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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Window shopping: cinema and the postmodern Author: Friedberg, Anne Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| Popular Culture \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Departing from those who define postmodernism in film merely as a visual style or set of narrative conventions, Anne Friedberg develops the first sustained account of the cinema's role in postmodern culture. She explores the ways in which nineteenth-century visual experiences - photography, urban st . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Black African cinema Author: Ukadike, Nwachukwu Frank Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film Publisher's Description: From the proselytizing lantern slides of early Christian missionaries to contemporary films that look at Africa through an African lens, N. Frank Ukadike explores the development of black African cinema. He examines the impact of culture and history, and of technology and co-production, on filmmakin . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: A critical cinema 3: interviews with independent filmmakers Author: MacDonald, Scott 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film Publisher's Description: A Critical Cinema 3 continues Scott MacDonald's compilation of personal interviews and public discussions with major contributors to independent filmmaking and film awareness. An informative exchange with Amos Vogel, whose Cinema 16 Society drew American filmgoers into a broader sense of film histor . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Buñuel and Mexico: the crisis of national cinema Author: Acevedo-Muñoz, Ernesto R 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Latin American History \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Though Luis Buñuel, one of the most important filmmakers of the twentieth century, spent his most productive years as a director in Mexico, film histories and criticism invariably pay little attention to his work during this period. The only English-language study of Buñuel's Mexican films, this boo . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: The dark mirror: German cinema between Hitler and Hollywood Author: Koepnick, Lutz P. (Lutz Peter) Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| German Studies \| Music \| Film Publisher's Description: Lutz Koepnick analyzes the complicated relationship between two cinemas - Hollywood's and Nazi Germany's - in this theoretically and politically incisive study. The Dark Mirror examines the split course of German popular film from the early 1930s until the mid 1950s, showing how Nazi filmmakers appr . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: The ciné goes to town: French cinema, 1896-1914 Author: Abel, Richard 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| French Studies \| European History \| Popular Culture Publisher's Description: This updated edition of Richard Abel's magisterial history of French cinema between 1896 and 1914 is based on extensive investigation of rare archival films and documents. Similar Items
7.	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
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: The red rooster scare: making cinema American, 1900-1910 Author: Abel, Richard 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Cultural Anthropology \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Only once in cinema history have imported films dominated the American market: during the nickelodeon era in the early years of the twentieth century, when the Pathé company's "Red Rooster" films could be found "everywhere." Through extensive original research, Richard Abel demonstrates how crucial . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	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] Similar Items
10.	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
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Comedy/cinema/theory Author: Horton, Andrew Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film Publisher's Description: The nature of comedy has interested many thinkers, from Plato to Freud, but film comedy has not received much theoretical attention in recent years. The essays in Comedy/Cinema/Theory use a range of critical and theoretical approaches to explore this curious and fascinating subject. The result is a . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Religion and popular culture in America Author: Forbes, Bruce David Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion \| Popular Culture \| United States History Publisher's Description: The connections between American popular culture and religion is the subject of this multifaceted and innovative collection. Ranging from religious themes in cowboy fiction to Madonna's "Like a Prayer," from televangelism to the world of sports, the book's contributors offer fascinating insights int . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Hollywood in Berlin: American cinema and Weimar Germany Author: Saunders, Thomas J Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| German Studies \| Film \| United States History \| European History Publisher's Description: The setting is 1920s Berlin, cultural heart of Europe and the era's only serious cinematic rival to Hollywood. In his engaging study, Thomas Saunders explores an outstanding example of one of the most important cultural developments of this century: global Americanization through the motion picture. . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	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
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: A critical cinema 2: interviews with independent filmmakers Author: MacDonald, Scott 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: This sequel to A Critical Cinema offers a new collection of interviews with independent filmmakers that is a feast for film fans and film historians. Scott MacDonald reveals the sophisticated thinking of these artists regarding film, politics, and contemporary gender issues.The interviews explore th . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Echo and Narcissus: women's voices in classical Hollywood cinema Author: Lawrence, Amy Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Do women in classical Hollywood cinema ever truly speak for themselves? In Echo and Narcissus , Amy Lawrence examines eight classic films to show how women's speech is repeatedly constructed as a "problem," an affront to male authority. This book expands feminist studies of the representation of wom . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	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
18.	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
19.	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
20.	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