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East Asian cinemas exploring transnational connections on film /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Infernal affairs and Kung fu hustle : panacea, placebo and Hong Kong cinema / Leung Wing-Fai -- Contemporary South Korean cinema : 'national conjunction' and 'diversity' / Chris Howard -- The language of the blockbuster : promotion, Princess Mononoke and the Daihitto in Japanese film culture / Rayna Denison -- pt. 3.,Made in translation--transnational identities. Suriyothai becomes Legend : national identity as global currency / Adam Knee -- Last life in the universe : nationality, technology, authorship / Brian Ruh -- From Three godfathers to Tokyo godfathers : signifying social change ina transnational context / David Scott Diffrient -- Transnational noir : style and substance in Hayashi Kaizo's The most terrible time in my life / Theresa L. …”
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Knowledge and colonialism eighteenth-century travellers in South Africa /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Wagon routes : an introduction -- Peter Kolb's Defence of the "Hottentots" (1719) -- Expeditions from Fort Lijdsaamheijd : the voc and the geography of Southern Africa in the beginning of the eighteenth century -- Trade and science : reports of the VOC expedition by Hendrik Hop from 1761-1762 -- Xhosa and Khoikhoi "households" : representations of inhabitants of Southern Africa in the Gordon atlas -- The adventures of a Surinamese Frenchman in South Africa : the travel accounts of François le Vaillant -- A 'Black legend' of Dutch colonialism in the Travels (1801-1804) of John Barrow -- Batavian colonial politics and travel accounts about South Africa -- The first ethnographic monograph : De Kaffers aan de Zuidkust van Afrika (1810) by Lodewyk Alberti -- Conclusion: Knowledge and colonialism -- Annex 1: Independent editions and translations of Peter Kolb's Capvt bonae spei hodiernvm in the eighteenth century -- Annex 2: Structure of the Nieuwste en beknopte beschryving van de Kaap der Goede-Hope.…”
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Hazardous future : disaster, representation and the assessment of risk /
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Introduction : hazardous future: images and perceptions of disaster and the assessment of risk -- Disaster (and) culture -- The productivity of catastrophes in evolution and the challenge of manmade catastrophes -- Catastrophe culture -- Tragedy, the neglected origin of catastrophe theory -- (e)spectating disaster : a cultural condition -- Catastrophes, the imaginary and citizenship : the production of the other and the singularity of experience -- The importance of social capital facing the unexpected (from natural hazards -- to social disasters) : a style of thought -- Big stories and small stories after a traumatic natural disaster from a psychotherapeutic point of view -- In search of the lost oikos : Japan after the earthquake of 11 March 2011 -- A casuistry of disaster -- The specter of Chernobyl : an ontology of risk -- Living in a landscape of risk in java/indonesia -- Performance and the deferral of the catastrophe narrative : Naoko Tanaka's -- Performance-installation die scheinwerferin -- The subjectification of disaster in video art : incidence of catastrophe by Gary Hill -- Identifying a genre : televized tragedy -- Screens of fire : surviving the end of the world -- Zombies and citizens : the ontopolitics of disaster in Francis Lawrence's I am legend -- How do we measure disaster? : how do we ensure security? …”
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Knowledge and colonialism eighteenth-century travellers in South Africa /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Wagon routes : an introduction -- Peter Kolb's Defence of the "Hottentots" (1719) -- Expeditions from Fort Lijdsaamheijd : the voc and the geography of Southern Africa in the beginning of the eighteenth century -- Trade and science : reports of the VOC expedition by Hendrik Hop from 1761-1762 -- Xhosa and Khoikhoi "households" : representations of inhabitants of Southern Africa in the Gordon atlas -- The adventures of a Surinamese Frenchman in South Africa : the travel accounts of François le Vaillant -- A 'Black legend' of Dutch colonialism in the Travels (1801-1804) of John Barrow -- Batavian colonial politics and travel accounts about South Africa -- The first ethnographic monograph : De Kaffers aan de Zuidkust van Afrika (1810) by Lodewyk Alberti -- Conclusion: Knowledge and colonialism -- Annex 1: Independent editions and translations of Peter Kolb's Capvt bonae spei hodiernvm in the eighteenth century -- Annex 2: Structure of the Nieuwste en beknopte beschryving van de Kaap der Goede-Hope.…”
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Hazardous future : disaster, representation and the assessment of risk /
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Introduction : hazardous future: images and perceptions of disaster and the assessment of risk -- Disaster (and) culture -- The productivity of catastrophes in evolution and the challenge of manmade catastrophes -- Catastrophe culture -- Tragedy, the neglected origin of catastrophe theory -- (e)spectating disaster : a cultural condition -- Catastrophes, the imaginary and citizenship : the production of the other and the singularity of experience -- The importance of social capital facing the unexpected (from natural hazards -- to social disasters) : a style of thought -- Big stories and small stories after a traumatic natural disaster from a psychotherapeutic point of view -- In search of the lost oikos : Japan after the earthquake of 11 March 2011 -- A casuistry of disaster -- The specter of Chernobyl : an ontology of risk -- Living in a landscape of risk in java/indonesia -- Performance and the deferral of the catastrophe narrative : Naoko Tanaka's -- Performance-installation die scheinwerferin -- The subjectification of disaster in video art : incidence of catastrophe by Gary Hill -- Identifying a genre : televized tragedy -- Screens of fire : surviving the end of the world -- Zombies and citizens : the ontopolitics of disaster in Francis Lawrence's I am legend -- How do we measure disaster? : how do we ensure security? …”
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Women in Chinese martial arts films of the new millennium narrative analyses and gender politics /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Let's make a wish: martial arts ladies' wishes under the cinematic pen(is) from A touch of zen to Crouching tiger hidden dragon, Hero, House of flying daggers, and The promise -- Phallocentric teacher-student comoplex: from Legend of the mountain, Crouching tiger hidden dragon, and Hero to Seven swords -- A Chinese cinematic martial arts room of Pygmalion's own -- Interviews. …”
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Sacred stories religion and spirituality in modern Russia /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Breyfogle -- Divining the secular in the yiddish popular press / Sarah Abrevaya Stein -- Revolutionary rabbis : Hasidic legend and the hero of words / Gabriella Safran -- "A path of thorns" : the spiritual wounds and wandering of worker-poets / Mark D. …”
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608
East Asian cinemas exploring transnational connections on film /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Infernal affairs and Kung fu hustle : panacea, placebo and Hong Kong cinema / Leung Wing-Fai -- Contemporary South Korean cinema : 'national conjunction' and 'diversity' / Chris Howard -- The language of the blockbuster : promotion, Princess Mononoke and the Daihitto in Japanese film culture / Rayna Denison -- pt. 3.,Made in translation--transnational identities. Suriyothai becomes Legend : national identity as global currency / Adam Knee -- Last life in the universe : nationality, technology, authorship / Brian Ruh -- From Three godfathers to Tokyo godfathers : signifying social change ina transnational context / David Scott Diffrient -- Transnational noir : style and substance in Hayashi Kaizo's The most terrible time in my life / Theresa L. …”
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Women in Chinese martial arts films of the new millennium narrative analyses and gender politics /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Let's make a wish: martial arts ladies' wishes under the cinematic pen(is) from A touch of zen to Crouching tiger hidden dragon, Hero, House of flying daggers, and The promise -- Phallocentric teacher-student comoplex: from Legend of the mountain, Crouching tiger hidden dragon, and Hero to Seven swords -- A Chinese cinematic martial arts room of Pygmalion's own -- Interviews. …”
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Performance and popular music history, place and time /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…." : the Beatles : the Ed Sullivan Show, CBS TV, February 9, 1964 / Laurel Sercombe -- Bob Dylan : Newport Folk Festival, July 25, 1965 / Lee Marshall -- When deep soul met the love crowd : Otis Redding : Monterey Pop Festival, June 17, 1967 / Sarah Hill -- The road not taken : Elvis Presley : comeback special : NBC TV studios, December 3, 1968 / Ian Inglis -- Land of the free : Jimi Hendrix : Woodstock Festival, August 18, 1969 / Mike Daley -- If anything, blame Woodstock : the Rolling Stones : Altamont, December 6, 1969 / Norma Coates -- Watch that man : David Bowie : Hammersmith Odeon, London, July 3, 1973 / Philip Auslander -- Patti Smith : the old grey whistle test : BBC-2 TV, May 11, 1976 / Sheila Whiteley -- Print the truth, not the legend : the Sex Pistols : Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester, June 4, 1976 / Sean Albiez -- I need contact : rock 'n' roll and ritual : Peter Gabriel : Security tour, 1982-1983 / Jeffrey Callen -- Michael Jackson : Motown 25 : Pasadena Civic Auditorium, March 25, 1983 / Jaap Kooijman -- Live on tape : Madonna : MTV video music awards : Radio City Music Hall, New York, September 14, 1984 / Gary Burns -- Popular music performance and cultural memory : Queen : Live Aid, Wembley Stadium, London, July 13, 1985 / Susan Fast -- Nirvana : University of Washington, Seattle, January 6, 1990 / Tim Hughes -- The booing of Sinead O'Connor : Bob Dylan 30th anniversary concert : Madison Square Garden, New York, October 16, 1992 / Emma Mayhew.…”
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The multiple meaning of scripture the role of exegesis in early Christian and medieval culture /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Kitchen -- The rabbinic legend of the Septuagint in Abraham ibn Daud's writings / Katja Vehlow -- Saul et David, premiers rois oints : l'interpretation de ces modeles royaux par deux exegetes carolingiens, Raban Maur et Angelome de Luxeuil / Caroline Chevalier-Royet -- La representation du pouvoir seculier chez Haymon d'Auxerre / Sumi Shimahara -- Trinity and christology in Haimo of Auxerre's Pauline commentaries / Ian Christopher Levy -- Factus est homo in animam uiuentem : anthropologie chretienne et psychologie dans l'exegese de Claude de Turin, ca. 827-828 / Pierre Boucaud -- The multiple meaning of scripture -- Spiritual exegesis and the church in Haimo of Auxerre's commentary on Isaiah / Elisabeth Megier -- Lectiones magistri anselmi : les commentaires d'Anselme de Laon sur le cantique des cantiques / Cedric Giraud -- The literal sense of scripture according to Rupert of Deutz / Wanda Zemler-Cizewski -- The literal and the spiritual : Richard of Saint-Victor and the multiple meaning of scripture / Ineke van 't Spijker -- "Closer to the hebrew" : Herbert of Bosham's interpretation of literal exegesis / Eva de Visscher -- ". . . mysteria magis delectant . . ." die exegese des zisterzienserabtes Isaak von Stella, ca. 1178 / Alexander Fidora -- Andrew of Saint-Victor and his Franciscan critics / Frans van Liere -- Twelfth-century biblical exegetes and the invention of literature / Robert A. …”
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The multiple meaning of scripture the role of exegesis in early Christian and medieval culture /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Kitchen -- The rabbinic legend of the Septuagint in Abraham ibn Daud's writings / Katja Vehlow -- Saul et David, premiers rois oints : l'interpretation de ces modeles royaux par deux exegetes carolingiens, Raban Maur et Angelome de Luxeuil / Caroline Chevalier-Royet -- La representation du pouvoir seculier chez Haymon d'Auxerre / Sumi Shimahara -- Trinity and christology in Haimo of Auxerre's Pauline commentaries / Ian Christopher Levy -- Factus est homo in animam uiuentem : anthropologie chretienne et psychologie dans l'exegese de Claude de Turin, ca. 827-828 / Pierre Boucaud -- The multiple meaning of scripture -- Spiritual exegesis and the church in Haimo of Auxerre's commentary on Isaiah / Elisabeth Megier -- Lectiones magistri anselmi : les commentaires d'Anselme de Laon sur le cantique des cantiques / Cedric Giraud -- The literal sense of scripture according to Rupert of Deutz / Wanda Zemler-Cizewski -- The literal and the spiritual : Richard of Saint-Victor and the multiple meaning of scripture / Ineke van 't Spijker -- "Closer to the hebrew" : Herbert of Bosham's interpretation of literal exegesis / Eva de Visscher -- ". . . mysteria magis delectant . . ." die exegese des zisterzienserabtes Isaak von Stella, ca. 1178 / Alexander Fidora -- Andrew of Saint-Victor and his Franciscan critics / Frans van Liere -- Twelfth-century biblical exegetes and the invention of literature / Robert A. …”
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Meaning of Folklore : The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…; viola jokes--a study of second string humor -- Medical speech and professional identity--the Gomer--a figure of American hospital folk speech ; "when you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras"--a folk medical diagnostic proverb -- Getting the folk and the lore together -- Gallus as phallus: a psychoanalytic cross-cultural consideration of the cockfight as fowl play -- The symbolic equivalence of allomotifs: towards a method of analyzing folktales -- Earth-diver: creation of the mythopoeic male ; postscript, madness in method plus a plea for projective inversion in myth -- Theses on feces: scatological analysis--the folklore of wishing wells ; here I sit--a study of American latrinalia ; the kushmaker -- The ritual murder or blood libel legend: a study of anti-Semitic victimization through projective inversion -- On the psychology of collecting folklore ; postscript, chain letter--a folk geometric progression.…”
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Performance and popular music history, place and time /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…." : the Beatles : the Ed Sullivan Show, CBS TV, February 9, 1964 / Laurel Sercombe -- Bob Dylan : Newport Folk Festival, July 25, 1965 / Lee Marshall -- When deep soul met the love crowd : Otis Redding : Monterey Pop Festival, June 17, 1967 / Sarah Hill -- The road not taken : Elvis Presley : comeback special : NBC TV studios, December 3, 1968 / Ian Inglis -- Land of the free : Jimi Hendrix : Woodstock Festival, August 18, 1969 / Mike Daley -- If anything, blame Woodstock : the Rolling Stones : Altamont, December 6, 1969 / Norma Coates -- Watch that man : David Bowie : Hammersmith Odeon, London, July 3, 1973 / Philip Auslander -- Patti Smith : the old grey whistle test : BBC-2 TV, May 11, 1976 / Sheila Whiteley -- Print the truth, not the legend : the Sex Pistols : Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester, June 4, 1976 / Sean Albiez -- I need contact : rock 'n' roll and ritual : Peter Gabriel : Security tour, 1982-1983 / Jeffrey Callen -- Michael Jackson : Motown 25 : Pasadena Civic Auditorium, March 25, 1983 / Jaap Kooijman -- Live on tape : Madonna : MTV video music awards : Radio City Music Hall, New York, September 14, 1984 / Gary Burns -- Popular music performance and cultural memory : Queen : Live Aid, Wembley Stadium, London, July 13, 1985 / Susan Fast -- Nirvana : University of Washington, Seattle, January 6, 1990 / Tim Hughes -- The booing of Sinead O'Connor : Bob Dylan 30th anniversary concert : Madison Square Garden, New York, October 16, 1992 / Emma Mayhew.…”
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Meaning of Folklore : The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…; viola jokes--a study of second string humor -- Medical speech and professional identity--the Gomer--a figure of American hospital folk speech ; "when you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras"--a folk medical diagnostic proverb -- Getting the folk and the lore together -- Gallus as phallus: a psychoanalytic cross-cultural consideration of the cockfight as fowl play -- The symbolic equivalence of allomotifs: towards a method of analyzing folktales -- Earth-diver: creation of the mythopoeic male ; postscript, madness in method plus a plea for projective inversion in myth -- Theses on feces: scatological analysis--the folklore of wishing wells ; here I sit--a study of American latrinalia ; the kushmaker -- The ritual murder or blood libel legend: a study of anti-Semitic victimization through projective inversion -- On the psychology of collecting folklore ; postscript, chain letter--a folk geometric progression.…”
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Displays! dynamic design ideas for your library step by step /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Maya mysteries -- Olympic fever -- Egypt on the Nile -- Garden Gate -- Land down under -- Reel women -- Legends : women who have changed the world -- Frida -- Ladies of the court -- Gutsy girls -- Shore summer reads -- And the winner is -- The Jersey shore -- Rock & roll -- Mostly Mozart -- A wild Wilde ride -- A brush with history : portraits of the presidents -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Will power -- FDR remembered -- The Wright stuff -- Titanic! …”
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Forging people race, ethnicity, and nationality in Hispanic American and Latino/a thought /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Gracia -- The new black legend of Bartolomé de Las Casas : race and personhood / Janet Burke and Ted Humphrey -- Men or citizens? …”
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Displays! dynamic design ideas for your library step by step /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Maya mysteries -- Olympic fever -- Egypt on the Nile -- Garden Gate -- Land down under -- Reel women -- Legends : women who have changed the world -- Frida -- Ladies of the court -- Gutsy girls -- Shore summer reads -- And the winner is -- The Jersey shore -- Rock & roll -- Mostly Mozart -- A wild Wilde ride -- A brush with history : portraits of the presidents -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Will power -- FDR remembered -- The Wright stuff -- Titanic! …”
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Forging people race, ethnicity, and nationality in Hispanic American and Latino/a thought /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Gracia -- The new black legend of Bartolomé de Las Casas : race and personhood / Janet Burke and Ted Humphrey -- Men or citizens? …”
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Paging New Jersey a literary guide to the Garden State /
Published 2003Table of Contents: “…Philip Freneau -- James Fenimore Cooper -- Mary Griffith -- Walt Whitman -- Mary Mapes Dodge -- Thomas Nast -- Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Stephen Crane -- Albert Payson Terhune -- William Carlos Williams -- Joyce Kilmer -- Allen Ginsberg -- Mary Higgins Clark -- Toni Morrison -- Amiri Baraka -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Peter Benchley -- Anna Quindlen -- Cheaper by the dozen -- Goodbye, Columbus -- The Pine Barrens -- Eddie and the Cruisers -- Jersey luck -- Rosamund's vision -- Laying down the law -- One for the money -- Our guys -- Lost legends of New Jersey -- Searching for Captain Kidd's treasure -- Burr, Hamilton, and the duel of history in Weehawken -- The Lindbergh baby kidnapping -- The Hindenburg disaster -- The trials of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter -- Mobbed in New Jersey -- On the (paper) trail of the New Jersey Devil -- Dodge Poetry Festival -- The New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame -- Stages of greatness: a survey of the history of theater in New Jersey -- Reaching critical mass in the Garden State -- Stoned in New Jersey.…”
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