trade ReviewIt is no exaggeration to say that the contribution of Francois Laruelle's entire opus and of Christo-Fiction in particular will be historic. The importance of this latest work stems not only from the momentum of the emergence of a 'Laruellian epoch' in philosophy but also from the fact that this is the first work where he reconciles the two great phases in his thought-the 'scientific' one and the one of 'nonstandard theology.' -- Katerina Kolozova, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities-Skopje Laruelle valorizes and rethinks the place of science for human liberation and how it may operate within philosophical practice itself. However, he thinks that science needs to tell stories, to create fictions, like the fiction of Christ, in order to stand on the side of the victims of history rather than the victors. -- Anthony Paul Smith, La Salle University Laruelle's nonstandard philosophy in Christo-Fiction does not think about Christ philosophically to generate one more ontotheology or political theology: it is the quantum (of) Christ as it might think itself, something both ordinary and radical. This is Schrodinger's Christ, a 'rigorous fiction' where life and death are superposed, not in any theological or supernatural way unique to a deity, but in the radically ordinary of scientific nature, a nontheological messianity that is given 'materielly' through quantum wave and particle. -- John O Maoilearca, author of All Thoughts Are Equal: Laruelle and Nonhuman Philosophy For Laruelle, Christ is pure human happening, which is also the happening of reality as the One, absolutely without any preconditioning, or any ultimate foundation or original framing fixity, which quantum physics has shown not to exist. The science of Christ therefore exceeds both philosophy and theology and is at one with nonphilosophy, which tries to think outside any fictional philosophic circles that arbitrarily claim some ontological factor as primary and another as secondary. In this sense, the 'Christo-fiction' is more true-the claim and following of one man as the whole process, as entirety. We are offered, then, a new mode of gnostic heresy, for which Christian orthodoxy should, nonetheless, be grateful. -- John Milbank, University of Nottingham a profound contribution to a messianic and Christological thought divorced from the strictures of orthodox theology SCTIW ReviewTable of ContentsPreface: Christianity Stripped Bare by Christ Introduction: A Gnostic Theology in the Quantum Spirit 1. A Generic Repetition of Gnosis: To Desuture Christ from Theology 2. The Idea of a Science-in-Christ: Christ, Science, and Their Gnostic Suture 3. From the Theo-Christo-Logical Doublet to Unilateral Complementarity 4. Construction and Functioning of the Christic Matrix 5. Algebra of the Messianic Wave 6. Christic Science and Its Occasions 7. The Two Laws of Substantial Religious Existence, and Christ as Mediate-Without-Mediation 8. The Generic Science of the World 9. Indiscernible Messianity 10. Scientific Discovery and Revelation 11. The Science of the Cross 12. The Science of the Resurrection 13. Messianity and Fidelity: The Faithful of-the-Last-Instance 14. Faith Harassed by Belief Notes Index
£69.26
Columbia University Press What Is Relativity
Book SynopsisAn entertaining introduction to Einstein's theories of relativity, Bennett's book proves anyone can grasp the basics of Einstein's ideas. His intuitive, nonmathematical approach gives a wide audience its first real taste of how relativity works and why it is so important to science and the way we view ourselves as human beings.Trade ReviewWhat Is Relativity? is a well-written and uniquely readable book that beautifully serves as an introduction to special and general relativity. Jeffrey Bennett carefully avoids bombastic statements and 'spectacularization' of the subject, sticking with well-established facts and presenting them in a clear and compelling manner. -- Alberto Nicolis, Columbia University Since it first appeared more than a decade ago, I have used Cosmic Perspectives by Jeffrey Bennett and his colleagues in no small part because of the excellence of its chapters on relativity. It is wonderful to now have a stand-alone volume in which his lucid, explanatory text and figures are coupled with a thoughtful commentary on why relativity is important in constructing our scientific and personal views of space and time. -- David J. Helfand, President, American Astronomical Society, and President and Vice Chancellor, Quest University Canada I have read lots of introductions to relativity, but none is as clear and compelling as this one. For anyone who is keen to grasp the fundamentally simple yet non-intuitive ideas of both special and general relativity, Jeffrey Bennett's book is the way to go. Impressively understandable and interesting. -- Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute ...Bennett's fun book shows readers what relativity means, and what it reveals about our universe. Publishers Weekly For in its relatively few pages, Bennett explains relativity to ordinary readers... An impressively accessible distillation of epoch-making science. Booklist (starred review) A sober, comprehensible account of what every intelligent layman should know about space and time. Kirkus Reviews ... [P]erhaps the best homage that anyone can pay to [Einstein] for such a groundbreaking contribution to physics in particular and science in general. BrainDrain Bennett... has written an entertaining, brilliant introduction to Einstein's ideas... that is impressively understandable. CHOICETable of ContentsPreface Introduction/Foreword: Einstein's Life Part 1: Getting Started 1. Voyage to a Black Hole Part 2: Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity 2. Racing Light 3. Redefining Space and Time 4. A New Common Sense Part 3: Einstein's General Theory of Relativity 5. Newton's Absurdity 6. Redefining Gravity Part 4: Implications of Relativity 7. Black Holes 8. The Expanding Universe Epilogue: Your Indelible Mark on the Universe Acknowledgments Index
£15.19
Columbia University Press The Cinema of Michael Mann
Book SynopsisTrade Review...thoughtful, well-written, timely, and immaculately researched... ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Mann's Style: The Jericho Mile, LA Takedown, Miami Vice 2. Pursuing the Professional: Thief, Heat, Collateral 3. Endangering the Domestic: Manhunter, The Last of the Mohicans, The Insider 4. Adventures in Genre: The Keep, Ali, Public Enemies 5. Conclusion Filmography Bibliography Index
£56.00
Columbia University Press The Cinema of Michael Mann Vice and Vindication
Book SynopsisTrade Review...thoughtful, well-written, timely, and immaculately researched... ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Mann's Style: The Jericho Mile, LA Takedown, Miami Vice 2. Pursuing the Professional: Thief, Heat, Collateral 3. Endangering the Domestic: Manhunter, The Last of the Mohicans, The Insider 4. Adventures in Genre: The Keep, Ali, Public Enemies 5. Conclusion Filmography Bibliography Index
£19.80
Columbia University Press Love in Motion
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword Introduction Ego Love and Melodrama Categories of Film Love Making Sense The Ontology of Love Eros in History The Social Paradigm American Cinema of Choice French Cinema of Place Hitchcock and Lang Love in the World Conclusion: On Method Filmography Bibliography Index
£67.20
Columbia University Press The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom Borders
Book SynopsisExplores the thematic, stylistic, and intellectual consistencies running through Michael Winterbottom's eclectic and controversial body of work.Trade ReviewIn The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom, Bruce Bennett offers a tour de force examination of the regimes of visibility and invisibility in the British director's rich and heterogeneous body of work, exploring the ways in which these films traverse and question the political, institutional, and aesthetic boundaries of the nation. Seducing his readers with eloquence and methodological rigor, Bennett analyzes the complexity of Winterbottom's cinema through a careful look at the interrelated themes of borderlands, abject border zones, ideologies of race and violence, intimacy, the politics of mobility, and the War on Terror. This is a brilliant, highly readable book that offers an insightful commentary on the intricacies of the political climate we live in. -- Katarzyna Marciniak, Ohio University Bruce Bennett's book provides an excellent introduction to the work of one of Britain's most intriguing and impressive current filmmakers, fully acknowledging the breadth and variety of Winterbottom's body of work while also making a persuasive case for its underlying ideological and aesthetic coherence. Indispensable for anyone interested in contemporary British film. -- Melanie Williams, University of East Anglia Bennett's book offers both lucid commentary and penetrating thematic analysis of Winterbottom's films. An innovative and exciting director here receives the kind of thoughtful and thought-provoking attention he deserves in a thoroughly excellent contribution to the Directors' Cuts series. -- Derek Paget, University of Reading Essential reading because it provides an original and individual insight on an unclassificable British director... Media International AustraliaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Welcome to Sarajevo: Television, 'Documentary Fiction' and Border-Crossing 2. Intimacy 3. Nation and Genre 4. Borders and Terror Conclusion Filmography Bibliography Index
£19.80
Columbia University Press Frankenstein
Book SynopsisAlong with an in-depth critical reading of the original 1931 film, this book tracks Frankenstein the monster’s heavy cultural treadTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Welcome to Nightmare Theatre: Meeting Frankenstein 2. Assembling a Monster 3. The Monster Mash: Sons of the House of Frankenstein 4. Beyond the Clouds and Stars: Surveying Frankenstein 5. The Monster's Place Appendix: The Frankenstein Family Tree Bibliography Index
£12.34
Columbia University Press The Question of the Animal and Religion
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWith this highly original and exciting book, Aaron S. Gross stands at the cutting edge of a radical reconsideration of the nature of religiosity and theological reflection. Beautifully written, this book has to be read by anyone with an interest in the study of religion. -- Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College Starting from the scandal evoked by the revelation of grossly cruel practices in kosher slaughterhouses in the United States, and the subsequent defense of these practices by leading figures in Orthodox Jewry, Aaron S. Gross proceeds to a wide-ranging exploration of the justification of slaughter in Abrahamic religion and into our willed blindness to the animal as a religious subject. His philosophical and theological inquiries are driven by well-justified ethical concern at what factory farming, buttressed by so-called animal science, tells about the age we live in. -- J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature A leading young scholar in the emerging field of animal studies, Gross reveals the deep binaries around which most dominant religious worldviews, as well as the Enlightenment-vectored study of religion, have always revolved-human/animal, subject/object, culture/nature, self/other. Without a radical surrender of these divisions, which render animals as but 'a foil and shadow of the human world,' no legitimate theorizing about religion can take place. Nor is any true religious life possible. Echoing two heartbreaking cries to heaven, separated by eighteen hundred years-the plea of a calf seeking refuge from kosher slaughter in the robes of Rabbi Judah the Prince and the screams of cattle half-butchered but still alive in the now-infamous 'kosher' meat-processing plant in Postville, Iowa-this work makes its own unforgettable plea. Do we have the courage to sacrifice sacrifice itself? There will be no getting around this book. -- Kimberley C. Patton, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University The Question of the Animal and Religion makes a significant contribution to both the larger field of animal studies and the smaller subdiscipline of animal studies in religion. This is in part because Aaron S. Gross's case study on the brutal and systematic animal cruelty at a kosher-meat-producing company is so important, and especially because Gross's is the first work in animal studies in religion to present such a thorough methodological approach. -- Barbara K. Darling, Wheaton College The Question of the Animal and Religion makes a crucial contribution to the emerging field of animals and religion. As of today, I cannot name another study that has specifically analyzed the thinking of the foundational theorists of religious studies such as Mircea Eliade, Emile Durkheim, and J.Z. Smith in regard to animals. -- Barbara Rossetti Ambros, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Question of the Animal and Religion persuasively demonstrates the need to extend our understanding of religion beyond the human drama to include, as Gross insists, the drama of living itself. This book deserves to be taken seriously. Reading Religion Gross's book marks a welcome and important step in bringing animal studies to the study of religion, and religion to animal studies. -- Katharine Mershon Journal of ReligionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Ethical Tropes in American Kosher Certification 2. The Event and Response 3. The Absent Presence: Animals in the History of the Study of Religion 4. After the Subject: Hunter-Gatherers and the Reimagination of Religion 5. Disavowal, War, Sacrifice: Jacques Derrida and the Reimagination of Religion 6. Sacrificing Animals and Being a Mensch: Dominion, Reverence, and the Meaning of Modern Meat Epilogue Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
£25.20
Columbia University Press Walking the Night Road
Book SynopsisSpeaks to the experience of caring for a loved one with a terminal illness and the difficulties of encountering death.Trade ReviewAlexandra Butler's account of her parents' deaths is engaging and affecting. Boomers and their children will learn much from this memoir as they themselves approach the finitude of life. -- Andrew Achenbaum, Professor of Social Work at the University of Houston An honest look at marriage, aging, happiness, and survival-both wise and funny. You will walk the Night Road too. -- Barbara Walters A detailed, beautifully written, insightful account of the process of dying and of living-it's difficult to put down. Butler is able to use her words to breathe life into the people she is writing about and provide the reader with an ability to enter their lives as observers who can nearly feel the sun, shudder in the cold, and hear the creak of the floors. -- Jeanette Takamura, Dean, Columbia School of Social Work This book is Ms. Butler's passionate account of her fight to help her mother, the author of works on mental health and aging, Myrna Lewis, in her battle against a malignant brain tumor. The depth of her grief and her fury against a foe she knew must win is palpable on every page. -- Peter Pouncey, Author of Rules for Old Men Waiting Alexandra Butler's memoir of the last year-and-a-half of her mother's life is a searing, exquisitely written, brilliant work. Its honesty, insight, and poetic sensitivity left us deeply moved, far more so than anything else we've read in many years. It is truly a magnificent accomplishment. -- Lawrence K. Grossman, Former president of NBC News and PBS I read this book in one sitting last night and it is really remarkable. She captures, a la Virginia Woolf, the inner voice and experience of illness, death and grief in a way I have not seen before. Lots of talent there. -- Diane Meier, Director of Center to Advance Palliative Care The vivid, expressive intelligence of the writing made the exploding consequences of Myrna's cancer invade my mind in ways that were deeply moving and instructive. I was struck by the author's skill as a writer from the devastating start of the book, in which Myrna has already crossed the threshold into a world from which she can't return. It reads like a nightmare at first, but then settles into the pit of the stomach as not nightmare at all, not even the cultural nightmare of cancer as dread incarnate, but as our everyday, waking reality transformed into a bizarre parallel universe. Butler has composed a particular and telling vignette with implications beyond her immediate circumstances-a tragi-comic subtext to the way many of us are driven to organize our lives in unbroken chains of projects. -- Joan Retallack, John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities, Bard College I read it in one sitting. I laughed; I cried my eyes out; I related the whole way. And the beauty of it is that my mother does not have cancer. No one has cancer. It's the relationship and the feelings, deep to the core. This is not about cancer. It's about people, about the relationship between the people and the journey. I bet that people will relate no matter what kind of death or loss. -- Joan Siffert, Senior Vice President of Development at Gilda's Club Beautifully and skillfully written. -- Rabbi Harold S. Kushner Beautiful, heartbreaking and incisive, Butler's memoir is a brutally honest retelling of her mother's tragic battle against cancer. Her words go beyond just grief, they inspire a greater understanding of what it means to be a child, and how the lines that define familial roles are often more complex and messy than they seem. A child is never just a child. A parent never just a parent. Walking the Night Road is a cathartic tribute to anyone who has ever lost a parent. -- Will Reiser, Screenwriter, 50/50 Butler has written a moving and powerful book about the unlikely blessings that a death can bring. Anyone who has lost a loved one-or indeed anyone who has unwillingly embarked on an adventure only to find themselves in a better place-will enjoy this account. She reminds us all that hardships can sometimes be gifts wrapped in pain. We just need to see them that way. -- Dan Buettner, Author, The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People Butler gives an exceptionally full-bodied description of family life, with its enduring connections, weaknesses, cruelties and warmth. -- Terri Apter Times Literary Supplement Very well written, organized and presented, Walking the Night Road is... extraordinary and highly recommended. The Midwest Book Review Well written and engaging. Journal of Gerontological Social WorkTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Walking the Night Road
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Columbia University Press The Winemakers Hand
Book SynopsisWinemakers reveal how a vintner’s approach affects the nature of the wine they produce.Trade ReviewFew if any wine writers have devoted as much time and care as Berkowitz to the disparate paths to evolution of the winemaker's emotional intelligence that result in memorable wines from around the world. -- Armand Gilinsky, Sonoma State University A unique book. I learned from the interviews why certain wines are my favorites and constantly stand out from all others. -- Robert Gutenstein, Member of Council International Wine and Food Society and former President of The Wine and Food Society - New York For those who are serious about understanding the essence of fine wine, The Winemaker's Hand is a must. Through this book wine lovers can travel, at least vicariously, to important wine regions and experience the dedication and passion of vintners. Special wines come from special places. And special wines are made by special people. This book is special, too -- worthy of its subject and deserving of your attention. Savor it as you would the wines of the talented enologists who inspire its story. -- Anthony Verdoni, "The Wine Professor" and host of Eat Drink Italy with Vic Rallo These interviews with winemakers from all over the world present an irresistible opportunity for other winemakers, students of winemaking and wine lovers in general to get inside their heads. The author has these fascinating people talking informally about their diverse paths to winemaking, and what influences their winemaking decisions and preferences. This is an insider's look at a life that many would envy. -- Michaela Rodeno, Co-owner Villa Ragazzi Winery andformer CEO of St. Supery Winery Natalie's in-depth research and interviews with top winemakers from all over the world are compelling and authoritative. The dialogue with each winemaker is an intimate look at the individual nature of winemaking along with the artistry and passion it takes to create world-class wines -- Jack Daniels, President and Founder, Wilson Daniels The Winemaker's Hand... is full of valuable interviews, research and insight, giving voice to the vintners. Newsday A joy to browse, The Winemaker's Hand is especially recommended for sophisticated wine connoisseurs. Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Tracing the Historic Wine Trail Conversations with Winemakers The United States California Napa Valley * Joel Burt-Domaine Chandon * Cathy Corison-Corison Winery * Bill Dyer-Dyer Vineyard * Dawnine Dyer-Dyer Vineyard * Miljenko "Mike" Grgich-Grgich Hills Estate and Croatia * Chris Phelps-Swanson Vineyards and Ad Vivum * Michael Scholz-St. Supery Winery * Spring Mountain District * Stuart Smith-Smith-Madrone Vineyards and Winery * David Stevens-Consultant * Tom Tiburzi-Domaine Chandon * Ernie Weir-Hagafen Cellars * John Williams-Frog's Leap Winery Los Carneros * Armand Ceja-Ceja Vineyards * Stephane Vivier-HdV Winery and Vivier Wines Mendocino * John Chiarito-Chiarito Vineyard Sonoma * Guy Davis-Davis Family Vineyards New York State Finger Lakes * Peter B. Saltonstall-King Ferry Winery and Treleaven Wines Long Island * Joe Macari Jr.-Macari Vineyard * Kelly Urbanik-Macari Vineyard North Carolina * Sharon Fenchak-Biltmore Estate Oregon * Sheila Nicholas-Anam Cara Cellars Chile Casablanca Valley * Grant Phelps-Casas del Bosque England * Cherie Spriggs-Nyetimber Vineyard France Bordeaux * Margaux * Philippe Delfaut-Chateau Kirwin * Alexander van Beek-Chateaux du Tertre and Giscours-and Caiarossa Graves * Olivier Bernard-Domaine de Chevalier Sauternes * Xavier Planty-Chateau Guirard Burgundy * Etienne de Montille Italy Friuli * Giovanni Dri-Il Roncat Lombardy * Andrea Peri-Peri Bigogno Winery Sicily * Alessio Planeta-Planeta Winery and Vineyards Soave * Giovanni Ponchia-Consorzio Tutela Tuscany * Sergio Gargari-Pieve de' Pitti * Filippo Rocchi-Castelvecchio Veneto * Cristian Ridolfi-Casa Vinicola Bertani Portugal Duoro * Casimiro Alves-Vercoope Cooperative * Domingos Soares Franco-Jose Maria Da Fonseca Spain Rioja * Pedro Benito Saez-Bodegas Urbina de Crianza * Oscar Montana Porres-Marques de Tomares Wineries Germany Mosel * Raimund Prum-S. A. Prum Greece Santorini * Yiannis Paraskevopoulos-Gaia Wines Slovenia * Jurij Brumec-Sanctum Israel Golan Heights * Micha Vaadia-Galil Mountain Winery Conclusion The Aroma Wheel Glossary of Wine Terms Glossary of Wine Varietals
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Columbia University Press The Cinema of Ang Lee The Other Side of the
Book SynopsisSuggestive readings of gender and identity explore the international appeal of Ang LeeTrade ReviewDilley not only provides an in-depth overview of Ang Lee's contribution to film, but also gives crucial contextualization for East-West film studies and theoretical approaches, as well as providing careful study of significant themes in Lee's personal life which molded him as a film director. This is an enormous amount of territory to cover. Dilley does it well with scholarly rigor in a tone of exploration and wonder. -- Barbara Kline, Seattle Pacific University The Cinema of Ang Lee is the most comprehensive study of Ang Lee and all the films directed by him to date. It tells the extraordinary story of a Taiwan-born Chinese director within the global contexts of diaspora, transnationalism, Chinese-language cinema, American cinema, and world cinema. The book is full of interesting details, and is written in a lucid, accessible style that will be appreciated by readers and moviegoers interested in this director. -- Sheldon Lu, University of California at Davis Writing about film is no easy task and writing about great film even harder. Ang Lee's films include not only three Academy Award winners, The Life of Pi, Brokeback Mountain, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but also less familiar masterpieces like Lust|Caution, Ride with the Devil, The Ice Storm, and Eat Drink Man Woman. Whitney Dilley's study of Ang Lee's art is written with remarkable clarity, insight, and compassion. It is a model of fine film literature. -- Jerome Silbergeld, Princeton University Recommended. All readers. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration 1. Introduction: Ang Lee-A History 2. Ang Lee as Director: His Position in Asian and World Cinema 3. Confucian Values and Cultural Displacement in Pushing Hands 4. Transgressing Boundaries of Gender and Culture in The Wedding Banquet 5. Globalization and Cultural Identity in Eat Drink Man Woman 6. Opposition and Resolution in Sense and Sensibility 7. Fragmentary Narratives/Fragmented Identities in The Ice Storm 8. Race, Gender, Class, and Social Identity in Ride with the Devil 9. Wuxia Narrative and Transnational Chinese Identity in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 10. The Ultimate Outsider: Hulk 11. Transcending Gender in Brokeback Mountain 12. Eroticism and Performance in Lust/Caution 13. Memory, Narrative, and Transformation in Taking Woodstock 14. Storytelling and Truth in Life of Pi: A Spiritual Journey 15. Conclusion: The Dream of Cinema Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Interspecies Ethics
Book SynopsisInterspecies Ethics explores animals’ vast capacity for agency, justice, solidarity, humor, and communication across species.Trade ReviewInterspecies Ethics is philosophy's St. Crispin's speech for creating a new compact with our animal kin. Cynthia Willett's book is a must read for anyone and everyone committed to putting the humanity back into human living and restoring the planet. -- G.A. Bradshaw, author of Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us About Humanity Distancing herself from the traditional anthropocentrism regarding other animals and the ethics that we apply, Cynthia Willett integrates recent scientific discoveries with a careful reading of philosophy and literary analysis. The result is a rich, enlightening book about the relation between us and our evolutionary fellow travelers. -- Frans de Waal, author of The Bonobo and the Atheist If you are one of a vanishing minority of people who think that we humans are the only animals with highly evolved cognitive and emotional capacities and agency, Cynthia Willett's new book will surely make you reconsider this false view of who we are and who they (other animals) really are. The border between "us" and "them" already is blurry, and as we accumulate scientific data on the fascinating and surprising lives of other animals it becomes even more blurred. Surely, humans are exceptional beings, but so too are other animals. Arguing for human exceptionalism at the expense of other animals no longer works. We all need someone we can lean on and with whom we can engage, and this book and much research show that we lose when other animals lose, and similarly, we flourish when they flourish and when they are treated with respect and dignity. Peaceful coexistence is win-win ethic for all. -- Marc Bekoff, editor of Ignoring nature no more: The case for compassionate conservation and author of Rewilding our hearts: Building pathways of compassion and coexistence Filled with insight and humor, fascinating animal studies and profound philosophical speculations on the meaning of life and our place in it, Willett's Interspecies Ethics is a beautifully crafted testament to the need for interspecies ethics by considering what she calls "communitarian cohabitation." Bringing together classical philosophy, contemporary Continental Philosophy, literature, psychology, zoology, and animal studies, Willett weaves a captivating tale of human-animal relationships that takes us well beyond human domination and towards interspecies community. This may be as important a paradigm shift in animal studies as Peter Singer's animal liberation or Jacques Derrida's deconstruction of the category "Animal." -- Kelly Oliver, author of Animal Lessons: How They Teach us to be Human, and Earth and World In Interspecies Ethics, Cynthia Willett gives us a book from which the reader derives pleasure as well as lessons. There is deftness in the prose, a breadth of vision in the references, and a genuine feeling to the book, a feeling we could call "humaneness" if the restrictiveness of that phrase weren't one of the targets of the book. "Interspecies ethics" is an affect-based ethics, focusing on attachments and disruptions within and across species lines. Outflanking common continental tropes, Willett's interspecies ethics is neither a "response ethics" nor a "becoming animal," but a living with animals. In the course of the book we find a movement, "from affect attunement in horizontal relationships, [which] culminates in an enlightened experience of cosmic peace." But the author won't rest without turning to "predation and death." Hence the Coda's discussion of Coetzee's Disgrace. But even then there is a turn not to the simple positive but to regeneration, the intertwining not just of human and non-human but of death and life as the tragic violence of the Coda ends with a "musical vision of mourning that regenerates the social basis of interspecies life." -- John Protevi, Louisiana State University Willett draws on an incredible range of sources and disciplines for this project, demonstrating in the process how work in animal studies requires redrawing disciplinary boundaries in significant ways. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory A wonderful book that insists upon our return to the paleozoic ground of ethics and opens so many doors for further thinking about how we animals must live together as the planet evolves in strange and horrifying ways. -- Louise Westling Environmental ValuesTable of ContentsIntroduction: New Ideals of Belonging and Africana Origins of Interspecies Living 1. Can the Animal Subaltern Laugh? Neoliberal Inversions, Cross-Species Solidarities, and Other Challenges to Human Exceptionalism, with Julie Willett 2. Paleolithic Ethics: Ethics' Evolution from Play, the Interspecies Community Selection Hypothesis, and Anarchic Communitarianism 3. Affect Attunement: Discourse Ethics Across Species 4. Water and Wing Give Wonder: Meditations on Cosmopolitan Peace 5. Reflections: A Model and a Vision of Ethical Life Coda; or, The Song of the Dog-Man: Mourning in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace Acknowledgments Notes Index
£25.20
Columbia University Press Risk Management in Social Work
Book SynopsisIntroduces the concepts of negligence, malpractice, and liability before turning to the subject of risk managementTrade ReviewWritten by one of our premier scholars in social work ethics, this book provides students and practitioners with a comprehensive view of the practical ways of addressing ethical issues in practice. It features the following seven key steps for ethical decisionmaking: consulting colleagues; accessing supervisors; integrating the NASW Code of Ethics into practice; keeping up-to date on relevant laws, policies, and regulations; reviewing professional literature; obtaining legal counsel; and carefully documenting decision-making steps-all essential skills for twenty-first-century social work practice. -- Michael J. Austin, Unviersity of California, Berkeley Frederic Reamer's work is a significant contribution to the field. Containing vital details on changing ethical issues and laws related to cybertherapy, social networking, social media, and healthcare ethics, this book is a must-have for practitioners and managers and is perfect for advanced classes in both clinical and administrative social work education. -- Deborah Borman, Northwestern University School of Law Original and authoritative... With its strong emphasis on prevention, and the sound promotion of a prophylactic perspective, Risk Management in Social World, in my judgment, will be accepted as the definitive text on the topic. Clearly written, with detailed notes and useful references, full legal citations, and a masterful application of our profession's Code of Ethics, Frederic Reamer's newest text quite simply is a gift to all of us who are members of the social work profession. Journal of Teaching in Social WorkTable of ContentsPreface 1. Professional Risk Management: An Overview Professional Malpractice and Liability Key Concepts in Risk Management The Elements of Malpractice and Liability Process Versus Outcome and the Standard of Care Damages in Liability Cases 2. Confidentiality and Privileged Communication The Concept of Privacy Common Confidentiality Issues The Concept of Privileged Communication Responding to Subpoenas and Court Orders Unintentional Disclosure of Confidential Information 3. The Delivery of Services Clients' Rights Informed Consent Clinical Assessment and Intervention Negligent Intervention Boundary Issues and Dual Relationships Managing Boundary Risks Undue Influence Suicide Involuntary Civil Commitment Protective Services Defamation of Character Digital Technology and Social Media 4. Impaired Social Workers The Nature of Impairment Extent of Impairment Causes of Impairment Sexual Abuse of Clients Practitioner Substance Abuse Response to Impairment Risk Management Strategy The Challenge for Social Work 5. Supervision: Clients and Staff Client Supervision Staff Supervision Supervision Case Law Supervision of Volunteers Liability and Social Work Education Preventing Supervisory Liability 6. Consultation, Referral, Documentation, and Records Consultation in Social Work Referral in Social Work Social Work Documentation and Records Evolution of Social Work Standards Risk Management Standards and Guidelines 7. Deception and Fraud Self-interested Deception and Fraud Deception and Fraud Motivated by Altruism 8. Termination of Service The Concept of Abandonment Premature Termination Prevention Strategy 9. Responding to Lawsuits and Ethics Complaints: The Role of Prevention In the Event of a Lawsuit or Licensing Board Complaint The Role of the Expert Witness Preventing Lawsuits and Licensing Board Complaints: Good Practice Preventing Lawsuits and Licensing Board Complaints: Good Ethics Ethical Dilemmas and Decision Making Conducting an Ethics Audit Appendix: Sample Forms Notes References Legal Citations Index
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Columbia University Press Living Karma The Religious Practices of Ouyi
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLiving Karma is a study of the way the inner world of a leading Buddhist monk was shaped by his belief in karma, focusing on Ouyi Zhixu, perhaps the most important Chinese monk of the seventeenth century and certainly one of the most interesting, known for his contributions to Buddhist commentary, ritual exegesis, bibliography, and autobiography. -- John Kieschnick, Stanford University An ingeniously conceived and deeply researched study of one of the four great Buddhist masters of the late Ming dynasty. The book reveals Ouyi Zhixu to be a far more interesting and intellectually complex person than we knew. By giving primacy to the theme of karma, McGuire finds a unity to Ouyi's conduct and textual practice that has gone unremarked until now. -- Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia This important new book is doubly valuable. In offering the first Western language monograph devoted to the teachings of Ouyi Zhixu, Beverley Foulks McGuire has employed the best tools of sinology and Buddhist studies to rescue a major Chinese Buddhist teacher not only from the obscurity of scholarly neglect but also from the doldrums of conventional intellectual history. McGuire demonstrates the value of applying to the study of religious ethics the insights and methods of anthropology and the study of religious narrative. This book is 'must reading' for scholars of Chinese religions, especially Buddhism, and deserves serious attention in the wider field of religious studies. -- Robert M. Gimello, The University of Notre Dame In this thoughtful and astute study, McGuire shows how a fundamental Buddhist doctrine--karma--shaped the practice life of a major Chinese Buddhist thinker whose ideas remain significant for the tradition today. Her sensitive readings of Ouyi Zhixiu's ritual texts and personal writings provide an intimate perspective on this monk's ideas and his intense bodily practices such as 'filial slicing,' burning of his arms and head, and the writing of texts in his own blood. -- James A. Benn, McMaster University An eminently readable and interesting book...this is a scholarly book based on a great deal of specialised research, but it's surprisingly accessible to anyone with an interest in Buddhism and its development in China. Asian Review of Books Living Karma is an invaluable study that not only rescues from scholarly oblivion one of the most influential Buddhist figures of Ming-dynasty China, but also sheds light on the complexity and coherence of his inner world and ritual practices by showing how they were shaped by his understanding of karma. -- Daniela Campo H-Buddhism An important study and contribution to Buddhist studies that should be welcomed by students of Chinese Buddhism and culture. Review of Religion and Chinese Society In admirably concise and lucid writing, McGuire offers us a rare glimpse into the inner life of the great Ming dynasty Buddhist master Ouyi Zhixu. Journal of Chinese Religion This is a very strong entry from an emerging scholar in Chinese Buddhism... I recommend this volume without qualification. It is a well-defined and focused elucidation of an interesting topic. -- Charles B. Jones Harvard Journal of Asiatic StudiesTable of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Karma as a Narrative Device in Ouyi's Autobiography 2. Divination as a Karmic Diagnostic 3. Repentance Rituals for Eliminating Karma 4. Vowing to Assume the Karma of Others 5. Slicing, Burning, and Blood Writing: Karmic Transformations of Bodies Conclusion Appendix 1. A Translation of Ouyi's Autobiography Appendix 2. A Map of Ouyi's Life Notes Glossary of Terms, People, Places, and Titles of Texts Bibliography Index
£69.26
Columbia University Press Losing Tim How Our Health and Education Systems
Book SynopsisA former policy maker exposes the scandal of American mental health policy and its effect on the life of his son.Trade ReviewA father's description of his family's struggles to raise and support a son with significant psychiatric difficulties, along with his reflections on the failures and gaps in care that his son encounters consistently over the course of his first two decades of life. The story is painful and instructive, and unfortunately not uncommon. -- Larry Davidson, Yale University Combining the perspectives of a loving father and a mental health policy expert, Gionfriddo describes the unintended results of a mental health system for children that places responsibility for responding to mental disorders on those afflicted by them. He makes an incontrovertible case for restructuring public policies and child mental health services to build upon the child and family and its strengths and needs as the foundation for continuous, respectful, flexible, and adaptive systems response. -- Charles Bruner, executive director, Child and Family Policy Center Losing Tim is a memoir of passion and a call to action. It is a must-read for all policy makers, practitioners, and school personnel. As a parent who is raising a child with mental illness, and as the leader of a national mental health organization created to offer support to families, I would also recommend this book as a resource to families who struggle raising a child with mental illness in a rigid, nonintegrated service system. Paul details the journey through the maze of getting the proper diagnosis and the needed supports and services in a way that must lead to change. -- Sandra A. Spencer, executive director, National Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health Gionfriddo has a unique perspective on the concrete functioning of the real mental health 'system' in America that involves schools, justice facilities, housing departments, disability programs, the courts, general health care, and addiction and mental health programs. His unique take is a story of confusion, missed opportunities, and a roller coaster of emotions as the young Tim grows out of his family's orbit to launch his life while trying to find his strategy to accommodate his life goals with schizophrenia. This story is touching, frustrating, and all too common. Hopefully in its retelling, we can find new strategies to really address the needs of families struggling with severe mental illnesses. -- David Shern, senior science advisor, Mental Health America The best policy makers are those who focus on how their work affects the people they serve. As a former legislator who became the parent of a son with schizophrenia, Paul Gionfriddo found himself in a position to discover firsthand that even the best-intentioned laws don't always work for those who must rely on them. His book shows how personal struggles have helped him to rethink our nation's approach to mental health policy. -- Patrick J. Kennedy, founder, the Kennedy Forum, and cofounder, One Mind for Research A memoir that makes a strong argument: the public policy around mental illness is in shambles... Gionfriddo's story is powerful, persuasive, and sad. Publishers Weekly [Gionfriddo] provides a heartbreaking account of his son Tim's struggles with mental illness-and presents a call to action. -- Jessica Bylander Health Affairs More than a memoir, it's a touchstone for families who believe they are alone in an uphill battle with America's attitude toward-and treatment of-mental health. -- Carlos Frias The Palm Beach Post The author does a phenomenal job in giving a voice to a population that is often marginalized and voiceless. Psychiatric ServicesTable of ContentsPreface 1. Tim Brings a Gun to School 2. Tim Gets His Start 3. Our Introduction to Special Education 4. A New School, a New Crisis 5. Suspended Animation 6. Rocketing Through Middle School 7. High School Cooks Up Trouble 8. West to the Northwest 9. Hospitalization from the Northwest to Middletown 10. Tim Comes to Austin 11. AmeriCorps and the Chain of Neglect 12. Tim Begins Adult Life 13. Tim Hits the Revolving Door 14. Launching Tim 15. Tim Returns to Middletown Epilogue Acknowledgments References
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Columbia University Press Engaged Journalism
Book SynopsisExplores the changing relationship between news producers and audiences and the methods journalists can use to secure the attention of news consumers.Trade ReviewEngaged Journalism is a welcome addition to the ongoing discussion over how to define audience engagement, identify the best practices, and determine their effectiveness with regard to audience loyalty and revenue. The coverage and writing style are impeccable and engaging. -- Dan Kennedy, author of The Wired City: Reimagining Journalism and Civic Life in the Post-Newspaper Age In an era where the definition of being a journalist must expand to include the responsibility of getting more audiences to find and engage with your journalism, Batsell makes a compelling case, with great case studies, for why engagement matters, and how newsrooms can transform from being gatekeepers to a limited few into gate-openers for millions more. -- Raju Narisetti, senior vice president of strategy, News Corp., and former managing editor of the Washington Post This important and timely book is a must-read for journalism practitioners and students who need to understand the fundamental transformation of news from a one-way transmission of information to a conversation. As Batsell persuasively argues, 'engagement' isn't merely an industry buzzword. Listening to and building deeper relationships with audiences is not only key to building trust and loyalty, but is also a critical part of financial sustainability for news organizations. Batsell provides numerous examples from some of the most innovative news organizations on how they have approached engaging with their communities and what they have learned, offering a number of practical ideas and principles that can inform journalists' daily work. -- Carrie Brown, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism This book is stuffed with concrete examples, bringing the often-nebulous concept of audience engagement into the practical world. Batsell answers the 'why' of the strategies he discusses, not just the 'what' and the 'who,' and the book will be interesting to optimists invested in the future of news. -- Joy Mayer, Missouri School of Journalism, and director of community outreach, Columbia Missourian A must-read... Any thoughtful news consumer will appreciate the solid, first-hand reporting that Batsell shares on this important topic. Communications at Syracuse Blog Batsell's book is well researched and well written. It should be required reading for every journalist and every journalism student. Journalism and Mass Communication QuarterlyTable of ContentsForeword, by Mark Briggs Preface Acknowledgments List of Interviews Introduction: Why Engagement Matters 1. Face-to-Face Engagement: How News Organizations Build Digital Loyalty and Generate Revenue Through the "Original Platform" 2. News as Conversation: Not Just Informing but Involving the Audience 3. Mining Niche Communities: Serving Topical and Hyperlocal Audiences Through Digital and Mobile Platforms 4. Search, Explore, Play: Drawing Readers into Journalism Through Interactive Experiences 5. Sustaining Engaged Journalism: Measuring and Monetizing the Audience Relationship Conclusion Notes References Index
£22.50
Columbia University Press Love and War How Militarism Shapes Sexuality and
Book SynopsisAn exploration of gender as both a weapon and casualty of war.Trade ReviewDigby brings a fresh view to the term "battle of the sexes" by revealing the gendered politics and cultural programming that drive many of the irrationalities and antagonisms so familiar to heterosexual romantic relations. The argument is intellectually stimulating, politically important, and potentially quite relevant in personal ways for readers. -- Shira Tarrant, author of Men and Feminism and When Sex Became Gender Love and War is a joy to read, indeed, a page turner. Tom Digby opens up a whole new way of understanding the problems intrinsic to heterosexual love, as well as the impact of misogyny in the everyday lives of men and women. His compelling descriptions of the interplay of gender and militarism will significantly alter the way we understand masculinity, sexuality, romantic love, misogyny, and even war itself. Of particular interest is Digby's use of what I call 'situated phenomenology' to shed important new light on the roots of misogyny; the social implications of this new understanding are quite sweeping. For specialists in gender studies like myself, Love and War will be recognized as a major and profoundly stimulating contribution to our field. The book will also appeal to a broad audience, thanks to Digby's highly engaging, conversational writing style. -- Sandra Bartky, author of Femininity and Domination 'Love is a battlefield,' sang the great philosopher Pat Benatar. But why? Why do the metaphors that describe love and romance refer to battles of the sexes, or interplanetary warfare between Martians and Venusians? In a book both judiciously wise and passionately angry, Tom Digby untangles the knots that bind love and war, set men and women in opposition, and create the enmity from which we have to recover if we are to build intimate and loving relationships. -- Michael Kimmel, author of Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men and Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era Tom Digby's exciting new book argues that the glorification of militarism in contemporary Western culture generates hegemonic conceptions of masculinity and femininity that distort our relationships in all areas of life and produce deeply damaging consequences for everyone. The book is filled with fresh insights and telling cultural illustrations. It is a welcome-and very teachable-addition to the scholarly literature on gender and militarism, and should also prove fascinating to general readers. -- Alison M. Jaggar, author of Gender and Global Justice Love: From romantic poetry to pop music to self-help manuals, we are told that it makes us whole and life worth living. Yet at the same time, love is described as a "battlefield" on which the "war between the sexes" is played out through power struggles, and mismatched expectations. Just metaphors? Tom Digby says "no"-emphatically-and the result is a probing yet engagingly reader-friendly look into how what he calls "war-reliant societies" foster notions about masculinity and femininity that are doomed to collision. Chock-full of examples from contemporary culture and blessedly free of jargon, Love and War is one of the freshest, smartest books I know to introduce students (and everyone else) to how ideas about gender impact both private life and public policy-and vice versa. -- Susan Bordo, author of Unbearable Weight, The Male Body and The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen The next time someone refers to a 'battle between the sexes' in the midst of a serious conversation about gender and power, ask them if they've read Love and War. Tom Digby's brilliant book infuses this tired phrase with new intellectual depth and political significance. And for those keeping score, Digby does take sides - with women and men, both of whom stand to gain by a breakdown and eventual transcendence of the gender straitjackets required to sustain militarism and other forms of organized violence. -- Jackson Katz, author of The Macho Paradox and Leading Men, and creator of the documentary film Tough Guise 2 In Love and War, author Tom Digby persuasively shows us that the gender divide we often call the "war between the sexes" is an unnecessary social construct that has tragic consequences for us all. From the bullying of a little boy with a "girl-colored" lunch box, to an American general left furious at the indifference to traumatized World War I veterans, to aboriginal tribes who exist outside our militaristic frame of reference, to the causes and effects of today's ultra-misogynistic porn, Professor Digby serves as our congenial and insightful tour guide through the misty territories of "male" and "female," patiently showing us the path to a better way of configuring the relationship between the sexes. There is great value and hope to be found in Love and War. If we were able, as Professor Digby urges, to change the cultural programming of gender, we might finally free men from the stereotypes that continue to glorify antiquated codes of violence and the emotional paralysis of stoicism. And we might finally free women from having to live in perpetual fear of men. This is a book that should be widely read and deeply taken to heart. -- Kelly Moore, anti-rape activist, New York Times best-selling author, and co-author of the critically acclaimed Amber House Trilogy of young adult novels Fresh, passionate, and long overdue... [Love and War] offers an engaging analysis of the contrasting strands that comprise people's culturally programmed ideas about love... Essential. Choice Love & War is excellent at pulling apart masculinity and its implications for the lives of men and women within militaristic cultures. Bitch Digby has produced an accessible, smart, persuasive work... filled with keen insights, illuminating connections, and heartbreaking examples. Anyone interested in gender, the military, or love should read this book-which is to say that almost everyone should read this book. -- Andrew Huebner H-War Love and War is a treasure trove of insights into gender and the, often tragic, experiences of men and women. There are many aspects of the book that are remarkable but the vivid, and moving, portrait Digby paints of how men suffer under the gender binary is especially valuable. The "warrior masculinity" that he describes is going to influence my teaching and thinking for some time. I will surely be incorporating the book into my class on feminist philosophy. I think it has a better than average chance of getting young people at West Point and elsewhere to think deeply about themselves and their culture. -- Graham Parsons, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY Short, fun read... filled with insights and observations that invest the reader emotionally and provoke personal reflection. It is a fine piece of public philosophy that should be of interest far beyond academia. Feminism and PhilosphyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Battle of the Sexes: Why Is Heterosexual Love So Hard? 2. Let's Make a Deal: The Heterosexual Economy Falls Off a Cliff 3. How to Make a Warrior: Misogyny and Emotional Toughness in the Construction of Masculinity 4. Keeping the Battle of the Sexes Alive: Faith and Fantasy 5. Can Men Rescue Heterosexual Love? More Faith and Fantasy 6. Gender Terrorism, Gender Sacrifice: Getting Beyond Zero-Sum Heterosexuality 7. The Degendering of War: War Loses Its Sex 8. The Demilitarizing of Gender: A Truce in the Battle of the Sexes? Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Retreat from a Rising Sea
Book SynopsisThis big-picture, policy-oriented book explains in gripping terms what rising oceans will do to coastal cities and the drastic actions we need to take now to remove vulnerable populations. The authors detail effective approaches for addressing climate-change denialism and powerful arguments for changing U.S. federal coastal-management policies.Trade ReviewRetreat from a Rising Sea is a landmark work long overdue. The book offers deep analysis, case histories, and names villains of denial. It offers visions, solutions, and historic examples of how coastal cities and communities have dealt in the past and will need to cope in the future with rising coastal risks. It is a must-read for coastal residents and policy makers alike. If this book had been written ten years ago, the world would be better off. -- Klaus Jacob, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University Earth Institute Retreat from a Rising Sea is a book that should be read by everyone concerned about our coasts. In its passion to explain the conclusion that science clearly indicates, it signals the urgency of our retreat from the coast. -- Carl Hobbs, author of The Beach Book In Retreat from a Rising Sea, the authors raise tough and crucial questions about living in coastal communities in an era of rising seas and more frequent superstorms. In highlighting the vulnerabilities of many cities and communities in the United States and around the world, they provide a sobering wake-up call for policy makers and planners-and for the billions of people on the front lines of a changing climate. -- Vicki Arroyo, executive director, Georgetown Climate Center, and professor from practice, Georgetown University Law Center This accessible, impassioned argument considers the scientific, political, and socioeconomic dimensions of climate change and fervently presses for Americans to come to terms with the disastrous changes to the world's oceans sooner rather than later. Publishers Weekly Clear and authoritative... If only our leaders would read this book. Miami HeraldTable of ContentsForeword, by the Santa Aguila Foundation Preface Acknowledgments 1. Control + Alt + Retreat 2. The Overflowing Ocean 3. The Fate of Two Doomed Cities: Miami and New Orleans 4. New and Old Amsterdam: New York City and the Netherlands 5. Cities on the Brink 6. The Taxpayers and the Beach House 7. Coastal Calamities: How Geology Affects the Fate of the Shoreline 8. Drowning in Place: Infrastructure and Landmarks in the Age of Sea-Level Rise 9. The Cruelest Wave: Climate Refugees 10. Deny, Debate, and Delay 11. Ghosts of the Past, Promise of the Future Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press The Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China
Book SynopsisFollows the evolution of Tibetan Buddhism’s trülku (reincarnation) tradition from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, along with the Emperor of China’s efforts to control its developmentTrade ReviewThe most accessible, archives-based survey of modern Tibetan history ever to be written. -- Gray Tuttle, Columbia University A timely book that fills a vacuum in the study of Tibet's history. Schwieger provides an excellent analysis of the evolution of the institution of the Dalai Lama, particularly the Dalai Lama's relationship with the Chinese emperors, that goes beyond the generalized and accepted view of the relationship as symbolic. -- Tsering Shakya, president of the International Association of Tibetan Studies The Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China marks a coming-of-age for Tibetan historical studies, complementing the New Qing History of the past several decades. Peter Schwieger brings precision to our understanding of Tibet's central political institution, that of the Dalai Lama, reaching beyond earlier scholarship thanks to his innovative and thorough use of archival sources. His work is essential reading for students of early modern relations among Tibet, Mongolia, and the Manchu empire. -- Matthew Kapstein, EPHE, Paris, and the University of Chicago There is much to discover in this rich, informative volume. Skillfully handling the new sources and documents at his disposal, Schwieger has written a book that is essential reading for anyone, specialist and nonspecialist, interested in the rise of the Dalai Lamas and their relations with Mongols, Manchus, and the Qing state. -- Elliot Sperling, Indiana University The originality of this remarkable book lies in the central position it accords to Tibetan documents-letters, edicts, petitions-written at the time of the events to which they relate, giving the reader an unprecedented front-row view of history as it unfolds: things do indeed look very different from this close. Schwieger's mastery of the intractable style of these official sources is matched by a well-trained caution in interpretation, a complete absence of political bias, and the ability to transform eight centuries of complex machinations into a gripping account that will appeal to a readership well beyond the field of Tibetan studies. -- Charles Ramble, EcolePratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris Schwieger's groundbreaking treatment of Tibetan political and religious history offers a new approach to understanding the development of the trulku (reincarnate lama) tradition... Indispensable reading for some upper-level undergraduates and for graduate students and faculty interested in Tibetan religious and political history. Choice The most well-researched, comprehensive book on the modern history of Tibet to be published to date. Reading Religion Accessible... engaging and easy to read. The book is a great addition to any undergraduate or graduate course on the history of Inner Asia, Tibet, and Late Imperial China. -- Ryan John Jones Religious Studies Review [The Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China] does Tibetan studies a great service... An essential resource. -- Max Oidtmann The Journal of Asian StudiesTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. The Historical Development of the Trulku Position 2. A Trulku as the Head of Society 3. Struggle for Buddhist Government 4. The Emperor Takes Control 5. Buddhist Government Under the Imperial Umbrella 6. Imperial Authority Over the Trulku Institution 7. The Aftermath Conclusion Appendix 1: Tibetan Reincarnation Lines of Major Political Significance Appendix 2: Qing Emperors and Qoshot Kings of Tibet Abbreviations Notes Tibetan Orthographic Equivalents Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press After the Red Army Faction
Book SynopsisAnalyzing the afterimage of revolutionary violence in contemporary culture and politics.Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany’s 1968 Generation and the HolocaustTrade ReviewThe saga of the Red Army Faction's decades-long war with the West German state hardly ended when the shooting stopped, as Charity Scribner's superb book explains. Instead, the conflict captured and even haunted the imagination of generations of German novelists, filmmakers, and visual artists, whose diverse works are themselves an integral part of the RAF's legacy. Scribner offers both incisive and inventive readings of an array of texts, showing how they labored - and often struggled - to articulate a post-militant politics to move beyond the moral hazards of armed struggle. After the Red Army Faction dramatically expands our understanding of what it means to "read" violence and come to terms with its many wounds. -- Jeremy Varon, New School for Social Research, author of Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies The most innovative discussion of the RAF to date. This book provides a much-needed, nuanced understanding of the influence of the RAF on German cultural memory and will revolutionize the study of militant politics and aesthetics. -- Sabine von Dirke, University of Pittsburgh, author of "All Power to the Imagination!": Art and Politics in the West German Counterculture Charity Scribner's After the Red Army Faction will be an important contribution to our understanding of the impact of the left-wing terrorism of 1970s West Germany, and in particular the Baader-Meinhof Group or Red Army Faction (RAF), on culture in West Germany and beyond. -- Hans Kundnani, editorial director at the European Council on Foreign Relations, author of Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany's 1968 Generation and the Holocaust How can 'postmilitancy' offer clues to understanding West Germany's RAF and its afterlives, all the more after 9/11? How might it suggest new directions for resistance when everyday life remains saturated with violence? Charity Scribner provides searching and compelling answers in this study that reaches across disciplines. -- Belinda Davis, Rutgers University, University, editor of Changing the World, Changing Oneself: Political Protest and Collective Identities in West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s Poised between an increasingly nostalgic tendency to romanticize the violent struggles of 1970s militants and our own deeply troubled response to the brutality of contemporary fundamentalisms, After the Red Army Faction provides us with an invaluable reflection on the complexities of past leftist terrorism and its continuing ramifications. With a keen eye for the ambiguities and blind spots of ideological extremism, Scribner examines German postmilitant culture through literature, film, dance, and the visual arts. Shunning easy cliche and superficial spectacle, she reminds us of the intellectual and human costs of the German armed struggle and of the ways gender and sexuality inflected its attitudes and representation in the media. A brilliant piece of cultural history. -- Tom McDonough, Binghamton University, State University of New York, editor of The Situationists and the CityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Beyond Militancy Part 1. Militant Acts 1. The Red Decade and Its Cultural Fallout 2. Damaged Lives of the Far Left: Reading the RAF in Reverse 3. Buildings on Fire: The Situationist International and the Red Army Faction Part II. Postmilitant Culture 4. The Stammheim Complex in Marianne and Juliane 5. Violence and the Tendenzwende: Engendering Victims in the Novel and Film 6. Anatomies of Protest and Resistance: Meinhof, Fischer 7. Regarding Terror at the Berlin Kunst-Werke Afterword: Signs of a New Season Notes Works Cited Index
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Columbia University Press Chop Suey USA
Book SynopsisAn epic tale of globalized cultural exchange by means of our first “fast food.”Trade ReviewWell organized and breathtakingly broad in its geographic scope, Chop Suey, USA is an utterly original and significant contribution to the field. Yong Chen has done a superb job. No one has attempted anything like this. -- Hasia Diner, New York University A thoroughly researched, highly readable account of the development of Chinese American food, this book fills important gaps in the literature of ethnic and food studies, while incorporating an appealing personal memoir into the narrative. -- Jeffrey Pilcher, University of Toronto Food is not just about sustenance and taste. It is also about culture, economics, race, and identity. This is made abundantly clear in this fascinating account of the history of Chinese food in America. Chop Suey, USA is a wonderful American story, and a tasty one at that! -- Gordon H. Chang, Stanford University A perceptive view of an America built on abundance and consumption... Well-researched... Kirkus Reading Yong Chen's new book... is an education. In some ways, it seems more like an encyclopedia or a peak into the brain of a man who has read and retained an almost overwhelming number of books... Readers can learn much from Chen's in depth analysis and framing. 8Asians This well-researched book comes with seventy-eight pages of notes and a thirty-one page bibliography. It is seasoned with interested recipes, most of them chosen for their personal significance... An exciting intellectual endeavor. H-Environment Chop Suey is an engaging combination of research and food writing blended into a unified read. CHOICE Sophisticated... Groundbreaking... Yong Chen has published an ambitious and important work that has made a curcial contribution not only to the historical understanding of Chinese cuisine in the United States but also to the study of food in general. Journal of Chinese Overseas Chop Suey, USA was meticulously researched with a very extensive bibliography, the content is well organized with linking points and arguments, and the text is written with clarity and purpose. -- Alfred Yee Journal of American History A compelling and provocative contribution to the burgeoning field of American food studies. Journal of American Ethnic History Chen's study provides a sharp critique and rebuke to the degraded status accorded to Chinese American food and its creators. American QuarterlyTable of ContentsPreface: The Genesis of the Book Acknowledgments Introduction: Chop Suey, the Big Mac of the Pre-McDonald's Era 1. Why Is Chinese Food So Popular? 2. The Empire and Empire Food 3. Chinese Cooks as Stewards of Empire 4. The Cradle of Chinese Food 5. The Rise of Chinese Restaurants 6. The Makers of American Chinese Food 7. "Chinese-American Cuisine" and the Authenticity of Chop Suey 8. The Chinese Brillat-Savarin Conclusion: The Home of No Return Afterword: Why Study Food? Notes Bibliography Index
£58.77
Columbia University Press Time and the Other
Book SynopsisTime and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship between anthropologists and their subjects and reoriented the approach literary critics, philosophers, and historians took to the study of humankind.Trade ReviewPraise for the first edition: "A radical epistemological critique of anthropological writing." -- George Marcus, University of California, Irvine "The confidence and optimism that Fabian expresses contributes in no small way to the exhilarating intellectual experience this book offers." -- Gauri Viswanathan, Columbia University xTable of ContentsForeword: Syntheses of a Critical Anthropology, by Matti Bunzl Preface to the Reprint Edition Preface and Acknowledgments 1. Time and the Emerging Other 2. Our Time, Their Time, No Time: Coevalness Denied 3. Time and Writing About the Other 4. The Other and the Eye: Time and the Rhetoric of Vision 5. Conclusions Postscript: The Other Revisited Notes References Cited Index
£85.50
Columbia University Press The Trouble with PostBlackness
Book SynopsisScholars, novelists, poets, and journalists revisit the idea of “blackness” and whether it is a concept we can--or should--move beyond.Trade ReviewAn excellent collection and a timely intervention in a conversation with important ramifications for scholarship and civic life. There is both breadth and depth in these pieces, and a pleasing and engaging diversity of concerns and writing styles. -- George Lipsitz, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness The Trouble with Post-Blackness courageously puts to rest the dangerous, delusory, and fabulous (as in 'fable') claim that we inhabit a post-racial America. Through these critically engaging essays, the concept of 'post-blackness' is indeed troubled, rendered turbid and untenable in an America in which black people continue to face ontological occlusion and existential foreclosure. This text refuses mythopoetic slogans and faddish signifiers, instead ethically grounding us in the temporal now and refusing to mock those black bodies that face an anti-black America that continues to mark them as dangerous, criminal, and existentially nugatory. -- George Yancy, Duquesne University, author of Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race A thoughtful, if not gentle, scholarly refutation of a controversial claim of a post-racial society. Kirkus Reviews This thoughtful, provocative, and only occasionally heavy-going collection of essays... persuasively argues that what Toure calls 'being like Barack' really just maintains normative whiteness as an untroubled, unanalyzed construct. Publishers Weekly An excellent collection of essays from impressive minds responding openly to what black identity was, is, and perhaps will be... Anyone with an expressed interest in racial history and identity will enjoy this read. Library JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Dubious Stage of Post-Blackness-Performing Otherness, Conserving Dominance, by K. Merinda Simmons 1. What Was Is: The Time and Space of Entanglement Erased by Post-Blackness, by Margo Natalie Crawford 2. Black Literary Writers and Post-Blackness, by Stephanie Li 3. African Diasporic Blackness Out of Line: Trouble for "Post-Black" African Americanism, by Greg Thomas 4. Fear of a Performative Planet: Troubling the Concept of "Post-Blackness", by Rone Shavers 5. E-Raced: #Toure, Twitter, and Trayvon, by Riche Richardson 6. Post-Blackness and All of the Black Americas, by Heather D. Russell 7. Embodying Africa: Roots-Seekers and the Politics of Blackness, by Bayo Holsey 8. "The world is a ghetto": Post-Racial America(s) and the Apocalypse, by Patrice Rankine 9. The Long Road Home, by Erin Aubry Kaplan 10. Half as Good, by John L. Jackson Jr. 11. "Whither Now and Why": Content Mastery and Pedagogy-a Critique and a Challenge, by Dana A. Williams 12. Fallacies of the Post-Race Presidency, by Ishmael Reed 13. Thirteen Ways of Looking at Post-Blackness (after Wallace Stevens), by Emily Raboteau Conclusion: Why the Lega Mask Has Many Mouths and Multiple Eyes, by Houston A. Baker Jr. List of Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press The Extinct Scene Late Modernism and Everyday
Book SynopsisExamines late modernism’s decisive turn toward everyday life, locating in the heightened scrutiny of details, textures, and experiences an intimate attempt to conceptualize geopolitical disorder.Trade ReviewThe Extinct Scene encourages us to see how British intellectuals, metropolitan and colonial, registered the impact of world-historical events-especially the Second World War and the collapse of the British Empire-through depictions of the everyday. With fresh readings of canonical writers and suggestive interpretations of less widely studied figures, this book offers a smart and timely contribution to the ongoing reevaluation of midcentury modernism. -- Peter Kalliney, University of Kentucky The Extinct Scene is a superb conceptual and historical contribution to twentieth-century literary studies, treating the period of geopolitical crisis between World War I and World War II. Thomas S. Davis rethinks the legacies of avant-gardism and modernism in Britain in the wake of World War I, tracing an 'outward turn' that enfolds modernist techniques into realist forms. With astute readings of texts and films that focus on everyday scenes and objects-amid bombed landscapes and under the specter of another war-Davis also considers how these aesthetics reflect authors' investments in state-rebuilding projects or in nationalist sentiment. Drawing deftly on critical theory, The Extinct Scene also develops an exemplary method for interpreting literature and authorship in its geopolitical context. -- Laura Doyle, University of Massachusetts The Extinct Scene opens up a new trove of modernist genres that gave literary form to the world-systemic transitions of the mid-twentieth century. Davis's insistence on the geopolitical rather than the global as the frame of reference for experimental writing makes this book more conceptually rigorous and politically current than other works in transnational modernisms. An entirely convincing account of the period, as deft in its fine-grained readings as it is inspiring in its theoretical ambition. -- Jed Esty, author of Unseasonable Youth: Modernism, Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development [An] impressive study... [Davis] provides fresh insights into a period already intensely studied, offering new and wide-ranging interpretations... Recommended. Choice A brilliant and timely book... [The Extinct Scene] combines theoretical sophistication with historical detail to produce finely grained readings. -- Allan Hepburn Modernism / modernity [A] brilliant book... Davis brings a new level of archival density and diversity - from Mass-Observation to the Windrush generation - to bear on conversations about Modernism and the way we relate global events to the developing variety and social agility of aesthetic form throughout this convulsive era. -- David James Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Late Modernism and the Outward Turn 1. The Last Snapshot of the British Intelligentsia: Documentary, Mass-Observation, and the Fate of the Liberal Avant-Garde 2. The Historical Novel at History's End 3. Late Modernism's Geopolitical Imagination: Everyday Life in the Global Hot Zones 4. War Gothic 5. "It is de age of colonial concern": Vernacular Fictions and Political Belonging Epilogue: "Appointments to keep in the past" Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Sex Crimes Transnational Problems and Global
Book SynopsisThis book is the first to investigate all aspects of sexual crimes and the policy and management initiatives developed to address them from a transnational, global perspectiveTrade ReviewThis book presents various forms and contexts in which sexual crime takes place and how international perspectives on sexuality, human rights, and moral and legal principles provide a global framework. The latter is likely to expand and enrich students' understanding of sex crimes and appreciation of how local conditions shape sexual crimes and communities' responses to them. The book introduces students to the global range of sex offenses, sexual deviance, and sexual violence, presenting the many forms these behaviors take, the diverse contexts in which they occur, the international approaches to the manifestation of sex offenses, and the policies that address them. -- Edna Erez, University of Illinois at Chicago Sex Crimes provides a welcome new perspective on much discussed yet often poorly understood themes. The editors successfully analyze the complexity of sex crimes beyond the emotive outrage that some, not other, sex crimes elicit in the public eye. Instead, they propose a transnational framework to look at such crimes, exploring legal approaches as well as policies of treatment, prevention, and support. The excellent and diverse presentation of case studies and contexts, from trafficking to war crimes, animal rights, and masculinity studies, helps highlight links between and disruptions in the way sex crimes are seen and dealt with in international and domestic law and policy. A must read for anyone interested in sex crimes and the transnational. -- Jelke Boesten, King's College London A good read and a good introduction to the field... Highly recommended. Choice An essential read for anyone interested in gaining a more complete and global perspective on sexual violence. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and TraumaTable of ContentsPart I. Foundational Chapters Introduction, by Alissa R. Ackerman and Rich Furman 1. The Movement of Sexual Content and Sex Crimes from the Local to the Transnational, by Jay S. Albanese 2. What Is a "Sex Crime"? An Examination of the Various Definitions of Rape Across Countries, by Lisa L. Sample and Rita Augustyn 3. The Use of Masculinities in the Understanding and Treatment of Male Sexual Offenders, by Alissa R. Ackerman, Rich Furman, Jeffrey W. Cohen, Eric Madfis, and Michelle Sanchez 4. A World of Hurt: An International Look at Intimate Partner Violence, by Elicka S. Peterson-Sparks Part II. Sex Trafficking in a Transnational World 5. Global Sex Trafficking Overview: Facts, Myths, and Debates, by Mary Hiquan Zhou 6. INGOs and the UN Trafficking Protocol, by Charles Anthony Smith and Cynthia Florentino 7. Sex Work and Agency: Decriminalization of Prostitution, by Cathy Nguyen, Rich Furman, and Alissa R. Ackerman Part III. Examples and Contexts of Transnational Sex Crimes 8. Sexual Violence Against Political Prisoners: An Examination of Empirical Evidence in El Salvador and Peru, by Michele Leiby 9. Conflict and Postconflict Sexual Violence in Africa: Case Studies of Liberia, Northern Uganda, and Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, by Helen Liebling 10. Donor Dollars and Ministerial Mindsets: Constraints on NGO Responses to Rape in Cambodia, by Catherine Burns and Kathleen Daly 11. Sexual Abuse Within Institutional Contexts, by Anne-Marie McAlinden 12. Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church, by Karen J. Terry 13. Sexual Violence By and Against Trans People, by Phoenix J. Freeman 14. The Sexual Abuse of Animals, by Jennifer Maher List of Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press The Best American Magazine Writing 2014
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Mark Jannot, vice president, content, National Audubon Society, president, American Society of Magazine Editors Acknowledgments, by Sid Holt, chief executive, American Society of Magazine Editors The Second Biggest Star in a Remote Little Burg Somewhere in Germany, by Tom Junod Apple Breaks the Mold: An Oral History, by Max Chafkin The Dream Boat, by Luke Mogelson Orders of Grief, by Lisa Miller Jahar's World, by Janet Reitman Thanksgiving in Mongolia, by Ariel Levy Shark Week and Difficult Women and Private Practice, by Emily Nussbaum Overexposed and Radical Revival and Behind the Facade, by Witold Rybczynski Sliver of Sky, by Barry Lopez Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us, by Steven Brill How Long Can You Wait to Have a Baby?, by Jean M. Twenge Michael Jordan Has Not Left the Building, by Wright Thompson Bret, Unbroken, by Steve Friedman Dangerous, by Joshua Davis The Sinking of the Bounty, by Matthew Shaer Nineteen: The Yarnell Hill Fire, by Kyle Dickman Elegies, by Kathleen Ossip The Embassy of Cambodia, by Zadie Smith Permissions List of Contributors
£14.24
Columbia University Press The Best American Magazine Writing 2015
Book SynopsisOur collection of the year’s most original writing on politics, culture, sports, health, sex, race, celebrity, and more.Trade ReviewBeginning with Ta-nehisi Coates' brilliant essay on reparations and ending with a poignant New Yorker piece, this collection lets you be in the know without having to scramble through endless material. Campus CircleTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Evan Ratliff, editor of The Atavist Acknowledgments, by Sid Holt, chief executive, American Society of Magazine Editors The Case for Reparations, by Ta-Nehisi Coates Women Aren't Welcome Here, by Amanda Hess The College Rape Overcorrection, by Emily Yoffe When Michael Dunn Compared Himself to a Rape Victim, He Was Following an Old, Racist Script and I Don't Care If You Like It and The Slenderman Stabbing Shows Girls Will Be Girls, Too, by Rebecca Traister Shame and Survival, by Monica Lewinsky Inside the Iron Closet: What It's Like to Be Gay in Putin's Russia, by Jeff Sharlet Love and Ruin, by James Verini The Ballad of Geeshie and Elvie, by John Jeremiah Sullivan The Truth About Chicago's Crime Rates, by David Bernstein and Noah Isackson The Sea of Crises, by Brian Phillips Zombies on the Walls: Why Does So Much New Abstraction Look the Same? and Taking in Jeff Koons, Creator and Destroyer of Worlds and Post-Macho God: Matisse's Cut-Outs Are World-Historically Gorgeous, by Jerry Saltz Follow Me: Kate Upton Leads the Charge of Models Who've Gone Crazy for Social Media, by Jonathan Van Meter Jackie's Goodbye, by Tiffany Stanley This Old Man, by Roger Angell The Emerald Light in the Air, by Donald Antrim Permissions List of Contributors
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Columbia University Press Motionless Pictures
Book SynopsisChallenges the primacy of motion in cinema and tests the theoretical limits of film aesthetics and representation.Trade ReviewAn ambitious undertaking, supported by admirably clear prose and an impressive range of research. -- Richard Dienst, Rutgers University Remes's concise writing eloquently recounts his sensitive attention to the screened films that he discusses. His subsequent, objectively based observations are often profound. His description and analysis of the implications of what he has seen in my own films is revealing even to me. Unique in its emphasis on the single frame as the core of cinema, this book is one of the best books ever written about 'experimental' film. -- Michael Snow Justin Remes' Motion(less) Pictures is written and argued so well that one can enjoy it and learn from it without much liking the cinema of stasis. Early on, the book grants us leave to view Warhol's Empire or Sleep in a state of high distraction, perhaps while munching panini and conversing with friends. We can even exit and take a stroll. Remes rightly links both films to Erik Satie's 'furniture music'--'music to which,' John Cage said, 'one did not have to listen' (Satie himself said that 'a man who has not heard Furniture music does not know happiness"). Other types of stasis cinema--"protracted cinema," "the textual film," and "the monochrome film'--invite more sustained attention. In every type, though, duration is more palpable than motion, and Remes recommends that duration rather than motion be considered the 'indispensable component' of all cinema. Yet mindful that cinema is richly diverse and ever changing, he resists reducing it to a single essence. He calls instead for 'a theory of film... as flexible and expansive as cinema itself,' and cites, as supporters as well as foils, multiple artists, theorists, and philosophers. Among them are Michael Snow, Bill Viola, Nam June Paik, Tom Gunning, Steve Shaviro, Noel Carroll, Plato, Aristotle, Bergson, Wittgenstein, Barthes, and Deleuze. The result is a broad survey of aesthetic thought and practice that, while illuminating all of cinema, deftly transposes stillness from the margins of our attention to the center. -- Ira Jaffe, author of Slow Movies: Countering the Cinema of Action A brilliant book... Highly recommended. Choice A worthwhile examination of a small but notable canon. Prefix Photo MagazineTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Filmic 2. Serious Immobilities: Andy Warhol, Erik Satie, and the Furniture Film 3. Stasis in Fluxus: Disappearing Music for Face and Protracted Cinema 4. Boundless Ontologies: Michael Snow, Wittgenstein, and the Textual Film 5. Colored Blindness: Derek Jarman's Blue and the Monochrome Film 6. Conclusion: Static Cinema in the Digital Age Appendix 1. The Cinema of Stasis Appendix 2. Films Relevant to Understanding the Cinema of Stasis Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Autobiography of an Archive
Book SynopsisA scholar’s intellectual awakening set against the backdrop of two disciplines and many journeys.Trade ReviewA unique and compelling volume with a great deal of fascinating material and provocative observations. Nicholas B. Dirks's essays will be extremely influential for the large and growing public interested in India. -- David Szanton, University of California, Berkeley, and editor of The Politics of Knowledge: Area Studies and the Disciplines Using the conceit of an autobiography, this book dazzles with luminous reflections on the archive of knowledge on India. As a leading scholar of India in the American academy, Nicholas B. Dirks offers original insights on the history and politics of scholarship, on empire and its entailment in the production of knowledge, and on the career of history and anthropology as disciplines. Autobiography of an Archive showcases Dirks at his best as a scholar and cultural critic. -- Gyan Prakash, author of Mumbai Fables Nicholas B. Dirks has taken to heart the disciplinary alliance between Anthropology and History that Keith Thomas so fruitfully articulated in theory (and then pursued in practice) a half century ago. In these essays he artfully pursues it himself via an autobiographical unfolding of his own archival path of discovery as a scholar of India. The essays will be greatly admired not only for their knowledgeable, distinctive, and acute grasp of the difficult and well-mined phenomena of kingship and caste and colonialism but also for the sustained and detailed angle of sympathy and regard they present on those oppressed by that phenomena. -- Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University Autobiography of an Archive is a compelling synthesis of his extraordinary career as a scholar, teacher, and institution builder. Nicholas B. Dirks's account of the interconnections between anthropology and history and his commitment to the internationalization of liberal learning make his book a vital contribution to contemporary discussions of globalization and education. -- Michael S. Roth, president, Wesleyan University Nicholas B. Dirks, with his consummate clarity and stylistic finesse, takes the reader on an autobiographical and historical journey to show both how history and culture are imbricated in the making of these fields and more generally to why history so matters to the future visions of the vitality and the openness we must embrace to understand our world today. -- Ann Laura Stoler, New School for Social Research An incredible book, a work that needs to be relished slowly... Anthropology News Taut, clear language, which, at times, becomes almost lyrical. H-NetTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Passage to India Part I. Autobiography 1. Annals of the Archive: Ethnographic Notes on the Sources of History 2. Autobiography of an Archive 3. Preface to the Second Edition of The Hollow Crown Part II. History and Anthropology 4. Castes of Mind 5. Ritual and Resistance: Subversion as a Social Fact 6. The Policing of Tradition: Colonialism and Anthropology in Southern India Part III. Empire 7. Imperial Sovereignty 8. Bringing the Company Back In: The Scandal of Early Global Capitalism 9. The Idea of Empire Part IV. The Politics of Knowledge 10. In Near Ruins: Cultural Theory at the End of the Century 11. G. S. Ghurye and the Politics of Sociological Knowledge 12. South Asian Studies: Futures Past Part V. University 13. Franz Boas and the American University: A Personal Account 14. Scholars and Spies: Worldly Knowledge and the Predicament of the University 15. The Opening of the American Mind Notes Permissions Index
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Columbia University Press International Politics and Film Space Vision
Book SynopsisInternational Politics and Film draws attention to how the relationship between the visual and the spatial is constitutive of international politicsTrade ReviewUsing succinct, informative case studies and with crystal clear writing International Politics and Film provides an important (even, urgent) account of the co-constitutive relationship between film and international politics. Cogent and lively readings of a wide range of important political films will help further open channels of communication between the disciplines of film studies and International Relations. The authors make a persuasive argument for the relevance of international relations to film studies and vice versa, and the book should be considered essential reading for students and scholars of both disciplines. -- Guy Westwell, Queen Mary, University of London; author of War Cinema: Hollywood on the Front Line (2006) and Parallel Lines: Post-9/11 American Cinema (2014)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Film and International Politics 2. Borders 3. Exceptional Spaces 4. Distant Others 5. Homeland 6. Space, Vision, Power Filmography Bibliography Index
£16.19
Columbia University Press Film Theory
Book SynopsisFilm Theory addresses the core concepts and arguments created or used by academics, critical film theorists, and filmmakersTrade ReviewSuccint yet detailed, comprehensive, engaging and entertaining, this volume astutely charts the importance and continuing relevance of theory for film studies. It is also polemical and original insofar as it debunks a range of misconceptions relating to film theory, while also offering insights into challenging new theoretical domains. -- Richard Rushton, Lancaster University In her concise but also unconventional account Colman challenges readers, refusing to shy away from film theory's complexity or from deliberate provocation... Refreshing... Impressive... New Review of Film and TelevisionTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: The Written Matter of a Cinematic Grammar 1. Models 2. Technology 3. Spectators Conclusion: Film Theory as Practice Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Slow Movies Countering the Cinema of Action
Book SynopsisIn all film there is the desire to capture the motion of life, to refuse immobility, Agnes Varda has noted. But to capture the reality of human experience, cinema must fasten on stillness and inaction as much as motion. Slow Movies investigates movies by acclaimed international directors who in the past three decades have challenged mainstream cinema's reliance on motion and action. More than other realist art cinema, slow movies by Lisandro Alonso, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Pedro Costa, Jia Zhang-ke, Abbas Kiarostami, Cristian Mungiu, Alexander Sokurov, Bela Tarr, Gus Van Sant and others radically adhere to space-times in which emotion is repressed along with motion; editing and dialogue yield to stasis and contemplation; action surrenders to emptiness if not death.Trade ReviewSuperb... A brilliant writer, Jaffe deftly... [gives] the reader a window into a much wider world of cinema. Yet another excellent film book from Wallflower Press... commands the reader's attention. ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction Deadpan: Stranger Than Paradise, Deadman and The Second Circle Stillness: Elephant and Mother and Son Long Shot: Distant and Climates Wait Time: The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days and Safe Drift and Resistance: Liverpool and Ossos Death-Drive, Life-Drive: A Talking Picture, Taste of Cherry, Five Dedicated to Ozu and Still Life Rebellion's Limits: The Turin Horse, Werckmeister Harmonies and 12:08 East of Bucharest Notes Index
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Columbia University Press The Ultimate Stallone Reader Sylvester Stallone
Book SynopsisEleven original essays by internationally-known scholars examine Stallone's contributions to mainstream cinema, independent film, and televisionTrade ReviewThis wide-ranging collection of perceptive and provocative essays turns the iconic figure and films of Sylvester Stallone into a dynamic conversation not only about Stallone himself but also about key issues and debates in cinema culture today. -- Timothy Corrigan, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Presenting Stallone/Stallone Presents, by Chris Holmlund Staying Alive: Stallone, Authorship and Contemporary Hollywood Aesthetics, by Paul Ramaeker Logic is the Cure, Meet the Disease: The Melos of Cobra, by Scott Higgins I, of the Tiger: Self and Self-Obsession in the Rocky Series, by Eric Lichtenfeld Stallone and Hollywood in Transition, by Mark Gallagher Adventures in Acting: Stallone the Performer, by Chris Holmlund Stallone's Stomach: Cop Land and the Weight of Actorly Legitimisation, by Paul McDonald The Rocky Effect: Sylvester Stallone as Sport Hero, by Alexandra Keller & Frazer Ward 'Who wouldn't want a body like that?': Masculinity, Muscularity and Male Audiences for the Films of Sylvester Stallone, by Ian Huffer Sylvester Stallone and John Rambo's Trek across Asia: Politics, Performance and American Empire, by Gina Marchetti Stallone, Ageing and Action Authenticity, by Yvonne Tasker Filmography Index
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Wallflower Press The Struggle for Form
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHighly recommended. CHOICE The variety of voices contained within this slim volume celebrates the different kinds of discourse generated by and about avant-garde filmmakers. The result is a collection as formally experimental as many of the films in question-one that makes for exuberant reading. Slavic and East European JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction 1. The Themersons and the Polish Avant-Garde: Warsaw-Paris-London, by A. L. Rees 2. 'The Inexpressible Unearthly Beauty of the Cinematograph': The Impact of Polish Futurism on the First Polish Avant-Garde Films, by Kamila Kuc Excerpts from the 'Archives' of the Polish Avant-Garde 3. The Search for a 'More Spacious Form': Experimental Trends in Polish Documentary (1945-1989), by Mikolaj Jazdon 4. Avant-Garde and the Thaw: Experimentation in Polish Cinema of the 1950s and 1960s, by Marcin Gizycki 5. Avant-Garde Exploits: The Cultural Highs and Lows of Polish Emigre Cinema, by Jonathan L. Owen 6. The Mechanical Imagination-Creativity of Machines: Film Form Workshop 1970-1977, by Ryszard Kluszczynski 7. The 1980s: From Specificity to the New Tradition-Avant-Garde Film and Video Art in Poland, by Ryszard Kluszczynski Film Form Workshop Statements 8. A Rebellion a la Polonaise, by Mateusz Werner Bibliography Filmography Index of Names
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Columbia University Press There Are Two Sexes
Book SynopsisKey selections from the work of a groundbreaking French feminist who thought beyond Freud and Lacan to realize true parity between men and women.Trade ReviewThis is a strong and powerful collection that repays reading and rereading by anyone interested in the areas of sex, gender, and women. -- Owen Heathcote, author of From Bad Boys to New Men? Masculinity, Sexuality, and Violence in the Work of Eric Jourdan Antoinette Fouque played a decisive role in the formation and subsequent history of the women's liberation movement in France. An extraordinary character, a highly cultivated woman, and a relentless activist, she took controversial steps while opening new paths for the inscription and recognition of women in the world. Her formulations were idiosyncratic, forceful, debatable, and provocative. This book is a precious testimony to her thought and action. It will help the English-speaking world interested in feminism complete the intellectual and political puzzle formed by what was called 'French Feminism' some decades ago. -- Anne-Emmanuelle Berger, Cornell University The feminology Fouque advocates here goes beyond feminism, since it triggers drastic shifts in our all-too-familiar worldview. Modernity is her tempo. Movement is her motto. Gestation is her guiding thread for a new epistemology, one of a world in which misogyny is eliminated. Procreation is her paradigm for a new human contract. The quest for liberty is her calling. The will to stay ahead of the game is her way of changing the rules. Sparkling with wit, this story of an everlasting commitment deserves a place in the international hall of fame. -- Laurence Zordan, philosopher and writer There Are Two Sexes departs from the same principle as Simone de Beauvoir's classic The Second Sex, that the feminine is devalued within traditional human cultures. Yet Fouque does not conclude, as feminists do, that it is necessary to align the secondary sex with the primary one. Instead, she accords women their own genius, a genius she calls matricial, a creative faculty that first appears in procreation, the power of life. In the process, the struggle of women for recognition is altered and exalted. -- Francois Guery, faculty of philosophy, University Jean Moulin Lyon A fitting testimony to the dedication and energy of a remarkable woman. -- Catherine Rodgers Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsForeword, by Jean-Joseph Goux Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments Note on the Translation 1. Our Movement Is Irreversible 2. Women in Movements: Yesterday 3. There Are Two Sexes 4. Does Psychoanalysis Have an Answer for Women? 5. The Plague of Misogyny 6. And If We Were to Speak of Women's Powerlessness? 7. "It Is Not Power That Corrupts But Fear": Aung San Suu Kyi 8. My Freud, My Father 9. From Liberation to Democratization 10. Our Editorial Policy Is a Poethics 11. Dialogue with Isabelle Huppert 12. Recognitions 13. Wartime Rapes 14. Religion, Women, Democracy 15. Our Bodies Belong to Us: Dialogue with Taslima Nasrin 16. Homage to Serge Leclaire 17. How to Democratize Psychoanalysis? 18. Democracy and Its Discontents 19. Tomorrow, Parity 20. Women and Europe 21. If This Is a Woman 22. They're Burning a Woman 23. What Is a Woman? 24. Gestation for Another: Paradigm of the Gift 25. Gravida Notes Biographical Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Wombs in Labor
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWombs in Labor is an absorbing and meticulously researched work. Amrita Pande fruitfully scrutinises the minutiae of interactions among surrogates and the community of a clinic for their underlying meaning... recommended to anyone interested in the subject of surrogacy and will please all readers. LSE Review of Books Wombs in Labor is an important book that sheds light on the workings of transnational commercial surrogacy in India... This book is a valuable read for anyone interested in commercial surrogacy, global inequality and women's labor. -- Koh Sin Yee Asian Review of Books A theoretically sophisticated and nuanced ethnography of interest to scholars in South Asian studies, women's studies, reproductive health, and labor studies. Choice At times heart-wrenching, Pande's ethnographic research provides a detailed and empathetic look at the business of India's surrogacy industry... Journal of International Womens Studies an excellent contribution to undergraduate or graduate classes on globalization, reproduction, gender, or work. -- Anna Curtis Gender and Society a fascinating look at the world of the Indian surrogate and the choice she makes in an effort to better her and her family's economic status. -- Sarah Thomas Journal of International Women's Studies Wombs in Labor is foundational. -- Rajani Bhatia Womens Review of Books Wombs in Labor is a valuable and timely contribution to the steadily increasing scholarship on assisted reproductive technologies and is a fascinating addition to the anthropology of work. Anthropology of Work ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Wombs in Labor 2. Pro-natal Technologies in an Anti-natal State 3. When the Fish Talk About the Water 4. Manufacturing the Perfect Mother-Worker 5. Everyday Divinities and God's Labor 6. Embodied Labor and Neo-eugenics 7. Disposable Workers and Dirty Labor 8. Disposable Mothers and Kin Labor 9. Conclusion: Aporia of Surrogacy Epilogue: Did the "Sperm on a Rickshaw" Save the Third World? Appendix A. Selected Clauses from the Assisted Reproductive Technologies (Regulation) Draft Bill Appendix B. Consent Form to Be Signed by Surrogates Appendix C. Descriptive Tables Notes Works Cited Index
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Columbia University Press Ballots Bullets and Bargains American Foreign
Book SynopsisA long-time public servant explicitly connects the various phases of our presidential election system to the content and conduct of American foreign policy.Trade ReviewMichael H. Armacost has created a detailed history of post-World War II American foreign policy, organized and interpreted in the phases of our presidential election process. His insights about the dynamic interplay between campaign politics and foreign policy do not reassure that the world's major power can produce leaders with the vision and experience to effectively manage America's international engagement. Yet despite political dysfunction, our presidents have shown skill in learning on the job and using our substantial national resources in the service of the security and international interests of the United States. -- Richard H. Solomon, former director of policy planning and assistant secretary of state, former president of the United States Institute of Peace, and senior fellow at the RAND Corporation Drawing on careful study as well as his own rich experience as a diplomat, Michael H. Armacost offers unique and nuanced insights. This is a superb discussion of U.S. foreign policy in the context of presidential politics since the elections of 1948. With less than two years to go before our next presidential contest, this is an especially timely and thoughtful read. -- John Negroponte, former deputy secretary of state ...fascinating study... Publishers Weekly Readers will find this a useful, accessible survey of the topic, enriched by Armacost's firsthand recollections from his diplomatic career. Library Journal Don't miss this thought-provoking read that places American politics in a uniquely global context. Biographile A readable, balanced, and detailed account. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Elections, Parties, and Politics 2. Quest for the Nomination: Appealing to the Base 3. Campaigns: Opportunities and Challenges for Incumbents 4. Campaigns: Opportunities and Obstacles for Challengers 5. Presidential Transitions 6. Launching a Presidential Term Conclusion Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Berkshire Beyond Buffett
Book SynopsisAn insightful look into Berkshire Hathaway’s unique corporate culture and vast system of enduring values.Trade ReviewCunningham is a writer and scholar well known to the Berkshire Hathaway faithful, and he was Warren Buffett's pick for cataloging and organizing Berkshire's famous annual reports. Now he has taken us in a new direction, directly into the purchases of companies made by Buffett. An insightful and important book. -- Robert Hagstrom, author of The Warren Buffett Way How did Warren Buffett build such a great firm? To unravel this mystery, Cunningham takes a deep dive inside the culture of Berkshire Hathaway's subsidiaries, highlighting the values of integrity, kinship, and autonomy-and revealing how building moats around the castles may help the firm outlast its visionary founder. -- Adam Grant, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, author of Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success Berkshire Hathaway's trajectory has been so seamless that Warren Buffett's professional transition has gone almost unnoticed. The man who began his business life as a precocious 'stock picker' has morphed into the chief executive of one of the largest collections of businesses in the world. Lawrence A. Cunningham's book astutely chronicles this development. -- From the foreword by Tom Murphy, Berkshire Hathaway director and former CEO of ABC, Inc. An absolute must-read for advisors... this book is one of the great chronicles of corporate history...[an] excpetional volume. [Ranked sixth best book of the year] Financial Advisor A timely contribution to a swelling debate... an encyclopedic history of the group's operating businesses. Financial Times A detailed study of Berkshire's portfolio and an intriguing profile of the Sage of Omaha's approach to management, not just investment. The Times Important, insightful, and clearly written... a major contribution to the management literature, this book should be read by managers of all organizations, business professors and students, business owners, and investors. Choice There is much to learn from Mr. Cunningham's stories about the companies that Berkshire Hathaway owns. The Economist If you're fascinated with growth strategies, you'll find few books more valuable. Independent Agent A worthy read. Strategy+BusinessTable of ContentsForeword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part One 1. Origins 2. Diversity 3. Culture Part Two 4. Budget-conscious and Earnest 5. Reputation 6. Kinship 7. Self-starters 8. Hands-off 9. Investor Savvy 10. Rudimentary 11. Eternal 12. All One 13. Berkshire's Portfolio Part Three 14. Succession 15. Challenges 16. B.E.R.K.S.H.I.R.E. Epilogue Appendix Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press The Death Penalty in China
Book SynopsisExplains what it took to advance reforms to limit death sentences and executions in China while identifying the challenges that prevent more extensive progressTrade ReviewNo institution in the legal system of contemporary China has attracted more controversy and misunderstanding than the death penalty. Moreover, remarkable changes have significantly altered the way the death penalty is perceived and applied in the world's most populous state. The Death Penalty in China is required reading for anyone desiring to keep abreast of China's evolving legal landscape, criminal justice reform, and perplexing human rights environment. Highly recommended. -- Andrew Scobell, coauthor of China's Search for Security This excellent collection of essays should be greatly welcomed, providing as it does insights into the way that Chinese scholars, both within and outside China, as well as foreign scholars who have studied the Chinese system in depth, explain the changes underway and assess their significance. The Death Penalty in China needs to be read by everyone concerned with the project of eliminating capital punishment throughout the world. -- from the foreword by Roger Hood, emeritus professor of criminology, University of Oxford This outstanding book describes proficiently what is known and knowable about the death penalty in transition in China today. The cooperation between excellent Chinese scholars and world-renowned scholars from abroad secures relevance and accuracy. Debates and practices are captured in light of Chinese death penalty history, the special character of the Chinese state, as well as in comparison to other Chinas of the present. -- Lill Scherdin, project leader, Universities Against the Death Penalty A timely assessment of China's death penalty reform in context, this volume is a must read for academics and activists. ChoiceTable of ContentsForeword Preface and Acknowledgments 1. China's Death Penalty Practice: Working Progress, Struggle, and Challenges Within the Global Abolition Movement, by Bin Liang 2. The Criminal Justice System and the Death Penalty, by Hong Lu, Yudu Liu, and Charlotte Hu 3. Crimes of Counterrevolution and Politicized Use of the Death Penalty During the Mao Era, by Ning Zhang 4. China's Death Penalty in a State-Power-Based Society, by Yunhai Wang 5. From "Killing Many" to "Killing Fewer", by Susan Trevaskes 6. The Abolitionist and Retentionist Debate, by Zhigang Yu (translated by Charlotte Hu) 7. Guiding Cases for China's Death Penalty: Analysis and Reflection, by Xingliang Chen (translated by Charlotte Hu) 8. The Death Penalty After the Restoration of Centralized Review: An Empirical Study on Capital Sentencing, by Moulin Xiong 9. Public Opinion and the Death Penalty, by Shanhe Jiang 10. Between Deference and Defiance: Courts and Penal Populism in Chinese Capital Cases, by Hualing Fu 11. Chinese Capital Punishment in Comparative Perspective, by David T. Johnson and Michelle Miao 12. China's Death Penalty in the Twenty-First Century, by Bin Liang and Hong Lu List of Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press Love and Forgiveness for a More Just World
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewEngaging scholars in a debate that is situated on the cutting edge of critical theory and contemporary philosophy, Hent de Vries and Nils F. Schott have succeeded beautifully in shifting perspective toward a more totalizing philosophy in conversation with ethics, religion, theology, and literature. -- Willemien Otten, University of Chicago This timely and highly stimulating set of essays examines the theological, historical, literary, dramatic, political, and theological resources of love and forgiveness in the world today. The authors find love and forgiveness to be centrally related to questions of justice and recognition, to the alert and attentive desire to see the world and each other aright. I highly recommend this bracing and thought-provoking book. -- Sarah Beckwith, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Human Alert: Concepts and Practices of Love and Forgiveness, by Hent de Vries and Nils F. Schott 1. Orange Alert, by Haleh Liza Gafori 2. What Love Knows, by Jean-Luc Marion 3. Unpower: An Interview with Hugues Choplin, by Jean-Luc Marion 4. Revenge, Forgiveness, and Love, by Regina M. Schwartz 5. Love and Law: Some Thoughts on Judaism and Calvinism, by Leora Batnitzky 6. "A Mother to All": Love and the Institution of Community in Augustine, by Nils F. Schott 7. Looking Evil in the Eye/I: The Interminable Work of Forgiveness, by Orna Ophir 8. Beyond Right and Wrong: An Exploration of Justice and Forgiveness, by Albert Mason 9. Remarks on Love, by Jacques Derrida 10. To Forgive: The Unforgivable and the Imprescriptible, by Jacques Derrida 11. Thoughts on Love, by Sari Nusseibeh 12. The Passionate Utterance of Love, by Hent de Vries Suggested Reading Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press Learn or Die
Book SynopsisA cutting-edge synthesis of behavioral psychology, cognitive science, and educational theory that teaches businesses how to learn better and faster.Trade ReviewAs digital technologies race ahead there is a growing need for creativity and innovation. But how can we build organizations that foster the highest levels of creativity and innovation? Learn or Die is a blueprint for creating such organizations. -- Erik Brynjolffson, Co-author, The Second Machine Age In Learn or Die Ed Hess knits an impressive fabric of insights from widely disparate strands of thought, experience, research, and real cases. Hess harnesses new evidence to challenge old nostrums. Practical and provocative, this book ranges across vital issues such as learning, innovation, team-building, and leadership. Read this book and prosper; read it before your competitor gets to it. -- Robert Bruner, Dean, Darden School of Business This book does a beautiful job bringing together the most important ideas in organizational learning, established by academics and practitioners over the past thirty years or more, into one place. -- Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Harvard Business School An excellent book. In Learn or Die, Edward D. Hess captures a central element to enhancing and sustaining success as a business organization or as one of its leaders-being a high-performance learning organization. This book is a thought-provoking study of the technological advances making this need ever more relevant and provides a comprehensive roadmap of the culture, leadership, employee learning behaviors, HR policies and other organizational processes necessary to build and lead such an organization. -- Roger Carlile, Executive Vice President and CFO, FTI Consulting Learn or Die is a thoughtful and easy-to-read synthesis of the leading thinking on organizational and individual learning. Not only does Hess neatly summarizes what a savvy business person needs to know, but he also provides practical suggestions that will allow the reader to take action. This book contains essential lessons on an important topic-I highly recommend it. -- Joe Timko, chief strategy officer, ADP Learn or Die is a tremendous look into the requirements of high performance individual and team learning. Ed Hess does a masterful job of conveying that learning happens best in a humanistic work environment, enabled by leaders who in reality are great coaches striving to serve others. Learn or Die will help anyone who wants to improve themselves-it changes the game. -- Sam Presti, executive vice president and general manager of Oklahoma City Thunder The smart money is on innovation, which depends on personal and group learning. Ed Hess combines a tour d'horizon of what is known about individual learning and about conducive environments for organizational learning with fascinating case studies of companies who use learning to win. Any leader who needs to encourage innovation will find information and reflections that will be both humbling and inspiring. -- Michael Balay, head of global strategy, Cargill, Inc. Learn or Die in a masterful manner makes it clear that consistent business growth can only be achieved through learning-there is no other way-and that the pace of business change today requires a scientific approach to building a high performance learning organization. For those responsible for leading, Learn or Die should be mandatory reading. -- Terry S. Brown, chairman and chief executive officer, Edens Investment Trust Learn or Die allows the reader to not only to visualize the future, but also, and more importantly, to create the future by unleashing the power and potential of building a learning organization. It has been demonstrated that strategies, systems and processes can be copied by others, yet a company's people, and the way they learn, are true differentiators. Ed Hess captures the essence of a high performing organization and shares his "secret sauce" through an actionable blueprint for becoming a leading-edge learner and creating a high performing organization. -- Jeffrey S. Shuman, senior vice president and chief human resources officer, Quest Diagnostics Ed Hess is doing some of the most interesting and important work in management today and his newest book, Learn or Die, is already my personal favorite. This book is characteristic of all of Ed's work-providing wise but straight-forward and pragmatic advice on finding the right people, creating the right environment and installing the right processes to embed learning. In a globalizing world, where adapting to and learning from difference is likely to be the most critical source of competitive advantage, Learn or Die is a must read for any manager interested in solid, research-based advice on how to survive the increasingly unpredictable, chaotic world we live in. -- Jeanne Liedtka, coauthor of Solving Problems with Design Thinking To achieve and sustain real business success in the 21st century-individual and organizational-you need to understand and leverage the new science of learning. Fortunately, there's "Learn or Die" by Ed Hess, who explains the "why" and "how" better than anybody. This deeply informed, yet practical book provides the new road map for a better "you" and a better company. Read or miss out. -- Andy Fleming, CEO, Way to Grow, Inc. Learn or Die makes a compelling case for the need to create high-performance, human-oriented learning organizations-and for the remarkable degree to which we are all capable of succeeding as leaders by following a path of ongoing, integrative learning. Combining fascinating behavioral research, actionable advice, and superb analysis of real-world business examples, Ed Hess has crafted essential reading for those seeking to prepare their organizations-and themselves-to thrive in a global marketplace characterized by rapid change, fierce competition, and a desperate need for leadership based on principles that are smart, sustainable, and, above all, humane. -- Ming-Jer Chen, former president, Academy of Management I read Learn or Die and found myself intrigued and frankly, a little uncomfortable. So I read it a second time and found that it made me rethink many aspects of my own management style and the guidance I provide our portfolio companies. What hit me like a ton of bricks from Ed's research was the realization that the current approach based on traditional management techniques and performance metrics was unlikely to be both effective and sustainable in the rapidly changing, Darwinian world of venture capital investing and technology innovation. His vision of the learning systems and cultural commitments that define a truly high performance organization is a must read for any business that wants to prepare itself to meet the challenges and succeed in todays business environment-before its too late. -- Frank H. Foster, managing partner, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Frontier and the Gideon Hixon Fund This is by far the best book I've read on the subject of learning. -- Shane Parrish Farnam Street Weekly Learn or Die is a book everyone who is serious about learning and growth - personally or organizationally - should read. If you thought you were serious about it, Learn or Die will take you to a whole new level with tools, case studies, and insights that will challenge your commitment to learning. Leadership Now A must-read for learning professionals. TD: Talent Development Magazine Hess does the great service of examining the processes of both organizational and individual learning... [He] conducts a dialogue with readers that is refreshingly unobscured by jargon and cant... How refreshing it is to have a serious discussion of these important issues. Bravo! ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Part I: The Science of Learning 1. Learn or Die: Building a High-Performance Learning Organization 2. Learning: How Our Mind Works 3. Emotions: The Myth of Rationality 4. Learning: The Right People 5. Creating a Learning Environment 6. Learning Conversations 7. Critical Thinking Tools 8. A Conversation with Dr. Gary Klein Part II: Building a Learning Organization 9. Bridgewater Associates, LP: Building a Learning "Machine" 10. Intuit, Inc.: "It's Time to Bury Caesar" 11. United Parcel Services, Inc.: Being "Constructively Dissatisfied" Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press When the Garden Isnt Eden
Book SynopsisThrough poignant and sometimes painful stories from their personal and professional lives, three practicing psychoanalysts demonstrate the richness of psychodynamic thinking. Each chapter offers an illustrative and powerful personal vignette followed by an analytical reflection that explicates key psychodynamic concepts.Trade ReviewIn this sequel to Wearing My Tutu to Analysis, Malawista, Kanefield, and Adelman masterfully weave together poetry, prose, and storytelling in a way that is both disarming and compelling. When the Garden Isn’t Eden invites psychoanalytically informed engagement with the timely and troubling issues that permeate society. -- Theresa Clement Tisdale, coauthor of Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Eastern Orthodox Christian Anthropology in DialogueThis highly original book connects the facts of life with the ideas of psychoanalysis in the most creative way possible. These wonderful authors know very well how to find the right stories to reintegrate our frequently split parts and to connect psychoanalysis to human life, and vice versa. -- Stefano Bolognini, past president of the International Psychoanalytical AssociationThis beautifully written collection teaches more about psychoanalysis than any textbook. By commenting on narratives of emotionally powerful experiences, the authors manage a rare achievement: the intimate and yet scholarly communication of the complexity, beauty, and applicability of psychoanalytic thought. I recommend the book to anyone interested in how the unconscious unceasingly influences human experience. -- Nancy McWilliams, Rutgers UniversityOpen this book and you discover engaging stories that bring psychological theory and practice alive. Clinicians, aspiring clinicians, and the public will marvel at theoretical concepts brilliantly illuminated by touching personal anecdotes. A Garden of Eden for the psychologically curious! -- Sandra Buechler, author of Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living: Addressing Life's Challenges in Clinical PracticeThis treasure of a book is a gift to us all. The authors have done a superb job of illustrating both key psychoanalytic concepts and the way that analysts think and work by means of stories and clinical vignettes that are as delightful as they are informative. They have made an invaluable contribution to our field. -- Ted Jacobs, author of The Possible Profession: The Analytic Process of ChangeKerry Malawista, Linda Kanefield and Anne Adelman bring their perceptive and wise sensibilities to this subtly sophisticated introduction to psychoanalytic ideas for the interested public and mental health workers. This book is a worthy follow-up to the unforgettable Wearing my Tutu to Analysis. -- Rosemary H. Balsam, author of Women’s Bodies in PsychoanalysisTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Clinical Thoughts1. When the Garden Isn’t Eden (Analysts Reflect on Somatic Memory)2. A Visitation (Analysts Reflect on the Uncanny)3. One Ping at a Time (Analysts Reflect on Mentalization)4. What Are You Thinking? (Analysts Reflect on Projective Identification)5. Three More Days (Analysts Reflect on Identification)Part II: Development6. What Lurks Under the Bed (Analysts Reflect on Separation Anxiety)7. Butterfly Bandage (Analysts Reflect on Death of a Parent in Childhood)8. Saving Swifty (Analysts Reflect on Sibling Rivalry)9. Betrayal (Analysts Reflect on Adolescence Derailment)10. Solid State (Analysts Reflect on Aging)Part III: Therapeutic Listening 11. Lost Cat (Analysts Reflect on Need for Attunement)12. Intoxicating Power (Analysts Reflect on Expansion of Empathy)13. Stepping Over the Threshold (Analysts Reflect on Timing and Tact)14. Ugly Shoes (Analysts Reflect on Reverie)15. The Limo Ride (Analysts Reflect on Self-Disclosure)Part IV: Transitions and Challenges16. I Can’t Believe It’s True (Analysts Reflect on Frozen Grief)17. Mucking the Stall (Analysts Reflect on Sexual Abuse)18. Take Her Blood (Analysts Reflect on Recognizing Resilience)19. On Thin Ice (Analysts Reflect on White Privilege and Othering)20. Virtual Mourning (Analysts Reflect on Remote Connections) Conclusion: The BridgeAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex
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Columbia University Press Coming to Our Senses
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Columbia University Press Wall Streeters
Book SynopsisMany of Wall Street's contemporary trends can be traced back to the work of fourteen critical figures who wrote, and occasionally broke, the rules of American finance. Edward Morris details Wall Street's transformation from a clubby enclave of financiers to a symbol of vast economic power.Trade ReviewWall Streeters is a long overdue book by a highly respected student of American finance. Readers of this book will develop a fuller understanding of how and why Wall Street has become what it is today. -- George H. Walker III, former chairman, Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. and former United States Ambassador to Hungary Enjoyable to read, easy to understand, Wall Streeters is a compendium of the last 150 years of ups and downs in American finance. Ed Morris uses the informative lens of biography to bring this history alive, and they are all here, from the saints to the sinners. Along the way readers will learn the value of finance to our nation, despite Wall Street's problems. -- David Cowen, president, Museum of American Finance Wall Streeters is a wonderful narrative review and an interesting read. This book will be very significant for students, academics, and investment professionals if they want to understand and learn from the mistakes of the past. -- Victor Ricciardi, Goucher College A worthwhile read for those looking to understand the roots of the financial crisis and the present state of the economy. Publishers Weekly [Morris] puts a human face on Wall Street... Experienced Wall Streeters will enjoy this book. Students of finance should be required to read it. -- Brenda Jubin Seeking Alpha [A] retelling of the careers and the personalities... who formed today's world of high finance. -- Dale Singer St. Louis Post-Dispatch A fast and timely primer on how the US got the financial markets it has today... [Wall Streeters] is a book that every college student, baby boomer and voter ought to read. -- Jim Prout Financial HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface 1. J. Pierpont Morgan: Jupiter Part I: Reformers 2. Paul M. Warburg: Daddy Warbucks 3. Carter Glass: Unreconstructed Rebel 4. Ferdinand Pecora: Hellhound of Wall Street Part II: Democratizers 5. Charles E. Merrill: The People's Capitalist 6. John C. Bogle: Saint Jack Part III: Academics 7. Georges F. Doriot: Dream Builder 8. Benjamin Graham: Dean of Wall Street 9. Myron S. Scholes: Professor of Derivatives Part IV: Financial Engineers 10. Alfred Winslow Jones: Financial Hippie 11. Michael R. Milken: Junk Bond King 12. Lewis Ranieri: Father of Securitization Part V: Empire Builders 13. William H. Donaldson: Entrepreneur 14. Sanford I. Weill: Conglomerateur Conclusion Notes Suggestions for Further Reading Index
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Columbia University Press Exception Taken
Book SynopsisJonathan Buchsbaum examines the movements that have emerged in opposition to the homogenizing force of Hollywood in global filmmaking. Exception Taken details how France sought to strengthen support for its film industry and designed strategies to protect the audiovisual industries and to resist cultural free-trade pressures.Trade ReviewException Taken explains and explores a striking state of affairs that most film lovers take for granted: the continued survival, in a globalized, "free" media market, of minority film cultures. This is one of the best- and most thoroughly researched books on cinema that I have ever read, on one of the most important subjects in contemporary world cinema... Buchsbaum tells the story of a political-legal process that has done more to shape the form and content of the modern audiovisual experience than anything else in recent history, and importantly, he shows us why it is so crucial to cinema's future. -- Alan L. Williams, Professor of French and Cinema Studies at Rutgers University and author of Republic of Images: A History of French Filmmaking Jonathan Buchsbaum is one of the leading scholars of the history of French cinema policy and institutions. With this book, he presents an outstanding analysis of a system that has furnished models for other national cinemas. Often, these policies are reduced to a state-imposed system of protection based on taxation and financial assistance. The author counters this by demonstrating it to be an effective and beneficial system of regulation. French policies have ensured that long-term collective interests prevail by introducing qualitative factors that constrain the dominance of short-term economic interests. An essential contribution to understanding what is, and can be, a cinema policy. -- Laurent Creton, Professor in Economy of Cinema, University Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 Jonathan Buchsbaum has given us a powerfully researched analysis of the political economy of French film and state-aided funding systems since the 1970s. Exception Taken shows how French cinema has intersected with other national cinemas, and how the famous "French exception" - which excluded cultural products from international general trade agreements such as the GATT accords - was part of a vigorous state policy to save French cinema from domination by Hollywood, while becoming increasingly international in funding outreach. Explanatory appendices (schematics) provide a clear map for understanding and tracking this complex comparative history of national and international cinemas. This is an essential, foundational study of the political economy of French film since the 1970s. -- Janet Bergstrom, University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsList of Figures Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. International Domination by the U.S. Film Industry 2. The Lang Years 3. European Film Policy and Television Without Frontiers 4. GATT 5. From Canal+ to Canal- 6. Bilan(s) 7. From Cultural Exception to Cultural Diversity 8. Was the Experience Beneficial? Conclusion Appendix A. A Note on Sources Appendix B. Calculation of Automatic Aid in France Appendix C. The Compte de soutien: A Schematic Appendix D. Financing French Film: A Schematic Appendix E. Grants to Art et essai Theaters Appendix F. Films Chosen for High School Students in Lyceens et apprentis au cinema Appendix G. List of Films Aided by Fonds Sud Appendix H. First Films in French Film Production Notes Bibliography Index
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