Columbia University Press: 2355 books
by Donald Keene
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2005
The New Yorker has called Donald Keene "America's preeminent scholar of Japanese literature." Now he presents a new book that serves as both a superb introduction to modern Japanese fiction and a memoir of his own lifelong love affair with Japanese literature and culture. Five Modern Japanese...
So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish
Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
The attack on Pearl Harbor, which precipitated the Greater East Asia War and its initial triumphs, aroused pride and a host of other emotions among the Japanese people. Yet the single year in which Japanese forces occupied territory from Alaska to Indonesia was followed by three years of terrible...
Homecomings
The Belated Return of Japan's Lost Soldiers
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Soon after the end of World War II, a majority of the nearly 7 million Japanese civilians and serviceman who had been posted overseas returned home. Heeding the call to rebuild, these veterans helped remake Japan and enjoyed popularized accounts of their service. For those who took longer to be repatriated,...
Electric Dreamland
Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Amusement parks were the playgrounds of the working class in the early twentieth century, combining numerous, mechanically-based spectacles into one unique, modern cultural phenomenon. Lauren Rabinovitz describes the urban modernity engendered by these parks and their media, encouraging ordinary individuals...
A Coney Island Reader
Through Dizzy Gates of Illusion
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Featuring a stunning gallery of portraits by the world's finest poets, essayists, and fiction writers--including Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, José Martí, Maxim Gorky, Federico García Lorca, Isaac Bashevis Singer, E. E. Cummings, Djuna Barnes, Colson Whitehead, Robert Olen Butler, and Katie Roiphe--this...
by Gunter Bandmann, Hans Böker
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
At last available in English, this classic text was originally published in Germany in 1951 and has been continuously in print since then. Gunter Bandmann analyzes the architecture of societies in western Europe up to the twelfth century that aspired to be the heirs to the Roman Empire. He examines...
Dreaming of Cockaigne
Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2003
Imagine a dreamland where roasted pigs wander about with knives in their backs to make carving easy, where grilled geese fly directly into one's mouth, where cooked fish jump out of the water and land at one's feet. The weather is always mild, the wine flows freely, sex is readily available, and all...
Maya Deren
Incomplete Control
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Maya Deren (1917–1961) was a Russian-born American filmmaker, theorist, poet, and photographer working at the forefront of the American avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Influenced by Jean Cocteau and Marcel Duchamp, she is best known for her seminal film Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), a dream-like...
Sound Technology and the American Cinema
Perception, Representation, Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2000
Representational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself. Since the nineteenth century, these technologies have challenged our trust of sensory perception, given the ephemeral unprecedented parity with the eternal, and created profound temporal...
Motion(less) Pictures
The Cinema of Stasis
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Conducting the first comprehensive study of films that do not move, Justin Remes challenges the primacy of motion in cinema and tests the theoretical limits of film aesthetics and representation. Reading experimental films such as Andy Warhol's Empire (1964), the Fluxus work Disappearing Music for...
"How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?"
Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
American comics reflect the distinct sensibilities and experiences of the Jewish American men who played an outsized role in creating them, but what about the contributions of Jewish women? Focusing on the visionary work of seven contemporary female Jewish cartoonists, Tahneer Oksman draws a remarkable...
by Georg Lukács
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
György Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. Soul and Form was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation, treating questions of linguistic expressivity and literary style in the works of...
Living It Up
Our Love Affair with Luxury
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2002
Economic downturns and terrorist attacks notwithstanding, America's love affair with luxury continues unabated. Over the last several years, luxury spending in the United States has been growing four times faster than overall spending. It has been characterized by political leaders as vital to the...
Not Being God
A Collaborative Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Gianni Vattimo, a leading philosopher of the continental school, has always resisted autobiography. But in this intimate memoir, the voice of Vattimo as thinker, political activist, and human being finds its expression on the page. With Piergiorgio Paterlini, a noted Italian writer and journalist,...