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Pedagogies of Crossing
Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2006
M. Jacqui Alexander is one of the most important theorists of transnational feminism working today. Pedagogies of Crossing brings together essays she has written over the past decade, uniting her incisive critiques, which have had such a profound impact on feminist, queer, and critical race theories,...
The Fruit Machine
Twenty Years of Writings on Queer Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2000
For more than twenty years, film critic, teacher, activist, and fan Thomas Waugh has been writing about queer movies. As a member of the Jump Cut collective and contributor to the Toronto-based gay newspaper the Body Politic, he emerged in the late 1970s as a pioneer in gay film theory and criticism,...
Authoring Autism
On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
In Authoring Autism Melanie Yergeau defines neurodivergence as an identity—neuroqueerness—rather than an impairment. Using a queer theory framework, Yergeau notes the stereotypes that deny autistic people their humanity and the chance to define themselves while also challenging cognitive studies...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Black performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. This collection of new essays by some of its pioneering thinkers—many of whom are performers—demonstrates the breadth, depth, innovation, and critical value of black performance theory. Considering how blackness...
Travel & See
Black Diaspora Art Practices Since the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Over the years, Kobena Mercer has critically illuminated the visual innovations of African American and black British artists. In Travel & See he presents a diasporic model of criticism that gives close attention to aesthetic strategies while tracing the shifting political and cultural contexts...
by Michael J. Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In The Political Sublime Michael J. Shapiro formulates an original politics of aesthetics through an analysis of the experience of the sublime. Turning away from Kant's analysis of the sublime experience as a validation of the existence of a universal common sense, Shapiro draws on Deleuze, Lyotard,...
by Michele Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2004
Michele Wallace burst into public consciousness with the 1979 publication of Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, a pioneering critique of the misogyny of the Black Power movement and the effects of racism and sexism on black women. Since then, Wallace has produced an extraordinary body of...
The Aesthetics of Shadow
Lighting and Japanese Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
In this revealing study, Daisuke Miyao explores "the aesthetics of shadow" in Japanese cinema in the first half of the twentieth century. This term, coined by the production designer Yoshino Nobutaka, refers to the perception that shadows add depth and mystery. Miyao analyzes how this notion...
Kurosawa
Film Studies and Japanese Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2000
The films of Akira Kurosawa have had an immense effect on the way the Japanese have viewed themselves as a nation and on the way the West has viewed Japan. In this comprehensive and theoretically informed study of the influential director’s cinema, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto definitively analyzes Kurosawa’s...
by Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.
At the Edge of Sight
Photography and the Unseen
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
The advent of photography revolutionized perception, making visible what was once impossible to see with the human eye. In At the Edge of Sight, Shawn Michelle Smith engages these dynamics of seeing and not seeing, focusing attention as much on absence as presence, on the invisible as the visible....
Leaving Art
Writings on Performance, Politics, and Publics, 1974–2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Since the 1970s, the performance and conceptual artist Suzanne Lacy has explored women’s lives and experiences, as well as race, ethnicity, aging, economic disparities, and violence, through her pioneering community-based art. Combining aesthetics and politics, and often collaborating with other...
Still Moving
Between Cinema and Photography
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2008
In Still Moving noted artists, filmmakers, art historians, and film scholars explore the boundary between cinema and photography. The interconnectedness of the two media has emerged as a critical concern for scholars in the field of cinema studies responding to new media technologies, and for those...
Lost in Translation
Orientalism, Cinema, and the Enigmatic Signifier
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
In a nuanced exploration of how Western cinema has represented East Asia as a space of radical indecipherability, Homay King traces the long-standing association of the Orient with the enigmatic. The fantasy of an inscrutable East, she argues, is not merely a side note to film history, but rather...