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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 History Publisher'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 ,... Similar Items...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. "... |
| 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 History Publisher'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... Similar Items...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... |
| 63. |  | Title: The ultimate art: essays around and about opera Author: Littlejohn, David 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Music | Opera Publisher'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 . . . [more] Matches in book (22): ...The Queen of Spades (Tchaikovsky), 22 Quo Vadis (film), 260... Similar Items...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... |
| 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 Studies Matches in book (26): ...The Vietnam War Resurfaces in Literature and Film, 1977–80... Similar Items...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... |
| 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 Theory Publisher'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, . . . [more] Matches in book (17): ...order." 12. I quote from Rainer's film Privilege . The next paragraph provides... Similar Items...Pantheon, 1978), 27. 13. Laura Mulvey, "Film, Feminism, and the Avant-Garde,"... ...game, talk, and news shows, Hollywood film, self-help books, checkout counter... |
| 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 Criticism Publisher'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 Eur . . . [more] Matches in book (19): ...representations, he noted, "If to film ourselves we count on foreigners, we can... Similar Items...Arnold. Naturalism, Impressionism, the Film Age . Vol. 4 of The Social History... ...Dada and Surrealist Literature and Film . Durham: Duke UP, 1983. Hernández... |
| 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 Problems Publisher'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 fragmente . . . [more] Matches in book (23): ...State University Press, 1992). 18. I would include films here as well: Lizzie... Similar Items...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... |
| 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 Asia Publisher'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 tra . . . [more] Matches in book (22): ...C . 1999 . Lawrence of Arabia: A Film’s Anthropology. Berkeley: University of... Similar Items...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... |
| 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 Studies Publisher'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 co . . . [more] Matches in book (20): ...enthusiasm with which they trade film videos. Yet there is another dimension... Similar Items...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... |
| 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 Studies Publisher'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 Tan . . . [more] Matches in book (17): ...4, 1987; "Background to Topaz Films," statement prepared by Dave Tatsuno, in the... Similar Items...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... |
| 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 Criticism Publisher'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 imag . . . [more] Matches in book (19): ...1. Sergei Eisenstein, ''Dickens, Griffith, and the Film Today,"... Similar Items...in Film Form (New York: Harcourt, 1949), 232-33. 2. According to Christian Metz,... ...television production, and film. 4. Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of... |
| 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 | Christianity Matches in book (20): ...Initiative used two other media, films and radio, to educate the general public... Similar Items...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... |
| 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 Asia Publisher'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 K . . . [more] Matches in book (16): ...Reflections After the Fact: Comments on the Film... Similar Items...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... |
| 74. |  | Title: China's continuous revolution: the post-liberation epoch, 1949-1981 Author: Dittmer, Lowell Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Asian Studies Matches in book (20): ...Press, 1973. Weakland, John. "Chinese Film Images of Invasion and Resistance."... Similar Items...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... |
| 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 | Poetry Publisher'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, . . . [more] Matches in book (17): ...Ann. The Desire to Desire: The Woman's Film of the 1940s . Bloomington: Indiana... Similar Items...ed. Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology: A Film Theory Reader . New York: Columbia... ...In Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology: A Film Theory Reader , edited by Phillip... |
| 76. |  | Title: The American musical landscape Author: Crawford, Richard 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Music | Musicology | American Studies | United States History Publisher'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 u . . . [more] Matches in book (19): ...from Custerville, Arizona. Vincent Minelli's film, An American in Paris (1951),... Similar Items...force in the entertainment industry, film studios were buying music publishing... ...summer of that year, Warner Brothers film studios bought the Harms empire for $... |
| 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 Biographies Publisher'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 f . . . [more] Matches in book (23): ...on Chen Kaige and Jean Marboeuf's films to contemplations on the kyogen *... Similar Items...Picasso, and others. • His essays on film artists and no * performers are... ...Sengo no Furansu eiga" (Postwar French films); July: "Sarutoru no ichizuke" (... |
| 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 Studies Publisher'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 . . . [more] Matches in book (13): ...Many thanks to Alma Law for making this film available. 64. This definition is... Similar Items...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... |
| 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 Media Publisher'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 . . . [more] Matches in book (21): ...Van Alstyne, Marshall, 360 Vatican Film Library, 348 , 350 vendors and... Similar Items...of the broad range of paper- and film-based research materials-including... ...to discourage product comparisons. One film scanner, for instance, may be... |
| 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 Studies Publisher'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 hist . . . [more] Matches in book (11): ...Che," 4 , 181 , 207 Guns for San Sebastian (film), 177 Gutierrez, Felix, 220 -21... Similar Items...Mexican-Americans were employed in motion pictures, television film productions... ...and television film pilots during the quarter period ending Oct. 30, 1968, as... |