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Concerto for the left hand disability and the defamiliar body / by Davidson, Michael, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Prelude: the pool -- Introduction: concerto for the left hand -- Strange blood: hemophobia and the unexplored boundaries of queer nation -- Phantom limbs: film noir's volatile bodies -- Hearing things: the scandal of speech in deaf performance -- Tree tangled in tree: resiting poetry through ASL -- Missing Larry: the poetics of disability in Larry Eigner -- Nostalgia for light: being blind at the museum -- Universal design: the work of disability in an age of globalization -- Organs without bodies: transplant narratives in the global market -- Afterword: disability and the defamiliar body -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.…”
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Censorship in South Asia cultural regulation from sedition to seduction /

Table of Contents: “…Between sedition and seduction : thinking censorship in South Asia / William Mazzarella and Raminder Kaur -- Iatrogenic religion and politics / Christopher Pinney -- Making sense of the cinema in late colonial India / William Mazzarella -- The limits of decency and the decency of limits : censorship and the Bombay film industry / Tejaswini Ganti -- Anxiety, failure, and censorship in Indian advertising / Angad Chowdhry -- Nuclear revelations / Raminder Kaur -- Specters of Macaulay : blasphemy, the Indian penal code, and Pakistan's postcolonial predicament / Asad Ali Ahmed -- After the massacre : secrecy, disbelief, and the public sphere in Nepal / Genevieve Lakier.…”
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Concerto for the left hand disability and the defamiliar body / by Davidson, Michael, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Prelude: the pool -- Introduction: concerto for the left hand -- Strange blood: hemophobia and the unexplored boundaries of queer nation -- Phantom limbs: film noir's volatile bodies -- Hearing things: the scandal of speech in deaf performance -- Tree tangled in tree: resiting poetry through ASL -- Missing Larry: the poetics of disability in Larry Eigner -- Nostalgia for light: being blind at the museum -- Universal design: the work of disability in an age of globalization -- Organs without bodies: transplant narratives in the global market -- Afterword: disability and the defamiliar body -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.…”
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Censorship in South Asia cultural regulation from sedition to seduction /

Table of Contents: “…Between sedition and seduction : thinking censorship in South Asia / William Mazzarella and Raminder Kaur -- Iatrogenic religion and politics / Christopher Pinney -- Making sense of the cinema in late colonial India / William Mazzarella -- The limits of decency and the decency of limits : censorship and the Bombay film industry / Tejaswini Ganti -- Anxiety, failure, and censorship in Indian advertising / Angad Chowdhry -- Nuclear revelations / Raminder Kaur -- Specters of Macaulay : blasphemy, the Indian penal code, and Pakistan's postcolonial predicament / Asad Ali Ahmed -- After the massacre : secrecy, disbelief, and the public sphere in Nepal / Genevieve Lakier.…”
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Tango Lessons : Movement, Sound, Image, and Text in Contemporary Practice /

Table of Contents: “…Miller -- Tango, politics, and the musical of exile / Antonio Gómez -- The return of the tango in documentary film / Fernando Rosenberg -- "Manejame como un auto" : Drive me like a car, or What's so new about tango nuevo? …”
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Tango Lessons : Movement, Sound, Image, and Text in Contemporary Practice /

Table of Contents: “…Miller -- Tango, politics, and the musical of exile / Antonio Gómez -- The return of the tango in documentary film / Fernando Rosenberg -- "Manejame como un auto" : Drive me like a car, or What's so new about tango nuevo? …”
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Characterization of tribological materials

Table of Contents: “…Boundary lubrication -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Mechanical effects in lubrication -- 6.3 Adequacy of hydrodynamic fluid films -- 6.4 Chemical effects in liquid lubrication, boundary lubrication -- 6.5 Wear and failure -- 6.6 Research in boundary lubrication -- 6.7 Laboratory research -- 6.8 Composition of films -- 6.9 Further mechanical effects of the boundary lubricant layer -- 6.10 Surface analysis of boundary lubricated metals -- 6.11 Ellipsometry and its use in measuring film thickness -- References --…”
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Characterization of tribological materials

Table of Contents: “…Boundary lubrication -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Mechanical effects in lubrication -- 6.3 Adequacy of hydrodynamic fluid films -- 6.4 Chemical effects in liquid lubrication, boundary lubrication -- 6.5 Wear and failure -- 6.6 Research in boundary lubrication -- 6.7 Laboratory research -- 6.8 Composition of films -- 6.9 Further mechanical effects of the boundary lubricant layer -- 6.10 Surface analysis of boundary lubricated metals -- 6.11 Ellipsometry and its use in measuring film thickness -- References --…”
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Wittgenstein at the movies cinematic investigations /

Table of Contents: “…Wittgenstein at the movies : an introduction / Béla Szabados and Christina Stojanova -- Showing, Not Saying : Filming a Philosophical Genius / William Lyons -- Remarks on the Scripts for Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein / Michael O'Pray -- The World Hued : Jarman and Wittgenstein on Colour / Steven Burns -- Sketches of Landscapes : Wittgenstein after Wittgenstein / Daniel Steuer -- "How It Was Then" : Home Movies as History in Péter Forgács's Meanwhile Somewhere / William C. …”
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Wittgenstein at the movies cinematic investigations /

Table of Contents: “…Wittgenstein at the movies : an introduction / Béla Szabados and Christina Stojanova -- Showing, Not Saying : Filming a Philosophical Genius / William Lyons -- Remarks on the Scripts for Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein / Michael O'Pray -- The World Hued : Jarman and Wittgenstein on Colour / Steven Burns -- Sketches of Landscapes : Wittgenstein after Wittgenstein / Daniel Steuer -- "How It Was Then" : Home Movies as History in Péter Forgács's Meanwhile Somewhere / William C. …”
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Self-reference in the media

Table of Contents: “…Schmidt -- Metapictures and self-referential pictures / Winfried Nöth -- Absolut anonymous / Nina Bishara -- The death of photography in self-reference / Winfried Nöth -- Marilyn / Kay Kirchmann -- The self-reflexive screen / Gloria Withalm -- Nostalgia of the media in the media / Andreas Böhn -- Self-reference in animated films / Jan Siebert -- On the use of self-disclosure as a mode of audiovisual reflexivity / Fernando Andacht -- The old in the new / Joan K. …”
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Globalizing India perspectives from below /

Table of Contents: “…Balachandran and Sanjay Subrahmanyam -- In search of 'basmatisthan' : agro-nationalism and globalization / Denis Vidal -- Seeds of wrath : agriculture, biotechnology and globalization / Jackie Assayag -- Weaving for IKEA in South India : subcontracting, labour markets and gender relations in a global value chain / Geert De Neve -- Children are capital, grandchildren are interest : changing educational strategies and parenting in Calcutta's middle-class families / Henrike Donner -- Of languages, passions and interests : education, regionalism and globalization in Maharashtra, 1800-2000 / Véronique Bénéï -- Maps of audiences : Bombay films, the French territory and the making of an "oblique" market / Emmanuel Grimaud -- Malabar gods, nation-building and world culture : on perceptions of the local and the global / Gilles Tarabout -- Globalizing Hinduism : a "traditional" guru and modern businessmen in Chennai / C.J. …”
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The Festival of Britain a land and its people / by Atkinson, Harriet

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Globalizing India perspectives from below /

Table of Contents: “…Balachandran and Sanjay Subrahmanyam -- In search of 'basmatisthan' : agro-nationalism and globalization / Denis Vidal -- Seeds of wrath : agriculture, biotechnology and globalization / Jackie Assayag -- Weaving for IKEA in South India : subcontracting, labour markets and gender relations in a global value chain / Geert De Neve -- Children are capital, grandchildren are interest : changing educational strategies and parenting in Calcutta's middle-class families / Henrike Donner -- Of languages, passions and interests : education, regionalism and globalization in Maharashtra, 1800-2000 / Véronique Bénéï -- Maps of audiences : Bombay films, the French territory and the making of an "oblique" market / Emmanuel Grimaud -- Malabar gods, nation-building and world culture : on perceptions of the local and the global / Gilles Tarabout -- Globalizing Hinduism : a "traditional" guru and modern businessmen in Chennai / C.J. …”
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The Festival of Britain a land and its people / by Atkinson, Harriet

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Self-reference in the media

Table of Contents: “…Schmidt -- Metapictures and self-referential pictures / Winfried Nöth -- Absolut anonymous / Nina Bishara -- The death of photography in self-reference / Winfried Nöth -- Marilyn / Kay Kirchmann -- The self-reflexive screen / Gloria Withalm -- Nostalgia of the media in the media / Andreas Böhn -- Self-reference in animated films / Jan Siebert -- On the use of self-disclosure as a mode of audiovisual reflexivity / Fernando Andacht -- The old in the new / Joan K. …”
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Echoes from Dharamsala music in the life of a Tibetan refugee community / by Diehl, Keila

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Theory at home and in the field -- Dharamsala : a resting place to pass through -- "There is a tension in our hearts" : constructing the rich cultural heritage of Tibet -- Taking refuge in (and from) India : film songs, angry mobs, and other exilic pleasures and fears -- The West as surrogate Shangri-La : rock and roll and rangzen as style and ideology -- The nail that sticks up gets hammered down : making modern Tibetan music -- Little jolmo bird in the willow grove : crafting Tibetan song lyrics -- A peek through ragged tent flaps and Heaven's door : concerts that rupture and bond -- Conclusion : Cycles, echoes, and their implications.…”
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How "American" is globalization? by Marling, William, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…-- The ubiquitous American film -- American television and the rise of local programming -- The McDonalds' brouhaha -- What about the Internet? …”
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Martin Sherman skipping over quicksand / by Dace, Letitia

Table of Contents: “…Crucibles and satires (1938-1960) -- Songs (1960-1962) -- Fat Tuesday (1963-1966) -- Crises (1966-1972) -- California dreamin' (1973-1977) -- Pink triangles (1977-1979) -- Bent on Broadway (1979-1980) -- Rachel (1978-1984) -- Isadora (1983-1988) -- Vanessa times two (1986-1991) -- Ian again (1989-1991) -- A future in film (1990-1993) -- Magic (1994-1997) -- Celluloid (1994-1997) -- Dreams fulfilled (1994-1997) -- Judaica (1998-2000) -- Italy (1999-2003) -- India (2000-2002) -- Oz (2001-2003) -- Laura (2003-2005) -- Controversies (2005-2011.…”
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Martin Sherman skipping over quicksand / by Dace, Letitia

Table of Contents: “…Crucibles and satires (1938-1960) -- Songs (1960-1962) -- Fat Tuesday (1963-1966) -- Crises (1966-1972) -- California dreamin' (1973-1977) -- Pink triangles (1977-1979) -- Bent on Broadway (1979-1980) -- Rachel (1978-1984) -- Isadora (1983-1988) -- Vanessa times two (1986-1991) -- Ian again (1989-1991) -- A future in film (1990-1993) -- Magic (1994-1997) -- Celluloid (1994-1997) -- Dreams fulfilled (1994-1997) -- Judaica (1998-2000) -- Italy (1999-2003) -- India (2000-2002) -- Oz (2001-2003) -- Laura (2003-2005) -- Controversies (2005-2011.…”
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