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Seagull Books Death Tourism
Book SynopsisHow does a state redefine its national identity after catastrophic trauma? And what is the role of this kind of tourism in defining their new identity? This title exposes the intersection of leisure with the inhumane, giving insight into how people respectfully share a public space that is both free and sacred, compelling and tragic.
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Seagull Books London Ltd Performing the Nation Genocide Justice
Book SynopsisHow can court testimony be used to rebuild a cohesive national identity for the Hutus and Tutsis? And how is it that dance and theater help to move forward the cause of justice and reconciliation? This title provides a satisfying analysis of the interplay between justice, performance, narrative, and memorialization.
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Seagull Books London Ltd PostWar Reflections
Book SynopsisTable of Contents1.The Republic of Silence2.Paris under the Occupation3.What is a Collaborator4.The End of the War5.Individualism and Conformism in the United States6.Cities of America7.New York, Colonial City8.USA: Presentation
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A Handbook of Cultural Economics Second Edition
Book SynopsisThe second edition of this widely acclaimed and extensively cited collection of original contributions by specialist authors reflects changes in the field of cultural economics over the last eight years.Trade Review‘A Handbook of Cultural Economics is the definitive guide to cultural economics. Short, accessible articles by leading scholars in the field quickly bring the reader up to speed and point them in the right direction for future research. The new edition brings the field to the cutting edge and is a must have for anyone interested in economics and the insights it offers for understanding popular culture and the arts.’ -- Alex Tabarrok, George Mason University and The Independent InstituteTable of ContentsContents: Preface to the Second Edition Introduction Ruth Towse 1. Application of Welfare Economics William J. Baumol 2. Art Auctions Orley Ashenfelter and Kathryn Graddy 3. Art Dealers Olav Velthuis 4. Art Markets Olav Velthuis 5. Art Prices Dominique Sagot-Duvauroux 6. Artistic Freedom Michael Rushton 7. Artists’ Labour Markets Françoise Benhamou 8. Artists’ Rights Michael Rushton 9. Awards Nachoem M. Wijnberg 10. Baumol’s Cost Disease James Heilbrun 11. Broadcasting Glenn Withers and Katrina Alford 12. Cinema Samuel Cameron 13. Contingent Valuation Tiziana Cuccia 14. Copyright William M. Landes 15. Costs of Production Mervi Taalas 16. Creative Economy Tyler Cowen 17. Creative Industries Ruth Towse 18. Creativity Ruth Towse 19. Criticism Samuel Cameron 20. Cultural Capital David Throsby 21. Cultural Districts Walter Santagata 22. Cultural Entrepreneurship Mark Blaug and Ruth Towse 23. Cultural Statistics David Throsby 24. Cultural Tourism Lluís Bonet 25. Cultural Value Jen D. Snowball 26. Demand Louis Lévy-Garboua and Claude Montmarquette 27. Digitalization Anders Henten and Reza Tadayoni 28. Economic Impact of the Arts Bruce A. Seaman 29. Experience Goods Michael Hutter 30. Festivals Bruno S. Frey 31. Globalization Keith Acheson 32. Heritage Françoise Benhamou 33. International Trade Günther G. Schulze 34. The Internet: Culture for Free Joëlle Farchy 35. The Internet: Economics Fabrice Rochelandet 36. Management of the Arts François Colbert 37. Marketing the Arts François Colbert 38. Media Economics and Regulation Gillian Doyle 39. Motion Pictures Darlene C. Chisholm 40. Museums Víctor Fernández-Blanco and Juan Prieto-Rodríguez 41. The Music Industry Andrew E. Burke 42. Non-profit Organizations Dick Netzer 43. Opera and Ballet Ruth Towse 44. Orchestras William A. Luksetich 45. Participation Charles M. Gray 46. Performance Indicators Giacomo Pignataro 47. Performing Arts Ruth Towse 48. Poverty and Support for Artists Hans Abbing 49. Pricing the Arts Michael Rushton 50. Principal–Agent Analysis Michele Trimarchi 51. Public Choice Isidoro Mazza 52. Public Support Bruno S. Frey 53. Publishing Christian Hjorth-Andersen 54. Regulation Ilde Rizzo 55. Resale Rights Victor Ginsburgh 56. Superstars Günther G. Schulze 57. Tax Concessions John O’Hagan 58. Television Christopher Maule 59. Theatre Daniel Urrutiaguer 60. Welfare Economics Mark Blaug Index
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University of Tennessee Press Personal Discipline Material
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Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S. Skull Shapes and the Map
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Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S. Whos Who in Skulls
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Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S. Michael Rockefeller
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Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S. Seasonality and Sedentism
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Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection Astronomers Scribes and Priests
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Ohio University Press Theory in the Practice of the Nicaraguan
Book SynopsisEven in the period following the electoral defeat of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in 1990, the revolution of 1979 continues to have a profound effect on the political economy of Nicaragua.Trade Review“For readers well–versed in the history of Nicaragua since 1960, Wright offers rich insight into the Sandinistas’ conceptualization and reconceptualization of the revolution.” * Latin American Research Review *“An excellent basis for understanding the Nicaraguan Revolution primarily as a Sandinista revolution, this book is first–rate analysis. … A most readable and carefully constructed and argued thesis that provides a comprehensive overview of Nicaraguan political events since 1972. Highly recommended for all readers.” * Choice *
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Ohio University Press Terror in the Countryside
Book SynopsisThe key to democratization lies within the experience of the popular movements. Those who engaged in the popular struggle in Guatemala have a deep understanding of substantive democratic behavior, and the experience of Guatemala’s civil society should be the cornerstone for building a meaningful formal democracy.In
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Ohio University Press The Unpast
Book SynopsisPortuguese and Brazilian slave-traders shipped at least four million slaves to Brazil—in contrast to the five hundred thousand slaves that English vessels brought to the Americas. Controlling the vast number of slaves in Brazil became of primary importance.Trade Review“R. S. Rose’s series of volumes about what Robert Levine called ‘the dark side of Brazilian History’ makes fascinating reading and is based on consultations of such a wide range of sources that he has become a leader of research in his field.”“I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in Latin American studies, history, or criminology.”
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Ohio University Press Obama and Kenya Contested Histories and the
Book SynopsisBarack Obama’s political ascendancy has focused worldwide attention on Kenya. Carotenuto and Luongo argue that efforts to cast Obama as a “son of the soil” of the Lake Victoria basin invite insights into the politicized uses of Kenya’s past.Trade Review“In the US, Barack Obama is African; in Africa, he is Kenyan; and in Kenya, he is Luo. … Historians Carotenuto (St. Lawrence Univ.) and Luongo (Northeastern Univ.) emerge from the pages of this book as a dynamic academic duo as they glide through Kenya's colonial and postindependence periods.… This book also demonstrates that African studies is in good academic hands. Summing up: Recommended.” * CHOICE *“This book … represents a laudable attempt to confront distorted and false depictions of Obama and the Kenyan past and present that have appeared since 2008 in scholarly and nonscholarly works … In a book that will be useful in American university classrooms and now even more among the general public as Obama is succeeded as chief executive by a long-time purveyor of the 'birther' myth, [Carotenuto and Luongo] effectively dismantle the many stereotypes and myths that have characterized writing about Obama and Kenya by right-wing ideologues outside Kenya.” * African Studies Review *
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Ohio University Press Viet Nam
Book SynopsisDuring his 20 years as a columnist for Vi?t Nam News, Huu Ngoc both charmed and educated an international readership with his simple but elegant glimpses into Vietnamese culture. These selections from his column are perfectly suited to students of Vietnamese history and culture and travelers seeking an introduction to the country and its people.Trade Review“Việt Nam offers a sweeping introduction to Vietnamese history and culture through a collection of essays selected from Wandering through Vietnamese Culture (2004 … [It] moves from the ancient to the colonial to the contemporary, runs the cultural gamut from village puppetry to classical opera, and details cultural, linguistic, regional, and biographical histories. It both promotes and creates the idea of a national culture, which Hữu Ngọc considers essential to Vietnam’s past and future. Summing up: Essential.” * CHOICE *“Hữu Ngọc is an engaging and brilliant writer, and the brevity of his vignettes are just enough to spark an interest in the topic for a reader unfamiliar with the material. Even scholars of Vietnam will find something to learn in this volume.” * Pacific Affairs *
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Harvard University Press Lev Krevzas A Defense of Church Unity and
Book SynopsisKrevza’s Defense, on the Uniate side, and Kopystens’kyj’s Palinodia (1621), a defense of the Eastern Church, are perhaps the most illuminating works on the debate that culminated at the time of the Union of Brest (1596), when much of the Ruthenian ecclesiastical hierarchy declared itself in communion with the Roman Catholic Church.Trade ReviewThe publication in a clear English translation of two of the most important texts in the polemical battle between supporters and opponents of the Union [of Brest] is…most welcome. The quality of the debate admirably reflects the high standard of Uniate and Orthodox learning in the Commonwealth, with both authors showing themselves to be completely at home in the history of both Latin and Greek churches, and to be fully conversant with religious developments in western Europe. Krevza’s impassioned appeal for church unity should be recognised as a classic text of ecumenism; Kopystens’kyj’s equally scholarly reply demonstrates the difficulties faced by all who would restore the shattered fabric of the Church of the apostles. These splendid volumes will bring a neglected but important area of church history to a wider audience. -- Robert I. Frost * Ecclesiastical History *The Harvard Library of Early Ukrainian Literature is a monumental series—of original works and translations thereof into English and Ukrainian—published in commemoration of the millennium of Christianity in Rus’-Ukraine. The volumes published to date are devoted primarily to the early seventeenth century, a period of great polemical activity between adherents of the Ruthenian (Ukrainian-Belarusian) Orthodox Church on the one hand, and of the Uniate Church on the other. Part I of the volumes under discussion here combines in one book two major polemical treatises, Krevza’s Defense from the Uniate side, and Kopystens’kyj’s massive Palinodija from the Orthodox, written in response to Krevza. Part II represents a catalogue of all of the identifiable written sources referred to in them. The two books are beautifully produced, the translations excellent; the publication of these texts in English translation, together with the invaluable list of sources, will give scholars in the field of Church history a veritable treasure trove of material for further research. -- S. M. Pugh * Journal of Theological Studies *
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Harvard University Press Sermons and Rhetoric of Kievan Rus Harvard
Book SynopsisIlarion, Klim Smoljatic, and Kirill of Turov are remarkable for their personal and literary achievements. Franklin prefaces their work with a substantial introduction that places each of the authors in historical context and examines the literary qualities, as well as the textual complexities, of these outstanding examples of Rus’ literature.
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Harvard University Press Ukrainian Futurism 19141930
Book SynopsisOleh Ilnytzkyj seeks to rectify the misinterpretations surrounding the Futurists and their leader Mykhail Semenko by providing the first major English-language monograph on this vibrant literary movement and its charismatic leader.Trade ReviewIlnytzkyj’s great achievement is to demonstrate that Semenko’s followers were in fact part of the mainstream attempt in the first quarter of the century to transcend the rural basis of Ukrainian identity and create a new, vibrant and more ’modern’ sense of self. -- Andrew Wilson * Slavic and East European Review [UK] *[Ukrainian Futurism] will be a landmark in Ukrainian literary history since it offers, for the first time, a critical and historical analysis of this neglected subject. It will also receive high marks for meticulous research and balanced, well-argued conclusions. The best way of acquainting the Ukrainian reader with it would be to translate and publish [it] in Ukrainian, for it is very doubtful that a critical work of comparable acumen will be published any time soon… To read Ilnytzkyj’s book is to savor the many strands of the rich Ukrainian cultural tapestry in the critical post-World War I epoch. -- George S. N. Luckyj * Slavic Review *
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Harvard University Press Kistiakovsky
Book SynopsisKistiakovsky railed against Lenin's concept of a vanguard party to lead the revolution and advocated a government based on respect for human rights and constitutional federalism. Heuman shows the fresh urgency of Kistiakovsky's ideas as countries of the former Soviet Union seek to establish precisely those values that he put forth 90 years ago.Trade Review[Heuman's] lucid scholarly account places [Kistiakovsky] firmly in his social and intellectual context, and provides a fascinating picture of the complex intermingling of diverse currents of thought in the early twentieth-century Russian Empire. -- Maureen Perrie * English Historical Review *
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Harvard University Press Testament to Ruthenian
Book SynopsisStefan Pugh analyzes the Ruthenian language use of one of its most outstanding practitioners, Meletij Smotryc´kyj (ca. 1578–1633): polemicist, cleric, and scholar. This study will provide the groundwork for the next generation of scholarship on the Ruthenian language.
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Harvard University Press Above Beyond From Soviet General to Ukranian State Builder
Book SynopsisMorozov provides behind-the-scenes insights on Yeltsin, Kuchma, Dudaev, and other important players still active today. His book will firmly alter our perception of the USSR and its demise, the Soviet military machine, and the rise of a modern, independent Ukraine.
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Harvard University Press The Slavonic Book of Esther
Book SynopsisThe Old Testament Book of Esther in Slavonic translation is known from East Slavic manuscripts of the late 14th to the late 16th centuries. Working from the Masoretic Hebrew texts and Greek translations, Horace Lunt and Moshe Taube examine textological clues to the circumstances of Esther's translation, sources, and redactions.
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Harvard University Press The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha
Book SynopsisLysheha is considered the “poets’ poet” of contemporary Ukraine. A dissident and iconoclast, he was forbidden to publish in the USSR from 1972 to 1988. Since then, his reputation has steadily grown to legendary proportions. Collected here are facing-page English and Ukrainian versions of selected poems and a play, Friend Li Po, Brother Tu Fu.Trade ReviewOut of a silence imposed by history and ignorance comes the shattering voice of Oleh Lysheha. Ukraine has its overdue political autonomy, and now, with these poems and play, an equally overdue rendition of Ukrainian life, love, and stalwart hope. Lysheha's "Swan"—"My God, I'm vanishing.."—alone makes the book a treasure. This work offers American readers in particular not just a new voice, but, even in translation, a new language, a new way of seeing. Lysheha speaks through indirection, and observes through the sides of his eyes, but the effect is a set of blows to the heart, which leave one more alive, not less. -- James Carroll, author of An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came between UsOleh Lysheha joins a small and unlikely company of poets—which includes Montale, Lawrence, Rilke, and Simic—as a metaphysician of the natural world who finds hidden openings through which the poet passes beyond himself into the outer dark. His travels through the door beyond the still point of our turning world refresh our faith in the mystery. -- Askold Melnyczuk, author of What is ToldPsychologically inward, phantasmagoric, Oleh Lysheha's poems are darkly comic fables about the risks, pleasures, and limitations of trying to perceive the Sublime in Nature. What is original in his poems is his ironic understanding of how absurd gestures like sitting on an ant hole are as likely to provoke "visionary hours" as the contemplation of "one of those heavenly days which cannot die." His interest in Nature is decidedly lowercase—nature in its specific operations, and not as a springboard for metaphysics. An alder by a stream may become suggestive of symbolic meaning, but the poet never insists. This modesty of scope shouldn't be mistaken for modesty of ambition: his poems are quirky, uncompromising, full of unexpected dips and veers of sensibility. -- Tom Sleigh, author of The Dreamhouse
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Harvard University Press Josef Dobrovský and the Origins of the Igor Tale
Book SynopsisThis controversial and groundbreaking book revisits the origins of one of the most beloved works of East Slavic literature, Slovo o polku Igoreve (The Igorʹ Tale). Keenan argues that the text is not an authentic 12th-century document but rather was created by the Bohemian scholar Josef Dobrovský in the late 18th century.
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Gallaudet University Press,U.S. Speak to Me
Book SynopsisThis compelling true-life story deals with a single parent making the discovery that her 1-year-old son is deaf.
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Zone Books Culture in Practice
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Zone Books Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
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The University of Chicago Press The Root of Roots
Book SynopsisThis pamphlet opens the diaries kept by Melville and Frances Herskovits on their famous 1920s expedition deep into the South American jungle.
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University of Chicago Press The Hit Mans Dilemma Or Business Personal and
Book Synopsis"It's not personal; it's just business," says the professional killer to his victim. But business is always personal, and even though modern business corporations have been granted the legal status of persons, they are still part of the impersonal engines of society that operate far beyond human reach.
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Harvard Graduate School of Design The Superlative City Dubai and the Urban
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Social Science Research Council Transitional Justice and Development Making
Book SynopsisAs developing societies emerge from legacies of conflict and authoritarianism, they are frequently beset by poverty, inequality, weak institutions, broken infrastructure, poor governance, insecurity, and low levels of social capital. These countries also tend to propagate massive human rights violations, which displace victims who are marginalized, handicapped, widowed, and orphaned--in other words, people with strong claims to justice. Those who work with others to address development and justice often fail to supply a coherent response to these concerns. The essays in this volume confront the intricacies--and interconnectedness--of transitional governance issues head on, mapping the relationship between two fields that, academically and in practice, have grown largely in isolation of one another. The result of a research project conducted by the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), this book explains how justice and recovery can be aligned not only in theory but also in practice, among both people and governments as they reform.Table of ContentsTable of Contents: 9 Acknowledgments11 Introduction Incorporating Transitional Justice into the Response to Displacement Roger Duthie37 Chapter 1 Contributing to Durable Solutions: Transitional Justice and the Integration and Reintegration of Displaced Persons Roger Duthie65 Chapter 2 Addressing Concerns about Transitional Justice in Displacement Contexts: A Humanitarian Perspective Bryce Campbell85 Chapter 3 Protection in the Past Tense: Restitution at the Juncture of Humanitarian Response to Displacement and Transitional Justice Rhodri C. Williams139 Chapter 4 The Potential for Redress: Reparations and Large-Scale Displacement Peter Van der Auweraert189 Chapter 5 Truth-Telling and Displacement: Patterns and Prospects Megan Bradley233 Chapter 6 Criminal Justice and Forced Displacement: International and National Perspectives Federico Andreu-Guzman279 Chapter 7 Ensuring Long-Term Protection: Justice-Sensitive Security Sector Reform and Displacement Marina Caparini329 Chapter 8 The Nexus between Displacement and Transitional Justice: A Gender-Justice Dimension Lucy Hovil360 Contributors
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Field Museum of Natural History,U.S. Colombia Per250 Bajo PutumayoCotuh233 Rapid
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Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC The Culture of Ethics
Book SynopsisWhat is ethics? Is it a system of transcendent moral imperatives, or can it be produced by ordinary people in everyday life? This title address these questions in a series of thought-provoking reflections that draw their inspiration from diverse sources, ranging from fieldwork in Papua New Guinea to cinematic depictions of the Ten Commandments.
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Curtis Press Nonscience Returns
Book SynopsisThis unforgettable book will make you laugh as it unveils the crazy world of Nonscience, the dodgy descendant of science. It will make your toes curl as it shows how the Experts are taking over every aspect of our lives. Nobody understands the rules for COVID-19 because Experts have confused everyone. And there is false news everywhere. No, the Amazon is not the lungs of the world, it doesn''t produce our oxygen. Paper bags in supermarkets are worse than plastic; producing paper causes far more pollution. Are you giving up your fried breakfast for a healthy quiche? Don''t-the quiche is more likely to harm you. Japan is introducing clean cars, powered by hydrogen, but this remarkable book reveals that the powerplant producing the fuel is the filthiest in the world. Why is every major TV station promoting a bake-off show? Those recipes-with sugar, cream, fat, and carbohydrate-cause more disease than anything else we eat. You send kids to university to train their brains, but they go beca
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HAU Acting for Others Relational Transformations in
Book SynopsisFor the Ankave of Papua New Guinea, men, unlike women, do not reach adulthood and become fathers simply by growing up and reproducing. What fathers and by extension, men actually are is a result of a series of relational transformations, operated in and by rituals in which men and women both perform complementary actions in separate spaces. Acting for Others is a tour de force in Melanesian ethnography, gender studies, and theories of ritual. Based on years of fieldwork conducted by the author and her husband and co-ethnographer, this book's double view of the Ankave ritual cycle from women in the village and from the men in the forest is novel, provocative, and one of the most incisive analyses of the emergence of ideas of gender in Papua New Guinea since Marilyn Strathern's The Gender of the Gift. At the heart of Pascale Bonnem re's argument is the idea that it is possible for genders to act for and upon one another, and to do so almost paradoxically, by limiting action through the o
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Rethinking Nature Relations
Book SynopsisTrade Review‘So many environmental problems stem from seeing humans as distinct from nature. This perceptive book critically interrogates the nature-human divide, encouraging us to move beyond binary thinking as a route to environmental wellbeing. All who wrestle with humanity’s place on Earth and the intellectual foundations of environmentalism will benefit from this careful and clear-eyed book.’ -- Paul Wapner, American University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: rethinking nature relations beyond binaries 2. Classification and dichotomy 3. Deconstructing understandings of nature 4. Nature and use as multi-locality: neither urban nor rural 5. Nature as multi-use: neither productivism nor landscape 6. Nature use as multi-identity: neither leisure nor work 7. Nature and nature use as multi-interest: neither wilderness nor conflict-free 8. Possibilities for understanding and continuing land-use culture 9. Implications for conceptions of management and planning: beyond a private and common property contradiction 10. Conclusion: we were never Western References Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Sociology of Medical Screening
Book SynopsisAs new technology makes it possible to screen for an increasing number of medical conditions, this strategy of preventive medicine raises fundamental issues for sociological inquiry. The Sociology of Medical Screening: Critical Perspectives, New Directions presents an overview of these fundamental issues.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii 1 The sociology of medical screening: past, present and future 1 Natalie Armstrong and Helen Eborall 2 Screening: mapping medicine’s temporal spaces 17 David Armstrong 3 The experience of risk as ‘measured vulnerability’: health screening and lay uses of numerical risk 33 Chris Gillespie 4 Expanded newborn screening: articulating the ontology of diseases with bridging work in the clinic 47 Stefan Timmermans and Mara Buchbinder 5 Resisting the screening imperative: patienthood, populations and politics in prostate cancer detection technologies for the UK 60 Alex Faulkner 6 A molecular monopoly? HPV testing, the Pap smear and the molecularisation of cervical cancer screening in the USA 73 Stuart Hogarth, Michael M. Hopkins and Victor Rodriguez 7 Blind spots and adverse conditions of care: screening migrants for tuberculosis in France and Germany 90 Janina Kehr 8 ‘Let’s have it tested first’: choice and circumstances in decision-making following positive antenatal screening in Hong Kong 105 Alison Pilnick and Olga Zayts 9 Representing and intervening: ‘doing’ good care in fi rst trimester prenatal knowledge production and decision-making 121 Nete Schwennesen and Lene Koch 10 ‘Wakey wakey baby’: narrating four-dimensional (4D) bonding scans 136 Julie Roberts Index 151
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to the War Film
Book SynopsisA Companion to the War Film contains 27 original essays that examine all aspects of the genre, from the traditional war film, to the new global nature of conflicts, and the diverse formats that war stories assume in today s digital culture.Table of ContentsContributors vii Introduction 1Douglas A. Cunningham 1 “Hearing” the Music in War Films 6Robert Eberwein 2 Antilochus’s Burden: The Crisis–Catharsis Rhetoric of Bereavement Messages 20David Ryan 3 War Films in an Age of War and Cinema 36John Garofolo 4 Exploring War Horror’s Narrative Punch in Spielberg’s Munich and Saving Private Ryan 56Sandra Singer 5 The Service Tragicomedy: From Woody Allen to Full Metal Jacket 71Matthew Sorrento 6 The Wartime American Woman on Film: Home-Front Soldier 89Jeanine Basinger 7 “Conspiracy of Silence”: The Containment of Military Women in World War II Newsreels and Short Films 106Anna Froula 8 Filming a Nuclear State: The USAF’s Lookout Mountain Laboratory 129Kevin Hamilton and Ned O’Gorman 9 The Gendered Remembrance of Japanese]American Internment: Come See the Paradise and Snow Falling on Cedars 150Yuki Obayashi 10 “The Angels of Bataan and Corregidor”: Representing Nurses in the Pacific Theater 163Debra White-Stanley 11 In the Exigency of a National Cause: Bollywood’s Responses to the Kargil War 180Kaustav Bakshi and Ramit Samaddar 12 Transnational Algerian War Cinema Revisited: Comic Relief in Merzak Allouache’s Bab el-Oued City and Bab el-Oued 198Christa C. Jones 13 Fifty Years Hence: The Forgotten War Remembered in South Korean and American Cinema 214John Nelson 14 Dresden (2006): Marketing the Bombing of Dresden in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States 234Linda Robertson 15 How to Recognize a War Movie: The Contemporary Science-Fiction Blockbuster as Military Recruitment Film 253Tanine Allison 16 Making Citizens out of Soldiers: Rearming the Individual in Paul May’s 08/15 271Mark Gagnon 17 Those at Home Also Serve: Women’s Television and Embedded Military Realism in Army Wives (Lifetime, 2006–2014) 289Mary Elizabeth Haralovich 18 Generation Kill: The Invasion of Iraq As Seen on HBO 305Deborah L. Jaramillo 19 “TiK ToK on the Clock, but the Party Don’t Stop, No”: The Parodic Military Dance Video on YouTube 320Leah Shafer 20 Kuwaiting for Godot: The Absurd Theatre of War in Jarhead 338Cason Murphy 21 The Meaning of the Soldier: In the Year of the Pig and Hearts and Minds 356Laura Browder 22 Why We (Shouldn’t) Fight: The Double-Optic of the War Documentary 371Kris Fallon 23 A War for Everyone: Strategic Ambiguity in the Home-Front War Drama 385Dan Hassoun 24 Is There Such a Thing as an Antiwar Film? 404Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet 25 Through a Soldier’s Eyes: Stereoscopic Gazing in Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience 422Kelly Wilz Index 445
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Robert Altman
Book SynopsisA Companion to Robert Altman presents myriad aspects of Altman s life, career, influence and historical context. This book features 23 essays from a range of experts in the field, providing extensive coverage of these aspects and dimensions of Altman s work.Table of ContentsContributors viii 1 “It’s OK with me”: Introducing Robert Altman 1Adrian Danks Part One Zoom in: Becoming Altman 19 2 Sponsoring the Hollywood Renaissance: Reappraising Altman’s Industrial Films 21Mark Minett 3 From Alfred Hitchcock Presents to Tanner on Tanner: The Long Tail of Altman’s Television Career 44Tony Williams 4 Just a Station on His Way? Altman’s Transition from Television to Film 68Nick Hall 5 Breaking the Rules: Altman, Innovation and the Critics 92David Sterritt Part Two “I’ve got Poetry in Me”: Seeing and Hearing Altman 117 6 The Porous Frame: Visual Style in Altman’s 1970s Films 119Hamish Ford 7 3 Women: Floating Above the Awful Abyss 146Joe McElhaney and In memory of Tom Hopkins 8 The Multitrack World of California Split 166Wheeler Winston Dixon 9 The Democratic Voice: Altman’s Sound Aesthetics in the 1970s 184Jay Beck 10 Creativity and Compromise: California Split’s Original Soundtrack 210Gayle Magee Part Three Placing Altman: Space, History and Genre 231 11 High Hollywood in The Long Goodbye 233Murray Pomerance 12 Altman and the Western, or a Hollywood Director’s History Lesson of the American West 254Stephen Teo 13 Altman/Nixon/Reagan: Honorable Secrets, Historical Analogies and the Nexus of Anger 274Rick Armstrong 14 LA and Paris: The Construction of Social Space in the Films of Altman 296Robert T. Self 15 “The Man I Love,” or Time Regained: Altman, History and Kansas City 321Adrian Danks Part Four Being Altman: Character, Performance and Situation 347 16 “One is Both the Same”: Fantasy and Female Psychosis in Images and That Cold Day in the Park 349David Melville 17 Nashville: Second City Performance Comes to Hollywood 369Virginia Wright Wexman 18 Altman: The Artist in Middle Age 390Christos Tsiolkas 19 Lawful Lawyer, Vigilante Father: Altman, Masculinity and The Gingerbread Man 401Tom Dorey Part Five Zoom out: After “Altman” 423 20 Staging the “Rebel’s Return”: The Player, Short Cuts and the Precarious Art of the Comeback 425Dimitrios Pavlounis 21 The End of the Hollywood Hero: Dr T & the Women and Altman’s Multi]Protagonist Narratives 448María del Mar Azcona 22 The Long Reach of Short Cuts 465Robert P. Kolker 23 Kicking and Screaming: Altmanesque Cynicism and Energy in the Work of Paul Thomas Anderson and Noah Baumbach 480Claire Perkins Index 501
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Keywords in Subversive Film Media Aesthetics
Book SynopsisKeywords offers a conversational journey through the overlying terrains of politically engaged art and artistically engaged politics, combining a major statement on subversive aesthetics, a survey of radical film strategies, and a lexicon of over a thousand terms and concepts.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1 An Aesthetics of the Commons 29 The Aesthetic Commons 30 From Columbus to Indigenous Media 32 First Peoples, First Features 37 The Storytelling Commons 42 Revisionist Adaptation and the Literary Commons 47 Cultural Indigenization 53 The Archival Commons and the Ab]original Musical 58 2 The Upside]Down World of the Carnivalesque 68 The People’s Second Life 68 Sacred Parody 72 Festive]Revolutionary Practices 76 Unruly Women 79 Polymorphous Celebrations 83 Stand]up Comedy and Nuclear Catastrophe 86 Contemporary Fools 90 Pedagogic Humor and Provocation 94 Tropes of Social Inversion 98 Offside Cinema 100 3 Political Modernism and Its Discontents 107 The Two Avant]Gardes 108 The Brechtian Legacy 110 Beyond Brecht 120 The Affective]Corporeal Turn 126 The Rediscovery of Pleasure 133 The Legacy of the V]Effect 136 Political Cinema in the Age of the Posts 139 4 The Transmogrification of the Negative 145 An Aesthetic of Mistakes 146 Third Cinema: From Hunger to Garbage 148 Sublime Detritus 154 The Recombinant Sublime 158 Anthropophagic Modernism 161 Situationist Détournement 165 Culture Jamming 168 Neo]Situationism and the Aesthetics of Failure 171 Media Jujitsu 175 The New Kino]Eye: Vision Machines 178 5 Hybrid Variations on a Documentary Theme 185 The Fiction–Documentary Continuum 185 Murderous Reenactments 189 The Mediatic Spectrum 193 From Representation to Self]Presentation 199 The Strategic Advantages of Hybridization 206 Performative Films 211 The Essay Film and Mockumentaries 215 6 Hollywood Aristotelianism, the Fractured Chronotope, and the Musicalization of Cinema 225 Hollywood Aristotelianism: the Orthodox Chronotope 225 Alternatives to Aristotle: the Menippean Strain 233 Pop Culture Anachronism and the Chronotope of the Road 239 Baroque Modernism and the Marvelous American Real 244 Trance]Modernism 246 Contrapuntal Variations 251 Transformative Becomings 258 The Shape]Shiftings of Popular Culture 266 Metaphysical Cine]Poetry 268 7 Aesthetic/Political Innovation in the Digital Era 276 Beyond Accelerationism: Digital Montage and Duration 282 Tools of Engagement: Interactivity and Digital Détournement 285 IRL Subversions: Tactical Media and Digital Materialism 288 In Guise of a Conclusion 292 Index 298
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Keywords in Subversive Film Media Aesthetics
Book SynopsisKeywords offers a conversational journey through the overlying terrains of politically engaged art and artistically engaged politics, combining a major statement on subversive aesthetics, a survey of radical film strategies, and a lexicon of over a thousand terms and concepts.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1 An Aesthetics of the Commons 29 The Aesthetic Commons 30 From Columbus to Indigenous Media 32 First Peoples, First Features 37 The Storytelling Commons 42 Revisionist Adaptation and the Literary Commons 47 Cultural Indigenization 53 The Archival Commons and the Ab]original Musical 58 2 The Upside]Down World of the Carnivalesque 68 The People’s Second Life 68 Sacred Parody 72 Festive]Revolutionary Practices 76 Unruly Women 79 Polymorphous Celebrations 83 Stand]up Comedy and Nuclear Catastrophe 86 Contemporary Fools 90 Pedagogic Humor and Provocation 94 Tropes of Social Inversion 98 Offside Cinema 100 3 Political Modernism and Its Discontents 107 The Two Avant]Gardes 108 The Brechtian Legacy 110 Beyond Brecht 120 The Affective]Corporeal Turn 126 The Rediscovery of Pleasure 133 The Legacy of the V]Effect 136 Political Cinema in the Age of the Posts 139 4 The Transmogrification of the Negative 145 An Aesthetic of Mistakes 146 Third Cinema: From Hunger to Garbage 148 Sublime Detritus 154 The Recombinant Sublime 158 Anthropophagic Modernism 161 Situationist Détournement 165 Culture Jamming 168 Neo]Situationism and the Aesthetics of Failure 171 Media Jujitsu 175 The New Kino]Eye: Vision Machines 178 5 Hybrid Variations on a Documentary Theme 185 The Fiction–Documentary Continuum 185 Murderous Reenactments 189 The Mediatic Spectrum 193 From Representation to Self]Presentation 199 The Strategic Advantages of Hybridization 206 Performative Films 211 The Essay Film and Mockumentaries 215 6 Hollywood Aristotelianism, the Fractured Chronotope, and the Musicalization of Cinema 225 Hollywood Aristotelianism: the Orthodox Chronotope 225 Alternatives to Aristotle: the Menippean Strain 233 Pop Culture Anachronism and the Chronotope of the Road 239 Baroque Modernism and the Marvelous American Real 244 Trance]Modernism 246 Contrapuntal Variations 251 Transformative Becomings 258 The Shape]Shiftings of Popular Culture 266 Metaphysical Cine]Poetry 268 7 Aesthetic/Political Innovation in the Digital Era 276 Beyond Accelerationism: Digital Montage and Duration 282 Tools of Engagement: Interactivity and Digital Détournement 285 IRL Subversions: Tactical Media and Digital Materialism 288 In Guise of a Conclusion 292 Index 298
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Feature Magazine Writing
Book SynopsisAvowedly practical and concise, instantly engaging and brimming with ideas and expertise, this comprehensive guide to writing and selling engaging features in print and for digital platforms is offered in a lively new edition.Trade Review“Summing Up: Recommended. Undergraduate collections.” (Choice, 1 July 2013) "It doesn’t matter if the student’s chosen medium is daily newsprint, a monthly glossy, or an iPad, Sumner’s and Miller’s approach reinforces the time-tested tenets of feature journalism: make things interesting, well-organized, market-appropriate, and reader-friendly." (Journal of Magazine & New Media Release, 1 June 2013) “Highly recommended for any student interested in writing for magazines or the Internet.” (Cogito Ergo Sum, 20 December 2012)Table of ContentsPreface vii About the Authors x Part I: Reading, Writing and Relevance 1 1 What Makes a Story Interesting? 3 2 How to Find an Original Idea 14 3 Strong Angles and Focused Ideas 26 4 Digging Deep for Original Stories 39 5 Talking Pointers: How to Conduct Great Interviews 55 Part II: Taking Your Articles to the Freelance Market 73 6 To Market, To Market: Shopping Your Words Around 75 7 Pitch-Perfect Query Letters 91 Part III: Adding Action and Anecdotes 107 8 Where to Begin: The First 100 Words 109 9 Action, Brevity and Style 123 10 Anecdotes: Mining for Gold 138 Part IV: Different Formats, Different Results 151 11 Briefs: Shortcuts to Publication 153 12 Profiles: Slices of Life 167 13 Writing Nonfiction Narratives 186 14 Eliminating the Ho-Hum From the How-To 211 15 Making a Timely Calendar Connection 225 16 Writing About Trends and Issues 237 Part V: Exploring Digital Opportunities 253 17 Building a Story Blog 255 18 Long-Form Digital Storytelling 265 Part VI: Preparing the Final Draft 277 19 Advancing Beyond the Slush Pile 279 20 Before You Hit the “Send” Button: A Checklist 293 21 Careers in Magazine Publishing 299 Appendix: Shoptalk: A Glossary of Magazine Lingo 314 Index 325
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to D. W. Griffith
Book SynopsisThe most comprehensive volume on one of the most controversial directors in American film history A Companion to D.W. Griffith offers an exhaustive look at the first acknowledged auteur of the cinema and provides an authoritative account of the director's life, work, and lasting filmic legacy. The text explores how Griffith's style and status advanced along with cinema's own development during the years when narrative became the dominant mode, when the short gave way to the feature, and when film became the pre-eminent form of mass entertainment. Griffith was at the centre of each of these changes: though a contested figure, he remains vital to any understanding of how cinema moved from nickelodeon fixture to a national pastime, playing a significant role in the cultural ethos of America. With the renewed interest in Griffith's contributions to the film industry, A Companion to D.W. Griffith offers a scholarly look at a career that spanned mTable of ContentsContributors viii Preface ixPaolo Cherchi Usai Introduction 1 Charlie Keil Part One Griffith Redux 1 Disciplinary Descent: Film Studies, Families, and the Origins of Narrative Cinema 17Jennifer M. Bean 2 Griffith’s Moral Profile 34Ben Singer 3 “The Beauty of Moving Wind in the Trees”: Cinematic Presence and the Films of D.W. Griffith 74Daniel Fairfax Part Two Style in the Biograph Era 4 D.W. Griffith and the Emergence of Crosscutting 107André Gaudreault and Philippe Gauthier 5 D.W. Griffith and the Primal Scene 137Tom Gunning 6 Griffith’s Biograph Shorts: Electric Power and Film Style, from East to West 150Charles O’Brien Part Three Imagery and Intermediality 7 Deep Theatrical Roots: Griffith and the Theater 175David Mayer 8 Notes on Floral Symbolism, Allegory, and Intermediality in the Films of D.W. Griffith 191Jan Olsson 9 Living Portraits: Signs of (the) Time in D.W. Griffith 216Joyce E. Jesionowski Part Four Gender and Progressivism 10 Griffith’s Body Language and Film Narration: “The Voluptuary” Versus “the Spirituelle” 245Maggie Hennefeld 11 Cross]Dressing in Griffith’s Biograph Films: Humor, Heroics, and Edna “Billy” Foster’s Good Bad Boys 284Laura Horak 12 Space, Gender, Oversight, and Social Change: Progressivism and the Films of D.W. Griffith, 1909–1916 309Moya Luckett 13 Progressive Pastoral: Social Justice Reforms and Biograph Films, 1908–1911 330Grant Wiedenfeld Part Five Revisiting Failed Features 14 Gendering Ministry and Reform: Griffith and the Plight of Protestant Uplift 361Anne Morey 15 “Squalid Without Being Tragic”: Griffith’s “Isn’t Life Wonderful” 385Russell Merritt 16 Faust at Famous Players 423Andrew Nelson 17 Griffith in a Minor Key: Early Art Cinema Looking Backward 440Kaveh Askari Part Six Reception at Home and Abroad 18 “Damage Unwittingly Done”: D.W. Griffith and the Re]Birth of the Ku Klux Klan 463Tom Rice 19 “History by Lightning”: D.W. Griffith in South Africa 486Nicole Devarenne 20 Blossoms Breaking at the Dawn of Cinephilia: The Reception of D.W. Griffith in France 510Annie Fee 21 The legacy of Intolerance 533Paul McEwan Index
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Cognitive Interviewing Methodology
Book SynopsisAcknowledging the impact of sociological factors on the survey process, this book introduces a paradigm for the cognitive interview process. It introduces the interpretive approach to cognitive interviewing, presents the underlying theoretical foundations, and explores the issues relating it.Table of ContentsForeword xiii Gordon Willis Acknowledgments xv Contributors xvii 1 Introduction 1 Kristen Miller 1.1 Cognitive Interviewing Methodology, 2 2 Foundations and New Directions 7 Valerie Chepp and Caroline Gray 2.1 Introduction, 7 2.2 Sociology and the Interpretivist Tradition, 8 2.3 New Directions: Interpretation and Cognition, 9 2.4 Methodological Implications for Cognitive Interviewing, 11 2.5 Conclusion, 14 3 Data Collection 15 Stephanie Willson and Kristen Miller 3.1 Introduction, 15 3.2 Cognitive Interviewing Study Sample, 15 3.2.1 Considerations of Sample Design, 16 3.3 The Cognitive Interview, 20 3.3.1 Differing Approaches to Cognitive Interviewing, 20 3.3.2 Different Kinds of Data: Respondent as Evaluator versus Respondent as Story Teller, 22 3.4 The Role of Interviewer, 28 3.4.1 Interviewer as Data Collector, 29 3.4.2 Interviewer as Researcher, 30 3.5 Conclusion, 33 4 Analysis 35 Kristen Miller, Stephanie Willson, Valerie Chepp, and J. Michael Ryan 4.1 Introduction, 35 4.2 Analysis of Cognitive Interviews: Overview, 36 4.3 Analytic Steps for Cognitive Interviews, 38 4.3.1 Step 1: Conducting the Interview, 39 4.3.2 Step Two: Producing Interview Summaries, 40 4.3.3 Step Three: Developing a Thematic Schema, 42 4.3.4 Step Four: Developing an Advanced Schema, 44 4.3.5 Step Five: Making Conclusions, 47 4.4 The Benefits of a Complete Analysis, 49 4.5 Conclusion, 50 5 Assessing Translated Questions via Cognitive Interviewing 51 Alis´u Schoua-Glusberg and Ana Villar 5.1 Introduction, 51 5.2 Why Use Cognitive Testing in Multilingual Survey Research, 51 5.2.1 Multilingual Research Settings, 52 5.2.2 Instrument Production in Multilingual Settings, 53 5.3 Translation and Translation Assessment Procedures, 54 5.3.1 Team Translation Approaches, 54 5.3.2 Translation Assessment Procedures, 54 5.3.3 Pretesting as Part of Translation Assessment, 55 5.4 Cognitively Testing Translations of Survey Questions, 57 5.4.1 Cognitive Interviewers, 58 5.4.2 Respondent Selection, 58 5.4.3 Introduction, Protocol, and Implementation, 59 5.4.4 Analysis, 59 5.5 Problems Uncovered by Cognitive Testing of Translations, 60 5.5.1 Uncovering Translation Problems, 61 5.5.2 Uncovering Problems with the Source Question, 64 5.5.3 Uncovering Problems Related to Cultural Differences – Need for Adaptation, 65 5.6 Conclusion, 66 6 Conveying Results 69 Valerie Chepp and Paul Scanlon 6.1 Introduction, 69 6.2 Contents of a Cognitive Interviewing Report, 70 6.2.1 Introduction, 70 6.2.2 Summary of Findings, 71 6.2.3 Methods, 73 6.2.4 Question-by-Question Review, 77 6.2.5 Appendix, 80 6.3 Characteristics of a Cognitive Interviewing Report, 80 6.3.1 Transparency, 81 6.3.2 Reflexivity, 82 6.4 Conclusion, 84 7 Case Study: Evaluation of a Sexual Identity Question 85 Kristen Miller and J. Michael Ryan 7.1 Introduction, 85 7.2 Background, 86 7.2.1 Intended Construct for the National Health Interview Survey Sexual Identity Question, 86 7.2.2 Review of Data Quality Problems, 87 7.2.3 Development of an Improved Sexual Identity Question, 89 7.3 Case Study: Cognitive Interviewing Evaluation of the National Health Interview Survey Revised Sexual Identity Question, 93 7.3.1 Recruitment and Respondent Demographics, 93 7.3.2 Interviewing Procedures, 93 7.3.3 Data Analysis, 95 7.4 Case Study Findings, 96 7.4.1 Summary of Question Performance, 96 7.4.2 Basis of Respondents’ Answers, 97 7.4.3 Cases of Response Problems, 99 7.4.4 Interpretation of Categories, 100 7.4.5 Study Conclusions, 105 7.5 Conclusion, 106 8 Analysis Software for Cognitive Interviewing Studies: Q-Notes and Q-Bank 107 Justin Mezetin and Meredith Massey 8.1 Introduction, 107 8.2 Q-Notes Analysis Features, 108 8.2.1 Level 1: Conducting Interviews, 108 8.2.2 Level 2: Summarizing Interview Notes, 110 8.2.3 Level 3: Comparing Across Respondents, 112 8.2.4 Level 4: Comparing Across Groups, 115 8.2.5 Level 5: Drawing Conclusions about Question Performance, 118 8.3 Project Management Features, 118 8.3.1 Streamlined Communication, 119 8.3.2 Interview Data Collection, 119 8.3.3 Respondent Descriptors, 121 8.3.4 Controlled Access by Project, 121 8.3.5 Adding Questions, 122 8.3.6 Question Translations, 124 8.3.7 Coding Schemes, 124 8.4 Q-Bank: Making Cognitive Interview Findings Publicly Accessible, 125 8.5 Q-Bank Features, 126 8.5.1 Searching for Questions, 126 8.5.2 Advanced Search, 127 8.5.3 Question Details, 128 8.5.4 Value of Q-Bank, 129 8.6 Q-Bank: Challenges for the Past and Future, 130 8.7 Conclusion, 130 9 Cognitive Interviewing in Mixed Research 133 Isabel Benitez Baena and Jos´e-Luis Padilla 9.1 Introduction, 133 9.2 The Mixed Research Paradigm: Characteristics and Design, 134 9.2.1 Cognitive Interviewing Studies and Research Design, 135 9.3 Mixed Method Research and Survey Question Evaluation, 136 9.3.1 Case 1: Cognitive Interviewing and Survey Field Testing, 137 9.3.2 Case 2: Cognitive Interviewing and Differential Item Functioning (DIF), 145 9.3.3 Case 3: Cognitive Interviewing and Psychometric Scales, 148 9.4 Conclusion, 152 10 Conclusion 153 Kristen Miller, Stephanie Willson, Valerie Chepp, and Jos´e-Luis Padilla 10.1 Introduction, 153 10.2 Summary of Practices, 154 10.2.1 Data Collection, 154 10.2.2 Analysis, 156 10.2.3 Documenting Study Findings, 157 10.3 New Directions, 159 10.3.1 Topics for Examination, 159 10.3.2 Mixed Method Research, 160 10.3.3 Accepted Standards of Cognitive Interviewing Studies, 161 Key Concepts 163 Question Evaluation Resources 167 References 171 Index 181
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Wong KarWai Wiley Blackwell
Book SynopsisWith 25 essays that embrace a wide spectrum of topics and perspectives including intertextuality, transnationality, gender representation, repetition, the use of music, color, and sound, depiction of time and space in human affairs, and Wong's highly original portrayal of violence, A Companion to Wong Kar-Wai is a singular examination of the prestigious filmmaker known around the world for the innovation, beauty, and passion he brings to filmmaking. Brings together the most cutting edge, in-depth, and interesting scholarship on arguably the greatest living Asian filmmaker, from a multinational group of established and rising film scholars and criticsCovers a huge breadth of topics such as the tradition of the jianghu in Wong's films; queering Wong's films not in terms of gender but through the artist's liminality; the phenomenological Wong; Wong's intertextuality; America through Wong's eyes; the optics of intensities, thresholds, and transfers of energy in Wong's cinema; and the diasporic presence of some ladies from Shanghai in Wong's Hong KongExamines the political, historical, and sociological influence of Wong and his work, and discusses his work from a variety of perspectives including modern, post-modern, postcolonial, and queer theoryIncludes two appendices which examine Wong's work in Hong Kong television and commercialsTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xv Part One Introduction Wong Kar-wai: Invoking the Universal and the Local 3Martha P. Nochimson Part Two Mapping Wong’s Liminality 1 Transnational Wong 23Ken Provencher 2 It is a Restless Moment: Wong Kar-wai and the Phenomenology of Flow 47Joseph G. Kickasola 3 Wong Kar-wai and his jiang hu 80Bérénice Reynaud Part Three Thresholds of Texture and Mood 4 Wong Kar-wai’s Cinema of Repetition 115Ackbar Abbas 5 Wong Kar-wai: The Optics of the Virtual 135Angelo Restivo 6 Color Design in the Cinema of Wong Kar-wai 153Shohini Chaudhuri 7 The Value of Re-exports: Wong Kar-wai’s Use of Pre-existing Soundtracks 182Giorgio Biancorosso Part Four In the Corridors of History and Culture 8 Wong’s Ladies from Shanghai 207Gina Marchetti 9 The Sinophone Cinema of Wong Kar-wai 232Audrey Yue 10 New Queer Angles on Wong Kar-wai 250Helen Hok-Sze Leung 11 “Pity about the furniture”: Violence, Wong Kar-wai Style 272Karen Fang 12 In the Mood for Food: Wong Kar-wai’s Culinary Imaginary 295Mike Ingham and Matthew Kwok-kin Fung 13 Chungking Express, Tarantino, and the Making of a Reputation 319David Desser Part Five Close-up of Wong’s Inflections of Time and Space 14 Chungking Express: Slow – Images – Ahead 347Raymond Bellour (translated by Allyn Hardyck) 15 Wong Kar-wai: The Actor, Framed 353Joe McElhaney 16 Infidelity and the Obscure Object of History 378Vivian P.Y. Lee 17 Metonymy, Mneme, and Anamnesis in Wong Kar-wai 397Thorsten Botz-Bornstein Part Six Focus on Individual Films 18 Serial, Sequelae, and Postcolonial Nostalgia: Wong Kar-wai’s 1960s Hong Kong Trilogy 419Yiman Wang 19 We Can’t Go On Not Meeting Like This: Fallen Angels and Wong’s Intertextuality 438Martha P. Nochimson 20 The Third Reality: In the Mood for Love 462Michel Chion (translated by Claudia Gorbman) 21 Cinephiliac Engagement and the Disengaged Gaze in In the Mood for Love 467Yomi Braester 22 Wong’s America, North and South: My Blueberry Nights and Happy Together 485Ken Provencher 23 Queer Utopias in Wong Kar-wai’s Happy Together 508Carlos Rojas 24 Wong Kar-wai’s Genre Practice and Romantic Authorship: The Cases of Ashes of Time Redux and The Grandmaster 522Stephen Teo 25 Wong Kar-wai, Auteur and Adaptor: Ashes of Time and In The Mood for Love 540Wai-ping Yau Filmography 558 Appendix I Wong Works in Television Chih-ting Chen 562 Appendix II Wong Works in Advertising Chih-ting Chen 569 Selected Bibliography 586 Index 600
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The WileyBlackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory
Book SynopsisThe Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary compendium of original entries focusing on the origins, evolution, and global development of contemporary social theory.Table of ContentsVolume I Editors vii Contributors xi Lexicon xxxiii Introduction xlv Social Theory A–C 1 Volume II Social Theory D–G 513 Volume III Social Theory H–M 1025 Volume IV Social Theory N–R 1565 Volume V Social Theory S–Z 1997 Index 2663
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Celebrity
Book SynopsisCompanion to Celebrity presents a multi-disciplinary collection of original essays that explore myriad issues relating to the origins, evolution, and current trends in the field of celebrity studies.Trade ReviewIn an informative new reference guide, P. David Marshall and Sean Redmond, together with over 20 international academic contributors, aim to cast (lime)light on the purpose and power of celebrity from the origins of fame to social media and reality television. - Sarah Powell, Reference Reviews, Vol 30 No 8. Written by scholars from a variety of disciplines, including political science, social history, film, literary and communication studies, A Companion to Celebrity is a comprehensive and contemporary reference guide for both students and the general reader seeking to make sense of the modern cultural obsession with celebrity. - Sarah Powell, Reference Reviews, Vol 30 No 8.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables x Notes on Contributors xiii Acknowledgments xix 1 Introduction 1P. David Marshall and Sean Redmond Part One The Genealogy of Celebrity Introduction 15P. David Marshall 2 The Moral Concept of Celebrity: A Very Short History Told as a Sequence of Brief Lives 21Fred Inglis 3 Brand Names: A Brief History of Literary Celebrity 39Loren Glass 4 The Changing Face of Celebrity and the Emergence of Motion Picture Stardom 58Gaylyn Studlar Part Two The Publics of Celebrity Introduction 79Sean Redmond 5 Celebrity, Participation, and the Public 83Graeme Turner 6 Celebrity, Convergence, and the Fate of Media Institutions 98Nick Couldry 7 Barack Obama, Media Spectacle, and Celebrity Politics 114Douglas Kellner 8 Construction of the Public Memory of Celebrities: Celebrity Museums in Japan 135Saeko Ishita Part Three Celebrity Value Introduction 155P. David Marshall 9 Hope Springs Eternal? The Illusions and Disillusions of Political Celebrity 161Andrew Tolson 10 Winning Isn’t Everything. Selling Is: Sports, Advertising, and the Logic of the Market 177Ellis Cashmore 11 From Celebrity to Influencer: Tracing the Diffusion of Celebrity Value across the Data Stream 194Alison Hearn and Stephanie Schoenhoff Part Four Global Celebrity Introduction 213Sean Redmond 12 Recognition, Gratification, and Vulnerability: The Public and Private Selves of Local Celebrities 219Kerry O. Ferris 13 “Tweeting the Good Causes”: Social Networking and Celebrity Activism 235Liza Tsaliki 14 Celebrity Diplomats: Differentiation, Recognition, and Contestation 258Andrew F. Cooper 15 Brand Bollywood Care: Celebrity, Charity, and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism 273Pramod K. Nayar Part Five Celebrity Screens/Technologies of Celebrity Introduction 289P. David Marshall 16 Celevision: Mobilizations of the Television Screen 295Misha Kavka 17 Stardom, Celebrity, and the Moral Economy of Pretending 315Barry King 18 You May Know Me from YouTube: (Micro-)Celebrity in Social Media 333Alice E. Marwick Part Six Emotional Celebrity Introduction 351Sean Redmond 19 Frontierism: “The Frontier Thesis,” Affect, and the Category of Achieved Celebrity 355Chris Rojek 20 The Democratization of Celebrity: Mediatization, Promotion, and the Body 371Olivier Driessens 21 Sensing Celebrities 385Sean Redmond Part Seven Celebrity Embodiment Introduction 401Tamara Heaney and Sean Redmond 22 The Ambivalent Irishness of Denis Leary and Kathy Griffin 407Diane Negra 23 Neymar: Sport Celebrity and Performative Cultural Politics 421David L. Andrews, Victor B. Lopes, and Steven J. Jackson 24 Digital Shimmer: Popular Music and the Intimate Nexus between Fan and Star 440Toija Cinque Part Eight Celebrity Identification Introduction 457P. David Marshall 25 From Para-social toMultisocial Interaction: Theorizing Material/Digital Fandom and Celebrity 463Matt Hills 26 The Everyday Use of Celebrities 483Joke Hermes and Jaap Kooijman 27 Exposure: The Public Self Explored 497P. David Marshall Index 519
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd American Film History
Book SynopsisFrom the American underground film to the blockbuster superhero, this authoritative collection of introductory and specialized readings explores the core issues and developments in American cinematic history during the second half of the twentieth-century through the present day. Considers essential subjects that have shaped the American film industryfrom the impact of television and CGI to the rise of independent and underground film; from the impact of the civil rights, feminist and LGBT movements to that of 9/11. Features a student-friendly structure dividing coverage into the periods 1960-1975, 1976-1990, and 1991 to the present day, each of which opens with an historical overview Brings together a rich and varied selection of contributions by established film scholars, combining broad historical, social, and political contexts with detailed analysis of individual films, including Midnight Cowboy, Nashville, Cat Ballou, ChicagoTable of ContentsVolume II: 1960 to the Present Acknowledgments xii Preface xiii Part I 1960–1975 1 Setting the Stage: American Film History, 1960–1975 3 Notes 21 References 21 2 Adults Only: Low-Budget Exploitation 23Eric Schaefer Note 35 References 35 3 Black Representation in Independent Cinema: From Civil Rights to Black Power 37Alex Lykidis Notes 52 References 54 4 Cinema Direct and Indirect: American Documentary, 1960–1975 56Charles Warren Notes 70 References 70 5 Comedy and the Dismantling of the Hollywood Western 72Teresa Podlesney Note 86 References 86 6 The New Hollywood 87Derek Nystrom Notes 103 References 103 7 “One Big Lousy X”: The Cinema of Urban Crisis 105Art Simon References 118 8 Nashville: Putting on the Show: Or, Paradoxes of the “Instant” and the “Moment” 120Thomas Elsaesser Notes 131 References 132 9 Cinema and the Age of Television, 1946–1975 134Michele Hilmes Notes 146 References 146 Part II 1976–1990 10 Setting the Stage: American Film History, 1976–1990 151 Notes 173 References 173 11 Seismic Shifts in the American Film Industry 175Thomas Schatz Notes 188 References 188 12 Independent Film: 1980s to the Present 190Geoff King References 204 13 Reclaiming the Black Family: Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, and the “L.A. Rebellion” 205Janet K. Cutler Notes 218 References 221 14 Feminism, Cinema, and Film Criticism 223Lucy Fischer References 238 15 American Avant-Garde Cinema from 1970 to the Present 241Scott MacDonald Note 258 References 258 16 A Reintroduction to the American Horror Film 259Adam Lowenstein Note 274 References 274 17 Back to the Future: Hollywood and Reagan’s America 275Susan Jeffords References 285 18 “Stayin’ Alive”: The Post-Studio Hollywood Musical 286Karen Backstein Notes 301 References 302 Part III 1991 to the Present 19 Setting the Stage: American Film History, 1991 to the Present 307 Notes 329 References 329 20 The Queer 1990s: The Challenge and Failure of Radical Change 330Michael Bronski Notes 344 References 346 21 24/7: Cable Television, Hollywood, and the Narrative Feature Film 347Barbara Klinger Notes 360 References 360 22 Plasmatics and Prisons: The Morph and the Spectacular Emergence of CGI 362Kristen Whissel References 375 23 Mainstream Documentary since 1999 376Patricia Aufderheide References 391 24 Truthiness Is Stranger than Fictition: The “New Biopic” 393Michael Sicinski Notes 407 25 “Asia” as Global Hollywood Commodity 408Kenneth Chan Notes 421 References 422 26 The Blockbuster Superhero 423Bart Beaty Notes 437 References 437 27 Limited Engagement: The Iraq War on Film 438Susan L. Carruthers Notes 453 References 453 28 The Biggest Independent Pictures Ever Made: Industrial Reflexivity Today 454J. D. Connor Notes 468 References 469 29 Writing American Film History 471Robert Sklar References 481 Index 483
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