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Feminist Studies / Critical Studies
Häftad, 1986
289 kr
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"This wonderful book does nothing less than to create the next stage of feminist thought." —Catharine R. Stimpson"De Lauretis provides a way of thinking about feminism that accepts rather than tries to resolve differences, that refuses fixed definitional categories and insists instead on the …
Studies in Entertainment
Critical Approaches to Mass Culture
Häftad, 1986
291 kr
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"This is an important book for all students of literature and history." —American Studies International" . . . thoughtful and provocative. . . . the essays . . . grant complexity and contradiction to mass culture, while interrogating its objects from positions that—explicitly or implicitly—derive …
Logics of Television
Essays in Cultural Criticism
Häftad, 1990
246 kr
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"This intellectually sexy collection features some of the best and brightest academic media analysts from Britain and the United States." —Voice Literary Supplement"The essays in this volume rigorously engage the challenges of postmodern cultural criticism and theory, the central contemporary …
Displacements
Cultural Identities in Question
Häftad, 1994
218 kr
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Cultural displacement—physical dislocation from one's native culture or the colonizing imposition of a foreign culture—is one of the most formative experiences of our century. These essays examine the impact of this experience on contemporary notions of cultural identity from the perspectives of …
Pedagogy
The Question of Impersonation
Av Jane Gallop
Häftad, 1995
251 kr
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In Pedagogy: The Question of Impersonation, authors argue that teaching is a performance that incorporates the personal in acts of "im-personation." After David Crane's prefatory "postscript," George Otte recommends that students pretend, writing from various perspectives; Indira Karamcheti …
Mirror and the Killer-Queen
Otherness in Literary Language
Häftad, 1996
316 kr
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"The book not only confirms the high ethical stakes in informed contemporary reading; it offers a rare readerly pleasure in . . . exploring the wider cultural significance of gender and the body and their narrative representation." —Henry Sussman, SUNY-BuffaloGabriele Schwab revitalizes debates …
Ethics After Idealism
Theory—Culture—Ethnicity—Reading
Av Rey Chow
Häftad, 1998
218 kr
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"Methodologically situated in the contentious spaces between critical theory and cultural studies, and always attending to the implications of ethnicity, this book constitutes a unique intervention in contemporary cultural politics." —Social SemioticsAt a time when cultural identity has become …
Too Soon Too Late
History in Popular Culture
Häftad, 1998
297 kr
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What good is history to cultural studies? Meaghan Morris looks at struggles over "history" in social settings created by capitalism: in tourist landscapes and in television time. The materials of her analysis are motels, shopping malls, beaches, and local politics. She focuses on history and …
Figuring Age
Women, Bodies, Generations
Häftad, 1999
303 kr
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Figuring Age engages the virtually invisible subject of older women in western culture. Like other markers of social difference, age is given meaning by a culture. Yet unlike gender and race, the subjects of age and aging have received little sustained attention. Central to Figuring Age is the …
Biotechnology and Culture
Bodies, Anxieties, Ethics
Häftad, 2001
275 kr
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Biotechnology and CultureBodies, Anxieties, EthicsEdited by Paul BrodwinUntangles the broad cultural effects of biotechnologies "A timely and perceptive look from many acute angles, at some of the most anxiety producing issues of the day." —Paul Rabinow, University of California, Berkeley"This …
Representing Animals
Häftad, 2002
300 kr
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Representing Animals explores the complex and often surprising connections between our imagining of animals and our cultural environment. The contributors—historians, literary critics, anthropologists, artists, art historians, and scholars of cultural studies—examine the ways we talk, write, …
Displacement
Derrida and After
Inbunden, 1983
401 kr
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Displacement is a unique collection of essays devoted to Jacques Derrida, widely regarded as the greatest influence on the theory and practice of reading and writing of the past fifteen years. Reflecting Derrida's broad philosophical and cultural concerns, the essays in this volume deal with …
