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University of California Press The Development Film in the Americas
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Discourses of the Environment
Book SynopsisPresents an understanding of the environment using a range of theoretical perspectives. This book helps the reader to make sense of the significance of environmental legislation, regulation, institution-building, the growth of environmental movements and eco-warriors, and environmental practices such as recycling and green consumerism.Trade Review"provides a stimulating read and a path through post-structuralist terrain." Yvonne Rydin, London School of Economics "Discourses of the Environment represents an important contribution to addressing the links between poststructuralism and the environment. The divergent analyses are engaging and should provide material for debate and inquiry. Environmental theorists and practitioners will find this book of benefit, although the novelty of this intellectual effort should diminish as scholars recognise the important links between Foucault and nature." Local Environment 'In Discourses of the Environment Eric Darier brings together nine scholars from a variety of disciplines who are all working on environmental issues from the broad perspective provided by the work of the late Michel Foucault. The result is an important and challenging contribution to the understanding of the environment as a central problem of modern societies and as an object of study across the natural and human sciences.' -- James Tully, University of Victoria 'Darier's Discourses of the Environment makes a major contributors to a debate that really deserves to be broader than it has been. Bringing the breakthrough political theory of Michel Foucault to the environmental movement, the book is so compelling that it makes one wonder why such an approach has been so rare.' --Bill Chaloupka, University of Montana Table of ContentsContributors. Acknowledgements. 1. Foucault and The Environment: An Introduction: Eric Darier. Part I Histories:. 2."The Entry Of Life Into History": Foucault And Ecological Governmentality: Paul Rutherford. 3. Medicine, Health And The Environment: The Construction Of Environmental "Awareness": Isabelle Lanthier And Lawrence Olivier. 4. Sex At The Limits: Population, Environmentalism, And Late Capitalism: Catriona Sandilands. 5. Ecological Modernisation And Environmental Risk: Foucault And Recent Social Theory: Paul Rutherford. Part II Environmentalities:. 6. Environmentality As Green Governmentality Geo-Power, Eco-Knowledge And Enviro-Discipline As Tactics Of Normalisation: Timothy W. Luke. 7. Northern Plains Boulder Structures: Art And Foucauldian Heterotopias: Thomas Heyd. 8. The Practice Of The Green Subjects: Nature Writing As Self-Technology: Sylvia Bowerbank. Part III Resistances:. 9. Nature As Dangerous Space: Foucault's Challenge To Marxism, Liberal Humanism And The General Call For 'Grounded Responsibility': Peter Quigley. 10. Foucault's Unnatural Ecology: Neil Levy. 11. Foucault Against Environmental Ethics: Toward A Green Aesthetic Of Existence?: Eric Darier. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Econ Ethics Env Policy
Book SynopsisEconomics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy: Contested Choices offers a comprehensive analysis of the ethical problems associated with basing environmental policy on economic analysis, and ways to overcome these problems.Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Preface. Part I: Introduction. 1. Contested Choices. (Jouni Paavola and Daniel W. Bromley). Part II: Economics, Ethics, and Policy Choices. 2. Are Choices Trade-offs? (Alan Holland). 3. The Ignorance Argument: What Must We Know to Be Fair to the Future? (Bryan Norton). 4. Benefit-Cost Considerations Should Be Decisive When There is Nothing More Important at Stake. (Alan Randall). 5. Environmental Policy as the Process of Reasonable Valuing. (Juha Hiedanpaa and Daniel W. Bromley). Part III: Ethical Concerns and Policy Goals. 6. Rethinking the Choice and Performance of Environmental Policies. (Jouni Paavola). 7. What to Do with Inconsistent, Non-Welfaristic and Undeveloped Preferences? (Olof Johansson-Stenman). 8. Awkward Choices: Economics and Nature Conservation. (Nick Hanley and Jason Shogren). Part IV: Ethical Dimensions of Policy Consequences. 9. All Policy Instruments Require A Moral Choice as to Whose Interests Count. (Allan Schmid). 10. Efficient or Fair: Ethical Paradoxes in Environmental Policy. (Arild Vatn). 11. Trading with the Enemy: Examining North-South Perspectives in the Climate Change Debate. (Bhaskar Vira). 12. Social Costs and Sustainability. (Martin O'Connor). Part V: Ethics in Aaction: Emperical Analysis. 13. Empirical Signs of Ethical Concern in Economic Valuation of the Environment. (Clive Spash). 14. Motivating Existence Values: The Many and Varied Sources of the Stated WTP for Endangered Species. (Andreas Kontoleon and Timothy Swanson). 15. Environmental and Ethical Dimensions of the Provision of a Basic Need: Water and Sanitation Services in East Africa. (Nick Johnstone , John Thompson , Munguti Katui-Katua , Mark Mujwajuzi , James Tumwine , Elizabeth Wood , and Ina Porras). Part VI: Conclusions. 16. Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy. (Daniel W. Bromley and Jouni Paavola). Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Introduction to Environmental
Book SynopsisEnvironmental chemistry is a key part of many environmental, earth and life science courses. An understanding of the fundamental chemistry implicit in the subject is important, but students must also be familiar with aspects of mineralogy, oceanography, soil science, sedimentology and microbiology, to name just a few related areas.Trade Review"I can strongly recommend this book as a basic text for all those who wish to gain an initial understanding of the chemistry of the Earth and the way humans are interacting with their environment." Peter O'Neill, University of Plymouth, Progress in Physical Geography, June 2005 "Overall, this book is a valuable addition to reading lists for students taking undergraduate level courses primarily in Environmental Science, but also in Physical Geography, Earth Sciences and Environmental Chemistry. It is very readable and well written." International Journal of Climatology, April 2006 "If I had to recommend one single textbook for courses in environmental science to students and all those interested from other fields, it would be this one. It is an excellent introductory reader and learning aid." Environmental BiologyTable of ContentsList of boxes.Preface To The Second Edition.Preface To The First Edition.Acknowledgements.Symbols And Abbreviations.Part I: Introduction:.1. What Is Environmental Chemistry?.2. In The Beginning.3. Origin And Evolution Of The Earth.Formation Of The Crust And Atmosphere.The Hydrosphere.The Origin Of Life And Evolution Of The Atmosphere.4. Human Effects On Biogeochemical Cycles?.5. The Structure Of This Book.6. WWW Keywords.7. Further Reading.8. WWW Search Keywords.Part II: Environmental Chemist's Toolbox:.9. About This Chapter.10. Order In The Elements?.11. Bonding.Covalent Bonds.Ionic Bonding, Ions And Ionic Solids.12. Using Chemical Equations.13. Describing Amounts Of Substances: The Mole.14. Concentration And Activity.15. Organic Molecules ~ Structure And Chemistry.Functional Groups.Representing Organic Matter In Simple Equations.16. Radioactivity Of Elements.17. Finding More Chemical Tools In This Book.18. Further Reading.19. WWW Search Keywords.Part III: The Atmosphere:.20. Introduction.21. Composition Of The Atmosphere.22. Steady State Or Equilibrium?.23. Natural Sources.Geochemical Sources.Biological Sources.24. Reactivity Of Trace Substances In The Atmosphere.25. The Urban Atmosphere.London Smog - Primary Pollution.Los Angeles Smog - Secondary Pollution.21st Century Particulate Pollution.26. Air Pollution And Health.27. Effects Of Air Pollution.28. Removal Processes.29. Chemistry Of The Stratosphere.Stratospheric Ozone Formation And Destruction.Ozone Destruction By Halogenated Species.Saving The Ozone Layer.30. Further Reading.31. WWW Search Keywords.Part IV: The Chemistry Of Continental Solids:.32. The Terrestrial Environment, Crust And Material Cycling.33. The Structure Of Silicate Minerals.Coordination Of Ions And The Radius Ratio Rule.The Construction Of Silicate Minerals.Structural Organisation In Silicate Minerals.34. Weathering Processes.35. Mechanisms Of Chemical Weathering.Dissolution.Oxidation.Acid Hydrolysis.Weathering Of Complex Silicate Minerals.36. Clay Minerals.One To One Clay Mineral Structure.Two To One Clay Mineral Structure.37. Formation Of Soils.Parent (Bedrock) Material (P).Climate (Cl).Relief (R).Vegetation (V).Influence Of Organisms (O).38. Wider Controls On Soil And Clay Mineral Formation.39. Ion Exchange And Soil Ph.40. Soil Structure And Classification.Soils With Argillic Horizons.Spodosols (Podzols).Soils With Gley Horizons.41. Contaminated Land.Organic Contaminants In Soils.Degradation Of Organic Contaminants In Soils.Remediation Of Contaminated Land.Phytoremediation.42. Further Reading.43. WWW Search Keywords.Part V: The Chemistry Of Continental Waters:.44. Introduction.45. Element Chemistry.46. Water Chemistry And Weathering Regimes.Alkalinity, Dissolved Inorganic Carbon And Ph Buffering.47. Aluminium Solubility And Acidity.Acidification From Atmospheric Inputs.Acid Mine Drainage.Recognising Acidification From Sulphate Data - Ternary Diagrams.48. Biological Processes.Nutrients And Eutrophication.49. Heavy Metal Contamination.Mercury Contamination From Gold Mining.Contamination Of Groundwater.Anthropogenic Contamination Of Groundwater.Natural Arsenic Contamination Of Groundwater.50. Further Reading.51. WWW Search Keywords.Part VI: The Oceans:.52. Introduction.53. Estuarine Processes.Aggregation Of Colloidal Material In Estuaries.Mixing Processes In Estuaries.Halmyrolysis And Ion Exchange In Estuaries.Microbiological Activity In Estuaries.54. Major Ion Chemistry Of Seawater.55. Chemical Cycling Of Major Ions.Sea-To-Air Fluxes.Evaporites.Cation Exchange.Calcium Carbonate Formation.Opaline Silica.Sulphides.Hydrothermal Processes.The Potassium Problem: Balancing The Seawater Major Ion Budget.56. Minor Chemical Components In Seawater.Dissolved Gases.Dissolved Ions.Conservative Behaviour.Nutrient-Like Behaviour.Scavenged Behaviour.57. The Role Of Iron As A Nutrient In The Oceans.58. Ocean Circulation And Its Effects On Trace Element Distribution.59. Anthropogenic Effects On Ocean Chemistry.Human Effects On Regional Seas 1: The Baltic.Human Effects On Regional Seas 2: The Gulf Of Mexico.Human Effects On Total Ocean Minor Element Budgets?.60. Further Reading.61. WWW Search Keywords.Part VII: Global Change:.62. Why Study Global-Scale Environmental Chemistry?.63. The Carbon Cycle.The Atmospheric Record.Natural And Anthropogenic Sources And Sinks.The Global Budget Of Natural And Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide.The Effects Of Elevated Carbon Dioxide Levels On Global Temperature And Other Properties.64. The Sulphur Cycle.The Global Sulphur Cycle And Anthropogenic Effects.The Sulphur Cycle And Atmospheric Acidity.The Sulphur Cycle And Climate.65. Persistent Organic Pollutants (Pops).POP Mobility In The Atmosphere.Global POP Equilibrium.66. Further Reading.67. WWW Search Keywords.Index
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Princeton University Press The Art of Taking a Walk Flanerie Literature and
Book SynopsisIn an age transformed by industrialism, the flaneur drifted through city streets, inspired and repelled by the surrounding scenes of splendor and squalor. This work examines this often elusive figure in the particular contexts of Weimar Germany and the intellectual sphere of Walter Benjamin, with whom the concept of flanerie is often associated.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPt. 1Literature, Culture, TheoryCh. 1Walking Texts: Toward a Theory of Literary Flanerie3Ch. 2The City of Modernity: Shifting Perspectives, Urban Transitions23Ch. 3Passages of Flanerie: Kracauer and Benjamin43Pt. 2Hessel in BerlinCh. 4The Art of Walking: Reflections of Berlin63Ch. 5Secret Berlin, A Junk Store of Happiness85Ch. 6Fragments of Flanerie109Pt. 3Flanerie and FilmCh. 7A Short Phenomenology of Flanerie129Ch. 8Flanerie, or The Redemption of Visual Reality151Pt. 4Female FlanerieCh. 9Women on the Screens and Streets of Modernity: In Search of the Female Flaneur171Ch. 10Weimar Women, Walkers, Writers: Irmgard Keun and Charlotte Wolff191Notes215Bibliography265Index281
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Princeton University Press When a Gesture Was Expected
Book SynopsisAims to encourage a deeper appreciation of ancient Greek poetry and prose by showing where a nod of the head or a wave of the hand can complete meaning in epic poetry and in tragedy, comedy, oratory, and in works of history and philosophy. This book helps to explain some persistently confusing syntaxes and to make translations more accurate.Trade Review"In this nearly organized, well written, and lucid study on non-verbal communication in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature, Professor Alan Boegehold offers interesting and helpful insights into the understanding of passages in both poetry and prose ... "--James J. Clauss, Bryn Mawr Classical Review "There is much to praise in this book. It has an original and creative thesis that provides new insight into some old problems ... Boegehold makes many perceptive and significant observations... This study is an excellent model of how to tease out new meaning from familiar texts."--Gregory S. Aldrete, Classical WorldTable of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii NOTE TO THE READER xv LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xvii Introduction 3 ONE Nonverbal Communication 12 Circumstantial Notices in Literature 12 Illustrations 16 Continuities 20 Generally Understandable 22 Mostly Greek 26 Summary 28 TWO Some Attic Red-Figure Scenes 29 The Vote on the Arms of Achilles 29 Sociabilities 32 Come Here 33 Summary 35 THREE Homer 36 Demonstrative: Homer Iliad 16.844 36 "Incomplete" Conditional Sentence 37 Aposiopesis 38 Gesture for Apodosis 39 Gesture for Protasis 45 Summary 46 FOUR Archaic Poets 48 Archilochus 48 Pindar 50 Summary 52 FIVE Tragedy 53 Aeschylus 54 Sophocles 57 Euripides 63 Summary 66 SIX Aristophanes 67 Quotation and Parody 67 Continuities: Curses! 73 Summary 77 SEVEN Orators 78 Forensic Oratory 78 Deliberative or Display Oratory 79 Alcidamas 80 Antiphon 80 Andocides 83 Lysias 85 Demosthenes 88 Lycurgus 90 The Law Code of Gortyn 91 Summary 93 EIGHT Historians 94 Herodotus 94 Thucydides 99 Xenophon 105 Summary 108 NINE Plato 110 Plato's Characters in Action 110 Summary 125 Conclusion 126 BIBLIOGRAPHY 131 ART INDEX 141 lNDEX LOCORUM 143 GENERAL INDEX 149
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Princeton University Press The Hitchcock Romance Love and Irony in
Book SynopsisWas Alfred Hitchcock a cynical trifler with his audience's emotions, as he liked to pretend? Or was he a profoundly humane artist? This book shows that his movies convey an affectionate, hopeful understanding of human nature and the redemptive possibilities of love.Trade Review"Deserves a place alongside the most provocative and incisive Hitchcock criticism of the decade."--Choice "Brill argues his case ingeniously and goes a long way to explaining why Hitchcock was such a tease: he loved to scare us before leading us by the hand back to a world where dragons do not exist--except in the dark of the cinema."--David Coward, The [London] Times Literary Supplement "Brill argues his case persuasively in a knowledgeable analysis of Hitchcock's work."--George L. George, American Cinematographer
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Princeton University Press To Free the Cinema Jonas Mekas and the New York
Book SynopsisJonas Mekas is one of the driving forces behind New York's alternative film culture from the 1950s through the 1980s This collection of essays, interviews, and photographs addresses such topics as Mekas' column in 'The Village Voice', his foundation and editorship of Film Culture, his role in the establishment of Anthology Film Archives, and more.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1Introduction32Routines of Emancipation: Alternative Cinema in the Ideology and Politics of the Sixties173The Old Days494Jonas Mekas: A European Critic in America515"Loved Him, Hated It": An Interview with Andrew Sarris626The Apron Strings of Jonas Mekas837How I Think I Made Some of My Films978The Forest and The Trees1009Notes on Displacement: The Poems and Diary Films of Jonas Mekas12110During the Second Half of the Sixties13811Film Diary/Diary Film: Practice and Product in Walden14512A Portfolio of Photographs18013Reminiscences, Subjectivities, and Truths19314My Contacts with Jonas Mekas21315Lost, Lost, Lost: Mekas as Essayist21516Dear Friends24017Film Writing and the Figure of Death: He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life24118A Tale of Two Co-ops25519Jonas Mekas26620Wearing the Critic's Hat: History, Critical Discourses, and the American Avant-Garde Cinema26821Who Is Afraid of Jonas Mekas?28422Video at Anthology28623I Feel Passionate about the Film Journals of Jonas Mekas29324Home Movies of the Avant-Garde: Jonas Mekas and the New York Art World294Appendices313AAutobiographical Notes315BFilmography321CShowcases I Ran in the Sixties323BBooks Published325Index327
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Princeton University Press WorkingClass Hollywood Silent Film and the
Book SynopsisReveals how Hollywood became "Hollywood" and what that meant for the politics of America and American film. This book tells the story of filmmaking in the first three decades of the twentieth century, a time when going to the movies could transform lives and when the cinema was a battleground for control of American consciousness.Trade ReviewWinner of the 1999 Book Award, Theatre Library Association One of Los Angeles Times's Best Nonfiction Books for 1998 "One of the satisfactions in reading Working-Class Hollywood is that the author is as happily polemical as his subjects and not afraid to take sides. This gives his impressively researched and annotated book a scrappy, personal tone that is refreshing to find in a work of such academic weight."--Los Angeles Times "A breakthrough volume in terms of American film history."--Vancouver Sun "A rigorously researched and refreshingly accessible book."--The Nation "Working-Class Hollywood is ... a meticulous and beautifully accomplished re-creation of the lost world of labor and radical films... No one reading this masterly new study can look at nearly a century of movie making in quite the same way again."--Journal of American History "Working-class Hollywood, Steven J. Ross has gone a long way to show, is an oxymoron. Ross has uncovered a lively scene of decentralized, diversified production in the early motion picture business."--Michael Rogin, American Historical Review "A vividly written chronicle of multi-faceted struggles over the meaning of class in American life as they took shape in silent film... By analyzing the range of perspectives on class in early feature films, Ross provides a nuanced picture of the ways class issues and class relations were defined for movie audiences... [A] rich, well-researched monograph ... [and a] provocative and informative book."--Kathryn J. Oberdeck, Reviews in American History "An impassioned celebration of a movement that depicted social issues at the birth of the big screen... A valuable addition to cinema history... "--Kirkus Review "Steeped in labor and class history, sweetened by a perceptive moviegoer's parsing of onscreen images, Working-Class Hollywood is a fascinating study of how movies make us."--Washington Post Book World "Steven J. Ross spent a decade laboring on Working-Class Hollywood, and it shows on every page. It is a phenomenally well-researched study ... And yet is highly readable, without a hint of droning pedantry."--Ben Singer, Modernism/Modernity "Steven J. Ross has an important story to tell, and he tells it with great passion and conviction."--Peter Kramer, Labour History ReviewTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPt. IThe Rise of the Movies: Political Filmmaking and the Working Class1Introduction31Going to the Movies: Leisure, Class, and Danger in the Early Twentieth Century112Visualizing the Working Class: Cinema and Politics before Hollywood343The Good, the Bad, and the Violent: Class Conflict and the Labor-Capital Genre564Making a Pleasure of Agitation: The Rise of the Worker Film Movement86Pt. IIThe Rise of Hollywood: From Working Class to Middle Class1135When Russia Invaded America: Hollywood, War, and the Movies1156Struggles for the Screen: The Revival of the Worker Film Movement1437Fantasy and Politics: Moviegoing and Movies in the 1920s1738Lights Out: The Decline of Labor Filmmaking and the Triumph of Hollywood212Epilogue: The Movies Talk But What Do They Say?240Select Filmography259Sources and Methods for Writing Film History263Abbreviations277Notes279Index353
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Princeton University Press Rising Star Dandyism Gender and Performance in
Book SynopsisCelebrity personalities, who reign over much of our cultural landscape, owe their fame not to specific deeds but to the ability to project a distinct personal image, to create an icon of the self. This book looks at the roots of this particular form of celebrity.Trade Review"Garelick ... has fascinating things to tell us about a series of literary treatments of dandyism--by Balzac and Baudelaire ... [it contains] an intriguing section on L'Eve Future ... and a riveting account of Loie Fuller."--Simon Callow, The Observer "Original and indeed fascinating... Intelligently argued and elegantly written."--Choice "Rising Star is gracefully and clearly written, thoroughly researched, and copiously documented... By showing the affinities between nineteenth-century French culture and our own, Garelick sheds provocative new light on both."--Gail Finney, Modernism/ModernityTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction3Ch. 1The Treatises of Dandyism14Balzac's Traite de la vie elegante14Barbey's Du Dandysme et de George Brummell19Baudelaire's Le Peintre de la vie moderne27Idols and Effigies: Jean Lorrain's Une Femme par jour40Ch. 2Mallarme: Crowds, Performance, and the Fashionable Woman47Ch. 3Robotic Pleasures, Dance, and the Media Personality78Ch. 4Electric Salome: The Mechanical Dances of Loie Fuller99Ch. 5Camp Salome: Oscar Wilde's Circles of Desire128Afterword154Notes169Bibliography213Index227
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Princeton University Press The Corporeal Image
Book SynopsisBuilding upon the ideas from his "Transcultural Cinema", the author argues for a different conception of how visual images create human knowledge in a world in which the value of seeing has often been eclipsed by words. In ten chapters, he explores the relations between photographic images and the human body.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2007 Dorothy Lee Award, Media Ecology Association One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2006 "The prose is jargon-free, lucid, and, at its best, poignant, especially when the author writes about the now-grown child subjects of his treasured postcard collection... [MacDougall] urges scholars to see the visual as a complement rather than as a substitute for the verbal, as a language with its own vocabulary and potential. Given the author's obvious accomplishments in both forms, his long and successful career stands as the best evidence for the validity of his argument."--Richard John Ascarate, MEDIENTable of ContentsIllustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii INTRODUCTION: Meaning and Being 1 PART I: MATTER AND IMAGE 11 CHAPTER 1: The Body in Cinema 13 CHAPTER 2: Voice and Vision 32 PART II:IMAGES OF CHILDHOOD 65 CHAPTER 3: Films of Childhood 67 CHAPTER 4: Social Aesthetics and the Doon School 94 CHAPTER 5: Doon School Reconsidered 120 PART III:THE PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGINATION 145 CHAPTER 6: Photo Hierarchicus: Signs and Mirrors in Indian Photography 147 CHAPTER 7: Staging the Body: The Photography of Jean Audema 176 PART IV:THE ETHNOGRAPHIC IMAGINATION 211 CHAPTER 8: The Visual in Anthropology 213 CHAPTER 9: Anthropology 's Lost Vision 227 CHAPTER 10: New Principles of Visual Anthropology 264 Filmography 275 Bibliography 283 Index 299
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Princeton University Press Electric Salome
Book SynopsisRising from a small-time vaudeville career in the States, Loie Fuller attained international celebrity as a dancer, inventor, and one of the first women filmmakers in the world. This book demonstrates that Fuller was an artist of great psychological, emotional, and sexual expressiveness whose work illuminates the centrality of dance to modernism.Trade Review"Garelick's lucid, engrossing study ... unwraps the contradictions that have kept Fuller as veiled from modern audiences as she was from those at the Folies-Bergere."--Andrea Walker, Times Literary Supplement "A most welcome 'finding' of a dancer never lost, Electric Salome offers a remarkably smart reading of Fuller's contribution to dance history, one that makes clear the importance of that contribution to modernism broadly construed."--Catherine Gunther Kodat, Modernism Modernity "In her mesmerizing dances, swirling huge skirts under colored lights of her own design, Fuller paved the way for new visual effects in theater. [I]n Electric Salome Rhonda Garelick attempts to reposition Fuller as a central player in the multiple histories of ballet, modern dance, theater, visual art and postmodern performance. The best part of Electric Salome is how Garelick puts Fuller's story into a context that we can appreciate."--Matthew Hunter Griffin, Time Out Chicago "Rhonda Garelick's Electric Salome...argues for Fuller's relevance beyond her status as modern dance 'pioneer' and traces the way in which her work was modernist in its own right. Garelick's book spirals out, teasing out connections with Fuller to broader movements of colonialism, as well as Romantic Ballet and Modernist Drama. [Electric Salome offers] significant advances to Loie Fuller scholarship [and argues] persuasively for the importance of Fuller's legacy."--Judy Sperling, Dance Films Association Review "This indispensable book benefits from Garelick's lucid prose, superb images, and insightful footnotes."--S.R. Irelan, Choice "Electric Salome is suitable for a wide range of readership... Garelick writes theory with the minimum of jargon; the book is academic and sophisticated, but accessible throughout. It contains almost fifty illustrations, including posters, photographs and patent drawings."--Stephen Herbert, Early Popular Visual Culture "One of the best aspects of Rhonda K. Garelick's book is that it enables a virtual re-enactment of Fuller's performance of modernity: in the end, the initial butterfly/illusion shimmers and stays for good in the reader's mind."--Virginie Pouzet-Duzer, Oscholars "Both Ann Cooper Albright's and Rhonda Garelick's books are important contributions to a female artist, whose place on the agenda of French modernism is now less refutable than ever. Both authors have done much to shed further light on the sometimes counter intuitive complexity of this modernism. While both Traces of Light and Electric Salome deserve to be considered in their own right, they open an even more fascinating kaleidoscopic panorama when read in tandem."--Lucia Ruprecht, H-France "This well-illustrated and probing book is an important contribution to the scholarship on Loie Fuller and, with its contemporary resonances, should prove of interest to practitioners and academics in the fields of live-art and site-specific performance as well as dance."--Libby Worth, Modern Drama "Fuller's work demands that its scholars cover a lot of ground, and I was delighted to learn so much from Garelick's study about a widely ignored pioneer of avant-garde and modernist theatre performance and dance."--Mike Sell, Theatre Research International "[T]he book's greatest appeal may lie in its evocation of Fuller's technical inventiveness, her altogether startling genius for making the space of theater new."--Douglas Mao, Common KnowledgeTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Chapter One: The Evolution of Fuller's Performance Aesthetic 19 Early Years: Awareness and Unconsciousness 20 The Evolution of a European Modernist 32 Chapter Two: Electric Salome: Loie Fuller at the World's Fair of 1900 63 A Handsome Savage 63 The World's Fair of 1900 68 Queen of the Fair 78 Mutable Geography and Adopted Nationality 86 Salome 90 Fuller's Japanese Costars at the Fair 103 A Yankee Salome on the Rue de Paris 106 The New Colonial Power: The United States at the World's Fair 111 A Vision of America to Come 114 Chapter Three: Fuller and the Romantic Ballet 118 Yankees Don't Do Ballet 118 Romantic Ballet: Sprites, Swans, and Windup Toys 125 Fuller: The Accidental Sylph 130 Technical Developments 134 Fuller, Hoffmann, and the Technologized Body 139 Coppelia and the Romantic Ballet Couple 144 Ambivalent Ballet: Fuller's Figurative and Literal Performance of Disavowal 150 A Balletic Dream of Modernism 153 Chapter Four: Scarring the Air: Loie Fuller's Bodily Moderism 156 Fuller's Invisibility: Modernist Physicality, Sex, and Cultural Legacy 156 Fleur du Sang: Fuller's Violent and Erotic Physicality 162 The Erotic Fuller 166 The Scandalous Ballets Loie Fuller 171 Instinct, Nature, and Versions of Interiority 176 The Mechanics of the Group 179 The Triumph of La Mer 182 Martha Graham's Lamentation 190 Fuller in a New Light 194 The Physical Analogue of the Psychological 196 Chapter Five: Of Veils and Onion Skins: Fuller and Modern European Drama 200 Radical Mechanicity 200 Character and Identity 203 Tristan Tzara's Mouchoir de Nuages 214 Tzara's Hamlet 218 Reading the Clouds: Shakespeare, Freud, and Fuller 220 Afterword Thoughts on Contemporary Traces of Fuller 224 Selected Bibliography 231 Index 241
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Princeton University Press StoryTime
Book SynopsisIn this ceaselessly questioning book, acclaimed African American dancer, choreographer, and director Bill T. Jones reflects on his art and life as he describes the genesis of Story/Time, a recent dance work produced by his company and inspired by the modernist composer and performer John Cage. Presenting personally revealing stories, richly illustrTrade ReviewOne of The Skanner Newspaper's Ten Best Black Books of 2014 "An experimental dancer/choreographer/performance artist improvises on the nature of story itself in a unique format... A brave and often successful attempt to capture and display movement and intuition and the unspoken on the printed page."--Kirkus Reviews "Story/Time: The Life of an Idea is an ethereal memoir emblematic of this iconoclastic trailblazer's unpredictable approach to everything he does."--Kam Williams, AALBC.com "Readers interested in the intersection of dance, performance art, and the world of ideas will gain insight and inspiration from this thoughtful and singular work."--Carolyn M. Mulac, Library Journal "With the book, Jones attempts to explore the vital nature of his stage production back to its origins... Anyone who has seen Jones' work has likely felt the need to press the 'pause' button; it carries a hypnotic current, a sense of relentless forward movement. This book, then, provides an ideal counterpoint. It suspends time, allowing Jones' story and space to unfold."--Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune "As a written document, this book is clearly organized, quickly read, and dense with musings that can be dissected by dancers and non-dancers alike. As a piece of art, it is both process and product in one. The engagement and participation of audience member might be enhanced if the book is read and discussed in a group setting, which makes me curious to see how it will fit with the live performance and how many people will pair the two. The experiment in creation, design and performance certainly poses many questions that, identifying as a dance artist, I found myself musing in the context of own work. Likewise, as an academic, I found I was concurrently dissecting the book for use in a future class. I found the 'provocation' of personal context and its link to the audience's experience of art particularly poignant."--Katie C. Sopoci Drake, 4Dancers "Story/Time: The Life of an Idea, by the acclaimed dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones, is an odd amalgam of texts. In the preface, Jones tells the reader that 'The object you are holding in your hands is conflicted. It is a performance yearning to be a document, a book... It is the record of a needy, angry and confused man. The need is for a tradition, an intellectual home. The anger is generated from an ever-maturing realization that I never truly had an intellectual home and never will.' Throughout the book's three sections, this conflict between performance and document was both frustrating and riveting, and ultimately, satisfying."--Alexis Camins, TruthDig.comTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Preface ix Past Time 1 Story/Time 19 With Time 97
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Princeton University Press Helen of Troy in Hollywood
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Engaging."---Harry Strawson, Times Literary Supplement"An enlightening and accessible overview of the pervasive presence of Zeus’s daughter in American popular culture, ranging from silent Hollywood cinema to televised speculative fiction . . . [and] a must read for scholars of both classical reception and popular culture."---Gabrielle Stecher, Popular Culture Studies Journal"A smart exploration of how this mythic figure has been portrayed in film and television. [Blondell] has written a thematically bold book that entertainingly contemplates what Helen of Troy signifies in old and modern Hollywood productions."---Christopher Schobert, The Film Stage
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Princeton University Press When a Gesture Was Expected
Book SynopsisEncourages an appreciation of ancient Greek poetry and prose by showing where a nod of the head or a wave of the hand can complete meaning in epic poetry and in tragedy, comedy, oratory, and in works of history and philosophy.Trade Review"In this nearly organized, well written, and lucid study on non-verbal communication in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature, Professor Alan Boegehold offers interesting and helpful insights into the understanding of passages in both poetry and prose . . . ."---James J. Clauss, Bryn Mawr Classical Review"There is much to praise in this book. It has an original and creative thesis that provides new insight into some old problems . . . Boegehold makes many perceptive and significant observations. . . . This study is an excellent model of how to tease out new meaning from familiar texts."---Gregory S. Aldrete, Classical World
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Princeton University Press Pier Paolo Pasolini Cinema as Heresy 5025 Princeton Legacy Library 5025
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Princeton University Press Tragic Pleasures Aristotle on Plot and Emotion
Book SynopsisElizabeth Belfiore offers a striking new interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics by situating the work within the Aristotelian corpus and in the context of Greek culture in general. In Aristotle's Rhetoric, the Politics, and the ethical, psychological, logical, physical, and biological works, Belfiore finds extremely important but largely neglected sTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction3Pt. IThe Greek Background7Ch. 1The Gorgon at the Feast9Gorgon and Gorgoneion11Pindar14Eumenides19A Medicine to Produce Aidos30Pt. IIPlot: The Soul of Tragedy41Ch. 2Philia and Tragic Imitation44Imitation45Representation48Production: Tragedy Imitates Nature53Similarity63Theoria66Philia70Ch. 3Plot and Character83The Plot-Character Distinction83Ethos92Ethos as Part of Tragedy94The Spoudaioi100Problems103Plot and Ethos in the Greek Tragedies107Ch. 4Necessity, Probability, and Plausibility111Necessity and Probability111Plausibility, Plot, and Episode119Ch. 5Parts and Wholes132The Parts of the Plot132Pathos134Peripeteia141Recognition153Good and Bad Plots160Poetics 13: Changes and Characters161Poetics 14: Pathos and Recognition170Pt. IIIPity and Fear177Ch. 6Fear, Pity, and Shame in Aristotle's Philosophy181Pity, Fear, and Physical Danger181Fear of Disgrace: Aidos and Aischune189Aristotle and the Greek Tradition190Rhetoric192Nicomachean Ethics193Eudemian Ethics199Aidos, Excellence, and Habituation203Kataplexis and Ekplexis216Summary222Ch. 7Tragic Emotion226Pity and Pear in the Poetics226Aesthetic and Real-Life Emotion238Flight and Pursuit238Tragedy and Rhetoric246Pt. IVKatharsis255Ch. 8Katharsis and the Critical Tradition257The Definition of Tragedy257The Homeopathic Prejudice260Homeopathy: Theoretical Problems266Homeopathy: The Ancient Evidence278Ch. 9Katharsis in Aristotle's Philosophy291Overview292Physical Katharsis300Katharsis of the Katamenia300Medical Katharsis306Psychic Katharsis314Purity315Psychic and Physical Excellence317Politics 8320Iron and Wood327The Platonic Elenchus331Ch. 10Tragic Katharsis337Glossary361Aristotelian Texts Used363Bibliography365Index of Passages Cited381General Index405
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Princeton University Press Cinematernity Film Motherhood Genre
Book SynopsisNoting that motherhood is a common metaphor for film production, Lucy Fischer undertakes the first investigation of how the topic of motherhood presents itself throughout a wide range of film genres. Until now discussions of maternity have focused mainly on melodramas, which, along with musicals and screwball comedies, have traditionally been vieweTrade Review"Erudite and insightful, great portions of the book are excellent."--ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1Introduction: Motherhood and Film: A Critical Genealogy32The Trick Film: The Lady Vanishes: Women, Magic, and the Movies373Silent Melodrama: Way Down East: Melodrama, Metaphor, and the Maternal Body564The Horror Film: Birth Traumas: Parturition and Horror in Rosemary's Baby735The Crime Film: Mama's Boy: Filial Hysteria in White Heat926Film Comedy: "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child": Comedy and Matricide1117The Thriller: The Hand That Shocks the Cradle: The Maternal Thriller1318The Postmodern Film: Postmodernity and Postmaternity: High Heels and Imitation of Life1629The Nonfiction Film: "The Reproduction of Mothering": Documenting the Mother-Daughter Bond17910Epilogue: Maternity and the Artist: "A Remarkable Zoological Species"214Index231
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Princeton University Press Emile Cohl Caricature and Film
Book SynopsisThis is the definitive biography of Emile Cohl (1857-1938), one of the most important pioneers of the art of the animated cartoon and an innovative contributor to popular graphic humor at a critical moment when it changed from traditional caricature to the modern comic strip. This profusely illustrated book provides not only a wealth of informationTrade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1991Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. ix*LIST OF CHARTS AND DIAGRAM, pg. xvii*PHOTOGRAPHIC SOURCES, pg. xix*PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xxi*CHAPTER ONE: A Caricaturist's Life, pg. 3*CHAPTER TWO: Art for Two Sous, pg. 43*CHAPTER THREE: The Moving Image, pg. 90*CHAPTER FOUR: Cinema chez Gaumont, pg. 115*CHAPTER FIVE: "Hollywood" in France and New Jersey, pg. 153*CHAPTER SIX: The Father of the Animated Film, pg. 198*CHAPTER SEVEN: Graphic Humor and Early Cinema, pg. 221*CHAPTER EIGHT: "Incoherent Cinema", pg. 257*NOTES, pg. 313*CATALOGUE OF FILMS, pg. 341*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 377*INDEX, pg. 397
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Princeton University Press Artist and Patron in Postwar Japan
Book SynopsisThis work explains how and why Japan supports a community of professional dancers, musicians, production companies, and visual artists that has nearly tripled in size during the past 25 years. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print booksTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. v*A NOTE OF THANKS, pg. vii*CHAPTER I. Art for Society's Sake, pg. 1*CHAPTER 2. A Poverty of Patrons, pg. 28*CHAPTER 3. Arts and the State, pg. 57*CHAPTER 4. Arts to the People, pg. 80*CHAPTER 5. The Visual Arts: Show and Sell, pg. 105*CHAPTER 6. Theater: Playing Safe, pg. 144*CHAPTER 7. Music: Cultivated Clienteles, pg. 181*CHAPTER 8. Dance: Contemporary Classics, pg. 216*CHAPTER 9. The Vertical Mosaic, pg. 244*BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES, pg. 253*SOURCES CITED, pg. 293*INDEX, pg. 311
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Princeton University Press The Privileged Playgoers of Shakespeares London
Book SynopsisBesides documenting the predominant presence of privileged patrons in the audience, the author discusses the shape of the privileged life, the place of the privileged in the social structure, the forces that drew so many of them to London, and the factors that made them such avid theatergoers. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy LiTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. 1*Contents, pg. 5*Preface, pg. 7*Introduction, pg. 8*Edward Nelson, pg. 12*Andrei Okounkov, pg. 14*Michael Artin, pg. 16*John Horton Conway, pg. 18*Friedrich E. Hirzebruch, pg. 20*Janos Kollar, pg. 22*Richard Ewen Borcherds, pg. 24*David Mumford, pg. 26*Bryan John Birch, pg. 28*Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, pg. 30*Isadore Manual Singer, pg. 32*Mikhael Leonidovich Gromov, pg. 34*Kevin David Corlette, pg. 36*Sun-Yung Alice Chang, pg. 38*Shing-Tung Yau, pg. 40*John Forbes Nash, Jr., pg. 42*Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck, pg. 44*James Harris Simons, pg. 46*Phillip Griffiths, pg. 48*Gang Tian, pg. 50*Heisuke Hironaka, pg. 52*Eriko Hironaka, pg. 54*John Willard Milnor, pg. 56*Joan S. Birman, pg. 58*Frances Kirwan, pg. 60*Robion Kirby, pg. 62*Burt Totaro, pg. 64*Simon Donaldson, pg. 66*Henri Cartan, pg. 68*Robert D. Macpherson, pg. 70*Michael Freedman, pg. 72*Margaret Dusa Mcduff, pg. 74*William Paul Thurston, pg. 76*Bertram Kostant, pg. 78*John N. Mather, pg. 80*Maryam Mirzakhani, pg. 82*Curtis Mcmullen, pg. 84*Dennis Parnell Sullivan, pg. 86*Stephen Smale, pg. 88*Marina Ratner, pg. 90*Yakov Grigorevich Sinai, pg. 92*Benoit Mandelbrot, pg. 94*George Olat Okunbo Okikiolu, pg. 96*Kate Adeb Ola Okikiolu, pg. 98*William Timothy Gowers, pg. 100*Lennart Axel Edvard Carleson, pg. 102*Terence Chi-Shen Tao, pg. 104*Robert Clifford Gunning, pg. 106*Elias Menachem Stein, pg. 108*Joseph John Kohn, pg. 110*Charles Louis Fefferman, pg. 112*Robert Fefferman, pg. 114*Yum-Tong Siu, pg. 116*Louis Nirenberg, pg. 118*William Browder, pg. 120*Felix E. Browder, pg. 122*Andrew Browder, pg. 124*Cathleen Synge Morawetz, pg. 126*Peter David Lax, pg. 128*Alain Connes, pg. 130*Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, pg. 132*Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones, pg. 134*Sathamangalam Rangaiyengar Srinivasa Varadhan, pg. 136*Marie-France Vigneras, pg. 138*Michele Vergne, pg. 140*Robert Phelan Langlands, pg. 142*Jean-Pierre Serre, pg. 144*Adebisi Agboola, pg. 146*Marcus Du Sautoy, pg. 148*Peter Clive Sarnak, pg. 150*Gerd Faltings, pg. 152*Enrico Bombieri, pg. 154*Viscount Pierre Deligne, pg. 156*Noam D. Elkies, pg. 158*Benedict H. Gross, pg. 160*Don Zagier, pg. 162*Barry Mazur, pg. 164*Sir Andrew John Wiles, pg. 166*Manjul Bhargava, pg. 168*John T. Tate, pg. 170*Nicholas Michael Katz, pg. 172*Kenneth Ribet, pg. 174*Persi Warren Diaconis, pg. 176*Paul Malliavin, pg. 178*William Alfred Massey, pg. 180*Harold William Kuhn, pg. 182*Avi Wigderson, pg. 184*Arlie Petters, pg. 186*Ingrid Chantal Da Ubechies, pg. 188*Sir Roger Penrose, pg. 190*Robert Endre Tarjan, pg. 192*Davi D Harold Blac Kwell, pg. 194*Afterword, pg. 197*List of Mathematicians, pg. 198*Acknowledgments, pg. 200
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Ecology and Society An Introduction
Book Synopsisaeo This book introduces environmental ideas to a sociology audience. It is designed for a growing field in the sociology of environmental issues, and will be of great use to sociologists wanting to fill a gap in teaching.Trade Review'Its unusual perspective makes this an interesting text. It does more than just catalogue ideas and events, it tries to analyse these so that key strands can be extracted.' TEG News 'Martell has pulled off a difficult trick: he has written a book that will both inform students and engage professional scholars, and he has secured himself a place in future discussions regarding the relationship between environment and society.' The Sociological review 'In aiming to provide a theoretically informed undergraduate text on contemporary green issues, the book goes some way to filling a gap where the level of support material is widely regarded as insufficient.' Antipode "Ecology and Society makes an important contribution to this emerging literature by providing an introduction to green ideas for students of social science. This book will appeal to both students and researchers. It is written in an accessible style, provides useful summaries of key literature and suggests further reading at the end of each chapter ... a useful contribution to the literature on environment-society relations and a valuable addition to student reading lists.' Local EnvironmentTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Ecology and Industrialism. 2. The Sustainable Society. 3. Green Philosophy. 4. The Green Movement. 5. Ecology and Political Theory. 6. Rethinking Relations Between Society and Nature. 7. The Future of Environmentalism. Notes. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Social Theory and the Environment
Book Synopsisaeo One of the first major attempts to assess the contributions of contemporary social theory to the study of environmental issues. aeo Analyses the work of some of the most influential contemporary thinkers, including Anthony Giddens, Andre Gorz, Jurgen Habermas and Ulrich Beck.Trade Review"This book is a most welcome addition to the contemporary discussion of environmental issues in the social sciences. As a critical evaluation and reconstruction of its four chosen theorists, it could hardly be bettered. It is clear, rigorous, intellectually challenging and politically serious ... a fine and lasting achievement." Ted Benton, University of Essex "Offers a welcome and timely survey of those thinkers - Andre Gorz, Anthony Giddens, Jurgen Habermas, Ulrich Beck - who have tried to move beyond the exploded belief in the "conquest" of nature and unlimited growth." New Statesman and Society "David Goldblatt has done us the large favour of starting from the other end of the story. Rather than using environmentalism to shore up a set of conclusions arrived at elsewhere, he starts with the two main questions posed by environmentalism - the structural origins of environmental degradation and the conditions under which environmental movements might ameliorate or prevent that degradation - and examines the work of four contemporary social theorists to see what answers they provide. Goldblatt's own analysis is thoughtful, well argued and has a painful honesty to it; even when it appears that conclusions do not please him, he follows them through to the end. In this thoughtful book, David Goldblatt has helped us to move towards some answers." Times Literary Supplement "An academically thorough and at the same time readable assessment of relevant writings of Anthony Giddens, Andre Gorz, J%uuml;rgen Habermas and Ulrich Beck. The discussions of individual theorists would work well as stand-alone chapters, and would provide students with very good starting points in each case ... ideal for student reading lists on environment-related social science courses." Environmental Values "Highly engaging review of current developments in social theory ... this book is a testimony to the vigour and creativity of the discipline's response to the environmental challenge. His writing is refreshingly clear and points are made cogently and logically." International Journal of Environmental Studies "The conclusion is the most interesting chapter, because in it Goldblatt brings together his own arguments." Environment and Planning 'David Goldblatt's book is a welcome and scholarly contribution to a growing socialist literature in what may broadly be termed political ecology ... Goldblatt's main acheivement ... is to draw together the disparate conceptual apparatus of modern European social theory and then to show how it provides the necessary foundation for a critical political ecology.' Capital and Class 'Social theorists may need to head in such directions given the place that Goldblatt, carefully and convincingly, leads us to.' Urban StudiesTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction: Social Theory, Environmental Degradation and Environmental Politics. 1. Capitalism, Industrialism and the Transformation of Nature: Anthony Giddens. 2. Urbanism, Globalization and Environmental Politics: Anthony Giddens. 3. The Political Ecology of Capitalism: Andre Gorz. 4. Social and Cultural Origins of Environmental Movements: Jurgen Habermas. 5. The Sociology of Risk: Ulrich Beck. Conclusion: Social Theory, Socialism and the Environment. List of Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Food for the Future
Book SynopsisIt's not easy to eat well. To choose food wisely, you need to know where it comes from and how it's produced. As consumers, most of us don't know what we're getting and eating in our supermarkets and restaurants. When rumours and food scares circulate in the media, we panic.Trade Review"Two French farmers, passionate about growing and eating good food, make excellent spokesmen in the crusade to raise awareness of the downward spiral of food quality as industrialisation and globalisation take over." New AgriculturistTable of ContentsForeword Glossary Maps Introduction. A Strategy to Rebuild Farming Chapter 1 Sites of Memory Chapter 2 How the Citizen Sees Farming Chapter 3 But Where are the Peasant Farmers? Chapter 4 The Spiral of the 'Glorious Years' Chapter 5 The True Cost of the Common Agricultural Policy Chapter 6 From Junk Food to Good Food Chapter 7 An Economic Nonsense and an Ecological Aberration Chapter 8 The Agricultural 'Titanic' Chapter 9 How to Emerge from the Crisis. A Diagnosis and the Beginnings of a Cure Chapter 10 Have We Learned the Lesson of the Epidemics? Chapter 11 Food Follies and the Label Lottery Chapter 12 Landowners, Farmers and Managers. Who Owns the Land? Chapter 13 No to Rampant Globalization Chapter 14 If All the Small Farmers in the World Chapter 15 The Weapons of the Peaceful citizen Chapter 16 Agriculture is Humanism Chapter 17 How to Teach Children about Farming Chapter 18 The Duties of Public Research Chapter 19 Farming Think Tanks and International Workshops Chapter 20 The Pillars of Peasant Wisdom Chapter 21 A Farming Charter and a Declaration of Rights and Duties Conclusion The Food War will not Happen
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Food for the Future
Book SynopsisIt's not easy to eat well. To choose food wisely, you need to know where it comes from and how it's produced. As consumers, most of us don't know what we're getting and eating in our supermarkets and restaurants. When rumours and food scares circulate in the media, we panic.Trade Review"Two French farmers, passionate about growing and eating good food, make excellent spokesmen in the crusade to raise awareness of the downward spiral of food quality as industrialisation and globalisation take over." New AgriculturistTable of ContentsForeword Glossary Maps Introduction. A Strategy to Rebuild Farming Chapter 1 Sites of Memory Chapter 2 How the Citizen Sees Farming Chapter 3 But Where are the Peasant Farmers? Chapter 4 The Spiral of the 'Glorious Years' Chapter 5 The True Cost of the Common Agricultural Policy Chapter 6 From Junk Food to Good Food Chapter 7 An Economic Nonsense and an Ecological Aberration Chapter 8 The Agricultural 'Titanic' Chapter 9 How to Emerge from the Crisis. A Diagnosis and the Beginnings of a Cure Chapter 10 Have We Learned the Lesson of the Epidemics? Chapter 11 Food Follies and the Label Lottery Chapter 12 Landowners, Farmers and Managers. Who Owns the Land? Chapter 13 No to Rampant Globalization Chapter 14 If All the Small Farmers in the World Chapter 15 The Weapons of the Peaceful citizen Chapter 16 Agriculture is Humanism Chapter 17 How to Teach Children about Farming Chapter 18 The Duties of Public Research Chapter 19 Farming Think Tanks and International Workshops Chapter 20 The Pillars of Peasant Wisdom Chapter 21 A Farming Charter and a Declaration of Rights and Duties Conclusion The Food War will not Happen
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Environment A Sociological Introduction
Book SynopsisThis book shows how sociologists have responded to the challenge of environmental issues such as global warming, ozone depletion, biodiversity loss and marine pollution. It also covers sociological ideas such as risk, interpretations of nature, environmental realism, and globalization. It assumes no specialist knowledge on the part of readers.Trade Review"This is in every way an excellent textbook." Times Higher Education "This book is an excellent introduction for students new to this area of inquiry and should enthuse them to deepen their investigation of some of the most important issues of the 21st century." Sociology “In a relaxed and readable style, Sutton introduces key concepts with a light touch, illustrating theories with major events and relevant contemporary issues.” Area "Phillip Sutton has crafted a systematic and thorough introduction to the social science of the environment: its definition, transformation, politicization and defence. He expansively charts the emergence of the field and points to how global changes and politics will affect its future. This book will become a key resource for new students of environmental sociology and a point of engagement for future discussion." Hank Johnston, San Diego State University "Philip Sutton combines an excellent introduction to the sociology of the environment with an innovative approach to the field. A stimulating and wide-ranging text." Tim Newton, Exeter University "Written for undergraduate students, Philip Sutton’s The Environment demands no prior knowledge of sociology. Remaining faithful to its subject matter, the book ranges freely across human and environmental sciences. Sutton rejects the “retreat into the present” that characterizes much contemporary sociology and frames environmental problems in relation to very long-term processes of human social development. This “sociological introduction” is challenging in all the right ways." Stephen Quilley, Keele UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Preface ix 1 Natural Environments 1 Defining Nature and Environment 1 Humans in Natural Environments 7 Natural and Artificial Environments 14 Conclusion 16 2 Knowing the Environment 18 Involvement and Detachment 18 The Scientific Revolution 22 Social Constructions of Nature 26 Critical Realism 32 Conclusion 36 3 Experiencing the Environment 38 An Environment of the Senses 38 Experiencing Environments 41 Ecological Identifications 44 Ecological Citizenship 52 4 Transforming the Environment 55 Social Development and the Environment 55 Industrialization 59 Urbanization 64 The Treadmill of Production and Consumption 67 5 Polluting the Environment 72 Types of Pollution 72 Awareness and Significance of Pollution 74 Sensitivity to Risks 80 Conclusion 88 6 Defending the Environment 91 Changing Attitudes 91 The Modern Origins of Nature Conservation 95 The Development of Environmentalism 99 Conclusion 107 7 Politicizing the Environment 109 A Politics of Nature 109 Ecologism: A New Political Ideology 113 The Emergence of Green Parties 116 Conclusion 124 8 Sustaining the Environment 126 The Idea of Sustainable Development 126 A Brief History of Sustainable Development 130 Sustainable Development in Practice 135 Can Societies Become Sustainable? 139 Conclusion 142 9 A Global Environment 144 What is Globalization? 144 The Biosphere as Environment 148 Global Problems, Global Solutions? 150 Conclusion 161 Glossary 164 References and Further Reading 170 Index 178
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd African American Theater
Book SynopsisWritten in a clear, accessible, storytelling style, Black Theater: A Cultural Companion 1850 - Today will shine a bright new light on the culture which has historically nurtured and inspired Black Theater. The book takes the reader on a journey to discover how social realities impacted the plays dramatists wrote and produced.Trade Review"If I had possessed Professor Dicker/sun's 'Companion' forty-one years ago, it would have saved me hundreds of research hours. Her book answers all the questions my students asked about black theatre. In addition Dicker/sun challenges her readers with questions she does not answer, 'Food for Thought.' All teachers and scholars of African American theater should own this book. It's an education." James Hatch, City University New York "Glenda Dicker/sun presents us with more than the history of the African American Theater; she challenges us to join her in an ongoing creative process of illuminating, recording and understanding 'ourstory' and 'yourstory'. She asks us to absorb the roles of our ancestors, to get a taste of their times, their choices, their fears and their joys. African American Theater: A Cultural Companion strengthens one's sense of the individual and collective selves that currently perform one or more roles in the perpetual drama that is humanity." Charles OyamO Gordon, playwright "With this volume Glenda Dicker/sun shares her great wealth of artistic expertise and historical knowledge to inspire the creative impulse in readers of all ages. Drawing on the stories, plays, poetry, films, and music that reflect and enhance the history of black life in America, Dicker/sun provides a welcoming open space for each reader to insert his or her own performance into the ongoing production." Judith Stephens-Lorenz, Penn State UniversityTable of ContentsPicture Credits vi Acknowledgements vii About this Book viii Timeline of Significant Events x Abbreviations xiv Introduction: A Journey with the People who Forgot how to Fly 1 1. The People who Could Fly: Slavery, Stereotypes, Minstrelsy, and Myth 6 2. A Leap for Freedom: The Anti-Slavery Movement 29 3. We are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder: Progressing and Migrating 57 4. The Harlem Renaissance: A Sunburst Something like Spiritual Emancipation 80 5. War Stories: Buffalo Soldiers, Black Bird Men, and the Bloods 96 6. Sitting Down, Sitting In, and Standing Up: The Black Freedom Movement 113 7. Black is Beautiful: Protest and Performance 137 8. Conversations: A Second Generation Takes Center Stage 153 9. A Presence of Ancestry: I Believe I Can Fly 174 References 193 Index 202
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Lost Michelangelos
Book Synopsis* This book tells the remarkable story of the discovery of two lost paintings by Michelangelo D one held in a private collection in the US and the other held by an Oxford college.Trade Review"As much a story about the intransigence of the art establishment and the gaps in its tradition-bound methods for considering authentication claims as it is about the ultimate fate of the painting itself." New York Times "An art mystery for the ages." New York Post "An unlikely and rather miraculous piece of art history." Bay Area Reporter "In reconstructing the history of two lost paintings, Forcellino transforms the material into a cinematic plot worthy of a spy movie." Il Manifesto "This is an intriguing piece of artistic detective work...Reading Forcellino's investigations is like watching a jigsaw being painstakingly pieced together." The Saturday Age The story behind The Lost Michelangelos has garnered a lot of media attention including features in the following news outlets: The Huffington Post The Independent The Daily Mail BBC Oxford Sky News Daily News & Analysis "In compelling fashion, Antonio Forcellino traces the remarkable journey of a painting from Rome to Dubrovnik to Berlin, and finally to Buffalo, NY: could it be a masterpiece by the greatest genius of the Italian Rennaissance? William Wallace, Washington University, St Louis "Forcellino's new book reads like a detective story, draws on his expertise as a restorer and makes a good case for the rediscovery of two lost paintings by Michelangelo." Peter Burke, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsChapter One - NiagaraChapter Two - Mantua, 11 June 1546Chapter Three - Between legends and documentsChapter Four - A movable panelChapter Five - Isabel ArcherChapter Six - The meetingChapter Seven - The wax sealsChapter Eight - Flying back from New York Chapter Nine - Fabio TempestiviChapter Ten - The melancholic exileChapter Eleven - The last survivorChapter Twelve - Ragusa 1573Chapter Thirteen - The Madonna's teethChapter Fourteen - The hidden drawingChapter Fifteen - The Stone CityChapter Sixteen - Tempestivi's funeralChapter Seventeen - The island of SipanChapter Eighteen - OxfordChapter Nineteen - Back to BuffaloChapter Twenty - RestorationChapter Twenty-One - PentimentiEpilogue
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Baker Publishing Group SecondChance Dogs
Book SynopsisBestselling author and animal lover offers a collection of true first-person stories about dogs rescuing people and people rescuing dogs, providing heartwarming tales for those looking for a feel-good read.
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Baker Publishing Group The Cat in the Christmas Tree And Other True
Book SynopsisThis warm and wonderful collection of true, feel-good stories about cats and their people at Christmastime is perfect for the animal lover on your list.
£11.39
University of Nebraska Press Celluloid Indians
Book SynopsisOffers an insightful overview of Native American representation in film. Beginning with the birth of the movie industry, this title traces changes in the cinematic depictions of Native peoples and identifies cultural and historical reasons for those changes. It looks at influential and innovative Native Americans film industry.Trade Review"This is a seminal study of how Native Americans have been portrayed in film since the start of the film industry in this country. . . . This is much more than a book for film buffs; it's about how stereotypes of Native Americans were created. As the book treats the evolution of film images of Native Americans, the reader may begin to appreciate it as a history of how white people have dealt with Native Americans, including how they have created popular stereotypes of them. . . . An elegantly thoughtful book."—Kliatt"Any filmmaker seeking to present images draped in honesty should read this book. It is an absolute must."—E. Donald Two-Rivers, author of Survivor's Medicine
£21.59
Stanford University Press The Psychological Technique of Martin Luther
Book SynopsisThis study was written in English in the 1930s when Adorno, one of the 20th century's most influential thinkers, was living in the United States. It is a pioneering analysis of a member of what we now call the Radical Right—the now-forgotten Martin Luther Thomas, an American fascist-style demagogue who used the radio to appeal to and to manipulate his adherents.Table of Contents1. The personal element: self-characterization of the agitator 2. Thomas' method 3. The religious medium 4. Ideological bait.
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Stanford University Press The Psychological Technique of Martin Luther
Book SynopsisThis study was written in English in the 1930s when Adorno, one of the 20th century's most influential thinkers, was living in the United States. It is a pioneering analysis of a member of what we now call the Radical Right—the now-forgotten Martin Luther Thomas, an American fascist-style demagogue who used the radio to appeal to and to manipulate his adherents.Table of Contents1. The personal element: self-characterization of the agitator 2. Thomas' method 3. The religious medium 4. Ideological bait.
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Rutgers University Press UnAmerican Hollywood Politics and Film in the
Book Synopsis The concept of “un-Americanism,” so vital to the HUAC crusade of the 1940s and 1950s, was resoundingly revived in the emotional rhetoric that followed the September 11th terrorist attacks. Today’s political and cultural climate makes it more crucial than ever to come to terms with the consequences of this earlier period of repression and with the contested claims of Americanism that it generated. “Un-American” Hollywood reopens the intense critical debate on the blacklist era and on the aesthetic and political work of the Hollywood Left. In a series of fresh case studies focusing on contexts of production and reception, the contributors offer exciting and original perspectives on the role of progressive politics within a capitalist media industry. Original essays scrutinize the work of individual practitioners, such as Robert Rossen, Joseph Losey, Jules Dassin, and Edward Dmytryk, and examine key films, including The RTrade ReviewThis is a first rate anthology giving us a fresh perspective on Hollywood and television during the blacklist era and its legacy during the Vietnam years. Reading this book from cover to cover is a valuable experience not just of discovery and knowing, but of remembering.— Film Quarterly This collection of essays represents the work of a new generation of historians who have made discoveries in the study of films from the Blacklist era which demand our attention.— John Belton, author of American Cinema/American CultureTable of ContentsAre you now or have you ever been a Christian? the strange history of The robe as political allegory / Jeff Smith Un-American : Dmytryk, Rossellini, and Christ in concrete / Erica Sheen "A living part of the class struggle" : Diego Rivera's The flower carrier and the Hollywood left / Frank Krutnik A monarch for the millions : Jewish filmmakers, social commentary, and the postwar cycle of boxing films / Peter Stanfield The violent poetry of the times : the politics of history in Daniel Mainwaring and Joseph Losey's The lawless / Doug Dibbern Dark passages : jazz and civil liberty in the postwar crime film / Sean McCann Documentary realism and the postwar left / Will Straw Cloaked in compromise : Jules Dassin's "naked" city / Rebecca Prime The progressive producer in the studio system : Adrian Scott at RKO, 1943-1947 / Jennifer Langdon-Teclaw The house I live in : Albert Maltz and the fight against anti-Semitism / Art Simon Red Hollywood in transition : the case of Robert Rossen / Brian Neve Swashbuckling, sapphire, and salt : un-American contributions to TV costume adventure series in the 1950s / Steve Neale Hollywood, the new left, and FTA / Mark Shiel Red Hollywood / Thom Anderson
£29.70
New York University Press Its One OClock and Here Is Mary Margaret McBride
Book SynopsisMary Margaret McBride was one of the first to exploit the cultural and political importance of talk radio, pioneering the magazine-style format of many talk shows. This radio biography recreates the world of daytime radio from the 1930s through the 1950s, confirming the significance of radio to everyday life, especially for women.Trade ReviewTune in and treat yourself to Susan Ware's fascinating saga of the life and work of radio personality Mary Margaret McBride. Like McBride, Ware is at once probing and entertaining as she analyzes McBrides success from the 1930s through the 1950s, restoring McBride to her rightful place as the mother of talk radio and television. -- Lizabeth Cohen,author of A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar AmericaSincere and sometimes self-effacing, Mary Margaret was the Oprah of her day- her name a household word that might be forgotten if not for Susan Ware's carefully researched and charmingly likeable biography. * American Journalism *Drawing on archives that include McBrides radio interviews, as well as letters from former listeners, Ware begins with a description of McBrides radio show when it was at its height. * Booklist *Ware has restored McBride to a rightful place in broadcasting history. * Columbia Journalism Review *While there have been more than a few fine radio histories written by professional and nonprofessional historians in the last forty years, the last decade must be the golden age of radio scholarship...and Susan Ware's Its One OClock and Here is Mary Margaret McBride continues this current focus in radio scholarship. * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Prologue: Voice of AmericaPART I The Height of the Program1 "Here Comes McBride" 2 Mary Margaret's Radio Technique3 "Under Cover of Daytime" 4 Mary Margaret's Bond with Listeners 5 "The Appetite as Voice" 6 Doing the Products PART II Becoming Mary Margaret McBride7 Listening to Lives 8 A Missouri Childhood 9 Stella 10 The Journalist and the Writer 11 Men, Marriage, and Sex 12 Af?uence and Depression 13 "I Murdered Grandma" 14 Citrus Follies 15 The War Years PART III Transitions16 Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary Margaret McBride, and Postwar Politics 17 Television 18 The Last Show: May 14, 1954 19 Cookbooks, Columns, and Commentary 20 "Good-bye, Y'all" Epilogue: Talk Shows, Then and Now Notes Index About the Author
£42.75
University of Minnesota Press Line Of Sight American AvantGarde Film Since
Book Synopsis
£17.99
MP - University Of Minnesota Press The Tourist State Performing Leisure Liberalism
Book SynopsisExamining the role of performance in state-makingTrade Review"The Tourist State is a substantial work of theatrical insight and applied critical theory. It approaches the theoretical sublime, showing rich learning and originality in scaled and shrewd ways." —Rob Wilson, University of California, Santa CruzTable of ContentsContentsNote on OrthographyIntroduction: Toward a Performance Theory of the State1. The State of Nature: Governmentality, Biopoetics, Sensation2. The Class Act of Guide Maggie: Cosmopolitesse, Publics, and Participatory Anthropology3. Translation, Transnation: Theatrical Politics and Political Theater in the American Pacific4. Trafficking Race: Policy, Property, and Racial Reformation in the Tourist State5. Altered States: Global Hollywood, the Rise of Wellywood, and the Moving Image of RaceConclusion: Living in a Tourist StateAcknowledgmentsNotesGlossaryIndex
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Ferocious Reality
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Werner Herzog has long avowed that he hates documentaries and does not participate in the tradition. Eric Ames’s wonderful book lets us in on an open secret: ‘Herzog has. . . added to the vitality and visibility of documentary cinema internationally for more than four decades.’ I would go further: the best of the films that Herzog has made over his long career have been those that, if not called documentaries, cannot be labeled fictions. Werner Herzog’s challenges to the documentary tradition have inevitably become part of that tradition. This book shows us how." —Linda Williams, University of California, Berkeley"Ferocious Reality is excellent. The book centers on how Herzog consistently undertakes an exploration of the limits of documentary cinema and engages with it as performative behavior, challenging its boundaries. Eric Ames analyzes a broad range of Herzog’s films and engages with an array of important theoreticians of documentary cinema. This book is first-rate and innovative." —Brad Prager, author of The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and TruthTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsThe Minnesota DeclarationIntroduction: Werner Herzog, Documentary Outsider1. Sensational BodiesGame in the SandHandicapped FutureLand of Silence and DarknessWodaabe2. Moving LandscapesThe Dark Glow of the MountainsFata Morgana, La SoufrièreLessons of DarknessWheel of Time3. Ecstatic JourneysHuie’s SermonBells from the DeepPilgrimage4. Baroque VisionsThe Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver SteinerDeath for Five VoicesGod and the Burdened5. Cultural PoliticsFitzcarraldoBallad of the Little SoldierTen Thousand Years OlderThe White Diamond6. ReenactmentsLittle Dieter Needs to FlyWings of HopeRescue Dawn7. Autobiographical ActsI Am My FilmsPortrait Werner HerzogMy Best FiendGrizzly ManConclusion: Herzog’s VéritéEncounters at the End of the WorldThe Cave of Forgotten DreamsNotesIndex
£19.79
Duke University Press Chick Flicks
Book SynopsisPart journalistic chronicle, part memoir, and a cultural historical odyssey, this title features the-way-it-was collection of essays that captures the birth and growth of feminist film. It introduces each essay with an autobiographical prologue that describes the intellectual, political, and personal moments from which the work arose.Trade Review“Ruby Rich reinvents both herself and her approach to film criticism, in a fascinating book that alternates autobiography and theory. She is wise and funny at the same time, never dogmatic, always allowing her discovery process to remain in clear view.”—Roger Ebert“This collection of writings by B. Ruby Rich is sure to become a classic. She has proven herself to be a courageous guide into uncharted aesthetic and political territory and, in describing so eloquently what she finds there, she does what critics aspire to but rarely achieve: she both educates and entertains.”—Sally Potter, director of the films Orlando and The Tango“This is a remarkable book. Rich has written a memoir that encourages the reader not only to see the original essays in a new context but also and especially to understand the development of an intellectual and political moment with all of its complications and personal investments.”—Judith Mayne, author of Cinema and SpectatorshipTable of ContentsPreface: Jews without Books Introduction Prologue. I found it at the movies Film in the sixties Prologue. Hippie Chick in the Art World Carolee Schneemann's Fuses Prologue. Angst and Joy on the Women's Film Festival Circuit Leni Riefenstahl: The Deceptive Myth Prologue. Life, Death and Tragic Homecoming 4. Voodoo Verite: Maya Deren's Divine Horsemen Prologue. An Iguana, Some Wolves, and the Dawn of Theory In the Name of Feminist Film Criticism Prologue. O Brave New World One Way or Another: Sara Gomez and the Cuban Experience Prologue. A Woman's Declaration of Secession from the Avant-Garde Sex and Cinema Prologue. Love's Labour Lost Misconception: Labouring under No Illusions Prologue. Cows and Hero Worship The Films of Yvonne Rainer Prologue. Knokke-Heist and the Fury that was Edinburgh Designing Desire: Chantal Akerman Prologue. Euphoria Reclaims History From Repressive Tolerance to Erotic Liberation: Maedchen in Uniform Prologue. Softball, the Goddess and Lesbian Film Culture The Right of Re-Vision: Michelle Citron's Daughter Rite Prologue. The Allure of Alchemy Femicide Investigation: Thriller Prologue. Sour Grapes She Says, He Says: The Power of the Narrator in Modernist Film Politics Prologue. Sex, Gender, and the Consumer Culture Antiporn: Soft Issue, Hard World (Not a Love Story) Prologue. Unguided Tours The Feminist Avant-Garde Prologue. Attacking the Sisters, or the Limits of Disagreement Cinefeminism and its Discontents Prologue. Libel Threats and Exile Tactics Truth, Faith and the Individual: Thought on U.S. Documentary Film Practice Prologue. Disempowerment and the Politics of Rage Lady Killers: A Question of Silence Prologue. Film Stars as Outstanding Human Beings Julie Christie Goes to Washington Prologue. Banning the Victim 21. Good Girls, Bad Girls: Joyce Chopra's Smooth Talk Prologue. The Berks and the Sex Wars Feminisims and Sexulality on the Eighties Epilogue: Charting the Eighties
£27.90
Duke University Press Black Arts West
Book SynopsisA social and cultural history of African American arts activity in Los Angeles between the Second World War and the 1992 riots.Trade Review“[An] often-dazzling and truly interdisciplinary study. . . . What truly dazzles about Widener's book is its range of concerns and competencies: music, theater, visual arts, film, literature, social history, intellectual history, urban studies, politics, and on and on. . . . Black Arts West is an often-brilliant, certainly essential study for anyone interested in the black arts movement and, indeed, late twentieth-century U.S. cultural politics. “ - James Edward Smethurst, Journal of American History“The invitation of Black Arts West is to allow the reader a historic and discursive remapping of black Los Angeles so that among the ashes and debris of its most sensational and destructive moments—the Watts Riots of 1965 and the Rodney King Uprising of 1992—we see a much more complex, dynamic, and affirmative network of creative activities that date back to the influx of blacks to this region during the Second World War. Not only does he offer a remapping of the region, but also he argues that a particular aesthetic emerged as a result of the deliberate efforts of black artists to move forward by staying put in Los Angeles.” - Nicole R. Fleetwood, Art Journal“Black Arts West presents fresh, bold perspectives on race, class,power, and identity in Los Angeles. Buy a copy and dwell on it. Widener’s book will definitely get your intellectual and political juices flowing. For that and more, we are in his debt.” - Douglas Flamming, Pacific Historical Review“Widener is an extremely perceptive and subtle historian. By placing jazz and visual art alongside literature and theater while also paying attention to the relationship between race and class, his work does great service to the understanding of the interrelatedness of art and politics in the postwarperiod.” - Joe Street, American Historical Review“There is so much to recommend Daniel Widener’s Black Arts West it is hard to know where to start. . . . Widener meticulously documents the struggles of local artists and community organizations in a manner that illuminates national and even international struggles around cultural production and thus makes this book an invaluable contribution to the scholarship on postwar African American culture. It constitutes an important addition to local and regional studies of the Black Arts Movement, and to scholarly analyses of black radicalism and its relationship to African American expressive culture,the African American avant-garde, and the social movements and community organizations that created one of the most significant periods of African American artistic expression.” - Amy Abugo Ongiri, Journal of African American History“Drawing on a wide range of sources, including small arts journals, original and archived oral histories with artists, and archival documents related to the city's arts policy, Widener's narrative is detailed, fluid, and analytically complex. . . . One of the many strengths of Black Arts West is Widener's deft analysis of cultural texts across a range of genres. He is equally comfortable discussing the poetry of Jayne Cortez and Harry Dolan, the music of Horace Tapscott and Bobby Bradford, the visual art of John Outterbridge and Betye Saar, or the films of Charles Burnett and Billy Woodberry. These artists and many others are part of the tremendous wealth of information Widener presents on black arts in Los Angeles.” - Matt Delmont, American Quarterly“Black Arts West knocked my socks off. Daniel Widener’s exciting account of the ‘Watts Renaissance’ fundamentally revises our picture of contemporary L.A. art and literary scenes, and adds a crucial new chapter to the history of Black cultural radicalism during the 1960s and 1970s.”—Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles“Daniel Widener’s study provides a much needed, basic analysis of the complex and turbulent black arts and culture scene in Los Angeles during the 1960s and 1970s, and the dynamic mix of politics that fueled it.”—Amiri Baraka“This is an ambitious, far-reaching, and original work that explores the meaning and importance of black culture from the post–WWII years through the Bradley years and successfully argues for the centrality of culture to African Americans’ search for freedom. It is a book that should be read by scholars and students of African American history, cultural history, and the history of Los Angeles.” -- Robert Bauman * Western Historical Quarterly *“Black Arts West presents fresh, bold perspectives on race, class, power, and identity in Los Angeles. Buy a copy and dwell on it. Widener’s book will definitely get your intellectual and political juices flowing. For that and more, we are in his debt.” -- Douglas Flamming * Pacific Historical Review *“[An] often-dazzling and truly interdisciplinary study. . . . What truly dazzles about Widener's book is its range of concerns and competencies: music, theater, visual arts, film, literature, social history, intellectual history, urban studies, politics, and on and on. . . . Black Arts West is an often-brilliant, certainly essential study for anyone interested in the black arts movement and, indeed, late twentieth-century U.S. cultural politics. “ -- James Edward Smethurst * Journal of American History *“Drawing on a wide range of sources, including small arts journals, original and archived oral histories with artists, and archival documents related to the city's arts policy, Widener's narrative is detailed, fluid, and analytically complex. . . . One of the many strengths of Black Arts West is Widener's deft analysis of cultural texts across a range of genres. He is equally comfortable discussing the poetry of Jayne Cortez and Harry Dolan, the music of Horace Tapscott and Bobby Bradford, the visual art of John Outterbridge and Betye Saar, or the films of Charles Burnett and Billy Woodberry. These artists and many others are part of the tremendous wealth of information Widener presents on black arts in Los Angeles.” -- Matt Delmont * American Quarterly *“The invitation of Black Arts West is to allow the reader a historic and discursive remapping of black Los Angeles so that among the ashes and debris of its most sensational and destructive moments—the Watts Riots of 1965 and the Rodney King Uprising of 1992—we see a much more complex, dynamic, and affirmative network of creative activities that date back to the influx of blacks to this region during the Second World War. Not only does he offer a remapping of the region, but also he argues that a particular aesthetic emerged as a result of the deliberate efforts of black artists to move forward by staying put in Los Angeles.” -- Nicole R. Fleetwood * Art Journal *“There is so much to recommend Daniel Widener’s Black Arts West it is hard to know where to start. . . . Widener meticulously documents the struggles of local artists and community organizations in a manner that illuminates national and even international struggles around cultural production and thus makes this book an invaluable contribution to the scholarship on postwar African American culture. It constitutes an important addition to local and regional studies of the Black Arts Movement, and to scholarly analyses of black radicalism and its relationship to African American expressive culture, the African American avant-garde, and the social movements and community organizations that created one of the most significant periods of African American artistic expression.” -- Amy Abugo Ongiri * Journal of African American History *“Widener is an extremely perceptive and subtle historian. By placing jazz and visual art alongside literature and theater while also paying attention to the relationship between race and class, his work does great service to the understanding of the interrelatedness of art and politics in the postwar period.” -- Joe Street * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Acts of Culture, or, Maybe the People Would Be the Times 1 Part I. Cultural Democracy in the Racial Metropolis 1. Hollywood Scuffle: The Second World War, Los Angeles, and the Politics of Wartime Representation 21 2. The Negro as Human Being? Desegregation and the Black Arts Imperative 52 3. Writing Watts: The Rise and Fall of Cultural Liberalism 90 Part II. Message from the Grassroots 4. Notes from the Underground: Free Jazz and Black Power in South Los Angeles 117 5. Studios in the Street: Creative Community and Visual Arts 153 6. The Arms of Criticism: The Cultural Politics of Urban Insurgency 187 Part III. Festivals and Funerals 7. An Intimate Enemy: Culture and the Contradictions of Bradleyism 221 8. How to Survive in South Central: Black Film as Class Critique 250 Epilogue 283 Notes 291 Works Cited 329 Index 353
£22.79
Duke University Press Skin Acts
Book SynopsisIn Skin Acts, Michelle Ann Stephens explores the work of four iconic twentieth-century black male performers—Bert Williams, Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte, and Bob Marley—to reveal how racial and sexual difference is both marked by and experienced in the skin.Trade Review“In Skin Acts, Michelle Ann Stephens provides a valuable contribution to the study of race and representation by offering a thorough account of the relationship between black skin and white gaze and the production of difference in twentieth-century US popular culture.” -- Brandi T. Summers * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"Skin Acts provides highly productive discourses for anyone interested in black cultural studies, performance theory, and/or racialization." -- Lia T. Bascomb * Contemporary Theatre Review *"The book is well written and rich with analytic detail regarding each of the four case studies, particularly through the use of visual materials. Skin Acts is a valuable contribution to the literatures of race, psychoanalytic theory, masculinity, and performance." -- Devon R. Goss * Men and Masculinities *"Skin Acts is an ambitious and well-researched study that anyone interested in the intersections of psychoanalysis and critical race theory should read." -- Rocío Pichon-Rivière * e-misférica *"By pushing the reader to think about how multiple sites of self-definition and societal gaze create the racial, bodily landscape of the black masculine performer, Stephens makes an important contribution to black masculinity studies and performance studies, and articulates the importance for the field of skin studies. Stephens’s interdisciplinary project effortlessly blends performance theory, psychoanalysis, and historical theories of race, corporeality, and physiognomy to produce an accessible framework for understanding black masculine performers in the twentieth century." -- Brandon J. Manning * Callaloo *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Fleshing Out the Act 1 1. Seeing Faces, Hearing Signs 31 2. Bodylines, Borderlines, Color Lines 71 3. The Problem of Color 111 4. In the Flesh, Living Sound 153 Conclusion. Defacing Race, Rethinking the Skin 191 Notes 205 Bibliography 259 Index 273
£76.50
Duke University Press Skin Acts
Book SynopsisIn Skin Acts, Michelle Ann Stephens explores the work of four iconic twentieth-century black male performers—Bert Williams, Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte, and Bob Marley—to reveal how racial and sexual difference is both marked by and experienced in the skin.Trade Review“In Skin Acts, Michelle Ann Stephens provides a valuable contribution to the study of race and representation by offering a thorough account of the relationship between black skin and white gaze and the production of difference in twentieth-century US popular culture.” -- Brandi T. Summers * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"Skin Acts provides highly productive discourses for anyone interested in black cultural studies, performance theory, and/or racialization." -- Lia T. Bascomb * Contemporary Theatre Review *"The book is well written and rich with analytic detail regarding each of the four case studies, particularly through the use of visual materials. Skin Acts is a valuable contribution to the literatures of race, psychoanalytic theory, masculinity, and performance." -- Devon R. Goss * Men and Masculinities *"Skin Acts is an ambitious and well-researched study that anyone interested in the intersections of psychoanalysis and critical race theory should read." -- Rocío Pichon-Rivière * e-misférica *"By pushing the reader to think about how multiple sites of self-definition and societal gaze create the racial, bodily landscape of the black masculine performer, Stephens makes an important contribution to black masculinity studies and performance studies, and articulates the importance for the field of skin studies. Stephens’s interdisciplinary project effortlessly blends performance theory, psychoanalysis, and historical theories of race, corporeality, and physiognomy to produce an accessible framework for understanding black masculine performers in the twentieth century." -- Brandon J. Manning * Callaloo *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Fleshing Out the Act 1 1. Seeing Faces, Hearing Signs 31 2. Bodylines, Borderlines, Color Lines 71 3. The Problem of Color 111 4. In the Flesh, Living Sound 153 Conclusion. Defacing Race, Rethinking the Skin 191 Notes 205 Bibliography 259 Index 273
£25.19
Duke University Press Obstruction
Book SynopsisDrawing on an eclectic range of texts and figures, from the Greek Cynics to Tori Amos, Nick Salvato finds that embarrassment, laziness, slowness, cynicism, and digressiveness can paradoxically enable alternative modes of intellectual production.Trade Review"Through an often breathtaking range of cultural readings, Salvato (performing and media arts, Cornell) offers new ways to think about traits that are normally seen as obstructions or impediments to creative or scholarly projects. . . . here is little doubt that graduate students and early-career academics, especially those in the humanities, will find this book a source of affirmation, encouragement, and transformation. Essential. All readers." -- M. Uebel * Choice *"Whether identifying as academics or intellectuals, yoga instructors or closet fans of Tori Amos, readers of Obstruction are certain to discover that there is immense pleasure and great value to be gained from an absorptive encounter with Nick Salvato’s embarrassing, lazy, slow, cynical, digressive act of scholarly labour. As Obstruction reminds us: if it’s broke, don’t fix it." -- Amy Holzapfel * Modern Drama *"Whether laziness or cynicism, it seems there is a way to utilize such obstructions for creativity and productivity, but only by embracing them as offering valuable constraints, and not by treating them as presenting obstacles to dissolve or overcome. Obstruction makes a clear argument for the use value of affect for cognitive activity, especially, creativity in thinking." -- Karen Simecek * Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Trafficking in Five Obstructions 1 1. Embarrassment 33 2. Laziness 63 3. Slowness 95 4. Cynicism 127 5. Digressiveness 157 Conclusion. Sober Futurity 193 Notes 205 Bibliography 233 Index 251
£98.60
Duke University Press Obstruction
Book SynopsisDrawing on an eclectic range of texts and figures, from the Greek Cynics to Tori Amos, Nick Salvato finds that embarrassment, laziness, slowness, cynicism, and digressiveness can paradoxically enable alternative modes of intellectual production. Trade Review"Through an often breathtaking range of cultural readings, Salvato (performing and media arts, Cornell) offers new ways to think about traits that are normally seen as obstructions or impediments to creative or scholarly projects. . . . here is little doubt that graduate students and early-career academics, especially those in the humanities, will find this book a source of affirmation, encouragement, and transformation. Essential. All readers." -- M. Uebel * Choice *"Whether identifying as academics or intellectuals, yoga instructors or closet fans of Tori Amos, readers of Obstruction are certain to discover that there is immense pleasure and great value to be gained from an absorptive encounter with Nick Salvato’s embarrassing, lazy, slow, cynical, digressive act of scholarly labour. As Obstruction reminds us: if it’s broke, don’t fix it." -- Amy Holzapfel * Modern Drama *"Whether laziness or cynicism, it seems there is a way to utilize such obstructions for creativity and productivity, but only by embracing them as offering valuable constraints, and not by treating them as presenting obstacles to dissolve or overcome. Obstruction makes a clear argument for the use value of affect for cognitive activity, especially, creativity in thinking." -- Karen Simecek * Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Trafficking in Five Obstructions 1 1. Embarrassment 33 2. Laziness 63 3. Slowness 95 4. Cynicism 127 5. Digressiveness 157 Conclusion. Sober Futurity 193 Notes 205 Bibliography 233 Index 251
£25.19
Seagull Books London Ltd Loose Screws Nine New Plays from Poland In
Book SynopsisAn anthology of contemporary Polish drama that exposes ways in which individual and social violence impinge upon each other, disrupt notions of a monolithic Polish identity, and try to find meaning within the post-9/11 global context. It also includes an introduction that situates each play within its historical, political, and theatrical context.
£30.00
Seagull Books London Ltd La Divina Caricatura Bunraku Meets Motown
Book SynopsisThis unique book is a graphic novel and performance poem, a mixed-media musical cartoon, an animated feature film come to life. Lee Breuer's La Divina Caricatura is in the pataphysical tradition of Alfred Jarryif Jarry had been a Dante fan. In this play we meet unforgettable characters: Rose the Dog, who thinks she is a woman; her lover John, a junkie filmmaker; Ponzi Porco, PhD, a pig in love with the New York Times; and the Warrior Ant, who, to impress his father, Trotsky the Termite, declares the perpetual revolution of the bugs of the fifth world. Each a soul on its own pilgrimage, seldom with a Virgil or a Beatrice to guide them, they often try to guide each other, only to get more lost. A dazzling, comic, potent mix of ideas and character, invention and reality, the plays in La Divina Caricatura reinvigorate the stage for our time.
£22.00
Seagull Books London Ltd Professional Wrestling Politics and Populism
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£33.25
