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The (Moving) Pictures Generation
The Cinematic Impulse in Downtown New York Art and Film
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Beginning in the late 1970s, a number of visual artists in downtown New York City returned to an exploration of the cinematic across mediums. Vera Dika considers their work within a greater cultural context and probes for a deeper understanding of the practice.
The Theatre of Naomi Wallace
Embodied Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Naomi Wallace, an American playwright based in Britain, is one of the more original and provocative voices in contemporary theatre. Her poetic, erotically-charged, and politically engaged plays have been seen in London's West End, off-Broadway, at the Comédie-Française, in regional and provincial...
Imagining the Black Female Body
Reconciling Image in Print and Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
This volume explores issues of black female identity through the various "imaginings" of the black female body in print and visual culture. Contributions emphasize the ways in which the black female body is framed and how black women (and their allies) have sought to write themselves back into social discourses on their terms.
Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground
From Obscurity to Literary Icon
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
This critical study of the literary magazines, underground newspapers, and small press publications that had an impact on Charles Bukowski's early career, draws on archives, privately held unpublished Bukowski work, and interviews to shed new light on the ways in which Bukowski became an icon in the alternative literary scene in the 1960s.
Do Less Better
The Power of Strategic Sacrifice in a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Do Less Better teaches leaders how to recognize the complexity and inefficiencies within their businesses and reveals how they can simplify and streamline through specialization and sacrifice. According to Bell, a company's willingness to focus on a particular vision or identity ensures viability and strengthens its competitive edge.
Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo
Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
This book examines a pivotal moment in the history of science and women’s place in it. Meredith Ray offers the first in-depth study and complete English translation of the fascinating correspondence between Margherita Sarrocchi (1560-1617), a natural philosopher and author of the epic poem, Scanderbeide...
Italian Masculinity as Queer Melodrama
Caravaggio, Puccini, Contemporary Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Offering queer analyses of paintings by Caravaggio and Puccini and films by Özpetek, Amelio, and Grimaldi, Champagne argues that Italian masculinity has often been articulated through melodrama. Wide in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, this much-needed study shows the vital role of affect for both Italian history and masculinity studies.
Africa’s Natural Resources and Underdevelopment
How Ghana’s Petroleum Can Create Sustainable Economic Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
This book explores how African countries can convert their natural resources, particularly oil and gas, into sustainable development assets. Using Ghana, one of the continent’s newest oil-producing countries, as a lens, it examines the "resource curse" faced by other producers - such as...
Saving Black Colleges
Leading Change in a Complex Organization
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Saving Black Colleges makes clear the challenges, opportunities, and prospects for change historically black colleges and universities now face. Schexnider, the former chancellor of Winston-Salem State University, details what he could and could not accomplish, examines how these issues affect other...
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.
Soul Thieves
The Appropriation and Misrepresentation of African American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Considers the misappropriation of African American popular culture through various genres, largely Hip Hop, to argue that while such cultural creations have the potential to be healing agents, they are still exploited -often with the complicity of African Americans- for commercial purposes and to maintain white ruling class hegemony.
by E. Upton
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
This book seeks to understand the music of the later Middle Ages in a fuller perspective, moving beyond the traditional focus on the creative work of composers in isolation to consider the participation of performers and listeners in music-making.
J.R.R. Tolkien's Double Worlds and Creative Process
Language and Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
A close colleague of Tolkein for many years, Zettersten offers here a personally informed analysis of his fiction. In light of his unusual life experience and enthusiasm for the study of languages, Zettersten finds in Tolkein's fiction the same animating passions that drove that great author as a youth, a soldier, a linguist, and an Oxford Don.
The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists
Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2011
The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists is the culmination of seven years of research into the 1886 Haymarket bombing and subsequent trial. It not only overturns the prevailing consensus on this event, it documents in detail how the basic facts, as far as they can be determined, have been distorted, obscured, or suppressed for seventy years.