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| 181. |  | Title: Letters and autobiographical writings  Author: Mills, C. Wright (Charles Wright) 1916-1962 Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Sociology | Literature | United States History | Letters Publisher's Description: One of the leading public intellectuals of twentieth-century America and a pioneering and brilliant social scientist, C. Wright Mills left a legacy of interdisciplinary and hard-hitting work including two books that changed the way many people viewed their lives and the structure of power in the Uni . . . [more] Matches in book (6): ...on a new civilian course called PRINT, FILM, AND RADIO which I give. It's on the... Similar Items...Have developed 6 or 7 rolls of summer film and printed perfunctorily. I've not... ...me. It is like one of the German films of the early 1920's in Innsbruck these... |
| 182. |  | Title: The feminine sublime: gender and excess in women's fiction Author: Freeman, Barbara Claire Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: The Feminine Sublime provides a new and startling insight into the modes and devices employed in the creation of women's fiction since the eighteenth century. Barbara Claire Freeman argues that traditional theorizations of the sublime depend upon unexamined assumptions about femininity and sexual di . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...Stranded Objects: Mourning, Memory, and Film in Postwar Germany [Ithaca: Cornell... Similar Items...Objects: Mourning, Memory, and Film in Postwar Germany, 184 n. 63 Sappho:... ...Stranded Objects: Mourning, Memory, and Film in Postwar Germany (Santner), 184... |
| 183. |  | Title: Power and illness: the failure and future of American health policy Author: Fox, Daniel M Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology | Medicine | History | American Studies | United States History Publisher's Description: During most of this century, American health policy has emphasized caring for acute conditions rather than preventing and managing chronic illness - even though chronic illness has caused most sickness and death since the 1920s. In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Daniel Fox explains why this . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...the press briefing, Hench showed a film of patients before and after treatment.... Similar Items...him, described the miracle and showed the film to a committee of Congress. Even... ...veterans. The Best Years of Our Lives, a film that won several Oscars in 1946,... |
| 184. |  | Title: The snow lion and the dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama Author: Goldstein, Melvyn C Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Politics | Asian History | China | Cultural Anthropology | Tibet Publisher's Description: Tensions over the "Tibet Question" - the political status of Tibet - are escalating every day. The Dalai Lama has gained broad international sympathy in his appeals for autonomy from China, yet the Chinese government maintains a hard-line position against it. What is the history of the conflict? Can . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...that the Dalai Lama had already worked with a BBC film crew doing a piece on the... Similar Items...Lama, creating incontrovertible film evidence that he had done the confirming... |
| 185. |  | Title: From the royal to the republican body: incorporating the political in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France Author: Melzer, Sara E Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies | European Literature | Cinema and Performance Arts | Politics Publisher's Description: In this innovative volume, leading scholars examine the role of the body as a primary site of political signification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. Some essays focus on the sacralization of the king's body through a gendered textual and visual rhetoric. Others show how the monarchy . . . [more] Matches in book (5): ...The Rise to Power of Louis XIV , a film that has served to anchor many clichés,... Similar Items...with the release of the biographical film Tous les matins du monde . 39 Most of... ...recently attracted attention from film and literary critics and art historians... |
| 186. |  | Title: In the shadow of the eagles: Sonora and the transformation of the border during the Porfiriato Author: Tinker Salas, Miguel Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | United States History | Latin American Studies | Ethnic Studies | California and the West Publisher's Description: In the Shadow of the Eagles considers the historical roots of Mexican border society. The Mexican northwest, and Sonora in particular, has often captured the public's imagination; it has been portrayed as a region of untold mineral wealth, insurgent Apaches and Yaquis, self-reliant cowboys, miners, . . . [more] Matches in book (6): ...94 , 95 , 102 , 107 Filipinos, 224 films, 222 Flipper, Henry Ossian, 169 flour,... Similar Items...such as the phonographs and silent films, also found their way to Sonora.... ...already owned a phonograph. 156 Film exhibitions also reached broad numbers of... |
| 187. |  | Title: The oceans, their physics, chemistry, and general biology Author: Sverdrup, H. U. (Harald Ulrik) 1888-1957 Published: Prentice-Hall, 1942 Subjects: Matches in book (7): ...J. 1935 . On the diatoms of the skin film of whales, and their possible bearing... Similar Items...as algal slime, contribute to primary film formation that leads to an eventual... ...of the two disks are photographed on a film that is advanced by clockwork. The... |
| 188. |  | Title: Green thoughts, green shades: essays by contemporary poets on the early modern lyric Author: Post, Jonathan F. S 1947- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature | Poetry | Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: Green Thoughts, Green Shades is a strikingly original book, the first and only of its kind. Edited and introduced by noted seventeenth-century scholar Jonathan Post, it enlists the analytic and verbal power of some of today's most celebrated poets to illuminate from the inside out a number of the gr . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...worlds after all. Still, there is one film script I can imagine imagining, and... Similar Items...for a certain reconstruction in the film script. Mostly abroadfrom 1643 through... ...to the heterosexuality of certain stag films noted by Thomas Waugh in Hard to... |
| 189. |  | Title: Native and newcomer: making and remaking a Japanese city Author: Robertson, Jennifer Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Japan | Asian History | Urban Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This expertly crafted ethnography examines the ways in which native and new citizens of Kodaira, a Tokyo suburb, have both remade the past and imagined the future of their city in a quest for an "authentic" Japanese community. Matches in book (4): ...Technologies of gender: Essays on theory, film and fiction. Bloomington: Indiana... Similar Items...hall staff members also make a video film of each year's citizens' festival.... ...virtues of furusato. Similarly, the film Furusato, released in 1983, juxtaposed... |
| 190. |  | Title: The possessed and the dispossessed: spirits, identity, and power in a Madagascar migrant town Author: Sharp, Lesley Alexandra Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Medical Anthropology | Women's Studies | Indigenous Religions Publisher's Description: This finely drawn portrait of a complex, polycultural urban community in Madagascar emphasizes the role of spirit medium healers, a group heretofore seen as having little power. These women, Leslie Sharp argues, are far from powerless among the peasants and migrant laborers who work the land in this . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...1989. Tromba Possession by Spirits. Film made for the American Museum of Natural... Similar Items...Nature of Music Series. A Harcourt Films Production with R. M. Arts and Channel... ...great anxiety over the scene in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey when the... |
| 191. |  | Title: The rise of a party-state in Kenya: from "Harambee" to "Nyayo!" Author: Widner, Jennifer A Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | African Studies Publisher's Description: Although Kenya is often considered an African success story, its political climate became increasingly repressive under its second president, Daniel arap Moi. Widner charts the transformation of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) from a weak, loosely organized political party under Jomo Kenyatt . . . [more] Matches in book (5): ...by appearing in public and on newsreel film with a former "Field Marshal" in... Similar Items...together, and in 1985 Kubai recalled on film for Grenada Television the Mau Mau... ...philosophy, and censorship of print and film media. James Njiru, a longtime... |
| 192. |  | Title: Tobacco war: inside the California battles Author: Glantz, Stanton A Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: American Studies | California and the West | Public Policy | Politics | Social Problems | Economics and Business | Medicine | Environmental Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: Tobacco War charts the dramatic and complex history of tobacco politics in California over the past quarter century. Beginning with the activities of a small band of activists who, in the 1970s, put forward the radical notion that people should not have to breathe second-hand tobacco smoke, Stanton . . . [more] Matches in book (5): ...not discuss the liberation of the film Death in the West , which Philip Morris... Similar Items...sequel, The Empire Strikes Back. The film was immensely popular and attracted... ...to another, and he had finally gotten film credits on this movie, To Live and... |
| 193. |  | Title: Luminous debris: reflecting on vestige in Provence and Languedoc Author: Sobin, Gustaf Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Literature | Cultural Anthropology | European Studies | Ancient History | Philosophy | French Studies Publisher's Description: Interpreting vestige with the eloquence of a poet and the knowledge of a field archaeologist, Gustaf Sobin explores his elected terrain: the landscapes of Provence and Languedoc. Drawing on prehistory, protohistory, and Gallo-Roman antiquity, the twenty-six essays in this book focus on a particular . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...tumbles into the empty well of the film canister. Pure materialization of an... Similar Items...themselves but also lay a thin sedimentary film across the vestiges that's still... ...another—into the well of some empty film canister. We could become so engrossed... |
| 194. |  | Title: The promise of the city: space, identity, and politics in contemporary social thought Author: Tajbakhsh, Kian 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Urban Studies | Sociology | Popular Culture | Social Theory | Geography | Politics Publisher's Description: The Promise of the City proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh offers a threefold, interdisciplinary approach linking agency, space, and structu . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...outside” the locale, in television, film, and music videos, could in many cases... Similar Items...the surface of a text (social, urban, film, biological) harbors a deficiency and... ...discourses such as music, video, and film, in “concrete” practices such as the... |
| 195. |  | Title: Reflections of an American composer Author: Berger, Arthur 1912- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music | American Music | Classical Music | Contemporary Music | Composers | Musicology Publisher's Description: In this engrossing collection of essays, distinguished composer, theorist, journalist, and educator Arthur Berger invites us into the vibrant and ever-changing American music scene that has been his home for most of the twentieth century. Witty, urbane, and always entertaining, Berger describes the . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...we encounter it reflected innumberless film scores and much TV background music... Similar Items...Citizen Kane and Alfred Hitchcock films, wassuch that Copland could not refuse... ...account of a concert of Copland's film music: “Poignancy and Bombast in Film... |
| 196. |  | Title: St. Teresa of Avila: author of a heroic life Author: Slade, Carole Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Women's Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: With few exceptions, representations of Renaissance women were created by men. The Spanish saint, Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), who chose to represent herself, was one of those exceptions. What prompted her to write Book of Her Life, Interior Castle , and other works? What does the self-portrait of t . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction . Bloomington: Indiana University... Similar Items...of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction (Bloomington: Indiana University... ...flailing as helplessly as the silent film heroine tied to the track before an... |
| 197. |  | Title: Men, women, and God(s): Nawal El Saadawi and Arab feminist poetics Author: Malti-Douglas, Fedwa Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | Middle Eastern Studies | Gender Studies | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Men, Women, and God(s) is a pioneering study of the Arab world's leading feminist and most controversial woman writer, Nawal El Saadawi. Author of plays, memoirs, and such novels as Woman at Point Zero and The Innocence of the Devil , El Saadawi has become well known in the West as well as in the Ar . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...Eber (London: Methuen, 1991). The film, directed by Hasan al-Imâm, appeared in... Similar Items...The Algerian Francophone novelist and film director Assia Djebar, for instance,... ...especially alone, is problematic. Films reinforce this: in the popular Hikâyatî... |
| 198. |  | Title: Leningrad: shaping a Soviet city Author: Ruble, Blair A 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Russian and Eastern European Studies | European History Publisher's Description: Throughout much of this century, cities around the world have sought to gain control over their urban destinies through concerted government action. Nowhere has this process of state intervention gone further than in the Soviet Union. This volume explores the ways in which local and regional politic . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...Saksin Expert: Iu. A. Ponomarev Film: A. Ia. Vitol' Flood Control Construction:... Similar Items...205 , 209 , 277 n76 Feudalism, 7 Films, 11 Finland, 6 , 45 , 50 , 73 , 142 , 166... ...services, hotels, public dining, film production, TV and radio broadcasting,... |
| 199. |  | Title: Golden inches: the China memoir of Grace Service Author: Service, Grace 1879-1954 Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Autobiographies and Biographies | Christianity | Asian History | China Matches in book (5): ...late, for Bob felt he had to develop film before he slept. The next day was... Similar Items...The Y had a portable projector and films selected and circulated by the National... ...Bob would supply the projector and film; and the foreigners on the South Bank... |
| 200. |  | Title: Familia: migration and adaptation in Baja and Alta California, 1800-1975 Author: Alvarez, Robert R Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Demography | Latin American History | Latin American Studies | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Anthropologists, historians, and sociologists will find here a striking challenge to accepted explanations of the northward movement of migrants from Mexico into the United States. Alvarez investigates the life histories of pioneer migrants and their offspring, finding a human dimension to migration . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...text is considered alongside the films The Trail North and The Lemon Grove... Similar Items...through KPBS-TV, San Diego). The first film depicts Alvarez with his son on... ...familia members. Taken together, the films and the text provide a vivid portrait... |