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Reel Families
A Social History of Amateur Film
Häftad, 1995
232 kr
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Amateur film has been seen as the junkheap of private culture. Yet music videos recycle home movies as authenticity; commercials copy its style to sell intimacy; documentaries use it to recount history "from below."Reel Families is the first historical study of amateur film, the most pervasive of …
High Anxiety
Catastrophe, Scandal, Age, and Comedy
Häftad, 1992
275 kr
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" . . . acute look at the state of contemporary culture . . . A humorous . . . book, it yields rewarding advice for our perception of reality and fiction." —Back Stage / Shoot"Mellencamp's ease of movement between the conceptual and the commonplace is the great strength of this work. . . . High …
Writing Diaspora
Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies
Av Rey Chow
Häftad, 1993
205 kr
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" . . . this is no doctrinaire tract but rather a concerted attempt to look at important cultural problems from a fresh perspective. . . . Chow's book is an excellent example of its type."—Discourse & Society"I believe that Rey Chow has written a powerful set of essays which offer a critical …
Virtual Geography
Living with Global Media Events
Häftad, 1994
247 kr
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"The author's capacity to grasp and interpret these [world media] events is astounding, and her ability to provide insights into a world where unbounded information is circling the earth with the speed of light is startling." —Choice" . . . a wide-ranging, quirky and dextrous mix of description, …
Samba
Resistance in Motion
Häftad, 1995
225 kr
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Barbara Browning combines a lyrical, personal narrative with incisive theoretical accounts of Brazilian dance cultures. While she brings ethnographic, historiographic, and musicological scholarship to bear on her subject, Browning writes as a dancer, fully engaged in the dance cultures of Brazil …
Masked Men
Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties
Av Steve Cohan
Häftad, 1997
275 kr
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The fifties marks the moment when a heterosexual/homosexual dualism came to dominate U.S. culture's thinking about masculinity. The films of this era record how gender and sexuality did not easily come together in a normative manhood common to American men. Instead these films demonstrate the …
Toward Cinema and Its Double
Cross-Cultural Mimesis
Häftad, 2001
260 kr
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Toward Cinema and Its Double brings together Laleen Jayamanne's discussions of Australian films, Sri Lankan films, European art films, silent film comedy, contemporary American films, and her own films. While some of her essays are based on formal film analysis, others include more theoretically …
