The arts: general topics Books
The University of Chicago Press Not Here Not Now Not That
Book SynopsisExamines a wide range of controversies over films, books, paintings, sculptures, clothing, music, and television in dozens of cities across the country to find out what turns personal offense into public protest. This title discovers is that these protests are always deeply rooted in local concerns.Trade Review"Tepper has compiled a treasure trove of information on arts conflicts in America and subjected his data to intense scrutiny. At the same time he never loses sight of the big picture, and he engages the reader with numerous theories about cultural conflict. Furthermore, his original perspective on the way local communities deal with rapid change is straightforward and convincing." (David Halle, University of California, Los Angeles)"
£91.20
The University of Chicago Press Not Here Not Now Not That
Book SynopsisExamines a wide range of controversies over films, books, paintings, sculptures, clothing, music, and television in dozens of cities across the country to find out what turns personal offense into public protest. This title discovers is that these protests are always deeply rooted in local concerns.Trade Review"Tepper has compiled a treasure trove of information on arts conflicts in America and subjected his data to intense scrutiny. At the same time he never loses sight of the big picture, and he engages the reader with numerous theories about cultural conflict. Furthermore, his original perspective on the way local communities deal with rapid change is straightforward and convincing." (David Halle, University of California, Los Angeles)"
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press What Is African Art
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[What Is African Art?] a deeply researched, important contribution to the study of art history, with relevance to disciplines beyond the study of African art." * Library Journal *"This is the first book-length attempt at a historiography of African art study. Tracing the development of the field from the colonial era through to the present, Probst argues that the ways in which ‘African art’ has been discussed tell us at least as much about the speakers as the subject." * Apollo *"This detailed study spans more than a century of African art, charting how museums, curators and scholars began documenting aspects of the genre in the late 19th century through to 'the quest for a decolonial future.' Chapters cover topics such as 'challenging representation: postcolonial critique and curation' and 'tradition and tribality in the Cold War era.'" * The Art Newspaper *"This is the first book-length attempt at a historiography of African art study. Tracing the development of the field from the colonial era through to the present, Probst argues that the ways in which 'African art' has been discussed tell us at least as much about the speakers as the subject." * Apollo *[What Is African Art?] is a creditable overview highlighting tensions between Western interpretations of what African art is and interpretations of African artists, scholars, and curators, who assert their own vision of narrative African art and how it should be exhibited. . . This is a much-needed introduction to the contemporary African art world. Recommended." * Choice *“Wedged between anthropology and art history, the study of African art requires a balanced assessment of the defining moments in the making of this field. What Is African Art?—the first historiography of its kind—takes on this challenge superbly, offering a major critical achievement. This book is indispensable to a sound understanding of the field and is a joy to read.” -- Ferdinand de Jong, author of Decolonizing Heritage: Time to Repair in Senegal“What Is African Art? is a sophisticated, insightful critique of the trajectories that collectors, curators, and scholars of African art have followed since the end of the nineteenth century. As the first monographic historiography of Africanist art studies, it is sure to seed lively debate that interrogates the past and informs the future. An essential read for any and all students of African art.” -- Raymond Silverman, professor emeritus of the history of art, African studies, and museum Studies, University of MichiganTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I 1. Forming a Field: Colonial Collecting, Racial Omissions, and National Rivalries 2. Celebrating Form: From Primitive to Primitivism 3. Creating Visibility and Value: Photography and Its Effects Part II 4. Discovering the African Artist: Tradition and Tribality in the Cold War Era 5. Acknowledging the Contemporary: New Forms, New Actors 6. Extending the Horizon: Africa in the Americas Part III 7. Intervening the Canon: The Postmodern, the Popular, and the Authentic 8. Challenging Representation: Postcolonial Critique and Curation 9. Undoing the Empire: Duress, Defiance, and Decolonial Futures Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Index
£84.00
The University of Chicago Press Gutai
Book SynopsisExamine Gutai, Japan's best-known modern art movement, a circle of postwar artists whose avant-garde paintings, performances, and installations foreshadowed many key developments in American and European experimental art.
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press Picasso
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The fourth volume in the series Essays by Leo Steinberg shines a light on Pablo Picasso, covering everything from his childhood drawings to his last self-portrait. This volume brings together published texts such as 'The Philosophical Brothel,' along with Steinberg’s unpublished lectures including 'The Intelligence of Picasso.'" * The Art Newspaper "Book Bag" *"The essays reveal a freshness in Steinberg's approach, which still feels new today... Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments, Sheila Schwartz Introduction, Richard Shiff 1. The Intelligence of Picasso 2. Drawing as If to Possess 3. The Prague Self-Portrait 4. The Philosophical Brothel 5. Resisting Cézanne: Picasso’s Three Women 6. The Polemical Part 7. Touring the Stockholm Collage 8. In the Algerian Room 9. A Working Equation or—Picasso in the Homestretch 10. Picasso’s Endgame 11. “Belied with False Compare” Notes Leo Steinberg: Chronology Leo Steinberg: Publications (1947–2010) Photography Credits Index
£46.80
University of Chicago Press LeRoy Neiman
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£26.60
The University of Chicago Press Nonliterary Fiction
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Gabara’s thoughtful intervention will be of interest to scholars in the visual arts, cultural, literary and media studies. It demonstrates the contemporaneity and contributions of Amerindian thought to canonical artistic practices, shedding light on how the latter may or may not allegorically negate neoliberal transformations, by way of collaborative inventions or non-literary fictions that blur the distinction between the literary and the visual." * Visual Studies *"Gabara takes us into an erudite exploration to answer what seems to be a simple, straightforward question: what is fiction in art? How are works of art fictions? The answer unfolds in five chapters, an introduction, and an epilogue in which the author composes a theory of visual fiction, devoid of the narrative conventions that typically dominate discussions on the matter from both literary and art historical perspectives." * Hispanic Review *“Gabara’s powerful critical lens is as broad as the Americas and as precise as a single performance or found object. Non-literary Fiction is a major contribution to our understanding of how art refutes the neoliberal Thatcherism ‘There is no alternative.’ Gabara’s extraordinary study shows there is always an alternative.” -- Diana Taylor, New York University“Gabara presents a compellingly hemispheric case for non-literary fiction, negation, and Amerindian thought as central to a distinctive turn in artistic practice since the late 1950s. This tour de force is a must-read for anyone interested in new critical terms for studying how artistic form and thought have engaged the violence of a prevailing social order.” -- Chon Noriega, Distinguished Professor, UCLATable of ContentsList of Figures Negating: An Introduction Chapter One. Line: Making Fiction in Word and Image Chapter Two. Motif: Recurrent Images of Walking Chapter Three. Gesture: Signals in Motion Chapter Four. Corpus: Telling Bodies, Living and Dead Chapter Five. Color: Taken In by Realism Epilogue: A Refuge Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Between the Black Box and the White Cube
Book SynopsisToday, the moving image is ubiquitous in global contemporary art. This book tells the story of the postwar expanded cinema. It travels back to the 1950s and 1960s when the rise of television caused movie theaters to lose their monopoly over the moving image, leading cinema to be installed directly alongside other forms of modern art.
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press Between the Black Box and the White Cube
Book SynopsisToday, the moving image is ubiquitous in global contemporary art. This book tells the story of the postwar expanded cinema. It travels back to the 1950s and 1960s when the rise of television caused movie theaters to lose their monopoly over the moving image, leading cinema to be installed directly alongside other forms of modern art.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Canvases and Careers Institutional Change in the
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£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Permission to Laugh Humor and Politics in
Book SynopsisSuitable for scholars, curators, and critics invested in modern and contemporary German art, this title explores the work of three generations of German artists who, beginning in the 1960s, turned to jokes and wit in an effort to confront complex questions regarding German politics and history.
£67.94
The University of Chicago Press Art of Darkness
Book SynopsisIn examining the principles governing Gothic literature, this book proposes three new premises: that Gothic is poetic, not novelistic, in nature; that there are two parallel Gothic traditions - Male and Female; and that the Gothic and the Romantic represent a single literary tradition.
£28.00
University of Chicago Press Sewn in the Sweatshops of Marx
Book Synopsis"Joseph Beuys", "Andy Warhol", "Yves Klein", and "Marcel Duchamp" form an unlikely quartet, but they each played a singular role in shaping a avant-garde for the 1960s and beyond. The author binds these artists through another connection: the mapping of the aesthetic field onto political economy.Trade Review"Thierry de Duve's is a crucial and utterly distinct voice in the field of modern art. Delightfully original and engaging, Sewn in the Sweatshops of Marx combines the author's inimitably bold thinking with an unusual sensitivity to the ways that particular works articulate the convergence of aesthetics and economics. Its gorgeously constructed essays tell this art's stories so well, they often read like the best biographical fiction." (Darby English, University of Chicago)"
£23.00
Columbia University Press The Use and Abuse of Cinema
Book SynopsisExplores the screen fantasies and spectacles that derive from Germany’s fraught modern experienceTrade ReviewRentschler's command of individual filmmakers' oeuvres, from the unjustly forgotten and overlooked to the internationally recognized and celebrated auteurs, and of historical periods from the silents to the evolving present is as impressive as his ability to 'drill down' analytically and uncover significant details, motifs, or patterns. Throughout this book, he carefully historicizes its materials, finding an excellent balance between history, theory, and close analysis across a broad range of films. -- Johannes von Moltke, University of Michigan Written in highly readable, elegant prose, Rentschler's volume is an authoritative study of the history of German film from the 1920s to the present day by one of the foremost scholars in the field. This is the work of an expert at the peak of his craft. -- Gerd Gemunden, author of Continental Strangers: German Exile Cinema, 1933-1951 [The Use and Abuse of Cinema] offers inspired juxtapositions and an authoritative range of knowledge, and is also a very good read. -- Martin Brady Modern Language Review The Use and Abuse of Cinema showcases the scope of Rentschler's work and provides a tantalizing introduction to his sensitive, far-reaching approach to film history... More broadly, the book argues for the importance of Germany as a case study for the ability of film as a medium to reflect, influence, and even shape the course of history. -- Lisa Wells Jacobson Film QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction: History Lessons and Courses in Time Part I. Critical Venues 1. How a Social Critic Became a Formative Theorist 2. Hunger for Experience, Spectatorship, and the Seventies 3. The Passenger and the Critical Critic 4. The Limits of Aesthetic Resistance 5. Springtime for Ufa Part II. Serials and Cycles 6. Mountains and Modernity 7. Too Lovely to Be True 8. The Management of Shattered Identity 9. After the War, Before the Wall Part III. From Oberhausen to Bitburg 10. Remembering Not to Forget 11. Many Ways to Fight a Battle 12. How American Is It? 13. The Use and Abuse of Memory 14. A Cinema of Citation 15. The Declaration of Independents Part IV. Postwall Projects 16. An Archaeology of the Berlin School 17. The Surveillance Camera's Quarry 18. Heritages and Histories 19. Life in the Shadows 20. Two Trips to the Berlinale Acknowledgments Notes Index
£28.50
Columbia University Press Theorizing Modernism
Book SynopsisConcentrating on canonical critical texts and images, the book examines modern art through a rhetoric of representation rather than through formalist criticism or the history of the avant-garde.
£27.00
Columbia University Press The Jazz Cadence of American Culture Film and
Book SynopsisA comprehensive collection of essays, speeches, and interviews on the impact of jazz on other arts, on politics, and on the rhythm of everyday life, including an essay on poet and novelist James Weldon Johnson as a cultural critic, an interview with Wynton Marsalis, a speech on the heroic image in jazz, and a newspaper review of Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk.Trade ReviewO'Meally's volume is the first to focus exclusively on the rich interdisciplinary commentary that jazz has inspired over the decades... Impressive and thoughtfully assembled. -- Mark Tucker Jazz Times An important resource for understanding how such hard-to-define aspects as 'hipness' and 'soulfulness' shape a culture and its most characteristic forms of artistic expression. -- Jerome Klinkowitz American Literary Scholarship An innovative approach to understanding jazz within a larger social context. Library Journal Both a celebration and an analysis of jazz, this massive omnibus of essays, interviews, riffs, reminiscences, lectures and meditations examines the impact of jazz on American culture from the 1920s Harlem Renaissance to the 1960s black arts revolution... Outstanding. Publishers Weekly There is much that is ducal among the 35 wide-ranging essays collected in The Jazz Cadence of American Culture. Billboard O'Meally has assembled an impressive anthology that achieves an almost synesthetic rendering of jazz...the best designed reference book on the topic to date. It should be in every library. Choice The Jazz Cadence of American Culture is a celebration of jazz that goes beyond the usual jazz history, carefully and informatively examining the impact of jazz on other arts, politics, and daily life. The Bookwatch A monument to a grand and vital intellectual tradition that we cannot afford to neglect as jazz enters its second century--and as that great interdisciplinary, interpretive synthesis of jazz scholarship finally gets written. Notes If race keeps us apart, jazz brings us together, as Ralph Ellison pointed out when he called American life 'jazz shaped.' The 35 essays in The Jazz Cadence of American Culture, edited by Robert G. O'Meally, testify that Ellison was on to something. The Washington Post Book WorldTable of ContentsWhat Is Jazz? Introduction Jazz-the Word, by Alan P. Merriam and Fradley H. Garner Forward Motion: An Interview with Benny Golson, by Benny Golson and Jim Merod James A. Snead Black Music as an Art Form, by Olly Wilson Remembering Thelonious Monk: When the Music Was Happening Then He'd Get Up and Do His Little Dance, by Quincy Troupe and Ben Riley Improvisation and the Creative Process, by Albert Murray One Nation Under a Groove; or, the United States of Jazzocracy Introduction What's American About America, by John Kouwenhoven Jazz and the White Critic, by Amiri Baraka Duke Ellington Music Like a Big Hot Pot of Good Gumbo, by Wynton Marsalis and Robert G. O'Meally Blues to Be Constitutional: A Long Look at the Wild Wherefores of Our Democratic Lives as Symbolized in the Making of Rhythm and Tune, by Stanley Crouch The Ellington Programme, by Barry Ulanov Jazz Lines and Colors: The Sound I Saw Introduction Art History and Black Memory: Toward a Blues Aesthetic, by Richard J. Powell Skyscrapers, Airplanes, and Airmindedness: The Necessary Angel, by Ann Douglas Calvin Tomkins Celebration, by Sherry Turner DeCarava Black Visual Intonation, by Arthur Jafa Improvisation in Jazz, by Bill Evans Jazz is a Dance: Jazz art in Motion Introduction Jazz Music in Motion: Dancers and Big Bands, by Jacqui Malone Characteristics of Negro Expression, by Zora Neale Hurston African Art and Motion, by Robert Farris Thompson Be Like Mike? Michael Jordan and the Pedagogy of Desire, by Michael Eric Dyson Noise Taps a Historic Route to Joy, by Margo Jefferson Tell the Story: Jazz, History, Memory Introduction Pulp and Circumstance: The Story of Jazz in High Places, by Gerald Early Jazz and American Culture, by Lawrence W. Levine The Golden Age, Time Past, by Ralph Ellison Double V, Double-Time: Bebop's Politics of Style, by Eric Lott It Jus Be's Dat Way Sometime: The Sexual Politics of Women's Blues, by Hazel V. Carby Other: From Noun to Verb, by Nathaniel Mackey Writing the Blues, Writing Jazz Introduction The Blues as Folk Poetry, by Sterling A. Brown Richard Wright's Blues, by Ralph Ellison Preface to Three Plays, by August Wilson The Function of the Heroic Image, by Albert Murray The Seemingly Eclipsed Window of Form: James Weldon Johnson's Prefaces, by Brent Edwards Sound and Sentiment, Sound and Symbol, by Nathaniel Mackey
£27.00
Columbia University Press Cities of the Dead
Book SynopsisTakes a look at the continuum of intercultural exchange that reinvents, recreates, and restores history. Complemented with fifty-five illustrations, including photos of Mardi Gras Indians, this work employs a study of the culture. It explores cultural connections over place and time, showing through examples how performance revises the past.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: History, Memory, and Performance Circum-Atlantic Memory Locations and Bearings Materials and Methods The Everlasting Club Genealogies of Performance 2. Echoes in the Bone The Effigy Performing Origins The Segregation of the Dead Bodies of Law Congo Sqaure The King is Dead-Long Live the King! 3. Betterton's Funeral "Sticks and Rags": The Celebrity as Effigy Vortices of Behavior The Life of Betterton: Talking with the Dad Canonical Memory and Theatrical Nationhood The Pinacotheca BettertonaeanaL Bibliography of origin White SKin, Black Masks 4. Feathered Peoples The Accursed Share: Abundance, Reproduction, and Sacrifice Condolence Councils and the Great Peace Windsor Forest Dimplomacy
£27.00
Columbia University Press Taking the Train
Book SynopsisTraces the history of graffiti in New York City against the backdrop of the struggle that developed between the city and the writers.Trade ReviewAustin argues that the graffiti epidemic was really a smokescreen for poor civic management, and that graffiti itself was the inevitable result of a whole outpouring of structural social factors. New York Times Book Review Although solidly academic, this book is enlivened by its fascinating topic. Booklist A meticulous history. Booklist Austin's precise, witty, and genial style perfectly meshes with his rigorous research and analysis... This exemplary study makes important contributions to understanding contemporary art, urban sociology, and the culture wars. Publishers Weekly (starred review) Lets the graf writers talk back to the haters, while offering a nuanced reassessment of New York City's graffiti scene. Village Voice Austin does full justice simultaneously to New York as a symbolic, although never more than partially representable, city; to changes in the city's economy which create nationally unusual shifts in the relative distribution of wealth and in the ethnic make-up of poverty...ranges widely and with rich detail, yet always anchored in the central narrative focus. Urban StudiesTable of ContentsPrologue 1. A Tale of Two Cities 2. Taking the Trains: The Formation and Structure of "Writing Culture" in the Early 1970s 3. Writing "Graffiti" in the Public Sphere: The Construction of Writing as an Urban Problem 4. Repainting the Trains: The New York School of the 1970s 5. The State of the Subways: The Transit Crisis, the Aesthetics of Fear, and the Second "War on Graffiti" 6. Writing Histories 7. Retaking the Trains 8. The Walls and the World: Writing Culture, 1982-1990 Conclusion: A Spot on the Wall Appendix: Sources from Writers Notes Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
£29.75
Columbia University Press Living It Up
Book SynopsisThe democratization of luxury, Twitchell contends, has been the single most important marketing phenomenon of our times.Trade ReviewThe author is savvy enough to conduct most of his research in the real world. This is the rare book project that forces the writer to shop on Rodeo Drive, leaf through Vanity Fair... and visit the most extravagant spots in Las Vegas... [An] engaging addition to the growing field of Luxe Lit. -- Janet Maslin The New York Times Twitchell makes a persuasive argument that the desire for status goods provides a cohesive bond. Business Week Twitchell is an amusingly sassy writer, and he clearly had so much fun researching this book. San Francisco Bay Guardian Interesting tidbits... Twitchell makes the case for a mild defense of luxury in that its mass consumption ultimately lifts up the masses economically. Booklist Twitchell addresses conspicuous consumption in a new way, free of the superior tone often adopted by his academic peers. He embarks on a course of fieldwork that is both absurdist and charming, as he chats up Fendi salespeople and stands slack-jawed in the lobby of the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas... He comes away with insights about the American quest for luxury products and provides a history of such yearning. With its intelligence and wit, Twitchell's exploration of consumerism belongs in every shopping bag. Publishers Weekly (starred review) [E]xerburant, sprightly, mischievous, gaudy, dippy, endlessly entertaining... -- Eugen Weber Times Literary Supplement Exuberant, sprightly, mischievous, gaudy, dippy, endlessly entertaining, and also a bit sad. -- Eugen Weber TLS Very interesting... intriguing... highly engaging, witty, and sophisticated. Choice Twitchell is at his best here: witty, observant, and self-deprecating...Living It Up is a pleasure to read. Twitchell is an engaging and entertaining writer. -- Ian Brailsford Australasian Journal of American StudiesTable of Contents1. Over the Top: Americans in the Lap of Luxury 2. The Social Construction of Luxury: A Taxonomy of Taste 3. Let's Go Shopping: The Streets of Material Dreams 4. Where Opuluxe Is Made and Who Makes It: LVMH and Conde Nast 5. How Luxury Becomes Necessity: The Work of Advertising 6. From Shirts to Tulips: A Musing on Luxury 7. Viva Las Vegas! A Strip of Luxury 8. Still Learning From Las Vegas: How Luxury Is Turning Religious Conclusion A (Mild) Defense of Luxury
£42.50
Columbia University Press Cold War Cool Medium
Book SynopsisConventional wisdom holds that television was a co-conspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, that it was a facilitator to the blacklist and handmaiden to McCarthyism. This work argues that, through the influence of television, America actually became a more open and tolerant place.Trade ReviewInvigorating and wide-ranging scholarship... The heart of Cold War, Cool Medium is a lively and compelling retelling of the effect of McCarthyism on television. Cineaste [A] seriously intelligent history. Library Journal Cold War, Cool Medium, by Thomas Doherty, ranks as one of the seminal books ever written about the history of television and politics in the USA...Doherty brilliantly challenges this conventional wisdom and indeed turns it upside down. He skillfully, systematically, and clearly demonstrates that early television helped the USA become a more tolerant nation, and provided for more open discussion. -- Douglas Gomery Television Quarterly Doherty's Cold War, Cool Medium earns its place as a subtle new map of America's politics during television's toddler years. It offers fine-grained images for television's political pontification and purifications from the late 1940s to mid-1950s... For the study of this awkward period in America's television culture, it is hard to imagine a better text for discussions with students. Colleagues who lived in that era will read it with pained appreciation. -- John Shelton Lawrence Journal of American Culture fresh and important insights...an accurate and engrossing account for the nonspecialist, and its methodology provides a revealing context for the specialist as well -- Brenda Murphy The Journal of American History thoughtful and nuanced -- Michael C. C. Adams Film & History Thomas Doherty's groundbreaking new volume, Cold War, Cool Medium, [is] a sweeping examination of the collision of television and McCarthyism, and one of the most searching looks at the intersection of popular and political culture in years. Boston Globe Doherty's excellent Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture [is] more timely than its title suggests... [Doherty] has penned an engaging revisionist account of mass hysteria, forcefully arguing against critics who cast television in its early days as a co-conspirator in conducting witch hunts and stifling dissent... Doherty's history of the early political uses of television is never less than fascinating. Reason Magazine A witty, often riveting account of the simultaneous rise of television and McCarthy. Film Comment Explores TV's wonders and skillfully exposes the power of pressure groups on the new medium, which acted out the psychosis that dominated the 1950s. Relying on thorough and enlightening research, Doherty notes the ironies, anti-Semitism and class prejudices that underlined Senator Joseph McCarthy's ascension... Doherty chronicles the medium and its players with style and scholarship. Publishers Weekly A wide-ranging, impressionistic portrait of the era... Mr. Doherty, a professor of American studies at Brandeis University and a noted film historian, deftly recaps this familiar story. New York Observer Doherty succeeds in illuminating both the history of television in the US in the 1950s and television's relationship to the era's anticommunist crusade... this volume carefully examines the often-overlooked political side of 1950s television. Essential. Choice Cold War, Cool Medium is an excellent overview of television and American culture at a pivotal moment in United States history. It is also wittily written, with Doherty's sense of humour and irony coming through on nearly every page. -- Jennifer Frost, University of Auckland Australasian Journal of American Studies It is not only readable, enlightening and amusing, it does what all good books on the televisual Cold War should do: it can distinguish between hype and substance. -- Adam Piette Journal of American Studies Doherty delivers an enlightening and critical reassessment of television, culture, and politics in the early 1950's. -- Michael Curtin American Historical Review Cold War, Cool Medium is an engaging and complex account of US commercial television during the 1950's. -- Megan Mullen Technology and Culture [A] superbly written analysis of the link between the rise of American television and the fall of Senator McCarthy. -- Vincent Brook American Studies Cold War, Cool Medium is engagingly written, offering prose that is brimming with wit and insight. -- Christine Becker Film QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Video Rising 2. The Gestalt of the Blacklist 3. Controversial Personalities 4. Hypersensitivity: The Codes of Television Censorship 5. Forums of the Air 6. Roman Circuses and Spanish Inquisitions 7. Country and God 8. Edward R. Murrow Slays The Dragon of Joseph McCarthy 9. "The Speaktacular": the Army-McCarthy Hearings, April 22-June 17, 1954 10. Pixies: Homosexuality, Anti-Communism, and Television 11. The End of the Blacklist 12. Exhuming McCarthyism: the Paranoid Style in American Television
£25.20
Columbia University Press Where Men Hide
Book SynopsisDocuments both traditional and contemporary male haunts, such as bars, barbershops, lodges, pool halls, strip clubs, garages, deer camps, megachurches, the basement Barcalounger, and examines their provenance, purpose, and appeal.Trade ReviewFor men who like to think about manhood... and women who are wondering what the attraction is of that grimy garage. Publishers Weekly Readers will find much to enjoy. Library Journal An enjoyable and provocative read. -- Margo Hammond St. Petersburg Times Carefully composed to capture what might be called the aesthetic of male clutter. -- Mike Seely Seattle Weekly By blending anecdote, research and keen observation, the author and photographer bring this little-discussed and controversial phenomenon to light. menstuff.com What Joseph Campbell did for mythology, Twitchell and Ross have done for garages, strip clubs and other masculine hideouts. -- Finn-Olaf Jones Forbes Life A funny, warm account of men and their self-made retreats... Twitchell pays homage to men's caverns of yore. -- Jim Walsh City Pages Twitchell describes, informs, explains, analyzes, and enlightens... In Twitchell's book I can see myself and men I know. -- David Maloof Boston Sunday Globe Twitchell explores what it means to be male. US Airways Magazine Arguing passionately for the continued importance of male bonding and of certain places where no girls are allowed. Brilliant Magazine Any library strong in sociology... will find this an important acquisition. The Midwest Book review Reading these essays is like listening to a witty and broadly knowledgeable after-dinner speaker entertain and enlighten. -- Steven M. Gelber, Santa Clara University Winterthur PortfolioTable of ContentsIntroduction Photographer's Note 1. The Deer Camp: The Hunt 2. The Boxing Ring: Shame and Honor 3. The Fraternal Lodge: Initiation of Brotherhood 4. The Snuggery: Fathers, Sons, and Trains 5. A Room of His Own: Two of Man's Best Friends 6. The Garage: Car and Calendar 7. The American Barbershop: "Next Gentleman" 8. The Baseball Dugout: Chew, Spit, and Fight 9. Getting Outta Here: My Wheels, My Self 10. The Recliner Chair: Hiding in Plain Sight 11. Strip Clubs: Hiding Behind the Ogle 12. "Aah lurve this place": The Male Way of Eating 13. The Workshop Warren: Hammer Time 14. On the Job: Hiding Out in the Office 15. Male Bonding for God Conclusion Works Cited
£19.80
Columbia University Press Philosophers on Art from Kant to the
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Art and Philosophy 1. Critique of Judgment, by Immanuel Kant 2. Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics, by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 3. How the "True World" Finally Became a Fable: The History of an Error | The Will to Power as Art, by Friedrich Nietzsche 4. Beyond the Pleasure Principle | Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood, by Sigmund Freud 5. The Lugubrious Game, by Georges Bataille 6. A Small History of Photography, by Walter Benjamin 7. Nietzsche's Overturning of Platonism | The Origin of the Work of Art, by Martin Heidegger 8. The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I | Of the Gaze as Object Petit a, by Jacques Lacan 9. Las Meninas, by Michel Foucault 10. Society, by Theodor Adorno 11. The Work of Art and Fantasy, by Sarah Kofman 12. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, by Roland Barthes 13. Giotto's Joy | Holbein's Dead Christ, by Julia Kristeva 14. Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles, by Jacques Derrida 15. Hysteria, by Gilles Deleuze 16. Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?, by Jean-Francois Lyotard 17. Privation Is Like a Face, by Giorgio Agamben 18. The Vestige of Art, by Jean-Luc Nancy 19. Art and Philosophy, by Alain Badiou 20. The Janus-Face of Politicized Art, by Jacques Ranciere Notes Bibliography Index
£27.00
Columbia University Press A History of Pain
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTwentieth-century China had more than its share of pain, and Michael Berry unfolds the layers of its meanings in diverse contexts and several media. He shows how the pain of groups relates to identity, morality, politics, and to the meaning of 'history' and 'literature.' No serious student of modern China will want to miss his erudite survey. -- Perry Link, professor of East Asian studies, Princeton University Beautifully written, this book is 'educational' in the very best sense... Essential. Choice The book is significant for its extensive survey of the discourse of trauma. JumpCutTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Prelude: A History of Pain Part I: Centripetal Trauma 1. Musha 1930 2. Nanjing 1937 3. Taipei 1947 Part II: Centrifugal Trauma 4. Yunnan 1968 5. Beijing 1989 Coda: Hong Kong 1997 Bibliography Filmography Index
£95.00
Columbia University Press A History of Pain
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTwentieth-century China had more than its share of pain, and Michael Berry unfolds the layers of its meanings in diverse contexts and several media. He shows how the pain of groups relates to identity, morality, politics, and to the meaning of 'history' and 'literature.' No serious student of modern China will want to miss his erudite survey. -- Perry Link, professor of East Asian studies, Princeton University Beautifully written, this book is 'educational' in the very best sense... Essential. Choice The book is significant for its extensive survey of the discourse of trauma. JumpCutTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Prelude: A History of Pain Part I: Centripetal Trauma 1. Musha 1930 2. Nanjing 1937 3. Taipei 1947 Part II: Centrifugal Trauma 4. Yunnan 1968 5. Beijing 1989 Coda: Hong Kong 1997 Bibliography Filmography Index
£28.50
Columbia University Press Tattooing the World
Book SynopsisA book on tattoo literature and culture. It traces the origins and significance of tattoo in the works of nineteenth and twentieth-century artists, travelers, missionaries, scientists, and such writers as Herman Melville, Margaret Mead, and Albert Wendt. It shows how culture has been etched on the human form and on a body of literature.Trade ReviewThis fascinating book traces the culture and literature surrounding the curious art that uses skin as a canvas. -- Billy Heller New York Post [A] scholarly and beautifully written book. -- Cahir O'Doherty Irish Voice Best New Book by a Local Author Baltimore City Paper Richly layered and meticulously researched -- Vivienne Muller M/C Reviews This brilliant, wide-ranging study deserves careful reading. Pacific AffairsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note About Pacific Languages Introduction: Living Scripts, Texts, Strategies 1. Tatau and Malu: Vital Signs in Contemporary Samoan Literature 2. "The Original Queequeg"? Te Pehi Kupe, Toi Moko, and Moby-Dick 3. Another Aesthetic: Beauty and Morality in Facial Tattoo 4. Marked Ethics: Erasing and Restoring the Tattoo 5. Locating the Sign: Visible Culture 6. Transfer of Desire: Engendering Sexuality Epilogue: The Question of Belonging Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press The Scandal of Susan Sontag
Book SynopsisTrade Review[The Scandal of Susan Sontag] yields new insights on a most complex sensibility... with sophisticated admiration... [and] the requisite doses of wit. Publishers Weekly An exhilarating read that succeeds in constructing a complex and multi-faceted portrait of the woman and her ideas, which remain as vital and thought-provoking as ever.The West AustralianThe West Australian The West Australian The Scandal of Susan Sontag offers revealing insights into the work of one of America's most famous and provocative intellectuals -- Charles Green The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review
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Columbia University Press Radical History and the Politics of Art
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDirect and uncompromising in his views, Rockhill sets forward a political philosophy of aesthetics, that is at once sensuous and pragmatic. The research is based on German and French works in their original articulation, and the analyses themselves take up not what is thematic but, better, what is couched in contradiction. The book will be a strong contribution to a practical-both theoretical and historical-appreciation of aesthetics and politics. -- Tom Conley, Harvard University Art feels too impossibly urgent for it not to matter to the shape of our living together; yet locating where the join between life and art is, precisely, has proved elusive. In this invaluable study, Gabriel Rockhill vanquishes the myth that either there is some privileged moment - of form, content, or effect - uniting art and politics or there is none. With subtlety and analytic rigor, Rockhill demonstrates the nexus connecting - or separating - art and politics is always bound to the dense weave of social practices located at concrete historical times in specific geographical locales. Along the way Rockhill provides a scintillating new analysis of the avant-garde, and the most acute analysis of Jacques Ranciere's aesthetic theory I have come across. Anyone interested in the question of art and politics will want to read this book. -- J. M. Bernstein. New School for Social Research Much has been written about the relationship between art and politics. "How may one reunite what was originally separated?" is a question that foregrounds a deep-seated sophism that is the cause of major misunderstandings, for art and politics have never been different entities and one understands nothing about art and politics as long as one thinks of them as self-contained. Gabriel Rockhill argues definitively against the "talisman complex" which is based on our spontaneously essentialist bias and on an ontology which always ends up sidestepping true analysis. As a radical historicist, he is not shy of complexity and chooses to reinstate art and artworks in social life, i.e., where they have meaning and depth. To isolationist theories and concepts he opposes an energetic interventionist strategy that is particularly welcome in the present field of concept formation. -- Jean-Pierre Cometti, University of Provence In this passionate and rigorous meditation on the vexed issue of the politics of art, Gabriel Rockhill examines the theses of Wittgenstein, Sartre, Adorno, Marcuse, Lukacs, Burger and Ranciere to argue that it is as wrong to "politicize aesthetics" as to "aestheticize politics." Since neither art nor politics can be founded ontologically, this lack of transcendence brings a saving grace. Understood as a historical field of collective negotiations, art recaptures its critical edge, its activist agency, and its social relevance. -- Jean-Michel Rabate, Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania In this bold and erudite intervention into twentieth-century controversies surrounding art and politics, Rockhill dissolves a whole series of reifications, essentialisms, and other symptoms of magical thinking in a bath of 'radical historicism.' Art and politics emerge as no longer clearly defined entities but as a host of artistic and political practices, intertwined and interacting in an everchanging, ever-contested constellation of encounters and relations. -- Kristin Ross, New York University We are living in a period when in many fields of humanities history is taken for granted more often than it is taken seriously. Radical History and the Politics of Art thoroughly challenges this attitude by demonstrating the subversive explanatory power of historical analysis. By considering art and politics as entirely immanent in sociohistorical practices, Rockhill argues for their multiform relationship as displayed in various temporal, geographical, and social configurations. Thus, he integrates the disciplinary priorities of a theoretician of art into a style of discourse that offers a powerful philosophical way of reading history. Radical History and the Politics of Art is elegantly written, informative, and never less than provocative. The result is a radical voice long unheard in the field of theoretical discourse on art. -- Adam Takacs, Eotvos Lorand University Budapest Rockhill's book is a polemic against the various theoretical presuppositions and postures, which fatally misconstrue the relevant factors for assessing the actual agency of aesthetic practices. It is also an assertive defence of the 'politicity' of these practices... [His] book is important because it gives exemplary attention to the factors that a competent approach to this area needs to consider. More than this, Rockhill shows that obscurity is the appropriate fate for undisciplined conceptual speculation. Notre Dame Philosophical Review One welcomes [an] ambitious, iconoclastic work like Gabriel Rockhill's Radical History and the Politics of Art. Radical Philosophy Rockhill's ambitious and erudite Radical History and the Politics of Art covers a sizable and variegated terrain. -- Pavel Lembersky H-Socialisms An engagingly written book that is full of insight, and which judiciously and forcefully combines readings of some of the most cited critics on art and politics in the twentieth century. As such, it makes a new, demanding inquiry into the appropriate methodology for rethinking politicized aesthetic practices. -- Sophie Seita Modernism/modernityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Art and Politics in the Time of Radical History Part I. Historical Encounters Between Art and Politics 1. For a Radical Historicist Analytic of Aesthetic and Political Practices 2. Realism, Formalism, Commitment: Three Historic Positions on Art and Politics Part II. Visions of the Avant-Garde 3. The Theoretical Destiny of the Avant-Garde 4. Toward a Reconsideration of Avant-Garde Practices Part III. The Politics of Aesthetics 5. The Silent Revolution: Ranciere's Rethinking of Aesthetics and Politics 6. Productive Contradictions: From Ranciere's Politics of Aesthetics to the Social Politicity of the Arts Part IV. The Social Politicity of Aesthetic Practices 7. The Politicity of 'Apolitical' Art: A Pragmatic Intervention Into the Art of the Cold War 8. Rethinking the Politics of Aesthetic Practices: Advancing the Critique of the Ontological Illusion and the Talisman Complex Conclusion: Radical Art and Politics-No End in Sight Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Hiroshima After Iraq
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRosalyn Deutsche argues for a certain modesty-or perhaps, I should say, a modest uncertainty-with regard to the demands placed upon art in response to war. She brings a deep knowledge of both contemporary art and the psychoanalytic literature on war to her study, as well as the careful exposition and lucid prose we've come to expect from her work. -- Douglas Crimp, author of Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer PoliticsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Silvia Kolbowski 2. Leslie Thornton 3. Krzysztof Wodiczko Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press A Hunger for Aesthetics Enacting the Demands of
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFor artists, critics, theoreticians, and the like, this book is a call to engage with philosophy's numerous critical resources. Michael Kelly takes a significant first stab at healing the deleterious rift between philosophical aesthetics, on the one hand, and art, art criticism, art history, and 'theory' on the other. This is an ambitious and important book! No other work in the literature-art historical or philosophical-makes such an attempt. -- A.W. Eaton, University of Illinois at Chicago In elegant and trenchant commentaries on influential twentieth-century artists, art movements, and art theories (ranging from John Dewey to Susan Sontag and from Pop art to Doris Salcedo), Michael Kelly interrogates the 'anti-aesthetic' stance among certain artists and critics and in recent histories and philosophies of the arts, and reinvigorates the possibility of a robust critical aesthetics of art. Weaving careful attention to the aesthetic, social, and ethical claims of particular artworks with an investigation of a range of philosophical and critical responses to them, Kelly shows that the very possibilities of art as critique and of the critique of art demand-even 'hunger for'-an aesthetics that addresses the moral-political stakes and limits of art. Kelly's explication and defense of aesthetics as the grounds of art critique-rather than inimical to it-will interest not only philosophers of art and aestheticians of all stripes. In developing theoretical resources to renew the relations between aesthetics and ethics, social theory, and political economy, it will command the close attention of curators, historians, sociologists, and practitioners of the arts, especially those who have been tempted to abandon aesthetics. -- Whitney Davis, University of California, Berkeley Useful for scholars in philosophy who are reflecting on the links between aesthetics and beauty in contemporary art. Literature and AestheticsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: The Dewey Effect 1. The Pop Effect 2. The Sontag Effect 3. The Richter Effect 4. The Salcedo Effect Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Film Worlds
Book SynopsisCrafting a philosophy of cinematic art from the keenest insights of the continental and analytic traditions.Trade ReviewA half-century after Jean Mitry's magisterial integration of classical film theory, Daniel Yacavone has done the same for its modern counterpart, managing not just to reconcile, but to recruit the extremes of cognitivism and of phenomenology for his prodigious satellite mapping of the terrae incognitae he rightly calls 'Film Worlds.' Without hyperbole or histrionics, Yacavone delivers a stable and progressive suite of concepts that address films as texts and embodied affect. He has culled these from a balanced review of an impressive roster of film theorists and the twentieth-century thinkers they have drawn on, some of whom have been waiting in the wings to contribute to a compelling vision like Yacavone's. That vision not only illuminates how films work but also how they work on us, and even work for us. -- Dudley Andrew, Yale University A major reconsideration of the nature of aesthetic experience through the medium of cinema. It offers new insights into the hermeneutical and phenomenological perspectives of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Mikel Dufrenne, as well as Nelson Goodman's concept of world-making. It also presents a significant revision of our understanding of modern and contemporary film theory from Mitry and Metz to Bordwell and Deleuze. This brilliant and original work will be of interest to philosophers and film scholars alike. -- D. N. Rodowick, University of Chicago Yacavone articulates an approach to cinema that incorporates elements of various tendencies in current film theory-including, chiefly, those of a broadly sociocultural bent, those focused on empirical studies and cognitive science, and those stressing the phenomenological dimension of spectatorship-and to unite them via the concept of cinematic 'worlds.' His command of the theoretical literature is impressive, and his references to analytic and continental philosophy and film theory are wide-ranging and inclusive of most of the approaches adopted over the last century. -- Ronald Bogue, University of Georgia Film Worlds is a synthetic and holistic work, one that seeks to include rather than exclude as many philosophies of film as possible. Yacavone's "aesthetics of cinema" turns out to be a rather wide tent, and almost anybody working at the intersection of film and philosophy can find shelter beneath it somewhere. Los Angeles Review of Books [A] notable tour de force across centuries of reflections on the transformative powers of cinematic aesthetics. -- Steffen Hven New Review of Film and Television StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Films and Worlds 1. Worlds Within Worlds: Fictions, Narrative, and Aesthetic Enclosure Part II. Worlds of Symbols 2. The Framework of Worlds: Symbolization, Meaning, and Art 3. Filmmaking as Symbolic Transformation 4. Ways of Cinematic World-Making 5. Representation, Exemplification, and Reflexivity: An Alternative Approach to the Symbolic Dimension of Cinematic Art Part III. Worlds of Feeling 6. Forms of Feeling: Mapping Affect and Emotions in Films 7. Cineaesthetic World-Feeling and Immersion Part IV. Worlds of Truth 8. Toward an Existential Hermeneutics of Film Worlds Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Film Worlds
Book SynopsisCrafting a philosophy of cinematic art from the keenest insights of the continental and analytic traditions.Trade ReviewA half-century after Jean Mitry's magisterial integration of classical film theory, Daniel Yacavone has done the same for its modern counterpart, managing not just to reconcile, but to recruit the extremes of cognitivism and of phenomenology for his prodigious satellite mapping of the terrae incognitae he rightly calls 'Film Worlds.' Without hyperbole or histrionics, Yacavone delivers a stable and progressive suite of concepts that address films as texts and embodied affect. He has culled these from a balanced review of an impressive roster of film theorists and the twentieth-century thinkers they have drawn on, some of whom have been waiting in the wings to contribute to a compelling vision like Yacavone's. That vision not only illuminates how films work but also how they work on us, and even work for us. -- Dudley Andrew, Yale University A major reconsideration of the nature of aesthetic experience through the medium of cinema. It offers new insights into the hermeneutical and phenomenological perspectives of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Mikel Dufrenne, as well as Nelson Goodman's concept of world-making. It also presents a significant revision of our understanding of modern and contemporary film theory from Mitry and Metz to Bordwell and Deleuze. This brilliant and original work will be of interest to philosophers and film scholars alike. -- D. N. Rodowick, University of Chicago Yacavone articulates an approach to cinema that incorporates elements of various tendencies in current film theory-including, chiefly, those of a broadly sociocultural bent, those focused on empirical studies and cognitive science, and those stressing the phenomenological dimension of spectatorship-and to unite them via the concept of cinematic 'worlds.' His command of the theoretical literature is impressive, and his references to analytic and continental philosophy and film theory are wide-ranging and inclusive of most of the approaches adopted over the last century. -- Ronald Bogue, University of Georgia Film Worlds is a synthetic and holistic work, one that seeks to include rather than exclude as many philosophies of film as possible. Yacavone's "aesthetics of cinema" turns out to be a rather wide tent, and almost anybody working at the intersection of film and philosophy can find shelter beneath it somewhere. Los Angeles Review of Books [A] notable tour de force across centuries of reflections on the transformative powers of cinematic aesthetics. -- Steffen Hven New Review of Film and Television StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Films and Worlds 1. Worlds Within Worlds: Fictions, Narrative, and Aesthetic Enclosure Part II. Worlds of Symbols 2. The Framework of Worlds: Symbolization, Meaning, and Art 3. Filmmaking as Symbolic Transformation 4. Ways of Cinematic World-Making 5. Representation, Exemplification, and Reflexivity: An Alternative Approach to the Symbolic Dimension of Cinematic Art Part III. Worlds of Feeling 6. Forms of Feeling: Mapping Affect and Emotions in Films 7. Cineaesthetic World-Feeling and Immersion Part IV. Worlds of Truth 8. Toward an Existential Hermeneutics of Film Worlds Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Cinematic Appeals
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAriel Rogers's fascinating book looks at the affective addresses of technologically-innovative periods in film history to explore the different notions of spectatorial embodiment these technologies provide, from the immersive participation of the widescreen era to the relative disembodiment of the fragmented and alienated spectator in the digital era. She has made an important intervention in the ongoing discussions of spectatorship and embodiment in the cinema that will determine the direction of future scholarship in those fields. -- John Belton, Rutgers University Cinematic Appeals offers readers a concise exploration of new cinema formats and the claims and debates that surround their introduction... a wealth of interesting historical material and engaging and informative case studies featuring fine-grained analysis of individual films. Projections Ariel Rogers leads us into a fascinating journey full of information, which is theoretically robust... Cinema & Cie Timely and provocative. A well written and highly engaging text, Cinematic Appeals will interest anyone contemplating the nature of cinema in today's mediatized environment, as well as anyone interested in the history of film technology or film spectatorship. Film and HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Moving Machines 1. "Smothered in Baked Alaska": The Anxious Appeal of Widescreen Cinema 2. East of Eden in CinemaScope: Intimacy Writ Large 3. Digital Cinema's Heterogeneous Appeal: Debates on Embodiment, Intersubjectivity, and Immediacy 4. Awe and Aggression: The Experience of Erasure in The Phantom Menace and The Celebration 5. Points of Convergence: Conceptualizing the Appeal of 3D Cinema Then and Now Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Readings of the Vessantara Jataka
Book SynopsisAnthropologists, textual scholars in religious and Buddhist studies, and art historians engage in sophisticated readings of the text and its ethics of giving, understanding of attachment and nonattachment, depiction of the trickster, and unique performative qualitiesTrade ReviewReadings of the Vessantara Jataka will undoubtedly become a classic in the study of Buddhist biographical literature and its cultural contexts. The collection brings together excellent essays that show us how a central Buddhist narrative can resonate profoundly across a spectrum of dramatic, ethical, and cultural modalities. -- Juliane Schober, Arizona State University This volume, taken as a whole, starts with some basic questions: what accounts for the tremendous popularity of the Vessantara Jataka in the Buddhist world? How and why did it become a tale better known even than the life story of the Buddha? In addressing these issues, the individual contributors go on to reveal and analyze the multiple (and often ambivalent) ways in which the story has been open to interpretation and to enactment in ritual, art, and society in both classic and modern times. Readings of the Vessantara Jataka is a pathbreaking work that will long endure as a go-to reference for anyone interested in this most significant and popular of Buddhist stories. -- John S. Strong, Bates College The central figure in the Buddhism of Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, and even parts of Nepal is, as this book demonstrates, Prince Vessantara as much as it is the Buddha himself. This book is highly recommended not only for scholars interested in Buddhism as it is practiced but also for courses on Buddhism and society, religious studies, and anthropology and religion. -- Charles Keyes, University of WashingtonTable of ContentsPreface Introduction, Dramatis Personae, and Chapters in the Vessantara Jataka, by Steven Collins 1. Readers in the Maze: Modern Debates About the Vessantara Story in Thailand, by Louis Gabaude 2. Emotions and Narrative: Excessive Giving and Ethical Ambivalence in the Lao Vessantara Jataka, by Patrice Ladwig 3. Blissfully Buddhist and Betrothed: Marriage in the Vessantara Jataka and Other South and Southeast Asian Buddhist Narratives, by Justin McDaniel 4. Jajaka as Trickster: The Comedic Monks of Northern Thailand, by Katherine Bowie 5. Narration in the Vessantara Painted Scrolls of Northeast Thailand and Laos, by Leedom Lefferts and Sandra Cate 6. A Man for All Seasons: Three Vessantaras in Premodern Myanmar, by Lilian Handlin 7. Vessantara Opts Out: Newar Versions of the Tale of the Generous Prince, by Christoph Emmrich Index
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Columbia University Press Carceral Fantasies
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAlison Griffiths's examination of how movie exhibition came into prisons is truly groundbreaking. No one has studied the culture of moviegoing behind bars in this fashion before. A unique and absolutely exciting work! -- Dana Polan, author of Scenes of Instruction: The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of FilmCarceral Fantasies is a complex and highly original book that attends the intersections between various early cinema images of prisons and the real thing. Griffiths has a fascinating story to tell, in which she argues that we can view execution films as a kind of attraction—and in doing so are led to ponder: what constitutes an attraction? -- Jon Lewis, author of American Film: A HistoryCarceral Fantasies paints a complex, rich portrait of the historical relationship between cinema and the American penal system that crosses disciplinary borders and engages with a diverse body of scholarship. Groundbreaking in its historical exploration, rigorous and acrobatic in its theoretical intervention, and provocative in its call to action, Carceral Fantasies is a rewarding and important read for anyone interested in the history of American cinema. * Film & History *Griffiths’s work uncovers hidden and rarely considered aspects of penal practice, media consumption and film history. * Prison Service Journal *A timely, challenging, and always thought-provoking text, Carceral Fantasies will become necessary reading for all working to map the medial administration of state terror and to imagine cinema’s capacities to glimpse beyond it. * Canadian Journal of Film Studies *Carceral Fantasies is a fascinating look at the history of cinema and the penitentiary. * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *The original research she has performed, especially in understanding the nature of the carceral spectator, makes a significant contribution to film history, particularly film as a cultural artifact. She provides a glimpse of a nearly invisible audience that may have discovered in film their only connection to the world at large. In doing so, Griffiths brings light to what remains one of the most hidden places in our society. * Wide Angle *Carceral Fantasies will certainly attract scholars who are interested in the development of this scholarship about the silent era. The book will also be of value for those who are interested by nontheatrical film exhibition and the unique experience of watching films in prison. * Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television *Carceral Fantasies is a provocative and engrossing read. Griffiths’s study also makes a significant contribution to histories of cinema-going and early twentieth-century visual culture, and to our understanding of the complexities that underpin the dynamics between spectator and spectacle. * Alphaville *Table of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: The Carceral Imaginary1. Tableaux Mort: Execution, Cinema, and Carceral Fantasies2. Prison on Screen: The Carceral AestheticPart II: The Carceral Spectator3. Screens and the Senses in Prison4. "The Great Unseen Audience": Sing Sing Prison and Motion PicturesPart III: The Carceral Reformer5. A Different Story: Recreation and Cinema in Women's Prisons and Reformatories6. Cinema and Prison ReformConclusion: The Prison Museum and Media Use in the Contemporary PrisonNotesFilmographyBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Maya Deren
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is a thorough review of Maya Deren's total oeuvre, offering a study of one of our most important filmmakers who has been more overlooked than one might expect. Further study of Deren from a distinct point of view, as Keller offers, is a vital contribution. -- Bill Nichols, film critic and editor of Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde Keller's truly excellent book considers both Deren's theoretical writings and cinematic work and places them within the context of her life and the difficulties she faced as an experimental artist (frequently unfunded and living on the edge). This volume fills a gap in scholarship on Deren with clear and elegant writing. -- Lucy Fischer, University of Pittsburgh Maya Deren: Incomplete Control is a tour de force of historical and critical scholarship that explores new primary research material from Maya Deren's voluminous and complex archive to assert the significance of incompletion and process as central to Deren's artistic and intellectual production. Keller's clear, erudite prose offers brilliant new readings of Deren's extant films, including canonical works like Meshes of the Afternoon, and comprehensively explores Deren's incomplete projects-films, research projects, writings-to draw out Deren's radical imaginings of art and culture. -- Michael Zryd, York University A required resource for serious examination of Deren's groundbreaking films... Keller's smoothly organized, cleanly written text is perhaps the most comprehensive single volume on Deren's work... Essential. Choice A must-read for scholars of experimental cinema, women filmmakers, and Maya Deren. Film CriticismTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Unfinished Business 1. Done and Undone: Meshes of the Afternoon and Witch's Cradle 2. Toward Completion and Control: At Land, A Study in Choreography for Camera, and Ritual in Transfigured Time 3. Haiti 4. Full Circle Conclusion: In Completing a Thought Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Art on Trial
Trade ReviewArt on Trial is a testament to the potent power of art as evidence. David Gussak's masterful presentation of the case, the client, and the art explains the role and value of art therapy in a court of law. His book is a triumph for art as evidence, expounding the value of art therapists as expert witnesses in legal proceedings as well as the advantages that art therapy offers. -- Marcia Liebman, Drexel University David Gussak has written a fascinating and important first-person account demonstrating the value of art therapy in the courtroom. His book represents an extraordinary interdisciplinary effort and will surely become a must-read for professionals in the fields of art therapy, criminology, and abnormal psychology. -- Jack Levin, Northeastern University, author of Serial Killers and Sadistic Murderers: Up Close and Personal and, with Gordana Rabrenovic, Why We HateTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Assessments, Art Therapy, and Forensics Part I. Art and the Murderer: A Case Study 1. How It Began 2. The Jailhouse Meeting 3. More Art and the Follow-up Part II. Defending the Art 4. The Deposition 5. The Testimony Part III. Analysis and Implications 6. The Case Study: Summary, Reflections, and Ethics 7. Art Therapists as Expert Witnesses: Three More Capital Cases 8. Forensic Art Therapy Revisited References
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Columbia University Press The Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers Responsible
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA brilliant account of the Dardenne brothers' cinema... their politically engaged social realism and concern with the pauperized victims of global capital are beautifully complemented by the precise lucidity of the author's prose, the nuance of his textual analysis, and his provocative but non-dogmatic social theory. -- David James, University of Southern California An excellent introduction to the Dardenne brothers' films but also a lucid exposition of the historical and intellectual frameworks in which their social realism can be evaluated. This volume also explains how their filmmaking can be understood in terms of major contemporary philosophical currents. -- Felix Thompson, University of Derby, UK A comprehensive overview. -- Melina Gils Film QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Responsible Realists 2. Cinematic Reference Points 3. The Video Documentaries, 1974-83: In the Beginning Was the Resistance; The Nightingale's Song; When Leon M.'s Boat First Sailed down the River Meuse; For the War to End, the Walls Had to Crumble; R... No Longer Answers; Lessons from a University on the Fly; Look at Jonathan; Jean Louvet, His Work 4. Foraying into Fiction, 1986-92: Falsch; They're Running ... Everyone's Running; You're on My Mind 5. Breakthrough: The Promise, 1996 6. First Palme d'Or: Rosetta, 1999 7. Pushing the Envelope: The Son, 2002 8. Second Palme d'Or: The Child, 2005 9. A Minor Shift: The Silence of Lorna, 2008 Afterword: The Kid with a Bike, 2011 Filmography Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Plastic Reality
Book SynopsisJulie A. Turnock tracks the use and evolution of special effects in 1970s filmmaking, a development as revolutionary to film as the form’s transition to sound in the 1920s.Trade ReviewWith consummate research and clear explanations, Turnock shows how the special effects revolution actually took place before CGI and how the way the blockbusters of the late sixties and seventies, Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, introduced new conceptions of cinema's relation to reality and fantasy-and how it relates to the cinema of today. -- Tom Gunning, author of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity Turnock's contribution is rich at multiple levels... Plastic Reality well merits pride of place within the burgeoning area of special effects study. Film QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Before 1977 1. Optical Animation: Special Effects Compositing Up to 1977 2. Before Industrial Light and Magic: The Independent Hollywood Special Effects Business, 1968-1975 Part II: Circa 1977: Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind 3. The Expanded Blockbuster: The Auteurist Aesthetics of 1970s Special Effects-Driven Filmmaking 4. "The Buck Stops at Opticals": Special Effects Technology on Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind 5. A More Plastic Reality: The Design and Conception of Star Wars and West Coast Experimental Filmmaking 6. "More Philosopical Grey Matter": The Production and Aesthetic of Close Encounters of the Third Kind Part III: The 1980s and Beyond 7. Optical Special Effects into the 1980s: A Well-Oiled Machine 8. "Not-too-Realistic" and Intensified Realistic Approaches in the 1980s: Traditional Stop Motion and Showscan Conclusion: World-Building and the Legacy of 1970s Special Effects in Contemporary Cinema Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press The Cinema of Terry Gilliam
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA wonderfully rich collection of essays; thought-provoking, insightful, and poetic in equal measure. Gilliam emerges as an auteur of magic and melancholy, a trickster of the night, a genius of the moving image. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the power of the directorial vision. -- Sean Redmond, Deakin University A lively set of informed and informative essays that offers an array of new perspectives. This collection adds materially to the critical understanding of one of modern cinema's most intriguing and challenging directors -- Peter Marks, University of Sydney A superb examination of a maverick artist... Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction, by Jeff Birkenstein, Anna Froula, and Karen Randell Terry Gilliam Interview, by Karen Randell 1. Steampunked: The Animated Aesthetics of Terry Gilliam in Jabberwocky and Beyond, by Anna Froula 2. Grail Tales: The Preoccupations of Terry Gilliam, by Tony Hood 3. 'And Now for Something Completely Different': Pythonic Arthuriana and the Matter of Britain, by Jim Holte 4. The Baron, the King and Terry Gilliam's Approach to 'the Fantastic', by Keith James Hamel 5. The Subversion of Happy Endings in Terry Gilliam's Brazil, by Jeffrey Melton and Eric Sterling 6. The Fissure King: Terry Gilliam's Psychotic Fantasy Worlds, by Jacqueline Furby 7. 'You can't change anything': Freedom and Control in Twelve Monkeys, by Gerry Canavan 8. 'It shall be a nation': Terry Gilliam's Exploration of National Identity, Between Rationalism and Imagination, by Ofir Haivry 9. 'Won't somebody please think of the children?': The Case for Terry Gilliam's Tidelands, by Kathryn A. Laity 10. Divorced from Reality: Time Bandits in Search of Fulfilment, by Jeff Birkenstein 11. Celebrity Trauma: The Death of Heath Ledger and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, by Karen Randell Filmography Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Engaging the Past Mass Culture and the
Book SynopsisExamines the making and meaning of history for everyday viewersTrade ReviewAlison Landsberg skillfully penetrates one of the most interesting yet elusive questions about popular representations of the past. What kinds of knowledge of the past do they offer? In elegant and precise analyses of selected texts, she demonstrates how they engage affect and emotion through experiential modes of communication. Contrary to many assumptions about such forms, Landsberg brilliantly argues that these reenactments have the potential to provoke self-conscious historical thinking much sought after by more conventional historical modes of communication. -- Ann Gray, emerita professor of cultural studies, University of Lincoln The book is carefully structured, sensitively expressed, and the analysis of thevarious media a contribution to thinking differently about cinematic uses ofpast. Critical InquiryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Theorizing Affective Engagement in the Historical Film 2. Waking the Past: The Historically Conscious Television Drama 3. Encountering Contradiction: Reality History TV 4. Digital Translations of the Past: Virtual History Exhibits Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Lady in the Dark
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSitton's book is chock full of fascinating detail and tells a compelling story about an unusual character, a woman who built institutions and contributed to a way of thinking about film that we take for granted today. The result is a much larger and untold history about art, film, and culture. -- Haidee Wasson, author of Museum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema Museum of Modern Art film legend Iris Barry mattered to cinema history, and this book makes her life matter as well. Sitton's sharp biography spans Barry's life from her fascinating times among the literati of post-Victorian Britain to her famed career in the United States, which entailed her virtually founding the influential MoMA Film Library. This is a rich and captivating story. -- Dana Polan, author of Scenes of Instruction: The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film, 1915-1935 Iris Barry was film's first great archivist and a crucial figure in turning a curious novelty into the most significant new art form of its century. She has long deserved a biography as graceful and expert as the one Robert Sitton has delivered so handsomely. It offers a lively portrait of modernist New York when it was fresh and new and is the better for the richness of its quotations from Barry's stirring writings. It cannot be praised too highly. -- Richard Schickel I confess that I thought of Iris Barry as an English snob who had rejected many exceptional silents as products of the much-despised Hollywood, but she is so much more interesting-and maddening-than I ever suspected. Her autobiographical fragments are superb, remarkable descriptions of history as it happened-a Zeppelin raid on London in World War 1, the Depression in America making the rich richer. As she describes them, these incidents are as evocative as any film, and the book is beautifully illustrated with excellent-quality portraits. Somebody should film it. -- Kevin Brownlow, author of The Parade's Gone By... Robert Sitton's remarkably well researched and evocatively written biography of Iris Barry's hitherto largely unknown position at the forefront of film appreciation is long overdue and most welcome. She led a fascinating private and public life and had an extremely complicated female odyssey in the world of her times, which she profoundly influenced through her writings and cultural actions. That influence still reverberates today. -- Peter Bogdanovich Sitton exhaustively traces Barry's career from aspiring poet to playwright, biographer and film critic... Film students will enjoy this book. Kirkus Reviews The most fascinating characters tend to be the unsung heroes of their field, and there may be no greater example of this than Iris Barry... This remarkable story is richly detailed... and is required reading for anyone interested in film, art, or museums. Library Journal (starred review) Meticulously researched, lovingly written... Lady in the Dark: Iris Barry and the Art of Film is a must-read biography. PopMatters An excellent on Iris Barry's important work at [Museum of Modern Art.] Lillian Gish's Happy Life A very welcome and long overdue tribute to a fascinating figure. -- Henry K. Miller Sight & Sound Robert Sitton's biography makes for lively reading. -- Philip Kemp Times Higher Education [A] compelling biography... gracefully written, always interesting, and well researched... Anyone interested in film history, particularly in the history of film history and film preservation, will want to read this book. Iris Barry is a key figure, and she led a fascinating life. Louise Brooks Society Blog A terrific new biography... Sitton brings to light an extraordinary story-or, rather, an extraordinary person, who has been languishing unjustly in the shadows. -- Richard Brody The New Yorker Sitton's elegant, accomplished book is the first to elucidate Barry's important work... This is an indispensable account of a woman who was not only a singular pioneering personality but also a diligent, cunning creator of institutions and ways of seeing that are now taken for granted. CHOICE A full-fledged biography of the woman who changed the course of American film culture. -- Leonard Maltin Indiewire [A] fascinating biography of the founder of the Museum of Modern Art's Film Library and the individual who helped institutionalize film studies. -- Thomas Gladysz The Huffington Post Sitton, a film historian, has done justice to a fascinating and important subject. Following extensive archival research, he's told a dramatic story and ended with an incisive summary of Barry's character and achievements. -- Jeffrey Meyers The New CriterionTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Alistair Cooke Credits Previews 1. Early Years 2. "We Enjoyed the War" 3. "Dear Miss Barry" 4. The Other Bloomsbury 5. Life with Lewis 6. Children 7. Alan Porter 8. The Spectator 9. Splashing Into Film Society 10. Cinema Paragons, Hollywood, and Lady Mary 11. Let's Go to the Pictures 12. Victory and Defeat 13. America 14. The Askew Salon 15. Museum Men 16. Remarriage 17. Settling In 18. Cracking Hollywood 19. Art High and Low 20. On to Europe 21. Going Public 22. The Slow Martyrdom of Alfred Barr 23. Meanwhile, Back at the Library 24. New Work, Old Acquaintances 25. "The Master" and His Minions 26. Temora Farm 27. The Museum Enlists 28. Mr. Rockefeller's Office 29. L'Affair Bunuel 30. The Other Library 31. Divorce 32. Postwar Blues 33. Abbott's Fall 34. Hospital 35. Departure 36. La Bonne Font 37. Things Past 38. The Austin House 39. Readjustments 40. New York and London 41. Final Breaks 42. The End Sequel Notes Sources Index
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Columbia University Press Dreaming of Cinema
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLowenstein turns technological teleology on its head, arguing that new media studies urgently needs a theory of cinema-both what it was and what it continues to be. -- Karl Schoonover, University of Warwick Just how should we access cinema today? Adam Lowenstein, perfectly positioned between two eras, can tell us. Not through nostalgia, that's certain, but through every modern means possible. Curiously this returns him to the Surrealists who were already living our future. He deploys their strategies (serendipity, automatism, collective creativity) first in ingenious analyses of visual and narrative experiments, and then, more daringly, in striking instances in which DVDs, blogs, museum installations, and YouTube take cinema beyond film. A risky mission that Lowenstein pulls off dexterously. -- Dudley Andrew, Yale University This highly imaginative and innovative book argues for an expanded sense both of the medium of cinema and of the forms of spectatorship that cinema yields, and it finds the promise of surrealism alive in contemporary media practices. Dreaming of Cinema will be of great interest to a wide range of film and media scholars. -- Richard Allen, New York University Here's a smart, sophisticated book that takes a topic-surrealism-that has been thoroughly (some would say exhaustively) investigated and gives it new life... This fascinating, obsessive, wide-ranging book will provoke a great deal of discussion. CHOICETable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Cinema as Digital Dream Machine 1. Enlarged Spectatorship: From Realism to Surrealism: Bazin, Barthes, and The (Digital) Sweet Hereafter 2. Interactive Spectatorship: Gaming, Mimicry, and Art Cinema: Between Un chien andalou and eXistenZ 3. Globalized Spectatorship: Ring Around the Superflat Global Village: J-Horror Between Japan and America 4. Posthuman Spectatorship: The Animal in You(Tube): From Los olvidados to "Christian the Lion" 5. Collaborative Spectatorship: The Surrealism of the Stars: From Rose Hobart to Mrs. Rock Hudson Afterword: Marking Cinematic Time Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Head Cases
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDeftly moving through Julia Kristeva's entire body of work, Elaine P. Miller brilliantly stages engagements between Kristeva's thought and that of Adorno, Arendt, Augustine, Benjamin, Freud, Green, Hegel, Kant, Klein, Lacan, and Proust, among others. Her analysis also sheds light on some of Kristeva's most intractable concepts, including negativity, the uncanny, time, the semiotic, mimesis, art, and the aesthetic. Head Cases is filled with keen insights, rigorous scholarship, and beautiful prose. -- Kelly Oliver, Vanderbilt University By drawing on both the history of philosophical aesthetics and psychoanalysis, Head Cases makes an important contribution to contemporary aesthetic theory and Julia Kristeva studies. As a Kristeva scholar who is also interested in aesthetics, I am very pleased to say that this is simply the best book combining both of these fields. -- Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, author of Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism Head Cases is a wonderfully engaging work-lucid, subtle, and invigorating. It will be indispensable for all readers of Kristeva and for anyone preoccupied with the concept of melancholia as a psychological, political, and aesthetic category. -- Rebecca Comay, University of Toronto Ambitious and widely-read... French StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Losing our Heads 1. Kristeva and Benjamin: Melancholy and the Allegorical Imagination 2. Kenotic Art: Negativity, Iconoclasm, Inscription 3. To Be and Remain Foreign: Tarrying with L'Inquietante Etrangete Alongside Arendt and Kafka 4. Sublimating Maman: Experience, Time, and the Re-erotization of Existence in Kristeva's Reading of Marcel Proust 5. The "Orestes Complex": Thinking Hatred, Forgiveness, Greek Tragedy, and the Cinema of the "Thought Specular" with Hegel, Freud, and Klein Conclusion: Forging a Head Notes Bibliography Index
£35.70
Columbia University Press After the Red Army Faction
Book SynopsisAnalyzing the afterimage of revolutionary violence in contemporary culture and politics.Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany’s 1968 Generation and the HolocaustTrade ReviewThe saga of the Red Army Faction's decades-long war with the West German state hardly ended when the shooting stopped, as Charity Scribner's superb book explains. Instead, the conflict captured and even haunted the imagination of generations of German novelists, filmmakers, and visual artists, whose diverse works are themselves an integral part of the RAF's legacy. Scribner offers both incisive and inventive readings of an array of texts, showing how they labored - and often struggled - to articulate a post-militant politics to move beyond the moral hazards of armed struggle. After the Red Army Faction dramatically expands our understanding of what it means to "read" violence and come to terms with its many wounds. -- Jeremy Varon, New School for Social Research, author of Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies The most innovative discussion of the RAF to date. This book provides a much-needed, nuanced understanding of the influence of the RAF on German cultural memory and will revolutionize the study of militant politics and aesthetics. -- Sabine von Dirke, University of Pittsburgh, author of "All Power to the Imagination!": Art and Politics in the West German Counterculture Charity Scribner's After the Red Army Faction will be an important contribution to our understanding of the impact of the left-wing terrorism of 1970s West Germany, and in particular the Baader-Meinhof Group or Red Army Faction (RAF), on culture in West Germany and beyond. -- Hans Kundnani, editorial director at the European Council on Foreign Relations, author of Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany's 1968 Generation and the Holocaust How can 'postmilitancy' offer clues to understanding West Germany's RAF and its afterlives, all the more after 9/11? How might it suggest new directions for resistance when everyday life remains saturated with violence? Charity Scribner provides searching and compelling answers in this study that reaches across disciplines. -- Belinda Davis, Rutgers University, University, editor of Changing the World, Changing Oneself: Political Protest and Collective Identities in West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s Poised between an increasingly nostalgic tendency to romanticize the violent struggles of 1970s militants and our own deeply troubled response to the brutality of contemporary fundamentalisms, After the Red Army Faction provides us with an invaluable reflection on the complexities of past leftist terrorism and its continuing ramifications. With a keen eye for the ambiguities and blind spots of ideological extremism, Scribner examines German postmilitant culture through literature, film, dance, and the visual arts. Shunning easy cliche and superficial spectacle, she reminds us of the intellectual and human costs of the German armed struggle and of the ways gender and sexuality inflected its attitudes and representation in the media. A brilliant piece of cultural history. -- Tom McDonough, Binghamton University, State University of New York, editor of The Situationists and the CityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Beyond Militancy Part 1. Militant Acts 1. The Red Decade and Its Cultural Fallout 2. Damaged Lives of the Far Left: Reading the RAF in Reverse 3. Buildings on Fire: The Situationist International and the Red Army Faction Part II. Postmilitant Culture 4. The Stammheim Complex in Marianne and Juliane 5. Violence and the Tendenzwende: Engendering Victims in the Novel and Film 6. Anatomies of Protest and Resistance: Meinhof, Fischer 7. Regarding Terror at the Berlin Kunst-Werke Afterword: Signs of a New Season Notes Works Cited Index
£46.75
Columbia University Press Bollywoods India
Book SynopsisAnalyzes the role of the cinema’s most popular blockbusters in making, unmaking, and remaking modern IndiaTrade ReviewPriya Joshi's work is a timely assessment of key films and periods in Bollywood's history. Its wide-ranging literary, theoretical, and sociocultural perspectives, which cut across literature, postcolonial studies, media, and cultural studies, will surely be taken up by other scholars as well as general readers. A fine piece of scholarship. -- Rajinder Dudrah, University of Manchester Lavishly illustrated... this volume would be an excellent course text for a semester on Bollywood... Highly recommended. Choice A lively, thoughtful writer, Joshi shows how Bollywood films have mirrored India's social, political and economic changes, and how western films have been influenced by Bollywood trends and motifs. -- Steven Rea The Philadelphia Inquirer Well-structured... Joshi's book perfectly captures the history of Bollywood cinema and its cultural impact for the newcomer and seasoned viewer alike. Film MattersTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Preface: The Social Work of Cinema 1. Bollywood's India 2. Cinema as Public Fantasy 3. Cinema as Family Romance 4. Bollywood, Bollylite Epilogue: Anthem for a New India Notes Filmography Bibliography Index
£79.20
Columbia University Press Bollywoods India A Public Fantasy
Book SynopsisAnalyzes the role of the cinema’s most popular blockbusters in making, unmaking, and remaking modern IndiaTrade ReviewPriya Joshi's work is a timely assessment of key films and periods in Bollywood's history. Its wide-ranging literary, theoretical, and sociocultural perspectives, which cut across literature, postcolonial studies, media, and cultural studies, will surely be taken up by other scholars as well as general readers. A fine piece of scholarship. -- Rajinder Dudrah, University of Manchester Lavishly illustrated... this volume would be an excellent course text for a semester on Bollywood... Highly recommended. Choice A lively, thoughtful writer, Joshi shows how Bollywood films have mirrored India's social, political and economic changes, and how western films have been influenced by Bollywood trends and motifs. -- Steven Rea The Philadelphia Inquirer Well-structured... Joshi's book perfectly captures the history of Bollywood cinema and its cultural impact for the newcomer and seasoned viewer alike. Film MattersTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Preface: The Social Work of Cinema 1. Bollywood's India 2. Cinema as Public Fantasy 3. Cinema as Family Romance 4. Bollywood, Bollylite Epilogue: Anthem for a New India Notes Filmography Bibliography Index
£25.20
Columbia University Press Motionless Pictures
Book SynopsisChallenges the primacy of motion in cinema and tests the theoretical limits of film aesthetics and representation.Trade ReviewAn ambitious undertaking, supported by admirably clear prose and an impressive range of research. -- Richard Dienst, Rutgers University Remes's concise writing eloquently recounts his sensitive attention to the screened films that he discusses. His subsequent, objectively based observations are often profound. His description and analysis of the implications of what he has seen in my own films is revealing even to me. Unique in its emphasis on the single frame as the core of cinema, this book is one of the best books ever written about 'experimental' film. -- Michael Snow Justin Remes' Motion(less) Pictures is written and argued so well that one can enjoy it and learn from it without much liking the cinema of stasis. Early on, the book grants us leave to view Warhol's Empire or Sleep in a state of high distraction, perhaps while munching panini and conversing with friends. We can even exit and take a stroll. Remes rightly links both films to Erik Satie's 'furniture music'--'music to which,' John Cage said, 'one did not have to listen' (Satie himself said that 'a man who has not heard Furniture music does not know happiness"). Other types of stasis cinema--"protracted cinema," "the textual film," and "the monochrome film'--invite more sustained attention. In every type, though, duration is more palpable than motion, and Remes recommends that duration rather than motion be considered the 'indispensable component' of all cinema. Yet mindful that cinema is richly diverse and ever changing, he resists reducing it to a single essence. He calls instead for 'a theory of film... as flexible and expansive as cinema itself,' and cites, as supporters as well as foils, multiple artists, theorists, and philosophers. Among them are Michael Snow, Bill Viola, Nam June Paik, Tom Gunning, Steve Shaviro, Noel Carroll, Plato, Aristotle, Bergson, Wittgenstein, Barthes, and Deleuze. The result is a broad survey of aesthetic thought and practice that, while illuminating all of cinema, deftly transposes stillness from the margins of our attention to the center. -- Ira Jaffe, author of Slow Movies: Countering the Cinema of Action A brilliant book... Highly recommended. Choice A worthwhile examination of a small but notable canon. Prefix Photo MagazineTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Filmic 2. Serious Immobilities: Andy Warhol, Erik Satie, and the Furniture Film 3. Stasis in Fluxus: Disappearing Music for Face and Protracted Cinema 4. Boundless Ontologies: Michael Snow, Wittgenstein, and the Textual Film 5. Colored Blindness: Derek Jarman's Blue and the Monochrome Film 6. Conclusion: Static Cinema in the Digital Age Appendix 1. The Cinema of Stasis Appendix 2. Films Relevant to Understanding the Cinema of Stasis Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Industry and Intelligence
Book SynopsisThe conceptual artist Liam Gillick writes a genealogy of contemporary art, arguing that we need to appreciate its engagement with history. He takes a broad view of artistic creation from 1820 to today, underscoring the industry and intelligence of artists as they have responded to incremental developments in science, politics, and technology.Trade ReviewIn prose at once forthright and oblique, Liam Gillick attempts to extricate himself-and us, his readers-from the enveloping protoplasm known as 'contemporary art.' At the core of this book is a compelling alternative genealogy for our current condition, traced across four soft revolutions from 1820 to 1974. What that genealogy cumulatively reveals is a provocative diagnosis of the present as interminable: an entropic horizon against which artists and curators deploy their 'evasive markers.' With Industry and Intelligence, Gillick proves himself the most lucid inheritor of conceptualism's artist-writers, truly a latter-day Robert Smithson or Dan Graham. -- Tom McDonough, Binghamton University, author of The Situationists and the City: A Reader Read Gillick's book to find the packed sediment of conceptual art discourse undergoing metamorphic transformation-with the marketized artworld's slow heat, dull pressure, and surface torque leaving inevitable traces on an intelligent maker's mind. -- Caroline A. Jones Critical Inquiry Forceful, persuasive and provocative, while Industry and Intelligence will no doubt find purchase as a set text in universities for those studying art history or curatorial studies, it would seem its most urgent readership should be artists themselves, whose struggle has been, and continues to be, one of finding a way to avoid being subsumed completely by the logic of the market: to escape the trap, as Gillick has it, of the 'capitalisation of the mind'. -- Adam Pugh Art MonthlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Creative Disruption in the Age of Soft Revolutions 1. Contemporary Art Does Not Account for That Which Is Taking Place 2. Projection and Parallelism 3. Art as a Pile: Split and Fragmented Simultaneously 4. 1820: Erasmus and Upheaval 5. ASAP Futures, Not Infinite Future 6. 1948: B. F. Skinner and Counter-Revolution 7. Abstract 8. 1963: Herman Kahn and Projection 9. The Complete Curator 10. Maybe It Would Be Better If We Worked in Groups of Three? 11. The Return of the Border 12. 1974: Volvo and the Mise-en-Scene 13. The Experimental Factory 14. Nostalgia for the Group 15. Why Work? Notes Index
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