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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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For the love of music invitations to listening / by Steinberg, Michael, 1928-2009

Table of Contents: “…Haggin the contrarian -- Affairs to remember. Loving memories of movie music ; Vienna trilogy : vignettes from the city of music ; Music, true or false ; Why we are here -- Postlude. …”
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The American musical and the performance of personal identity by Knapp, Raymond

Table of Contents: “…A little night music (1973)) -- The movie musical (Singin' in the rain (film, 1952). …”
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Performing American masculinities the 21st-century man in popular culture /

Table of Contents: “…Ervin ; Fathers, sons, and business in the Hollywood "office movie" / Latham Hunter -- Beyond gender alone : defining multidimensional masculinities: Popular memory, racial construction, and the visual illusion of freedom: the re-mediation of O.J. and Cinque / John Kille ; Obama's masculinities : a landscape of essential contradictions / Marc E. …”
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The American musical and the performance of personal identity by Knapp, Raymond

Table of Contents: “…A little night music (1973)) -- The movie musical (Singin' in the rain (film, 1952). …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Performing American masculinities the 21st-century man in popular culture /

Table of Contents: “…Ervin ; Fathers, sons, and business in the Hollywood "office movie" / Latham Hunter -- Beyond gender alone : defining multidimensional masculinities: Popular memory, racial construction, and the visual illusion of freedom: the re-mediation of O.J. and Cinque / John Kille ; Obama's masculinities : a landscape of essential contradictions / Marc E. …”
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For the love of music invitations to listening / by Steinberg, Michael, 1928-2009

Table of Contents: “…Haggin the contrarian -- Affairs to remember. Loving memories of movie music ; Vienna trilogy : vignettes from the city of music ; Music, true or false ; Why we are here -- Postlude. …”
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Minding the South by Reed, John Shelton

Table of Contents: “…Bradford -- What they say about Dixie -- Of Collard greens and kings -- Red and yellow, black, and white -- Telling about the South -- The imagined South -- Six Southerners -- Lady propagandist of the Old South -- The man from New Orleans -- The world's best-selling novelist -- Mover and shaker -- Hardy perennial -- The southern Elvis -- The end of Elvis -- Southern culture, High and low -- Southern laughter -- A cokelorist at work -- The national magazine of the South -- Carolina couch crime -- Southern lit (and one movie) -- Taking a stand -- Portrait of Atlanta -- Nebbish from Mississippi -- Hollywood chain gangs -- Reflections -- The banner that Won't stay furled -- The most Southern state? …”
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Minding the South by Reed, John Shelton

Table of Contents: “…Bradford -- What they say about Dixie -- Of Collard greens and kings -- Red and yellow, black, and white -- Telling about the South -- The imagined South -- Six Southerners -- Lady propagandist of the Old South -- The man from New Orleans -- The world's best-selling novelist -- Mover and shaker -- Hardy perennial -- The southern Elvis -- The end of Elvis -- Southern culture, High and low -- Southern laughter -- A cokelorist at work -- The national magazine of the South -- Carolina couch crime -- Southern lit (and one movie) -- Taking a stand -- Portrait of Atlanta -- Nebbish from Mississippi -- Hollywood chain gangs -- Reflections -- The banner that Won't stay furled -- The most Southern state? …”
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Through amateur eyes film and photography in Nazi Germany / by Guerin, Frances

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Through amateur eyes film and photography in Nazi Germany / by Guerin, Frances

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Recovering 1940s horror cinema : traces of a lost decade /

Table of Contents: “…Hypodermic needles and evil twins: the poverty row wartime horrors of Sam Newfield / Paul Corupe -- Of apes and men (and monsters and girls): the ape film and 1940s horror cinema / Blair Davis -- The perfect Neanderthal man: Rondo Hatton as "the creeper" and the cultural economy of 1940s B-movies / Cory Legassic -- Tthe vampire's ghost: the case for a poverty row horror classic / Selma Purac.…”
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Sex Scene : Media and the Sexual Revolution /

Table of Contents: “…: Hollywood cinema and the end of the production code / Christie Milliken -- Make love, not war : Jane Fonda comes home (1968-1978) / Linda Williams -- The new sexual culture of American television in the 1970s / Elana Levine -- Prurient (dis)interest : The American release and reception of I am curious (yellow) / Kevin Heffernan -- Wet dreams : erotic film festivals of the early 1970s and the utopian sexual public sphere / Elena Gorfinkel -- Let the sweet juices flow : WR and midnight movie culture / Joan Hawkins -- 33 1/3 sexual revolutions per minute / Jacob Smith -- "I'll take Sweden" : the shifting discourse of the "sexy nation" in sexploitation films / Eric Schaefer -- Altered sex : Satan, acid, and the erotic threshold / Jeffrey Sconce -- The "sexarama" : or sex education as an environmental multimedia experience / Eithne Johnson -- San Francisco and the politics of hardcore / Joseph Lam Duong -- Beefcake to hardcore : gay pornography and the sexual revolution / Jeffrey Escoffier -- Publicizing sex through consumer and privacy rights : how the American Civil Liberties Union liberated media in the 1960s / Leigh Ann Wheeler -- Critics and the sex scene / Raymond J. …”
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Recovering 1940s horror cinema : traces of a lost decade /

Table of Contents: “…Hypodermic needles and evil twins: the poverty row wartime horrors of Sam Newfield / Paul Corupe -- Of apes and men (and monsters and girls): the ape film and 1940s horror cinema / Blair Davis -- The perfect Neanderthal man: Rondo Hatton as "the creeper" and the cultural economy of 1940s B-movies / Cory Legassic -- Tthe vampire's ghost: the case for a poverty row horror classic / Selma Purac.…”
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Sex Scene : Media and the Sexual Revolution /

Table of Contents: “…: Hollywood cinema and the end of the production code / Christie Milliken -- Make love, not war : Jane Fonda comes home (1968-1978) / Linda Williams -- The new sexual culture of American television in the 1970s / Elana Levine -- Prurient (dis)interest : The American release and reception of I am curious (yellow) / Kevin Heffernan -- Wet dreams : erotic film festivals of the early 1970s and the utopian sexual public sphere / Elena Gorfinkel -- Let the sweet juices flow : WR and midnight movie culture / Joan Hawkins -- 33 1/3 sexual revolutions per minute / Jacob Smith -- "I'll take Sweden" : the shifting discourse of the "sexy nation" in sexploitation films / Eric Schaefer -- Altered sex : Satan, acid, and the erotic threshold / Jeffrey Sconce -- The "sexarama" : or sex education as an environmental multimedia experience / Eithne Johnson -- San Francisco and the politics of hardcore / Joseph Lam Duong -- Beefcake to hardcore : gay pornography and the sexual revolution / Jeffrey Escoffier -- Publicizing sex through consumer and privacy rights : how the American Civil Liberties Union liberated media in the 1960s / Leigh Ann Wheeler -- Critics and the sex scene / Raymond J. …”
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Reframing 9/11 film, popular culture and the "war on terror" /

Table of Contents: “…Avatars of destruction : cheerleading and deconstructing the "war on terror" in video games / David Annandale -- The land of the dead and the home of the brave : Romero's vision of a post 9/11 America / Terence McSweeney -- Superman is the faultline : fissures in the monomythic Man of steel / Alex Evans -- The tools and toys of (the) war (on terror) : consumer desire, military fetish and regime change in Batman begins / Justine Toh -- "It was like a movie" : the impossibility of representation in Oliver Stone's World Trade Center / Karen Randell -- The contemporary politics of the western form : Bush, Saving Jessica Lynch, and Deadwood / Stacy Takacs -- Prophetic Narratives. …”
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Gender meets genre in postwar cinemas

Table of Contents: “…Trash comes home: gender/genre subversion in the films of John Waters / Derek Kane-Meddock -- Femme fatale or lesbian femme: bound in sexual différance / Chris Straayer -- "The gay cowboy movie": queer masculinity on Brokeback Mountain / Steven Cohan.…”
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Reframing 9/11 film, popular culture and the "war on terror" /

Table of Contents: “…Avatars of destruction : cheerleading and deconstructing the "war on terror" in video games / David Annandale -- The land of the dead and the home of the brave : Romero's vision of a post 9/11 America / Terence McSweeney -- Superman is the faultline : fissures in the monomythic Man of steel / Alex Evans -- The tools and toys of (the) war (on terror) : consumer desire, military fetish and regime change in Batman begins / Justine Toh -- "It was like a movie" : the impossibility of representation in Oliver Stone's World Trade Center / Karen Randell -- The contemporary politics of the western form : Bush, Saving Jessica Lynch, and Deadwood / Stacy Takacs -- Prophetic Narratives. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Gender meets genre in postwar cinemas

Table of Contents: “…Trash comes home: gender/genre subversion in the films of John Waters / Derek Kane-Meddock -- Femme fatale or lesbian femme: bound in sexual différance / Chris Straayer -- "The gay cowboy movie": queer masculinity on Brokeback Mountain / Steven Cohan.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view