Duke University Press: 2463 books
What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet?
Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
In What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? Madina Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates this human condition. Observing how the concept of the happy future—which was at the core of the project of Soviet modernity—has lapsed from the post-Soviet imagination, Tlostanova shows...
Gumshoe America
Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2000
In Gumshoe America Sean McCann offers a bold new account of the hard-boiled crime story and its literary and political significance. Illuminating a previously unnoticed set of concerns at the heart of the fiction, he contends that mid-twentieth-century American crime writers used the genre to confront...
by Amelie Hastie, Jane M. Gaines
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2002
A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema marks a new era of feminist film scholarship. The twenty essays collected here demonstrate how feminist historiographies at once alter and enrich ongoing debates over visuality and identification, authorship, stardom, and nationalist ideologies in cinema and media...
Looking Past the Screen
Case Studies in American Film History and Method
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2007
Film scholarship has long been dominated by textual interpretations of specific films. Looking Past the Screen advances a more expansive American film studies in which cinema is understood to be a social, political, and cultural phenomenon extending far beyond the screen. Presenting a model of film...
From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park
Activism, Culture, and American Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2001
Paul Lauter, an icon of American Studies who has been a primary agent in its transformation and its chief ambassador abroad, offers a wide-ranging collection of essays that demonstrate and reflect on this important and often highly politicized discipline. While American Studies was formerly seen as...
Imitations of Life
Two Centuries of Melodrama in Russia
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2002
Imitations of Life views Russian melodrama from the eighteenth century to today as an unexpectedly hospitable forum for considering social issues. The contributors follow the evolution of the genre through a variety of cultural practices and changing political scenarios. They argue that Russian audiences...
The Un-Americans
Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
In a bold rethinking of the Hollywood blacklist and McCarthyite America, Joseph Litvak reveals a political regime that did not end with the 1950s or even with the Cold War: a regime of compulsory sycophancy, in which the good citizen is an informer, ready to denounce anyone who will not play the part...
by Charles Taylor, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Jane Kramer
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
One of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, Charles Taylor is internationally renowned for his contributions to political and moral theory, particularly to debates about identity formation, multiculturalism, secularism, and modernity. In Modern Social Imaginaries, Taylor...
by H. C. Erik Midelfort, Guy Bedouelle, Scott Hendrix
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 1990
A distinguished group of authors here illuminate a broad spectrum of themes in the history of biblical interpretation. Originally published in 1990, these essays take as their common ground the thesis that the intellectual and religious life of the sixteenth century cannot be understood without attention...
by Rey Chow
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
How might the pornographic be associated with Brecht's and Benjamin's media theories? How are Foucault's and Deleuze's writings on visibilities "postcolonial"? What happens when Rancière's discussions of art are juxtaposed with cultural anthropology? What does a story by Lao She about collecting...
Questions of Travel
Postmodern Discourses of Displacement
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 1996
Contemporary theory is replete with metaphors of travel—displacement, diaspora, borders, exile, migration, nomadism, homelessness, and tourism to name a few. In Questions of Travel, Caren Kaplan explores the various metaphoric uses of travel and displacement in literary and feminist theory, traces...
The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences
Positivism and Its Epistemological Others
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2005
The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences provides a remarkable comparative assessment of the variations of positivism and alternative epistemologies in the contemporary human sciences. Often declared obsolete, positivism is alive and well in a number of the fields; in others, its influence is...
by John Kadvany, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2001
The Hungarian émigré Imre Lakatos (1922–1974) earned a worldwide reputation through the influential philosophy of science debates involving Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, and Sir Karl Popper. In Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason John Kadvany shows that embedded in Lakatos’s English-language...
Bodies in Contact
Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2005
From portrayals of African women’s bodies in early modern European travel accounts to the relation between celibacy and Indian nationalism to the fate of the Korean “comfort women” forced into prostitution by the occupying Japanese army during the Second World War, the essays collected in Bodies...