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The New European Cinema
Redrawing the Map
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
New European Cinema offers a compelling response to the changing cultural shapes of Europe, charting political, aesthetic, and historical developments through innovative readings of some of the most popular and influential European films of the 1990s. Made around the time of the revolutions of 1989...
Rewiring the Real
In Conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Digital and electronic technologies that act as extensions of our bodies and minds are changing how we live, think, act, and write. Some welcome these developments as bringing humans closer to unified consciousness and eternal life. Others worry that invasive globalized technologies threaten to destroy...
Refiguring the Spiritual
Beuys, Barney, Turrell, Goldsworthy
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Mark C. Taylor provocatively claims that contemporary art has lost its way. With the art market now mirroring the art of finance, many artists create works solely for the purpose of luring investors and inspiring trade among hedge funds and private equity firms. When art is commodified, corporatized,...
Voices of Negritude in Modernist Print
Aesthetic Subjectivity, Diaspora, and the Lyric Regime
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Carrie Noland approaches Negritude as an experimental, text-based poetic movement developed by diasporic authors of African descent through the means of modernist print culture. Engaging primarily the works of Aimé Césaire and Léon-Gontran Damas, Noland shows how the demands of print culture alter...
Bachelor Japanists
Japanese Aesthetics and Western Masculinities
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Challenging clichés of Japanism as a feminine taste, Bachelor Japanists argues that Japanese aesthetics were central to contests over the meanings of masculinity in the West. Christopher Reed draws attention to the queerness of Japanist communities of writers, collectors, curators, and artists in...
French Gastronomy
The History and Geography of a Passion
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2002
This we can be sure of: when a restaurant in the western world is famous for its cooking, it is the tricolor flag that hangs above the stove, opined one French magazine, and this is by no means an isolated example of such crowing. Indeed, both linguistically and conceptually, the restaurant itself...
Recovering Place
Reflections on Stone Hill
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Mark C. Taylor recounts a poignant love affair not with a person but with a place that, paradoxically, cannot be easily localized. For many years, Taylor has lived in the Berkshire Mountains, where he writes and creates land art and sculpture. In a world of mobile screens and virtual realities, where...
Eye of the Century
Film, Experience, Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2008
Is it true that film in the twentieth century experimented with vision more than any other art form? And what visions did it privilege? In this brilliant book, acclaimed film scholar Francesco Casetti situates the cinematic experience within discourses of twentieth-century modernity. He suggests that...
After the Silents
Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Many believe Max Steiner's score for King Kong (1933) was the first important attempt at integrating background music into sound film, but a closer look at the industry's early sound era (1926–1934) reveals a more extended and fascinating story. Viewing more than two hundred films from the period,...
by Steph Burt
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2005
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) was the most influential poetry critic of his generation. He was also a lyric poet, comic novelist, translator, children's book author, and close friend of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Hannah Arendt, and many other important writers of his time. Jarrell won the 1960...
Hollywood's Censor
Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
From 1934 to 1954 Joseph I. Breen, a media-savvy Victorian Irishman, reigned over the Production Code Administration, the Hollywood office tasked with censoring the American screen. Though little known outside the ranks of the studio system, this former journalist and public relations agent was one...
Down and Out in New Orleans
Transgressive Living in the Informal Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
In the years since Hurricane Katrina, the modern-day bohemians of New Orleans have found themselves forced to the edges of poverty by the new tourist economy. Modeling his work after George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London, the sociologist and ethnographer Peter J. Marina explores this...
Gilbert and Sullivan
Gender, Genre, Parody
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Long before the satirical comedy of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, the comic operas of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan were the hottest send-ups of the day's political and cultural obsessions. Gilbert and Sullivan's productions always rose to the level of social commentary, despite being...
Chromatic Modernity
Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
The era of silent film, long seen as black and white, has been revealed in recent scholarship as bursting with color. Yet the 1920s remain thought of as a transitional decade between early cinema and the rise of Technicolor—despite the fact that new color technologies used in film, advertising,...