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81.	Requires cookie*	Title: Listen to the heron's words: reimagining gender and kinship in North India Author: Raheja, Gloria Goodwin 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Folklore and Mythology \| Women's Studies \| South Asia Publisher's Description: In many South Asian oral traditions, herons are viewed as duplicitous and conniving. These traditions tend also to view women as fragmented identities, dangerously split between virtue and virtuosity, between loyalties to their own families and those of their husbands. In women's songs, however, sym . . . [more] Matches in book (14): ...193 Fernandez, James, 93 , 105 Film music, 189 -90, 190 n. 8, 191 Flueckiger,... ...historicity of, 187 -89; impact of film music on, 190 -91, 191 n. 8; performance... ...of them—drawn from gossip, fiction, films, and occasionally anthropology—were at... Similar Items
82.	Requires cookie*	Title: Foregone conclusions: against apocalyptic history Author: Bernstein, Michael André 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy \| Jewish Studies \| Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: Michael André Bernstein's passionate denunciation of apocalyptic thinking provides a moral, philosophical, and literary challenge to the way most of us make sense of our worlds. In our search for coherence, Bernstein argues, we tend to see our lives as moving toward a predetermined fate. This "fores . . . [more] Matches in book (11): ...Clara/Klara, 17 , 18 , 19 , 60 Hitler: Ein Film aus Deutschland (Syberberg), 19... ...120 , 123 -24. See also Literature Film: Schirk's, 52 ; Syberberg's, 19 Fine,... ...and rhetoric as, for example, a film like Hans Jürgen Syberberg's Hitler: Ein... Similar Items
83.	Requires cookie*	Title: The persistence of memory: organism, myth, text Author: Kuberski, Philip Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: While memory is one of the most fascinating faculties of consciousness, it is also one of the most mysterious. Is it memory - our own marvelous personal computer or data base - that brings us the intense feelings prompted by a certain object or situation?Drawing on an expansive array of sources, fro . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...Principle and the Ideogram," translated by Jay Leyda, in Film Forum:... ...Essays in Film Theory (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1949), 29, 32-34, 65.... ...dreams. According to Eisenstein, film was founded on the "copulation (perhaps we... Similar Items
84.	Requires cookie*	Title: Licensing entertainment: the elevation of novel reading in Britain, 1684-1750 Author: Warner, William Beatty Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature \| European History \| Print Media \| English Literature Publisher's Description: Novels have been a respectable component of culture for so long that it is difficult for twentieth-century observers to grasp the unease produced by novel reading in the eighteenth century. William Warner shows how the earliest novels in Britain, published in small-format print media, provoked early . . . [more] Matches in book (15): ...ending of more than one Hollywood film entertainment. 12 See, for example, the... ...Blade Runner (1982). Like Hitchcock's films, Fielding's novels have developed a... ...types of cultural production (such as film, television, photography, video, and... Similar Items
85.	Requires cookie*	Title: A simple matter of salt: an ethnography of nutritional deficiency in Spain Author: Fernandez, Renate Lellep Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology \| Medical Anthropology Matches in book (13): ...6. Earth without Bread is usually listed in university film catalog headings... ...as art or film history. A well-... ...travel literature kindly viewed the film with me and saw it as surrealist (Mary... Similar Items
86.	Requires cookie*	Title: Judgement in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist century Author: Lahav, Pnina 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Law \| History Publisher's Description: Simon Agranat (1906-1992) was the third chief justice of the Israeli Supreme Court and a founding father of Israeli law. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, and educated at the University of Chicago, Agranat brought U.S. progressivism and constitutionalism to Israeli legal soil. Agranat laid the foundatio . . . [more] Matches in book (13): ...Nahisi v. Herzliya, 280 –81n19 Noah Films Ltd.... ...v. Film and Theatre Censorship Board, 309 –10n1, 311 n5... ...told Claude Lanzmann, creator of the film Shoah, that "If you could lick my... Similar Items
87.	Requires cookie*	Title: California riparian systems: ecology, conservation, and productive management Author: Warner, Richard E Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| California and the West Publisher's Description: This volume presents 135 of the papers presented at the 1981 California Riparian Systems Conference. The papers address all aspects of riparian systems: habitat, wildlife, land management, land use policy planning, conservation and water resource management. Matches in book (11): ...Film... ...Two film types were used for this study: 70mm. Kodak Ektachrome MS, Type 2448;... ...for commercial activities, such as films and fairs, only if such uses do not... Similar Items
88.	Requires cookie*	Title: Out of Eden: essays on modern art Author: Di Piero, W. S Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Art \| Art Criticism Publisher's Description: Out of Eden presents the rigorous investigations and musings of a poet-essayist on the ways in which modern artists have confronted and transfigured the realist tradition of representation. Di Piero pursues his theme with an autobiographical force and immediacy. He fixes his attention on painters an . . . [more] Matches in book (11): ...whose essence he sought to expose on film—trees are blanched, solarized to... ...into yourself. The images, their paint films eroded and cracked by lighting and... ...pie cost fifteen cents, Frank would film a documentary of a Rolling Stones tour,... Similar Items
89.	Requires cookie*	Title: State and intellectual in imperial Japan: the public man in crisis Author: Barshay, Andrew E Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| Japan \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: In this superbly written and eminently readable narrative, Andrew E. Barshay presents the contrasting lives of Nanbara Shigeru (1889-1974) and Hasegawa Nyoze-kan (1875-1969), illuminating the complex predicament of modern Japanese intellectuals and their relation to state and society.Following the M . . . [more] Matches in book (14): ...Cinegraph: Lexikon zum deutschsprachigen Film . Munich: edition text + kritik,... ...title was Die Tochter des Samurai . The film was made at the invitation of the... ...Ministry of Culture as part of a film exchange program. Fanck himself was noted... Similar Items
90.	Requires cookie*	Title: Discrepant dislocations: feminism, theory, and postcolonial histories Author: John, Mary E 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Anthropology \| Postcolonial Studies \| South Asia \| Politics Publisher's Description: Mary E. John investigates the metaphor of dislocation within and across two specific "locations" - the United States and India - in this epistemological inquiry into the production of theory in general and the grounds of feminist ethnography in particular. She probes a set of distinct but related th . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...when a U.S. third-world member makes a film about other third-world peoples. 75.... ...Technologies of Gender, Essays on Theory, Film and Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana... ...Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction (Bloomington, Ind. :... Similar Items
91.	Requires cookie*	Title: The wrestler's body: identity and ideology in north India Author: Alter, Joseph S Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology \| South Asia Publisher's Description: The Wrestler's Body tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic. Using the insights of anthropology, Joseph Alter writes . . . [more] Matches in book (15): ...loudspeakers broadcasting popular film songs and praises to the gods all blend... ...is, therefore, the brahmachari’s watchword. Films and magazines must be avoided.... ...clothes. Devotional hymns and popular film tunes are played over rented public-... Similar Items
92.	Requires cookie*	Title: Dedication to hunger: the anorexic aesthetic in modern culture Author: Heywood, Leslie Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Women's Studies \| Literature Publisher's Description: Writing as a competitive athlete, an academic, and a woman, Leslie Heywood merges personal history and scholarship to expose the "anorexic logic" that underlies Western high culture. She maneuvers deftly across the terrain of modern literature, illustrating how this logic - the privileging of mind o . . . [more] Matches in book (11): ...female subjectivity and particularly film theory and constructions of the male... ...Wolf also argues that in this film, Stone is a ''complex, compelling,... ...Ellen, 41 , 52 , 53 Wide Sargasso Sea (film), 237 n.63 Williams, Ella Gwendoline... Similar Items
93.	Requires cookie*	Title: Visionaries: the Spanish Republic and the reign of Christ Author: Christian, William A 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion \| Christianity \| Popular Culture \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: In June 1931, on a hillside in the Spanish Basque country, two children reported seeing the Virgin Mary. Within weeks, hundreds of seers were attracting tens of thousands of onlookers, and the nightly spectacle gave rise to others in dozens of towns across Spain. Visionaries explores the experience . . . [more] Matches in book (21): ...a cinema in Ordizia. After the films on Sundays, youths from the surrounding... ...women in cabarets, and women in film, all indecently glorified in illustrated... ...the experience of the visionaries on film, perhaps as material for his lectures.... Similar Items
94.	Requires cookie*	Title: Tijuana: stories on the border Author: Campbell, Federico Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature \| Chicano Studies \| Ethnic Studies \| Latin American Studies \| Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: Tijuana is a haunting collection of stories and a novella, all set in the shadowy borderlands between Mexico and the United States. A fresh and evocative voice, Federico Campbell traces many kinds of borders - geographical, psychological, cultural, spiritual - and the "halfway beings" that inhabit t . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...It seemed she had taken part in a film made in Cabo San Lucas a few years ago... ...all twelve pictures from that roll of film of my poor, beloved dress with the... ...of the ex-casino, I put a new roll of film in the camera and threw more rolls of... Similar Items
95.	Requires cookie*	Title: The private worlds of Marcel Duchamp: desire, liberation, and the self in modern culture Author: Seigel, Jerrold Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art \| History \| Popular Culture Publisher's Description: Marcel Duchamp is a founding figure of twentieth-century art and culture, the common source to which many contemporary movements trace their roots. His career has often been celebrated for its contradictions and discontinuities, its disparate parts unified only by their assault on the traditions of . . . [more] Matches in book (12): ...movements on a single sheet of film. 4 However up-to-date the technology to... ...proposal took the following form: With films, taken close up, of parts of very... ...constitute a dictionary of which each film would be the representation of a... Similar Items
96.	Requires cookie*	Title: Old, alone, and neglected: care of the aged in the United States and Scotland Author: Kayser-Jones, Jeanie Schmit Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology \| Aging \| Medical Anthropology \| Medicine Publisher's Description: As the median age of the population increases, the care and housing of the elderly in the U.S. are of increasing concern. Jeanie Kayser-Jones compares a typical private institution in the U.S. with a government-owned home in Scotland.Her analysis compels attention to the systematic abuse of the inst . . . [more] Matches in book (11): ...morning church service, a full-length film (selected by a patient committee)... ...dominoes), musical entertainment, a short film biweekly, and church services for... ...them?" Both institutions have weekly films for the patients, but again, there is... Similar Items
97.	Requires cookie*	Title: Unpacking Duchamp: art in transit Author: Judovitz, Dalia Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art \| Literature Publisher's Description: Perhaps no twentieth-century artist utilized puns and linguistic ambiguity with greater effect - and greater controversy - than Marcel Duchamp. Through a careful "unpacking" of his major works, Dalia Judovitz finds that Duchamp may well have the last laugh. She examines how he interpreted notions of . . . [more] Matches in book (12): ...New York: Rizzoli, 1989), 20. 3. Film interview of Marcel Duchamp with James... ...47-57; reprinted in Dada and Surrealist Film, ed. Rudolf E. Kuenzli (New York:... ...viewer's reading of one part of the film into the other," see "Image and Title... Similar Items
98.	Requires cookie*	Title: Diffusion of distances: dialogues between Chinese and Western poetics Author: Yip, Wai-lim Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature \| Asian Studies \| Philosophy \| China \| Asian Literature Publisher's Description: In this collection of passionately argued essays, the internationally acclaimed poet and critic Wai-lim Yip calls Western scholarship to account for its treacherous representation of non-Western literature. Yip moves from Plato to Hans-Georg Gadamer, from Chuang-tzu to Mao Tse-tung, from John Donne . . . [more] Matches in book (11): ...238-39. 11. Bynner, The Jade Mountain , 153. 12. Sergei Eisenstein, Film Form... ...and Film Sense , trans. Jay Leyda (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1942),... ...22. The quotation is from Eisenstein, Film Form and Film Sense , 7. 14. Bynner,... Similar Items
99.	Requires cookie*	Title: History and tradition in Melanesian anthropology Author: Carrier, James G Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology \| East Asia Other Publisher's Description: Melanesian societies, like village societies in many parts of the world, are frequently portrayed as existing in a timeless, traditional present. These seven original essays offer an alternative view, one showing that historical evidence can and must inform our understanding of contemporary cultures . . . [more] Matches in book (15): ...Indirect rule, 68 Inseln der Illusion (film), 218 -219, 222 n Isles of Illusion:... ...tradition is graphically revealed in the film Trobriand Cricket, shot in 1973,... ...1977, 506–507; 1988, 181), this film attests to an extraordinary cultural... Similar Items
100.	Requires cookie*	Title: Caught in the act: theatricality in the nineteenth-century English novel Author: Litvak, Joseph Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: Litvak demonstrates that private experience in the novels of Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Eliot, and James is a rigorous enactment of a public script that constructs normative gender and class identities. He suggests that the theatricality which pervades these novels enforces social norms while introdu . . . [more] Matches in book (12): ...Doane, The Desire to Desire: The Woman’s Film in the 1940s (Bloomington: Indiana... ...most productively mobilized by feminist film theory, between the patriarchal,... ...Is: Studies in Melodrama and the Woman’s Film , ed. Christine Gledhill (London:... Similar Items

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