UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Greek athletics and the genesis of sport Author: Sansone, David Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Classics \| Sports \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: How is sport in contemporary society related to sport in earlier civilizations? Why is the expenditure of energy involved in sport considered exhilarating, while the equivalent expenditure of energy in other contexts can be dispiriting? David Sansone offers answers to these questions and advances a . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Popular music and national culture in Israel Author: Regev, Motti Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Music \| Ethnomusicology \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Popular Culture \| Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: A unique Israeli national culture - indeed, the very nature of "Israeliness" - remains a matter of debate, a struggle to blend vying memories and backgrounds, ideologies and wills. Identifying popular music as an important site in this wider cultural endeavor, this book focuses on the three major po . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: China's new voices: popular music, ethnicity, gender, and politics, 1978-1997 Author: Baranovitch, Nimrod 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Music \| China \| Popular Music \| Ethnomusicology \| Politics \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This is the most comprehensive study to date of the rich popular music scene in contemporary China. Focusing on the city of Beijing and drawing upon extensive fieldwork, China's New Voices shows that during the 1980s and 1990s, rock and pop music, combined with new technologies and the new market ec . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Visual piety: a history and theory of popular religious images Author: Morgan, David 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Religion \| Art Publisher's Description: This fascinating study of devotional images traces their historical links to important strains of American culture. David Morgan demonstrates how popular visual images - from Warner Sallman's "Head of Christ" to velvet renditions of DaVinci's "Last Supper" to illustrations on prayer cards - have ass . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Lives together/worlds apart: mothers and daughters in popular culture Author: Walters, Suzanna Danuta Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Popular Culture \| American Studies \| Gender Studies \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In the 1940s film Now, Voyager, Bette Davis plays a daughter struggling against her mother's stifling repression. Nearly fifty years later, in the Hollywood saga Postcards from the Edge , Shirley MacLaine, as a neglectful and bossy mother, inflicts untold psychological pain on her daughter, played b . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Popular theater and society in Tsarist Russia Author: Swift, Eugene Anthony Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Popular Culture \| European Literature \| European Studies Publisher's Description: This is the most comprehensive study available of the popular theater that developed during the last decades of tsarist Russia. Swift examines the origins and significance of the new "people's theaters" that were created for the lower classes in St. Petersburg and Moscow between 1861 and 1917. His e . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: American sensations: class, empire, and the production of popular culture Author: Streeby, Shelley 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies \| American Literature \| Californian and Western History \| Popular Culture Publisher's Description: This innovative cultural history investigates an intriguing, thrilling, and often lurid assortment of sensational literature that was extremely popular in the United States in 1848--including dime novels, cheap story paper literature, and journalism for working-class Americans. Shelley Streeby uncov . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Pulp surrealism: insolent popular culture in early twentieth-century Paris Author: Walz, Robin 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| French Studies \| Comparative Literature Publisher's Description: In addition to its more well known literary and artistic origins, the French surrealist movement drew inspiration from currents of psychological anxiety and rebellion running through a shadowy side of mass culture, specifically in fantastic popular fiction and sensationalistic journalism. The provoc . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Arete: Greek sports from ancient sources Author: Miller, Stephen G. (Stephen Gaylord) 1942- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Classics \| Ancient History \| Sports Publisher's Description: From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compileda trove of ancient sources: Plutarch on boxing, Aristotle on the pentathlon, Philostratos on the buying and selling of victories, Vitruvius on literary competitions, and Xenophon on female . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mass mediations: new approaches to popular culture in the Middle East and beyond Author: Armbrust, Walter Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies \| Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Media Studies \| Music \| Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: Offering a stimulating diversity of perspectives, this collection examines how popular culture through mass media defines the scale and character of social interaction in the Middle East. The contributors approach popular culture broadly, with an interest in how it creates new scales of communicatio . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Arete: Greek sports from ancient sources Author: Miller, Stephen G Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| History \| Ancient History \| Sports Publisher's Description: From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compiled a trove of ancient sources - Plutarch on boxing, Aristotle on the pentathlon, Philostratos on clay dust as an anti-perspirant and on the buying and selling of victories, Vitruvius on lite . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: The trouble with nature: sex in science and popular culture Author: Lancaster, Roger N Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies \| Anthropology \| Gender Studies \| Popular Culture \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies \| Science \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Roger N. Lancaster provides the definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, women, and the nature of desire in this spirited exposé of the heterosexual fables that pervade popular culture, from prime-time sitcoms to scientific theories about the so-called gay gene. Lancaster links . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Takarazuka: sexual politics and popular culture in modern Japan Author: Robertson, Jennifer Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology \| Japan \| Cultural Anthropology \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies \| Women's Studies \| Theatre \| Popular Culture Publisher's Description: The all-female Takarazuka Revue is world-famous today for its rococo musical productions, including gender-bending love stories, torridly romantic liaisons in foreign settings, and fanatically devoted fans. But that is only a small part of its complicated and complicit performance history. In this s . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	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] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Absent lord: ascetics and kings in a Jain ritual culture Author: Babb, Lawrence A Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion \| Asian Studies \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: What does it mean to worship beings that one believes are completely indifferent to, and entirely beyond the reach of, any form of worship whatsoever? How would such a relationship with sacred beings affect the religious life of a community? Using these questions as his point of departure, Lawrence . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: The rhetoric of confession: shishōsetsu in early twentieth-century Japanese fiction Author: Fowler, Edward Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Literature \| Japan \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Asian Literature Publisher's Description: The shishosetsu is a Japanese form of autobiographical fiction that flourished during the first two decades of this century. Focusing on the works of Chikamatsu Shuko, Shiga Naoya, and Kasai Zenzo, Edward Fowler explores the complex and paradoxical nature of shishosetsu , and discusses its linguisti . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Lioness in bloom: modern Thai fiction about women Author: Kepner, Susan Fulop 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature \| Asian Literature \| Fiction \| Southeast Asia \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Kepner's selection shows the many ways fiction has mirrored the lives of Thai women over the twentieth century. The spectrum is broad, encompassing the young and the old, the rural and the cosmopolitan, the privileged and the poor. Some writers address previously unacceptable themes: female sexualit . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Remembering the present: painting and popular history in Zaire Author: Fabian, Johannes Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Art \| African History \| Politics \| African Studies Publisher's Description: This book combines ethnography with the study of art to present a fascinating new vision of African history. It contains the paintings of a single artist depicting Zaire's history, along with a series of ethnographic essays discussing local history, its complex relationship to forms of self-expressi . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Workers against work: labor in Paris and Barcelona during the popular fronts Author: Seidman, Michael (Michael M.) Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| Social Science \| French Studies \| Labor Studies Publisher's Description: Why did a revolution occur in Spain and not in France in 1936? This is the key question Michael Seidman explores in his important new study of the relations between industrial capitalists and working-class movements in the early part of this century. In a comparative analysis of Paris during the Pop . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: The limits of realism: Chinese fiction in the revolutionary period Author: Anderson, Marston Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature \| Asian Literature Publisher's Description: Chinese intellectuals of the early twentieth century were attracted to realism primarily as a tool for social regeneration. Realism encouraged writers to adopt the stance of the independent cultural critic and drew into the compass of serious literature the disenfranchised "others" of Chinese societ . . . [more] Similar Items