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John Wiley & Sons Inside Chinese Theater

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John Wiley & Sons The National Alliance of Black Feminists

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John Wiley & Sons Almost Nothing

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Indiana University Press Media in Postapartheid South Africa Postcolonial

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Book SynopsisMedia in Postapartheid South Africa examines recent political developments in South Africa, using media as a narrator of social transition from the days of the struggle against apartheid to a capitalist consumer economy.Trade Review"Sean Jacobs take a unique approach to tell a comprehensive story of postapartheid South Africa and African society. Media consolidates and enacts the victory of a particular image of what South Africa ought to be. This is an incredibly powerful story, which is much bigger than media, but to which media gives us access."—Herman Wasserman, author of Tabloid Journalism in South Africa"Sean Jacobs proposes a new agenda for the study of culture in contemporary South Africa by focusing on media infrastructures that condition, select, and edit the sorts of information that are available. Jacobs's work will be read for its revelations about the nature of citizenship and public engagement in our media saturated age."—Daniel R. Magaziner, author of The Law and the Prophets: Black Consciousness in South Africa , 1968–1977

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Indiana University Press Abes Youth

Book SynopsisAbe's Youth offers indispensable reading for anyone hoping to learn about Lincoln's early life.Trade Review"Abe's Youth offers a fascinating, in-depth examination of the future president and the time and environment in which he grew up." -- Johnson County Historical Society"Abe's Youth is positively fascinating, and not just for those who are interested in Abraham Lincoln. This book in many ways provides a history of the first 100 years of Spencer County, IN." -- Kathy Tretter * The Spencer County Leader *Abe's Youth provides a convenient way to access some of the important work of the Indiana Lincoln Inquiry. * Indiana Magazine of History *Table of ContentsForewordPreface IntroductionWorks from Indiana's Lincoln InquiryPart 1: Lincoln's Hoosier Influences1. Lincoln's Boyhood Days in Indiana / Roscoe Kiper2. Lincoln's Environment in Indiana / Roscoe Kiper3. Lincoln in Indiana / William FortunePart 2: Lincoln's Neighbors and Influences4. Lincoln's Indiana Neighbors / Bess V. Ehrmann5. Life of James Gentry Jr. / J. Helen Rhoades6. The Grigsbys / Calder (Bess) Ehrmann7. More Lincoln Memories / Nancy Grigsby Inco8. Biographical Sketch of Josiah and Elizabeth (Anderson) Crawford / Will Adams9. Daniel Grass / Laura Mercy Wright10. The Athe Meeks Sr. Tragedy / Aaron Meeks11. The Mystery of Lincoln's Melancholy / Louis A. Warren12. Lincoln and the Wool-Carder's Beautiful Niece / Jesse N. Weik13. Word Pictures of Pioneer Families and Lincoln Contemporaries / Bess V. Ehrmann14. Interviews with Spencer County Pioneers about 1895 / T. H. Masterson15. Early Days in Spencer County / Daniel HayfordPart 3: Lincoln's Neighborhood and Environment16. The Lincolns and Their Home in Spencer County, Indiana / C. C. Scheeder17. An Interview with James Atlas Jones on the Lincoln Cabin in Spencer County / George H. Honig18. The Lincolns' Eastward Environment / Thomas James de la Hunt19. Some Early Troy History / Sallie Bergenroth20. Early Agriculture in Spencer County, Indiana / David H. Morgan21. Materia Medica of Pioneer Indiana / H. C. KnappPart 4: Lincoln and the Law22. Environment and Opportunities of Lincoln in Indiana / Elbert Hayford23. John A. Brackenridge / Eldora Minor Raleigh24. John Pitcher / Alice L. Harper Hanby25. Judge John Pitcher / John E. CoxPart 5: The Lincoln Inquiry26. The Environments of Abraham Lincoln in Indiana: The Best Witnesses / Anna C. O'Flynn27. The Lincolns in Spencer County / Ida D. Armstrong28. The Artist's Ideal of Lincoln / George H. Honig29. What Indiana Did for Lincoln / Bess V. Ehrmann30. Correspondence Between Lincoln Historians and This Society / John H. IglehartLincoln and Southwestern Indiana ChronologyIndex

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Indiana University Press Pleading the Blood

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Book SynopsisThe definitive look at one of the most important Black art films and original filmmakers of the 1970s. Bill Gunn's Ganja & Hess (1973) has across the decades attained a sizable cult following among African American cinema devotees, art house aficionados, and horror fans, thanks to its formal complexity and rich allegory. Pleading the Blood is the first full-length study of this cult classic. Ganja & Hess was withdrawn almost immediately after its New York premiere by its distributor because Gunn's poetic re-fashioning of the vampire genre allegedly failed to satisfy the firm's desire for a by-the-numbers blaxploitation horror flick for quick sell-off in the urban market. Its current status as one of the classic works of African American cinema has recently been confirmed by the Blu-ray release of its restored version, by its continued success in screenings at repertory houses, museums, and universities, and by an official remake, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014), directed by Spike Lee,Trade Review"There is no doubt that Professor Sieving's book will make an indispensable addition to the history of 1970s Black filmmaking and the beginning of what we now consider Black art cinema. Within the broader field of film studies, it offers an important contribution to industry studies, independent cinema history, and offers valuable insights into the formation of what later came to be known as the "art cinema" paradigm in film studies. Clearly written, the book acts also as an accessible intellectual biography of a Black artist who consistently fought against external impositions to his freedom of expression (both personal and artistic). Because it does not overlap with existing works, it can begin to prepare the terrain for a history of post-war Black independent filmmaking (and especially Black art cinema) to be finally written."—Alessandra Raengo, author of Critical Race Theory and Bamboozled."Sieving has produced the definitive history and critical assessment of Ganja & Hess that will be an indispensable companion to an elusive film and an enigmatic director and effectively argues for the significance of both to the history of American cinema. Those already familiar with the film will learn a tremendous amount and those new to the film will encounter a rich artifact whose history intersects with the major figures of African American artistic thought and political aesthetics."—Allyson Nadia Field, author of Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity"This volume confirms that Christopher Sieving is one of our finest film historians. Pleading the Blood is impeccably researched and well written and confirms the place of honor that Ganja and Hess, and especially Bill Gunn, should have in the cinematic canon."—Gerald Butters, Aurora University"Sieving's Pleading the Blood is an exhaustive study of a cinematic masterpiece about bloodlust and its talented, enigmatic writer-director. The book is a sweeping tutorial in what happens when ingenious creativity comes up against industrial timidity and prosaicness. The result is illuminating lessons in genre and the economic imperatives of film production as well as identity politics and discrimination."—Robin R. Means Coleman, Ida B. Wells and Ferdinand Barnett Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsGanja & Hess: CreditsIntroduction1. Awakening: Kelly-Jordan Enterprises and the Black Movie Boom2. Vision: Bill Gunn and the Black Man Apart3. Creation: The Making of Ganja & Hess4. Judgment: The Reception and Revival of Ganja & Hess 5. Resurrection: Ganja & Hess's Life After DeathConclusion: Ganja & Hess after Gunn, Gunn after Ganja & HessNotesBibliographyAbbreviations for Archival Sources

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Indiana University Press Profit Margins The American Silent Cinema and

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Book SynopsisAn important read for film studies and the history of marketing, Profit Margins exposes the fascinating truth surrounding the invention of cinema advertising techniques and the resulting rhetoric of class division.Trade Review"Groskopf's book turns existing literature on its head by showing that advertising actually was in and all around cinema long before radio. . . . The author has collected a wealth of archival materials that enable him to carefully study the spread of advertising-related ideas and their adoption in terms of methods, devices, and business models."—Patrick Vonderau, author of Films that Sell: Moving Pictures and Advertising"In this meticulously researched, detailed and lively account, Groskopf unearths the lost connections between consumer advertising and the earliest American movie theaters. His fascinating illustrations and archival finds demonstrate that many current efforts to market to media audiences have long roots."—Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, author of Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy"In Profit Margins, Jeremy Groskopf uncovers intriguing connections between the film and advertising industries in the early 20th century. Convincingly argued, fluidly written, and supported by an impressive range of archival sources, Groskopf sheds light on the formative struggles that defined the early theatrical experience and its business model. From this we see how today's digital advertising practices date back to innovations made during the early years of cinema."—Alisa Perren, Associate Professor, University of Texas at AustinTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Advertising Looks at Cinema1. The Front Cover Medium: Lantern Slides, Temporality, and the Commercial Break2. Screen Sugar Pills: The Advertising Trailer and the Commercialized Intermission3. Watch This Space: Peripheral Advertising Through Technologies4. The Cinema Wants to Be Free: Parks, Tickets, and Advertiser-Funded CinemaConclusion: Intemperate ProclamationsBibliographyIndex

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Indiana University Press Theorizing Colonial Cinema

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Book SynopsisA fascinating read combining film and Asian studies, Theorizing Colonial Cinema reveals new contexts within film theory, history, and ideologies as it centers the question of the colonial perspective and emphasizes how the present is constantly entangled with the colonial past.Trade Review"With this excellent anthology, the history of colonization finally receives the full reckoning it deserves in articulations of film history and theory. By accounting for the legacies, stages, stagings, and afterlives of imperialism writ large and small in cinemas of or about Asia, the authors of this collection teach us how profoundly our historical and conceptual understanding of film transforms when we begin from the time and place of the colony. This is a ground shift that can no longer be ignored."—Priya Jaikumar, author of Where Histories Reside: India as Filmed Space"There was a time when writing about cinema was mostly about cinema from Western European countries and the US, spoken in one of the six European languages of Western modernity. No longer. Storytelling in moving images and non-Western languages carries within them praxes of living rooted in colonial legacies absent in the hegemonic history of Western cinematography. Theorizing Colonial Cinema is written by a majority of scholars that inhabits and endures colonial legacies and are embedded in the soundtrack languages of these moving images. This book is a landmark that complements and surpasses Third Cinema's heritage of the '60s and '70s."—Walter D. Mignolo, author of The Politis of Decolonial Investigations"A brilliant intervention into history, film, and cultural studies that goes far beyond the national cinema rubric and conventional binaries such as colonizer/colonized, white/non-white, East/West, anthropos/humanitas, theory/text, human/animal – this work by leading scholars of colonialism and film excavates cultural production and its political unconscious under colonialism to show not only the entanglements of colonialism and film but also the coloniality of cinema itself and the inevitable return of the repressed through the Cold War and postmillennial moments. A major work that will make many waves across disciplines and areas of specialization."—Takashi Fujitani, author of Race for Empire, University of TorontoTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsOn Romanization, Naming and TranslationIntroduction, by Nayoung Aimee Kwon and Takushi OdagiriPart I: "Time and Racialized Other: Colonial Modernity and Early Cinema"1. Time, Race, and the Asynchronous in the Colonial Documentaries of Malaya, by Nadine Chan2. Facing Malcontent Colonial Korean Comrades: A Typology of Colonial Cinema in Asia's Socialist Alliances, by Moonim Baek3. Colonial-Era Film Theory, Spectatorship, and the Problem of Internalization, by Aaron Gerow4. Chinese Cinema's Other: Wrangling over "China-humiliating" Films (ruHua pian), by Yiman Wang5. World Export: Melodramas of Colonial Conquest, by Jane Marie GainesPart II: "Divided Mis-en-Scène: Colonial Cinema and Cold War Afterimages"6. Tarzan/Taishan and Other Orphans: Taiwan's Melodrama of Decolonization, by Zhang Zhen7. What Is an Auteur? Hŏ Yŏng/Hinatsu Eitarō/Huyung Between (Post)Colonial Indonesia, Japan, and Korea, by Thomas A. C. Barker and Nikki J. Y. LeePart III: "Millennial Hauntings: Rising Global Asian Cinemas"8. Cinema's Coloniality, by Takushi Odagiri9. A Hallucinatory History of the Philippine-American War: Khavn's Balangiga: Howling Wilderness, by José B. Capino10. Millennial Vengeance: Park Chan-Wook's Agassi (The Handmaiden) and the Return of Postcolonial Japonisme, by Nayoung Aimee KwonIndex

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Indiana University Press When We Collide

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Epstein-Levi has written the first book in Jewish ethics that neither condescends nor preaches to its reader. This is nothing short of liberation. There are very few academic books that are such a joy to read."—Martin Kavka, Florida State University"Rebecca Epstein-Levi's When We Collide brings rabbinic texts to life, literally. Epstein-Levi looks at how rabbinic texts match up against life, how they illuminate, and are illuminated by, lived sexual experience in the 21st century. Epstein-Levi is not content to stay in the comfortable realm of scholarly theory, though she does that too. She gets into the nuts and bolts of sex – how people actually behave, not how they like to say they behave, or how think they should behave, but how they actually do – to find insights from canonical Jewish traditions that can serve as guidance. Those insights do not come from the usual rabbinic-text suspects, however, but from texts that on the face of it are entirely unrelated to sex – texts on purity, texts with stories about rabbis interacting with other rabbis, texts that issue laws of capital punishment. Epstein-Levi finds in these far-flung and faraway ancient texts the resources – or as Epstein-Levi calls it, the dialogue partners – for a fresh sexual ethics today. She is able to make these connections because she starts with the presumption that sex is social, not separate and private, and that it is bound up with who we are in the fullest sense – in all our sexual, physical, and neuro diversity – and with how our communities operate. As we face a never-ending pandemic and a climate crisis that keeps getting worse, Epstein-Levi's reflections on risk as it relates to social life, sex, and the human experience feel all too timely and utterly pressing. When We Collide helps us to read rabbinic texts and to navigate sexual and social relationships, and it does by bringing the two fields together – rabbinics and sexual ethics – in a totally new way."—Beth Berkowitz, Ingeborg Rennert Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion, Barnard College.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Groundings1. Textual Intercourse: Grounding Sexual Ethics in Jewish Sources2. Social Intercourse: Why Sex Is Enmeshed in Sociality3. Risky Business: Why Risk Is Inherent in SocialityPart II: Case Studies on Community and Risk4. STIs: Infection, Impurity, and Managing Social Contagion5. BDSM: Risk, Pleasure, and Polymorphous CommunityConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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