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Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 41
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: New Series
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international...
Christians in the Movies
A Century of Saints and Sinners
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
Christians in the Movies traces the arc of the portrayal in film of Christians from 1905 to the present. For most of the first six decades, the portrayals were favorable and even reverential. By contrast, from 1970 on, Christians have often been treated with hostility and often outright ridicule....
The Moral Imagination
From Adam Smith to Lionel Trilling
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
In The Moral Imagination, Gertrude Himmelfarb, one of America's most distinguished intellectual historians, explores the minds and lives of some of the most brilliant and provocative thinkers of modern times. In their distinctive ways, she argues, they exemplify what Burke two centuries ago and Trilling...
by Harold A. Innis
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2004
This classic book, Harold Innis's last, returns to print with a new introduction by James Carey. An elaboration of Innis's earlier theories, Changing Concepts of Time looks at then-new technological changes in communication and considers the different ways in which space and time are perceived. Innis...
by Arshia Sattar
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
One of India’s greatest epics, the Ramayana pervades the country’s moral and cultural consciousness. For generations it has served as a bedtime story for Indian children, while at the same time engaging the interest of philosophers and theologians. Believed to have been composed by Valmiki sometime...
by Joseph W. Bendersky
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
This balanced history offers a concise, readable introduction to Nazi Germany. Combining compelling narrative storytelling with analysis, Joseph W. Bendersky offers an authoritative survey of the major political, economic, and social factors that powered the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Now in...
Placing Animals
An Introduction to the Geography of Human-Animal Relations
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
As Julie Urbanik vividly illustrates, non-human animals are central to our daily human lives. We eat them, wear them, live with them, work them, experiment on them, try to save them, spoil them, abuse them, fight them, hunt them, buy and sell them, love them, and hate them. Placing Animals is the...
by Michael Dale Kimmel
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Legal gay marriage is still a relatively new phenomenon.
As gay men who are now able to get married, we find ourselves in a bit of a quandary: for many male couples, sex is a lot more important for us than it is for heterosexuals. Two married men often have a stronger desire for sex - wanting...
Television Series of the 1950s
Essential Facts and Quirky Details
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Often regarded as the first golden era of television, the 1950s was a decade when many classic programs—from I Love Lucy and Gunsmoke to The Honeymooners and Perry Mason, among others—made their debuts. Even after these shows departed the airwaves, they lived on in syndication, entertaining several...
From Underground to Independent
Alternative Film Culture in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2006
This groundbreaking book presents a critical introduction to the cultural and political dimensions of contemporary Chinese cinema. Leading Western and Chinese scholars trace the changing dynamics of Chinese film culture since the early 1990s as it moves away from underground and toward independence...
Sinascape
Contemporary Chinese Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2006
Sinascape: Contemporary Chinese Cinema is one of the most comprehensive studies of transnational Chinese-language films at the turn of the millennium. Gary Xu combines a close reading of contemporary movies from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong with an intimate look into the transnational Chinese film...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2007
This lively and engaging text offers a panorama of modern Chinese history through compelling biographies of the famous and obscure. Spanning five hundred years, they include a Ming dynasty medical pioneer, a Qing dynasty courtesan, a nineteenth-century Hong Kong business leader, a Manchu princess,...
Why It Sells
Decoding the Meanings of Brand Names, Logos, Ads, and Other Marketing and Advertising Ploys
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2007
Advertising plays a key role in defining contemporary culture worldwide, creating a variety of meanings in the minds of consumers. Intrigued by this process, Marcel Danesi—an entertaining and insightful tour guide—decodes the messages woven into the advertisements, commercials, brand names, and...
by Sara L. Crawley, Lara J. Foley, Constance L. Shehan
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2007
Gendering Bodies explains how the social world shapes our physical bodies and how our bodies shape the social world. In this remarkable investigation into contemporary ideas of gender, sociologists Crawley, Foley, and Shehan argue that bodies are constantly being gendered, or encouraged to participate...