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Quebec national cinema by Marshall, Bill, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: 1 Producing and Envisioning the Nation -- 2 Foundational Fictions 25 -- 3 The Cinema of Modernization 46 -- 4 Quebec/France 75 -- 5 Sex and the Nation 103 -- 6 Auteurism after 1970 133 -- 7 Popular Cinema 172 -- 8 Women's Cinema 208 -- 9 The Indigenous Other 239 -- 10 The Immigrant Other 263 -- 11 Modernity and Postmodernity 285.…”
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The Chomsky effect a radical works beyond the ivory tower / by Barsky, Robert F.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Dissent -- The Chomsky effect within and beyond the ivory tower -- Resisting and reviling the Chomsky effect -- Effective precursors: anarchists, cartesians, liberals and the radical left -- Milieus -- Just effects: Chomsky on law, ethics and human rights -- Effective teaching: from catalyst to institute professor -- Obfuscating the Chomsky effect: media, propaganda, and postmodern language studies -- Literature, humor, and the effects of creative discourses -- The effective "public" intellectual.…”
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Quebec national cinema by Marshall, Bill, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: 1 Producing and Envisioning the Nation -- 2 Foundational Fictions 25 -- 3 The Cinema of Modernization 46 -- 4 Quebec/France 75 -- 5 Sex and the Nation 103 -- 6 Auteurism after 1970 133 -- 7 Popular Cinema 172 -- 8 Women's Cinema 208 -- 9 The Indigenous Other 239 -- 10 The Immigrant Other 263 -- 11 Modernity and Postmodernity 285.…”
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The Chomsky effect a radical works beyond the ivory tower / by Barsky, Robert F.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Dissent -- The Chomsky effect within and beyond the ivory tower -- Resisting and reviling the Chomsky effect -- Effective precursors: anarchists, cartesians, liberals and the radical left -- Milieus -- Just effects: Chomsky on law, ethics and human rights -- Effective teaching: from catalyst to institute professor -- Obfuscating the Chomsky effect: media, propaganda, and postmodern language studies -- Literature, humor, and the effects of creative discourses -- The effective "public" intellectual.…”
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Walls of empowerment Chicana/o indigenist murals of California / by Latorre, Guisela, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Indigenism and Chicana/o muralism: the radicalization of an aesthetic -- The dialectics of continuity and disruption: Chicana/o and Mexican indigenist murals -- The Chicano movement and indigenist murals: the formation of a nationalist canon and identity -- Graffiti and murals: urban culture and indigenist glyphs -- The Chicana/o mural environment: indigenist aesthetics and urban spaces -- Gender, indigenism, and Chicana muralists -- Murals and postmodernism: post-movimiento, heterogeneity, and new media in Chicana/o indigenism.…”
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Walls of empowerment Chicana/o indigenist murals of California / by Latorre, Guisela, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Indigenism and Chicana/o muralism: the radicalization of an aesthetic -- The dialectics of continuity and disruption: Chicana/o and Mexican indigenist murals -- The Chicano movement and indigenist murals: the formation of a nationalist canon and identity -- Graffiti and murals: urban culture and indigenist glyphs -- The Chicana/o mural environment: indigenist aesthetics and urban spaces -- Gender, indigenism, and Chicana muralists -- Murals and postmodernism: post-movimiento, heterogeneity, and new media in Chicana/o indigenism.…”
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This is not a president sense, nonsense, and the American political imaginary / by Rubenstein, Diane, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: my own private presidents -- Organizational note -- The mirror of reproduction: Baudrillard and Reagan's America -- Oliver North and the lying nose -- This is not a president: Baudrillard, Bush, and enchanted simulation -- Bush, the man who Sununu too much: male trouble and presidential subjectivity -- "Chicks with dicks": transgendering the presidency -- "Honey, I shrunk the president": psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and the Clinton presidency -- "Father, can't you see I'm bombing?" …”
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This is not a president sense, nonsense, and the American political imaginary / by Rubenstein, Diane, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: my own private presidents -- Organizational note -- The mirror of reproduction: Baudrillard and Reagan's America -- Oliver North and the lying nose -- This is not a president: Baudrillard, Bush, and enchanted simulation -- Bush, the man who Sununu too much: male trouble and presidential subjectivity -- "Chicks with dicks": transgendering the presidency -- "Honey, I shrunk the president": psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and the Clinton presidency -- "Father, can't you see I'm bombing?" …”
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Globalizing the sacred religion across the Americas / by Vásquez, Manuel A.

Table of Contents: “…The limits of dominant and emerging models -- Theorizing globalization and religion -- Miracles at the border : a genealogy of religious globalization -- Crossing the electronic frontier : religious congregations and the internet -- Saving souls transnationally : pentecostalism and the gangs in El Salvador and the United States / with Ileana Gomez -- A continuum of hybridity : Latino churches in the new South -- John Paul II's civilization of love : pre-modern, modern, or postmodern? -- "Blitzing" Central America : the politics of religious broadcasting.…”
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Manuel Zapata Olivella and the "darkening" of Latin American literature by Tillis, Antonio D.

Table of Contents: “…Tierra mojada -- the genesis of an Africanized literary trajectory -- From region to nation to North America -- La calle 10, en Chim and Chambacú : The "Boom" in Colombian violence, hunger, resistance, and hope -- Manuel Zapata Olivella : the postmodern writer -- An exploration of postcolonial tri-ethnicity in Levántate mulato!…”
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Writing blackness John Edgar Wideman's art and experimentation / by Coleman, James W. (James Wilmouth), 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Brothers and keepers, Fatheralong, Hoop roots, and The island: Martinique: the fictionalized auto/biographies -- A glance away, Hurry home, and the Lynchers: modernist experimentation and the early novels -- Hiding place, Damballah, and Sent for you yesterday: new dimensions of postmodern experimentation in the Homewood trilogy -- Reuben and Philadelphia fire: progressive experimentation after the Homewood trilogy -- The cattle killing, Two cities, and Fanon: extending experimental writing, making it clear, and extending it further.…”
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Celluloid symphonies texts and contexts in film music history /

Table of Contents: “…The recession soundtrack : from albums to auteurs, songs to serialism (1960-1977) -- pt. 5. The postmodern soundtrack : film music in the video and digital age (1978-present).…”
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Why do we care about literary characters? / by Vermeule, Blakey

Table of Contents: “…-- Mind blindness -- Postmodernism reflects: J.M. Coetzee and the eighteenth-century novel.…”
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Writing blackness John Edgar Wideman's art and experimentation / by Coleman, James W. (James Wilmouth), 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Brothers and keepers, Fatheralong, Hoop roots, and The island: Martinique: the fictionalized auto/biographies -- A glance away, Hurry home, and the Lynchers: modernist experimentation and the early novels -- Hiding place, Damballah, and Sent for you yesterday: new dimensions of postmodern experimentation in the Homewood trilogy -- Reuben and Philadelphia fire: progressive experimentation after the Homewood trilogy -- The cattle killing, Two cities, and Fanon: extending experimental writing, making it clear, and extending it further.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Celluloid symphonies texts and contexts in film music history /

Table of Contents: “…The recession soundtrack : from albums to auteurs, songs to serialism (1960-1977) -- pt. 5. The postmodern soundtrack : film music in the video and digital age (1978-present).…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Why do we care about literary characters? / by Vermeule, Blakey

Table of Contents: “…-- Mind blindness -- Postmodernism reflects: J.M. Coetzee and the eighteenth-century novel.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era / by Ketcham, Ralph, 1927-

Table of Contents: “…Prospects for government in 1989 -- Aristotelian and Confucian insights -- Tensions of Citizenship: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam -- The first era of modern thought, ca. 1600-1750 -- The United States and first modernity democracy -- The second modernity: from Bentham to Dewey -- Liberal democracy in the twentieth century -- Second modernity thought in Japan and China -- An Asian third modernity -- Postmodernism and a fourth modernity democracy -- Comparing rationales for democracy -- The idea of democracy in the third millennium.…”
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Globalizing the sacred religion across the Americas / by Vásquez, Manuel A.

Table of Contents: “…The limits of dominant and emerging models -- Theorizing globalization and religion -- Miracles at the border : a genealogy of religious globalization -- Crossing the electronic frontier : religious congregations and the internet -- Saving souls transnationally : pentecostalism and the gangs in El Salvador and the United States / with Ileana Gomez -- A continuum of hybridity : Latino churches in the new South -- John Paul II's civilization of love : pre-modern, modern, or postmodern? -- "Blitzing" Central America : the politics of religious broadcasting.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Manuel Zapata Olivella and the "darkening" of Latin American literature by Tillis, Antonio D.

Table of Contents: “…Tierra mojada -- the genesis of an Africanized literary trajectory -- From region to nation to North America -- La calle 10, en Chim and Chambacú : The "Boom" in Colombian violence, hunger, resistance, and hope -- Manuel Zapata Olivella : the postmodern writer -- An exploration of postcolonial tri-ethnicity in Levántate mulato!…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era / by Ketcham, Ralph, 1927-

Table of Contents: “…Prospects for government in 1989 -- Aristotelian and Confucian insights -- Tensions of Citizenship: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam -- The first era of modern thought, ca. 1600-1750 -- The United States and first modernity democracy -- The second modernity: from Bentham to Dewey -- Liberal democracy in the twentieth century -- Second modernity thought in Japan and China -- An Asian third modernity -- Postmodernism and a fourth modernity democracy -- Comparing rationales for democracy -- The idea of democracy in the third millennium.…”
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