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61. | | Title: Crossing the line: a year in the land of apartheid Author: Finnegan, William Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: African Studies | Politics | Social Problems | Autobiography | Education | African HistoryPublisher's Description: William Finnegan's compelling account of a year spent teaching in a colored high school, "across the line," in Cape Town, South Africa brings the irrationality and injustice of apartheid into focus for the American reader. A new preface, written after the author's observation of the historic 1994 el . . . [more]Matches in book (31):...70 -71, 98 . See also Rural blacks Film censorship, 143 -44 Final exams, 26 ,......48 -49 Reagan, Ronald, 404 Reds (film), 409 Reforms far right and, 60 middle......it was choral societies, picnics, film shows, fund raisers, youth groups. "... Similar Items | 62. | | Title: Dateline Soweto: travels with black South African reporters Author: Finnegan, William Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Media Studies | African Studies | Social Problems | Politics | African HistoryPublisher's Description: Dateline Soweto documents the working lives of black South African reporters caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harrassment, and white editors who - fearing government disapproval - may not print the stories these reporters risk their lives to get. William Finnegan revisited seve . . . [more]Matches in book (21):...cultural landscape. Thousands of books, films, magazines, and plays have been......as was clarified for me by a promotional film made by the paper's advertising......department. The film, which relied on a brusque, technical Mission: Impossible... Similar Items | 63. | | Title: The ultimate art: essays around and about opera Author: Littlejohn, David 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Music | OperaPublisher's Description: Anyone who cares about opera will find The Ultimate Art a thoroughly engaging book. David Littlejohn's essays are exciting, provocative, sometimes even outrageous. They reflect his deep love of opera - that exotic, extravagant, and perpetually popular hybrid performing art form - and his fascination with the many worlds from which it sprang.From its seventeenth-century beginnings, opera has been decried by its detractors for its elitism, its artifice, its absurd costliness, and its social irrelevance. But Littlejohn makes us see that opera embraces an extraordinary amount of intense human emotion and experience, Western culture, and individual psychology. It is also the most complex, challenging, and demanding form of public performance ever developed - at its most spectacular it pulls together in one evening a play, a concert, a ballet, and a pageant, not to mention an exhibition of painting and sculpture. Every opera is a veritable piece of cultural history.The book begins with "The Difference Is They Sing," a potentially controversial essay on the nature of opera and its place in modern culture. From there Littlejohn goes on to consider everything from "Sex and Religion in French Opera" to "What Peter Sellars Did to Mozart." He tells us about every major staging of Wagner's Ring cycle since 1876, the troubled fate (in legend, history, and opera) of the city of Nuremberg, and the volatile collaboration of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal.Littlejohn presents these and many other fascinating moments in the history of opera with conviction and flair. By the end of the book the reader may very well be persuaded that opera is indeed the ultimate art. [brief]Matches in book (22):...The Queen of Spades (Tchaikovsky), 22 Quo Vadis (film), 260......8 Triumph of the Will (Riefensthal film), 200 Troilus and Cressida (Shake-......concerts, TV talk shows, or Woody Allen films than the persisting, in fact the... Similar Items | 64. | | Title: America at century's end Author: Wolfe, Alan 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: American Studies | Ethnic Studies | Sociology | Urban Studies | Politics | Postcolonial StudiesMatches in book (26):...The Vietnam War Resurfaces in Literature and Film, 1977–80......to condemn the viewing of pornographic films as morally wrong. The pattern holds......to the military. The fourth aspect these films share concerns their portrayal of... Similar Items | 65. | | Title: Erotic faculties Author: Frueh, Joanna Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | Art TheoryPublisher's Description: The erotic and the intellectual come together to create a new kind of criticism in the lushly written work of Joanna Frueh. Addressing sexuality in ways that are usually hidden or left unsaid, Frueh - a noted performance artist and art historian - explores subjects such as aging, beauty, love, sex, pleasure, contemporary art, and the body as a site and vehicle of knowledge. Frueh's language is explicit, graphic, fragmented. She assumes multiple voices: those of lover, prophet, daughter, mythmaker, art critic, activist, and bleeding heart. What results is an utterly original narrative that frees us from the false objectivity of traditional critical discourse and affirms the erotic as a way to ease human suffering.Through personal reflection, parody, autobiography, and poetry, Frueh shows us what it means to perform criticism, to personalize critical thinking. Rejecting postmodern, deconstructed prose, she recuperates the sentimental, proudly asserts a romantic viewpoint, and disrupts academic and feminist conventions. Erotic Faculties seeks to free the power of our unutilized erotic faculties and to expand the possibilities of criticism; it is a wild ride and a consummate pleasure. [brief]Matches in book (17):...order." 12. I quote from Rainer's film Privilege . The next paragraph provides......Pantheon, 1978), 27. 13. Laura Mulvey, "Film, Feminism, and the Avant-Garde,"......game, talk, and news shows, Hollywood film, self-help books, checkout counter... Similar Items | 66. | | Title: Latin American vanguards: the art of contentious encounters Author: Unruh, Vicky Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Latin American Studies | Literary Theory and CriticismPublisher's Description: In this first comprehensive study of Latin America's literary vanguards of the 1920s and 1930s, Vicky Unruh explores the movement's provocative and polemic nature. Latin American vanguardism - a precursor to the widely acclaimed work of contemporary Latin American writers - was stimulated by the European avant-garde movements of the World War I era. But as Unruh's wide-ranging study attests, the vanguards of Latin America - emerging from the continent's own historical circumstances - developed a very distinct character and voice.Through manifestos, experimental texts, and ribald public performance, the vanguardists' work intertwined art, culture, and the politics of the day to produce a powerful brand of aesthetic activism, one that sparked an entire rethinking of the meaning of art and culture throughout Latin America. [brief]Matches in book (19):...representations, he noted, "If to film ourselves we count on foreigners, we can......Arnold. Naturalism, Impressionism, the Film Age . Vol. 4 of The Social History......Dada and Surrealist Literature and Film . Durham: Duke UP, 1983. Hernández... Similar Items | 67. | | Title: Reconcilable differences: confronting beauty, pornography, and the future of feminism Author: Chancer, Lynn S 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Gender Studies | Sociology | Women's Studies | Social ProblemsPublisher's Description: This volume examines controversial faultlines in contemporary feminism - pornography, the beauty myth, sadomasochism, prostitution, and the issue of rape - from an original and provocative perspective. Lynn Chancer focuses on how, among many feminists, the concepts of sex and sexism became fragmented and mutually exclusive. Exploring the dichotomy between sex and sexism as it has developed through five current feminist debates, Chancer seeks to forge positions that bridge oppositions between unnecessary (and sometimes unwitting) "either/or" binaries. Chancer's book attempts to incorporate both the need for sexual freedom and the depth of sexist subordination into feminist thought and politics. [brief]Matches in book (23):...State University Press, 1992). 18. I would include films here as well: Lizzie......Borden's Working Girls (Miramax Films, 1988) comes to mind as an example of the......Press, 1992). 18. I would include films here as well: Lizzie Borden's Working... Similar Items | 68. | | Title: Before Taliban: genealogies of the Afghan jihad Author: Edwards, David B Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | South AsiaPublisher's Description: In this powerful book, David B. Edwards traces the lives of three recent Afghan leaders in Afghanistan's history--Nur Muhammad Taraki, Samiullah Safi, and Qazi Amin Waqad--to explain how the promise of progress and prosperity that animated Afghanistan in the 1960s crumbled and became the present tragedy of discord, destruction, and despair. Before Taliban builds on the foundation that Edwards laid in his previous book, Heroes of the Age, in which he examines the lives of three significant figures of the late nineteenth century--a tribal khan, a Muslim saint, and a prince who became king of the newly created state. In the mid twentieth century, Afghans believed their nation could be a model of economic and social development that would inspire the world. Instead, political conflict, foreign invasion, and civil war have left the country impoverished and politically dysfunctional. Each of the men Edwards profiles were engaged in the political struggles of the country's recent history. They hoped to see Afghanistan become a more just and democratic nation. But their visions for their country were radically different, and in the end, all three failed and were killed or exiled. Now, Afghanistan is associated with international terrorism, drug trafficking, and repression. Before Taliban tells these men's stories and provides a thorough analysis of why their dreams for a progressive nation lie in ruins while the Taliban has succeeded. In Edwards's able hands, this culturally informed biography provides a mesmerizing and revealing look into the social and cultural contexts of political change. [brief]Matches in book (22):...C . 1999 . Lawrence of Arabia: A Film’s Anthropology. Berkeley: University of......scrutiny ever since David Lean’s 1962 film portrayed Lawrence as a politically......after my arrival in Afghanistan. The film was titled Naim and Jabar, and it was... Similar Items | 69. | | Title: Culture and power in Banaras: community, performance, and environment, 1800-1980 Author: Freitag, Sandria B Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Asian Studies | South Asia | Asian History | Cultural Anthropology | Postcolonial StudiesPublisher's Description: This collection of ten essays on Banaras, one of the largest urban centers in India's eastern Gangetic plain, is united by a common interest in examining everyday activities in order to learn about shared values and motivations, processes of identity formation, and self-conscious constructions of community. Part One examines the performance genres that have drawn audiences from throughout the city. Part Two focuses on the areas of neighborhood, leisure, and work, examining the processes by which urban residents use a sense of identity to organize their activities and bring meaning to their lives. Part Three links these experiences within Banaras to a series of "larger worlds," ranging from language movements and political protests to disease ecology and regional environmental impact. Banaras is a complex world, with differences in religion, caste, class, language, and popular culture; the diversity of these essays embraces those differences. It is a collection that will interest scholars and students of South Asia as well as anyone interested in comparative discussions of popular culture. [brief]Matches in book (20):...enthusiasm with which they trade film videos. Yet there is another dimension......stories and tunes now imitate Bombay films rather than old ballads. 2 Specifics......of both Parsi theatre and popular films. But for modern Hindi drama the results... Similar Items | 70. | | Title: Jewel of the desert: Japanese American internment at Topaz Author: Taylor, Sandra C Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Asian American Studies | American StudiesPublisher's Description: In the spring of 1942, under the guise of "military necessity," the U.S. government evacuated 110,000 Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast. About 7,000 people from the San Francisco Bay Area - the vast majority of whom were American citizens - were moved to an assembly center at Tanforan Racetrack and then to a concentration camp in Topaz, Utah. Dubbed the "jewel of the desert," the camp remained in operation until October 1945. This compelling book tells the history of Japanese Americans of San Francisco and the Bay Area, and of their experiences of relocation and internment.Sandra C. Taylor first examines the lives of the Japanese Americans who settled in and around San Francisco near the end of the nineteenth century. As their numbers grew, so, too, did their sense of community. They were a people bound together not only by common values, history, and institutions, but also by their shared status as outsiders. Taylor looks particularly at how Japanese Americans kept their sense of community and self-worth alive in spite of the upheavals of internment.The author draws on interviews with fifty former Topaz residents, and on the archives of the War Relocation Authority and newspaper reports, to show how relocation and its aftermath shaped the lives of these Japanese Americans. Written at a time when the United States once again regards Japan as a threat, Taylor's study testifies to the ongoing effects of prejudice toward Americans whose face is also the face of "the enemy." [brief]Matches in book (17):...4, 1987; "Background to Topaz Films," statement prepared by Dave Tatsuno, in the......15. Ibid. 16. Ibid. 17. Tatsuno's film of Topaz was used extensively by Ken......checks were mailed. The original film was donated to the Japanese American... Similar Items | 71. | | Title: Victorian literature and the Victorian visual imagination Author: Christ, Carol T Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | Art History | English Literature | Victorian History | Literary Theory and CriticismPublisher's Description: Nineteenth-century British culture frequently represented the eye as the preeminent organ of truth. These essays explore the relationship between the verbal and the visual in the Victorian imagination. They range broadly over topics that include the relationship of optical devices to the visual imagination, the role of photography in changing the conception of evidence and truth, the changing partnership between illustrator and novelist, and the ways in which literary texts represent the visual. Together they begin to construct a history of seeing in the Victorian period. [brief]Matches in book (19):...1. Sergei Eisenstein, ''Dickens, Griffith, and the Film Today,"......in Film Form (New York: Harcourt, 1949), 232-33. 2. According to Christian Metz,......television production, and film. 4. Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of... Similar Items | 72. | | Title: Saving the earth: the history of a middle-class millenarian movement Author: Gelber, Steven M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | ChristianityMatches in book (20):...Initiative used two other media, films and radio, to educate the general public......during the 1970s. The first films were put together as part of the 1968 meeting......project had a brief life, the use of films to communicate the movement's ideas... Similar Items | 73. | | Title: The play of time: Kodi perspectives on calendars, history, and exchange Author: Hoskins, Janet Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Southeast AsiaPublisher's Description: Janet Hoskins provides both an ethnographic study of the organization of time in an Eastern Indonesian society and a theoretical argument about alternate temporalities in the modern world. Based on more than three years of field work with the Kodi people of the island of Sumba, her book focuses on Kodi calendrical rituals, exchange transactions, and confrontations with the historical forces of the colonial and postcolonial world. Hoskins explores the contingent, contested, and often contradictory precedent of the past to show how local systems of knowledge are in dialogue with wider historical forces.Arguing that traditional temporality is more complex than many theorists have realized, Hoskins highlights the flexibility and relativity of local time concepts, whose sophistication belies the cliche of simple societies living in a world outside of time. [brief]Matches in book (16):...Reflections After the Fact: Comments on the Film......to study ritual communication, using film and video, supported by the Faculty......Center for Visual Anthropology, and the film-making example set by Tim and Patsy... Similar Items | 74. | | Title: China's continuous revolution: the post-liberation epoch, 1949-1981 Author: Dittmer, Lowell Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Asian StudiesMatches in book (20):...Press, 1973. Weakland, John. "Chinese Film Images of Invasion and Resistance."......1223. Moreover, about seventy foreign films were imported for exhibition and "......the Nile"—which became the most popular film in China—"Cabaret," "The Sound of... Similar Items | 75. | | Title: Reading Sappho: contemporary approaches Author: Greene, Ellen 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literary Theory and Criticism | PoetryPublisher's Description: Reading Sappho considers Sappho's poetry as a powerful, influential voice in the Western cultural tradition. Essays are divided into four sections: "Language and Literary Context," "Homer and Oral Tradition", "Ritual and Social Context", and "Women's Erotics". Contributors focus on literary history, mythic traditions, cultural studies, performance studies, recent work in feminist theory, and more.A legendary literary figure, Sappho has attracted readers, critics, and biographers ever since she composed poems on the island of Lesbos at the close of the seventh century B.C. Bringing together some of the best recent criticism on the subject, this volume, together with Re-Reading Sappho , represents the first anthology of Sappho scholarship, drawing attention to Sappho's importance as a poet and reflecting the diversity of critical approaches in classical and literary scholarship during the last several decades. [brief]Matches in book (17):...Ann. The Desire to Desire: The Woman's Film of the 1940s . Bloomington: Indiana......ed. Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology: A Film Theory Reader . New York: Columbia......In Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology: A Film Theory Reader , edited by Phillip... Similar Items | 76. | | Title: The American musical landscape Author: Crawford, Richard 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Music | Musicology | American Studies | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: In this refreshingly direct and engaging historical treatment of American music and musicology, Richard Crawford argues for the recognition of the distinct and vital character of American music. What is that character? How has musical life been supported in the United States and how have Americans understood their music? Exploring the conditions within which music has been made since the time of the American Revolution, Crawford suggests some answers to these questions.Surveying the history of several musical professions in the United States - composing, performing, teaching, and distributing music - Crawford highlights the importance of where the money for music comes from and where it goes. This economic context is one of his book's key features and gives a real-life view that is both fascinating and provocative. Crawford discusses interconnections between classical and popular music, using New England psalmody, nineteenth-century songs, Duke Ellington, and George Gershwin to illustrate his points.Because broad cultural forces are included in this unique study, anyone interested in American history and American Studies will find it as appealing as will students and scholars of American music. [brief]Matches in book (19):...from Custerville, Arizona. Vincent Minelli's film, An American in Paris (1951),......force in the entertainment industry, film studios were buying music publishing......summer of that year, Warner Brothers film studios bought the Harms empire for $... Similar Items | 77. | | Title: A sheep's song: a writer's reminiscences of Japan and the world Author: Katō, Shūichi 1919- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature | Asian History | Japan | Autobiographies and BiographiesPublisher's Description: This critically acclaimed autobiography was an instant bestseller in Japan, where it has gone through more than forty printings since its first publication. Cultural critic, literary historian, novelist, poet, and physician, Kato Shuichi reconstructs his dramatic spiritual and intellectual journey from the militarist era of prewar Japan to the dynamic postwar landscapes of Japan and Europe. This fluid translation of A Sheep's Song captures Kato's unique voice and brings his insightful interpretation of modern Japan and its tumultuous relations with the outside world to English-speaking readers for the first time.Kato describes his youthful interest in the natural sciences as well as in Japanese and Western literatures - from the Man'yoshu to Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Baudelaire, Valéry, and Proust. Turning to the rise of Japanese fascism in the late 1930s, he recalls his rebellion against the jingoistic political atmosphere of the time. The chapters on the war and its aftermath include experiences of Hiroshima shortly after the bombing and the often tragicomic encounters between the defeated Japanese nation and the American Occupation forces. Throughout, memories of his wide-ranging literary career and broad experiences in Europe as a student, traveler, and cultural observer are punctuated by his unique perspectives on the relation between imagination, art, and politics.A postscript written especially for the English-language edition discusses the Vietnam War, the subsequent transformation of Japan, the cultures and societies of Europe, the United States, and China, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. [brief]Matches in book (23):...on Chen Kaige and Jean Marboeuf's films to contemplations on the kyogen *......Picasso, and others. • His essays on film artists and no * performers are......Sengo no Furansu eiga" (Postwar French films); July: "Sarutoru no ichizuke" (... Similar Items | 78. | | Title: Bolshevik festivals, 1917-1920 Author: Von Geldern, James Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | European Literature | Russian and Eastern European StudiesPublisher's Description: In the early years of the USSR, socialist festivals - events entailing enormous expense and the deployment of thousands of people - were inaugurated by the Bolsheviks. Avant-garde canvases decorated the streets, workers marched, and elaborate mass spectacles were staged. Why, with a civil war raging and an economy in ruins, did the regime sponsor such spectacles?In this first comprehensive investigation of the way festivals helped build a new political culture, James von Geldern examines the mass spectacles that captured the Bolsheviks' historical vision. Spectacle directors borrowed from a tradition that included tsarist pomp, avant-garde theater, and popular celebrations. They transformed the ideology of revolution into a mythologized sequence of events that provided new foundations for the Bolsheviks' claim to power. [brief]Matches in book (13):...Many thanks to Alma Law for making this film available. 64. This definition is......A History of the Russian and Soviet Film . New York: Macmillan, 1960. Life as......that the "spontaneous event" was recorded on film: see A. Levitskii, Rasskazy o... Similar Items | 79. | | Title: Technology and scholarly communication Author: Ekman, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Media Studies | Technology and Society | Library Science | Reference | Economics and Business | Electronic MediaPublisher's Description: Electronic publishing has been gaining ground in recent years and is now a recognized part of the digital world. In the most comprehensive assessment of electronic publishing to date, thirty-one scholars, librarians, and publishers focus specifically on scholarly publishing. They analyze a number of case studies and offer original insights on a range of topics, including the financial costs involved, market forces, appropriate technological standards, licensing issues, intellectual property, copyright and associated user rights, and the changing roles of researchers, publishers, and librarians.The editors begin with an overview of scholarly communication and develop a novel interpretation of the important role that technology now plays. Many of the following chapters are based on actual electronic publishing projects in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, so the evidence and data are drawn from real-life experiences. Of special value are the attempts to measure costs and patterns of usage of electronic publishing and digital libraries.Electronic publishing has moved well past the experimental stage, and with numerous projects under way this seems an appropriate time to assess its impact on the academic world, from teaching to research to administration. [brief]Matches in book (21):...Van Alstyne, Marshall, 360 Vatican Film Library, 348 , 350 vendors and......of the broad range of paper- and film-based research materials-including......to discourage product comparisons. One film scanner, for instance, may be... Similar Items | 80. | | Title: Border correspondent: selected writings, 1955-1970 Author: Salazar, Ruben 1928- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | Latino Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | United States History | Media Studies | American StudiesPublisher's Description: This first major collection of former Los Angeles Times reporter and columnist Ruben Salazar's writings, is a testament to his pioneering role in the Mexican American community, in journalism, and in the evolution of race relations in the U.S. Taken together, the articles serve as a documentary history of the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and of the changing perspective of the nation as a whole.Since his tragic death while covering the massive Chicano antiwar moratorium in Los Angeles on August 29, 1970, Ruben Salazar has become a legend in the Chicano community. As a reporter and later as a columnist for the Los Angeles Times , Salazar was the first journalist of Mexican American background to cross over into the mainstream English-language press. He wrote extensively on the Mexican American community and served as a foreign correspondent in Latin America and Vietnam. This first major collection of Salazar's writing is a testament to his pioneering role in the Mexican American community, in journalism, and in the evolution of race relations in the United States. Taken together, the articles serve as a documentary history of the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and of the changing perspective of the nation as a whole. Border Correspondent presents selections from each period of Salazar's career. The stories and columns document a growing frustration with the Kennedy administration, a young César Chávez beginning to organize farm workers, the Vietnam War, and conflict between police and community in East Los Angeles. One of the first to take investigative journalism into the streets and jails, Salazar's first-hand accounts of his experiences with drug users and police, ordinary people and criminals, make compelling reading.Mario García's introduction provides a biographical sketch of Salazar and situates him in the context of American journalism and Chicano history. [brief]Matches in book (11):...Che," 4 , 181 , 207 Guns for San Sebastian (film), 177 Gutierrez, Felix, 220 -21......Mexican-Americans were employed in motion pictures, television film productions......and television film pilots during the quarter period ending Oct. 30, 1968, as... Similar Items |
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