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Things Beyond Resemblance
Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
Theodor W. Adorno was a major twentieth-century philosopher and social critic whose writings on oppositional culture in art, music, and literature increasingly stand at the center of contemporary intellectual debate. In this excellent collection, Robert Hullot-Kentor, widely regarded as the most distinguished...
Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers
The Past and Future of Human-Animal Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2005
Richard W. Bulliet has long been a leading figure in the study of human-animal relations, and in his newest work, Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers, he offers a sweeping and engaging perspective on this dynamic relationship from prehistory to the present. By considering the shifting roles of donkeys,...
Cinema by Design
Art Nouveau, Modernism, and Film History
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Art Nouveau thrived from the late 1890s through the First World War. The international design movement reveled in curvilinear forms and both playful and macabre visions and had a deep impact on cinematic art direction, costuming, gender representation, genre, and theme. Though historians have long...
"It's the Pictures That Got Small"
Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter Charles Brackett was an extremely observant and perceptive chronicler of the entertainment industry during its most exciting years. He is best remembered as the writing partner of director Billy Wilder, who once referred to the pair as "the happiest couple in...
Hearst Over Hollywood
Power, Passion, and Propaganda in the Movies
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2002
Hollywood—crossroads of filmmaking, mythmaking, and politics—was dominated by one man more than any other for most of its history. It was William Randolph Hearst who understood how to use cinema to exploit the public's desire for entertainment and to create film propaganda to further his own desire...
by James Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
First published in 1996, James Shapiro's pathbreaking analysis of the portrayal of Jews in Elizabethan England challenged readers to recognize the significance of Jewish questions in Shakespeare's day. From accounts of Christians masquerading as Jews to fantasies of settling foreign Jews in Ireland,...
Hubert Harrison
The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
Hubert Harrison was an immensely skilled writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist who, more than any other political leader of his era, combined class consciousness and anti-white-supremacist race consciousness into a coherent political radicalism. Harrison's ideas profoundly influenced...
In Pursuit of Privilege
A History of New York City's Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
A history that extends from the 1750s to the present, In Pursuit of Privilege recounts upper-class New Yorkers' struggle to create a distinct world guarded against outsiders, even as economic growth and democratic opportunity enabled aspirants to gain entrance. Despite their efforts, New York City's...
Eating History
Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Food expert and celebrated food historian Andrew F. Smith recounts-in delicious detail-the creation of contemporary American cuisine. The diet of the modern American wasn't always as corporate, conglomerated, and corn-rich as it is today, and the style of American cooking, along with the ingredients...
Creamy and Crunchy
An Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American Food
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
More than Mom's apple pie, peanut butter is the all-American food. With its rich, roasted-peanut aroma and flavor; caramel hue; and gooey, consoling texture, peanut butter is an enduring favorite, found in the pantries of at least 75 percent of American kitchens. Americans eat more than a billion...
Pulitzer's Gold
A Century of Public Service Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The Joseph Pulitzer Gold Medal for meritorious public service is an unparalleled American media honor, awarded to news organizations for collaborative reporting that moves readers, provokes change, and advances the journalistic profession. Updated to reflect new winners of the Pulitzer Prize for public...
Freedom's Right
The Social Foundations of Democratic Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Theories of justice often fixate on purely normative, abstract principles unrelated to real-world situations. The philosopher and theorist Axel Honneth addresses this disconnect, and constructs a theory of justice derived from the normative claims of Western liberal-democratic societies and anchored...
A Political Economy of the Senses
Neoliberalism, Reification, Critique
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Anita Chari revives the concept of reification from Marx and the Frankfurt School to spotlight the resistance to neoliberal capitalism now forming at the level of political economy and at the more sensate, experiential level of subjective transformation. Reading art by Oliver Ressler, Zanny Begg,...
The Story So Far
What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Bill Grueskin, Ava Seave, and Lucas Graves spent close to a year tracking the reporting of on-site news organizations-some of which were founded over a century ago and others established only in the past year or two-and found in their traffic and audience engagement patterns, allocation of resources,...