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| 101. |  | Title: Play it again, Sam: retakes on remakes  Author: Horton, Andrew Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film Publisher's Description: Play It Again, Sam is a timely investigation of a topic that until now has received almost no critical attention in film and cultural studies: the cinematic remake. As cinema enters its second century, more remakes are appearing than ever before, and these writers consider the full range: Hollywood . . . [more] Matches in book (42): ...assimilation by concealing his Jewishness. At the optimistic, multiculturalist... Similar Items...obvious references to the family's Jewishness. At another point, Mrs. Goodman... ...And by simultaneously hiding his Jewishness and putting on the satyr's mask,... |
| 102. |  | Title: Women and the war story Author: Cooke, Miriam Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Gender Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | European History Publisher's Description: In a book that radically and fundamentally revises the way we think about war, Miriam Cooke charts the emerging tradition of women's contributions to what she calls the "War Story," a genre formerly reserved for men. Concentrating on the contemporary literature of the Arab world, Cooke looks at how . . . [more] Matches in book (35): ...271 ; Palestinians writing about Jews and, 312 -13 Ziyada, Mayy, 169... Similar Items...which offers me its ornaments, its jewels, its flowers, I find they are the... ...these women to throw away their jewelry, material symbol of their worth in a... |
| 103. |  | Title: Light moving in time: studies in the visual aesthetics of avant-garde film Author: Wees, William C. (William Charles) 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film Publisher's Description: To view a film is to see another's seeing mediated by the technology and techniques of the camera. By manipulating the cinematic apparatus in unorthodox ways, avant-garde filmmakers challenge the standardized versions of seeing perpetuated by the dominant film industry and generate ways of seeing th . . . [more] Matches in book (17): ...from jewels, to objects that seem jewel-like in the intensity of their reflected... Similar Items...and Gustav Moreau's imagery of jewels and light in relation to Anger's films... ...Cinematheque, 1966), [2]. 7. That the jewels may have another, more esoteric,... |
| 104. |  | Title: Broken tablets: the cult of the law in French art from David to Delacroix Author: Ribner, Jonathan P Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Art | Art History | French Studies | European Literature | European History | Law Publisher's Description: In this first study of art, law, and the legislator, Jonathan Ribner provides a revealing look at French art from 1789 to 1848, the period in which constitutional law was established in France. Drawing on several disciplines, he discusses how each of the early constitutional regimes in France used i . . . [more] Matches in book (26): ...accounts of the lost painting speak of jewel-encrusted draperies that must have... Similar Items...historical diatribe La France juive (Jewish France), the royalist caricature The... ...85 , 148 -49, 151 , 154 Assembly of Jewish Notables, 41 Athalie (Racine), 45 ,... |
| 105. |  | Title: California's spiritual frontiers: religious alternatives in Anglo-Protestantism, 1850-1910 Author: Frankiel, Sandra Sizer 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | California and the West | Christianity Publisher's Description: In this fascinating work, Frankiel examines California's rich, multi-faceted religious history during the period in which the state was taking shape on the American landscape. Matches in book (19): ...Crown "Jewells." San Jose: First Methodist Episcopal Church, 1892. Johnston, N.... Similar Items...Day of the Early Church. San Francisco: Libby and Swett, 1871. Jewell, Frank F.... ...forbade ostentatious clothes or jewelry, with the aim of preserving simplicity... |
| 106. |  | Title: A nation of provincials: the German idea of Heimat Author: Applegate, Celia Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | German Studies Publisher's Description: At the center of this pioneering work in modern European history is the German word Heimat - the homeland, the local place. Translations barely penetrate the meaning of the word, which has provided the emotional and ideological common ground for a variety of associations and individuals devoted to t . . . [more] Matches in book (38): ...some of the project's findings—these "jewels of Germany," "the principal symbol... Similar Items...century had housed the imperial crown jewels, Trifels came to serve the Nazis in... ...and Roman tombs, vases, weapons, jewelry, coins, holy vessels, furniture,... |
| 107. |  | Title: The new German cinema: music, history, and the matter of style Author: Flinn, Caryl Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | German Studies | Music Publisher's Description: When New German cinema directors like R. W. Fassbinder, Ulrike Ottinger, and Werner Schroeter explored issues of identity - national, political, personal, and sexual - music and film style played crucial roles. Most studies of the celebrated film movement, however, have sidestepped the role of music . . . [more] Matches in book (38): ...as it is generous. Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum in Berlin, exterior... Similar Items...conditions, and, not least, for the Jewishness of its composer. 33 Weill shared... ...a variety of problematic tropes of "Jewishness" onto a wide array of figures.... |
| 108. |  | Title: Merchants and reform in Livorno, 1814-1868 Author: LoRomer, David G Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: History | European History Matches in book (39): ...French, 9 , 13 Jerusalem, flag of, 154 Jews: investments in real estate, 76 -77,... Similar Items...rough (and incomplete) manuscript census of the Jewish population taken in 1840.... ...in rags selling fish. A cache of jewels is said to have been deposited with him... |
| 109. |  | Title: The "new woman" revised: painting and gender politics on fourteenth street Author: Todd, Ellen Wiley Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Art | Art History | United States History | Women's Studies | American Studies Publisher's Description: In the years between the world wars, Manhattan's Fourteenth Street-Union Square district became a center for commercial, cultural, and political activities, and hence a sensitive barometer of the dramatic social changes of the period. It was here that four urban realist painters - Kenneth Hayes Mill . . . [more] Matches in book (27): ...Jewell, Edward Alden (art critic): on Bishop, 289 John Reed Club (New York),... Similar Items...15, 1936, p. 15; Edward Alden Jewell, as quoted in Art Digest 13 (February 1,... ...8, 12 , 32 -33, 246 Tiffany's (jewelry store), 86 Tissot, James: The Milliner's... |
| 110. |  | Title: The family silver: essays on relationships among women Author: Krieger, Susan Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies | Women's Studies | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | Sociology | Anthropology Publisher's Description: In an inventive and controversial collection of essays, sociologist Susan Krieger considers the many forms of wealth, both material and emotional, that women pass on to each other. This domestic heritage - the "family silver" - is the keystone for a discussion of mother-daughter relationships, intim . . . [more] Matches in book (22): ...blue shirtwaist dress and silver jewelry. The shirtwaist style, a dress made... Similar Items...it commanded more respect. The silver jewelry, to my mind, meant my mother was a... ...sorting through her clothes and jewelry, finding snapshots she recently took,... |
| 111. |  | Title: The sea acorn: Scripps Institution of Oceanography: the people and the place, 1936-1942: with prologue and epilogue Author: Sargent, Peter Published: Sargent, 1979 Subjects: Matches in book (4): ...JEWEL CITY... Similar Items...Preston and Lund—that shine like green jewels in the desert wasteland. Lombardy... ...long; carriages, weapons, clothing, jewels. Please make the trip to Oslo to see... |
| 112. |  | Title: Religion and Rajput women: the ethic of protection in contemporary narratives Author: Harlan, Lindsey Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion | Hinduism | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: What is the relationship between caste and gender in the narratives of Rajput woman? During a year and a half of fieldwork in Rajasthan, a parched land dominated by the great Indian Desert, Lindsey Harlan interviewed more than a hundred women from all levels of Rajput society. She wanted to understa . . . [more] Matches in book (20): ...184 -185 purposes of, 184 -185 jewelry: bans on, 147 of the sati , 151 -152... Similar Items...but it lays emphasis on her giving her jewels away. Similarly, many Rajput women... ...emphasis rests not on renouncing jewels but on wearing them, at least until... |
| 113. |  | Title: A nationality of her own: women, marriage, and the law of citizenship Author: Bredbenner, Candice Lewis 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | United States History | Women's Studies | Law | Public Policy Publisher's Description: In 1907, the federal government declared that any American woman marrying a foreigner had to assume the nationality of her husband, and thereby denationalized thousands of American women. This highly original study follows the dramatic variations in women's nationality rights, citizenship law, and i . . . [more] Matches in book (32): ...Jessup, Philip, 204 n17 Jews, 177 -80 Johnson, Albert, 87 , 89 , 133 , 138 ,... Similar Items...Record Group 245.4. Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. New York, New York. U.S.... ...Countess von, 69 Federation of Polish Jews in America, 180 Field, Stephen, 23 ,... |
| 114. |  | Title: Cecil B. DeMille and American culture: the silent era Author: Higashi, Sumiko Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | History | Film | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture demonstrates that the director, best remembered for his overblown biblical epics, was one of the most remarkable film pioneers of the Progressive Era. In this innovative work, which integrates cultural history and cultural studies, Sumiko Higashi shows how DeMil . . . [more] Matches in book (20): ...precipice, a muscular black man in a jewelled costume wields an enormous sword,... Similar Items...Miriam (Estelle Taylor), wearing a jewelled brassiere and serpent bracelets... ...at her feathered headdress and jeweled bodice, Edith stands, advances toward the... |
| 115. |  | Title: Speak, bird, speak again: Palestinian Arab folktales Author: Muhawi, Ibrahim 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Anthropology | Literature in Translation | Middle Eastern Studies | Folklore and Mythology Publisher's Description: Were it simply a collection of fascinating, previously unpublished folktales, Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales would merit praise and attention because of its cultural rather than political approach to Palestinian studies. But it is much more than this. By combining their respect . . . [more] Matches in book (29): ...Kalfon. Palestinian Costume and Jewelry . Albuquerque: University of New Mexico... Similar Items...Yee! How beautiful it is! By Allah, I'm going to put my jewelry in it." Taking... ...pot with her, she gathered all her jewelry, even that which she was wearing, and... |
| 116. |  | Title: Nemea: a guide to the site and museum Author: Miller, Stephen G. (Stephen Gaylord) 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics | History | Archaeology | Ancient History Publisher's Description: In classical antiquity, beginning in 573 B.C., Nemea hosted international athletic competitions like those at Olympia, Delphi, and Isthmia; the games at the four sites constituted the Panhellenic cycle, and the victors were the most famous athletes of antiquity. Nemea was never a city-state but serv . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...Case 15: Jewelry From Aidonia... Similar Items...javelin, 5 , 38 jewelry, 45 , 46 , 53 , 56 , 93 judges' stand, 35 , 175 , 176... ...corpses were buried with pottery, gold jewelry, ivory-inlaid furniture, and so... |
| 117. |  | Title: Marriage and inequality in Chinese society Author: Watson, Rubie S. (Rubie Sharon) 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Asian History | Cultural Anthropology | China | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Until now our understanding of marriage in China has been based primarily on observations made during the twentieth century. The research of ten eminent scholars presented here provides a new vision of marriage in Chinese history, exploring the complex interplay between marriage and the social, poli . . . [more] Matches in book (25): ...Yang, trans. 1957. The Courtesan's Jewel Box: Chinese Stories of the Xth-XVIIth... Similar Items...Ho-hsiao—the Ch'ien-lung emperor's jewel). Tzu-chin ch'eng, no. 2:25-26. Wang... ...brides might bring with them clothes, jewels, maids, or even bronze vessels. Men... |
| 118. |  | Title: The short, swift time of gods on earth: the Hohokam chronicles Author: Bahr, Donald M Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology Publisher's Description: In the spring of 1935, at Snaketown, Arizona, two Pima Indians recounted and translated their entire traditional creation narrative. Juan Smith, reputedly the last tribesman with extensive knowledge of the Pima version of this story, spoke and sang while William Smith Allison translated into English . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...of, 227 Jeoss. See God, Christian Jewed Ma:kai, 45 . See also Earth Doctor... Similar Items...or "Earth Medicine Man." The word jewed , 'earth', also means "land" or "ground"... ...name is always given as Earth Doctor, Jewed Ma:kai. a He is in all versions a... |
| 119. |  | Title: A silent minority: deaf education in Spain, 1550-1835 Author: Plann, Susan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Language and Linguistics | Medieval History | European History | Education | European Studies | Medieval Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This timely, important, and frequently dramatic story takes place in Spain, for the simple reason that Spain is where language was first systematically taught to the deaf. Instruction is thought to have begun in the mid-sixteenth century in Spanish monastic communities, where the monks under vows of . . . [more] Matches in book (34): ...Jesuits. See Society of Jesus Jewish conversos : Aragon's documentation of,... Similar Items...was granted the privilege of wearing jewels and colored apparel, and was named... ...families, such as his donation of jewels and valuables worth three thousand... |
| 120. |  | Title: Joyce in America: cultural politics and the trials of Ulysses Author: Segall, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | American Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Literature Publisher's Description: When James Joyce's Ulysses was first published in America, it quickly became a dynamic symbol of both modern art and the modern age. Jeffrey Segall skillfully demonstrates how various political, ideological, and religious allegiances influenced the critical reception and eventual canonization of wha . . . [more] Matches in book (14): ...Katherine, 172 Mather, Frank Jewett, 55 -56 Meyers, Jeffrey, 15 Miller-... Similar Items...New Humanist and art historian Frank Jewett Mather, and Princeton dean Christian... ...mission: Writing was not an ornament, a jewel, but a means to an end, a weapon,... |