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Disappearing Acts
Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina's "Dirty War"
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 1997
In Disappearing Acts, Diana Taylor looks at how national identity is shaped, gendered, and contested through spectacle and spectatorship. The specific identity in question is that of Argentina, and Taylor’s focus is directed toward the years 1976 to 1983 in which the Argentine armed forces were...
by Jesus Martin Barbero, Diana Taylor, Néstor Garcia Canclini
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
“Cultural agency” refers to a range of creative activities that contribute to society, including pedagogy, research, activism, and the arts. Focusing on the connections between creativity and social change in the Americas, this collection encourages scholars to become cultural agents by reflecting...
Negotiating Performance
Gender, Sexuality, and Theatricality in Latin/o America
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 1994
In Negotiating Performance, major scholars and practitioners of the theatrical arts consider the diversity of Latin American and U. S. Latino performance: indigenous theater, performance art, living installations, carnival, public demonstrations, and gender acts such as transvestism. By redefining...
Japan After Japan
Social and Cultural Life from the Recessionary 1990s to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2006
The prolonged downturn in the Japanese economy that began during the recessionary 1990s triggered a complex set of reactions both within Japan and abroad, reshaping not only the country’s economy but also its politics, society, and culture. In Japan After Japan, scholars of history, anthropology,...
The Cinema of Naruse Mikio
Women and Japanese Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2008
One of the most prolific and respected directors of Japanese cinema, Naruse Mikio (1905–69) made eighty-nine films between 1930 and 1967. Little, however, has been written about Naruse in English, and much of the writing about him in Japanese has not been translated into English. With The Cinema...
by Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson, David Rodowick
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2001
In Reading the Figural, or, Philosophy after the New Media D. N. Rodowick applies the concept of “the figural” to a variety of philosophical and aesthetic issues. Inspired by the aesthetic philosophy of Jean-François Lyotard, the figural defines a semiotic regime where the distinction between...
Rock Over the Edge
Transformations in Popular Music Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2002
This collection brings new voices and new perspectives to the study of popular—and particularly rock—music. Focusing on a variety of artists and music forms, Rock Over the Edge asks what happens to rock criticism when rock is no longer a coherent concept. To work toward an answer, contributors...
The Echo of Things
The Lives of Photographs in the Solomon Islands
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
The Echo of Things is a compelling ethnographic study of what photography means to the people of Roviana Lagoon in the western Solomon Islands. Christopher Wright examines the contemporary uses of photography and expectations of the medium in Roviana, as well as people's reactions to photographs made...
How a Revolutionary Art Became Official Culture
Murals, Museums, and the Mexican State
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
A public art movement initiated by the postrevolutionary state, Mexican muralism has long been admired for its depictions of popular struggle and social justice. Mary K. Coffey revises traditional accounts of Mexican muralism by describing how a radical art movement was transformed into official culture,...
Women's Camera Work
Self/Body/Other in American Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 1998
Women’s Camera Work explores how photographs have been and are used to construct versions of history and examines how photographic representations of otherness often tell stories about the self. In the process, Judith Fryer Davidov focuses on the lives and work of a particular network of artists...
White Men Challenging Racism
35 Personal Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2003
White Men Challenging Racism is a collection of first-person narratives chronicling the compelling experiences of thirty-five white men whose efforts to combat racism and fight for social justice are central to their lives. Based on interviews conducted by Cooper Thompson, Emmett Schaefer, and Harry...
Signal 05
A Journal of International Political Graphics & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2016
Signal is an ongoing book series dedicated to documenting and sharing compelling graphics, art projects and cultural movements of international resistance and liberation struggles. Artists and cultural workers have been at the centre of upheavals and revolts the world over, from painters to poets...
Signal 06
A Journal of International Political Graphics & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Latest in the series dedicated to documenting and sharing compelling graphics, art projects, and cultural movements of international resistance and liberation struggles. Artists and cultural workers have been at the centre of upheavals and revolts the world over, from the painters and poets in the...
Crafting Gender
Women and Folk Art in Latin America and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
This volume initiates a gender-based framework for analyzing the folk art of Latin America and the Caribbean. Defined here broadly as the "art of the people" and as having a primarily decorative, rather than utilitarian, purpose, folk art is not solely the province of women, but folk art...