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Photography, early cinema, and colonial modernity Frank Hurley's synchronized lecture entertainments / by Dixon, Robert, 1954-

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A companion to early cinema

Table of Contents: “…Gaines -- The Invention of Cinematic Celebrity in Britain / -- Andrew shail -- the film lecturer / Germain Lacasse -- Richard Hoffman: A Collector's Archive / Richard Koszarski -- Early Cinema Recollections. …”
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Global media ethics problems and perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Affective Expertise: The Journalism Ethics of Celebrity Sourcing Katherine Bell, University of Washington, Seattle 12. …”
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Writing Tangier

Table of Contents: “…Tangier at the crossroads: cross-cultural encounters and literary production / Allen Hibbard -- Publishing Tangier: twenty-five years / Jeffrey Miller -- Localized identity, universal experience: celebrating Mohamed Choukri as a Moroccan writer / Salah Moukhlis -- Forbidden territory: Juan Goytisolo's maps of Tangier / Andrew Hussey -- Bankruptcy in Mohamed Choukri's The flower freak / Abdellatif Akbib -- Paul Bowles' Tangier: an ambiguous compromise / Khalid Amine -- The writers/storytellers of Morocco and Paul Bowles: some observations and afterthoughts / R. …”
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Transatlantic Scots

Table of Contents: “…Transatlantic Scots and ethnicity / Celeste Ray -- Scottish immigration and ethnic organization in the United States / Celeste Ray -- A brief history of organized Scottishness in Canada / Michael Vance -- From the Quebec-Hebrideans to "les écossais-québécois" : tracing the evolution of a Scottish cultural identity in Canada's eastern townships / Margaret Bennett -- Powerful pathos : the triumph of Scottishness in Nova Scotia / Michael Vance -- You play it as you would sing it : Cape Breton, Scottishness, and the means of cultural production / Jonathan Dembling -- The North American émigré, highland games, and social capital in international communities / Grant Jarvie -- Troubling times in the Scottish-American relationship / Andrew Hook -- Bravehearts and patriarchs : masculinity on the pedestal in southern Scottish heritage celebration / Celeste Ray -- Finding Colonsay's emigrants and a "heritage of place" / John W. …”
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Writing Tangier

Table of Contents: “…Tangier at the crossroads: cross-cultural encounters and literary production / Allen Hibbard -- Publishing Tangier: twenty-five years / Jeffrey Miller -- Localized identity, universal experience: celebrating Mohamed Choukri as a Moroccan writer / Salah Moukhlis -- Forbidden territory: Juan Goytisolo's maps of Tangier / Andrew Hussey -- Bankruptcy in Mohamed Choukri's The flower freak / Abdellatif Akbib -- Paul Bowles' Tangier: an ambiguous compromise / Khalid Amine -- The writers/storytellers of Morocco and Paul Bowles: some observations and afterthoughts / R. …”
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Transatlantic Scots

Table of Contents: “…Transatlantic Scots and ethnicity / Celeste Ray -- Scottish immigration and ethnic organization in the United States / Celeste Ray -- A brief history of organized Scottishness in Canada / Michael Vance -- From the Quebec-Hebrideans to "les écossais-québécois" : tracing the evolution of a Scottish cultural identity in Canada's eastern townships / Margaret Bennett -- Powerful pathos : the triumph of Scottishness in Nova Scotia / Michael Vance -- You play it as you would sing it : Cape Breton, Scottishness, and the means of cultural production / Jonathan Dembling -- The North American émigré, highland games, and social capital in international communities / Grant Jarvie -- Troubling times in the Scottish-American relationship / Andrew Hook -- Bravehearts and patriarchs : masculinity on the pedestal in southern Scottish heritage celebration / Celeste Ray -- Finding Colonsay's emigrants and a "heritage of place" / John W. …”
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The Slumdog phenomenon a critical anthology /

Table of Contents: “…Why the Sun Shines on Slumdog / Anandam Kavoori -- Slumdog Celebrities / Priya Jaikumar -- Slumdog Millionaire and the New Middlebrow / Robert Koehler -- Slumdog Comprador: Coming to Terms with the Slumdog Phenomenon / Ajay Gehlawat -- The Life-Cycle of Slumdog Millionaire on the Web / Thomas Elsaesser and Warren Buckland -- Conclusion: Jai Who?.…”
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Crafting the woman professional in the long nineteenth century artistry and industry in Britain /

Table of Contents: “…: women drawing on wood and the careers of Florence and Adelaide Claxton / Catherine Flood -- The China painter : amateur celebrities and professional status at Howell and James "Royal Academy of China painting" / Anne Anderson -- Creative industry : design, art education and the woman professional / Patricia Zakreski -- Dorothy's career and other cautionary tales / Pamela Gerrish Nunn -- The craft of self-fashioning -- Negotiating fame : mid-Victorian women writers and the romantic myth of the gentlemanly reviewer / Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi -- Towards an iconography of ouida as a woman artist / Andrew King -- "Mady's tightrope walk" : the career of Marian Huxley Collier / Valerie Sanders -- Living art : Michael Field, aestheticism and dress / Ana Parejo Vadillo.…”
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The Slumdog phenomenon a critical anthology /

Table of Contents: “…Why the Sun Shines on Slumdog / Anandam Kavoori -- Slumdog Celebrities / Priya Jaikumar -- Slumdog Millionaire and the New Middlebrow / Robert Koehler -- Slumdog Comprador: Coming to Terms with the Slumdog Phenomenon / Ajay Gehlawat -- The Life-Cycle of Slumdog Millionaire on the Web / Thomas Elsaesser and Warren Buckland -- Conclusion: Jai Who?.…”
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Crafting the woman professional in the long nineteenth century artistry and industry in Britain /

Table of Contents: “…: women drawing on wood and the careers of Florence and Adelaide Claxton / Catherine Flood -- The China painter : amateur celebrities and professional status at Howell and James "Royal Academy of China painting" / Anne Anderson -- Creative industry : design, art education and the woman professional / Patricia Zakreski -- Dorothy's career and other cautionary tales / Pamela Gerrish Nunn -- The craft of self-fashioning -- Negotiating fame : mid-Victorian women writers and the romantic myth of the gentlemanly reviewer / Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi -- Towards an iconography of ouida as a woman artist / Andrew King -- "Mady's tightrope walk" : the career of Marian Huxley Collier / Valerie Sanders -- Living art : Michael Field, aestheticism and dress / Ana Parejo Vadillo.…”
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Thoughtrave: An Interdimensional Conversation with Lady Gaga / by Baum, Robert Craig

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Thoughtrave: An Interdimensional Conversation with Lady Gaga / by Baum, Robert Craig

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Religion, ethnicity and contested nationhood in the former Ottoman space

Table of Contents: “…History, language politics and the celebration of the Language Festival in Karaman, Turkey, 1961-2008 / Sara Nur Yildiz -- Ottoman Saida and problems of a Lebanese 'national' narrative / James A. …”
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Theatres in the round multi-ethnic, indigenous, and intertextual dialogues in drama /

Table of Contents: “…Elam, Jr. and Michele Elam -- Celebrating indigeneity: contemporary aboriginal playwriting in Canada and Australasia / Marc Maufort -- Quoting the "other": intertextuality and indigeneity in Pacific theatre / David O'Donnell -- Beckett's Chinese progeny: absurdity, waiting, and the Godot motif in contemporary China / Rossella Ferrari -- A punk-rock Elektra: Ruth Margraff's The Elektra fugues / Kathleen L. …”
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Religion, ethnicity and contested nationhood in the former Ottoman space

Table of Contents: “…History, language politics and the celebration of the Language Festival in Karaman, Turkey, 1961-2008 / Sara Nur Yildiz -- Ottoman Saida and problems of a Lebanese 'national' narrative / James A. …”
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Theatres in the round multi-ethnic, indigenous, and intertextual dialogues in drama /

Table of Contents: “…Elam, Jr. and Michele Elam -- Celebrating indigeneity: contemporary aboriginal playwriting in Canada and Australasia / Marc Maufort -- Quoting the "other": intertextuality and indigeneity in Pacific theatre / David O'Donnell -- Beckett's Chinese progeny: absurdity, waiting, and the Godot motif in contemporary China / Rossella Ferrari -- A punk-rock Elektra: Ruth Margraff's The Elektra fugues / Kathleen L. …”
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Challenging heterosexism from the other point of view representations of homosexuality in Queer as folk and The L word / by Frei, Dana, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Queer representation and popular media -- Television series and homosexuality -- Theoretical background -- Queer studies: current state of research -- Developing theses -- Deconstructing heteronormativity -- Challenging institutionalized -- Attitudes and expectations -- Reinforcing stereotypes -- Subjects of investigation -- Queer as folk and The L word -- Queer as folk (QAF-UK) -- Queer as folk (QAF-US) -- The L word (TLW) -- Format conventions and characteristics -- Methodology -- Preparing audiovisual material for analysis -- Cultural negotiations and television serials -- Analysing content in products of popular media -- Qualitative content analysis -- Methodological steps -- Categories and coding -- Results -- Points of focus -- Creating a homonormative world -- Representation of the others -- Social and legal injustice -- Family: questioning genetic bonds -- Bigotry, homophobia and violence -- Hypocrisy & failing morals -- Heterophobia -- New order and value system -- Pride, self-acceptance and linguistic Resignification -- New forms of partnership -- Families of choice: loyalty and friendship -- Assimilation versus diversity -- Questioning gender and sexual dichotomies -- Unmasking the performativity of gender -- Limits of sexual fluidity -- Stereotypes and the mandate of representation -- Hedonism and promiscuity -- Celebrating a lifestyle: party, sex and drugs -- Dangers and the threat of HIV -- The requirement of youth and beauty -- Politics of visibility -- Visibility and the construction of a community -- Representing queer diversity -- Results, conclusion and outlook.…”
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Challenging heterosexism from the other point of view representations of homosexuality in Queer as folk and The L word / by Frei, Dana, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Queer representation and popular media -- Television series and homosexuality -- Theoretical background -- Queer studies: current state of research -- Developing theses -- Deconstructing heteronormativity -- Challenging institutionalized -- Attitudes and expectations -- Reinforcing stereotypes -- Subjects of investigation -- Queer as folk and The L word -- Queer as folk (QAF-UK) -- Queer as folk (QAF-US) -- The L word (TLW) -- Format conventions and characteristics -- Methodology -- Preparing audiovisual material for analysis -- Cultural negotiations and television serials -- Analysing content in products of popular media -- Qualitative content analysis -- Methodological steps -- Categories and coding -- Results -- Points of focus -- Creating a homonormative world -- Representation of the others -- Social and legal injustice -- Family: questioning genetic bonds -- Bigotry, homophobia and violence -- Hypocrisy & failing morals -- Heterophobia -- New order and value system -- Pride, self-acceptance and linguistic Resignification -- New forms of partnership -- Families of choice: loyalty and friendship -- Assimilation versus diversity -- Questioning gender and sexual dichotomies -- Unmasking the performativity of gender -- Limits of sexual fluidity -- Stereotypes and the mandate of representation -- Hedonism and promiscuity -- Celebrating a lifestyle: party, sex and drugs -- Dangers and the threat of HIV -- The requirement of youth and beauty -- Politics of visibility -- Visibility and the construction of a community -- Representing queer diversity -- Results, conclusion and outlook.…”
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Un homme qui crie = A screaming man

Table of Contents: “…Sembene has made a masterpiece, both a critique of traditional forms of authority and a celebration of the warmth and dynamism of African village life.…”