Indiana University Press imprint: 1080 books
Between Slavery and Freedom
Philosophy and American Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 1993
Using the writings of slaves and former slaves, as well as commentaries on slavery, Between Slavery and Freedom explores the American slave experience to gain a better understanding of six moral and political concepts—oppression, paternalism, resistance, political obligation, citizenship, and forgiveness....
by Anthony Clayton
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Fighting in woods and forests is a very special form of war. Avoided by military commanders unless such terrain is to their advantage, for soldiers forest battles are a chaotic mix of dread, determination, and, all too often, death. Adversaries remain in constant fear of concealed ambush, casualties...
Euro Horror
Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Beginning in the 1950s, "Euro Horror" movies materialized in astonishing numbers from Italy, Spain, and France and popped up in the US at rural drive-ins and urban grindhouse theaters such as those that once dotted New York's Times Square. Gorier, sexier, and stranger than most American horror films...
For the Love of Cinema
Teaching Our Passion In and Outside the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
What role does love—of cinema, of cinema studies, of teaching and learning—play in teaching film? For the Love of Cinema brings together a wide range of film scholars to explore the relationship between cinephilia and pedagogy. All of them ask whether cine-love can inform the serious study of...
Bodily Natures
Science, Environment, and the Material Self
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
How do we understand the agency and significance of material forces and their interface with human bodies? What does it mean to be human in these times, with bodies that are inextricably interconnected with our physical world? Bodily Natures considers these questions by grappling with powerful and...
Where the Spirits Ride the Wind
Trance Journeys and Other Ecstatic Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 1990
The book is clearly written for the general reader and includes many descriptions of trance experiences. It may serve as a good introduction to the nature and appeal of the shamanic revival in modern Western cultures." —Theological Book Review
... a case study in experiential anthropology...
Socialist Senses
Film, Feeling, and the Soviet Subject, 1917–1940
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
In a major reimagining of the history and cultural impact of Soviet film, noted film scholar Emma Widdis explores the fundamental transformations in how film, through the senses, remade the Soviet self in the 1920s and 1930s. Following the Russian Revolution, there was a shared ambition for a "sensory...
Cuba's Racial Crucible
The Sexual Economy of Social Identities, 1750-2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Since the 19th century, assertions of a common, racially-mixed Cuban identity based on acceptance of African descent have challenged the view of Cubans as racially white. For the past two centuries, these competing views of Cuban racial identity have remained in continuous tension, while Cuban women...
by Russell Hoban
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 1998
"A hero with Huck Finn’s heart and charm, lighting by El Greco and jokes by Punch and Judy.... Riddley Walker is haunting and fiercely imagined and—this matters most—intensely ponderable." —Benjamin DeMott, The New York Times Book Review
"This is what literature is meant to be." —Anthony...
Red Star
The First Bolshevik Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 1984
“An Earth-man’s journey to the planet Mars, where he is treated to a wondrous vision of a communist future, complete with flying cars and 3D color movies.” —Wonders & Marvels
A communist society on Mars, the Russian revolution, and class struggle on two planets is the subject of this...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
In this interdisciplinary volume, contributors analyze the expression of Latina/o cultural identity through performance. With music, theater, dance, visual arts, body art, spoken word, performance activism, fashion, and street theater as points of entry, contributors discuss cultural practices and...
Latina Performance
Traversing the Stage
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 1999
Latina Performance is a densely theorized treatment of rich materials." —MultiCultural Review
Arrizón's important book revolves around the complex issues of identity formation and power relations for US women performers of Latin American descent." —Choice
Latina Performance examines...
by Martin Heidegger
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
In Four Seminars, Heidegger reviews the entire trajectory of his thought and offers unique perspectives on fundamental aspects of his work. First published in French in 1976, these seminars were translated into German with Heidegger’s approval and reissued in 1986 as part of his Gesamtausgabe, volume...
Buenas Noches, American Culture
Latina/o Aesthetics of Night
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Often treated like night itself—both visible and invisible, feared and romanticized—Latina/os make up the largest minority group in the US. In her newest work, María DeGuzmán explores representations of night in art and literature from the Caribbean, Colombia, Central and South America, and...