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Selling Modernity
Advertising in Twentieth-Century Germany
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2007
The sheer intensity and violence of Germany’s twentieth century—through the end of an empire, two world wars, two democracies, and two dictatorships—provide a unique opportunity to assess the power and endurance of commercial imagery in the most extreme circumstances. Selling Modernity places...
by Tim Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
As the 1970s gave way to the 80s, New York's party scene entered a ferociously inventive period characterized by its creativity, intensity, and hybridity. Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor chronicles this tumultuous time, charting the sonic and social eruptions that took place in the city’s...
New Queer Cinema
The Director's Cut
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
B. Ruby Rich designated a brand new genre, the New Queer Cinema (NQC), in her groundbreaking article in the Village Voice in 1992. This movement in film and video was intensely political and aesthetically innovative, made possible by the debut of the camcorder, and driven initially by outrage over...
36 Views of Mount Fuji
On Finding Myself in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2006
In 1980 Cathy N. Davidson traveled to Japan to teach English at a leading all-women’s university. It was the first of many journeys and the beginning of a deep and abiding fascination. In this extraordinary book, Davidson depicts a series of intimate moments and small epiphanies that together make...
Blood and Culture
Youth, Right-Wing Extremism, and National Belonging in Contemporary Germany
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2009
Over the past decade, immigration and globalization have significantly altered Europe’s cultural and ethnic landscape, foregrounding questions of national belonging. In Blood and Culture, Cynthia Miller-Idriss provides a rich ethnographic analysis of how patterns of national identity are constructed...
FDR and the Spanish Civil War
Neutrality and Commitment in the Struggle that Divided America
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2007
What was the relationship between President Franklin D. Roosevelt, architect of America’s rise to global power, and the 1936–39 Spanish Civil War, which inspired passion and sacrifice, and shaped the road to world war? While many historians have portrayed the Spanish Civil War as one of Roosevelt’s...
Mad Men, Mad World
Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Since the show's debut in 2007, Mad Men has invited viewers to immerse themselves in the lush period settings, ruthless Madison Avenue advertising culture, and arresting characters at the center of its 1960s fictional world. Mad Men, Mad World is a comprehensive analysis of this groundbreaking TV...
Hold It Against Me
Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In Hold It Against Me, Jennifer Doyle explores the relationship between difficulty and emotion in contemporary art, treating emotion as an artist's medium. She encourages readers to examine the ways in which works of art challenge how we experience not only the artist's feelings, but our own. Discussing...
M/E/A/N/I/N/G
An Anthology of Artists' Writings, Theory, and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2000
M/E/A/N/I/N/G brings together essays and commentary by over a hundred artists, critics, and poets, culled from the art magazine of the same name. The editors—artists Susan Bee and Mira Schor—have selected the liveliest and most provocative pieces from the maverick magazine that bucked commercial...
by Ilan Stavans, Adál Maldonado
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
What explains our current obsession with selfies? In I Love My Selfie noted cultural critic Ilan Stavans explores the selfie's historical and cultural roots by discussing everything from Greek mythology and Shakespeare to Andy Warhol, James Franco, and Pope Francis. He sees selfies as tools people...
by Derrick Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
These stories are not about mythical creatures; here, the creatures speak for themselves. There's an orc who hates Tolkien, a young demon awash in teenage angst, an angel abandoned by Jesus who finds the Fates. Jensen creates a world both delicately dreamlike and all too real, where the villain is sometimes the victim and evil is not always what we thought.
The Migrant Image
The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
In The Migrant Image T. J. Demos examines the ways contemporary artists have reinvented documentary practices in their representations of mobile lives: refugees, migrants, the stateless, and the politically dispossessed. He presents a sophisticated analysis of how artists from the United States, Europe,...
A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 2
The Industrializing Years, 1941–1978
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Hamid Naficy is one of the world’s leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first and addressing documentaries, popular genres, and art films, it explains Iran’s peculiar cinematic production...
by Karl Schoonover, Rosalind Galt
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Proposing a radical vision of cinema's queer globalism, Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt explore how queer filmmaking intersects with international sexual cultures, geopolitics, and aesthetics to disrupt dominant modes of world making. Whether in its exploration of queer cinematic temporality, the...