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"There Are No Hispanic Stars!"
Collected Writings of a Latino Film Critic in Hollywood, 1921–1939
In the 1920s and 1930s a uniquely Mexican American entertainment culture flourished across the southwestern United States. Spanish-language newspapers offered theater listings, coverage of favorite performers, cultural criticism, and serialized novels that thematized entertainment culture....
ISBN: 9780895512048
more detailsMenacing Environments
Ecohorror in Contemporary Nordic Cinema
Known for their progressive environmental policies and nature-loving citizens, Nordic countries also produce what may seem a counterintuitive film genre: ecohorror, where distinctions between humans and nature are blurred in unsettling ways. From slashers to...
ISBN: 9780295751641
more detailsLahore Cinema
Between Realism and Fable
Commercial cinema has been among the most powerful vectors of social and aesthetic modernization in South Asia. So argues Iftikhar Dadi in his provocative examination of cinema produced between 1956 and 1969—the long sixties—in Lahore,...
ISBN: 9780295750811
more detailsThe Story of Propaganda in 50 Images
From ancient Greek coinage to the sound bites of modern-day political spin doctors, propaganda has existed for thousands of years. But it was in the twentieth century that the art of persuasively communicating ideas truly...
ISBN: 9780295751283
more detailsRacial Erotics
Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire
Sexual desire, often understood as personal erotic preference, is frequently seen as neutral, natural, or inevitable. Countering these commonplace assumptions, Racial Erotics shows how sexual partnering within communities of gay men is deeply embedded within...
ISBN: 9780295749099
more detailsThe Borders of AIDS
Race, Quarantine, and Resistance
As soon as US media and politicians became aware of AIDS in the early 1980s, fingers were pointed not only at the gay community but also at other countries and migrant communities, particularly Haitians, as...
ISBN: 9780295748979
more detailsThai Cinema Uncensored
In this first full-length study on the topic, Matthew Hunt—with access to rare and controversial films—provides a history of film censorship in Thailand. Hunt outlines its beginnings in the country, when films were censored by...
ISBN: 9786162151699
more detailsSouth Asian Filmscapes
Transregional Encounters
In South Asia massive anticolonial movements in the twentieth century created nation-states and reset national borders, forming the basis for emerging film cultures. Following the upheaval of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947...
ISBN: 9780295747859
more detailsCirculating the Code
Print Media and Legal Knowledge in Qing China
Contrary to longtime assumptions about the insular nature of imperial China’s legal system, Circulating the Code demonstrates that in the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) most legal books were commercially published and available to anyone who could...
ISBN: 9780295747156
more detailsReturn to the Land of the Head Hunters
Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema
Photographer Edward Curtis’s 1914 orchestrally scored melodrama In the Land of the Head Hunters was one of the first US films to feature an Indigenous cast. This landmark of early silent cinema was an intercultural...
ISBN: 9780295746951
more detailsMediating Islam
Cosmopolitan Journalisms in Muslim Southeast Asia
Broadening an overly narrow definition of Islamic journalism, Janet Steele examines day-to-day reporting practices of Muslim professionals, from conservative scripturalists to pluralist cosmopolitans, at five exemplary news organizations in Malaysia and Indonesia. At Sabili, established...
ISBN: 9780295742960
more detailsNetwork Sovereignty
Building the Internet across Indian Country
In 2012, the United Nations General Assembly determined that affordable Internet access is a human right, critical to citizen participation in democratic governments. Given the significance of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to social and...
ISBN: 9780295741826
more detailsReporting for China
How Chinese Correspondents Work with the World
While Western media are shrinking their foreign correspondent networks, Chinese media, for the first time in history, are rapidly expanding worldwide. The Chinese government is financing most of this growth, hoping to strengthen its influence...
ISBN: 9780295741314
more detailsRoy Andersson’s “Songs from the Second Floor”
Contemplating the Art of Existence
Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson’s celebrated and enigmatic film Songs from the Second Floor, his first feature film in twenty-five years, won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. The “songs” of...
ISBN: 9780295998251
more detailsZina Saro-Wiwa
Did You Know We Taught Them How to Dance?
Zina Saro-Wiwa: Did You Know We Taught Them How to Dance? is the first publication on the work of Zina Saro-Wiwa, a British-Nigerian video artist and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. Occupying the space between documentary...
ISBN: 9781883015480
more detailsIcons of Danish Modernity
Georg Brandes and Asta Nielsen
Julie Allen utilizes the lives and friendship of the Danish literary critic George Brandes (1842-1927) and the silent film star Asta Nielsen (1881-1972) to explore questions of culture and national identity in early twentieth-century Denmark....
ISBN: 9780295994833
more detailsThe Power of Song
Nonviolent National Culture in the Baltic Singing Revolution
The Power of Song shows how the people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania confronted a military superpower and achieved independence in the Baltic “Singing Revolution.” When attacked by Soviet soldiers in public displays of violent...
ISBN: 9780295994529
more detailsVerse Going Viral
China's New Media Scenes
Verse Going Viral examines what happens when poetry, a central pillar of traditional Chinese culture, encounters an era of digital media and unabashed consumerism in the early twenty-first century. Heather Inwood sets out to unravel...
ISBN: 9780295993706
more detailsFamily Revolution
Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture
As state control of private life in China has loosened since 1980, citizens have experienced an unprecedented family revolution—an overhaul of family structure, marital practices, and gender relationships. While the nuclear family has become a...
ISBN: 9780295993508
more detailsThomas Vinterberg's Festen (The Celebration)
Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg's searing film Festen (“The Celebration”) was the first film from the Dogme 95 stable. Adhering to Dogme's cinematic purity — no artificial lighting, no superficial action, no credit for the director,...
ISBN: 9780295992983
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