Caroline Joan S Picart: 3 books
Critical Race Theory and Copyright in American Dance
Whiteness as Status Property
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
The effort to win federal protection for dance in the United States was a racialized and gendered contest. Picart traces the evolution of choreographic works from being federally non-copyrightable to becoming a category potentially copyrightable under the 1976 Copyright Act, specifically examining Loíe Fuller, George Balanchine, and Martha Graham.
Speaking of Monsters
A Teratological Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Employing a range of approaches to examine how "monster-talk" pervades not only popular culture but also public policy through film and other media, this book is a "one-stop shop" of sorts for students and instructors employing various approaches and media in the study of "teratologies," or discourses of the monstrous.
Law In and As Culture
Intellectual Property, Minority Rights, and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
There are two oppositional narratives in relation to telling the story of indigenous peoples and minorities in relation to globalization and intellectual property rights. The first, the narrative of Optimism, is a story of the triumphant opening of brave new worlds of commercial integration and cultural...