Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
What Does It Mean to Be White?
Developing White Racial Literacy Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
What does it mean to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race? In the face of pervasive racial inequality and segregation, most white people cannot answer that question. In the second edition of this seminal text, Robin DiAngelo reveals the factors that...
Entertainment Public Relations
Communicating with Audiences
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Every show needs an audience. How do we find them? How do we reach them? How do we motivate them to buy tickets? This informative book provides an essential look at the public relations strategies, tactics, and tools that have put Hollywood entertainment at the center of global popular culture. It...
The Middle Years of Marriage
Challenge, Change, and Growth
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Midlife can be a time of great change for individuals and a "make or break" period for marriages. Couples navigate a relationship landscape defined by such lifecourse landmarks as "the empty nest," changing roles at home and at work, aging bodies, and the need to care for family...
An Introduction to Visual Communication
From Cave Art to Second Life (2nd edition)
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Technological changes have radically altered the ways in which people use visual images. Since the invention of photography, imagery has increasingly been used for entertainment, journalism, information, medical diagnostics, instruction, branding and communication. These functions move the image beyond...
White Fatigue
Rethinking Resistance for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
White Fatigue: Rethinking Resistance for Social Justice explores how, despite the pleas and research of critical scholars, what passes for multicultural education in schools is often promotion of human relations and tolerance rather than a sustained critical examination of how race and racism shape...
Terrorizing the Masses
Identity, Mass Shootings, and the Media Construction of «Terror»
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Why are some crimes identified as acts of terrorism, while others are not? How are critical terms like «terrorism» and «mass shooting» defined and understood in the 21st century? What are some of the causes of the unique American epidemic of mass shootings and gun violence? Terrorizing the Masses...
(Re)thinking Orientalism
Using Graphic Narratives to Teach Critical Visual Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
(Re)thinking Orientalism is a text that examines the visual discourse of Orientalism through the pedagogy of contemporary graphic narratives. Using feminist, critical race, and postcolonial theoretical and pedagogical lenses, the book uses visual discourse analysis and visual semiology to situate...
Wandering Between Two Worlds
The Formative Years of Cao Xueqin 17151745
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Wandering Between Two Worlds: The Formative Years of Cao Xueqin 1715–1745 is a biographical account of the first 30 years of the life of the eighteenth-century Chinese novelist who wrote Honglou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber). It covers Cao Xueqin’s life from his birth in Nanjing in 1715 to the...
The Male Body as Advertisement
Masculinities in Hispanic Media
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
The Male Body as Advertisement: Masculinities in Hispanic Media offers a multidisciplinary view of the body of men, of its practices and attributes, of its features, and, most importantly, of its use as a persuasive and expressive resource. Just as it occurred with the female body, the male body has...
Hip Hop DJs and the Evolution of Technology
Cultural Exchange, Innovation, and Democratization
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Using interviews with world-renowned and innovative hip-hop DJs, as well as technology manufacturers that cater to the market/culture, this book reveals stories behind some of the iconic DJ technologies that have helped shape the history and culture of DJing. More importantly, it explores how DJs...
by Melvin Donalson
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Hip Hop in American Cinema examines the manner in which American feature films have served as the primary medium for mainstreaming hip hop culture into American society. With their glamorizing portrayals of graffiti writing, break dancing, rap music, clothing, and language, Hollywood movies have established...
El juramento ante Dios, y lealtad contra el amor
A Modern and Critical Edition- Edited by Jaime Cruz-Ortiz
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Lusitanian playwrights who wrote comedias during and after the Dual Monarchy (1580–1640), when the Portuguese and Spanish thrones were united under Habsburg rule, continue to be largely unexplored. This edition highlights the contributions of one of this group’s most successful and celebrated...
Antonfrancesco Grazzini («Il Lasca»), Two Plays
«The Friar» and «The Bawd» Translated with an Introduction by Marino DOrazio
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Antonfrancesco Grazzini, known as Il Lasca (The Roach), was born and lived in Florence at the height of the Renaissance. He wrote prolifically in most genres, including novelle, burlesque poetry, and comedies. As a playwright he was, in his time, more popular than even Machiavelli. The Friar is a...
Rudolf. Crown Prince and Rebel
Translation of the New and Revised Edition, «Kronprinz Rudolf. Ein Leben» (Amalthea, 2005)
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Brigitte Hamann portrays Rudolf von Habsburg, Crown Prince of Austria, as a liberal intellectual who stood in opposition to his father Emperor Franz Josef and the imperial establishment. Against the prevailing currents of his time, Rudolf wanted to modernize the Habsburg Empire by abolishing the privileges...