The Early Modern Horse network held the conference The Renaissance Horse, in London during June 2009 to mark retirement of social historian Edwards from Roehampton University. Scholars of history, art
The first English translation of Novalis’s unfinished notes for a universal science, Das Allgemeine Brouillon. The first English translation of Novalis’s unfinished notes for a universal science, D
This book documents the barriers to success encountered by U.S. Latino films over the past three decades, as their proponents sought to secure distribution deals and prove the films’ worth as commodit
This comprehensive look at the promotion and distribution of Latino movies in US markets examines the extent to which main stream and independent film distributors have embraced the growing commercial
This book explores the relationship between mainstream and marginal or subaltern religious practice in the Indian subcontinent, and its entanglement with ideas of nationhood, democracy and equality. W
Offers a collection of stories featuring Japanese-Americans women dealing with love, marriage, motherhood, and friendship and the impact on their lives of the internment of Japanese Americans during W
The late medieval and early modern period is a particularly interesting chapter in the development of meditation and self-reflection. The volume aims at examining its forms, functions and strategies,
There is no reason to think that American writer Herman Melville (1819-91) ever read anything by German writer Heinrich von Kleist (1771-1811), or had even heard of him, confesses Kaiser (comparative
Between 1889 and 1940 more than 40,000 Okinawan contract laborers emigrated to plantations in Hawaii, Brazil, the Philippines, and Peru. In 1912 seventeen-year-old Hana Kaneshi accompanied her husband
Although modernity historically defined itself by relation to the medieval, the ways in which early moderns invoked and conceptualized the medieval are still insufficiently understood. This volume's s
Whereas in English-speaking countries comics are for children or adults "who should know better," in France and Belgium the form is recognized as the "ninth art" and follows in the path of poetry, ar
Deploying the provocative idea of the ‘subaltern citizen’, this book raises fundamental questions about subalternity and difference, dominance and subordination, in India and the United States. In con
Drawing on optic theory, ethnography, and the visual cultures of Christianity, this volume explores various discourses of vision in early modern Europe and the colonial Americas.
Drawing on the work of Heidegger, media critic James Carey, and Vedanta philosophy, Kien (communication, California State University) develops a new ethnographic methodology, which he calls global tec
Cuklanz (communications, Boston College) and Moorti (women's and gender studies, Middlebury College) have edited this volume on the gap between violence against women and international media treatment
Part of a new series Intersections in Communications and Culture: Global Approaches and Transdisciplinary Perspectives, this volume examines how youth construct notions of self and community outside o
The narrative begins with a death, and the preparations thereafter to satisfy everyone in the family (from the Christians to the Confucians to the Buddhists) with the funeral and the food and the divi
London incessantly generates and incites cultural responses, pre-eminently in the interconnected domains of literature and film. This book demonstrates that those responses have been sustained as vita
Based on a graduate student-led collaborative project under the guidance of McCarthy (educational policy studies/communications research, U. of Illinois), this volume offers viewpoints on cultural stu
The image of the Italy of the movies, which consisted mainly of stone Renaissance towns populated by exuberant and effervescent families with dozens of children has proven to be as thin as the film on
Many students have faced the dilemma as they compare available courses with time slots they have open for the coming term. Angier (philosophy, U. of Toronto), however, is responding to the fact that t
Richards (English, Colgate U.) conducts a significant critique of African American literature and literary studies at the opening of the twenty-first century though a number of essays, basically comin
There are many stories featuring the villainous hero Reynard the Fox in many languages told over many centuries, goingback as far as the early 12th century. All these stories are comic and much of the
Maybe all that flap about identity theft is just a misunderstanding: they were going to bring it back. But Kelly (educational policy studies, U. of Alberta) is concerned about something entirely diffe
Heinecken (women's studies, University of Louisville) examines contemporary representations of the female action hero on three television series: La Femme Nikita , Aeon Flux , and Buffy the Vampire
Koza (curriculum and instruction, U. of Wisconsin at Madison) presents four studies that explore relationships between the past decade of formal schooling in the United States and the wider culture. A
A splitting of the heirs of Hegel, Husserl, and Heidegger: contemporary French philosophers Paul Ricoeur and Jacques Derrida. Both try to conceive the role of mediation in human knowledge, but Ricoeur
An eye-opening, unapologetic explanation of what "racial profiling" is in modern-day America: systematic targeting of communities and placing of suspicion on populations, on the basis of not
