Palgrave Macmillan Us: 3342 books
by H. Zeng
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Drawing on a variety of film semiotic theories, this book sheds light on works by mainland Chinese directors, Hong Kong New Wave directors, Taiwan New Cinema directors, and overseas Chinese directors. Zeng examines the cultural/historical implications of exile through the detailed analysis of film language and theoretical exploration.
Literature the People Love
Reading Chinese Texts from the Early Maoist Period (1949-1966)
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Examining the production of 'people's literature' in China, this study provides a new interpretive framework with which to understand socialist literature and presents a sympathetic understanding of culture from a period in China's history in which people's lives were greatly and obviously affected by political events.
Chinese American Literature without Borders
Gender, Genre, and Form
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2017
This book bridges comparative literature and American studies by using an intercultural and bilingual approach to Chinese American literature. King-Kok Cheung launches a new transnational exchange by examining both Chinese and Chinese American writers. Part 1 presents alternative forms of masculinity...
Screening Post-1989 China
Critical Analysis of Chinese Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
This unique book investigates the tug-of-war between the free market economy and authoritative state regulation in Chinese culture after 1989. Contextualizing close textual readings of cinematic and television texts, both officially sanctioned and independently made, Wing Shan Ho illuminates the complex...
Public Discourses of Contemporary China
The Narration of the Nation in Popular Literatures, Film, and Television
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Analyzing contemporary Chinese literature, film, and television, Shen shows the significance of nationalism for the mass imagination in post-socialist China. Chapters move from the intellectual idealism of the 1980s, through the post-Tiananmen transition, to the national cinema of the 1990s, and finally to the Internet literature of today.
by M. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
From majestic Celtic crosses to elaborate knotwork designs, visual symbols of Irish identity at its most medieval abound in contemporary culture. Consdering both scholarly and popular perspectives this book offers a commentary on the blending of pasts and presents that finds permanent visualization in these contemporary signs.
Writing Indians and Jews
Metaphorics of Jewishness in South Asian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Writing Indians and Jews examines discursive practices surrounding the representation of Jews and Jewishness in Indian literature in English. These investigations make an important contribution to the study of contemporary South Asian and diasporic literature, and understandings of anti-Semitism, religious fundamentalism, and globalization.
by R. Hair
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Using a critical examination of the collage poetics of Ronald Johnson, this book sets out to understand Johnson's poetry in the context of the "New American" collage tradition, stretching from Ezra Pound to Louis Zukofsky and beyond. Additionally, the book assesses Johnson's work in relation...
by M. Grudin
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Boccaccio's Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance demonstrates that Boccaccio's puzzling masterpiece takes on organic consistency when viewed as an early modern adaptation of a pre-Christian, humanistic vision.
Growing Up Online
Young People and Digital Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
In this cutting-edge anthology, contributors examine the diverse ways in which girls and young women across a variety of ethnic, socio-economic, and national backgounds use digital technology in their everyday lives. They explore identity development, how young women interact with technology, and how race, class, and identity influence game play.
Science and Innovations in Iran
Development, Progress, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
This comprehensive book examines the Iranian government's mobilization of resources to develop science and technology, presenting an overview of the structure, dynamics, and outcomes of the government's science and technology policies. Authors are leaders in the industries they discuss and offer an unparalleled look into Iran's technology sector.
Helping Young Refugees and Immigrants Succeed
Public Policy, Aid, and Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
In a unique effort, this book brings together, for the first time, scholarly analyses by eminent researchers of the historical, social, legal, and cultural influences on the young newcomers' lives as well as reports by practitioners in major aid organizations about the concrete work that their organizations have been carrying out.
by N. Marion
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2011
Providing a description of the responses taken by the federal government to issues revolving around criminal justice, each chapter focuses on a different problem and shows what different presidents have said, what policies were proposed and/or passed by Congress, and any cases heard by the Supreme Court on the issue.
Watergate Remembered
The Legacy for American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
As the fortieth anniversary of the Nixon resignation approaches, it is time to take a fresh look at Watergate's impact on the American political system and to consider its significance for the historical reputation of the president indelibly associated with it.