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Viewing African cinema in the twenty-first century : art films and the Nollywood video revolution /

Table of Contents: “…film studies and Nigerian and Ghanaian videos / Jonathan Haynes -- Nollywood and its critics / Onookome Okome -- Ghanaian popular video movies between state film policies and Nollywood : discourses and tensions / Birgit Meyer -- Islam, Hausa culture, and censorship in Northern Nigerian video film / Abdalla Uba Adamu -- Nollywood goes east : the localization of Nigerian video films in Tanzania / Matthias Krings -- Imported films and their African audiences. …”
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Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute the memoirs of George A. Cowan / by Cowan, G. A. (George A.), 1920-2012

Table of Contents: “…My early environment -- The world outside our yard -- Movies and vaudeville -- Finding a role -- The deepening Depression -- My high school years -- Undergraduate years at Worcester Polytechnic Institute -- Entering a new world -- Prologue to the Manhattan Project -- I go to the "Met Lab" -- My visit to Oak Ridge -- Nuclear physics research at Columbia University -- Photo gallery -- I go to Los Alamos -- The Pittsburgh years -- I return to Los Alamos -- The hydrogen bomb -- New heavy elements -- Thermonuclear testing, 1954-1955 -- Life at Los Alamos in the 1950s -- The nuclear intelligence community -- The Oppenheimer hearings -- Los Alamos becomes privately owned -- Banking at Los Alamos -- Poker and theoretical physics -- Project Gnome : the add-on wheel experiment -- Duplicating Mike neutron exposure -- U.S.…”
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Viewing African cinema in the twenty-first century : art films and the Nollywood video revolution /

Table of Contents: “…film studies and Nigerian and Ghanaian videos / Jonathan Haynes -- Nollywood and its critics / Onookome Okome -- Ghanaian popular video movies between state film policies and Nollywood : discourses and tensions / Birgit Meyer -- Islam, Hausa culture, and censorship in Northern Nigerian video film / Abdalla Uba Adamu -- Nollywood goes east : the localization of Nigerian video films in Tanzania / Matthias Krings -- Imported films and their African audiences. …”
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Hong Kong connections transnational imagination in action cinema /

Table of Contents: “…Moving body : the interactions between Chinese Opera and action cinema / Yung Sai-shing -- Interactions between Japanese and Hong Kong action cinemas / Kinnia Yau Shuk-ting -- The myth continues : cinematic Kung Fu in modernity / Siu Leung Li -- The fighting condition in Hong Kong cinema : local icons and cultural antidotes for the global popular / Stephen Chan Ching-kiu -- Order/anti-order : representation of identity in Hong Kong action movies / Dai Jinhua -- Genre as contact Zone: Hong Kong action and Korean hwalkuk / Kim Soyoung -- Hong Kong action film and the career of the Telugu Mass hero / S.V. …”
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Chinese ecocinema in the age of environmental challenge /

Table of Contents: “…The idea-image : conceptualizing landscape in recent martial arts movies / Mary Farquhar ; Fa�cades : the new Beijing and the unsettled ecology of Jia Zhangke's The world / Jerome Silbergeld ; Ruins and grassroots : Jia Zhangke's cinematic discontents in the age of globalization / Hongbing Zhang -- Urban space in production and disappearance. …”
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Tempest : Geometries of Play / by Ruggill, Judd Ethan

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Negative, Nonsensical, and Non-Conformist : The Films of Suzuki Seijun / by Yacavone, Peter A. (Peter Andrew), 1978-

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Mediterranean in Dis/order : Space, Power, and Identity /

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Soft power superpowers cultural and national assets of Japan and the United States /

Table of Contents: “…-Japanese relations : a vehicle of soft power in historical perspective / Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu -- American pop culture as soft power : movies and boradcasting / Matthew Fraser -- Wielding soft power : the key stages of transmission and reception / Kondo Seiichi -- Official soft power in practice : U.S. public diplomacy in Japan / William G. …”
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Hong Kong connections transnational imagination in action cinema /

Table of Contents: “…Moving body : the interactions between Chinese Opera and action cinema / Yung Sai-shing -- Interactions between Japanese and Hong Kong action cinemas / Kinnia Yau Shuk-ting -- The myth continues : cinematic Kung Fu in modernity / Siu Leung Li -- The fighting condition in Hong Kong cinema : local icons and cultural antidotes for the global popular / Stephen Chan Ching-kiu -- Order/anti-order : representation of identity in Hong Kong action movies / Dai Jinhua -- Genre as contact Zone: Hong Kong action and Korean hwalkuk / Kim Soyoung -- Hong Kong action film and the career of the Telugu Mass hero / S.V. …”
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Chinese ecocinema in the age of environmental challenge /

Table of Contents: “…The idea-image : conceptualizing landscape in recent martial arts movies / Mary Farquhar ; Fa�cades : the new Beijing and the unsettled ecology of Jia Zhangke's The world / Jerome Silbergeld ; Ruins and grassroots : Jia Zhangke's cinematic discontents in the age of globalization / Hongbing Zhang -- Urban space in production and disappearance. …”
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Negative, Nonsensical, and Non-Conformist : The Films of Suzuki Seijun / by Yacavone, Peter A. (Peter Andrew), 1978-

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Mediterranean in Dis/order : Space, Power, and Identity /

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Tempest : Geometries of Play / by Ruggill, Judd Ethan

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Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film /

Table of Contents: “…Wagner and Mark Garrett Cooper -- 'Don't be a segregationist: program films for everyone': the New York Public Library's film library and youth film workshops / Elena Rossi-Snook and Lauren Tilton -- Teenage moviemaking in the lower East side: the Rivington Street Film Club, 1966-1974 / Noelle Griffis -- Ro-revus talks about race: South Carolina malnutrition and parasite films, 1968-1975 / Dan Streible -- Government-sponsored film and latinidad: Voice of la raza (1971) / Laura Isabel Serna -- Aestheticizing Asian American assimilation in the learning corporation of America's many Americans series (1970-1982) / Nadine Chan -- 'The right kind of family': memories to light and the home movie as racialized technology / Crystal Mun-hye Baik -- Black home movies: time to represent / Jasmyn R. …”
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Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film /

Table of Contents: “…Wagner and Mark Garrett Cooper -- 'Don't be a segregationist: program films for everyone': the New York Public Library's film library and youth film workshops / Elena Rossi-Snook and Lauren Tilton -- Teenage moviemaking in the lower East side: the Rivington Street Film Club, 1966-1974 / Noelle Griffis -- Ro-revus talks about race: South Carolina malnutrition and parasite films, 1968-1975 / Dan Streible -- Government-sponsored film and latinidad: Voice of la raza (1971) / Laura Isabel Serna -- Aestheticizing Asian American assimilation in the learning corporation of America's many Americans series (1970-1982) / Nadine Chan -- 'The right kind of family': memories to light and the home movie as racialized technology / Crystal Mun-hye Baik -- Black home movies: time to represent / Jasmyn R. …”
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The Adrienne Kennedy reader by Kennedy, Adrienne

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Introduction vii -- Werner Sollors --Because of the King of France 3 --ADRIENNE KENNEDY IN ONE ACT -- Funnyhouse of a Negro 11 -- On the Writing of Funnyhouse ofa Negro 27 -- The Owl Answers 29 -- A Lesson in Dead Language 43 -- A Rat's Mass 47 -- Sun 55 -- A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White 62 -- Electra (Euripides) 79 -- Orestes (Euripides) 99 --An Evening with Dead Essex 117 --THE ALEXANDER PLAYS -- She Talks to Beethoven 139 -- Ohio State Murders 151 -- The Film Club (A Monologue by Suzanne Alexander) 174 -- Dramatic Circle 182 --Letter to My Students on My Sixty-first Birthday by Suzanne Alexander 197 -- Motherhood 2000 228 -- Secret Paragraphs about My Brother 234 -- June and Jean in Concert (Concert of Their Lives) 239 -- A Letter to Flowers 262 -- Sisters Etta and Ella (excerpt from a narrative) 291 -- Grendel and Grendel's Mother 300 --Copyright and Original Publication Information 307.…”
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The Adrienne Kennedy reader by Kennedy, Adrienne

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Introduction vii -- Werner Sollors --Because of the King of France 3 --ADRIENNE KENNEDY IN ONE ACT -- Funnyhouse of a Negro 11 -- On the Writing of Funnyhouse ofa Negro 27 -- The Owl Answers 29 -- A Lesson in Dead Language 43 -- A Rat's Mass 47 -- Sun 55 -- A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White 62 -- Electra (Euripides) 79 -- Orestes (Euripides) 99 --An Evening with Dead Essex 117 --THE ALEXANDER PLAYS -- She Talks to Beethoven 139 -- Ohio State Murders 151 -- The Film Club (A Monologue by Suzanne Alexander) 174 -- Dramatic Circle 182 --Letter to My Students on My Sixty-first Birthday by Suzanne Alexander 197 -- Motherhood 2000 228 -- Secret Paragraphs about My Brother 234 -- June and Jean in Concert (Concert of Their Lives) 239 -- A Letter to Flowers 262 -- Sisters Etta and Ella (excerpt from a narrative) 291 -- Grendel and Grendel's Mother 300 --Copyright and Original Publication Information 307.…”
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Progress in the humanities? comparing the objects of culture and science / by Gay, Volney P. (Volney Patrick), 1948-

Table of Contents: “…-- Tragedy and mourning as progress -- The power to guess the unseen from the seen -- Reality testing as an intrapsychic process -- Looking outward, three movies -- Blow up -- High anxiety -- The conversation -- Isolating valid signals, making the right cut -- Magnification in humanistic theory.…”
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Progress in the humanities? comparing the objects of culture and science / by Gay, Volney P. (Volney Patrick), 1948-

Table of Contents: “…-- Tragedy and mourning as progress -- The power to guess the unseen from the seen -- Reality testing as an intrapsychic process -- Looking outward, three movies -- Blow up -- High anxiety -- The conversation -- Isolating valid signals, making the right cut -- Magnification in humanistic theory.…”
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