Columbia University Press: 2355 books
They Wished They Were Honest
The Knapp Commission and New York City Police Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
In fifty years of prosecuting and defending criminal cases in New York City and elsewhere,Michael F. Armstrong has often dealt with cops. For a single two-year span, as chief counsel to the Knapp Commission, he was charged with investigating them. Based on Armstrong's vivid recollections of this watershed...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Chosen by the American Society of Magazine Editors, the stories in this anthology include National Magazine Award–winning works of public interest, reporting, feature writing, and fiction. This year's selections include Pamela Colloff (Texas Monthly) on the agonizing, decades-long struggle by a...
After Uniqueness
A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Images have never been as freely circulated as they are today. They have also never been so tightly controlled. As with the birth of photography, digital reproduction has created new possibilities for the duplication and consumption of images, offering greater dissemination and access. But digital...
The Lumière Galaxy
Seven Key Words for the Cinema to Come
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Francesco Casetti believes new media technologies are producing an exciting new era in cinema aesthetics. Whether we experience film in the theater, on our hand-held devices, in galleries and museums, onboard and in flight, or up in the clouds in the bits we download, cinema continues to alter our...
by Gabriel Rockhill
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Gabriel Rockhill opens new space for rethinking the relationship between art and politics. Rather than understanding the two spheres as separated by an insurmountable divide or linked by a privileged bridge, Rockhill demonstrates that art and politics are not fixed entities with a singular relation...
The Body Incantatory
Spells and the Ritual Imagination in Medieval Chinese Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Whether chanted as devotional prayers, intoned against the dangers of the wilds, or invoked to heal the sick and bring ease to the dead, incantations were pervasive features of Buddhist practice in late medieval China (600–1000 C.E.). Material incantations, in forms such as spell-inscribed amulets...
Harmony and War
Confucian Culture and Chinese Power Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Confucianism has shaped a certain perception of Chinese security strategy, symbolized by the defensive, nonaggressive Great Wall. Many believe China is antimilitary and reluctant to use force against its enemies. It practices pacifism and refrains from expanding its boundaries, even when nationally...
Electric Santería
Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Santería is an African-inspired, Cuban diaspora religion long stigmatized as witchcraft and often dismissed as superstition, yet its spirit- and possession-based practices are rapidly winning adherents across the world. Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús introduces the term "copresence" to capture...
Where Film Meets Philosophy
Godard, Resnais, and Experiments in Cinematic Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Hunter Vaughan interweaves phenomenology and semiotics to analyze cinema's ability to challenge conventional modes of thought. Merging Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception with Gilles Deleuze's image-philosophy, Vaughan applies a rich theoretical framework to a comparative analysis...
When Movies Were Theater
Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
There was a time when seeing a movie meant more than seeing a film. The theater itself shaped the very perception of events on screen. This multilayered history tells the story of American film through the evolution of theater architecture and the surprisingly varied ways movies were shown, ranging...
Consumed Nostalgia
Memory in the Age of Fast Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. For many of us, modern memory is shaped less by a longing for the social customs and practices of the past or for family heirlooms handed down over generations and more by childhood encounters with ephemeral commercial goods and fleeting media moments in our age...
After the Red Army Faction
Gender, Culture, and Militancy
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Masterminded by women, the Red Army Faction (RAF) terrorized West Germany from the 1970s to the 1990s. Afterimages of its leaders persist in the works of pivotal artists and writers, including Gerhard Richter, Elfriede Jelinek, and Slavoj iek. Why were women so prominent in the RAF? What does...
I Speak, Therefore I Am
Seventeen Thoughts About Language
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
There are no men so dull and stupid, not even idiots, as to be incapable of joining together different words, and thereby constructing a declaration by which to make their thoughts understood.... On the other hand, there is no other animal, however perfect or happily circumstanced which can do the...
Appetite for Innovation
Creativity and Change at elBulli
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
The name elBulli is synonymous with creativity and innovation. Located in Catalonia, Spain, the three-star Michelin restaurant led the world to "molecular" or "techno-emotional" cooking and made creations, such as pine-nut marshmallows, rose-scented mozzarella, liquid olives, and...