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  • After Capitalism

    Horizons of Finance, Culture, and Citizenship

    by Kennan Ferguson, Patrice Petro, Geoff Mann, Andrew Ross, Ivan Ascher, Jeffrey Sommers, Sherryl Vint, Marcus Bullock, Esther Leslie0, Cristina Venegas1, Niki Akhavan2, A. Aneesh3, Bernard C. Perley4 ...
    Series series New Directions in International Studies
    From Thomas Piketty to David Harvey, scholars are increasingly questioning whether we are entering into a post-capitalist era. If so, does this new epoch signal the failure of capitalism and emergence of alternative systems? Or does it mark the ultimate triumph of capitalism as it evolves into an unstoppable entity that takes new forms as it engulfs its opposition?After Capitalism brings together ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Joyless Streets

    Women and Melodramatic Representation in Weimar Germany

    by Patrice Petro ...
    Patrice Petro challenges the conventional assessment of German film history, which sees classical films as responding solely to male anxieties and fears. Exploring the address made to women in melodramatic films and in popular illustrated magazines, she shows how Weimar Germany had a commercially viable female audience, fascinated with looking at images that called traditional representations of ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Cinema & Gender

    Edited by Dijana Jelača, Patrice Petro, Kristin Hole, E. Kaplan ...
    Series series Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions
    Comprised of 43 innovative contributions, this companion is both an overview of, and intervention into the field of cinema and gender. The essays included here address a variety of geographical contexts, from an analysis of cinema. Islam and women and television under Eastern European socialism, to female audience reception in Nigeria, to changing class and race norms in Bollywood dance sequences. ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Teaching Film

    by Mark Lynn Anderson, Dudley Andrew, Michael Aronson ...
    Series Book 35 - Options for Teaching
    Film studies has been a part of higher education curricula in the United States almost since the development of the medium. Although the study of film is dispersed across a range of academic departments, programs, and scholarly organizations, film studies has come to be recognized as a field in its own right. In an era when teaching and scholarship are increasingly interdisciplinary, film studies ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Uncanny Histories in Film and Media

    by Peter Bloom, Alenda Chang, Maria Corrigan, Naomi DeCelles, Hannah Goodwin, Priya Jaikumar, Masha Salazkina, Ellen C. Scott, Jasmine Nadua Trice, Cristina Venegas ...
    Series series Media Matters
    Uncanny Histories in Film and Media brings together a stellar lineup of established and emergent scholars who explore the uncanny twists and turns that are often occluded in larger accounts of film and media. Prompted by fresh archival research and new conceptual approaches, the works included here probe the uncanny as a mode of historical analysis that reveals surprising connections and ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • At Translation's Edge

    Translated by Lorena Terando ...
    by Lydia H Liu, John Cayley, Russell Scott Valentino, Naoki Sakai, Deborah Folaron, Margaret A Noodin, Yiman Wang0, Martha Pulido1, Olga Behar2, Elizabeth R Drame3, Suzanne Jill Levine4 ...
    Series series Media Matters
    Since the 1970s, the field of Translation Studies has entered into dialogue with an array of other disciplines, sustaining a close but contentious relationship with literary translation. At Translation’s Edge expands this interdisciplinary dialogue by taking up questions of translation across sub-fields and within disciplines, including film and media studies, comparative literature, history, and ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    Edited by Rosalind Galt, Karl Schoonover ...
    "Art cinema" has for over fifty years defined how audiences and critics imagine film outside Hollywood, but surprisingly little scholarly attention has been paid to the concept since the 1970s. And yet in the last thirty years art cinema has flourished worldwide. The emergence of East Asian and Latin American new waves, the reinvigoration of European film, the success of Iranian directors, and the ... Read more

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  • The SAGE Handbook of Film Studies

    Edited by Michael Renov, James Donald ...
    Written by a team of veteran scholars and exciting emerging talents, The SAGE Handbook of Film Studies maps the field internationally, drawing out regional differences in the way that systematic intellectual reflection on cinema and film has been translated into an academic discipline.It examines the conversations between Film Studies and its contributory disciplines that not only defined a new ... Read more

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  • Weimar Cinema

    An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era

    Edited by Noah Isenberg ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Taken as a whole, the sixteen remarkable films discussed in this provocative new volume of essays represent the brilliant creativity that flourished in the name of German cinema between the wars. Encompassing early gangster pictures and science fiction, avant-garde and fantasy films, sexual intrigues and love stories, the classics of silent cinema and Germany's first talkies, each chapter ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • How To Be Gay

    by David M. Halperin ...
    A pioneer of LGBTQ studies dares to suggest that gayness is a way of being that gay men must learn from one another to become who they are. The genius of gay culture resides in some of its most despised stereotypes—aestheticism, snobbery, melodrama, glamour, caricatures of women, and obsession with mothers—and in the social meaning of style. ... Read more

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  • A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing

    by So Mayer ...
    In 1937 the Nazis staged an exhibition of seized artworks to showcase the 'perverse Jewish spirit' pervading German culture. It contained work by Jewish artists, but also those were queer or foreign. It was an event that sought to define degeneracy and put it on display. This exhibition, Entartete Kunst, is just a single episode in a long running culture war, one that has always been fought on ... Read more

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    Three renowned philosophers discuss the work of Martin Heidegger, and the moral quandary of engaging with a major philosopher who was also a Nazi.In February 1988, philosophers Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe came together in Heidelberg before a large audience to discuss the philosophical and political implications of Martin Heidegger's thought. Heidegger's ... Read more

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