Search Results - "films"

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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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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Chinese ecocinema in the age of environmental challenge /

Table of Contents: “…Of humans and nature in documentary : the logic of capital in West of the tracks and Blind shaft / Ban Wang ; Toward a Hong Kong ecocinema : the dis-appearance of "nature" in three films by Fruit Chan / Chris Tong ; A city of disappearance : trauma, displacement, and spectral cityscape in contemporary Chinese cinema / Jing Nie -- Bioethics, non-anthropocentrism, and green sovereignty. …”
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Chinese ecocinema in the age of environmental challenge /

Table of Contents: “…Of humans and nature in documentary : the logic of capital in West of the tracks and Blind shaft / Ban Wang ; Toward a Hong Kong ecocinema : the dis-appearance of "nature" in three films by Fruit Chan / Chris Tong ; A city of disappearance : trauma, displacement, and spectral cityscape in contemporary Chinese cinema / Jing Nie -- Bioethics, non-anthropocentrism, and green sovereignty. …”
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The sites of Rome time, space, memory /

Table of Contents: “…Larmour -- Victim and voyeur : Rome as a character in Tacitus' Histories 3 / Rhiannon Ash -- The gates of Janus : Bakhtin and Plutarch's Roman meta-chronotope / Jason Banta -- Staging Rome : the Renaissance, Rome, and humanism's classical crisis / Jacob Blevins -- Sizing up Rome, or theorizing the overview / Caroline Vout -- Ancient Rome for little comrades : the legacy of classical antiquity in Soviet childrens' literature / Marina Balina -- The sites and sights of Rome in Fellini's films : 'not a human habitation but a psychical entity' / Elena Theodorakopoulos.…”
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Imagining illness public health and visual culture /

Table of Contents: “…Peter and public health campaigns in China, 1912-1926 / Liping Bu -- The color of money : campaigning for health in black and white America / Gregg Mitman -- Empathy and objectivity : health education through corporate publicity films / Kirsten Ostherr -- Contagion, public health, and the visual culture of nineteenth-century skin / Katherine Ott -- Maps as graphic propaganda for public health / Mark Monmonier -- "Some one sole unique advertisement" : public health posters in the twentieth century / William H. …”
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Impedance spectroscopy applications to electrochemical and dielectric phenomena / by Lvovich, Vadim F., 1967-

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Imagining illness public health and visual culture /

Table of Contents: “…Peter and public health campaigns in China, 1912-1926 / Liping Bu -- The color of money : campaigning for health in black and white America / Gregg Mitman -- Empathy and objectivity : health education through corporate publicity films / Kirsten Ostherr -- Contagion, public health, and the visual culture of nineteenth-century skin / Katherine Ott -- Maps as graphic propaganda for public health / Mark Monmonier -- "Some one sole unique advertisement" : public health posters in the twentieth century / William H. …”
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Impedance spectroscopy applications to electrochemical and dielectric phenomena / by Lvovich, Vadim F., 1967-

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Battling pornography the American feminist anti-pornography movement, 1976-1986 / by Bronstein, Carolyn

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On an Ungrounded Earth: Towards a New Geophilosophy by Ben Woodard

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The sites of Rome time, space, memory /

Table of Contents: “…Larmour -- Victim and voyeur : Rome as a character in Tacitus' Histories 3 / Rhiannon Ash -- The gates of Janus : Bakhtin and Plutarch's Roman meta-chronotope / Jason Banta -- Staging Rome : the Renaissance, Rome, and humanism's classical crisis / Jacob Blevins -- Sizing up Rome, or theorizing the overview / Caroline Vout -- Ancient Rome for little comrades : the legacy of classical antiquity in Soviet childrens' literature / Marina Balina -- The sites and sights of Rome in Fellini's films : 'not a human habitation but a psychical entity' / Elena Theodorakopoulos.…”
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Battling pornography the American feminist anti-pornography movement, 1976-1986 / by Bronstein, Carolyn

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On an Ungrounded Earth: Towards a New Geophilosophy by Ben Woodard

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On location in Cuba street filmaking [sic] during times of transition / by Stock, Ann Marie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: screening an island nation in transition -- Documenting tumultuous times: new culture organizations proffer alternatives -- Establishing community media in the mountains: Televisión Serrana strengthens highland identity -- Balancing tradition and innovation: the National Animation Studio negotiates the global marketplace -- Opening new roads: Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti redefines revolutionary filmmaking -- Promoting popular genres: Pavel Giroud revises conceptions of Cuban cinema -- Filming in the margins: Esteban Insausti explores life and art amidst chaos -- Making space for new interventions: a montage from the national exhibit of new filmmakers -- Epilogue: reflections on Cuba, filmmaking, and the times ahead.…”
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Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation's architecture of containment by Smith, James M., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the politics of sexual knowledge: the origins of Ireland's containment culture and the Carrigan Report (1931) -- The Magdalen asylum and history: mining the archive -- The Magdalen in nineteenth-century Ireland -- The Magdalen asylum and the state in twentieth-century Ireland -- The Magdalen Laundry in cultural representation: memory and storytelling in contemporary Ireland -- Remembering Ireland's architecture of containment: "telling" stories on stage, Patricia Burke Brogan's Eclipsed and Stained glass at Samhain -- (Ef)facing Ireland's Magdalen survivors: visual representations and documentary testimony -- The Magdalene sisters: film, fact and fiction -- Monuments, Magdalens, memorials: art installations and cultural memory -- Conclusion: history, cultural representation, ... action? …”
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Women and Islamic cultures : disciplinary paradigms and approaches, 2003-2013 /

Table of Contents: “…Anthropology / Azza Basarudin -- Art and architecture / Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh -- Cultural studies / Amira Jarmakani -- Demography / Sajeda Amin -- Film studies / Kamran Rastegar -- Geography / Robina Mohammad -- History: Europe / Annika Rabo -- History of science / Ahmed Ragab -- Sources and methodologies: history: Southeast Asia / Vannessa Hearman -- Islamic studies / Bahar Davary -- Literary studies / Michelle Hartman -- Oral history in the twenty-first century / Hoda Elsadda -- Philosophy / Nerina Rustomji -- Political science / Amaney A. …”
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On location in Cuba street filmaking [sic] during times of transition / by Stock, Ann Marie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: screening an island nation in transition -- Documenting tumultuous times: new culture organizations proffer alternatives -- Establishing community media in the mountains: Televisión Serrana strengthens highland identity -- Balancing tradition and innovation: the National Animation Studio negotiates the global marketplace -- Opening new roads: Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti redefines revolutionary filmmaking -- Promoting popular genres: Pavel Giroud revises conceptions of Cuban cinema -- Filming in the margins: Esteban Insausti explores life and art amidst chaos -- Making space for new interventions: a montage from the national exhibit of new filmmakers -- Epilogue: reflections on Cuba, filmmaking, and the times ahead.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view