Category: Cultural Studies

By Peter Lev

Finishing the landmark, award-winning, ten-volume sequence at the first century of yankee movie, The Fifties covers a very tumultuous interval. Peter Lev explores the divorce of motion picture studios from their theater chains; the panic of the blacklist period; the explosive emergence of technology fiction because the dominant style (The factor, The Day the Earth Stood nonetheless, Forbidden Planet, conflict of the Worlds); the increase of tv and Hollywood's reaction to the recent medium, as noticeable in widescreen spectacles (The gown, the 10 Commandments, Ben-Hur) and mature Westerns (High midday, Shane, The Searchers). The richly distinctive textual content elucidates a couple of rising traits as Hollywood, with its well-known stars and genres, reached out as an to the newly said "teenage" iteration with rock and roll motion pictures, and films as assorted as Rebel with no reason and Gidget.

Author note: Sarah Deer [Editor], Bonnie Clairmont [Editor], Carrie Martell [Editor], Maureen L. White Eagle [Editor]
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A basic advent to the social and criminal matters all in favour of acts of violence opposed to local ladies, this book's participants are legal professionals, social employees, social scientists, writers, poets, and sufferers. within the U.S. local ladies are much more likely than girls from the other crew to endure violence, from rape and battery to extra sophisticated different types of abuse, and Sharing Our tales of Survival explores the reasons and effects of such habit. The tales and case-studies offered listed below are usually painful and uncooked, and the records are overwhelmingly grim; yet a countervailing topic additionally runs via this super informative quantity: a number of the ladies who seem in those pages are survivors, frequently reinforced through their travails, and the violence tested here's human violence, which means that it may be replaced, if merely with a lot attempt and schooling.

The first step is to put out the reality for all to work out, and that's the function comprehensive by means of this e-book.

By Miriam Gazzah

A examine of the function of track and formative years tradition within the id procces of Dutch-Moroccan adolescence.

By Walter Benjamin

Title note: unique name Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit
Publish yr note: First released in 1936
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Benjamin's recognized "Work of Art" essay units out his boldest innovations on media and on tradition often of their so much learned shape, whereas holding an part that will get lower than the outside of all people who reads it. during this essay the visible arts of the laptop age morph into literature and thought after which again back to pictures, gestures, and thought.

This publication comprises basically this essay.

By Christopher Gaffney

In Rio de Janeiro, the non secular domestic of worldwide soccer, and Buenos Aires, the place a well-liked football membership president was once lately elected mayor, the sport is an essential component of nationwide identification. utilizing the soccer stadium as an illuminating cultural lens, Temples of the Earthbound Gods examines many points of city tradition that play out inside of those huge architectural varieties, together with spirituality, violence, inflexible social norms, anarchy, and likewise expressions of sexuality and gender.

Tracing the background of the sport in Brazil and Argentina via colonial impacts in addition to indigenous ball courts in Mayan, Aztec, Zapotec, Mixtec, and Olmec societies, Christopher Gaffney's learn spans either historical and modern worlds, linking the advance of stadiums to urbanization and the consolidation of country development in of Latin America's so much interesting megacities.

By Elizabeth A. Carlson

This thesis examines English demonologies authored via Reginald Scot
(Discoverie of Witchcraft, 1584), William Perkins (Discourse of the Damned artwork, 1608),
George Gifford (Discourse, 1587, and discussion relating Witches,1593), and
Alexander Roberts (Treatise of Witchcraft, 1616) throughout the overdue 16th and early
seventeenth centuries to enquire the kinds and capabilities of a pervasive weather of worry
driven by means of anxieties approximately political, spiritual, social, and fiscal illness that
stimulated witchcraft ideals in early smooth England. smooth students reveal the
complexity of the early glossy ecu witchcraft phenomenon which encompassed
increased issues over the illegal activity of witchcraft and persecution of accused witches,
and this undertaking demonstrates that elite demonologists encouraged and spoke back to such
concerns of their writings. My qualitative research of those authors’ texts facilities at the
powers attributed to meant witches, the procedures wherein witches can be
identified, and the right kind tactics for prosecuting accused witches and divulges that
each writer addressed a bit diverse underlying anxieties about the
relationship between people, God, and the satan. My research additional monitors the
complex nature of the connection among girls and witchcraft in those works for the reason that
the texts exhibit a number rules concerning the courting one of the satan, males, and
women instead of an unique emphasis at the weak spot and susceptibility of ladies.
Finally, my research demonstrates that every one 4 authors granted the state’s judicial approach
extensive powers to take care of legislation and order in early sleek English society within the
attempt to stem the consequences of the weather of worry. the numerous divergences between those authors’ arguments show that students can't determine a unmarried, “typical”
demonology, nor think that “elite” rules approximately witchcraft have been homogeneous and
hegemonic.

By Bruno Latour

Bruno Latour has written a special and beautiful story of a technological dream long gone flawed. because the younger engineer and professor stick to Aramis' trail--conducting interviews, examining files, assessing the evidence--perspectives hold moving: actually published as multilayered, unascertainable, comprising an array of probabilities necessary of Rashomon. The reader is finally ended in see the undertaking from the perspective of Aramis, and alongside the best way earnings perception into the connection among humans and their technological creations. This fascinating and profound ebook, half novel and half sociological examine, is Latour at his thought-provoking top.

Publish 12 months note: First released January 1st 1991
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Cultural Studies is a commonly overseas assortment aiming to aid form study and instructing during the Nineties and past.

The ebook investigates modern commitments of the sector: its old and highbrow positions, political and scholarly preoccupations, and the types of interventions it goals for now and sooner or later. Cultural Studies bargains a few particular cultural analyses whereas at the same time defining and debating the typical physique of assumptions, questions and matters that experience helped create the sphere.

Topics addressed include race and minority discourses; ethnicity and post-colonialism; post-modernism; feminism; cultural coverage; where of background in cultural reviews; the politics of illustration; pop culture; aesthetics; ethics; and know-how.

At an identical time, Cultural Studies explores such varied varieties of cultural phenomena as rock tune, Chicano artwork, detective novels, African-American writing, structure, reproductive freedom, sati, famous person Trek fandom, and New Age expertise. members interrogate their very own theoretical and methodological commitments.

By Eugenia Paulicelli

Prada, Gucci, Max Mara: haute couture is synonymous with luxurious, glamor, excitement, and Italy. but Italian model additionally has a depressing heritage that has no longer formerly been explored. The Fascism of 1930's Italy ruled greater than simply politics--it spilled over into modes of costume. style below Fascism is the 1st e-book to think about this hyperlink intimately. style frequently capabilities as a tacit technique of creating a social assertion, yet lower than Mussolini it vividly mirrored political tyranny. Paulicelli explores the sophisticated but sinister adjustments to the probably harmless practices of daily costume and exhibits why they have been any such problem for the kingdom. Importantly, she additionally demonstrates how those advancements impacted at the worldwide dominance of Italian type at the present time. This attention-grabbing publication comprises interviews with significant designers, akin to Fernanda Gattinoni and Micol Fontana, and sheds new mild at the advanced dating among kind and politics.

By Seán Hand

Regardless of an outpouring of scholarship at the Holocaust, little paintings has excited by what occurred to Europe's Jewish groups after the warfare ended. and in contrast to many different eu international locations during which nearly all of the Jewish inhabitants perished, France had an important post‑war Jewish neighborhood that numbered within the thousands. Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, 1945–1955 deals new perception on key points of French Jewish existence within the many years following the tip of worldwide warfare II.

How Jews were handled through the conflict endured to persuade either Jewish and non-Jewish society within the post-war years. the amount examines the ways that ethical and political problems with accountability mixed with the pressing difficulties and practicalities of recovery, and it illustrates how nationwide imperatives, overseas dynamics, and a replaced self-perception all profoundly helped to form the fortunes of postwar French Judaism.Comprehensive and trained, this quantity bargains a wealthy number of views on Jewish reports, smooth and modern historical past, literary and cultural research, philosophy, sociology, and theology.

With contributions from top students, together with Edward Kaplan, Susan Rubin Suleiman, and Jay iciness, the ebook establishes a number of connections among such various parts of outrage because the operating of orphanages, the institution of latest social and political businesses, the recovery of educating and non secular amenities, and the improvement of highbrow responses to the Holocaust. entire and expert, this quantity could be worthy to readers operating in Jewish experiences, glossy and modern heritage, literary and cultural research, philosophy, sociology, and theology.